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,...
A clerk of Panchayat Samiti Parseoni in Nagpur district, around 40 km from here, was booked by the police for the bogus pension scam of Rs 1.86 crore. The accused woman allegedly created bogus accounts in the name of retired government servants and pocketed theri pension.
The accused was identified as Sarita Chandrashekhar Neware. She is working as junior assistant clerk with Panchayat Samiti Parseoni.
The complaint was lodged by Subhash Parasram Jadhav, Block Development Officer, Panchayat Samiti, Parseoni. According to police, Sarita created 17 bogus accounts of retired employees and used bank accounts of other persons to receive the amount. As a result, the bank accounts started receiving pension for these bogus retired employees from the State exchequer. The fraud came to fore in November first week.
The case was registered by the police under the provisions of Indian Penal Code.
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