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,...
Panic gripped at Jhansi Rani Square on Monday evening when a youth armed with Air Gun climbed Rani Jhansi Statue and threatened to commit suicide. However, timely action by a traffic constable stopped the drama. The youth Sanjay Lalsingh Patel (27), a resident of Ishwarpur, Madhya Pradesh is now cooling heels behind bars at Sitabuldi Police Station. According to eye-witness, the youth climbed the statue at around 4 pm and took out the Air Gun from his bag. Soon after he started shouting be keeping the gun on his head. Hundreds of onlookers gathered the spot after seeing the youth.
Three traffic cops who were present in the square arrived the spot and asked him to handed-over the gun. However, the youth did not responded the police and was continuously threatening to commit suicide.
Meanwhile, two traffic cops engaged the youth in discussion and another traffic cop -- Vipul Surwade -- climbed the statue from back side and caught the youth. The cop immediately took the gun in possession and thrashed him and handed-over to Sitabuldi Police Station.
A police officer informed that the youth was a farmer and under debt burden. Last week, a Police Officer of Madhya Pradesh beaten him up in the police station for some reasons and threatened for life. He arrived Nagpur and attempted to commit the suicide after not getting a job.
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