One more arrested for attack on BJP activist

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 18:32 [IST]

Pune, Mar 6 (UNI) Police today arrested one more person in connection with the brutal attack on a local BJP leader, Shashikant Shitole.

Shitole, an aspiring candidate for the upcoming zilla parishad elections, was attacked by assailants yesterday who had chopped off his hands.

Police had arrested two persons -- Vijay Jagtap and Dhananjay Dore yesterday itself in connection with the attack. A third person, Amit Anil Pasaranikar (22), was arrested today.

Meanwhile, Vijay Jagtap and Dhananjay Dore were produced before a local court which remanded them in police custody for seven days.

UNI

Topics: CRIME-SHITOLE-ARRESTED

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