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Major theft at Kasba Ganpati temple in Pune, accused arrested within hours
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News18•07-10-2026, 08:40
Major theft at Kasba Ganpati temple in Pune, accused arrested within hours
- •A major theft took place at the revered Kasba Ganpati temple in Pune during midnight by breaking the temple door.
- •The thief broke the lock of the donation box and fled with sixty thousand rupees in cash.
- •The incident came to light early in the morning when priests arrived for worship and immediately informed the trustees and police.
- •Faraskhana police station team acted swiftly and tracked down the accused through technical analysis and CCTV footage.
- •The accused has been identified as Sangram Rajendra Jadhav, a twenty-nine-year-old resident of Gadhinglaj, Kolhapur.
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The thief broke the lock of the donation box inside the Kasba Ganpati temple and fled with 60,000 rupees in cash.
The police arrested a 29-year-old youth named Sangram Rajendra Jadhav, a resident of Gadhinglaj, Kolhapur, within just a few hours of the incident.
Although most indoor CCTV cameras inside the temple were turned off, the thief was captured on outside CCTV cameras, allowing authorities to track him down through technical analysis.
