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,...
Notorious goon Amarinder Singh Bagga was arrested at Nanded by a team of Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) after a five-month hunt. The police produced him before the court on Saturday and obtained his police custody till June 3. Bagga was absconding after registration of an offence against him for trying to implicate a trader in a bogus drug case.
Bagga owns Singh Barbeque in Vardhman Nagar. In this case, the police had earlier arrested four persons including Nikita Rahul Meshram (28), a resident of Lashkaribagh; Manmit Singh Harvinder Singh Takkhar (22), a resident of Gurunanakpura.
It may be mentioned that there was a dispute between Bagga and trader Chhabrani over a plot in the Wathoda area. Thutheja is a friend of Chhabrani. He helped Chhabrani in this matter. Wathoda police had registered a case against Bagga and his accomplices on Chhabrani's complaint. As a result, Bagga got angry over Chhabrani and Thutheja. In December 2020, Bagga had given a ‘contract’ of Rs 1.5 lakh to drug smuggler Kanni to trap Thutheja in a drug smuggling case. Kanni, with the help of Nikita, plots to implicate Thutheja's son Himanshu who owns a mobile shop called Deepika Telecom in Wardhaman Nagar.
Impersonating herself as a customer Nikita went to the shop in the first week of December last year. Under the pretext of picking her purse, Nikita placed three grams of MD powder under the counter of the shop and walked away. Meanwhile, an accomplice of Bagga gave a tip-off to the Crime Branch about MD kept in the shop of Himanshu. Soon after, Himanshu grew suspicious and checked the counter and found the drug in a small pouch. He threw the pouch.The police raided the shop but found nothing. Himanshu checked the CCTV footage in which it was evident that the pouch was kept by the woman. Later, Bagga's name popped up during investigation of the case.
After registration of an offence, the police arrested Nikita, Kanni, Harvinder Singh Gothra and Jagdish Kosurkar. Bagga went absconding in December. After tracking him for five months, the police got his location and arrested him. Under the guidance of CP Amitesh Kumar, Addl CP Sunil Phulari, the arrest was made by in-charge of ANC Vishal Kale, API Suraj Suroshe and others.
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