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Killers involved in more cases: Cops
School fee hike objectionable: HC
End child labour, HC tells govt
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Cong has used Muslims: Kohli
BSP promises jobs to illiterate
Slum women leaders honoured
CNG to cost Rs 3.50 less
in Gurgaon
Metro workers demand minimum wages
Protest against attempts to grab graveyard land
Probe against cop for not helping techies being robbed
Man throws 2 daughters in canal, 1 dies
Labourer dies as factory wall collapses
Bus kills youth
Five car-jackers held
Delhi trader abducted
Vikas Yadav case
Rain plays peek-a-boo
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Killers involved in more cases: Cops
New Delhi, March 25 The police has found Kapoor’s involvement in several cases of vehicle theft, besides a case of impersonation. However, the finding of a blood-soaked dagger from Ravi Kapoor’s Madangir residence makes him a suspect who could be involved in murdering some one else as well. HGS Dhaliwal, DCP (South) said besides the murder of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan and IT executive Jigisha, the police is probing their role in similar incidents in the past. “ Sustained interrogation of the accused is needed for a focused investigation. So far, his role has come out in two murder cases and 12 cases of vehicle theft,” informed Dhaliwal. The four accused have been sent to judicial custody till April 28 and police is working to have them on police remand soon after the test identification parade (TIP) is conducted on Friday. Besides Ravi Kapoor, Baljeet Malik of Masoodpur, Amit Kumar Shukla of Lado Sarai, and Ajay Kumar from Munirka have been arrested for the murders of Soumya, 25, and Jigisha, 28. The fifth accused has absconded. The police also needs to find the WagonR car used by the gang while they chased and shot Soumya. Jigisha, a resident of Vasant Vihar in South Delhi, had left her home for office in Noida on Tuesday but did not return home, though her office cab had dropped her outside her apartment block where she lived. Her body was discovered by the Faridabad police 3 km from Surajkund two days later. The accused has confessed to killing the women. However, to prove it in the court, the Delhi police would have to rely heavily on the forensic report of the recovered country made pistol and the empty shell of the bullet used to shoot Soumya.
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Cops cooked for Jigisha’s parents
New Delhi, March 25 “Her parents were in a state of shock for four days. Since they have no close relatives here, our men were looking after them. One woman SI was with them all the time,” said DCP H.G.S. Dhaliwal. “Our people cooked for them and extended moral support to them. We took them to Faridabad and other places. Our men helped in the cremation of Jigisha,” he added.
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School fee hike objectionable: HC
New Delhi, March 25 A division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Sanjeev Khanna asked the government to file its reply by April 29. “This (hike) is highly objectionable. Let there be some examination on the whole aspect,” observed the bench hearing a public interest petition. The court asked the government if the schools were following the mandatory provision of law with regard to their accounts. Appearing for a parents’ association, counsel Ashok Aggarwal told the court that the government had gone contrary to the recommendation given by the S.L. Bansal Committee, constituted to look into the fee hike of schools. The court asked the government to place on record before it the entire report of the committee on the next date of hearing. The Delhi Abhibhavak Mahasangh, aided by NGO Social Jurist, had challenged the directorate of education’s (DoE) notification on the grounds that it violates the orders of the high court and the Supreme Court that the accounts of each school be examined before they are allowed to hike fee. The schools have been demanding up to 50 per cent tuition fee hike in order to implement the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations on teachers’ salaries and arrears. The DoE has created five slabs on the basis of the existing tuition fee in schools, allowing them a maximum fee hike of Rs 500. — IANS
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End child labour, HC tells govt
New Delhi, March 25 A division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Sanjeev Khanna lashed out at the labour department of the Delhi government for not taking steps to rehabilitate rescued child labourers. According to the data by the labour department, 500 child labourers were rescued from different places. “If we want to put an end to the child labour, the labour department will have to work overtime,” said the bench while asking the government to follow the rehabilitation policy. The court was hearing a public interest petition filed by an NGO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, over the rescue and rehabilitation of child labourers.
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Most projects yet to be completed Himani Chandel Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 25 To name a few, the construction of an underground water reservoir at Asaf Ali Road which was inaugurated in November, 2007, is still under progress. The construction of a dispensary at the Old Chungi building, Lahori Gate, construction of community centre at Tikona Park, the stone of which was laid in June 2008, development of road from Lal Quila to Fatehpuri Masjid, and reconstruction of girl’s schools in Panama building, which was inaugurated in September 2008, are some of the projects which are yet far from completion. Apart from these, the re-settlement of JJ clusters by constructing two-room flats in multi-storeyed buildings with all basic amenities and the improvement of SP Mukherjee Marg to improve the scenario outside old Delhi Railway station has disappointed the electorate of the area with no visible progress in the projects. The minister’s ambitious project of Jama Masjid re-development plan is yet to see the light of the day as the project has been gripped by various legal complications. “It is great to hear that the area around Jama Masjid would be improved but the question is whether we would really see it in this lifetime,” said Mazhar Khan, a resident of Ballimaran. However, the work that has actually been done in the area has evoked a mixed response from the people of the constituency. According to the residents of his constituency, problems of power, unauthorised construction and inaccessibility of the MP top the list of complaints being sent to Sibal. “The Chandni Chowk road was to be redeveloped, but there hasn’t been any work on this front so far,” says Sanjay Bhargav, a resident of Chandni Chowk. In the last five years of his tenure, Sibal is credited with introducing battery-operated buses in Chandni Chowk after the Delhi High Court banned cycle-rickshaws. Sibal has also set up a pilot project to keep a check on unauthorised construction by installing high-range watchdog cameras and sourcing satellite imagery. The minister is said to be sending postcards to the voters, asking them to write back to him with their list of expectations and problems in the area. These customised postcards are carrying slogans in Hindi and Urdu with Congress workers in the area personally dropping them at the residences of the voters to ensure that they reach the people. “Many people aren’t happy with what Sibal has done over the last five years, but at least he is making an effort to reach out to people,” says Mohd Atif, a resident of Matia Mahal.
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Cong has used Muslims: Kohli
New Delhi, March 25 Delhi unit BJP chief O.P. Kohli said technical education is a must for the community’s youths. “Technical education will help in the social and economic uplift of Muslims. Bookish knowledge alone will lead them nowhere,” he said. “We need to locate areas where Muslims are in majority and chalk out plans for their development,” he stressed. He alleged the Congress government had not done anything to improve the status of Muslims, despite them being the major constituent of its supporters. “The Congress government has failed to empower them. It has just used them as vote bank,” he alleged. He accused the Congress had been playing the policy of divide and rule. “The Congress has diplomatically divided Hindus and Muslims,” he said. The other speakers were former MP Arif Bed, vice-president of the All India Minority Morcha Sheema Rizvi and president of Delhi Minority Morcha Atif Rashid. |
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BSP promises jobs to illiterate
Gurgaon, March 25 Public meetings were organised in Gurgaon city and two villages of Sohna division namely Lala Khedli and Jakhopur. Manhera said that poor people were struggling for their existence because of unemployment and rising prices of basic commodities like pulses and wheat, and added that today even graduate and post-graduates were unemployed. But he assured that the day BSP supremo Mayawati becomes the prime minister, the party would give government jobs to one crore illiterate people. Chaudhary Zakir Hussain, ex-MLA and the party candidate from Gurgaon Lok Sabha seat, made an appeal to people from all caste and communities to vote for the BSP, as he said that it was the only party for the poor. He further said that every chief minister of Haryana had deserted south Haryana and had worked for the development of only their respective regions. Hussain said that only the BSP can ensure progress of south Haryana, of which Mewat and Ahirwal is a sizeable part. Manhera also made an appeal to people to attend the BSP Satta Parivartan rally, in which BSP supremo and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati will be the chief guest and BSP national general secretary and MP Satish Chand Mishra and Mansingh Manhera would be special guests. With Lok Sabha elections scheduled for May 7, the political temperature is on rise in the millennium city. The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the seat, while the BJP has nominated Sudha Yadav as its candidate and the HJC has nominated Rao Narbir Singh.
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Slum women leaders honoured
New Delhi, March 25 Fifteen such women associated with Katha, an NGO, were felicitated today by the Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit for their roles in empowering the community women amidst a gathering of 500 women from Tughlaqabad, Khichdipuri, Kalyanpuri, Kirbi Place, Govindpuri at India Habitat Centre. Manorama Gupta (45 years), after coming to Delhi from Bihar about 20 years ago, managed to get a job with Urban Basic Service Department. In 1990, she underwent teacher’s training at Katha Centre in Govindpuri that enabled her to help other slum women. Her house in Navjivan Camp can be seen bustling with neighbouring women folk everyday, as she is helps them procure ration cards, identity cards etc. Meera Devi (about 35 years) in Kalyanpuri has managed to sail through many adverse circumstances. After finding life tough in Rajasthan, she came to Delhi along with her uncooperative husband and joined Mahila Pragati Manch (MPM) in 2003, which fuelled an inspiration in her to fight the injustice done to her by her husband and in-laws. She emerged as a community representative and now is associated with Katha as a self-help group worker, actively taking the initiative of ‘Mahila Prodhshiksha’. Sheila Dikshit also held a women’s adalat in which she listened to some of the concerns of the women living in slum clusters. Besides, other complaints that were brought to her notice, included lack of sanitation facilities in Indira Camp no 2, 5 and Sonia Camp, absence of electricity in Kirbi Place since eight years etc. The CM said the places would be visited and files made for the case study and action. The adalat was a part of Katha’s series of events that were carried on the lines of “Dilli Ki Shaan” and women empowerment. Sheila appraised the women about the various government schemes like Ladli Yojna, widow pension etc., and said the government would set up four lakh houses in the slum clusters in and around Delhi.
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CNG to cost Rs 3.50 less
in Gurgaon
Gurgaon, March 25 Keeping up its promise, Haryana Gas Distribution Company has also reduced the price of the gas by Rs 3.50. Vice-president of Harayana Gas Distribution Company, M S Khatkar, has confirmed the news. The Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) has worked hard to join the CNG stations with pipeline and the first station to have the facility is in Sector 29, said Khatkar. He added, “The gas price had been reduced by Rs 3.50 and people will now get one kg of CNG for just Rs 24. Earlier, one had to shed Rs 27.50 for the same.” Khatkar mentioned that CNG filing stations situated in Sector 53 and Sector 14 will be joined by the pipeline on Thursday or Friday, and added that with this, there will be no shortage of the gas. |
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He married me just for sex: Fiza
Gurgaon, March 25 Chander Mohan had married Anuradha Bali after both converted to Islam and changed their names to Chand Mohammad and Fiza, respectively. However, he later deserted her. Outburst against her former partner as well as the media marked her address during a press conference organised by her newfound supporters at a Haryana Tourism restaurant here today. Flanked by Samajwadi Party’s Haryana unit vice-president Mahender Singh and several other youths, Fiza lashed out at Chander Mohan and minced no words while alleging that he had married her “just to satisfy his sexual urge”. “He used my house, my car and me,” she said, adding that the police was not taking action on her serious complaints against Chander Mohan and she would file a fresh complaint against him and even move court. Coming down heavily on the media, she maintained that a prominent English daily had published a report about the offer of a film to her without bothering to ascertain the facts. In response to a query, Fiza claimed that she had got offers to contest elections from several political parties and added that she was weighing the options before her. Apart from leveling wild allegations against Chander Mohan’s first wife Seema Bishnoi and his brother and Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) chief Kuldeep
Bishnoi, she snapped at newsmen hurling “uncomfortable” questions at her. She reiterated that she faced a threat to her life at the hands of her former partner and his family. |
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Metro workers demand minimum wages
New Delhi, March 25 The workers claimed that they were not even paid the minimum wages guaranteed to them under labour laws. The office-bearers of Metro Kamagar Sangharsh Samiti said the daily wages paid to them were between Rs 96 and Rs 110, whereas legally they should be paid at least Rs 186. The workers also alleged that they were not given any identity cards or provident fund accounts. They said they were also mistreated and abused by the contractors. The workers also work for seven days at stretch during some odd weeks. Metro workers demanded their overtime rates to be doubled and the payment of their wages by cheques. |
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Protest against attempts to grab graveyard land
Faridabad, March 25 A graveyard for Muslims is located on the said land. The irate residents also submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner urging him to intervene and take action against the culprits. The district administration has given a firm directive against the alleged grabbing of the land and has also ordered a probe into the matter. The residents of the village have alleged that the Wakf Board, which is responsible for the maintenance of the land, has illegally given the land on lease to private parties, who were now trying to demolish the graveyard and also grab the land. The protestors submitted that the graveyard has been there for the past over 500 years. The residents also brought along parts of human skeleton as evidence to suggest that the miscreants have already started demolishing the graveyards and have also begun the digging of the land. This has led to unearthing of skeleton remains from the land. The SDM of Faridabad stated that there were complaints of encroachment on the land in the past too. An inquiry was initiated, but the local officials of the Waqf Board did not cooperate in the inquiry. As a result, he had even recommended the Waqf Board headquarters to take action against its local officials.
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Probe against cop for not helping techies being robbed
Noida, March 25 What was more reprehensible in the whole incident was that the SI and three other officials seated in a Gypsy near the Spice Mall, where the incident took place, instead of chasing the bikers had asked the robbed women to go and lodge an FIR in the police station. The Sector-24 police had registered the report of the incident on Tuesday, but, the policemen registered the case as snatching and not armed loot. It may be recalled that on Monday night, two women software engineers— Gyatri and her colleague—were held on gunpoint by two bikers for about 10 minutes near the Spice Mall. The robbers decamped with victims’ purses, cash, gold chains, gold rings, cell phones, bangles and earrings. A police Gypsy was standing just a few steps away from where the incident happened, but not only did the policemen fail to notice the loot, but they also refused to chase the bikers even after women informed them about the crime. |
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Man throws 2 daughters in canal, 1 dies
Ghaziabad, March 25 The man has been arrested. The fact that he did not have a son also added to his frustration. However, a policeman saved one of the girls, while the other was drowned. Police circle officer Kamal Asthana has confirmed the tragedy. The accused Vinode Kumar lived in a rented accommodation in Murad Nagar’s Kishen Nagar colony. He is a resident of Saroorpur village under Meerut Sardhana police station and had five daughters. The victims lived in the village with their grand mother. In order to get rid of his responsibilities, he threw his two daughters in the canal.
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Labourer dies as factory wall collapses
New Delhi, March 25 According to the police, the incident occurred in the E-block of Udyog Vihar Industrial Area around 9 am. The injured were rushed to Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital, where the condition of one person is reported to be critical. The deceased was a labourer working at the factory site. His identity could not be confirmed. According to the police, some construction work was going in the factory when the wall collapsed. |
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Bus kills youth
New Delhi, March 25 The victim, Rajesh, was going to his residence in Khajuri Khas last night when the DTC bus hit his motorcycle from behind near Wazirabad border. According to the police, Rajesh died on the way to hospital. The driver has been arrested. |
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Five car-jackers held
Noida, March 25 The accused have been identified as Ibley Hasan, Puneet Varma, Dinesh Thakur, Zakir Abbas and Wasim Akram. The gang active in the National Capital Region used to steal luxury cars “on demand.” Interestingly, the gang’s kingpin, Sarika Satha, is lodged in Tihar Jail from where he directs the operations. While Ibley Hassan is wanted in a Bulandshahr murder case and carries a reward of Rs 10,000, said Noida SSP Navin Arora. The other prominent members of the gang are Baba Mishra Sikander and Rasul. Baba guides the supply of stolen cars in Jharkhand and Nepal. Arora said the gang leaders settled the price with potential buyers and prepared the documents of the car.
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Delhi trader abducted
Ghaziabad, March 25 The victim, identified as Vinod from Uttam Nagar in Delhi, was abducted on Tuesday near Faruq Nagar crossing in Ghaziabad when he was going to Murad Nagar. According to additional superintendent of police Happy Gupta, the incident took place around 9:30 p.m. when six criminals overtook a car in which Vinod was travelling with two aides.
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New Delhi, March 25 A bench comprising Justice B.D. Ahmed and P.K. Bhasin reserved the order after hearing the contentions of all the parties including Delhi and Uttar Pradesh governments which opposed the bail plea. — IANS
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Rain plays peek-a-boo
New Delhi, March 25 However, to the disappointment of others, the weather soon changed, and it was back to the heat. According to an official of the meteorological department, the unseasonal rain was because of a low pressure zone being created over Delhi and its adjoining areas. “The forecast further shows that the capital will have cloudy skies today (Wednesday) and there may be a possibility of more rain,” an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The minimum temperature recorded early on Wednesday was four notches above average at 19.7 degree Celsius.
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After finding the involvement of Ravi Kapoor and his associates in the murder of Soumya and Jigisha, the two working women who were killed on September 30, 2008 and on March 17, respectively, the Delhi police is now also probing their role in other incidents of attacks on women in the past.
New Delhi, March 25
New Delhi, March 25
rotesting against the alleged exploitation of Delhi Metro workers by private contractors, the workers held a demonstration in front of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
(DMRC) office today.
