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,...
More than 100 trucks seized during last four months for transporting illegally excavated sand
By Dheeraj Fartode
Continuing its crackdown on illegal excavation and transportation of sand in district, Nagpur Rural Police on Sunday seized eight trucks from Ramadongri and Sahuli sand ghats. The police have also arrested eight persons who were on board the trucks.
Local Crime Branch (LCB) raided the sand ghats during wee hours of Sunday. Sand was being excavated and the cops cordoned off the area and seized the trucks. The accused are identified as Gautam Udaram Borkar (35), a resident of Khairpanjab; Salman Khan Sayyad Khan (23), Siddharth Mahadev Bapne (40), both residents of Nagpur and Sukhdev Antu Uikey (40), a resident of Ramdongri. The cops have seized 9 brass of sand that illegally excavated and filled in the trucks. Khapa police have registered the case under sections 379, 109 and 34 of Indian Penal Code.
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| LCB teams raids ghats and bust gangs involved in illegally excavating sand |
In an another raid, another team of LCB swooped at the sand ghat in Sahuli village at 5.45 am and seized four trucks. The cops have recovered six brass sand from the trucks here. Cops arrested four truck drivers identified as Krishna Kothiram Khandate (20), a resident of Bhanegaon; Kirpal Baliram Nagre, Anil Baban Sindurkar, both residents of Binasangam, Pradip Chunnilal Khobragade , a resident of Kalafata. Parsheoni police have registered the case under sections 379, 109, 511 and 34 of IPC.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Dr Aarti Singh said that the action would continue against illegal excavation and transportation of sand in the district. Many sand mafias are already put behind bar as police try to bust the organised gangs. District police she said have seized more than 100 trucks that was being used for transporting the illegally excavated sand and other minor minerals during last four months.
Staff of LCB led by Police Inspector Jayesh Bhandarkar, API Dinesh Labde and staff comprising Moreshwar Nagpure, Pramod Bansod, Madan Asatkar, Dilip Lanjewar, Avinash Raut, Suresh Gate and Vasanta Chute carried out the raids.
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