Archive · 3 Oct 2026
Pune Court Sends MPSC Protest Assault Suspect to Custody
A journalist named Nikhil Sukre was allegedly assaulted during a protest in Pune.
Siddhant Panchange has been accused in the case.
A court sent Panchange to judicial custody for 14 days after his one day of police custody ended.
Police have charged the case under sections of India’s criminal law.
They have also applied a Maharashtra law that protects media workers from violence while doing their jobs.
Vishrambaug police are investigating.
Sukre said journalists should be safe while working.
The case is still being investigated, and the accusation has not been decided by a court.
A Pune court remanded Siddhant Panchange to 14 days of judicial custody on Saturday.
Panchange is accused of assaulting Jai Maharashtra journalist Nikhil Sukre during the MPSC agitation in Pune.
He had earlier been granted one day of police custody.
Police registered a case under four Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections and invoked Section 4 of Maharashtra’s Journalist Protection Act.
Vishrambaug police are investigating the case under the supervision of Assistant Commissioner of Police Anuja Deshmane.
- Who
- Siddhant Panchange, accused of assaulting Jai Maharashtra journalist Nikhil Sukre.
- What
- A court remanded Panchange to 14 days of judicial custody in the assault case.
- When
- Saturday; the article does not give a calendar date.
- Where
- Pune, Maharashtra.
- Why
- The custody order followed an alleged assault on Sukre during the ongoing MPSC agitation.
- Judicial custody
- 14 days
- Earlier police custody
- One day
- Accused
- Siddhant Panchange
- Journalist
- Nikhil Sukre of Jai Maharashtra
- Criminal law sections
- Sections 118(1), 296, 352 and 351(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
- Journalist protection law
- Section 4 of the Maharashtra Media Persons and Media Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage or Loss to Property) Act, 2017
- Investigating police
- Vishrambaug police