New Delhi, March 18
The body of a 53-year-old engineer was found under mysterious circumstances in a park in north Delhi's Dilshad Garden this morning. The deceased was reportedly the brother of Dr D K Sharma, the medical superintendent of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), according to the police.

The body of Bharat Bhushan Sharma was found in the park at 6.30 am today. He is a resident of Dilshad Garden. A morning walker saw his body and informed the police.

There were reportedly injury marks on his face.

The police has registered a murder case at the Seemapuri police station, but is also probing the matter from the angle of accidental death. Cops suspect Bharat may have fallen to the concrete floor. Traces of alcohol have been found in his body, which indicate that he was drunk during the incident. The police is awaiting his postmortem report to ascertain the cause of his death.

According to the police, Bharat stayed with his parents, Madan Lal Sharma and Shakuntala, at Dilshad Garden. They told the police that he had left home at 7 pm on Sunday and did not return the entire night.

Bharat was presently unemployed, after working in different companies in Haryana, according to the police.

The police is questioning people who were with Bharat on Sunday night. It found a wooden stick lying near his body, which had blood on it. 

New Delhi, March 18
Leader of the Opposition V.K. Malhotra today condemned Lieutenant Governor (LG) Tejendra Khanna's speech for not mentioning a word about the status of law and order prevailing in the city.

Malhotra was addressing the House meeting of Delhi Assembly as a motion of thanks to LG's speech which he delivered on the first day of the Budget session. Terming it "disappointing" and "baseless", he criticized him for not offering any condolences in regard to the December 16 gangrape case.

He called the Delhi government the most corrupt of all the state governments. "The incident shook the whole nation and it did not even find any mention in the LG' address. Not even a single word was said about the law and order situation that does not exist in the national Capital," said Malhotra.

Giving statistics, he said that four rapes are reported in the city every day, one woman is molested in every two hours and 96 per cent of women feel unsafe in the city.

Malhotra took upon the controversial statement given by Chief Minister Sheila Dikhsit that "her own daughter does not feel safe in the city" and said that it has spoiled Delhi's image country wide. "Should not the Chief Minister give resignation if she feels that even her daughter is not safe on Delhi roads," said Malhotra.

He also came hard on Dikshit's efforts to bring the Delhi police under her control as he claimed that there has been no such attempt by the government. "It was said by the Home Minister that if the Chief Minister had asked me in writing about the control of the Delhi police, I would have immediately transferred it to the state government. That means the Chief Minister is trying to fool the people of Delhi," he added.

However, reacting to Malhotra's statement calling her corrupt, Dikhsit strongly objected, saying that personal remarks should not be allowed in the House. "Please do not say things which are completely wrong. This is not the forum to discuss matters related to people who are not the members of the assembly like the Home Minister. No one is corrupt here and you cannot level allegations like that," said the Chief Minister.

New Delhi, March 18
The opposition BJP gunned for the ruling Congress in the House meeting of Delhi Assembly today for not supplying water to the areas of its party legislators.

A heated debate ensued when BJP Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) raised the matter that the residents of their areas have not been getting water supply from the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for the past many years.

Two BJP MLAs, Sat Prakash Rana from Mahipalpur and Dharam Dev Solanki from Palam Vihar, trooped into the well of the House, demanding a reply from the Chief Minister on the matter. While Solanki said that there has been a scarcity of water in his area for the past nine years, Rana claimed that the residents of his constituency have been getting irregular supply for the past four years regarding which he has written numerous letters to the Chief Minister.

"We want assurance from the CM that the matter will be resolved in a timebound manner," said Rana.

Speaker Yoganand Shashtri tried to pacify the MLAs and appealed to them to take time from the Chief Minister and meet her in the office, but the MLAs continued shouting and maintained that the CM should make a statement in the House.

"What is the purpose of the House if the ruling party shirks its responsibility," asked Rana.

Reacting to the behaviour of the agitated MLAs, Urban Development Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely and Public Development Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan urged the Speaker to take action against them.

"When the CM had given assurance that the matter would be discussed separately towards the end of the session, members should not behave indecently. Action should be taken against them," said Lovely.

New Delhi, March 18
Four juveniles have been apprehended for allegedly raping their classmate in Bawana, located on the outskirts of Delhi on March 13, the police said today.

The victim is a 16-year-old class 11 student. She told her parents that she was sexually assaulted by the accused. Her parents informed the police who caught the four accused from their houses.

According to the police, the accused were the victim's classmates. On March 13, they had sexually assaulted her in the house of one of the accused. A case of rape has been registered at the Bawana police station.