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,...
Goon Abu Khan
Wanted criminal and drug trafficker Abu alias Feroze Khan was arrested by a special team of DCP (Zone IV) Noorul Hasan from Basura Tola area of Bhandara after seven months of a chase. Abu was operating one of the major drug trafficking networks in Central India and many criminals were working with him to handle the anti-social activities, police said.
“Abu, a notorious history-sheeter in over 50 criminal offences, was arrested after working simultaneously on his call detail records (CDR), Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR) and human intelligence for the past few months,” stated DCP Hasan. Abu was on the run from November last year after he was booked under stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) for grabbing properties of many persons in Motha Tajbagh area.
During the absconding period, he had taken shelters at Gadchiroli, Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Amravati, Bhandara and Umred and other states too. Last month, a police team reached Ahmedabad where Abu had taken shelter but he managed to flee the house. A special team of a cyber expert, three local cops led by an API was constituted by DCP Hasan for the hunt.
It may be mentioned that Abu had doled out life threats to three persons including Pyare Khan, Talif Baba and Raja. Since then, the police had given security to these persons.
DCP Hasan said that Abu was running the major drug trafficking network from the Motha Tajbag area. His men were playing cards near the Dargah and no one was daring to question them. After slapping MCOCA against Abu, DCP Hasan has crushed Abu’s empire with the arrest of notorious gambler Ibrahim and drug peddler Majid from the area. Both were trusted lieutenants of Abu, the DCP said.
Earlier, Abu was arrested by the then DCP Detection Sambhaji Kadam on January 8, 2019 after arresting his four accomplices with mephedrone (MD) drug worth Rs four lakhs. Investigation of the case had discovered a police-criminal nexus and six police personnel were placed under suspension in February 2019. PSI Nilesh Purbhe of Hudkeshwar police station, PSI Manoj Orke of Sakkardara police station, PSIs Sharad Sikne and Sajid Mowal of Tahsil police station and constables Jayant Selot and Shyam Mishra were suspended for their alleged links with Abu. He will be produced in the court on Monday.
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