15/07/2016
PUNE: A
48-year-old businessman from Pune, who shot into the limelight after buying a
gold shirt worth over Rs one crore some years back, was allegedly bludgeoned to
death in front of his son, police said today.
Datta Phuge,
the businessman from the industrial township of Pimpri-Chinchwad in the
district, had become the talk of the town after he presented himself a gold
shirt weighing about 3.5 kg and worth Rs 1.27 crore in 2012.
At least 12
persons attacked Phuge at an open ground in Dighi area here at around 11.30 PM
last night with stones and a sharp weapon, killing him on the spot. "As per
preliminary information, Phuge and his son were invited by one of the suspects,
who know each other, to celebrate a birthday. However, we are investigating how
Phuge reached the open ground where he was murdered," Dighi police station
inspector Navnath Ghogare said. Phuges
22-year-old son, who too had reached the spot following a similar birthday
invitation and witnessed his fathers murder, was spared by the attackers,
police said.
Datta Phuge,
the husband of a former corporator from Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation,
was into money lending and chit fund business. Police
suspect that some dispute over a money transaction could be the reason behind
the gory murder. "We
have detained four persons and suspect that dispute over a money transaction
between them could be the motive behind his murder," said Ghogare. In 2012,
Phuge presented himself the glittering shirt made out of gold and as per the
local jeweller who had crafted the piece, as many as 15 goldsmiths from Bengal
had worked for 16 hours a day over a period of two weeks to make the shirt
ordered by him.
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