New Delhi, June 15
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today declared that her government has decided to abolish the Section 81 of the Delhi Land Reforms Act 1954 (DLR), extend the Lal Dora and invited applications from Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) for regularisation of extension to village settlements as per revised guidelines, 2007 for regularisation of unauthorised colonies.

While in this regard soon a notification would be issued following which RWAs of rural and urbanised villages would be required to submit applications within three months.

According to the Section 81, if a piece of land in a village has been lying vacant for long and not used for farming, the government's revenue department has the right to declare it a wasteland.

The move comes following a Cabinet meeting earlier during the day and is well timed to woo the farming community ahead of the forthcoming Delhi Legislative Assembly elections.

Terming it a historic day, Dikshit said the Cabinet has decided to exempt various provisions, including the Section 81 of the Act, and with these decisions the uncertainty hanging over people living in scores of villages have come to an end. The government has also withdrawn all the related court cases against farmers, she added.

Apart from this, she stated that the Delhi Government's share in the revenues from the two Peripheral Express Ways proposed by the NCR Planning Board should be decided as per a cut-off date.

New Delhi, June 15
A head constable of the Delhi Traffic Police was allegedly beaten up by two men and a car was made to run over his leg when he tried to book them for violating traffic rules in the Sainik Farms area, south Delhi, yesterday.

Head constable Prem Sagar (40) is posted at the traffic unit in Mehrauli circle. The accused identified as Nitin and Vikas, who are residents of Sangam Vihar, have been arrested.

The incident occurred at 9.25 am, when Sagar was on duty in Neb Sarai. He saw a Hyundai Santro car being driven recklessly on the wrong side of the road at Sainik Farms. He signalled the driver to stop the car.

Nitin allegedly began to abuse Sagar when he was asked to show his driving licence. "Nitin tried to flee and ran the car over Sagar's leg. The official had tried stopping him," said a police official.

Nitin and Vikas then allegedly started beating Sagar in full public view. Sagar's colleague, constable Rajiv, informed the PCR and overpowered the accused.

They were arrested and a case was lodged at the Neb Sarai police station. Nitin and Vikas were booked for assault, voluntarily causing hurt and obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions under Sections 353, 332 and 186 of the IPC.

New Delhi, June 15
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today announced the names of the candidates for 11 Delhi Assembly constituencies after almost a monthlong process of shortlisting the probable names and then soliciting public response towards their candidature in their respectively areas.

Among those who have been finalised are Col (Retd) Devinder Sehrawat from Bijawasan, Sourabh Bhardwaj (Greater Kailash), Manoj Kumar (Kondli), Somnath Bharti (Malviya Nagar), Gulab Singh Yadav (Matiyala), Mukesh Kumar Dagar (Najafgarh), Manish Sisodia (Patpadganj), Shaziya Ilmi (RK Puram), Somdut Sharma (Sadar Bazar) Santosh Koli (Seemapuri) Raju Ghingan (Trilokpuri).

For these 11 seats, a total of 97 requests were received.