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,...
21-10-19
In a major breakthrough, a five-member interstate gang of robbers was busted by Local Crime Branch (LCB) of Nagpur rural police on Monday for robbing an Umred businessman of Rs 8.5 lakh last week.
The robbers committed the crime last Monday at 11:30 am when the victim Nikesh Mahesh Tolani (29), a distributor for Hindustan Uniliver Ltd, was on his way to a bank with two bags containing cash. Tolani was accosted by the accused who tried to snatch the bags from him. They stabbed Tolani in his head and stomach before fleeing on a motorcycle with the bags containing Rs 8,53,000 cash.
After registering the case under Sections 394 and 34 of Indian Penal Code, the police started checking footage and location of history-sheeters active in the area. Acting on a tip-off, the police nabbed the accused persons from their houses. During interrogation, the goons confessed for the crime.
The arrested accused have been identified as Sumit Prabhakar Somkuwar (22), a resident of Saunsar District of Madhya Pradesh; Magnesh alias Guddu Birju Padolia (23), Mangesh Santosh Kharpuria (21), both residents of Wadhona village in Katol tehsil; Sayyad Yasin alias Sayyad Kalim (19), a resident of Ekta colony, Yashodhara Nagar and Kasim alias Ahmedkhaa Pathan (25), a resident of Surendragadh, Giddikhadan.
A police official informed that accused Kasim was working as driver on a truck at the godown of Hindustan Unilever Ltd at Fetri, Kalmeshwar two years ago. While delivering products at Tolani’s shop at Umred, he noticed that Tolani was carrying huge cash to the bank. Last month, he shared the information with other accused and they hatched the conspiracy. Accused Padolia, Kharpuria and Sayyad went to Umred and done the recce of the spot. They also roped accused Sumit Somkuwar in the crime and robbed Tolani on October 14 of Rs 8.53,000/-. A police official said that Sumit was waiting for Tolani in the bank while others were standing in the parking. When Tolani stepping up in the bank, Sumit kicked him. As he collapsed on the steps, other three accused caught hold of him and Mangesh Padolia stabbed him in the stomach with a sharp-weapons. Soon after, the goons fled the town on Pulsar 220 motorcycle.
Under the guidance of Superintendent of Police Rakesh Ola and Addl SP Monika Raut, the arrest was made by Police Inspector (LCB) Anil Jittawar, APIs Jitendra Wairagade, Pankaj Waghode, PSIs Sachin Matte, Javed Sheikh and staff including Laxmiprasad Dubey, Jaiprakash Sharma, Ramesh Bhoyar, Rajendra Sanodia, Avinash Raut, Dinesh Adapure, Rama Aade, Radhesham Kamble, Balaji Sakhre, Pranay Banafar, Satyasheel Kothare, Amol Wagh, Sahebrao Bahale, Amol Kuthe and Satish Ratohd of Cyber Cell.
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