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,...
IN A significant breakthrough, Ganeshpeth Police arrested three members of an inter-state gang of vehicle lifters and recovered two stolen Tavera cars, two Indigo cars and and four mopeds from their possession.
The accused have been identified as Mohammad Asadulla Khan alias Nadeem Abdul Najib Khan (42), a resident of Om Nagar; Mohd Salman Qureshi alias Jakki Usman Qureshi (22), a resident of Sadar, behind Jama Masjid and Shyam Jaimangal Chauhan (43), a resident of Trimurti Nagar. Cops have launched a massive search for Mumbai-based kingpin Uday Maroti Patil and his accomplices.
About the modus operandi of the gang, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone III) M Rajkumar told mediapersons that the accused used to refurbish stolen vehicles using parts of old vehicles of the same models and sell them as genuine second-hand vehicles to gullible customers. Sometimes, the gang used to replace the chassis and engine numbers with old vehicles using grinding machine and other tools.
Acting on a tip offi, Rajkumar said, a team of Ganeshpeth Police nabbed Mohammad Salman Qureshi from Great Nag Road and seized his two-wheeler. During interrogation by police, he spilled the beans, he added.
He said, Mohammad Salman confessed to stealing a Honda Activa moped from Koadi area and named the other members of the gang. Cops then nabbed MohammadAsadulla and Shyam Chauhan from different places, he added.
Rajkumar informed that the team then recovered stolen two Tavera cars, two Indigo cars, a a Dream Yuga motorcycle, an Suzuki Access moped, a Honda Activa collectively valued at Rs 22.10 lakh from from Aurangabad, Beed, Karnataka and Tirupati. Search for the other gang members is on.
The arrests were made by senior Police Inspector M K Chavan, API A P Taksande, constables Anand Wankhede, Ajay Giradkar, Ashish Bahad, Sharad Chambhare and Ananta Garmode.
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