army captain

Ravindra Kumar Bali

Pune Cantonment

Lashkar

General Hospital

Sagar Waghmare

Sangeeta Yadav

PMC

A 67-year-old former, who had been living on the footpath outside the officer’s mess in, was found murdered late on Thursday night. Two unknown persons reportedly assaulted him with a big stone and fled the spot. The watchman, who witnessed the incident, informed thepolice station. Cops took Bali to Sassoonbut he died during treatment.According to information shared by the cops, Bali was sleeping in his tent as usual when two persons came there on a motorcycle and started beating him over some issue. One of them apparently picked up a big stone and assaulted him., who works as watchman at the house of deputy commissioner of police, Sahebrao Patil, witnessed the incident. He ran to the spot but the suspects had already fled. He then informed Lashkar police.The Lashkar police suspect that Bali might have been assaulted for money by street robbers. Police inspector (crime)told Pune Mirror, “The watchman who spotted the incident informed us around midnight. Our staff rushed to the spot and took the injured person to hospital. We had registered a case of attempt to murder. We were informed about his death by Sassoon General Hospital at 6.30 am. We have now filed the FIR under section 302 for murder.”Captain Ravindra Kumar Bali, who hailed from Kota, Rajasthan, had been residing on the footpath for the last six months. Pune Mirror had reported this phase of his life in a report ‘Éx-armyman’s home truth is a footpath in Cantt’ on September 29, 2017.The captain had informed at that point that he was unmarried but when the cops initiated inquiry his relatives came up with a different story. The cops managed to get contact numbers of a few of his relatives through army officers in Pune. The cops first contacted his nephew in Delhi and informed him about the death of his uncle. When the cops asked him to collect the dead body, he refused, but provided contact numbers of Bali’s two sisters. The cops then called one of them in Kota who informed them that they had not been in contact with Bali in the last 30 years. Bali’s sister also informed that Bali was married and had a daughter and son, but that she was not aware of their whereabouts. Another relative informed cops that Bali had been removed from service due to his behaviour and that later he worked with a private company. He never tried to contact his family and siblings in the past 30 years. Bali’s relatives were not even aware that he used to stay in Pune and now nobody is ready to collect his dead body.“We have contacted everybody we could but no one is ready to collect the dead body. We will be preparing a detailed report and submit it to the court for the further action. We will wait for three to four days. If nobody comes to collect the body thewill take further steps,” said Inspector Yadav.