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Biggest hawala catch in a decade at IGI Airport
Custodial death: Charges framed against five men
MCD asked to construct 13 school buildings
DU’s SOL to get computerised
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ABVP girdles up for DUSU elections
BSNL opens call centre in Noida
Boy’s body recovered from tube well
TV channel receives threat
Gangsters Act evoked against land sharks
Man wanted by CBI arrested
Man gets lifer for killing mistress
Two get life term for killing SI
Bangladeshi citizens held for burglary
Youth electrocuted as high-tension wire snaps
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Biggest hawala catch in a decade at IGI Airport
New Delhi, July 30 Customs officials suspect that the currency was meant for making some hawala transactions, Joint Commissioner Customs Neeraj Kansal told reporters here. The currency, in varied denominations of US dollars, Euros, Sterling Pounds and Saudi Riyals, was seized from Arjun Singh, a Dubai-based cloth merchant this morning, he said. The case was detected on the basis of passenger profiling done by Air Customs, the official informed. Singh, a frequent traveller to India, was on the Customs’ watch-list since the September 2004 arrest of his son Hardeep, who was caught when he attempted to smuggle foreign currency worth Rs 4.5 lakh, the Joint Commissioner said. Customs officials suspected some foul play when Singh, on his way to Dubai by a Gulf Air flight, hurried to clear bales of cloth through X-ray security check. Upon close observation it was found that the cloth was rolled over wads of currency instead of a wooden or and iron rod to make it a bale. “It was all genuine foreign currency comprising Euros, US dollars, Saudi Riyals and Sterling Pounds,” Kansal said. He said officials suspect that the case was a typical example of hawala transaction. “Airport Customs have detected 12 cases of smuggling of currency and seized Rs 57 lakh since April this year. But today’s was the single biggest haul in 10 years,” Kansal said. Total seizures made by Delhi Customs this financial year, in its first three months itself involving 13 cases including the present one, has yielded Rs 1.43 crore Singh, a frequent visitor to Greater Kailash-II colony, always travelled business class and this was his third visit to the national capital. During interrogation he said he had visited Delhi 11 times since January. “It appears that the accused and his family have been involved in hawala business for some,” Joint Commissioner Kansal said. In September 2004, Singh’s son Hardeep was arrested while attempting to smuggle out foreign currency worth Rs 4.5 lakh. Both the father-son duo have been on the Customs’ watch-list since then, he said. Kansal said they believe Singh was involved in Hawala transactions wherein payment of cash is made in other countries in hard currency against money deposited with an agent in India or against luxury items smuggled into India. He said Dubai was a haven for money launderers as they manage to move cash proceeds to the financial system there.
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Custodial death: Charges framed against five men
New Delhi, July 30 Observing that a “prima-facie case is made out”, Additional Sessions Judge Mr. Chandra Gupta charged Sub-Inspector Ram Kumar, Assistant Sub-Inspector Ramesh Chand, Constable Lukmaan Ali, Shakti Tyagi and Kanwar Pal Singh under section 34 (common intention), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 302 (murder) of the IPC. SI Ram Kumar had picked up deceased Kishan Singh on March 16 from Jhilmil industrial area in Delhi on the complaint of Tyagi and his driver Kanwar Pal that he had forcibly taken away their van. As per the prosecution case, the victim was brutally assaulted by the police in the lock-up resulting in his death the next day. The victim’s son, Sanjeev Kumar, lodged a police complaint on March 17 regarding his father’s death due to physical assault in police custody. The medical report said the “cause of death is shock due to haemorrhage occurring as a cumulative effect of injuries on the body caused by repeated assaults by hard objects upon the deceased”. Considering the medical report and other facts the court said, “there is sufficient material on the record for framing of charges against all the five accused”.
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MCD asked to construct 13 school buildings
New Delhi, July 30 This direction was issued after he made a tour in these areas to inspect the lamentable conditions of these schools. He said that very soon the construction work of the buildings would be started so that the students did not feel any difficulty next year. All official formalities will be completed to get sanction of finance from the corporation. Najafgarh area is a rural area where majority of the children rely on government-run schools for education. When asked why 238 classes are still run under tents, he said within two years all MCD schools would have concrete buildings. When the Congress Party came to power in the corporation, majority of primary schools were under tents. Now the condition is very much different. This year the students have been given all books and uniforms which has never happened, he claimed. However, the Leader of Opposition, Mr Subhash Arya said though the corporation has fund in the plan head, it would take at least one year to begin the construction work of the buildings as the proposal had to come before the Standing Committee and House. Later, tenders will be invited. It will take one year to complete all these formalities, he said.
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DU’s SOL to get computerised
New Delhi, July 30 “We want this to become a paperless organisation. Currently we are in the process of computerising the whole SOL and hopefully we will be able to even have on line admissions soon,” said the Executive Director, Prof H C Pokhriyal. Lamenting that not enough attention is paid to the SOL, which can emerge as an institute of repute owing to its ability to reach out to a large scale of students, he said, “distance education needs more support, this has also been reiterated by a study conducted in Kolkatta sponsored by Prof. Amartya Sen”. Listing the reasons for having all information and profile of students on the computer, Prof. Pokhriyal said, “there are lakhs of students who enroll with us each year and it is not possible to dig out files for information. But if we have the whole thing computerised then it is just a click away and we can keep track of students”. With students often complaining that the study material delivered through post goes missing, the SOL has decided to make it mandatory for students to fill in their pin codes on the admission forms. “The forms will not be accepted if the pin code is not filled. More often than not students do not receive the study material because they fill in the wrong address and do not write the pin code,” Prof. Pokhriyal said. The advantages of technology driven administration being many, the SOL is confident that the problems encountered by students like delay in receiving admit cards and date sheets will also be solved. Another first that the institution can now boast of is a unique bar code on each prospectus, which enables the administration access to the entire information about new students.
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ABVP girdles up for DUSU elections
New Delhi, July 30 Though the ‘blueprint’ is still being worked out, the party has managed to put together its election committee, which will identify the faces chosen to represent its ideology in the campus. In fact, the party has already identified 30 candidates, nine of whom are women, though the final decision on them will be taken later. Having faced a humbling defeat in the last two elections the party may have a lot of sprucing to do, but it blames the “interference of the political parties” for contributing to its defeat. Over the years, the elections have gained in importance due to the fact that they have proved to be a springboard for many student leaders to graduate to bigger playing fields. But the ABVP insists it has nothing to do with mainstream politics, and is quick to point out that its arch rival NSUI (National Students Union of India) enjoys the patronage of the Congress. “The fight is not between the ABVP and the NSUI. The fight is between the ABVP and the Congress. Senior leaders of the party not only help in campaigning, but also with the finances,” said Nakul Bhardwaj, State President of the ABVP. “We are a cadre based party. Unlike the others, we do not rely on the glamour factor, but let the workers choose the candidates,” said Bhardwaj. Stating that the party is keen to have a free and fair election, he said, “we are ready to take the lead. Let all other parties also refrain from using posters…we were the only party that opted to have the least number of posters and pamphlets”. He went on to add, “we want the elections to be conducted without any interference, use of power, money and violence”. Taking a dig at the NSUI- led outgoing DUSU, Bhardwaj said, “they have been event managers, who have failed to take up the cause of students. Not a single Central Councilors meeting was held in the last one year, and there was just one EC meeting to decided the budget”. Pointing out that the party’s performance as an “active and effective opposition” will bring more votes this time, the party also gave a sneak peek into the list of their demands, more hostels, direct elections in all universities and representation of students in the Academic Council and other decision making bodies. Though the party seems to agree with others on the need to raise the ceiling amount for elections from Rs 10,000, it maintains that the “amount of money being spent should be within limits”. Apart from the issue of delay in the announcement of results and the need to set up an admission grievance committee, the party says it will raise a demand for the setting up of a Students’ Union Tribunal and a National Students Act.
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BSNL opens call centre in Noida
Noida, July 30 The modern Centre has facilities to convey information in Hindi and English, BSNL Director (operations) said. BSNL, the seventh biggest telecommunication company in the world, is planning to introduce many more customer care facilities to satisfy its consumers. The opening of a call centre in Noida is one of them, he said. While inaugurating the call centre, the director said the company is planning to introduce an important scheme from October, under which a subscriber can load on the line a pre-paid coupon. The coupons would be available for Rs. 300, 500, 1000 and more, he said. On the occasion, BSNL general manager (NOIDA), A K Garg said the first time the company had printed 22500 Hindi and 80,000 English directories for the Noida subscribers and distributed to them. The company spent Rs 27 each for the directory, he added.
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Boy’s body recovered from tube well
Meerut, July 30 The badly mutilated body of Netin was taken out from a 16-inch-wide pipe after a five hour-long effort near Mojipura village, they said. The boy’s father Baburam had registered a complaint with police saying Netin had been kidnapped and the abductors were demanding Rs 2 lakh for his release. He had named three suspects in the complaint. Raids are on to track the three suspects, who are absconding, police said.
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TV channel receives threat
Noida, July 30 S.S.Sharma of the news channel has lodged a complaint at Sector 20 police station here stating that they had received an envelope containing two live cartridges and some powder suspected to be potassium cyanide with the threat that someone from the news channel would be killed. The cartridges were handed over to the
police. — TNS
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Gangsters Act evoked against land sharks
Ghaziabad, July 30 The District Magistrate evoked the stringent Act against Moti Goel, his father Lajja Ram (70) and their two associates Rakesh and Mahabir, who are in jail after they were arrested in April 2005. The four accused will not be able to get bail for at least six months under the Gangsters Act, Superintendent of Police (City) Ram Chandra Yadva told reporters here. Goel’s lawyer Ram
Avtar Gupta, however, said that they would challenge the move in the High Court.
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Man wanted by CBI arrested
New Delhi, July 30
The accused has been identified as Shri Bhagwan Tulsiyan. The CBI had announced a reward of Rs 25,000 on his head. ACP Ravi Shankar of Crime Branch of Delhi Police got the information yesterday that the accused was running his company in the area of Kalka Ji in south district. Yesterday at around 10 AM, the police raided his premises at G-88, Kalka Ji and arrested him. The police claimed to have recovered 12 rubber stamps of different officials including Director General of Foreign Trade, Superintendent of Excise Department from the premises. Initially, the accused refused to accept his involvement in any such case but later, on sustained interrogation, he reportedly accepted his involvement, said the police. Police said that the investigation also revealed that the accused has recently floated a new firm to import battery operated auto rickshaws.
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Man gets lifer for killing mistress
New Delhi, July 30 Additional Sessions Judge Mr. Rajneesh Bhatnagar also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Jeet Singhania who burnt Manju, who had been living with him for the past three months, on April 20, 2002. Manju, a widow with three children, was living with the accused in Uttam Nagar along with her eldest son. Her two younger children - a son and a daughter - were living with their maternal grandfather. The victim had named the accused in her dying declaration.
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Two get life term for killing SI
New Delhi, July 30 The Additional Sessions Judge, Mr. R. P. S. Teji also imposed a fine of Rs 13,000 each on Ghanshyam and Kishore who shot at SI Vinod Kumar who tried to stop their car which was a stolen one. According to prosecution, the accused fired at Vinod on January 7, 2001 after he gave a signal to stop the car in which they were travelling. The SI, who was hit on the left chest, later succumbed to the injury. The accused, who fled from the spot, were arrested by the police later. Investigation revealed that they were travelling in a car stolen from Shakti Nagar in North Delhi. The police produced 41 witnesses to support the case against the accused.
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Bangladeshi citizens held for burglary
New Delhi, July 30 Anwar Hussain (26) and Sattar (25) had decamped with half a kilogram of gold worth lakhs of rupees from the outlet of Mehrasons Jewellers in South Extension on July 14. They had been involved in several other similar burglaries in Delhi, its adjoining areas and Rajasthan, police said. They had illegally crossed the West Bengal-Bangladesh border some time back. The stolen gold, a .12 bore pistol and some smack were recovered from them.
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Youth electrocuted as high-tension wire snaps
Noida, July 30 The incident led to a gathering of a large number of angry people on the roads in Sector-57 to protest the death due to alleged negligence of UP Power Corporation. They had to be later persuaded by the City Magistrate and police officers to disperse. Two residents of the colony have died over the last one month in similar circumstances. The colony people have sent memorandum and made representation to higher authorities and political
leaders that the high tension wires be removed from over the colony.
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