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
Alarmed by violent tendencies displayed by a staffer in Skylark hotel firing case, the City police has decided to check antedencents of all employees working at hotels, shops, restaurants and malls.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Joint CP) Rajvardhan on Thursday conducted a meeting of all Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) and ordered them to check whether any criminal is working at any of these places?
A senior police officer informed The Hitavada, Skylark firing case has raised eyebrows of senior police officers. It also revealed the unpleasant truth of many criminals covertly or overtly working with many of the commercial establishments and some anti-socials disguising as employees are also carrying unlicenced guns. Sensing a grave danger to public peace and tranquility, Nagpur Police have decided to scan all employees. Most of these establishments witness high attrition rates and many novices and unknown persons are offered the jobs directly or sent by some placement agencies, without any check of their past.
Spokesperson of City Police DCP Ranjan Kumar Sharma informed that Joint CP Rajvardhan would issue an order under Section 144 of The Code of Criminal Procedure within 48 hours and order all commercial establishments to submitt Character Certificates of their employees with the concerned police stations. Cops would take stern action against establishment where staffers with criminal antecedent or direct involvement in criminal activities are employed, said another officer.
After the order, Police Station will start Character Certificate checking drive at all Bars, Restaurants, Shops and Malls so that Skylark firing incident should not be repeated.
It can be mentioned, the Skylark Firing incident has unearthed the extent of negligence on part of police and their cosy relationship with hotel owners. The bouncer with criminal history was working at the hotel since two months right under the nose of Tehsil Police Station. Shockingly, the bouncer regularly carried gun in the hotel.
Interestingly, DCP Sharma had floated WhatsApp groups of all hotel and lodges of city to connect the hotel employees with police four months ago. To a query whether Hotel Skylark’s employees are members of WhatsApp group, the DCP said, “the group was floated for lodges.”
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