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The police squad also scanned the CCTV footage that showed the girls dancing in obscene gestures.

Notably, cops have swooped on three dance bars in the past few days the latest being ‘Payal Bar and Restaurant’ and ‘Welcome Bar and Rstaurant.’ The late night raids by cops have created ripples in the bars and restaurant running dance bars under the cover of orchestra across the city.

According to sources, the DCP Suhas Bawche received secret inputs that a dance bar was being run under the cover of orchestra in ‘Welcome Bar and Restaurant’ situated on Kamptee Road. Acting on the tip-off, the DCP directed his team to keep watch and lay a trap for punitive action. Subsequently, the DCP and his squad raided the ‘Welcome Bar and Restaurant’ in the midnight on Thursday. The raiding cops found four girls dancing and 12 customers ‘enjoying’ the vulgar act.

The cops, after ascertain names of the four girls, directed them to come to police station for cooperation in investigations and let them go. The 12 customers and manager of the bar were arrested. Further probe is underway.

DCP Bawche busts dance bar at ‘Welcome Bar and Restaurant,’ 4 girls, 12 customers rounded up

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Nagpur: Kotwali police have registered an FIR against a WhatsApp Group for making viral a vulgar dance video in the name of ‘Sangram Bar and Restaurant’ with the aim of defaming its owner. The WhatsApp Group is known as ‘Maujmasti’ administered by the accused Sheshraj Purshottam Madankar (45), resident of Kamal Chowk, Pachpaoli.

The owner of ‘Sangram Bar and Rstaurant’ Prashant Ramrao Dhawad (48) in his complaint to Kotwali police said that one of his friends informed him that an obscene video in the name of his bar and restaurant is being viralled. Therefore, he called the video from the friend. The title of the video was “Prashant Dhawad ke Sangram Bar ka video.” The 3-minute video is very vulgar and obnoxious. “The moment I saw the video, I came to know that the kind of interior was shown was not of my hotel. Hence I immediately lodged an FIR with Kotwali police,” Dhawad said.

Acting on the complaint of Prashant Dhawad, cops immediately dialled the mobile phone of WhatsApp Group Admin and came to know the number is of Sheshraj Madankar. Madankar reportedly accepted the video was on his group. Subsequently, the cops registered a case under Section 500 of the IPC, according to media reports.

Dhawad claimed that the vulgar video was made viral with the aim of defaming him. The raid on his bar and restaurant conducted a few days ago was part of a well planned conspiracy. “I will be meeting higher police officials in connection with viral of the video and demand appropriate action against the group. I have requested Kotwali police to take action under IT Act not only against group admin but entire group,” Dhawad said.

FIR filed against WhatsApp Group for making viral vulgar video in name of Sangram Bar

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Nagpur: A high-profile sex racket being operated under spa and skin clinic cover was busted in Hudkeshwar police jurisdiction by a special squad of Zone 4 DCP Nilesh Bharne on Friday.

Two men running the racket were arrested while three women allegedly dragged into flesh trade were rescued. The accused have been identified as Ranjit Pandurang Maske (37), a resident of Shiv Nagar, Punapur Road and Ravi Sujdas Udaykar (25), resident of Pardi.

The DCP Bharne had received information that flesh trade was being run under the cover of spa and skin clinic at Plot No. 2, Sharda Chowk in Hudkeshwar area. Subsequently, the DCP deputed his squad and directed them to keep watch at Miami Spa & Skin Clinic.The squad sent a decoy customer to the Spa & Skin Clinic. The accused duo took Rs 1,500 from the decoy and provided a young woman to him. After confirming that accused duo was operating sex racket, the decoy signalled the Special Squad members waiting nearby. The squad then raided the place and caught the accused duo and detained the three women for questioning. Cops seized the registration certificate of Miami Spa & Skin Clinic, attendance register, three cell phones and condoms.

Probe revealed that one of the three young women is a mother of two children. Her divorce case is pending before the family court. The other two women were sent to the brothel run by accused Ranjit Maske and Ravi Udaykar by their common friend who works in a massage parlour.

An offence under relevant sections of Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act has been registered against the two accused at Hudkeshwar Police Station. Theraid was conducted by API Kachore, Woman API Bawankar, head constable Manoj, NPC Bajrang, Ashok (all attached to Nandanvan Police Station), DCP Zone (IV) squad members RTPC Sachin, PC Raut and others.

DCP Bharne busts high-profile sex racket run under spa & skin clinic cover in Hudkeshwar

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Nagpur: A murder convict, who jumped 21-day furlough (leave) and went underground since November 2017, was nabbed after painstaking efforts by Sakkardara police from Tajbagh area on Friday.

The notorious goon Arif Baks Mehboob Baks, resident of Plot No. 85, Nirala Society, near Malik High School, Motha Tajbagh, was convicted under Sections 302, 506(B), 294 of the IPC for murder in Sakkardara area in 2013 and was awarded life imprisonment. The murder convict was lodged in Nagpur Central Prison. However, he was granted 21-day furlough on November 1, 2017. After expiry of leave period, the convict Arif Baks was supposed to return and present himself to jail authorities on November 23, 2017. But he jumped the furlough and went absconding since then. Sakkardara cops had mounted a hunt to nab him from that day.

The hunting cops in the meanwhile received secret inputs that the absconding murder convict was roaming in Motha Tajbagh area with disguised attires. Acting on the tip-off, cops kept a watch on the movement of the disguised Arif Baks and later a team of policemen led by PSI Manoj Orke laid a trap and rounded him up.

The nabbed murder convict was slapped with fresh offence under Section 224 of the IPC and sent behind bars again.

Absconding murder convict nabbed by Sakkardara cops

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Nagpur: A trickster took a doctor for a ride that cost him Rs 8,500. The miscreant impersonated as manager of a pharmaceutical company and usurped the money on the pretext of repairing his car that met with an accident.

The complainant, Dr Milind Manohar Naik (56) told Ajni police that he was at his Naik Hospital in Narendra Nagar around 7 pm on Monday. A man came to his hospital and introduced himself as Sanju Suresh Sharma, Manager of Biocare Company and a native of Nashik. Sharma told Dr Naik that he met with an accident at Omkar Nagar Square and require Rs 8,500 to repair his vehicle. He promised him that he would return the money next day. Believing to story of Sharma, Dr Naik gave him Rs 8,500. But the trickster named Sharma did not show his face to Dr Naik again. Dr Naik realised that he was taken for a ride and lodged a complaint with the Ajni police.

Ajni Woman PSI S V mandwale, on the basis of Dr Naik’scomplaint, registered a case under Section 420 of the IPC and launched a search for the trickster.

Trickster takes a doctor for ride for Rs 8,500

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Nagpur: Wadi police have booked a 32-year old man on the charges of raping a woman by promising to marry with her. The accused exploited the woman (32) sexually for a period of over eight years and later backtracked from his marriage promise.

The accused Darshan alias Nandu Liladhar Somkuwar (32), resident of Wadi area, lured the 32-year old woman of same locality and promised to marry with her. With promising words, the accused Darshan exploited the woman sexually repeatedly at different places between January 2008 and October 2016. However, after making the woman victim of his lust, the accused Darshan Somkuwar backtracked from his promise and left the rape survivor in the lurch.

Wadi API Puri, on the basis of the victim’s complaint, booked the accused under Section 376(2)(N) of the IPC and initiated a probe into the matter.

However, in the wake of spurt in kind of cases, the Bombay High Court in its ruling in the recent past had reiterated the proposition that every breach of promise to marry cannot amount to rape. The court had termed it an “unfortunate but routine case”. “Initially, a boy and a girl genuinely may want to marry and are true to their emotions and establish sexual relationship, however, after some time, they may find that they are not mentally or physically compatible and one decides to withdraw from the relationship. Under such circumstances, nobody can compel these two persons to marry only because they had sexual relationship. It is necessary to have a healthy, objective and legal approach towards these incidents. There may be moral bonding between the two persons when they indulge into sexual activities with promise to marry and it is also a fact that ultimately women only can remain pregnant and therefore, she suffers more than the man. However, in law, this cannot be labelled in any manner as a rape,” the High Court had observed.

Man rapes woman for 8 years with marriage promise

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Nagpur: Ankit Shahu, one of the accused in sensational Kamble double murder case, was produced in the court of Judge Qazi as his police custody remand ended on Saturday. The court again remanded the accused Ankit Shahu to police custody till April 3. This is the third time that the accused has been remanded to police custody as sought by investigating cops.

Government Pleader Nitin Telgote, Assistant Government Pleader Prashant Sakhre and assisting Adv Sameer Sonavane represented the State.

Ankit Shahu was arrested for his involvement in the murder of Usha Kamble and her one and a half year old granddaughter Rashi, mother and daughter respectively of Nagpur Today’s senior crime reporter Ravikant Kamble.

Earlier cops had arrested Ganesh Shahu, his wife Gudiya and a minor boy in the case. Ganesh owns a grocery shop in Pawansut Nagar, who had brutally killed Usha Kamble and Rashi by slitting their throats with a tin plate of an oil can. Ganesh had murdered Usha and Rashi on the first floor of his house. In a bid to destroy the evidence, Ganesh along with other accused had packed the bodies in gunny bags and dumped them under a culvert near Durga Layout, behind Vihirgaon village on Umred road.

The Kamble duo was earlier reported missing, but later their bodies were found in the nullah. Ganesh Shahu, in his statement, has admitted to have committed the crime. In his statement Ganesh said that Usha had demanded Rs 7000 from him and allegedly abused him in front of customers in his grocery shop. He then asked Usha to come to his house above the shop on the pretext of giving her money. After an argument, he along with other accused brutally killed Usha and Rashi.

An offence under sections 302, 364, 201, 34 of Indian Penal Code, read with Sections 2,3 and 5 of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, was registered against the accused.

Kamble double murder: Accused Ankit Shahu remanded to police custody third time

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Nagpur: Session Judge A V Dixit has granted anticipatory bail to accused Brijesh Tripathi in BSNL contractor’s suicide case.

The brother of the deceased contractor had lodged a complaint in the Sitabuldi police station where an offence was registered under section 306 of IPC.

BSNL had cancelled the contractor of the deceased and given it to the applicant. The deceased should have taken action against those who were involved in money matter, as per the law and suicide was no alternative to it. There was an allegation, the applicant had taken Rs 3 lakhs from the deceased contractor and had given to BSNL officials. This accusation is something to be laugh at, argued Adv Chandrashekhar Jaltare on behalf of applicant.

Assistant Public Prosecutor Khaparde stood for the state. Adv Devendra Chauhan argued on behalf of prosecutor and said though the case is serious yet anticipatory bail should not be granted.

After giving a deep thinking the court gave its verdict that there was no need of keeping the accused in custody for interrogation and granted a conditional bail bond of Rs 30,000.

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A resident of Qtr No. 111, CPWD Quarters, Gittikhadan, the victim Shankar Suresh Kotekar (27), in his complaint told police that he went to visit one of the four accused Sachin Durgaprasad Chauhan, resident of Pankaj Nagar, opposite Sharda Mandir around 11.45 pm on March 25. As he reached near Sachin’s house, three other accused namely Ankush Bansod, Bharat Sahare, and Satish Sahare, all residents of Wadi, accosted him and demanded money on credit. But when Shankar refused to give money, the four accused thrashed him and snatched Rs 10,000 from his pocket at the point of mauzer-like gun. The accused also bashed up in Futala area and threatened to kill him when he retaliated.

Ambazari PSI R G Meshram, acting on Shankar Kotekar’s complaint, booked the four accused under Sections 392, 294, 323, 506(B), 34 of the IPC and searching for them.

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Nagpur: Two men burst into house mother-son duo and thrashed them with hockey stick over old dispute in Pachpaoli area here on Sunday night. The son received injuries on his head, face, and legs. The two accused have been booked.

A resident of Plot No. 103, Ashok Chowk, Gurunanakpura, Manjitkaur Premsingh Dhillon (45), along with her son Manmit Singh (29), was at her house on Sunday. Around 10.30 pm, the two accused Harjindersingh Jogindersingh Dhillon (36), resident of Chal Compund, behind Moti Mahal Hotel, and a man named Suraj (around 25 years) entered Manjitkaur’s house forcibly and started abusing them. Moreover, to settle old dispute score, the two accused thrashed the mother-son duo with a hockey stick. Manmitsingh suffered injuries on his head, face and legs. While leaving the spot, the accused hurled abuses on neighbours and threatened the mother-son duo of dire consequences.

Pachpaoli PSI V M Ghongale, based on Manjitkaur’s complaint, registered a case against the two accused under Sections 326, 452, 504, 506, 34 of the IPC and investigating the matter further.

Mother-son duo thrashed with hockey stick by 2 men in Pachpaoli

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Kotwali police constable Dilip, based on information, has registered a case of accidental death and launched an in-depth probe to ascertain reasons behind Abhishek taking the extreme step.

Body of youth found floating in public well in Ganeshnagar

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Nagpur: Police have been successful in nabbing two accused for lifting a bag containing Rs 5 lakh in the month of January.

According to the police source, as per the secret information Kotwali police arrested Arshad Sheikh Mohammad Latif, 19 a resident of Dasera Road Bhootiya Darwaja and Ganga Prashant Kakade, 20, resident of Sharada Nagar, Hudkeshwar, on Sunday. After arresting, during the interrogation they confessed of lifting a bag containing Rs 5 lakh from Lakad Pool.

Soon after their confession they were handed over to Lakadganj police since the area where the incident had taken place comes under them. Police are trying to find about regarding the looted money.

Cops nab culprits who looted Rs 5 lakh in January

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Nagpur: Professional rivalry is said to have triggered off fire in the posh restaurant near Law College. A prominent hotel director is suspected to be involved in the incident of pouring petrol and setting fire to the posh restaurant near Law College Chowk. The arrested accused Roshan Sheikh did not reveal the role of hotel director despite being inter-rogated in police custody for three days. That is why the petrol pump director Ashutosh Mundada who is considered to be the kingpin of the whole incident has not yet been arrested. The arrested accused is being questioned to ferret out the truth about the incident.

It may be recalled that on the night of March 11, Ashutosh, Roshan took the help of Irian Khan and Wajid Khan to allegedly set fire to the under construction hotel.

Ashutosh was to take over an agency of a Pune-based restaurant chain in partnership with a friend named Pawan Nirvan. Later, Pawan side, lined Ashutosh and partnered with Ajarun Chhabda to get the agency. This angered Ashutosh who planned to set fire to the restaurant. Ashutosh, associated with the businessman family, is engaged in suspicious activities from the beginning. He is familiar with the workings of crime branch. He knows the way of police investigation and that is why he made the ‘full proof plan’ of the arson with the help of Roshan.

Initially the police got misled and allowed Roshan to be freed after interrogation. But later, they arrested him when the truth came out. In this incident, the director of a prominent hotel has been found to have played a suspicious role.

Roshan is the popular name of the hukka parlour circuit in the city. He is associated with a controversial hotel in Sitabuldi police station area. This hotel has always been the headache for the police. This hotel is the site of many criminal incidents. Roshan is also involved in these incidents, but due to the nexus with police, his name has never been revealed. It is learnt that Ajrun Chhabda’s brother runs a posh restaurant off Amravati Road under the Wadi police station. There is always a sizeable crowd gathered there. Once, Roshan came here with his troublesome colleagues. There was also a dispute with Ajrun’s brother when he was not allowed to enter. Since this controversy, Roshan was also thinking of teaching a lesson to the Chhabda family, that is why he accepted Ashutosh’s ‘offer’ as soon as it came along.

During interrogation, Roshan avoided answering a number of questions, including the role of the controversial hotel director in this case. The police also did not strictly interrogate Roshan due to their unwillingness to go to the bottom of the case. Even after 24 hours of Roshan going to jail, the police could not find any information about Ashutosh and two wanted accused. Ashutosh too has old relationship with police. In such a case, it is being suspected whether the truth will come out at all. The car used in the incident is also that of Ashutosh. He has escaped with the can Ashutosh has already been detained in several cases. He knows the tactics of avoiding the police. Therefore the police may have to resort to the new strategy.

Controversial hotel director’s role suspected in Law College Chowk restaurant fire

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Nagpur: A young man was killed and another injured when the two-wheeler they were riding in was dashed by a speeding truck in Lakadganj area here on Monday afternoon.

The deceased has been identified as Azhar Qazi Islamuddin Qazi (34), resident of Plot No. 50, Wanzra, Kalamna. The injured is Chetan Kamalkishore Agrawal (33), resident of Plot No. 9/A, Pande Layout, Khamla Road. Both Azhar and Chetan were going on two-wheeler (MH-31/DP 3453) towards Lakadganj. As they reached behind Mehta Petrol Pump in Small Factory Area, a recklessly driven 10-wheeler truck (MH-29/T 929) dashed against their two-wheeler with forceful impact. Both Azhar and Chetan, as a result, fell on the road and received serious injuries. While Chetan survived, Azhar Qazi succumbed to his injuries on the spot. The truck driver fled the spot after mishap.

Lakadganj police constable Kishore, based on statement of Chetan Agrawal, booked the unidentified truck driver under Sections 279, 304(A) of the IPC read with Sections 134, 177 of Motor Vehicles Act and searching for him.

Man killed, another injured as speeding truck dashes bike in Lakadganj

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Nagpur: In a major crackdown, squads of Crime Branch on Monday raided five hookah parlours at posh areas in Ambazari police jurisdiction. The raiding cops, to their dismay, found a group of nine minor boys and girls enjoying the heady stuff at one of the parlours.

The five hookah parlours raided include ‘Coppa’, ‘Three Bags’, ‘Haveli’ on Amravati Road, and ‘Spread’ ‘Nine’ situated at Laxmi Bhavan Square. The raids were conducted from afternoon to evening hours on Monday.

At one of the hookah parlours being operated at an apartment in Bharat Nagar, cops found a group of nine minor boys and girls puffing hookah. Cops seized several hookahs, scented tobacco and other material from this parlour. The Director of this hookah parlour Sumit Gople was booked under relevant sections of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) while directors of other four parlours were served challans.

The raids were conducted under the directives of DCP (Detection) Sambhaji Kadam. The swoop by Crime Branch also exposed the inaction on the part of Ambazari police under whose jurisdiction the hookah parlours were being operated.

Crime Branch raids 5 hookah parlours in posh areas, many youngsters caught

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Nagpur: A 36-year old man has been booked by MIDC police on the charges of torturing his wife for dowry money and forcing her to commit suicide.

A resident of Flat No. 301, Third Floor, Rai Town, Hingna Road, Malavika Nirmal Chaterjee (31), had committed suicide at her residence by hanging to ceiling fan with the help of odhni on February 13, 2018. At the time the MIDC cops had registered a case of accidental death and launched a probe.

During the investigations, it came to the fore that the accused Nirmal Ranjit Chaterjee (36), tormented Malavika mentally and physically for bringing dowry money from her parents. Malavika was subjected to torture between December 7, 2015 and February 13, 2018. Fed up with the harassment, Malavika ended her life by hanging to the ceiling fan at her residence around 8.30 am on February 13, 2018.

Based on the probe and a complaint lodged by Trupti Prakash Bhattacharya (36), native of Vaikunthpur, Chhattisgarh, MIDC API Gorve booked the accused Nirmal Ranjit Chaterjee under Sections 306, 304(B) of the IPC read with Sections 3, 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act. Further probe is underway.

Man booked for abetting wife’s suicide over dowry money

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Nagpur: Three unidentified miscreants made a futile bid to rob a daily collection agent near his residence on Great Nag Road on Monday night.

A resident of near Tejasvini Vidyalaya, beside Ramanlal Gandhi’s house, Great Nag Road, Ram Pundlikrao Hood (43) was returning home around 11 pm on Monday after daily collection. He had kept the daily collection amount in a bag. As he reached home, he was parking his two-wheeler in front of gate. At the same time, three unidentified goons accosted Ram and hit him on head with an object. The goons later tried to snatch the cash containing bag from him. But Ram retaliated and foiled the bid to rob him. The accused trio fled the spot.

Kotwali PSI Lakde, based on a complaint lodged by Prabhakar Panjabrao Jumle (54) of Juni Shukrawari, registered a case under Sections 393, 34 of the IPC and searching for the three accused.

3 goons try to rob daily collection agent in Kotwali

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Nagpur: In a record of sorts, one of the accused in sensational Kamble double murder case, Ankit Shahu, was remanded to police custody for the fourth time. The accused was produced in the court of Judge Qazi as his police custody remand ended on Tuesday. As investigating police official sought custody remand afresh, the court remanded the accused Ankit Shahu to police custody till April 4. This is the fourth time that the accused has been remanded to police custody.

Government Pleader Nitin Telgote, Assistant Government Pleader Prashant Sakhre and assisting Adv Sameer Sonavane represented the State.

Ankit Shahu was arrested for his involvement in the murder of Usha Kamble and her one and a half year old granddaughter Rashi, mother and daughter respectively of Nagpur Today’s senior crime reporter Ravikant Kamble.

Earlier cops had arrested Ganesh Shahu, his wife Gudiya and a minor boy in the case. Ganesh owns a grocery shop in Pawansut Nagar, who had brutally killed Usha Kamble and Rashi by slitting their throats with a tin plate of an oil can. Ganesh had murdered Usha and Rashi on the first floor of his house. In a bid to destroy the evidence, Ganesh along with other accused had packed the bodies in gunny bags and dumped them under a culvert near Durga Layout, behind Vihirgaon village on Umred road.

The Kamble duo was earlier reported missing, but later their bodies were found in the nullah. Ganesh Shahu, in his statement, has admitted to have committed the crime. In his statement Ganesh said that Usha had demanded Rs 7000 from him and allegedly abused him in front of customers in his grocery shop. He then asked Usha to come to his house above the shop on the pretext of giving her money. After an argument, he along with other accused brutally killed Usha and Rashi.

An offence under sections 302, 364, 201, 34 of Indian Penal Code, read with Sections 2,3 and 5 of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, was registered against the accused.

Kamble double murder: Accused Ankit Shahu remanded to police custody for fourth time

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Nagpur: Unable to bear the agony of her elder sister’s death the younger one ended her life by immolating herself. Aakansha Gupta the deceased, just a year year back had lost her elder sister.

According to the information, Aakansha was psychologically suffering, the psychiatrist treating her told. He said, she would often say that her sister comes in her dream. Being closely attached to her sister she was unable to cope up with the grief inside her and so she must have taken this extreme step, the psychiatrist treating her said.

On the fateful night of 27 March Aakansha, a resident of Bhivsenkhori area, poured kerosene on person and set herself ablaze. She had received 80 per cent burn injuries and was admitted in the hospital. She was battling for life but at at last lost and breathed her last.

It may be mentioned that Aakansha’s elder sister who was undergoing treatment in Delhi passed away a year back and since then life changed for Aakansha. She had stopped communicating with her friends and relatives.

Not able to bear pain of Elder sister’s death, Younger sister sets herself ablaze, dies

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Nagpur: A labourer digging pit for the compound died of electric shock when he came in contact with an electric wire. He was rushed to hospital but died while undergoing treatment. Police have registered a case against the owner of JP company and supervisor as negligence on their part has come to fore.

According to police source, a labourer Parmesh Yadav Deorai, resident of Dighori was digging the pit for the compound wall of JP company. While digging he came in contact with an electric wire passing underground. The work was being carried out under the supervision of Supervisor Sheetal Prasad Pande.

Venkatesh Yadav Deorai told police, Parmesh was not provided safety facilities. A wire coming out from the electric DP was passing through the place where the work was going on. The company people were informed about this but still they were asked to continue with the work. A case has been registered against company supervisor and owner Purshottam Rohesh Jobi for negligence.

Labourer digging pit for compound wall gets electrocuted