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,...
- Main accused are still at large
By Dheeraj Fartode
Sessions Judge P V Ganediwala on Monday extended the police custody remand of nine Dabba traders by three-days to help prosecution reach to bottom of the case.
The cops today produced accused -- Ramesh Chotelal Patre (33), a resident of 101, Vaishali Nagar; Govind Bhanwarlal Sarda (42), a resident of Canal Road, Ramdaspeth; Kushal Kishor Laddhad (37), a resident of Ramdaspeth; Pritesh Sureshkumar Lakhotia (37), a resident of 201, Shankar Nagar; Ashwin Madhukar Borikar (30), a resident of Durgawati Nagar; Vikas Laxminarayan Kubde (28), a resident of Panchpaoli, Nagpur; Swapnil Vijayrao Parate (24), a resident of Shivaji Nagar; Vijay Chandulal Goklani (34), a resident of Quetta Colony in the court during afternoon hours.
Defence lawyers took strong objections to prosecution argument and claimed JMFC court has no jurisdiction to entertain any proceeding under Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act 1956. The court heard the plea and then forwarded the remand papers to session court immediately.
During arguments, the prosecution demanded five days police custody to decode the transactions available in the seized diaries and computers and money involved in the Dabba trading. However, defence lawyers objected to prosecution saying they have not showed any progress and the grounds for extension of remand are same as mentioned in first application. Therefore, police do not have requirement of custodial interrogation of the accused and all the relevant material is already is with the cops.
After hearing pleas from both sides, the court extended police custody of the accused by three days.
EoW’s team back with hard disks, servers from Mumbai
The EoW’s special team which raided L7 Group’s Mumbai office returned to city with many hard disks and servers. The hard disks would be showed to cyber forensic experts for further investigation. Decoding of these servers and hard disks which are believed to be encrypted by king-pin of the Dabba trade, will be another challenge before EoW sleuths and cyber forensic experts. According to cyber forensic experts, some programmes and softwares have in-built programme to destroy themselves in case they are opened by any other person. However, Maharashtra police has some of the best cyber forensic experts who have cracked even more difficult cases and retrieved the deleted data from a burnt computer and has experience in decoding complicated data from the servers and proxy-servers of the Dabba operators.
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