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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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Mukesh and Mahima Jham arrested by EoW from Pune

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Economic Offences Wing (EOW) have arrested Mukesh Hansaraj Jham (50) and his wife Mahima (45) from Pune in connection with Rs 38.75 crore Navodaya Co-operative Bank loan fraud case.  
Mukesh Jham is the uncle of kingpin Hemant Sikander Jham, Director of Jham Builders and Developers. A police officer informed that the accuse was hiding in Pune since last month. Acting on a tip-off, the police have arrested the accused from Punawale area of Pune. Mukesh and Mahima were the office-bearers in Jham Builders and Developers. 
District and Sessions Judge (MPID) Special Court Patil remanded the accused to police custody for five days.
Jham’s 30 acre land worth Rs 40 crore at Waghdhara in Hingna Tehsil was seized by the police allegedly for not returning Rs six crore to about 400 investors in June 2017. An offence of cheating and criminal breach of trust was registered against Jham Builders and Developers at Sonegaon Police Station in October 2015 following a complaint lodged by Shrikant Janbandhu. The complainant was among the 418 investors who had booked flats, row houses or bungalows at Kanhaiya City, a project launched by the Jham Builders in 2010.
Jham had duped investors Nagpur, Pune and Mumbai cities. Maximum investors are retired government employees who had invested their savings in the fraudulent schemes floated by the fraudsters. 
He had constructed a road at Kanhaiya City in Wagdhara to create an impression of construction of row houses among the investors. He had opened an office at Paryawaran Nagar in Somalwada where a large number of marketing executives were recruited to run the fraudulent schemes.  Sources informed that he was also making false promises of giving residential plots to the investors at a lay-out in Vathoda area. 
An offence of cheating and criminal breach of trust was registered against Jham Builders and Developers at Sonegaon Police Station in October 2015 following a complaint lodged by Shrikant Janbandhu. The complainant was among the 418 investors who had booked flats, row houses or bungalows at Kanhaiya City, a project launched by the Jham Builders in 2010.
After some investors had moved the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum,  about 250 summonses and warrants were issued against him but he had not appeared before it. Even an arrest warrant was also issued against him. 
The accused were booked under Sections 406, 409, 420, 120(b), 465, 467, 468, 471, 477 (a) of the Indian Penal Code, read with Section 3 of Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors Act and Sections 65, 66 (b) of Information Technology Act, has already been registered against the bank chairman, board of directors and others at Dhantoli Police station.

Youth on way to attend duties killed in road accident 

A youth was killed when a speeding vehicle hit his motorcycle in Gittikhadan police station area on early Friday morning. The youth employed with Axis Bank in Arwi town of Wardha District. He was reportedly going to Arwi to attend his duties.
The deceased has been identified as Suraj Rajendra Bramhane (24), a resident of Chakkikhapa, Mahurjhari, District- Nagpur. According to police, Suraj came to Chakkikhapa to meet her sister. He started for Arwi early in the morning on his Pulsar motorcycle (MH40/BP-4874). The accident occurred at 4.30 am when he was crossing Dabha Ring Road. A speeding vehicle came behind and hit the bike. Suraj sustained grievous head injuries in the mishap. He was admitted to the hospital where he succumbed to the injuries at 11.30 am. Gittikhadan police have registered the case under Sections 279, 338, 304 (a) of Indian Penal Code read with Sections 134 and 177 of Motor Vehicle Act. 

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