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Former snooker player held for vehicle theft
Now, you can keep tabs on your FIR
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Debtor prevented from carrying out last rites
Daughter accuses father of sexual exploitation
Special geriatric units needed in hospitals
Cops clueless in rape case, ASI suspended
Clothes Bank to make it cozy for the needy
Qutub Festival begins tomorrow
BHEL ‘Excel’ awards on Nov 27
Naxalite activists not allowed to hold rally
Seven agitating karamcharis suspended at AIIMS
Anand Vihar rly project gets derailed yet again
Amity holds science exhibition
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Former snooker player held for vehicle theft
New Delhi, November 25 The police claim to have solved 63 cases of snatching and 19 cases of motor vehicle theft with the arrests. While admitting that the cases of chain and purse snatching had gone up recently, the DCP south, Praveer Ranjan, said the arrests were made during a routine picket checking in Defence Colony area. “As such incidents are increasing by the day, we have installed more pickets in the area,’’ the DCP said. At 6 pm, the policemen posted at the Defence Colony picket signaled a red Maruti car to stop and asked for the car documents. On verification, it was found that the car did not belong to the occupants. The police arrested the accused and during interrogation they admitted to their involvement in several cases of chain and purse snatching and auto lifting. Praveer Ranjan said that they had committed a crime in almost every part of the city. Further investigation revealed that Amit belongs to a rich family and his father deals in gold and diamond jewellery. They had a jewellery shop — Satish Jewelers — at Lal Quarters in east
district. Amit used to participate in motorbike racing events in Chandigarh. He had a flamboyant lifestyle and his family owned a palatial house in Sukh Vihar. Besides the family owned a BMW, a Toyota Sports car and one Santro car. He took to crime six months back and had no criminal background. Of the other accused, Jagjit is a motor mechanic and fond of bikes. He was previously also involved in 15 cases of snatching; the other accused, Arvinder Singh, is an air-conditioner mechanic. The police have recovered one car, 8 motorcycles, 17 mobile phones, 4 gold chains, two wrist watches, 3 gold rings and one ear ring from their possession.
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Now, you can keep tabs on your FIR
New Delhi, November 25 With the start of the cell, the complainant can now find out the status of his complaint from such enquiry centres located at the Delhi Police Headquarters. While addressing senior police officers, the Union Home Secretary appreciated the transparency and enhanced supervision that the use of new technology is bringing to the police working. He stressed the need for making the public aware of the developments in the police force and the need for further improving relations of the police with the public through both formal as well as informal channels. He also expressed concern for welfare of policemen who have to perform myriad jobs, often with inadequate infrastructural support. The Home Ministry will address all problems faced by the Delhi Police such as housing for personnel, Mr Singh added. Earlier, the Home Secretary visited the Crime Records Office and saw the uses of technology as an aid in investigation. The Portrait Building System and ZIP net online collaboration with neighbouring states received his particular attention. The facilities available to the public through SMS — such as checking the particulars of vehicles — were also tested out by
him. In the Police Control Room, he witnessed a demonstration of the proposed GPS-GIS system, to be shortly introduced for control of crime as well as law and order in the city. The Monitoring and Tracking System comprises a computerise network that connects officers above the level of DCPs sitting in the Police Headquarters. Details of complaints received from the members of public are fed into the commuters at various locations, wherever they are received. Each complaint is given a unique number, to enable the senior officers to monitor its progress and to ensure that action is taken within a time frame.
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Debtor prevented from carrying out last rites
Bulandshahr, November 25 Moreover, the father of the dead child was made a captive when he came to his house to beg him to hand over the body for the burial. Later, with the intervention of the police, the body was handed over to the father for the burial.
Fakhruddin of Jalilpur village, involved in the business of buying and selling of cattle, had borrowed money from the village moneylender after he had lost money in the cattle business. Unable to repay his debts, he had shifted to Delhi with his family some time back. He had come to the village to bury his 3-year-old son who had passed away after an illness. When the moneylender learnt of the presence of Fakhruddin in the village, he reached the graveyard and demanded that he pay back his money immediately. On Fakhruddin expressing his inability to do so on the spot as he was in a crisis and mourning, the moneylender reportedly snatched the body of three- year-old child and took it to his own house. When Fakhruddin followed him and pleaded that the body be returned for burial, he was reportedly made a captive in the house. Repeated plea by the Fakhruddin’s wife failed to move the moneylender. The body was finally released for burial when the police intervened after she lodged a formal complaint in the police station.
3 members of marriage party killed
Three persons travelling from Secunderabad to a village in Meerut district in a Maruti car, as part of a marriage party, were killed when a Roadways bus collided with the car near Kharkhoda village yesterday night. Three others were seriously injured in the mishap. The car dashed against a tree after it was hit by the Roadways bus. The members of the marriage party of
Farukh, son of Sayad from Mohalla Gadhi, were travelling to Bosi village in Meerut district. Among those seriously injured in the accident included Ikhlaque (son of
Illyas), Jhimpy (son of Babu), Charan (son of Rafique), Jamil (son of
Ismail) and Jummi (son of Raja). They were rushed to the district hospital by the other members of the marriage party, where
Ikhlaquel, Jummi and Charan were declared brought dead.
Woman accused of husband’s murder
A woman in village Chalana has been accused of killing her husband due to his refusal to facilitate an amicable divorce. According to reports, the woman had invited her husband to her father’s village on the pretext of reaching an agreement on the divorce case. The body of the man was thrown under a culvert on a railway track in Mahipa jungle. The brother of the deceased has named his sister-in-law and her three brothers in the FIR. The four accused, however, are reportedly absconding. Differences had developed between
the two families after marriage. Later a dowry harassment case against Satish and seven other members of his family was filed, for which they were sent to jail on June 26, 2004. However, Kavita’s suit for divorce was resisted by Satish and his family, who wanted Kavita to come back to her in-laws house.
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Daughter accuses father of sexual exploitation
Ghaziabad, November 25 A case has been lodged in the Sihani Gate police station, in which the husband has accused his in-laws of keeping him ignorant of the facts related to her pregnancy. It is learnt that the police may take recourse to a DNA test to clear the position. The daughter of a police SI, Jyoti, was married to Rishi, a Nand Gram resident (names changed) on October 22. On Tuesday, when Rishi took his wife to a nursing home in Kavi Nagar after she complained of stomach pain, the doctors shocked him with the news that his wife was in the last stages of her pregnancy. Within hours, the woman delivered a healthy girl child. Shocked and embarrassed at this development, Jyoti’s husband filed a complaint with the Sihani Gate police against his in-laws. He accused his father-in-law of having kept him in the dark about her pregnancy. They also handed over a letter written by Jyoti in which she accused her father of sexually exploiting her before marriage. When Jyoti’s father came to know of the latest developments, he fled from the village. Meanwhile, Jyoti’s father has reportedly told the police that Rishi had been meeting his daughter after the match was finalised and that Rishi had established physical relationship with his daughter much before the marriage. As such, he had put pressure on Rishi’s family for an early marriage. The senior police officers are understood to have called a meeting of the members of the two families and have decided to make use of the DNA test to clear the matter in this regard.
IT raid on jeweller’s house, showrooms
Noida: The sleuths of the Income Tax Department have sized properties and valuables worth crores of rupees in raids conducted on Rajinder Varma’s Ram Jewellers showrooms and houses. Gold and diamond jewellery worth crores of rupees has been sized in raids that was conducted over a period of two days. The IT sleuths began their raid on Rajinder Varma’s house in Sector-33 and Sector-18 showroom on Tuesday under Additional Commissioner, IT (Investigation). The jeweller’s Delhi showroom was raided simultaneously. Some files related to properties along with passbooks and lockers in Lord Krishna Bank were confiscated by the police teams. Later, cash and fixed deposits worth lakhs of rupees were seized and lockers duly sealed. The Additional Director IT (Investigation), Mr R. C. Gupta, said that the jewellery seized is being assessed by experts summoned from Meerut. Apart from gold and diamond jewellery, large quantity of golden artifacts, precious stones, Rattans, Neelam, Panna, Pukhraj, Moonga, Manikyas, Lahsooniya etc have been seized. These are yet to be evaluated. The jeweller may have to cough up more than 30 per cent extra income tax after the unaccounted cash and valuables are evaluated, said Mr Gupta.
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Special geriatric units needed in hospitals
New Delhi, November 25 India is only the second country after China to have the world’s largest geriatric population. The life expectancy, which was 42 years in 1947, has increased to 65 years now, General Secretary of the Geriatric Society of India, Dr O. P. Sharma said. The medical experts are trying to find out the reason for increasing life expectancy in the country. Dr O. P. Sharma said that while other countries were rapidly moving ahead in providing better medical facilities to elder people, India seems to be rather slow with hospitals being merely OPD-geriatric service providers. In European countries and Japan, the hospitals have separate geriatric units. They also have a Geriatric Special Care Hospital. Hospitals in Japan are equipped with the latest technology instruments and they have specialised doctors in the geriatric field. “There is limited interest on the part of doctors who find it difficult to stretch the working hours. These doctors are not specialised in geriatric care and they do not work specially for geriatric care. What is happening now is that all the hospitals as well as social organisations are working individually. So, there is need to form a common body, which strives to improve the working of these services. Also, so far there is no law that every hospital must have a geriatric unit. If such a law is enacted, then the services will become systematic,” Dr O. P. Sharma said. The special problems of the elderly are best dealt within a geriatirc unit, a unit comprising a high proportion of trained and interested geriatricians and nursing staff who have been given intensive care for a short period of time, with special emphasis on early rehabilitation and adequate accommodation, equipment and staff for physical medicine, remedial exercise, occupational therapy and recreation. At present, 8.6 per cent of the total population is above the age of 60, but when the absolute number of elderly people is taken into account, it turns out to be 86 million.
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Cops clueless in rape case, ASI suspended
New Delhi, November 25 The girl had gone missing on November 23, following which her parents had lodged a report with the police. The victim’s head had been battered against a stone. She was found in a gruesome state in Sultanpuri area yesterday. Meanwhile, an ASI has been suspended on the charges of misbehaving with the parents of the victim. When Mukesh, the father of the victim, went to the Sultan Puri police station to lodge an FIR about his missing daughter, the ASI did not respond and misbehaved with him.
Notice on Puran Singh’s bail plea
The Delhi High Court today issued notice to the CBI on an anticipatory bail petition by Telgi stamp paper scam case accused suspended Delhi Police Inspector Puran Singh. Justice B. N. Chaturvedi issued notice, returnable on
November 29, to the investigating agency on the application seeking protection from arrest in connection with the third FIR registered against him in the scam. Puran Singh had earlier got bail in both the other cases after the CBI failed to file the chargesheet within the statutory 60 days period. The CBI had moved High Court opposing the bail, but it was dismissed. The third case was registered on September 29 this year.
Pirated medical books seized
The Economic Offence wing of the Delhi Police has seized 1,035 pirated medical books of different foreign publishers worth Rs 41 lakh. The police have arrested two persons in this connection. The accused have been identified as Kanhaiya Hanspal, owner of C-27, South Extension-II, and Manoj Kumar Verma. The police recovered the books that were photocopied.
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Clothes Bank to make it cozy for the needy
New Delhi, November 25 The objective of `Clothes Bank’ is to organize the systematic and hygienic distribution of used clothes among the needy. To collect old clothes, collection boxes would be set up at various locations in each city, including the TNT offices. TNT would then collect the clothes from all centers and deliver them to the ‘Clothes Bank’ housed by Dr Reddy’s Foundation in Hyderabad. Mr Abhik Mitra, Managing Director, TNT India Pvt Ltd, said, `Clothes Bank’ has given us an opportunity to utilise our expertise and resources for a worthy cause. We are proud to be a part of the initiative for the fourth consecutive year. TNT believes in a long-term commitment to such causes and our association with the project has brought us immense satisfaction.” Mrs Nalini
Gangadharan, Executive Director, Dr Reddy’s Foundation, said “In the past three years, `Clothes Bank’ has helped victims of natural calamities, war, conflict, drought and from the poorer, deprived, neglected and marginalised sections of the society. We request people to come forward and provide us with the same support this year too.” Clothes collected are graded and those clothes that are not redeemable are discarded. The remaining clothes are classified in different categories, such as children’s clothing, saris, woolens, etc. Once sorted, the clothes are sent for washing for which Procter & Gamble would provide the necessary detergent. Once washed, clothes that require repair are mended, altered and ironed. ‘Clothes Bank’ utilizes an inventory maintenance system to sort the clothes based on age, sex and type of clothing. Finally, based on requests by various NGO’s, ‘Clothes Bank’ distributes the clothes. `Clothes Bank’ also ensures that the name of the individual donor is attached to each item of clothing. All these activities are undertaken by volunteers from different walks of life.
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Qutub Festival begins tomorrow
New Delhi, November 25 This year the festival is dedicated to the youths of Delhi, where artistes like Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash (sarod), Rahul Sharma (santoor), Ustad Shafaat Ahmed Khan (tabla) Rakesh Chaurasia (flute), Louis Banks (keyboards), Sivamani (percussion), Niladri Kumar (sitar) and fusion band, Indian Ocean, will perform. Special bus services will be available at 5 pm from Jamia (Ansari Auditorium), JNU (Ganga Dhaba), North Campus (Patel Chowk) and South Campus (outside Venkateshwara College) to the venue and back.
Parkash Utsav celebrations
The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara management Committee (DSGMC) started Parkash Utsav celebrations of Sahib Sri Guru Nanak Dev with the recitation of Sukhmani Sahib Nitnem followed by Asadi-Var and Shabad Kirtan thereafter. A grand and colourful Nagar Kirtan with the Guru Granth Sahib decorated in Palki Sahib started at 10.30 am with Nagara decorated in another vehicle. Children participated in the procession, which passed through Chandni Chowk.
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BHEL ‘Excel’ awards on Nov 27
New Delhi, November 25 The annual awards are presented to BHEL employees for their meritorious achievements in various fields. The `Excel’ award scheme was conceptualised to motivate BHEl’s employees to provide competitive advantage in the fiercely competitive and rapidly changing business environment. The fourth such awards will be presented here on November 27 by Mr A. K. Puri, Chairman and Managing Director, BHEL, to 56
employees. — TNS
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Naxalite activists not allowed to hold rally
New Delhi, November 25 The activists had gathered under the banner `Solidarity Committee’ to hold a meeting in support of the “revolutionary struggle” in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar
and Jharkhand. The DCP North, Rajesh Khurana, said that the activists had come from Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. This would have been the first public rally of naxalites in the Capital.
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Seven agitating karamcharis suspended at AIIMS
New Delhi, November 25 The AIIMS karamcharis are protesting against the death of a co-worker’s son, allegedly caused by a doctor’s negligence. They struck work this morning, paralysing all OPDs. It is alleged that the doctor had refused to examine the karamchari’s son who had developed a chest infection. The agitating karamcharis are now demanding an enquiry and action against the errant doctor. With the work in the OPDs grinding to a halt, the patients were left high and dry, especially those who have come from outside Delhi. Some of them have been waiting for months for their appointments.
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Anand Vihar rly project gets derailed yet again
New Delhi, November 25 The chief minister’s office has said that Northern Railway will have to plant saplings in lieu of the trees that are axed in areas thickly populated areas. In its fresh proposal, the Northern railway had earmarked 25 sites along deserted railway land for this purpose. The chief minister’s office has asked the Northern Railway to consult civic agencies like the Delhi Development Authority(DDA) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), so that new
sites can be identified for planting of saplings. When contacted, Mr. Raj Kumar Chauhan, the Delhi minister of environment, refused to comment on the matter. A senior railway officer involved in the project said on the condition of anonymity that the project was being delayed for no genuine reason. There was a lack of coordination between the environment ministry and the chief minister’s office. “We have only a budget of Rs. 1.5 crore for planting new saplings. We can hand over the money to them, it does not matter how they utilise it.” The Delhi government, however, denied that there was any lack of coordination and maintained that it was the chief minister’s prerogative to take decisions regarding environment as she wanted the Capital to be a world class city before the Commonwealth Games.
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Amity holds science exhibition
New Delhi, November 25 Class I were allotted the theme ‘Wonderful wings’ depicting projects on birds in flight. The Class II displayed its works on the theme ‘Safari;’ ‘Vigyan aur Vatavaran’ was the theme for class III. Under the theme Final Frontier, senior students presented their projects on various topics of chemistry, biology, physics and astronomy. Dr J. P. Kothari, Deputy Director, Administration, Centre for Energy Studies, IIT.
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Union Home Secretary Dhirender Singh today inaugurated the ‘Single Window Complaints Enquiry Cell’ of the Delhi Police.
