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,...
Kalamna Police arrested two sons of Jivraj Patel, President of Maa Umiya Industrial Co-Operative Society, for alleged fraud in grabbing a two-acre plot. The accused have been charged for fabricating documents from a dead person. The cops produced in the court on Friday and obtained four days custody for custodial interrogation.
The arrested accused have been identified as Dinesh Jivraj Halpani Patel and Sanjay Jivraj Halpani Patel. The accused were produced in the court no 3 where police demanded PCR for custodial interrogation. After hearing both sides, the court remanded the accused to four-days custody.
According to complainant Ashok Wadhwani, the Patels gobbled adjoining four acres land in Mouza Kapsi. Kalamna police had registered offence under section 419, 420, 465,468,471 R/w sec. 34 of Indian Penal Code charging them with grabbing six acres of land on the basis of a questionable sale deed purportedly signed by a person who had died four decades ago.
According to Wadhwani, 2.40 hectare land bearing khasra no. 47 on Mouza Kapsi (patwari halka number 20) was purchased by Maa Umiya promoters on February 3, 1998 from one Tulshiram Urkude. However according to complainant, Urkude had dead long back and was not owner of land which Patel claimed to have purchased and hence entire transaction was bogus and fraudulent. The complainant claimed that they had purchased 0.81 Ha land from said 2.40 hectare land from legal owner of Khasra no. 47 Yograj Thakre and Madhukar Urkude in 2004. Similarly, remaining 1.59 Ha land was also purchased by Wadhwani from them. He claimed that a notice from District Collectorate informing about requirement of this land for Maa Umiya Industrial Co-Operative Society alerted him and he obtained details under RTI. Claiming ownership and possession of land, Wadhwani alleged that Maa Umiya Society promoter then allegedly prepared a bogus sale deed to gobble-up land whose market value is estimated in crores.
Kalamna police station had already registered an offence against Maa Umiya Industrial Co-Operative Society chief Jivraj Patel and had arrested him in connection with grabbing government land. Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) too had approached Nagpur police seeking criminal prosecution against Maa Umiya Society and its office-bearers. NIT has made it clear that it had not sanctioned any plan in respect of 378 acre land in Mouza Kapsi, Tarodi and Asoli villages on Bhandara Road, belonging to Maa Umiya and claimed that as Planning Authority for Metro Region it would take necessary action against Maa Umiya, for violation of MRTP, Regional Development Plan and for act done or initiated by society without obtaining prior permission of the competent authority.
A PIL filed by a vigilant citizen Anil Wadpalliwar had alleged massive irregularities, illegalities and mischief committed by Maa Umiya Industrial Co-Operative Estate to grab farmers’ land on Bhandara road and to forcibly acquire land for a pittance under the garb of developing a project of public importance, without any valid permission. The society in its affidavit-in-reply had refuted all allegations and denied any wrong doing.
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