PUNE: Four men, claiming themselves to be anti-corruption bureau officials, allegedly abducted and robbed a Nanded jeweller's employee of Rs17.59 lakh after the latter alighted from a private bus on Shankarseth Road near Swargate around 6.30am on March 7.
The city police are investigating the incident after the Nanded jeweller lodged a complaint. The police said Shankar Bhalerao (21), the employee of the jeweller, Madhuram Satyanarayan Soni (27), was on a routine trip to Pune for wholesale purchase of gold on behalf of his employer. He had started from Nanded for Pune the previous night in a private bus. The four men, suspected to have trailed the bus in a black SUV, zeroed in on Bhalerao just after he got down near Swargate.
