Nashik: Two women arrested in connection with drug mafia Lalit Patil case
Oct 19, 2023
Nashik (Maharashtra) [India], October 19 : Pune Police arrested two women from Nashik on Thursday in connection with drug mafia Lalit Patil case and produced them before the Pune Sessions Court which sent them to police custody till October 23. Police detained both the female accused on Wednesday evening and presented them in the court on Thursday.
Mumbai police arrested Lalit Patil, who was behind the multi-crore mephedrone racket busted by the Pimpri-Chinchwad police in 2020, from Chennai on Tuesday night, after he escaped from Pune's Sassoon General Hospital on October 2.
As per defence lawyer Tejas Punekar, Pune Police inform the court that two arrested accused identified as Archana Nikam and Pragya Kamble, were close associates to the main accused Lalit Patil. When Lalit Patil absconded from Sassoon Hospital, Archana had given financial help to Lalit Patil with Rs 25 lakh and duo had helped Patil to hide.
Police custody of both the accused has been obtained by the police from court and further investigation has been started to find out what and how much role they played in this whole matter.
The same defense lawyer Advocate Tejas Punekar, who was arguing for Archana Nikam in the court, told that the police has completed the search at Archana's house and has also called her for questioning several times, and his client is co-operate with police in the investigation.
Hence there is no need for custodial interrogation, the court heard the arguments of both the parties and sent both the accused to police remand till 23rd October.
