Eight Booked For Unlawful Entry Into Pune Police Commissionerate Over ‘Missing’ Woman Case
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Pune, August 19, 2025: The Pune police have registered a case against eight individuals, including two lawyers, for allegedly barging into the police commissionerate and disrupting order during a protest linked to a woman reported missing from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
The incident, which took place between August 3 and 4, was reported through an FIR filed by PSI Reshma Sambhaji More at the Bund Garden police station. The accused have been identified as Sagar Alhat, Swapnil Waghmare, Datta Shendage, Advocate Parikrama Khot, Shweta Patil, Nitin Patil, Rishikesh Bholane, and Advocate Rekha Choure.
According to the complaint, a group of nearly 20 protesters entered the commissionerate premises without permission, demanding action in the missing woman’s case and registration of offences under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The demand was raised after three Pune-based social workers alleged that police teams from Kothrud and Sambhajinagar raided their residence, detained them, used casteist slurs, and assaulted them for sheltering their missing friend.
Police later traced the 23-year-old woman, who had allegedly left home due to harassment by her husband and in-laws, to a hostel in Mundhwa. Before shifting there, she had stayed with the three social workers in Kothrud. Sambhajinagar police had sought Pune police’s assistance to question her associates as part of the inquiry.
DCP (Zone II) Milind Mohite confirmed that an FIR was filed on August 5 under provisions of the Maharashtra Police Act, 1951, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for disturbing public order. The case is under further investigation.
