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Man kills 4-yr-old son to implicate moneylenders
DND flyway toll rates hiked
5 held for selling fake gold bricks
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Water problem may go today
Dikshit meets HM over transfer of
top officials
JNU students defy strict
rules on movement
Plastic unit, battery factory catch fire
Suicide by jilted youth
Leopard beaten to death
26 child labourers rescued
Housewife jumps to death
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Man kills 4-yr-old son to implicate moneylenders
New Delhi, February 15 According to the police, Rakesh Kumar was held yesterday after he confessed to the crime of killing his four-year-old son Rahul with mala fide intentions. According to DCP (West) Sharad Agarwal, on February 9, Rakesh lodged a report at the Najafgarh police station that his son Rahul had gone missing while playing outside house. "However, the next day the body of a child, later identified as Rahul, was found from a drain near Kakrola village. Postmortem found the cause of the death to be strangulation. Rakesh told the police that he suspected his friends from whom he had taken loans," said Agarwal. However, no evidence was found against any of them. With no breakthrough coming in, the police revisited the site where the body of the child was dumped and realised that it was not easy for someone to locate the body at this place. As a result, the police interrogated the friends of Rakesh who had found the body. They said they were searching for the body as directed by Rakesh. "The fact that Rakesh had asked his friends to search for the missing child in a particular direction created doubts on his conduct. Rakesh was thoroughly interrogated wherein he broke down and confessed to his involvement in the murder of his son," said Agarwal. Rakesh said he had taken loans and the lenders had been pressing hard for their money. The family members of Rakesh also taunted him for his failures. "He made a plan to kill his son and falsely implicate his friends so that they would get entangled in the case and not demand their money back. He even thought of extorting money from them on this pretext. He thought that this incident would gain sympathy from his parents for him and they may start supporting in his financial matters," said Agarwal. On the day of the incident, he told to his wife that he was going to attend a marriage and left the house. But instead he came back and took his son on his motor cycle and went near to Najafgarh drain at Kakrolla village. He allegedly strangled his son to death and threw the body in the drain.
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DND flyway toll rates hiked
Noida, February 15 Similarly, light commercial vehicle rates have been hiked from Rs 40 to Rs 50. The rates for buses and trucks have been hiked from Rs 50 to Rs 65. The rate for large vehicles has risen from Rs 65 to Rs 90 while the extra large vehicles rates have gone up from Rs 85 to Rs 115. Meanwhile, residents of the area today protested against the hike. The Authority was feeling helpless as the MoU is inclined in favour of the DND flyway management. "We are holding a meeting on February 20 to decide the course of agitation against the hike. We have written to the UP Chief Minister, demanding the takeover of the DND flyway and making it toll-free," said N.P.Singh, president, Federation of Noida Residents Welfare Association. Noida Authority Chief Executive Officer Rama Raman said, "We are consulting legal experts for a rollback."
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5 held for selling fake gold bricks
New Delhi, February 15 According to DCP (south) HGS Dhaliwal, the accused have been identified as Islam (32), Farooq (24), Ajnala (22), Arshad (26) and Iqbal (24), all residents of Mewat in Haryana. "They were arrested when they were trying to sell the fake gold bricks to one Narsaiah near the Sheikh Sarai Transport Authority who intimated the police about them," said Dhaliwal. The accused told to the complainant that while working in their fields they had discovered ancient gold bricks which they would like to sell at half the market price. The police immediately swung into action and arrested all five with two gold bricks and a Santro car. During interrogation, they said they got in touch with one Tahid, alias Rahul, who used to cheat people by selling them fake gold bricks as real one. "Tahid used to procure this fake bricks from one jeweller of Julehada, Rajasthan. Arshad was close friend of Tahid. He also thought of earning money by cheating people this way. He sought Tahid's help and obtained one-and-a-half fake gold bricks at the rate of Rs 5,000 per brick," said Dhaliwal. Islam and Iqbal were his friends and joined him in the venture. Since they needed car for driving down to Delhi, they roped in Ajnala and Farooq, who was a driver.
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Water problem may go today
New Delhi, February 15 The water supply in north, central, parts of west and south Delhi has been worst hit as the two water treatment plants in Wazirabad and Chandrawal that were shut yesterday soon after high ammonia levels were detected, supply 210 million gallons of water daily on an average. The plants make up for as much as one-third of Delhi's water needs. The residents had to suffer the water crunch as the tankers are fed by water from the same source and as the plants were shut down, nothing much could be done. The residents were particularly angry with DJB's lack of preparedness to deal with the problem. “The DJB should have informed the people before if they knew that the plants had to be shut. It was a week day and very difficult to manage," said Jaya Bharati, a south Delhi resident. Speaking to the media on the matter, R.K. Garg, engineer-in-chief and member of the DJB said, "The situation is likely to improve soon. We have already begun the cleansing process wherein about 1,000 cusecs of water will be flushed out. We are hopeful that by tonight, the ammonia levels should again return to the permissible limits. If that happens, then water supply is likely to resume tomorrow morning." The plants will be restarted only when the ammonia level goes down to at least 0.6 parts per million (PPM), which had increased to 1.4 part per million (ppm) yesterday. Ramesh Negi, DJB chief executive officer, said, "Once the high levels of ammonia were traced in the water, we had to shut down the plants. However, the ammonia levels had come down by 1.2 ppm today and we are expecting it to drop further. The water supply should be restored by tomorrow morning."
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Rain cools city
New Delhi, February 15 The city received a total of 11.6 mm of rain since yesterday till 5.30 pm today, said an Indian Meteorological Department official. The minimum temperature today was recorded at 14.6°C, which was almost four degrees above normal for this time of the season. The Met department attributed this to the cloudy skies. Clouds hold down the earth's heat, preventing it from escaping. The weather department has predicted for more rain to follow over the next 24 hours. "The western disturbance over northwest India caused the unexpected rain in the region.”
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Dikshit meets HM over transfer of
top officials
New Delhi, February 15 Dikshit told media personnel after the meeting that the issue had been "sorted out" but parried questions on what really transpired during her interaction with Chidambaram and if he had agreed to review the decision. A visibly happy Dikshit said she was satisfied with the meeting. Official sources said the home minister, whose ministry decides upon the postings of AGMUT cadre officials, assured Dikshit that he would try to address her concerns. They said transfers of those officials, who had served for fewer than four years, could be reviewed. A complete revocation of the decision was, however, unlikely. The Chief Minister was unhappy over the transfer and had written to the home minister, demanding a review on the ground that their moving out would affect the city governance, more so as the government was making preparations for the upcoming Budget session. A section of bureaucracy was also unhappy with the "arbitrary" transfers as several transferred officials had not completed even three years while a few others serving in the Capital for five years and more were left untouched. The Centre on February 11 had transferred among others PWD principal secretary KK Sharma, Delhi Jal Board CEO Ramesh Negi, transport commissioner RK Verma, industries commissioner Chetan Sanghi and trade and taxes commissioner Jalaj Srivastava. Dikshit had put her displeasure on record and said the city government was already facing a shortage of officials and the governance would be affected more in the coming months when a number of officials were scheduled to retire. Her core contention was that the transfers would directly affect her government's functioning and the home ministry should have been responsive to her concerns even though transfers were the ministry's prerogative. Sharma was posted as the adviser to the Lieutenant-Governor of Chandigarh, the top bureaucratic assignment in the capital of Punjab and Haryana, while Negi moved to Arunachal Pradesh. Sharma's transfer has raised a few eyebrows as the CVC, the CAG and the Shunglu Committee are probing the alleged irregularities by the PWD into various CWG projects. Srivasatava was transferred to Andaman and Nicobar Islands while Verma asked to join duties in Goa. In their places, three IAS officials, Satya Gopal, Nutan Guha Biswas and Ved Prakash, were transferred to Delhi. |
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JNU students defy strict
rules on movement
New Delhi, February 15 The circular also states that boys will not be allowed in hostels for girls at any time, apart from public meetings. "These rules were never imposed on us. JNU is a mature society and just this incident is no reason to punish everyone else. Students here have a lifestyle and we are not letting anyone take that away from us. We are adult individuals and not children who are often subject to such moral policing," said Sucheta De, AISA student leader. Speaking on the matter, the JNU registrar and dean of student welfare, Prof VK Jain, said, "These rules are there for the students to follow. They have always been there. We are not restricting anyone's movement. Girls can go to the hostel common areas and spend time with their friends." On whether any action would be taken against students who do not adhere to the circular, Jain said, "It is upon the hostel wardens to maintain discipline and to see the norms are not violated. However, there are always some errants. We cannot check each and everyone, but the hostel wardens will have to deal tactfully. We would very much like the students to understand why these regulations have been reinforced now and follow them as well." Yesterday, student associations held a protest in front of the Administrative Block condemning the circular. Students from All India Students Association (AISA), Students Federation of India (SFI) and Youth for Equality (YFE) raised slogans like 'Moral policing down down'. A delegation of the protesting students had a series of negotiations with the proctor and the registrar for retracting the circular. |
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Plastic unit, battery factory catch fire
New Delhi, February 15 In yet another incident, goods worth Rs 7 lakh were destroyed in a fire reported from a battery factory in the Narela area of outer district this morning. A fire brigade officer said that the incident took place around 10.30 am in the unit located at B-2620 in Narela Industrial area. The factory owner, Pankaj Arora, has alleged that he has suffered losses to the tune of Rs 7 lakh. Around 18 fire engines were rushed to the spot which took around 90 minutes to douse the fire, said a fire official, adding that none was injured in the incident while short circuit is the likely cause of the fire. |
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Suicide by jilted youth
New Delhi, February 15 According to the police, Pawan is a student of second year engineering college in Alwar. "It seems he was having an affair with a girl and his parents scolded him for not concentrating on his studies," said a police official. |
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Leopard beaten to death
Ghaziabad, February 15 Forest officials said two villagers, Kiran Pal and Satender, walked over to their field on Monday morning, when they were attacked by the leopard. The agitated mob of villagers was not willing to wait for a team of forest officials to stun the leopard with a tranquillizer gun and carry it away. "The farmers complained that the leopard destroyed the crop sown over at least 10 bigha of land. They were angered over the loss of crop and attacks by the leopard," district magistrate Hirdesh Kumar said. —
IANS
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26 child labourers rescued
New Delhi, February 15 Eight employers, who kept the children under exploitative circumstances, have been rounded up by the cops, the police said. The rescue operation came following the directions of the Delhi High Court to get child labourers working in the Jamia Nagar area rescued. The high court intervened after a rescue operation by the police and the NGO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), in November 2010 failed when local hooligans and the employers of the child labourers attacked the rescuing party and forcibly took away more than 50 rescued children. The BBA then moved the high court, seeking its intervention for the arrest of offenders and recovery of the children. The Delhi police and the Delhi Task Force were then joined by more than 30 child rights activists. The representatives of the Delhi Legal Services Authority and the All India Legal Aid Cell on Child Rights also joined the rescue party. The children were in the age group of eight to 15 years and a majority of them from Muzzafarpur district of Bihar and while others were from Darbhanga and Kishanganj. The children were working in unhygienic, claustrophobic rooms with no freedom to move or leave employment, the BBA said. "When the children were rescued, they were doing embroidery work. Most of them did not wear proper clothes. They did not have any footwear either. Most of them were shivering with cold on this rainy day," it said. |
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Housewife jumps to death
New Delhi, February 15 "Reena jumped to from the second floor of her house today morning and was declared brought dead at the hospital. No suicide note has been found but the family says that she was depressed over not having children even after five years of marriage. Besides, she was having an ailment and was on medication for the past six months," said a police official. |
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Unable to clear the debts and avoid constant harassment by lenders, a 36-year-old small-time businessman from Najafgarh killed his son to scare away the lenders and extort money from them by threatening them to implicate them in the murder.
