Dabo club Nagpur Efforts to reopen the controversial Dabo Club, which was shut down for 45 days following the murder of two young men, have triggered strong anger and fear among the families of the victims. The incident took place in the early hours of December 26 last year during a Christmas party at Dabo Club. Pranav Ranavare (27) was allegedly killed after a minor dispute. His friend, Gaurav Karda (34), was badly injured in the same incident and later died during treatment. The Sonegaon police arrested six accused - Soumya Deshmukh, Mehul alias Monu Rahate, Rajiv Chawla, Abhay Jhamtani, Gappu Sharma and Tushar Nankani. All the accused are currently lodged in jail. The club is owned by Directors Devyani Vijay Wadettiwar, Karan Vikram Thakkar and Mohd Hamza Rayeen. It may be mentioned here that Dabo Club has a long history of complaints related to harassment and assaults. Police sources said repeated warnings were ignored by the management. During the investigation, it was found...
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A protection wall in basement area of an under construction building collapsed on Sunday injuring about nine labourers who got trapped under the debris. Immediately after the mishap, fellow laborers showed presence of mind and undertook rescue operations thereby minimising adversity. The rescued labourers were in trauma and rushed to the hospital. Of them, two grievously injured are reportedly battling for life, four others have suffered multiple fractures and four other luckily escaped with minor injuries. The incident exposed violation of labour laws in construction sector as the workers on the jobs were not wearing safety gear although task allotted to them was quite dangerous.
According to an eye-witness, the wall collapsed at around 5.30 pm when the workers were engaged in constructing of a protection wall in the basement. “There were four walls on four side there were being constructed using concrete bricks. Of them, construction of three walls was completed. When about 30 labourers were busy in construction of a wall, one of the wall constructed on South side of the plot came crashing down. A loud sound in aftermath of crashing of the wall triggered panic and neighbours came rushing out of home to inquiry the cause of noise. To their horror people saw frenetic activity at the ongoing construction site and lot of sounds could be heard in the neighbourhood.
In aftermath of the collapse of the wall, a gang of labourers first fled fearing for their lives. But soon as seriousness of the situation dawned on them they came rushing to site and pushed themselves in danger zone to rescue their brethren The labourers were first awed by enormous task before them but using common sense they engaged in frenzied activity to pull out those trapped underneath the fallen brick wall. According to one estimate the wall being constructed in the basement were nearly ten to twelve feet tall and one can imagine the plight to labourers who got trapped underneath them. Some labourers remained under the debris for maximum 13 minutes and the injured were transported to Orange City Hospital.
The injured labourers are identified Mantu Shilu (24), Vinod Shelu (18), Surjan (18), Rajan Darshimha (18), Mansulal Bhopa (18), all are residents of Rampur, Chhindwara (MP); Ravindranath Dhurve (47), a resident of Uday Nagar, Nagpur; Sunil Uke (20), Dinesh Namdeorao Pentar (40), both are residents of Nagpur.
Soon after the incident, staff of Dhantoli Police Station and a team of Fire Rescue and Emergency Services of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) arrived at the spot.
Large numbers of onlookers also gathered at the spot after the incident. Police Sub-Inspector Balram Zadokar said that the labourers sustained grievous injuries in the accident. The police have launched investigation in the case.
Contractor to face action : DCP Rakesh Ola
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Zone II Rakesh Ola visited the spot after the incident. As prima facie, it appeared that the contractor -- M/s Nirmiti Developers, owned by one Samir Tiwari -- was not following guidelines of labour laws. The labourers were working without safety helmet and lacked proper dresses. We are conducing investigation into the matter and stern action will be initiated against the contractor for violation of laws,” DCP Ola further stated.
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