Nashik: City Police on Friday arrested a murder prisoner, who had jumped parole 23 years ago, following the tip-off opportunity about the man who lived in the Ahmedabad Gujarat district with a fictitious name and survived as vendor “Vada Pav”.
Ravindra Pande (62) is one of five people from the gang “Birju Gij and Ravindra Pande” who was convicted of kidnapping, assault and murder of Vaibhav Katyare (16) for ransom on September 15, 1992.
A violation was registered with Nashik Police Road under various Part of the Indian criminal code and also terrorists and disturbing activities (Tada) acts for underage kidnapping and murder.
The court then found five people, including Pande, guilty of violations and gave him a life imprisonment.
Police said the Supreme Court also agreed to imprisonment for their lifetime.
Pande, who served his sentence in Nashik’s central prison, had gone on 14 days of conditional release leave on February 18, 1998.
However, he had not returned to prison since then.
A violation under Section 224 (resistance or obstacle for legitimate understanding) is adjusted at the Deolali Camp police station.
Police Nashik City recently received information that Pande was in Ahmedabad and lived there with a fictitious name.
Acting on this information, the four members, led by Inspector Ananda Wagh from Crime Branch (Unit II) left for Ahmedabad.
Wagh said the team spent two days looking for Pande in various Talukas from the Ahmedabad district.
Tracing Pande also became difficult, because he lived there with a change name.
The police finally tracked Pande to Kuha Village in Daskroi Taluka from the Ahmedabad district.
When the police team approached Pande, he identified himself as Rajubhai Jadhav, aka Fauji.
He also told the police that he had no connection with the murder.
The police said after interrogation, he finally admitted that he was a pande.
On September 15, 1992, Vaibhav, Katake Kantyar’s grandson, a trader by the profession, was kidnapped by the gang of “GIJ and Ravindra Pande”.
The kidnappers had called the boy’s parents and demanded RS2 lakh ransom.
But the next day, Vaibhav’s body recovered from the farmhouse in the Deolali camp.
Over the next few months, the police arrested five people in this case.
The defendant was found guilty of the murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1994.
Nashik killed prisoners, who jumped parole 23 years ago, held
