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,...
“Police should assess property of Wasankar and also trace the money the fruadster has parked illegally,” said an investor By Dheeraj Fartode Seven more aggrieved investors who had invested their money in Wasankar Wealth Management Ltd. on Sunday came forward to register their complaints with Crime Branch. These new group of investors together have put in Rs. 1.5 crores with Prashant Wasankar who is now behind bar along with his brother, Vinay and brother-in-law Abhijit Choudhari on the charge of defrauding the investors. The trio are presently in police custody till August 2 and investigators are now desperate for more complaints so that they can build a water tight case against Wasankar and his associates. The Economic Offences Wing (EoW) which is entrusted with the probe in multi-crore fraud perpetuated allegedly by Wasankar has began tracking the properties held by his firm. A senior police Officer informed ‘The Hitavada’ that investors who were till now hopeful of getting b...