According to the complaint filed by Parul Kiran Shah (44), the two men forced entry into the house and attacked her from behind. They dragged her to the bedroom by her hair and started beating her up claiming that they were history sheeters who had been externed from Mumbai.

The culprits gagged her up and locked her in the bathroom. The thieves decamped with a mangalsutra, a gold ring and other valuables. Shah was released when her relatives came back home in the evening. The Sahakarnagar police have filed a case of intimidation, assault and robbery. Assistant police inspector N B Bere is conducting further investigations.

Attack on Arvind Ghatpande flayed
The People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) strongly condemned the attack on Arvind Ghatpande by office bearers and workers of the Vijay Maruti Mandal.A statement issued by Satyaranjan Sathe, Taherbhai Poonawalla and others of the PUCL called upon Puneites to speak out against the brutal and premeditated attack on a senior citizen. "Doubtless these hooligans will attempt to portray their actions as a defence of their cultural rights but this is unlikely to fool Lord Ganesha or the citizens of Pune," the statement added.

Lamenting the lackadaisical attitude of the police, the statement added that it was the indifference of the authorities that encouraged the goons to even greater excesses in lawless behaviour. They demanded the police crack down hard on the culprits.

Satara case: One more arrested
State CID sleuths on Wednesday arrested Santosh Kamble in Indapur taluka in connection with the Sharad Levhe killing. The number of arrested in the case has now rose to 12 including former minister of state Udayanraje Bhosale.