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 man was brutally murdered by family members of a girl with whom he married on March 1 this year. The incident happened at Vitaa Bhatti Chowk in Yashodhara Nagar police station. The assailants attacked the man with sharp-edged weapons and fled the crime scene only after he collapsed in the pool of blood, the police said.
The deceased was identified as Nitesh alias Chhotu Kalya Yadav Satokhiya (27), a resident of Dhamma Deep nagar. The police have arrested four persons on the murder charges - identified as Sheikh Naushad, Ayan Pathan, Sheikh Shahrukh, Aftaaf Pathan and others.
A police official said that Satokiya tiled his nuptial knot with Saba Parwin on March 1 against the opposition from her family members. The couple was living together after the marriage. On pretext of tying their nuptial knot as per the rituals, the accused called him near a Paan Kiosk for discussion in the evening hours.
When Satokhiya arrived with his friends, the accused attacked him with swords and knife. They inflicted stab wounds on his stomach and fled the scene of crime, the police said.
Profusely bleeding Satokhiya was taken to the hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. An offence under Sections 302, 143, 144, 147, 148, 149 of Indian Penal Code read with Sections 4, 25 of Arms Act was registered by Yashodhara Nagar police read with section 135 of Mumbai Police Act. The accused have been arrested by the police.
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