Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
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Maharashtra Minister Rajendra Mulak consoling a
victim of dacoity at Kuhi Rural Hospital on Sunday. |
As the crime happened in the night time, the cops hurdle is identification of accused
By Dheeraj Fartode
Nagpur Rural police on Sunday rounded up five more persons in the serial dacoities in the Kuhi tehsil. The criminals under influence of liquor had also raped a girl who tried to intervene when the former were beating her parents.
Just after the incident, the cops had netted three in combing operations. Rural police that had formed 11 teams had fanned out in different directions and have brought in person who have past record of such crimes, said the Superintendent of Police, Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma. The police officers in Nagpur Rural Police jurisdiction were on roads all night and the combing operation led to nabbing of the three in immediate aftermath of the dacoities. “We are quizzing the suspects and hopeful of cracking the case,” he added.
“The eight persons that have been rounded are all history sheeters. They were involved in robberies and dacoities that had occurred in the district,” said Additional Superintendent of Police Prakash Jadhav.
A senior officer said that as the crime happened in the night time, the cops hurdle is identification of accused. And as most of the victims were attacked just after being rudely woken-up from sleep, they have just passing glance at faces of accused persons. The crime pattern points out the finger towards Pardhi community men. Those taken in custody were accused in dacoities that had occurred in Nagpur area during last ten-years.
Special Inspector General (IGP) Rajendra Singh camped at Kuhi police station and took stock of the combing operations. He monitored the progress of each investigating team and co-ordinated the Nagpur Rural Police efforts.
On Friday night, seven motorcycle-borne masked dacoits first struck at a farm house in Chitapur-Tarni village. There they entered a farm-house and attacked Deorao Chacherkar and his wife, a care taker with an axe. The accused fled after looting Rs 200 cash from Chacherkar couple.
Using same modus operand, the dacoits later struck at two other farm houses at Dhanoli and Sitapur-Dipala village. At the Dipala village the robbers had criminally assaulted the 18-year-old girl of the care-taker when she took on the might of the criminals.
Senior police officers turned out in all might as the gravity of the crime stunned them all. They rushed to the spot in night and launched a manhunt for arrest of the accused. All the injured are admitted to Kuhi hospital. Kuhi Police have registered a case under sections 297, 376 (g), 342, 504, 506 of Indian Penal Code.
Deshmukh, Mulak, Moghe visits victims
Political bigwigs in the Nagpur District have called on the victims and assured them full state support. Maharashtra Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Anil Deshmukh, State Minister for Finance Rajendra Mulak, Guardian Minister Shivajirao Moghe, Former state minister Adv Sulekha Kumbhare, former MP Prakash Jadhav visited the victims and also talked to police officials asking them to show no leniency to culprits.
Rajendra Mulak promised to look after the victim girl and said all her future liabilities will be taken care of. Further the government will depute a psychologist to help the girl pass through the trauma period. Mulak also promised to provide foodgrains to all the victims.
Former MP Jadhav said that cops have failed to nabbed accused in a firing case that had occurred at village Vadegaon. He threatened to launch a stir against the cops. MLA Sudhir Parwe, Zilla Parishad President Sandhya Gotmare and BSP’s Devanand Ukey also called on the victims.
A delegation of people of Sitapur-Dipala village met Anil Deshmukh and demanded that State Government should take responsibility of 18-year-old girl’s education and marriage, who was gang raped by accused. Deshumkh has assured the delegation that he will take-up the issue with Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Ajitdada Pawar and Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan.
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