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,...
An alert citizens foiled at attempt of cheating by fraudsters with the help of Crime Branch. The police have arrested two persons including a woman for attempting to dupe the alert citizen in fake gold deal of Rs eight lakh.
The accused have been identified as Kanhaiya Hira Kase (35), a resident of Kashi Nagar, Rameswari Road and Deepa Dilip Rathod (38), a resident of Plot NO. 161, Kashi Nagar. Complainant Manoj Jawaharlal Shahu (39), a resident of Plot No. 25, Manav Nagar, Nari Road, runs a shop of firecrackers at Kapil Nagar. The accused came to the shop and purchased some firecrackers. Soon after, they told Shahu that they have numismatic coins which were found during construction of their house. As Shahu showed interest, the accused had noted his mobile number and promised to return with the coins. The accused returned to the shop on Thursday and showed him 10 gold coins. Shahu took the accused to the jeweller and confirmed genuineness of the coins. Stating they have gold bricks weighing two kilograms, the accused lured Shahu by offering price of Rs four lakh per kg. (Market price of gold is around Rs 37 lakh per kg) When the accused told Shahu to come at Pardi area to get the gold, Shahu suspected something amiss in the deal and contacted the Crime Branch. The police laid the trap and arrested the accused when they came at the spot with the fake gold bricks. An offence under Sections 420, 511 and 34 of Indian Penal Code was registered against the accused persons at Pardi police station. The police have produced the accused in the court and obtained their two-days police custody remand, informed PI Sunil Chavan of Pardi police station.
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