Pune Crime Files | How Snapchat posts led relative to plan and execute murder of 13-year …

A Pune court last week sentenced a man to rigorous life imprisonment for the brutal murder of a 13-year-old girl in the city’s Bibwewadi area four years ago. Shubham alias Rushikesh Bajirao Bhagwat, a resident of Sukhsagar Nagar near Katraj, was 22 when he stabbed the kabaddi player around 44 times in front of her friends. According to the police, the victim Kshitija Anant Vyavahare, a resident of Super Indira Nagar in Pune, was Bhagwat’s distant relative. A student of Class 8, she was undergoing kabaddi training at the Yash Lawns ground in Bibwewadi on the day she was killed. Harassment and warnings Investigators said that Bhagwat had been living with his maternal aunt after his mother’s death. He had allegedly been harassing Kshitija and had claimed to be in love with her, but her family had warned him against it. Meanwhile, Bhagwat started working as a security guard at a private company in Mundhwa. As per the police records, on October 9, 2021, he saw images uploaded by Kshitija – in which she was seen with a boy – on the social media platform Snapchat. He then went to Yash Lawns, where Kshitija was practising kabaddi, but the boy
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