Owner of a shoe shop in Morewadi Pune were perrorized when they were beaten up, stabbed, abused and their shops were charred. The incident took place at a shop in Morewadi, Pune where two brothers Irshad Khan and Afzal were closing their shop and then the incident took place.
As narrated by Irshad, "Due to Christmas, there was a huge rush and around 10.45 pm, me and my brother Afzal were closing the shop when a gang of four boys came to our shop on a scooter to buy shoes. I requested them to hurry up if they planned to buy any shoes"
"Afzal noticed they were drunk and we could not bear the stench. Later, they complained saying we hadn’t entertained them. Afzal presented some shoes to them but they didn’t like any, so he started picking them up. Just then, I noticed that one of the boys walked out of the store wearing a pair of flats from our shop."
Afzal continued saying, "I called the teenager and asked him to pay. He asked me to collect the money from Munna. I said its better you tell him and give me the money. Hearing this, he started physically abusing my brother and me but we managed to restrain all of six of them. Later, a boy removed a sharp weapon from his bike pannier and stabbed Irshad in the head. We snatched the weapon and then the boys fled. My brother was bleeding; we informed the police about the incident. The cops came to us and asked us to get the group’s bike. My friend took the bike to the police station, while I rushed Irshad to the hospital." Irshad got six stitches on his forehead.
"After the doctor administered first aid to Irshad, I went to the police station to report the incident. Then, around 11.45 pm, my neighbour called me and said the boys had returned and set our shop on fire. I rushed to the spot and alerted the fire brigade. But they took a while to reach, due to which both of my shops, including my neighbour’s garage, which had three motorbikes and one scooter were charred.”
“We are shocked. This is so bad; the store was our bread and butter and we were already running in losses as we’d purchased a huge stock of shoes for Christmas and New Year. Most of the sales take place in January and during such peak hours, the incident occurred".
VV Mugalikar, senior inspector of Pimpri police station told media people, “We have detained six youths, of which three are minors. Munna has a criminal record while the others are his friends. The minor are still in school. The gang seems to have use kerosene to set the shops ablaze. In all, three shops and three Bullet motorbikes have been destroyed. Goods worth Rs 16.6 lakh have been damaged.”
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