Umesh Goel, partner of the Goel-Raisoni Associates, builders of Ganga Constella, Kharadi Pune, charged with attempt to murder civic activist Arvind Kaushal

[Ravi Karandeekar]

Senior police inspector Deepak Sawant of the Yerawada police on Tuesday said that Kaushal’s complaint was initially registered under sections 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code. However, further investigations have revealed that there was an intention behind attacking Kaushal and the attack was made with the help of iron bar and stick which could have proved fatal. Hence, the police have invoked charges of criminal conspiracy and attempted murder against Goel, Chonde and others under sections 120 (b) and 307 of the IPC on April 9, Sawant said. 

 Kaushal had complained to the police that the attack on him was planned by the builder as the Pune Municipal Corporation had issued a stop work notice to an alleged illegal construction carried out by the builder at Ganga Constella in Kharadi following a complaint filed by him (Kaushal). (TOI)