Pune Crime Files: A murder that marked the end of a violent trail for an accused before he was killed for revenge

4 min readPuneJul 27, 2026 09:38 PM IST Pune Rural police team with the three accused in the murder of Rahul Prakash Rawat in 2022. (Express photo)In the days after Sanjay Baburao Kadu-Deshmukh was murdered in an alleged revenge killing by the son of the man he was accused of murdering in 2003, attention has turned to the four murder cases he faced more than two decades ago. The last of these — the 2022 murder of one Rahul Prakash Rawat — proved particularly challenging for investigators after Rawat’s mutilated body was found dumped in a remote part of Velhe taluka. Police eventually traced the crime to Kadu-Deshmukh and his alleged associates. Nearly two decades after Sanjay Baburao Kadu-Deshmukh was accused in the murder of Dinesh Vaidya in 2003 in a case registered at Vishrambag police