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,...
A WAVE of fear has gripped investors in Wasankar Wealth Management as Income Tax Department (I-T) has started sending notices to them to furnish source of their income which they put in the ponzi scheme of Wasankar group. Notices have been served to more than 300 investors so far. “Along with the official list of investors with Economic Offences Wing, the I-T officials also identified investors from the documents seized by EoW including private diaries. After completing secret inquiries of yearly returns filed by the investors, the I-T officials found out that many investors had invested black money in the Wasankar Group. Some of them have not yet lodged complaint with the police fearing action from Income-Tax,” sources in I-T informed ‘The Hitavada’. A woman, resident of Vivekananda Nagar, Wardha Road, was asked to furnish her source of income as she had invested Rs 20,60,000/- in Wasankar Group. An EoW official informed that a total of 858 complainants were struggling to get ba...