Police Constable Sandip Devkar and the two home guards who caught the accused

The phrase 'caught red-handed' took on literal meaning for three men when alert cops and home guards caught them while they were still bloodied after murdering a teenager in Pune.Sandip Devkar, a police constable attached with rural traffic police branch was patrolling the area with two home guards when they spotted four people travelling on a bike headed towards Theur. Not only is it illegal to have more than two people on a moving bike at one time, but the cop and home guards also noticed that one of the four people on the bike was covered with a plastic gunny bag. Devkar also noticed that the bikers' clothes had blood stains. The trio started following the bike and managed to catch the riders.When they questioned them, the cops found out that the gunny bag was actually covering the dead body of teenager Bharat Badhe. The other three men had killed him by hitting him with a stone at Sangamwadi inYerwada and were on their way to dispose of his dead body.Lonikalbhor police have booked Ashok Aadwani (22), a resident of Pimpri, and Daund residents Akshay Pawar (19) and Vijay Pawar (19) for murder.