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,...
An on-line fraudster duped a city woman of Rs 80,584/- on pretext of allowing her to attend a yoga session of Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust in Haridwar. The fraudster used a ‘fake’ Facebook page of the trust to dupe the woman, police said.
According to police, Radhika (55), a resident of Ramdaspeth, clicked on the ‘fake’ page of Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust on Facebook on October 26. She filled an on-line form for a yoga session scheduled at Haridwar. Radhikar received a confirmation letter in her email. On October 28, she received a phone call from the fraudster who impersonated the executive of the trust. After gaining her trust, the fraudster asked the woman to credit Rs 54,600/- to confirm their booking of three persons including parents. She transferred the amount. Later, he again phoned the woman and asked to transfer Rs 25,984/- for medical check-up. Radhika followed the instructions and transferred the amount, police said.
The fraud came to fore when the woman and her parents went to Patanjali Yogpeeth in Haridwar on November 5 and inquired about their booking. The officials at the Yogpeeth denied any such booking in their names. She realised the fraud and returned to Nagpur. On her complaint, an offence under Section 420 of Indian Penal Code read with Section 66 (d) of Information Technology Act was registered by Sitabuldi police.
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