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A Village Burnt Overnight: Tears, Loss and Survival in Dhamangaon Blaze

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  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,...
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PSI and Constable netted red-handed by ACB with bribe of Rs 5,000

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A Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) and his writer, attached to Kuhi police station, were caught red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) while accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000/- on Monday.
The arrested accused include PSI Bharat Ramesh Thite (30) and Constable Amit Shankar Pawar (28). An ACB official informed that the complainant runs a Dhaba on Umred Road and is a resident of Chitnis Nagar of Tajbag. PSI Thite was in-charge of Panchgaon beat of the police station. On May 12, Diesel was being stolen from the tipper of DP Jain Construction Company in Pachgaon area. The manager of the company had complained to Kuhi police against tipper driver Deepak Ingale, a resident of Sai Nagar, Umred Road. The police had registered a case of theft against the driver. The investigation of the case was handed over to PSI Thete who arrested Deepak.
In the one-day police custody, Deepak told the police that he had sold the diesel to the Dhaba owner. He was arrested under Section 411 of IPC for purchasing stolen goods, but he was not taken into police custody and got bail from the court.PSI Thite allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 10,000/- to the Dhaba owner to settle the case. The owner approached ACB and lodged a complaint. After verifying the demand, the ACB officials laid a trap. The Dhaba owner went to the Pachgaon police post and gave Rs 5,000/- as first installment of bribe. Constable Amit accepted the bribe. The ACB team immediately came into action and nabbed him red-handed. He was arrested with PSI Thite and a case was registered against them under the provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act at Kuhi police station.
Under the guidance of SP Rashmi Nandedkar and Additional SP Milind Totre, Woman Police Inspector Sanjivani Thorat, PI Vinod Aade, Constable Ravikant Dahat, Sushil Yadav, Amol Menaghare, Pankaj Avchat, Rekha Yadav, Pramod Pimplekar and Priya Naware made the arrest.

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