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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| Minister Dr Nitin Raut, SP Aarti Singh and others, visiting the crime spot from where bodies of the three girls were recovered. |
By Dheeraj Fartode
Bhandara police are exploring six theories to crack the rape-cum-murder case of three sisters of village Murmadi in Lakhni tehsil of Bhandara district. The cops are going in old fashioned way to isolate the suspects by trying to find the last person to see the three girls alive, said a senior officer familiar with the line of investigation. Right now there are several theories about motive, and police are trying to build case in each of the scenarios to get the leads.
One of the basic presumption of investigators is that girls knew the assailants and hence they readily accompanied him. Now, whether that person was a relative or just a casual acquaintance, forms the main line of the investigators, it is learnt. The girls had gone with a man and his accomplices who then committed the heinous crime that has shook the entire State.
As the place of crime happens to be remote area, the cops are relying heavily on the inputs from the villagers. And, that is where the mistrust among the locals is acting as a major hindrance in the investigations, the sources claimed. Cops have launched manhunt for the person, which whom the girls had gone to school. “Surely, some of the villagers must have spotted the girls with the accused person on February 14 but no one is coming forward to help us,” one of the police officer stated.
Acting upon claims of villagers, the cops are also examining involvement of inter-state gang of criminals in the ghastly incident. Workers from adjoining State were working at one of the construction site and some criminal element among them could be involved, but at this stage there is no definite clue. Bhandara police have formed ten-teams who are working day and night on the case. So far 20-persons were interrogated but cops are still looking for that one clue to get going.
Dr Nitin Raut vistits Murmadi, review probe
Maharashtra Minister for Employment Guarantee Scheme and Water Conservation, Dr Nitin Raut, Member of Rajya Sabha, Rajni Patil, along with a Member of Maharashtra Commission for SC/ST C L Thool on Sunday toured the Murmadi and Panchgaon villages and took a review of the investigations. Addressing a press conference at Bhandara, Dr Raut said that the incident had shook the entire State. The investigations are on right track and said cops are almost close to solving the case. He added, a breakthrough is almost there and the culprits might be nabbed within next two days.
However, Dr. Raut, said in case District Police fails to get any breakthrough, the probe will be handed over to another agency. Rajni Patil, Member, Rajya Sabha, said that she will raise the matter in Rajya Sabha and seek answer from the government. Vice-President and Chairman, Rajya Sabha, Hamid Ansari, has been informed about the case, she further said.
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