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Noted Meerut businessman kidnapped Meerut, February 22 Later, it was established that the kidnapped person was a noted businessman of the city.
Around noon, a white Maruti car hit the scooter from the back. Four youths put Mr Sushil Kumar Garg in the car brandishing a pistol. The incident occurred at the turn of Mamepur village in a busy area. Mr Garg is a leading businessman of the city who has a chain of cold storages at Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Khatauli. Meanwhile, an unidentified caller informed the police. Soon many senior police officials, including Dy Inspector General of Police, Meerut range, Mr C B Rai, IG Mr R K Tiwari and the SSP reached the spot under Incholi Police Station. Senior police officials also arrived at the house of Mr Garg and interrogated his family members. The SSP Meerut, Mr Badri Prasad Singh, told the mediapersons that three teams had been constituted to rescue the businessman. All the teams raided several hideouts of the kidnappers in the Incholi and Daurala Police Station area, but failed to trace him. Meanwhile, the police took at least a dozen persons in custody. The family members and the relatives of Mr Garg told the ‘NCR Tribune’ that kidnappers had yet not approached them for ransom. They also said that he had no enmity with anybody in the area.
Girl rescued Sonepat: The Ganaur Police have rescued a 20-year-old married girl Reena, alias Renu, from Mumbai and brought her to Sonepat yesterday. According to a report, she was medically examined by a doctor in the local civil hospital. She belongs to Nadipur Masjra village. She was allegedly kidnapped by a 24-year-old youth Ajit on January 26. During her stay, she was repeatedly raped by the culprit who is at large.
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whodunnit New Delhi, February 22 The accused had burgled the house of the elderly couple and ran away with jewellery and cash. The accused identified as Mehmood Ali, alias Sher Ali, (40), resident of Nizamuddin, is a desperate criminal involved in at least 20 cases of heinous crimes and carried a reward of Rs 50,000 on his head. The police arrested the accused after a brief encounter in the Kalyanpuri area last night and also seized a country-made weapon along with two live cartridges from his possession. The police have already arrested his associate Mohammad Munir, alias Panku, on February 11 in the Nizamuddin area. The murder-cum-robbery incident had created a considerable panic in Rajinder Nagar. The police had formed several teams to crack the case and also roped in the Crime Branch for assisting in the investigations. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Arvind Deep said that the lifting of the palm prints has considerably helped the police in tracing the criminal. “After lifting the palm prints, the police checked the dossiers of over 1,100 criminals in the
Nizamuddin, New Friends Colony and Sarita Vihar areas. During this time, the police came across the records of Mehmood Ali. His palm prints matched perfectly,” he said. The police got a tip-off on February 21 that Mehmood would come to Kalyanpuri area to meet his accomplice and accordingly formed a joint team. At around 7.30 pm, the police spotted Mehmood and when they tried to approach him, he opened fire but was soon overpowered by the joint team. No one was injured in the encounter. During interrogation, the accused confessed to have committed the crime along with his associate on February 5. He said that after finding the house locked, they broke open the door and committed burglary in the house. It was during this time, the elderly couple who had gone to the market for buying vegetables returned. When the accused spotted the couple, they attacked Batra killing him on the spot and tied his wife with the rope. They then ran away with cash and personal jewellery of the victim’s wife. Deep also said that the police have identified a jeweller in Dariba who used to receive the stolen property from the accused. |
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HC restrains
retailers from selling fake couture New Delhi, February 22 Justice MK Sharma in an ex parte order, restrained the Delhi-based garment manufacturers Deepak Garments, Guru Nanak Trading Co, Mini Fashion Street and Shanker Garments from dealing with the apparel bearing the two trade marks and the copyright logo of ITC Ltd. The court also appointed the Local Commissioner to raid the premises of Deepak Garments and Guru Nanak Trading Co, which according to ITC’s counsel Man Mohan Singh recovered huge quantity of counterfeit fashionable apparel under the two brand names. While seeking injunction against the four local garment manufacturers, senior advocate Rajiv Nayar appearing for the corporate major, submitted that the ITC’s Lifestyle Retailing Division has adopted the two trade marks along with “Wills Clublife”and “Wills Classic” etc and has been successfully marketing the fashionable apparel, both for men and women for several years. Alleging that the Delhi-based manufacturers and retailers were passing off their products as those of the ITC, the corporate major said the use of the mark “Wills Sport” and “John Player” by them amount to infringement of the trade marks. The company had submitted that the use of identical logos of the two labels by the local garment dealers also amount to infringement of copyright of logo vested with the ITC.
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Consumer forum orders UPCC to right a wrong Noida, February 22 The UPCC should also restore the power connection of the consumer and pay him Rs 1,000 by way of compensation, the Forum ordered. The complainant Yadav Ram Singh of village Raipur told the Forum that the SDO in charge of Sector-20 UPCC office had not heard his version. Although he was getting electric supply, his electric meter had been defective for a long time. He had complained that the defective meter be corrected but Sector-20 SDO of Power Corporation’s office did not take any action. Later, he was sent a bill for Rs 30,156. He told the UPCC officers that since his meter had been non- functional for a long time, the bill is not drawn on correct basis. He had again written a letter to the Power Corporation that the meter be repaired or replaced. In response to the Forum’s notice, the UP Power Corporation had told the Forum that the said complaint was unjustified and it should, therefore, be cancelled. |
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Set up ‘mother unit’ and get all help: CM Faridabad, February 22 The entrepreneurs were assured of all help during the Chief Minister’s ‘Interface programme’ with the industrialists here yesterday. Speaking at the function organised by the Faridabad Industries Association (FIA), the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, claimed that there was no discrimination between Faridabad and Gurgaon in the policies and programmes of the state government as far as the overall growth of the industries and business was concerned. He said that the government would provide all the facilities to anyone who wanted to set up a ‘mother unit’ here. About the decision of the Maruti Udyog Limited to set up its second plant at Dharuhera in Gurgaon district, he said it was the company’s decision and no one could be forced to change it. Appreciating the efforts and the role of the industrialists here, he said Faridabad had earned a special recognition in the industrial map of the country. He said while the total exports from Haryana had been worth about Rs 12,000 crore, Faridabad alone contributed about Rs 1,400 crore each year. Promising to take up the repair and reconstruction of the badly damaged roads of the district very soon, he said the Municipal Corporation here had been given its share of the funds in the LADT collected. He claimed that organisational skills and expert managing techniques adopted by the local entrepreneurs had minimised the chances of labour unrest in the factories here. He, however, said that the
government would not allow encroachment of any kind and by anyone in the district. Earlier, welcoming the Chief Minister, the local industrialists demanded certain measures to encourage more industries and business activities here. One of them suggested that the town should have a single authority to deal with the procedures regarding development. It was claimed that having two or more agencies, including the Municipal Corporation and the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) was proving only a hurdle in this regard and demanded that these two should be merged or replaced by one authority so that the redtapism, inconvenience and inefficiency could be curtailed. They also demanded extension of the Metro Rail project up to Hodal town in the district. Mr H.R Gupta, president of the FIA, presented a memorandum of demands to the Chief Minister. Speaking on the occasion, he said the district had a potential of making exports of more than Rs 5,000 crore per year, but he said, to tap this potential, development of the basic infrastructure which include roads, sewerage system, drainage and the street lights was must. |
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Mokshda, an environs-friendly cremation facility New Delhi, February 22 This would benefit the poor who are forced to spend on costly firewood. This would also reduce environmental pollution in the city. Considering the benefit to the society, the minister allocated Rs 11.54 lakh out of his MP Local Area Development Fund for the construction of Mokshda. He said that Ashtha Dhatu had been used in the construction of Mokshda in keeping with the religious customs of Hindus. The Minister said that eight kg of firewood is theoretically required for the cremation of a body, but practically 400 to 600 kg of firewood is consumed. This means cutting approximately 500 lakh trees annually only for cremation requirement. According to the minister, a team of experts visited more than 100 cremation grounds in UP, MP, Delhi and Punjab, and discussed the new system with different communities. It is only after their concurrence that the new system is being introduced, he said. |
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Helplines for people in
distress New Delhi, February 22 The drive was started this afternoon in the presence of the Deputy Commissioner of Police (PCR), Mr A K Singh, near the ‘W’ point on Tilak Marg. “We want to reach out to the public so that the available facilities are properly utilised by the public,” said Mr Singh adding that the facility would be initially provided to as many as 800 city buses plying on the Delhi roads. The helpline number for women is 1091, and senior citizens and students 1291. There are about 338 PCR vans and as many as 5,500 PCR personnel pressed into service for security and patrolling in the city. The PCR vans and men will also be deployed at strategic points near the women’s colleges and schools and other vulnerable places for the safety of women and senior citizens. |
Chautala should seek fresh mandate: Haryana BJP chief Rewari, February 22 Talking to the NCR Tribune, Prof Sharma opined that morality as well as democratic propriety also made it obligatory for Mr Chautala to seek a fresh mandate along with the Parliamentary elections. He went on to explain that Mr Chautala had fought Assembly elections in February 2000, in alliance with the BJP. He added that out of a total of 90 Assembly seats in Haryana, the INLD has contested 61 seats while the BJP had fielded its candidates in the remaining 29 constituencies. Now, when the four-year old alliance between the INLD and the BJP had been thrown to the winds by both the constituents, the INLD supremo had forfeited his moral right to persist with the same group of INLD legislators, as they had secured victories in alliance with the BJP. Making a specific mention of the previous Lok Sabha elections, Prof Sharma recalled that the BJP and the INLD had secured five seats each then in Haryana. Besides, almost all the five BJP candidates had won with bigger margins than their counterparts of the INLD, which showed that the electorate had, by and large, voted in the name of Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Prof Sharma said that in the ensuing Lok Sabha polls, the BJP candidates in Haryana were going to be doubly blessed –on the one hand by the charisma of the name of the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and on the other hand by his superb performance on the development, Defence, Economic and other Fronts. Taking a dig at another utterance of Mr Chautala, Prof Sharma said that “it was beyond his comprehension why Mr Chautala was feeling panicky if my revered guru and celebrated Saint Asa Ram Bapu had given me his blessings to occupy the chief ministerial gaddi in Haryana in the times to come.” He went on to say that Mr Chautala seemed to have forgotten that he himself had visited several prestigious hermitages in the Ahirwal region much before the Assembly elections of February 2000, to seek their blessings for himself. Describing people’s unstinted support as well as a saint’s blessings as essential ingredients for a politician to succeed in his mission of life, Prof Sharma said that it appeared to him that Mr Chautala, who had allegedly misused the people’s mandate ruthlessly, was now resorting to such things. |
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Special Focus on sonepat Sonepat, February 22 The alleged indifferent attitude of the administration in checking and removing
encroachments have ruined the concept of planning for this “A” class city, which has today a population of over 2 lakh with unchecked migration of thousands of families every year. The municipal council, the PWD (B&R) and other official agencies, which have been indulging in wasteful expenditure because of their heavy administrative infrastructure, have not only failed to solve the problem but allowed it to come to a point where it defies of solutions. It is widely admitted that prime duty of the administration and the municipal council was to launch deterrent action against those indulging in land grabbing and
encroachments on pavements with impunity. Squatting on pavements along important city roads today only exposes the pedestrian traffic to increasing road hazards. Not only that the concerned official agencies have failed to check the increasing menace of
encroachments they have been in a way abetting in illegal activity by conferring
the bazari rights, allowing the problem to assume major proportion. No amount of public criticism or complaints seems to move the officials controlling civic affairs or those connected with planning in the administration. By conferring teh-bazari rights, the municipal council has in a way legalised what has admittedly been an illegal activity, violating well laid down policies in regard to the problems being posed by large-scale
encroachments. The problem of encroachments, land grabbing and subsequently sale of government land by unscrupulous colonisers has been revealed at high level meetings but the problem has only aggravated. The people have often been assured about the government’s resolve not to allow
encroachments on public land or prevents exclusively meant for pedestrian traffic. But what is happening all over the city only proves that the district administration is just behaving like helpless spectators. While the number of vehicles has gone up manifold, the road expansion programmes have virtually remained static. This has result in total chaos and confusion on the city roads. Despite several initiatives undertaken by the traffic police to cope with the ever-increasing problem of traffic, the civic administration entrusted with the responsibility of road planning and development have been indifferent. By not allowing pavements for the pedestrians, they are being forced to walk in the middle of the roads facing the risk of being knocked down by the vehicles. The municipal parks in the Model Town and Prem Nagar areas have been grabbed by influential persons for the construction of a library and a temple respectively. The shopekeepers near the Button factory area have also grabbed the land meant for a park on which they had constructed the concrete platform for the parking of vehicles. Some of the shopkeepers have started using it for the sale of their goods by placing ‘takhat posh’ and rehris there. |
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Govt employees to be trained on EVMs Sonepat, February 22 Giving this information, Mr Rajeev Ranjan, Assistant Returning Officer-cum-Additional Deputy Commissioner, told mediapersons here today that the training would start from February 24 from Dhurana and Mundlana villages and cover the villages of Badhathi Khas, Jawhara and Chidana villages. The villages of Chhatehra, Jagsi, Matand and Busana would be covered on February 25, Gangana, Isapuur Kheri, Siwana Maal, Ranakheri and Nooran Khera on February 26, Butana Kundu, Bichpari, Butana Khetlan and Gangesar on February 27, Mahmoodpur, Siwanka, Sarsadh, Ramgarh and Ahmadpur on February 28, Bhawar, Garhwal, Nizampur and Kohla on February 29, Khanpur Khurd, Baroda Maur, Baroda Thutthan and Banwasa on March 1, Chhapra, Rindhana, Kehlpa and Dhanana on March 2, Thaska, Madina,
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Khora residents to vote for those who ensure colony’s development Noida, February 22 The residents of Khora have decided to start a people’s movement for which a meeting of representatives of various areas like, Sarswati Vihar, Mahalaxmi Garden, Ganga Vihar, Arun Vihar was called to decide the strategy for the purpose. The people of the colony, which has about a lakh of voters, have decided to vote only that candidate or party in coming Lok Sabha poll who will take up the development of the colony in right earnest. Uppermost in the list of the residents is establishment of a Nagar Palika (Civic Body) for which District Magistrate Ghaziabad has already sent his recommendation to Lucknow. Problems that have plagued this sprawling colony are chronically inadequate and unreliable power supply. An agitation will be launched for getting a drain constructed in the colony. Being a low-lying colony, it is usually flooded during monsoons leading to mosquito breeding and diseases. Kharanja, brick laying of roads sides and drains etc. is the other important problem. The setting up of a Nagar Palika should take care of its entire problem and it will be answerable to the local people also. Representatives of Ganga Vihar, Geetenjali Vihar, Indira Gardens, Sarswati Vihar, Pratap Vihar had all stressed the need for a civic body. District general secretary Suresh Yadav of National Students Union, Naresh Gujjar, B. K. Tiwari, Pinto Tiwari, Bhagat Negi, Naresh Biju and Manoj Kumar had all attended the meeting. |
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Noida projects on old Mayawati Govt Noida, February 22 But surprisingly work on the same projects has now resumed at the same old rates! It seems the “corrupt rates” are suddenly “acceptable” to the new government. In all, 106 projects worth Rs 895 crore had been sanctioned by Ms Mayawati government. But most of these works had been stopped mid way vide an administrative order dated August 30, 2003. Now, without holding anyone responsible for the improprieties, 78 out of the 106 projects have been given the green signal. An inquiry was entrusted earlier to senior IAS officer T George Joseph. The probe was halted on October 1, 2003, vide Chief Minister Mulayam Singh’s order dated September 30, 2003. Then, the probe was handed over to Noida Authority Chairman and CEO Brijesh Kumar. The officers connected with the probe had reportedly given the nod to restart works worth Rs.425 crore. |
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briefs Faridabad, February 22 Scooterist killed Sonepat: A scooterist, identified as Satbir of Titauli village, was killed and his brother, Ranvir, sustained serious injuries when the scooter on which they were riding was hit by a tractor-trolley near Gohana town, about 35 km from here last evening. The injured person was immediately hospitalised and stated to be out of danger. The police have registered the case and sent the body for the postmortem examination.
Theft in battery shop Thieves reportedly broke into a battery shop in Sector 14 near Vivekanand Chowk here last night and escaped with goods worth several thousands of rupees. According to a report, the stolen goods included a coloured TV, six inverters, seven batteries and Rs 8,000 in cash. The owner of the shop has lodged an FIR with the police in this connection. A number of thefts in the recent past in the area have caused panic among the shopkeepers and residents of the city.
Cotton stock gutted Cotton stock worth about Rs 42,000 was gutted when a mini truck carrying it caught fire near Bhandari village, about 50 km from here last night. According to a report, the mini truck was on its way from Gohana to Bhiwani. The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
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delhi digest New Delhi, February 22 He was speaking to a gathering after performing the Bhoomi Poojan of the Vivekananda Kendra International Bhawan that will come up in
Chanakyapuri. Recalling Vivekananda’s ideals, Mr Shekhawat said, “We should not be shy of our religion and should actively promote it as it has eternal essence. Secondly, we should regard the poor as God. Unless we eliminate the scourge of poverty, our country will not prosper. And we should respect all religions of the world as they pursue the universal God.” The Vice-President also released the commemorative volume, “India’s Contribution to World Thought and Culture”. An exhibition, “The Eternal India” was also organised on the occasion. Swami Shradhanand remembered:
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Inspector, SI held in stamp scam New Delhi, February 22 They arrested policemen were identified as Inspector Puran Singh and Sub-Inspector Gaurav Aggarwal, posted at Defence Colony police station. They were produced before the Duty Magistrate in the Patiala House courts and sent to judicial custody yesterday. The involvement of the two policemen in the racket was suspected during the course of the investigation in two FIRs registered at Defence Colony police station and recently transferred to the CBI. During the investigation of the case, both the accused policemen entered into a conspiracy with Telgi and other accused during 1999-2001, the CBI spokesman said. The suspects deliberately kept Abdul Karim Telgi out of the purview of the investigation and allegedly favoured another accused arrested in the same FIR by not filing a charge sheet against him. The investigation also revealed that the suspected Inspector illegally inspected the stocks of various companies by abusing his official position. Both the policemen were involved in number of illegal acts including preparing seizure memos and recording false aimed at facilitating Telgi to expand his stamp racket. The Inspector accepted Rs 2. 95 lakh from another accused in a case registered at Defence Colony police station and allowed him to withdraw money while he was in police custody, the CBI spokesman said. Cash, jewellery worth Rs 4 lakh looted:
Man arrested for raping minor:
Three persons killed:
Meanwhile, a man was killed when the TSR in which he was travelling overturned near Hanuman Mandir yesterday. Five other passengers, who sustained injuries, were admitted to a trauma centre. The Kashmere Gate police registered a case of rash and negligent driving and arrested the TSR driver, identified as Mahal Singh, the police said. |
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Scullers launches Dinosaur checks collection, a range of shirts with larger-than-life checks. They are made of cotton and cotton-based fabric and are given a special soft enzyme wash that gives a surreal feel to the fabric. These business casuals are available in half and full sleeves and come in a wide range of deep, earthy colours like green, camel, ecru, maroon and deep blue. Water purifier:
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