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,...
Two murders within a span of four hours rocked the city on Friday. While a notorious goon was brutally killed in Kotwali, an aged-woman found dead with her throat slit in MIDC area.
In Kotwali, Shanu alias Shahnawaz Khan (19) was killed by three assailants over old-rivalry when he was returning home on an Activa at around 10.30 am. The police have arrested Saurabh Ghate (28), Pravin Ghate (35) and Raja Khan (28) on the murder charges. Saurabh is accused in an attempt to murder case.
Sr Police Inspector Dhnyaneshwar Bhosale informed that Khan was accused in two attempt to murder cases and externed from city limits last month. In 2019, Khan and his four accomplices had attempted to kill Pravin Ghate. Since then, Ghate brothers were trying to eliminate him.
Khan had gone somewhere on an Activa moped in the morning hours. When the accused got the tip-off, they came near Ram Cooler square with sharp-edged weapons. After spotting Khan on the two-wheeler, the goons ran towards him and blocked the vehicle. They slit the throat of Khan with the weapon and fled the spot. Profusely bleeding Khan somehow managed to reach his home in Gadikhana. His parents rushed him to private hospital where he breathed his last.
DCP Zone III Lohit Matani and Staff of Kotwali police station rushed to the spot and inspected the crime scene. The accused were arrested with three hours from nearby area. An offence under Sections 302 and 34 of Indian Penal Code was registered by Kotwali police.
In yet another murder case, a 65-year-old woman was found dead at her house with her throat slit in Saptak Nagar of MIDC police station on Friday afternoon.
DCP (Zone I) Vivek Masal informed that a housemaid noticed Vijaya Shiwalkar (64) lying in the pool of blood in her house in Saptak Nagar. A retired cook from SRPF, the woman was living alone at her two-room house. Her son is constable in SRPF while two daughters are married and living in Pachpaoli area.
The housemaid had left the house on Thursday afternoon and came on Friday only to see the dead body. “We are investigating the case at all possible angles,” DCP Masal said. The police denied angle of robbery as the almirah was found intact. A case of murder was registered by MIDC police. Further investigation is on.
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