Porsche Accident, Lalit Patil's Escape, ₹4000 Cr Drug Haul, Sharad Mohol Shootout and More: Crime Wave Continues in Pune

A Porsche, allegedly driven by the 17-year-old, who the police claim was drunk at the time, fatally knocked down two motorbike-borne software engineers in the city. Accused was released on bail

After public outcry and a police review plea, he was remanded to an observation home and his father, real estate developer Vishal Agarwal was held

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Sharad Mohol was shot at by three persons near his house in Sutardara in the Kothrud area on January 5. He died hours later in a hospital from bullet wounds in the chest and shoulder

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Mohol was a history-sheeter with cases of kidnapping, attempt to murder and murder registered against his name

Lalit Patil, wanted in a multi-crore mephedrone seizure case, escaped from government-run Sassoon Hospital in Pune on October 2, 2023, when he was taken for an X-ray

Sassoon's former Dean Dr Sanjeev Thakur was accused of assisting In prolonging his stay in hospital and the case lead to huge political row

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Pune police in February seized more than 1,700 kilograms of mephedrone, valued at about Rs 3,600 crore in illicit markets, across Pune, Delhi and Sangli

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DRDO scientist Pradeep Kurulkar was arrested by the Maharashtra ATS last year for leaking classified information to a woman later identified as a Pakistani agent

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Meanwhile, other cases involved ISIS terror module case, husband and in-laws collecting woman's menstrual blood to perform ‘Aghori pooja’, woman made to eat human bone powder as part of a ritual believed to aid in conception

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