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An hour’s shower, and Sonepat becomes an island Sonepat, July 9 The arrival of the monsoon has brought down the temperature considerably. People were seen wading through knee-deep water at major intersections, including Gita Bhawan Chowk, Atlas Road, Mamoon-Bhanja Chowk, Sarang Road, Shanni Mandir Chowk and Subhash Chowk. Waterlogged roads caused hardship to pedestrians and two-wheeler riders. At several places cars were stuck in the middle of the roads as they developed snags while passing through water. They blocked the traffic for more than half an hour. The traffic remained jammed on the old DC Road as a result of accumulation of rainwater. People living in the nearby colonies and the Garhi Ghasita area had to spend precious time draining out water from their houses. Several roads in Sectors 14, 15, 23 and 12 remained submerged in rainwater as the HUDA authorities failed to drain it out. The people had to wade through water to reach their destinations. Many people alleged that all complaints made to the HUDA authorities in this regard had fallen on deaf ears. Similarly, the authorities of the Sonepat Municipal Council remained silent spectators as the residents themselves worked and drained out the accumulated rainwater in their areas. The Residents Welfare Association and the Sonepat Citizens Forum today urged the state government to punish the erring officials of the Sonepat Municipal Council and HUDA who had failed to make arrangements for pumping out rainwater from different parts of the city and the HUDA sectors. |
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Missing
infant: Minister insists on screening New Delhi, July 9 The minister on Wednesday called on Sudha Devi and Shravan Paswan, whose baby boy has been missing since Tuesday morning, and inquired about their well-being. He inspected the security arrangements in the hospital and interacted with the staff. The directions issued by the minister later in the day make it mandatory for the staff to wear the prescribed uniform on duty. “The staff, be it the medical superintendent or subordinates, will wear the uniform,” Mr Walia clarified. The minister told media persons the staff is mandated to wear uniform on duty but few comply with the rules. “The nursing staff,” Mr Walia told reporters, “are the only ones to adhere to this rule.” He has recommended disciplinary action against the errant staff. The entry of visitors to the maternity ward of the Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital will henceforth be restricted. The minister directed the medical superintendent to issue two “security cards” per patient, so that the visitors could be screened. The security cards will not only restrict the number of visitors but also subject them to thorough screening at the time of entry. “If this experiment succeeds,” the minister clarified, “the security cards will be made mandatory in other wards.” |
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MCD engineers held for swindling crores New Delhi: Three engineers of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), who had cheated the corporation and swindled crores of rupees on the pretext of paying labourers for cleaning nallahs in the city, were arrested by the Anti-Corruption branch. The accused — B R Arya, Executive Engineer, Manjeet Singh, Assistant Engineer, and Akhtar Adil, Junior Engineer — were all posted in the Sanitary department, South Zone. The police said the engineers drew huge amounts and misled the corporation into believing that they had been paying the labourers for their work. But they actually pocketed the money. The police have asked the other zones in the city also to produce their muster rolls. When the police asked the accused to produce their muster rolls to prove their claims, the latter said that they had deposited the money in the MCD account, further showing their complicity in the case.
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CAMPUS New Delhi, July 9 In a statement issued here, the university officials said that in keeping with the Supreme Court ruling, the earlier two-tier fee structure in the affiliated private institutes — where 50 per cent were free seats and 50 per cent payment seats — has now been
altered. As per the new guidelines, each student taking admission into a course will be required to pay the same fee. It was pointed out that candidates who are allotted seats would be required to pay the prescribed admission fee of Rs 20,000. The release also said that this year there are no seats in the NRI quota. Fifteen per cent of the seats would be allowed to be filled on supernumerary basis from amongst foreign nationals or persons of Indian origin or foreign students, over and above the approved intake in each programme subject to the availability of adequate infrastructure facilities in the institute. As for the seats in each self-financing institution, 85 per cent shall be filled by candidates who have passed the qualifying examination from any school or institution located in the national Capital or from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University; 10 per cent seats shall be filled up by candidates who have passed the qualifying examination from outside Delhi. The management shall fill up five per cent of the remaining seats in self-financing institutes. It will be obligatory for the management to draw candidates for admission from amongst the merit list of Common Entrance Test conducted by the university. The fee structure for some of the courses, including B.Tech/M.Tech (Integrated) (CT, IT), B.Tech (IT, CSE, ECE, MAE, PE), is Rs 45,000; for BCA, it is Rs 30,000; and for B.Ed, it is Rs 30,000. |
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CITY SCAN New Delhi, July 9 Mr B K Gupta, Joint Commissioner of Police (Jt CP), New Delhi Range, has been moved to Crime in place of U.K. Katna who has been transferred out of Delhi Police, the police spokesman said. Mr Gupta will be replaced by Mr Maxwell Pereira, Jt CP Traffic, whose place will be taken by Qamar Ahmed, at present Jt CP, Provisions and Logistics, the spokesman said. In the Additional Deputy Commissioner category, Neeraj Thakur has been shifted from Security to the Prime Minister’s Security. Mr V.V.Chaudhary, Additional DCP, East District, has been moved as Additional DCP, Security. Mr Chaudhary will be replaced by Mr Alok Kumar who has been moved from the Prime Minister’s Security, the spokesman said. Mr K.K. Vyas, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Economic Offences Wing (EOW), will look after the work of Additional DCP, Crime Against Women (CAW) Cell. Mr O.P. Mishra, ACP, Kamla Market, has been entrusted with the job of Addl DCP Licensing while Mr Raj Kumar Jha, ACP Traffic, has been given the charge of Addl DCP Vigilance, he said. |
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Ingenious
MCD plan to export cow dung and urine New Delhi, July 9 To put this plan into action, the MCD is going to purchase hydraulic trucks which will help catch stray cattle and transfer them to nearby shelters. The dung will be processed into
vermicompost. The urine will be converted into bio-pesticide. The Morarka Foundation, along with its 10,000 partners, is the single largest producer of vermicompost in the world. As per the MCD’s plan, the dung will be processed into vermicompost and the urine converted into a bio-pesticide. “Today, this intrinsic strength of organic matter use has once again acquired new prominence and thus the attention of entire scientific community in the world. Many scientific methods for converting low value organic matters through composting have been evolved, but without much success. The long time taken for composting and only marginal improvement in their nutritive values have been the two major constraints in the prevalent methods. We, therefore, worked to improve the process efficiency of
decomposting,” clarified Mukesh Gupta, Project Director of the Morarka Foundation. Whereas the activities of bacteria, fungi and earthworms for recycling of organic matter in natural conditions have been acknowledged for sometime, it has been since the early nineties only that scientific methods like recycling of organic matter have been tried with extraordinary success. Ten years of efforts by the Morarka Foundation have led to the development of new workable methods. The Foundation has been given consultative status for developing value-added products from cow dung by the National Commission of Cattle, Government of India, Ministry of Agriculture, and many state departments and Central government agencies. The vermiculture knowhow has already been disseminated to over 10, 000 farmers and entrepreneurs, creating a combined production capacity of over 1.5 lakhs metric tonne per annum of
vermicompost. The successful use of worms in vermi-composting has been expanded to convert household and city waste into organic manure through a process of
sanitisation, deodorisation and accelerated decomposition. A package has been developed and promoted by the foundation. These worms can actually survive on cow dung or organic waste only to excrete
vermicompost, a manure rich in nitrogen that can recondition the soil by making fertilisers and pesticides totally redundant. |
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FOLLOW-UP Sonepat, July 9 The culprits were identified as Ran Singh, Roop Chand, Sushil and
Karamvir. The fifth accused is still at large. The situation in the village is turning normal, though the place has become a police cantonment. The jawans of the Haryana Armed Police and the Rapid Action Force (RAF) are patrolling the Dalit basti round the clock to check any untoward incident. The patrolling was necessary to instil confidence in the villagers, so that they could return without feeling on
tenterhooks. Partap Singh was allegedly killed while he, along with his two associates, was going towards the fields. Pratap had an affair with a girl, which was said to be the reason behind the killing. After the murder, the village witnessed arson and looting in the Dalit
basti; some Dalits were also thrashed. Thereafter, most of the Dalit families left the village. According to a report, almost all the Dalit families, which had left the village, have come back on the assurance of the district and police authorities that they would get full security. |
Sangwan hobnobbing with Chautala, Bhajan? Sonepat, July 9 Addressing a convention of youth workers here yesterday, he said Mr Sangwan was worried about his political future as neither the BJP nor he himself had any base in the Lok Sabha constituency. If Mr Chautala had not helped him in the last Lok Sabha elections he would have been defeated by a huge margin. He also ridiculed Mr Sangwan for blaming Mr Bansi Lal for not destabilising the Chautala government. He said Mr Bansi Lal had always worked for unity among the Opposition parties in dislodging Mr Chautala from power. He criticised Mr Chautala for putting financial burden on all sections by increasing tax. He said that even the halwais and other small traders had been brought into the tax net. They were finding it difficult to make both ends meet. He also criticised the increase in house tax and diesel prices and said that Mr Chautala who had been claiming himself as the well-wisher of farmers was now bent upon destroying them. The HVP leader said the Chautala government had not given adequate drought relief to the farmers and not provided any job to the educated unemployed youths. He alleged there was rampant corruption in recruitment for government jobs. Oppressive methods had been used to suppress the voice of the farmers and workers of the Opposition parties by implicating them in false criminal cases. He declared that if the HVP came into power again it would set up a separate directorate for providing jobs to the jobless youth and ensure round-the-clock water and power supply in the state. Mr Rajiv Jain, general secretary of the HVP, and other leaders of the party also addressed the convention. |
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Protest
against “shedding Indian blood for US hegemony” New Delhi, July 9 Holding placards and shouting slogans like, ‘No Indian blood for US hegemony’ and ‘US-UK quit Iraq’, the activists converged at Jantar Mantar here to stage a dharna. They were addressed by their leaders who said if the Indian troops were sent to Iraq it would be a betrayal of the anti-imperialist traditions of the people of this country. |
MCD launches drive to catch encroachers, litterbugs New Delhi, July 9 The drive was begun from Lalsain market in Lajpat Nagar where shopkeepers had been found to have encroached on the entire footpath and littered the roads. The drive was launched after the direction of the Supreme Court, which observed that the national Capital was the most unclean city. It directed the MCD and the NDMC to remove encroachments and make the city clean, the Special Metropolitan Magistrate (MCD), Mr Aryavir said. He said that the drive was launched in the afternoon and a total of 23 challans were issued and a total of Rs 33,000 collected. The magistrate said that fruit and vegetable sellers and other small shops were found to have encroached the market. The shopkeepers had made the area unclean, he said. It was on Ring Road and the area was rotting, he said and added that the drive would continue and whosoever was found guilty would be punished on the spot. |
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Lecturer
accuses PNB of cheating him on housing loan Panipat, July 9 According to a complaint, Mr Singla and his wife, Ms Shikhy
Singla, took a housing loan of Rs 6 lakh for the construction of a house in 2001 at the interest rate of 13 per cent. When the interest rates were slashed all over the country, Mr
Singla, who started the repayment in July 2001, approached the Karnal office to reduce the instalment and the rate of interest. Mr Singla was asked to sign a new supplementary agreement for getting the interest reduced to 11.25 per cent in under a newly launched ‘Flexi apna ghar
Yojana’. He was asked to deposit Rs 11,520, calculated at the rate of 2 per cent on the outstanding balance at that time, in an unjustified way. Besides, a number of arbitrary clauses were forced in the new agreement, he complained. In the new agreement, Mr Singla was also denied any reduction in the monthly
instalment. Tired at the delaying tactics of the Karnal office, Mr Singla complained to the bank’s head office in Delhi, the Finance Ministry and the RBI in Mumbai. However, this also proved to be of no avail though the branch office did try to justify its actions, Mr Singla said. Mr
Singla, who had been writing to the company’s head office regularly, said that a few days back, he was told by the company’s representative in Delhi that his grievance was in the process of being redressed. This was despite the fact that the Article 2.3 (a) of the original agreement made it amply clear that the loan was sanctioned at the then floating rate of interest. It reads” “Provided that PNBHF may in its discretion increases the rate of interest suitably and prospectively from time to time having regard to money market conditions and the rate of interest increased as aforesaid shall be applicable to the said loan.” Mr Singla claimed that in the light of the above article, it was clear that the loan was sanctioned with a floating rate of interest and the company had cheated them by imposing the supplementary agreement and charging Rs 11,520. |
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Special
Focus on Panipat Panipat, July 9 Being well connected with rail and road, the establishment of the handloom industry in Panipat is all-important. That is one reason why this district is well-known among all other national and international industrial estates. Panipat is known as Weavers’ City. Handloom art is one of the country’s oldest domestic industries where a weaver can demonstrate his art and skill. Handloom fabrics are known since ages for their beauty, design, fineness and strength. The weavers here have inherited the handloom art from their ancestors. They have the magic of imagination in their eyes and hands, which is ably demonstrated in their technical skill, design and wonderful colour combination. In order to provide complete technical assistance in Panipat in 1975 the Weavers’ Service Centre was established. Since the past 28 years, technical experts of this centre have been providing the latest techniques which are being shared with these artisans to prepare them to compete with the world market. The technical experts of this centre have prepared about 12,600 samples of handloom fabrics and the weavers have created 4,800 best quality paper designs. It is a known fact that after getting training from this centre the artisans exhibit their skills in other handloom units. About 70,000 weavers earn their livelihood through 2,600 handloom units in Panipat. Workers from the nearby areas of Haryana, Punjab as well as from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal come to this town for earning their livelihood. Three types of handloom units are there in Panipat where handloom cloth is woven. These are Framework - in which plain and channeled cloth is woven; Jacquard – in which assorted designs are prepared; and Pit looms – where heavy items like druggets and durries are manufactured. The basic raw material for pit looms is available in Panipat town only. Even the Haryana Government makes purchases through its agencies to meet the international demand through export trade. In each house of Panipat, handloom cloth such as bedspreads, khes and durries handwoven by these artisans enjoy pride of place. The government provides loans to these units. Panipat has left its imprint in the world market for handmade carpets in addition to khes, bedspreads and durries. In 58 carpet manufacturing industrial units, 1,540 artisans have got employment in Panipat. In these units, working under the hand-knitted, knot-tie thread system, the labourers and other men and women from nearby villages weave beautiful carpets with their hands. Two types of carpets are woven in Panipat in which one is handloom and the other one is handicraft and the international demand for this particular quality is due to its design and quality. Today, products of the carpet industry of Panipat have a great demand abroad rather than the Indian market. Handmade carpets worth Rs 60 crore are being produced and exported. The got a “ Golden Trophy” for its handmade carpets from the Handicrafts Export Promotion Council. Moreover, four units here where handmade carpets are woven received the state Export Award to the Outstanding Manufacturing Exporters. In addition to handloom units, there are 6,500 power loom units in Panipat where about 9,300 workers are getting employment. Polyester, acrylic, art silk, shoddy yarn threads are being used in their looms. Bedspreads, blankets, tablemats and tapestries are being produced on these looms. Besides power looms, there are 325 shoddy yarn woollen mills which are manufacturing blankets and 60 such units are manufacturing carpet threads only exclusively for woollen carpets. Fifteen such units in Panipat are producing barrack blankets for the Indian defence services exclusively. At present, 700 handloom units are engaged in manufacturing barrack blankets. Seventy five per cent of the demand for barrack blankets is fulfilled by Panipat. Everyday 2,50,000 kg (250 Tonnes) of thread is produced in 35 open and spinning mills operating in Panipat which is being used in cloth for export purposes. Besides this, 150 dyeing and printing units are in operation. As many as 212 units have been established for textile designing of handlooms and their products. Particularly cotton, woollen, silk, jute and patsan like natural fibres are used to manufacture garments, household display items. These were exhibited at the Jakarta and Sydney exhibitions where the response was excellent. Now about 100 computerised shutterless loom machines have been installed in Panipat alone. As a result, traditional artisans are not in a position to match the latest trends against the computerised machines. But due to the monumental demand from abroad for handloom cloth this handloom industry exists. The Weavers’ Service Centre under the Handloom Development Commissioner is still in a position to provide foreign buyers’ designs and patterns with basic training of 90 days to the weavers. This year also about 35 to 40 weavers have been trained. Till now this centre has trained about 700 weavers whose products are being exported to Canada, Japan, Germany, Australia. In the present machine age the handloom industry weavers find themselves lagging behind in developing new designs. Ample work is required to be done for the weavers and artisans of handlooms by the Weavers’ Service Center so that domestic demand can be created as compared to these shutterless machines and the public and customers are made aware of the fact that handloom products produced by these traditional artisans are better. |
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Fire stations in Sonepat district have no fire Sonepat, July 9 The main reason, as stated by the authorities, is the shortage of funds to meet the expenses like salary to the staff, employing new staff, repairing the vehicles etc. The first fire station in the district was opened in Sonepat way back in 1971 and fire stations at Gohana and Ganaur, both subdivisional headquarters, were set up in 2001. The population of the district has already crossed 12 lakh. At present, the number of fire-fighting vehicles and staff on duty was far below the required and sanctioned quota. There are only two fire tenders and one rescue tank in operational condition in the Sonepat station. There are only five drivers and 11 firemen on duty on three fire-fighting vehicles. They work in three shift duties. If any employee proceeds on leave, they have to make arrangements among themselves by working in extra shifts because as per rules, there has to be four firemen, one driver and a fire officer on each vehicle. And during the harvesting season where the chances of fire incidents are more, three shift duties are converted into two shift duties in a day. Employees from Sonepat station were sent to Gohana as a temporary arrangement when a fire station was set up there two years back. The same arrangement has been continuing since then. According to information from official sources, there should have been nine drivers and 36 firemen to man three fire fighting vehicles in the Sonepat station. Similarly, there is a shortage of two drivers and seven firemen in the Gohana fire station. There are only one driver and two fire fighters here. In Ganaur station too, there are only two drivers, five firemen and one fire officer on duty. It faces a shortage of one driver and four firemen. The daily wage employees in the fire stations have not been paid their wages for a long time. Sources said that one driver and two firemen on daily wages were sent from Sonepat to Gohana when the new fire station was opened there. For nearly 16 months, these employees had not been paid their wages. And when they dared to demand their wages, they were reportedly removed from the service. “What to speak of the upkeep of the vehicles, the regular staff of the station have not been getting their salaries for months together due to shortage of funds in the municipalities,” said a fire officer on condition of anonymity. However, he was optimistic that the facilities would improve as the NCRPB had allocated funds for these purposes.
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SONEPAT Sonepat, July 9 Woman found murdered A 35-year-old woman, Mrs
Nirmala, was reported to have been murdered by some persons in Delhi area. The police found her body in the fields of a farmer near Ochandi border yesterday. According to a report, the victim had gone to Jhinjhaul village along the Haryana-Delhi border to drop her relative girl there on Saturday. The police have registered a case of murder and further investigations are in progress.
Youth electrocuted A youth,
Sandeep, was electrocuted in his house at Majri village, about 25 km from here, yesterday. According to a report, the youth was a student of BA. He was trying to connect an electricity cable with a switch when he touched a live wire. According to another report, a 12-year-old boy has reportedly been missing from his house since June 7 at Zainpur village in this district. The parents of the boy have lodged an FIR with the Murthal police in this regard. He left his house for playing but has failed to return so far.
Motorcyclist killed A motorcyclist was killed when he was hit by a Haryana Roadways bus on the G T Road near Bari village, about 15 km from here, last evening. According to a report, the bus was on its way from Ambala to Delhi. The victim was identified as Mr Karan Singh of Ashok
Vihar, Gurgaon. The police have registered a case against the bus driver on the charge of rash and negligent driving and causing death. The body has been sent for a post-mortem examination.
Chautala springs a surprise Following in the footsteps of his father, former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal, Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala astonished the residents of Jagsi and Bichpuri by making unscheduled stops in their villages and listening to their grievances. He made unscehduled stops at these two villages while returning to Rohtak from Safidon in Jind district on Monday evening and heard the grievannces of the villagers. |
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Telecom companies cautioned on dug-up roads New Delhi: The Delhi Chief Secretary has issued a stern warning to telecom companies which violate rules while digging roads in the Capital. In a meeting chaired by the Chief Secretary, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi was directed to impose a penalty on such companies for not restoring the roads after extensive digging, as it was a complete violation of the accepted procedure. As a policy, these companies are bound to restore the roads in their original form within seven days. The MCD has inspected the roads in the different zones to have an overview of the extent of violation and the repair work being done by the telecom operators. As of now, the restoration work has been completed in 175 km; it remains to be completed in a 53-km stretch. The date of completion is between July 10 and July 15, 2003. The certification required to be obtained from IIT/RITES/CRRI about the quality and completion of restoration work is not being provided by these telecom companies.
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DELHI DIGEST New Delhi, July 9 Members of the ASO alleged that there was a “total lack of transparency” in the admission procedure followed for the candidates from the reserved sections by Delhi University. It was pointed out that there had been more than 400 complaints submitted regarding the inefficiency and the discrepancy in the procedure. The ASO also alleged that the administration had shown complete insensitivity to the problems of the SC/ST students. A memorandum demanding immediate action was submitted to the Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University.
Carriageway opens The Mayor of Delhi, Mr Ashok Kumar Jain, today inaugurated the first carriageway of the newly constructed RCC box rail underbridge at S. P. Mukherjee Marg near Hanuman Mandir. The project is estimated to cost Rs 9.5 crore and to be completed by December 2004. He said that by putting the carriageway in service of the citizens would ease traffic between Old Delhi and trans-Yamuna areas. The MCD is making efforts to complete the project at the earliest so that traffic flow can be eased on the route. The Chairman Standing Committee in the MCD, Mr Ram Babu Sharma, today inaugurated the newly constructed three storey-municipal primary school building at F-2 Block of Nand Nagari in North-East district in the trans-Yamuna area. The building comprises 20 classrooms and one multipurpose hall. He said that the corporation was making all-out efforts to provide better environment to the students studying in its school. Construction of such pucca school buildings was a step in the same direction. More stress was given to improve the basic services like drinking water and toilets, he said.
Sri Lankan team in Capital A delegation of councillors from Sri Lanka is in the Capital to study the functioning of local bodies in the NCT of Delhi. The delegation led by Lakshman Wijemanna called on Lieutenant Governor Vijai Kapoor today. Mayor Ashok Jain, Chairman of MCD Standing Committee Ram Babu Sharma and officials of the corporation and the Government of NCT of Delhi were present on the occasion. A press note issued by the Raj Nivas said the delegation showed keen interest in waste management and collection of taxes by the local bodies. The delegation, the release stated, would be shown the sewage treatment and water treatment plants. |
Car thief used fudged papers to raise loans New Delhi, July 9 The accused, Pratap Singh, a resident of Bhiwani, was a member of a gang which was busted by the Crime Branch in January this year for its involvement in car theft in North West, South, West and South West districts of the Capital. The police had recovered 28 luxury cars from the gang, which had already disposed of more than 200 vehicles, mostly in Nepal and the North East, with the help of fake documents. Pratap Singh is also wanted by the Rajasthan police in two cases of misappropriation and cheating. The accused was travelling in an Indica at the time of his arrest, which was stolen from Dabri area. During interrogation, he told the police that other gangs were operating in distant places like Siliguri, Guwahati, Aizwal, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and at the Indo-Tibetean border, which receive stolen cars from car lifters in metropolitan cities. Pratap had also supplied three stolen vehicles to gangsters like Narender and Satish alias Dudha who were arrested by the Crime Branch in January 2003. Also, Pratap’s gang had supplied 17 vehicles to inesh Kumar alias Doctor, a proclaimed offender. Besides, seven stolen vehicles were supplied to the Vikram/Rohtash gang, many of which were used in heinous crimes committed in Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
Chain snatcher held The anti-auto theft squad of the North-West district police has nabbed a person, who has been involved in more than 11 cases of chain snatching in the Shalimar Bagh, Mukherjee Nagar and Prashant Vihar areas. The police nabbed Rajan alias Rahul (21), a resident of Jahangirpuri, when he visited Prem Bari Pul to meet his contact. Rajan who was on his TVS Victor motorcycle took a U-turn and tried to escape on seeing the police party. But the alert policemen managed to overpower him. Apart form the motorcycle, the police also seized four gold chains and a button-actuated knife from his possession.
Thieves arrested With the arrest of two persons, the West district police today claimed to have busted a gang of thieves besides averting a robbery attempt. The police acted on a tip-off that the accused — Raj Kumar alias Govind alias Vinod (35), a resident of Paschim Vihar, and Kabool Singh (32), a resident of Raghubir Nagar — would be coming near the Janak Cinema to loot the employees of a petrol pump, carrying heavy
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ITBP cop found dead An ITBP constable was found dead at his residence in the south-Delhi area today. Fifty-five-year-old Om Prakash was found dead, lying naked on his bed in Pushp Vihar house, this morning. The police said that there were no external injuries on the body, which had been sent for a post-mortem examination to ascertain the actual cause of death. |
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