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,...
24-10-19
Film Director and producer Vipul Shah and his partner in the film production company were duped by fraudsters to the tune of Rs five crore. The fruadsters assured investment of Rs 100 crore in their upcoming movies and told him that they were making money through old coins of British era, saying that the coin minted from Iridium, a precious metal, had some supernatural powers.
The accused have been identified as Rajsingh alias Rajeshkumar Tarkeshwarsingh, a resident of Jharkhand; Builder Keshav D Padole, a resident of Nirmal Puja Building, Shivaji Nagar and R. Krishnakumar, a resident of Chennai.
Vipul Shah and his partner Vinit Ramlalprasad Singh (41), a resident of Flat No. 802, Brmhasan City, Building No. 6, Wadgaon, Pune lodged a complaint with EoW this month.
The accused met Shah and Singh at Nagpur in thier office and promised investment in their upcoming movies. Padole posed himself as Chairman of Builder Association of India and told the victims that he had license of providing super antique articles to government while Rajesh Kumar Singh identified himself as senior officer in defence. Revealing their business model, the accused told Shah that they were searching for British era coins and super antique materials containing iridium contents which have supernatural powers. They also claimed the victims that they were making hundreds of crore through the business.
When Shah and Singh agreed to work with them, the accused asked them that they would have to come with them anywhere in the country to get the coins. In the search of iridium, the fraudsters took Shah and Singh at Nagpur, Bhuwneshwar, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Hubali, Khamgaon, Mhau, Ghosi, Gorakhpur, Orissa, Chennai, Kathmandu, Banaras and other place between 2010 and 2017. The victims had spent more than Rs five crore for the trips.
After realising the fraud, Shah and Singh approached the police and lodged a complaint. An offence under Sections 420, 419, 406, 465, 467, 468, 471, 472, 120 (b) of Indian Penal Code was registered against the accused at Ambazari police station. API Rajendra Patil is investigatin the case.
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