10 August,2009 07:42 AM IST | | Vaidehi Limaye
Mob lynches cop on pilgrimage
A holy trip turned into horror when Girgaum division ACP Tanaji Ghadge the first officer to interrogate 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Amir Qasab set out on a trip with his family to the holy place of Tuljapur yesterday.
Ghadge, his wife and two sons had almost reached Jhamkel Road on the Ahmednagar Highway around 5.30 pm when a young couple on a bike tried to overtake Ghadge's Qualis.
The bikers, identified as Yogesh Dani and Kalpana Gaikwad, allegedly switched lanes constantly.
When Ghadge asked them to slow down, they called him derogatory names.u00a0 They then raced away from the spot, gathered a few locals and urged them to stop Ghadge's car and lynch his family.
Ghadge said that the mob beat his sons and stoned his car. With no other option, he pulled out his pistol and fired two rounds in the air. Said Ghadge, "The mob was not ready to believe I was a policeman.
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To protect my family, I had to shoot. We were supposed to be on a holy journey to Tuljapur, but it all went wrong."
Charged
Ghadge has registered a case with the Nagar Police Control. The mob and the bikers have been charged under Sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting with armed deadly weapons), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) 341 (wrongful restraint), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
