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,...
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| DCP Sambhaji Kadam and ACP Somnath Waghchaure adressing a press conferece on Saturday. |
Sending strong message to land-mafias again, the City Police on Saturday tighten noose of German-Japan gang under stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). Seven members of the gang have been booked by the police and four are under arrest. The MCOCA has been invoked in a criminal case registered at Gittikhadan Police Station for illegally grabbing land of Rasool Primary School.
The accused have been identified as Rashid Khan Jardar Khan (65), Ajhar Khan Rashid Khan (31), Amjad Khan Rashid Khan (33), Wasim alias Shera Rashid Khan (24), Raja Khan Rashid Khan (35), all are residents of Jafar Nagar Teacher’s colony, Mankapur Ring Road; Parvej Khan Jerman Khan (34), a resident of Sugat Nagar; Javed Ansari Abdul Wahab Ansari (48), a resident of Swagat Nagar, Katol Road.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Crime Sambhaji Kadam informed in a press conference that the accused have committed number of crimes in Mankapur and Gittikhadan area.
On the basis of complaint lodged by Samsunisa Nisha Mohd Ismail Pathan, a resident of Koradi Naka, No. 1, President of Rasool Primary School and the Gittikhadan Police had booked the accused under Sections 341, 143, 47, 149, 504, 506 (b) and 387 of Indian Penal Code on May 20.
The police said, the accused had illegally took possession of the premises of Rasool Primary School. The land was brought by her husband Mohd Ismail Pathan from Kusumbai Junghare, a resident of Shivaji Nagar and Shailaja Wankhede, a resident of Sitabuldi in year 1985 by Progressive Co-operative Housing Society. Ismail Pathan was the Secretary of the Society.
Ismail started a Rasool Primary School at Plot No. 81 and 101 to provide basic education to children of the area. After some years, accused Rashid Khan and his sons forcibly encroached a floor of school. Ismail Pathan passed away in year 2012. As Nisha was single handedly running the school, the accused created ruckus at the school and illegally took possession of the entire school premises. The accused also prohibited Nisha from entry in the school premises. The accused shut down the school and prevented children from entering the premises.
On May 15, Nisha and her daughter went to the school, accused stopped them and abused them. The accused demanded Rs 50 lakh extortion to vacate the school. When Nisha and daughter told the accused that they are the real owner of the land, the accused threatened them of dire consequences and said that they would not get entry at the land till they give Rs 50 lakh. The mother and daughter then approached SIT and lodged a complaint. The gang has been booked under Section 3 of MCOCA act. ACP Somnath Waghchoure was present in the press conference.
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