Dhole was reportedly the manager of Kalyani Deshpande who ran a prostitution racket in Pune and also has a criminal case against her, according to police. Broken pieces of a bottle, remnants of a late-night party, broken flower pots and clothes lay scattered around and inside Dhole’s bungalow, now splattered with blood stains, located on a lonely stretch of Sus Road. The police said that the assailants had arrived at the house in Dhole’s absence and assaulted his servant-cook, Gaur, and his driver Dinesh Shaha, both natives of Assam, and had locked them in one of the rooms in the house. The assailants then sat drinking in the lawn of the house, waiting for the owner to arrive. Upon Dhole’s arrival, they attacked him and dragged him inside the house where he was assaulted with a sharp instrument.