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,...
By Dheeraj Fartode Crime Branch sleuths, on Tuesday night, busted an inter-State gang of online fraudsters and seized gold and cash totalling Rs 4.80 lakh. The cops arrested three young members of the gang, which operates out of West Bengal, came to the city to withdraw money. The accused were identified as Krishnakumar Drupdeo Mishra (28), Raja Manjeet Bhattacharya (25), and Santosh Kumar Parsnath Yadav (34), all residents of Kolkata, West Bengal. They were picked-up after Crime Branch team fast paced investigations into a complaint from a Yavatmal-based businessman, whose account was hacked by the gang for making transactions worth Rs 54 lakh. Staff of Crime Branch with arrested three accused. According to Wadgaon Road Police in Yavatmal, Priyank Chandrashekhar Deshmukh, dealer of Tata Motors, has cash credit account with Datta Chowk branch of Bank of India. When he checked the account details on Tuesday morning, all details were okay. However, when he ch...