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Balaji Munde and Siddhartha Daliya ambushed a man in Viman Nagar, Pune, mistaking him for their cab driver friend’s rival. The victim filed an FIR at Yerwada police station.
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Three people set up an ambush outside an IT company in Viman Nagar, targeting a staff member, as per the instructions of their cab driver friend, but mistakenly attacked another IT professional who had arrived to pick up his fiancée.
The victim, identified as a 33-year-old man who resides in Mhalunge and is an original resident of West Bengal. He lodged an FIR at the Yerwada police station on Thursday. Two persons have been arrested in the matter and are identified as Balaji Munde (19) and Siddhartha Daliya (19), both residents of the Hadapsar area of Pune city.
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According to the police, the complainant works with an IT company in Hinjewadi. His fiancée works at another IT company at Amar Tech Centre on the Airport Road in Viman Nagar.
As per the FIR, the complainant had gone to the Amar Tech Centre around 1:45 am to pick up his fiancée. While waiting on his two-wheeler, three armed men arrived on a motorcycle, and two of them attacked him with a sharp weapon, leaving him injured and unconscious at the scene, the Indian Express reported.
His fiancée, along with people around the spot, rushed him to a hospital. A video of the incident captured by a CCTV camera installed at the crime scene went viral on social media.
Through the CCTV footage, the police got clues about the suspects. Within a few hours, police arrested two suspects, including Munde and Daliya from Hadapsar. According to the police, Munde has a previous criminal record.
The probe revealed that a friend of the assailants works as a cab driver for the IT company in Viman Nagar. The cab driver believed that an IT professional working at this company was having a love affair with a woman he liked. So, the cab driver had asked the assailants to thrash this IT professional.
Accordingly, the assailants waited outside the IT company in the early hours of Thursday for their intended target, who never arrived. Frustrated, they allegedly turned on the complainant, who was waiting for his fiancée around 3:15 am.
Assistant police inspector Ravikant Nandanvar said the two accused have been arrested, and the search for the cab driver is on. A court has remanded the two arrested accused to police custody till September 15.
September 14, 2025, 16:25 IST
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