Security Guard Murder Case: Latur Doctor's custody extended
Latur: A doctor from Maharashtra's Latur city and his nephew, accused of murdering a security guard working at his hospital, have had their police remand extended until January 6.
Icon Hospital security guard Balu Bharat Dongre (35) died on December 11 after being severely beaten up, following which a murder case was registered at Shivajinagar police station against Dr Pramod Ghuge, who owns the facility, and the latter’s nephew Aniket Munde.
According to the PTI report, Ghuge was nabbed from an ashram in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar on December 23 while Munde was arrested here on the intervening night of December 25 and 26.
“The court extended the police remand of Ghuge and Munde till January 6,” Inspector Dilip Sagar told PTI.
A third accused, hospital accountant Jayram Kamble, was held on Saturday. He is in police custody till January 1.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that doctor from Maharashtra's Latur, accused of murdering a security guard at his hospital, was arrested in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, after being on the run for several days, police said.
According to the PTI report, the doctor, Pramod Ghuge, and his nephew Aniket Munde were booked after the victim, Balu Bharat Dongre, employed as a security guard at the absconding physician's hospital in Latur, died on December 12 and his family alleged murder, said police.
According to the police, the mother of the deceased, a resident of India Nagar in Latur city, had filed a complaint at the Shivajinagar Police Station, alleging her son, earlier arrested in an abduction case, was brutally beaten to death in hospital premises.
Based on the complaint, police registered a case under section 103 (1) (murder), 3 (5) and other relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against Ghuge and his nephew Munde, who was also allegedly involved in the crime, on December 13. Both were on the run after the incident.
