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,...
Two persons, including a student of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur, died while five students of IIM and VNIT sustained grievous injuries after a speeding truck dashed their car at Automotive Square on early Sunday morning. “The youths were proceeding to Pench for picnic,” said an office of Jaripatka Police Station.
According to police, the youths were staying at the hostel in VNIT. On Saturday, the youngsters planned a visit Pench on Sunday. They booked a Innova car.
Driver Nitesh Ramteke, a resident of Seminary Hills picked the students from VNIT Hostel at 4 am along. They were travelling in Innova car (MH-40/A-2244) and while crossing Automotive square, a speeding truck (GJ-05/BX-1822) that came from Kalamna rammed into the car. The truck then collided with a Mahindra Jeep (MH-49/B-4973). As the truck was in great speed, both Innova and Mahindra Jeep got overturned after the dash.
Durgesh Chavan (26), the IIM student and resident of Delhi and driver Ramteke sustained grievous injuries and died on the spot. Injured students are identified as Navnit Kaur, a resident of Bhuvbaneshwar; Mayank Pradhan (21), a resident of Nagpur; Sahil Jain (23), a resident of Haryana; Abhishek Das (25), a resident of Hyderabad and Karim Mirza Ashraf Ali Baig (25).
Control Room of City Police informed Jaripatka Police Station and the staff rushed to the spot. The injured persons were admitted to the hospital. Meanwhile, the accused truck driver managed to flee spot leaving the truck on the spot as front wheel of the truck leave apart.
Ashfak Ahmed (35), Sheikh Ahmed and Abid Sheikh who were travelling in the Mahindra jeep were also injured.
The cops have registered the case under Sections 279, 3304 (a), 337, 338, 427 of Indian Penal Code read with sub-sections 134 and 177 of Motor Vehicle Act. Further investigatin is on.
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