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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The police personnel on-duty engaged in a wordy duel at the food counter on Monday. |
A large number of police personnel deployed for bandobast duties got upset and engaged in a wordy duel with senior officers on the very first day of winter session over shortage of food. The cops gathered at a food stall near Vidhan Bhavan and asked the police officers to return the cash taken for the food. Similar situation was observed at other food stalls in the city. The cops have paid Rs 250 for lunch for 10-days period.
After the chaos in the afternoon, DCP Headquarters Ashwini Patil and other officers were seen at Morris College T-point late in the evening ordering additional lunch for 1,500 police personnel for Tuesday.
It may be mentioned that around 7,000 police personnel have been deployed for the bandoabst of the winter session from Saturday. Of which, around 3,000 policemen came from various police units including Mumbai and Pune. The Nagpur police Commissionerate has been given a responsibility of bandobast of winter session and also maintaining food and shelter for the police.
Last week, senior officers had promised in a press conference that every police personnel would get food and contracts allotted to private parties for the same . They had also claimed that food would be arranged from the restaturents in case of shortage. However, the promises were not actually executed on the ground as many cops did not get food.
A mob of around 100 police personnel on-duty gathered at the food stall near Vidhan Bhavan and engaged in the wordy duel with senior officers over the issue. The cops complained that they haven't got food despite purchasing food coupons.
Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar said that the drivers and guards engaged in the transportation of food items were having lunch in the afternoon. As a result, the delivery of the food items was delayed. “Instructions have been issued to concerned officers so that such an incident would not happen again,” he said.
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