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A Village Burnt Overnight: Tears, Loss and Survival in Dhamangaon Blaze

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  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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Ruthlessly crush gangsters: CP directs cops

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Commissioner of Police K K Pathak


By Dheeraj Fartode

Rattled by increasing street violence and open defiance of police authorities by goons armed with revolvers and pistols, the top police officials held a crucial meeting on Friday morning to devise strategy to overcome menace of defiant criminals. The Commissioner of Police K K Pathak has ordered entire force not to spare these criminals and trheir gangs and instead take all steps under law to ruthlessly crush them. 

Despite launching a massive man-hunt after small-time thugs opened firing at police personnel, the operation so far has failed to make any head-way forcing police leadesrhip to undertake brain-storming. Though the routine measures like nakabandi were enforced, but these goons dared to fire at police personnel many a times at different parts and till date are roaming freely.
What has worried the cops, is the growing trend of youngsters in their twenties using fire-arms to settle personal scores without any fear of law. The easy availability of fire-arms and its misuse to terrorise girls and their family members by these anti-social elements has spread a wave of terror among law-abiding citizens who want tough action against these criminals. Infact Bajrang Dal activists had staged a dharna demanding encounter of these criminals and in support of police force.
Commissioner of Police K K Pathak himself chaired the meeting and directed officials to arrest the goons, launch a massive combin operation to search and seize weapons, intensify patrolling in key areas to flush out criminals hiding in their dens.
The meeting was conducted at CP office, where Joint Commissioner of Police, Additional CP, all DCP and relevant police officers were present. The CP then held a special meeting of crime branch officers where DCP Sunil Kolhe and PI Madhv Giri were present.
Respective police stations, crime branch sleuths have been asked to use full force to arrest these goons, their associates and suspected gangsters and arms dealers who help such non-descript goons in procuring pistols, desi katta or revolvers.
Commissioner of Police has assured Nagpurians about their safety and said that cops will take stringent action against criminals, who are creating trouble for safety of common man in city. “Cops will act tough against criminals and they will be behind bars soon,” said CP Pathak while talking with ‘The Hitavada’.
Sources said that CP have directed senior officers to nab all history-sheeters, crack whip against all known criminals and their gang-members.
CP Pathak further said that special teams are formed for arrest of accused in fire-murder case. “We will put them in lock-up very soon,” he said.


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