Surendra Patil gets an aide to film him; Dombivli police move swiftly after a video of his act surfaces on social media
Surendra Patil in a policeman’s chair at Manpada police station (right) a grab from a video of Patil with a gun
Consumed by his craze to show off on Instagram, a developer from Thakurli sat in the chair of a cop during a visit to a police station at Dombivli, and asked an aide to shoot a video of his “bravado”. After a Twitter user shared the clip on the microblogging platform, the police promptly arrested the 51-yar-old builder, Surendra Patil.
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On October 25, Patil reached the Manpada police station in connection with a fraud case. Sources said five people had duped Patil of Rs 56 lakh assuring him that they would make Rs 5 crore rain from the sky. While the Manpada cops arrested the scammers and recovered Rs 19.96, a court had asked Patil to collect the money from the police station.
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Patil’s Insta account is filled with videos of him with weapons
“The accused [Patil] was sitting in Assistant Police Inspector Shrikrishna Gore’s cabin. When Gore went to bring the recovered money, Patil sat in his chair and asked one of his associates to shoot a video of him. Later, the video was posted on Instagram,” said an officer from Manpada police station.
A Twitter user, Mohsin Sheikh, shared on the platform the video of Patil sitting in the policeman’s chair along with clips in which Patil, flanked by a group of men, flashes a gun. The police said they found that the gun videos were shot at Padgha and Anjur phata, both in Bhiwandi, where he had gone with friends to party.
The Twitter user also tagged the Thane city police, prompting swift action by the Manpada cops. Sources in the police department said Patil owns a licensed gun.
“We took a suo moto case and immediately booked Patil under IPC, the Arms Act and Criminal Law Amendment Act,” said Shekhar Bagde, senior inspector of Manpada police station. “During the search of Patil’s Mercedes car, we also recovered a kukri [a type of machete] which was illegally possessed. A separate case has been filed in the matter,” he said.
Patil faces 7 cases, including misbehaving with women, cheating and electricity theft, in Manpada, Kolshewadi and Mahatma Phule Chowk police stations. His Instagram account is filled with his videos flashing weapons and wads of notes.
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No of cases Patil faces
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