Injured suspect in Pune blasts was reclusive: Neighbours

The lifestyle of the person injured in one of the four low-intensity blasts on Wednesday in Pune, who is also a suspect in the case, has piqued the curiosity of investigators.

Dayanand Patil, a tailor who was injured at Bal Gandharva Chowk when a bomb reportedly slipped into his lunch bag went off, kept to himself, claim his neighbours.

The only person he was reportedly close to was another tailor, Usman Sheikh, who has not returned home since Wednesday night. Sheikh’s wife, Anuwar, says he may have gone to check on Patil at the hospital.

Other than wife, Satyakala, whom he married in 2008, the Patil household consists of two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Kirti and brother-in-law’s daughter Deepali Wadekar, who has been with the Patils since Kirti’s birth and has been her caretaker. They live in a room in Methre Chawl in Uruli Kanchan village, 30 km from Pune.

Many neighbours claim that they had not exchanged more than a dozen words with them in the one year since the two moved to the chawl. Patil was in the habit of shifting homes often. Originally from the Basavkalyan town in Bidar district of Karnataka, the family hardly had any visitor.

An officer investigating the case says the frequent change of address and the lack of acquaintances had stumped the police.