|
|
|
|
DTC drivers clamour for joining letters
4 placement agents cheat hundreds, caught
Crime File
Fight between kids leaves 1 dead |
|
|
Trader in custody for power theft
Land Acquisition
62,000 plot applicants await refund
Illegal godown raided, 371 cylinders seized
Trader’s house robbed
Man crushed to death by
train
Cash-for-Query
Govt biased in giving funds
for roads: MCD
Ace shooter to get Bhim Award
|
|
DTC drivers clamour for joining letters
New Delhi, August 20 The youths were told that the corporation did not have enough number of buses to allot them. Hence, they were not given their joining letters. It must be noted the DTC always cites inadequate number of drivers as the reason behind the low number of its buses plying on city roads. But today’s demonstration proved that the corporation lacks buses not drivers, the agitators said. Presently, the DTC plies only 3,500 buses on city roads, which are not sufficient for commuters. In 2007, the Delhi Subordinate Selection Board (DSSB) had advertised that the DTC needed 10,000 drivers. After which, 5,400 applicants were selected and were given training for eight days. Of them, 3,000 have joined. The remaining candidates have not been given joining letters yet. One of the protestors said they were called to the DTC headquarters every week. But they were neither given their joining letters, nor given a bus to drive. Meanwhile, the DTC chairman Naresh Kumar informed that most of the selected candidates had joined the duty. It would take at least two months’ time to accommodate them as the transport department was likely to buy buses, he added. The youths had come to meet Delhi transport minister Arvinder Singh Lovely and inform him about the lacklusture attitude of the concerned officials. They said they had been unemployed for many months. Earlier, they used to work with private firms. Some were driving Blueline buses.
|
4 placement agents cheat hundreds, caught
New Delhi, August 20 The accused have been identified as Narayan Sahu (26), Raj Kumar (31), Urmila (23) and Neetu (19). They were arrested from Hauz Khas area last night. All are in their mid-twenties and hail from Bihar. According to the police, Jai Narayan and Raj Kumar used to place the two girls in people’s house as maids, who after working there for some time would decamp with money, jewellery and expensive items. Seven mobile phones, a digital camera, sunglasses, printed receipts of different placement agencies and police verification forms were also recovered from their possession. According to police, the arrest came after a south Delhi resident P.K. Malik complained of having been robbed of Rs 40, 000 and a digital camera from his house by a maid he had hired only a day earlier. Malik reported that he noticed an advertisement in the name of ‘Premi Placement’ in an English daily and contacted them for a maidservant on phone. The placement agency promised to supply the maid at Shahpur Jat crossing and at the given time, a boy along with a maid came on the spot. The boy introduced the maid to the complainant. He took Rs 8,000 as advance and commission. The next day when the complainant came out of bathroom, he found the maid missing from the house. Some household articles, including a digital camera and Rs 40,000 were also found stolen. During investigation, the address given by the placement agency was found bogus and the phone numbers were switched off. A person who helped the placement agency in giving advertisement was traced and through him another number of the placement agency was taken and its whereabouts located. Thereafter, the members of the police team requested the placement agency on phone to provide a maid. The agency promised to come with the maid at Munirka-R.K. Puram T-Point. A trap was laid by the police team and the above-named two suppliers and two maids were arrested. The complainant P.K Malik also identified one of the suppliers and the maid, who had slipped out of his house.
|
|
Crime File
New Delhi, August 20 Satyendra went missing after meeting the leader and his son on May 23. His body was fished out from the Ganga in Bihar on June 1. The autopsy revealed he died of a bullet injury as told by the victim’s driver who is still in custody. A Delhi police official said Krishan and his son were the main accused and had been absconding ever since. He added Krishan has been handed over to the Bihar police. The Patna High Court has issued a non-bailable warrant against Krishan. Chief metropolitan magistrate Kaveri Baweja allowed the Bihar police to take Krishan in its custody. Spurious ghee seized
Spurious ghee worth lakhs of rupees have been recovered from a godown in the Samaypur Badli area of outer Delhi. According to the police, when they reached the spot around 12.30 pm they found 60 tins of spurious desi ghee with different brand names. A Maruti van, packing machine, dyes, 500 empty tins and thousands of fake labels of different brands were also recovered. The police also managed to nab two persons— Vinod Gupta and Umesh— engaged in packing work at the godown. During interrogation, the two accused disclosed that they used to fill desi ghee cans of different weights and stick labels of famous brands on them for sale in market at cheaper prices. They also revealed the names of the owners of the godown as Pawan Kumar Garg and Subhash, both residents of Ashok Vihar. A case under Section 2(1) a,b,c & m Rule 44( C ) 61(1)A of prevention of food adulteration has been initiated by the enforcement department. |
|
Fight between kids leaves 1 dead
New Delhi, August 20 Vipin (16), who fell unconscious during the fight, was declared brought dead when taken to Bara Hindu Rao Hospital. The accused minor boy Prashant (name changed) has been held and sent to juvenile home. According to station house officer of the Roop Nagar police station, there was no particular issue between the boys and it was just a roadside prank that turned violent. According to the police, the incident took place in lane number 6 of the New Chandrawal area around 9 pm when Vipin had gone to buy flour from a nearby grocery store. “Vipin and Prashant, who are neighbours, had an altercation over some issue which is not yet clear,” said an investigating official. He added, “They reportedly hit each other after which Vipin fell unconscious and somebody informed his mother who took him to hospital where he was declared brought dead.” There were no external injuries on the body of the deceased and the police has ruled out use of any weapon. Vipin’s father has alleged that his boy was beaten by other boys called by Prashant. The police said the two boys, who studied in the same government school in the Shakti Nagar area, often fought with each other and had an altercation earlier in the day also. While Vipin studied in Class IX, Prashant studies in Class VIII. Vipin and Prashant lived in rented accommodations on two sides of a road. While Vipin’s father Arun Kumar puts up chhole bhatura stall in Kamla Nagar Market, Prashant’s father Daboo is a truck driver. The post-mortem of the body was conducted at the Hindu Rao and the boy was cremated today evening.
|
|
Trader in custody for power theft
New Delhi, August 20 Prem Prakash Sharma runs an anodising factory and a dying unit. “He has been caught twice in less than a year and owes BSES almost Rs 3 crore,” said a BSES official. In January, a BSES team had caught Sharma indulging in direct theft (DT) of electricity. |
|
Land Acquisition
Greater Noida, August 20 Farmers of Noida and Greater Noida under the banner of BKU participated in a meeting with Yamuna Expressway Authority chairman Lalit Srivastava, additional CEO Y.K. Behl, deputy CEO R.K. Singh and district magistrate G.B. Nagar Deepak Agarwal yesterday. It was decided that farmers would be given 7 per developed area in lieu of their land acquired for Formula I race track and other development projects. Farmers in Noida and Greater Noida are given 6 per cent developed area for their land acquired for development. A committee comprising SDM and deputy collector has been constituted to sort out the Abadi land acquisition issue. The committee would get an Abadi land survey conducted on the basis of which the land would be freed from acquisition. The officers have assured that the remaining demands of farmers would be met soon. Besides, a family member of a farmer who agrees to give his land for development would be given employment.
|
|
62,000 plot applicants await refund
Greater Noida, August 20 According to applicants, hundreds of crores of their money is lying with the Greater Noida Authority. But GNIDA sources say the delay in remitting the refund is on the part of the banks who have not so far provided it with the lists of the applicants. Normally, people get their refund in 15 to 20 days after the draw. The draw of two residential schemes was taken out by Greater Noida Authority in July. The draw of low budget scheme for 3,760 flats was taken out on July 21 and 22 this year. Each applicant deposited Rs 35,000 as registration money for this scheme. Over 30,000 applicants applied for a plot in this scheme. Another residential scheme was launched for 2000 plots on 130-metre-wide road from Greater Noida to Ghaziabad on February 17 this year. There were 1,200 plots of 162 sq mt. A registration fee of Rs 2.31 lakh for bigger plots and Rs 1.70 lakh for smallar plots each was fixed. Over 35,000 people applied for a plot in these schemes. The draw was held on July 29, 2009 in which only 3,727 lucky persons were allotted the plots while over 62,000 could not get a plot. All of them are now waiting for the refund of their registration money and making trips to GNIDA offices. The officials at GNIDA offices are not helpful. They give evasive replies, allege most applicants like Amit Kasna of Delta–I, who says that their money lying with GNIDA is not earning any interest for them while the Authority earns handsome interest from this huge amount from the banks. Additional CEO Sudhir Kumar says banks have not yet sent in their respective lists of applicants which is holding up the remittance of the refund.
|
|
Illegal godown raided, 371 cylinders seized
Greater Noida, August 20 The Kasna police has registered a case against the proprietor. The district administration has tightened its noose on all illegal eateries and gas outlets to curb black market in essential items. SDM Sadar Vishar Singh said the authorities had received reports about the black market. One Sant Ram was nabbed from the spot during the raid. The raiding team had to break the lock on godown as Sant Ram’s son Manoj had taken the godown keys. Over 360 domestic gas cylinders of HP agency were seized. Sant Ram admitted that he did not have a valid licence to store and sell gas cylinders. All the cylinders were deposited in Manglam Gas Service godown by the raiding team. District supplies officer Santosh Niranjan said a case has been registered against Sant Ram and Manoj in Kasna Kotwali under Essential Commodities Act and Sant Ram has been handed over to police while his son Manoj will be arrested soon, the DSO said. The supply department team had also raided a utensil shop in the market and seized another 27 cylinders. Some smaller gas cylinders, including 17 cylinders of 5 kg and 2 of 3 kg were also seized. This shopkeeper, Yogesh has also been booked and handed over to the police.
|
|
Ghaziabad, August 20 The armed men entered hardware trader Ravi Verma’s house about 2.30 pm and held his family, including his wife, mother, father and two children, at gunpoint, a police official said. — IANS
|
Man crushed to death by
train
Faridabad, August 20 The deceased, Het Ram, a resident of Ballabgarh, tried to cross the track instead of using the overbridge when the train was arriving at the railway station. The body was badly mutilated in the incident. The incident occurred at about 8:20 am. The train was delayed for about half an hour at the site near the accident. |
|
Cash-for-Query
New Delhi, August 20 Two of the MPs— Chhatrapal Singh Lodha and Y.G. Mahajan— sent there exemption application to the court but there was no news of the other nine MPs, confirmed a court official. In 2005, a sting operation had caught 11 MPs on camera accepting bribe for asking questions in Lok Sabha. The operation, code-named Duryodhana, was conducted by a web portal Cobrapost. The eleven accused MPs are Annasaheb M.K. Patil, Y.G. Mahajan, Chandra Pratap Singh, Pradeep Gandhi, Suresh Chandel, Rajaram Pal, Narendra Kumar Kushawaha, Lal Chandra Kol, Ramsevak Singh, Chhatrapal Singh Lodha and Manoj Kumar. Besides, two journalists of Cobrapost— Aniruddha Bahal and Suhasini Raj— were also made accused in the chargesheet under the Prevention of Corruption Act for abetting the offence. However, the journalists challenged the police chargesheet and filed a petition in the Delhi High Court, which exempted them from appearing before the trial court on August 20. |
Govt biased in giving funds
for roads: MCD
New Delhi, August 20 The Leader of the House Subhash Arya said out of the total 30,923 km roads in Delhi, the MCD was responsible for 27,139 km. He said as per a report of the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) of India, the MCD, which maintained 88 per cent of Delhi’s road network, received very meager allocations from the government compared to the Public Works Department (PWD) which maintained only 7.6 per cent of the roads. The MCD maintains 16,826 km urban roads and 10,313 km of rural roads, whereas PWD maintains only 2,350 km length of urban roads. He said no funds had been provided under the plan head for the maintenance of rural roads. “According to the CAG report, during 2003-04 to 2007-08, the approved outlay for PWD per km of road maintained by it was 15 to 43 times higher than that of MCD. In the absence of relevant database on its road network, the MCD could not have even put up a considered case for increased allocations to the government of Delhi,” said Arya |
|
Ace shooter to get Bhim Award
Gurgaon, August 20 Haryana governor J. Pahadia will give this award to him at a function to be organized in Chandigarh tomorrow. Vivek has shifted his base to Faridabad. Earlier, he won the Arjun Award in 1999, the gold and two silver medals in the Men’s 10m Air Pistol (Pairs) and Men’s 50m Pistol (Pairs) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games with Samaresh Jung held in London and Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne in 2006. “I started shooting at a very young age when I was just 12 years old,” he said. On being asked the inspiration behind him, Vivek said, “It is my father. When I was a kid, I used to visit the shooting range with him and felt like getting into the sport.” His father Raj Pal Singh is a doctor and represented the country in the Asian Games in 1986. At present, Vivek is working as a deputy manager with Air India. He wanted to become a pilot, but destiny had willed otherwise. Now shooting has become his passion as well as profession. The Commonwealth Games and Asian Games are what he has been focusing on now. “I lost with one point in the Olympics this time, but will try hard to achieve the target this time,” he affirms. His younger brother Alok Singh is also into shooting and is working hard for the Commonwealth and Asian Games. On support from the government, he said, “The government is helping us a lot. We were provided with a foreign coach earlier and now again they are searching for a good coach.” Vivek gets inspired by Abhinav Bindra, the first gold medalist in Olympics.
|
|
| HOME PAGE | |
Punjab | Haryana | Jammu & Kashmir |
Himachal Pradesh | Regional Briefs |
Nation | Opinions | | Business | Sports | World | Letters | Chandigarh | Ludhiana | Classified Delhi | | Calendar | Weather | Archive | Subscribe | Suggestion | E-mail | |
