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,...
Published on 29-10-2019
Arrested gangster Santosh Ambekar used to cast fear on his ‘targets’ with the help of negative publicity against him in media. He also used to take help of videos uploaded on You Tube by news channels.
Additional Commissioner of Nilesh Bharne informed The Hitavada that Ambekar had targeted businessmen living in Gujarat and Mumbai area. He cheated hundreds of business persons in the fake land deals. When the victims came to get back their money, Ambekar was used to ask them to just google his name. “After going through information available on news websites and videos available on You Tube instill fear among would be complaint, said Bharne.
“We are going to break this fear about Ambekar. People should approach us with their complaints and the city police would definitely help the victim,” assured Bharne and added that the police would teach lesson to every criminal in the city.
The police have seized five cars, motorcycle and a chair made of silver f collectivelly worth Rs 2.51 crore from the house of Ambekar. MCOCA was invoked against Ambekar and his 11 accomplices last week by Crime Branch for duping a businessman of Rs five crore in a property deal and also issuing threats to him for extortion of Rs one crore. Soon after, a series of offences were registered against him within a fortnight at Lakadganj, Ambazari, Sonegaon and Tehsil police station.
Along with Ambekar, Nilesh Kedar (34), Darodkar Chowk; Chandan Choudhary (44), Mumbai; Juhi Choudhary (39), Mumabi; Ankit Patel (31), Gujarat; Ajay Patel (39), Mumbai and Rajendra Armarkar (53), Sitabuldi were arrested by the police so far.
The cops have also seized Rs 13.66 lakh cash from Juhi Choudhary, Rs 45 lakh cash from Arvind Patel, currency counting machine from Ajay Patle and Rs 84 lakh cash from gold ornaments worth Rs 1.36 lakh from Rajendra Armarkar. It means that the police have seized properties worth Rs 5.30 crore including Rs 1.42 crore cash.
Ambekar was first time arrested by police this month for duping a businessman of Rs five crore in a property deal and also issuing threats to him for extortion of Rs one crore. The complaint was lodged against Ambekar by Jigar Pareshbhai Patel, a resident of Kapadvanj, District - Kheda, Gujarat with Sitabuldi police on Saturday accusing Ambekar and his accomplices for duping him of Rs five crore and demanding extortion of Rs one crore.
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