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A Village Burnt Overnight: Tears, Loss and Survival in Dhamangaon Blaze

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  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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Cops bust mobile theft racket, recover 19 phones

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Staff of Pachpaoli police station with 
arrested accused and seized mobile phones. 

A gang of mobile thieves was busted by Pachpaoli police and recovered 19 stolen mobile phones worth Rs 2.70 lakh from their possession. The accused have stolen more than 200 mobile phones in last two years and disposed of in the Hydarabad. 
The accused have been identified as Rupesh Vijay Kshirsagar (20) and Rajesh Baburao Meshram (18), both residents of Pawansut Nagar, Hudkeshwar. 
According to police, the accused came under the police scanner when they had stolen a mobile phone of Sohel Jami Qureshi (22), a resident of Asi Nagar, on February 21. Sohel had gone to Jaswant Tuli mall where the theft took place. 
During investigation, the police identified the accused and picked them from the residence. The interrogation of the accused revealed that they were stealing mobile phones across the city from last two years. “The accused are the part of seven-member gang of mobile thieves. They have stolen more than 200 mobile phones and disposed of in Hyderabd where the receiver was reselling the phones after changing its International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number,” informed PI Ashok Meshram of Pachpaoli police station. 
Once the IMEI number of a phone is changed, it becomes impossible for the investigating agencies to track it further. “The accused were stealing only high-end mobile phones,” PI Mesham said and added that a special team would be tasked to arrested the Hyderabad based receiver. 
Under the guidance of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Rahul Maknikar, API Walchand Munde, the arrest was made by PI Meshram, Mahesh Dawan, API SS Suruse and staff including Ashok Pund, Premdas Wardhe, Rahul Badhiye, Sachin Bhimte, Chetan Gedam, Gajanan Rathod and others. 


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