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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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Kaushalya Nagar gang war : Shaktiman’s close aide gives tip-off about his location

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Shivam alias Shaktiman Shuddhodhan Gurudev (19) was murderously attacked by a group of assailants to avenge the murder of Sawayam Satyaprakash Nagrale (21) on Friday night in Kaushalya Nagar. Investigation revealed that a close aide of Shaktimaan had given a tip-off about the hideout of Shaktiman in the Bhande plot to the assailants.
Ajni police have arrested six persons on the attempt to murder charges. The accused have been identified as Kaushalya Nagar residents Birju Vasanta Shinde (28), Abhijit Dilip Ghodeswar (24), Akash Krishna Manwar (30), Pritam Ambadas Kavale (24), Sunil Vaman Wankhede (39) and Suresh Gopichand Kamble (44).
After the murder of Swayam, the Ajni police had caught two minors and Nishant Ghoreswar, but Shaktiman had managed to escape. Ajni Police and Crime Branch were looking for him. The police teams had visited the house of Shaktiman's uncle in Bhande plot area. However, the family reportedly refused to have any information about him. The police had also searched the house but Shaktimaan was not found there.
A police official said that Shaktiman was in contact with some youths of Kaushalya Nagar. On Saturday at 7.30 am, Shaktiman had gone to Shitala Mata Mandir area to get a Kharra when the assailants caught him and took him to Kaushalya Nagar on motorcycle. Now, the cops are trying to trace the person who gave a tip-off about Shaktiman’s location to the assailants.
It may be mentioned that Swayam Nagarale was killed and Shaktiman left critically injured in a clash between two rival gangs allegedly over financial transactions associated with a gambling den on Saturday. An argument over the gambling den dealings in Kaushalya Nagar snowballed into a fight between the two group. A team from Ajni police station was deployed in the area to ensure the clash between the two groups does not descend further into reprisal attacks.


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