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,...
A businessman lost Rs. 20 lakh after a third person turned-up and claimed the booty and vanished in thin air. “The man collected the cash from two different places and went missing with the cash,” said Ganeshpeth Police.
Complainant Mukesh Sohanlal Bhatia (45), a resident of Plot No. 1152, Vishwapuri, Ludhiana, Punjab, is into woolen business. He supplies woolen products across the India. More than 70 % woolen material in Tibetan market and other places comes through the businessman.
He arrived in the city on December 29 and collected the dues of woolen supplies. After collecting cash, he kept some cash with one Shantilal Kothari and Tipti Central Market near Baidyanath Square. He then went to Nanded to visit the Gurudwara..
Meanwhile, he phoned Kothari and one person of Tipti Central Market and asked them to handed over the cash to one Purushottam, his trusted man. The men handed over cash to Purushottam as instructed by Bhatia.
After collecting the cash, Purushottam has gone missing. Bhatia arrived in the city and learned that the money was not delivered at Ludhiana. He then approached Ganeshpeth Police Station and lodged the complaint. The cops have registered the case under Section 406 of IPC. A senior police officer of Ganeshpeth Police Station said that the are searching for Purushottam who went missing with the cash. There is a possibility of Hawala racket in the entire case and police are investigating from that angle, said the sources.
Dhantoli police returns 25 stolen mobikes to owners
Dhantoli police on Monday handed over 25 motorycles to its original owners. The police have successfully traced 170 vehicles worth Rs 64.84 lakh in a year and returned to victims. “We have traced stolen vehicles, ornaments, cash and mobile phones collectively worth Rs 76.33 lakh so far and returned to victims,” said Senior Police Inspector of Dhantoli Police Station Rajan Mane.
PI Mane further informed that the police have returned gold ornaments worth Rs 2.35 lakh, cash worth Rs 5.7 lakh, mobile phones and other goods worth Rs 3.44 lakh.
Under guidance of DCP Zone II Rakesh Kalasagar, ACP Kishor Kale, PI Mane, API Kishor Gaddime, HC Kundan, Shivdas, Gajanan, Vsanta and others worked hard to traced the valuables.
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