Woman, two children found dead in Pune's Ranjangaon; cops launch probe

The halfburnt bodies of a woman and her two children were found outside a house in Punes Ranjangaon area on Sunday afternoon a police official said reported the PTIAn unidentified person murdered the three and then set the bodies ablaze the Ranjangaon police station official addedThe woman is in the 2530 age group while the children are around four and oneandhalfyearsold More details about them are being ascertained We have urged residents of the area to contact police if they have any information about the case All missing person cases in the vicinity are also being checked he said according to the PTIIn an another incidentMumbai Police have arrested a 22yearold man and are looking for three more persons for allegedly setting a house on fire to harm a woman and her family in western Mumbai an official said on Sunday reported the PTIA fire which initially seemed like an accident had broken out in a house belonging to one Julie Kewat in the Borivali West area on May 14 said an official from the MHB police station according to the PTIHowever CCTV footage later pointed to an alleged conspiracy he saidIt showed four persons setting afire the house and a twowheeler parked outside the official saidPolice said Kewats son Lucky had a dispute with a person from their locality Ganpat Patil Nagar That person and three others targeted the woman and her family intending to kill them the official said as per the PTIKewat and her family were sleeping at the time of the arson attack After realising that the house was on fire Kewat ran out screaming prompting her neighbours to rush to the spot and control the fire the official saidWe have arrested one of the accused and efforts are being made to track down the others the official said adding that a case of attempt to murder has been registered against the four who are all residents of the same neighbourhoodSenior citizen found dead in well in ThaneMeanwhile a 63yearold man who went missing from his home was found dead in a well in Maharashtras Thane district on Sunday police said reported the PTIThe body of Hemant Jagannath Shelar was found floating in a well at Kopri village in Thane East around 7 am following which the authorities were alerted said Yasin Tadvi chief of the civic disaster management cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation TMC according to the PTIHe said Shelar a resident of Dombivli had come to visit his brother at Kopri on Saturday evening and had been missing since last nightThe official said the body was retrieved from the well and sent to the district hospitalThe Kopri police have registered a case of accidental death and a probe is underwaywith PTI inputsatOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params