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Minors’ abuse in lock-up: Court order stayed
Facelift for Noida; Metro to link it to Delhi by 2009
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Metro traffic disrupted due to technical snag
Now, pay your BSES electricity bills online
BJP decides on agenda for Assembly session
Policeman crushed by fleeing criminals
Mobile company fined by consumer court
Bailable warrant issued against ACP
Child rescued, three held
Youth found dead; cause of death unclear
HC notice to govt on rehabilitating child labour
Gang of auto lifters busted
Violation of lease conditions by hospitals: HC sets up panel
Two eunuchs held for castrating youth
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Minors’ abuse in lock-up: Court order stayed
New Delhi, December 2 Challenging the order, the police, in its revision petition said “the Juvenile Justice Board is not in any manner empowered to take cognizance against the unknown/ unnamed police officials who are majors and do not fall under its jurisdiction”. Ahluwalia contended that the allegations against police officials are concocted as they are levelled after the lapse of 40 days of the so-called sexual and physical abuses. The four delinquents were arrested on October 19 this year in connection with a murder of Putti Lal, a resident of Pushta in north-east Delhi, who was allegedly robbed after being stabbed by them. In another case, a Sessions court yesterday quashed an order passed by a Magistrate to name a Juvenile Home Superintendent as co-accused in a sodomy case observing that “any interference by court during a police investigation of a case is per se illegal”. “The function of the Magistrate and the police is entirely different. The Magistrate here has illegally directed the police to add the Superintendent’s name during pending investigation,” said Additional Sessions Judge N K Sharma, while quashing the order passed by Juvenile Justice Board Principal Magistrate Santosh Snehi Mann. The Superintendent, S K Srivastava, then in-charge of Children Home for Boys, Narela, had allegedly taken initiative to register a case against six juvenile inmates who had sodomised a junior boy at the Home. The victim had also made a written submission of the incident before the juvenile home authorities. Besides that, a medical test of the boy was also done. The police began investigation into the case on the basis of an FIR filed by the Superintendent. However, the Magistrate, during the pendency of the investigation, accused Srivastava of “willfull negligence” and on July 8 directed the Investigating Officer to name him as a co-accused in the case along with the six boys. Unhappy with the order, Srivastava appealed to the Sessions court. Terming it the “statutory right” of the police to conduct an independent probe under sections 154 and 156 CrPC, the Sessions court called the Magistrate’s order as “suffering from serious infirmities and illegalities”.
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Facelift for Noida; Metro to link it to Delhi by 2009
Noida, December 2 In effect, the whole project is scheduled to be in place before the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Among the sectors to be linked to the Metro include sectors, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 65. Noida will contribute 85 per cent of the cost, estimated at Rs 736 crores, while the Centre will make up the balance of 15 per cent. According to sources, the UP Government is not likely to make any contributions to this amount. The green signal for the Metro, to be extended to the City Centre in Sector-32 – a distance of 7 km, has come as a great relief to the residents here, as it was held up for the past three months. It may be recalled that the exercise of linking the Metro to Noida was on for the last four years. Linked with Delhi Metro in Mayur Vihar and through New Ashok Nagar, the first metro station in Noida will in Sector-15 near Health Office. According to sources, other stations in Noida will be opposite HSCL in Sector-16, Atta near Shipra Hotel, National Botanical Garden, in Sector-37 near Shashi Kant crossing and in Sector-39 near Government College. The government has also decided to have a feasibility study done for linking this line with Shahdara for further extension to Ghaziabad, which will be implemented in the next phase, it is understood. Meanwhile, the Noida Authority appears to be on the thresh-hold of launching some significant projects, which will translate its slogan, ‘Green Noida, Clean Noida’ into reality. According to the Noida Chief Executive Officer, Sanjeev Saran, Noida Authority, will shortly sign an MOU with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for extending the Metro Rail link to Noida. The CEO said through Union Ministry of Urban Development is shortly expected to approve the extension of area under DMRC to cover the entire NCR Region. Within two months of the first payment to DMRC, work will start on the project. A private company has been identified for the laying the natural gas pipeline infrastructure for the supply of natural gas to residential sectors in Noida. For industrial sectors infrastructure, including pipeline, mother stations and feeder stations will be established for CNG. A state-level committee will finally decide all works viz selecting a gas agency. M/s. Adani Inf Group, supplying gas in Baroda and Ahmedabad, has been short-listed for Noida while Indraprastha Gas Ltd will supply to Greater Noida and Ghaziabad, the CEO said. Adani group will cover 30 sq km area and cater to 5.50 lakh population in Noida. The total cost of residential and commercial gas set up will be Rs 135 crore, and the whole net work would have covered the complete area within 5 years, starting with 16,000 houses in the first year, 32,000 in the second year and finally covering a population 4.17 lakh. Within 5 years, the whole of Noida will be covered with this project, which is expected to start by February 15, 2006. The Noida Authority is also investing Rs 1.50 crore in this project, Mr Saran said. The CEO said some positive steps are being taking for the supply of pure (Ganga) drinking water to Noida in full measure. Old and defective pipelines are being replaced. Pipelines in Sectors 28, 29, 33, 12 etc have been changed at a cost of Rs 3 crore. “We are also likely to get 50 per cent more Ganga Jal, which will improve the quality of drinking water,” Mr Saran said. Automatic switches will be installed for street light within three months, which will ensure that no streetlight would be on during the daytime. The Chief Executive Officer ordered that all uncovered manholes in Noida town should be covered within 24 hours so as to prevent any accident.
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Metro traffic disrupted due to technical snag
New Delhi, December 2 A Metro train from Shahdara to Ritahala developed a major snag at the Inderlok station during peak rush hours at around 10.10 am. While the passengers were off-loaded, engineers present at the station tried to rectify the fault on the spot. However, the train had to be taken to Shastri Park for rectification. The train was put back on the track after an hour.
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Now, pay your BSES electricity bills online
New Delhi, December 2 The facility allows customers to view bill details of their BSES account and pay their electricity bills from the convenience of their homes and offices. According to Mr Lalit Jalan, Member of the Executive Committee and Director, BSES, “We are happy that before the end of the calendar year, we have been able to offer our customers the choice of making online payment. We would like to assure our customers that their online transactions on our website will be totally secure”. On visiting the BSES website and clicking on the payment option, the customers will be directed to a secure payment gateway, where they will be asked to choose between credit card payment and the net banking option. Customers choosing the credit card option will be required to enter their credit cards details. Alternatively, customers choosing net banking option will be directed to input their respective bank’s net banking user ID and password. This facility is available to all types of customers – key, medium load and domestic. To ensure the security of net transactions on the BSES website, payments are being made over an ultra secure, 128 bit SSL encrypted, Veri sign certified, payment gateway. The payment will be authenticated over the gateway and credit card/savings account (if net banking option is selected) will be instantly debited. On making the online payment, customers will immediately receive an online confirmation and a transaction reference number. All BSES customers holding credit cards issued from Master Card, Visa, Diners Club International, Citibank ECard and net banking customers of most of the prominent banks including Citibank, HDFC, IDBI, PNB, UTI and SBI will be able to pay their BSES. In the near future, the facility will be extended to customers of others banks also. BSES recently also introduced the facility of providing bill details on email. All a customer has to do is log on to the BSES website www.bsesdelhi.com and click on “Bill on email” and enter one’s CRN number, name and email address. This will ensure that the customer will get their bill details on their email, in accordance to their billing cycle. A BSES spokesperson said “The online facility is in addition to the existing 835 payments options including 400 Eazy Bill outlets, 33 divisional office cash counters, 200 BSES cash counters, 200 Skypak drop boxes and 2 mobile cash collection vans available to the BSES customers in Delhi”.
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BJP decides on agenda for Assembly session
New Delhi, December 2 The BJP Legislature Party met here today to decide its agenda for the coming five-day Assembly session, in which it also condemned the Sheila Dikshit government for calling a short session. “Faulty meters will be the most important issue for us in the coming Session. People are being 2.5 times higher for the electricity since the old electromagnetic meters have been replaced with China-made electronic meters,” Leader of Opposition Jagdish Mukhi told reporters after the meeting. A resolution was passed in the meeting that an agitation will be launched by the BJP in the capital to put pressure on the government to revert to the old electromagnetic meters. Mukhi alleged that due to the “connivance” of MCD and owners of big malls, around 4.5 lakh shops in residential areas could be closed down. “The Supreme Court has reserved its order in the case on whether shops should be allowed to function in residential areas. But the authorities never presented the case of the shops properly before the court,” he alleged. Also on the agenda of the opposition party for the Winter Session is the issue of deteriorating law and order situation in the backdrop of the recent bomb blasts and continuing incidents of rape. Mukhi said there has been a “huge increase” in water rates, which will also be raised by his party in the Assembly. “People are now paying five times higher for water as sewer maintenance and other charges are being added on to the water bills,” he said. Among the other issues to be raised by BJP in the Vidhan Sabha are the liberalised excise policy of Delhi government and black marketing of LPG. The Winter Session of Delhi Assembly is scheduled to be held from December 19 to 23.
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Policeman crushed by fleeing criminals
Ghaziabad, December 2 The policeman killed was identified as Upendra Kumar Rathi. According to reports, Sihani Gate police received a tip-off that some criminals were sitting in a vehicle near Punjab National Bank at Meerut road. According to SP City, Ram Chander Yadav, when the police reached the spot they found that some persons were shifting goods from one Tata-407 to another vehicle. However, before the police could nab them, they sped towards Muradnagar. A message was flashed to Morta police post and to Vardhan police post, Muradnagar, who had put up barricades for vehicle check. However, the criminals were able to drive through the barricade at great speed, the SP said. Constable Upendra Kumar Rathi and Bhani Pratap Singh had put up a barrier opposite the police station gate on Delhi-Meerut road. Instead of slowing down, the criminals tried to crash through the barricade and ran over Upender Kumar Rathi. Two of the criminals were later apprehended when their vehicle capsised while others fled away, the SP said.
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Mobile company fined by consumer court
New Delhi, December 2 The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (New Delhi area) headed by president S. L. Khanna rejected the company’s argument that the service was withdrawn because the complainant had failed to pay his outstanding dues and did not furnish proof of residence. “A consumer cannot be expected to make the payment without receiving a bill,” the forum observed, adding that no notice was given to the complainant in writing or on the phone to clear his outstanding dues. Mr Dinesh Kumar, who is in the business of installing CNG, LPG and air conditioners in cars, had got a mobile phone connection which was activated on February 28, 2003, for which he did not receive any bills. On inquiry, he discovered that bills of Rs 793 were pending against his account, which he paid on May 20, 2003. However, two days later, on May 22, without any notice, the outgoing call facility was barred on his phone, which Tata Tele claimed was because his address had not been verified. The facility was restored on May 30, only to be disconnected again on June 6, without any reasons. Terming the disconnection “unjustified”, the court said Kumar “must have faced great inconvenience in contacting his clients and thereby must have suffered some business loss”. Besides the compensation of Rs 10,000, the forum also asked Tata Tele to pay the complainant Rs 2,000 as cost of litigation.
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Bailable warrant issued against ACP
New Delhi, December 2 Special Judge A K Garg issued bailable warrants against prosecution witnesses Rajbir Singh and Madan Mohan for Rs 500 each for failing to present themselves in court today. The two are witnesses in a case against Khongbaitbum Brojen Singh who is being tried by the court under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Brojen Singh and his associate Ibotombi Sapam, both hailing from Manipur, were arrested by the police in 2002 from Kotla Mubarakpur in south Delhi, on information that they were allegedly members of Manipur’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
According to the order on charge, Brojen Singh was sent to Delhi in
January 2002 to prepare hideouts for PLA to carry out terrorist acts. PLA is an organisation allegedly involved in subversive activities with the mission of liberating Manipur from India.
Sapam was acquitted by the court on September 26, 2005, because there was no prima facie case against him while Brojen Singh remains in custody. A search at the arrest location revealed a loaded revolver, a laptop and cash of Rs 30,000.
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Child rescued, three held
New Delhi, December 2 On November 26, one Kishan Chand reported to the police in Moti Nagar that his three-year-old son Manoj was missing since last night. Next day, the complainant received a phone demanding Rs 20 lakh as ransom. Subsequently, a case of kidnapping was registered and during investigation, the police apprehended the three from Etha, U.P. The police said that the complaint owned a number of Toyota Qualis jeeps and auto-rickshaws, which he would give on hire. The accused, Shanti Swaroop, was one of such auto-rickshaw driver and allegedly kidnapped the child for ransom and took him to Etha.
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Youth found dead; cause of death unclear
Noida, December 2 The deceased, identified as Ashok Yadav, a native of Gorakhpur, was living as a tenant in the house of Kuldip Singh in Bishenpura village. According to reports, he had visited a doctor, identified as Raju in the village with a complaint of stomachache. However, he had to be shifted to another nearby hospital after his conditions deteriorated on taking the medicines prescribed by Raju. He was later taken to Kailash Hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead. According to the police, even the postmortem report has not been able to clearly bring out the cause of the death. According to CO, City, nobody has yet given anything in writing against any body in this case. The family of the deceased has also been informed. The doctors have written to the police for investigation by keeping the viscera in safe custody.
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HC notice to govt on rehabilitating child labour
New Delhi, December 2 A Division Bench of Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Rekha Sharma asked the city Government to file an affidavit by February 8 explaining why it was not taking any steps to prosecute those employing child labourers here. It sought to know what steps were being taken to rehabilitate the 425 child labourers who were recently rescued from ‘zari’ factories in Jaffarabad area of the city. The order followed a PIL filed by Social Jurists through counsel Ashok Agarwal seeking a directive to the NCT Government to ensure proper rehabiliation measures for the rescued children so that they are not “recycled” as child labourers again. The petitioner alleged that though the children were rescued by the authorities on November 21, no steps were taken to provide them with proper educational and economic rehabiliation measures. Instead, the authorities casually handed back the children to the parents and relatives. Such an action by the Government was a “meaningless” exercise as the children compelled by poverty would once again be sent to work, Agrawal pointed out. The PIL also alleged that the rescue of the 425 children was only a tip of the iceberg, as an estimated 2.08 lakh children were working in prohibited industries and establishments.
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Gang of auto lifters busted
New Delhi, December 2 Police said the vehicles include eight cars stolen from various localities of the Capital. The seizures, one of the largest in South Delhi, has helped bust one of the most dreaded auto-lifting gangs and solve several cases, police added. All the accused are matriculate and belongs to poor family. The police added that the accused would break the door lock of the vehicle with the help of iron rod and would take away the vehicles to Mewat,
Zirka, Firozpur and Aligarh to prepare fake registration number.
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Violation of lease conditions by hospitals: HC sets up panel
New Delhi, December 2 The Committee also comprising advocates Maninder Singh and Ashok Agrawal, DDA Commissioner (Land), some doctors and certain officials of the Central Government has been asked to see to it that various orders passed by the court in this regard were implemented properly. A Division Bench of Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Rekha Sharma issued notice to Delhi Government and Dharmshila Cancer Institute in connection with refusal of treatment to a 30-year-old cancer patient by the hospital under the free patient category on November 24. The court expressed anguish that despite its earlier directives to the Central and NCT government to file a joint affidavit on the compliance of the norms, no such measure had been taken so far. In fact, the court had in 2003 asked the Government to recover the money from hospitals not complying with lease conditions and utilise the money for creating a special pool to offer free medicare to the underprivileged. The court asked the monitoring committee to submit a report by February 7 next year. The Bench is seized of a PIL seeking enforcement of lease conditions about free treatment to the poor by various private hospitals which were allotted land here at throw away prices.
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Two eunuchs held for castrating youth
Meerut, December 2 The married youth, who plies a horse cart on a daily wage of Rs 200, was offered tea laced with some intoxicant by the two eunuchs, Ravannak and Baresh and then castrated.
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