Pune police slaps stringent MCOCA against Deepak Mankar

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Soon after the surrendering to Pune city police in an abetment to suicide they slapped him with stringent MCOCA against Deepak Mankar.

On Wednesday Mankar the former deputy mayor and NCP corporator Deepak Mankar who 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 has been slapped under the charges of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) claims the Pune city police chief.

After the Apex court rejected the bail, the former mayor and NCP’s corporator Deepak Mankar on Wednesday morning surrender to Police and still to be produced before the court of Judicial magistrate First Class.

Mankar along with Sudhir Karnatki and others has been booked by Samaratha Police station after a local land dealer Jitendra Haribhau Jagtap (52) committed suicide. Jitendra’s body was found in two parts near Hadapsar railway station after he allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of an oncoming train on June 5.

A day later based on the suicide note and picture in his pocket the Samaratha police station registered the case of abatement to suicide based on the deceased’s son Jayesh (26). Jitendra’s brother Shailendra is noted cop with Pune police better known as gunman.

Initially, Jitendra’s death was recorded as an accidental death by the Pune railway police later his son registered a criminal case with Pune city police.The Supreme Court on July 27 had dismissed their bail and ordered them to appear before police within 10 days. in this case total nine people are booked of which police have arrested five, while four including Mankar was on run and approached Session, High court and Supreme court for anticipatory bail but the courts rejected his bail pleas.

According to police, deceased son Jayesh had claimed in his statement that Mankar and Karnataki were pressuring his father Jitendra to release possession of land, measuring 1,500 sq ft, located at Rasta Peth in front of Samarth police station for three months. The duo had also forced him to sign a blank paper. Jitendra had been looking after the land for many years and was also attached with Mankar’s financial affairs for 12 years.

According to police, “Jitendra was harassed to leave possession of land. Mankar and Karnataki had threatened to abduct the family members and to implicate his uncle Shailesh, a constable at Lashkar police station, in a false case. on June first week, five unknown people reached home and warned his father to vacate the land immediately. The goons also told him to click a group picture with his father. After sometime, when the goons left, complainant’s father also left the spot. Mankar had promised to give them flat, a shop and Rs 1 crore, but eventually, he backed out and pressured him.”

On Wednesday morning, Mankar surrendered before the Cantonment police station before Assistant commissioner of Police (ACP) Jayashree Gaikwad who is investigating the said case.

This is not the first time Mankar has been arrested but earlier

The crime branch, Pune, had arrested Mankar on July 2, 2009, for allegedly trying to grab the land of a retired professor, Yashwant Natu (65), of Shukrawar Peth. Mankar was released on bail on September 15.