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,...
Ambazari Police of Nagpur police on Sunday night conducted a
raid at a posh apartment in Hill Top area and recovered huge cash worth Rs 1.87
crore from four persons. The money
stashed in a purple colour travel bag was then seized and taken to Ambazari
Police Station along with four persons.
The four persons are identified as Dipak Sayanarayan
Agrawal, a resident of Telephone Exchange square, Opposite Rahate surgical
hospital, Arvind Ambadas Gavai, Aniket Mohandas Kumbhre and Mayank Kumar
Mulchand Shivhare.
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| Nagpur police with seized cash. |
The cops used counting machine to ascertain exact value of
the cash seized. As per preliminary report the cops 172 bundles of
Rs 1,000 notes (total Rs 1.72 crore) and 31 bundles of Rs 5000 note (Rs 15.50
lakh). The Income Tax Department has been alerted about the action and has been
requested to initiated appropriate action.
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Acting on tip-off, a team of Ambazari Police Staiton led by
Police Inspector Santosh Gorade rushed to Advocates Society, Hill Top and
stormed the first floor flat which was vacant. Four persons who were present in
the flat along with the cash were taken aback. Infact, according to sources,
one prominent builder, who was present on this occasion, managed to give a slip
to the cops and save himself from the unpleasant consequential action.
The cops then sought justification from these persons about
possessing such a large sum. However, they started giving evasive reply,
evoking suspicion. After quizzing them for a while, the police officers
informed their superiors and brought entire cash and four persons to police
station, for further probe.
Meanwhile, the news about seizure of huge cash went viral on
social media and rumour mongers had a field day to drag all sorts of
celebrities including politicians residing in the vicinity as the actual owner
of this cash.
After the high denomination currency was scrapped, this is
the first big action by local police. Two days ago, the Enforcement Directorate
had conducted raids against foreign exchange brokers and some businessmen.
All the four persons have been detained under Section 41 (1)
(D) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) which empowers police to arrest or
detain any individual in whose possession anything is found which may
reasonably be suspected to be stolen property and who may reasonably be
suspected of having committed an offence with reference to such thing.
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