Deepak Mankar surrenders before Pune police
Pune – As per the orders of the Supreme Court former deputy mayor and NCP corporator Deepak Mankar surrenderred before Pune city police on Wednesday, in connection with abetment of suicide of Jitendra Jagtap, brother of policeman Shailesh Jagtap, in a land dispute case.
On July 23, Mankar was ordered to surrender before police within 10 days. Accordingly, he approached ACP Lashkar Division and surrendered. He will be produced before a magistrate court in Shivajinagar today at 2.30 pm.
Jitendra had committed suicide by jumping in front of a train between Ghorpadi and Hadapsar on June 2. He had left behind a note alleging that Mankar and builder Sudhir Karnataki were harassing him.
They were harassing him over a money dispute related to a piece of land opposite Samarth police station.
According to case registered with Samarth police station, the land is owned by Mankar and Jagtap was the custodian. Jagtap was asking for payment of money for his services after Mankar wanted the land back. This had led to disputes between them, the police said.
As per the FIR, the accused persons were allegedly threatening Jagtap regarding the plot in Rasta Peth.
After the police recovered a suicide note, Jagtap’s son Jayesh (26) lodged a case against the accused persons with Government Railway Police (GRP), which transferred the case to Samarth police station for further investigation.
Five persons have been already arrested in the case.
