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Two shot by dacoits, houses looted
Indefinite stir as lawyers, cop slug it out
Farmhouse murder: Cops trying to trace party guests
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Flash strike as student is slapped for ragging
Manual on legal rights of kabaris released
Death sentence in gruesome stabbing case
Land mafia in 30 villages to get the stick
HEALTH
WATCH
DU bandh enters second day
Stress on oral health at dental congress
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Two shot by dacoits, houses looted
Noida, September 10 The desperados had raided a number of houses and decamped with valuables worth lakhs of rupees. They had first targeted the house of Yaad Ram. According to S.P. City A.K. Jain, the dacoits had raided the village under 39-Sector police at 1.30 am and ransacked about eight houses. As the villagers offered resistance, 22-year-old Jatan Singh was shot dead. Later, the intruders had shot at and killed Yaad Ram also. The gunfire at midnight frightened the villagers. A large number of people, including senior officers, public representatives had rushed to the village to take stock of the crime. There is considerable panic among the villagers and tension in the area. Later, the dacoits raided the house of Prithvi Singh. They beat up the residents who tried to resist. Prithvi Singh, Mahesh, Madan Yaad Ram and Prakash were wounded. All of them were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Kailash Hospital. S.P. City said the police have lifted some vital clues and the crime will soon be cracked.
Naresh Bhatti murder accused in police remand
Greater Noida: The police had taken Sunder Bhatti and Sandeep Nagar, the key accused in a sensational murder case of District Panchayat chief Naresh Bhatti in remand yesterday. The police had raided many villages in Garh area, including Dhandhola along with the accused till late night. The accused had not divulged any information pertaining to the weapons used in the murder committed on March 28, 2004, when deceased Naresh Bhatti’s convoy had come under indiscriminate firing by the accused who lay in wait near Dhandhola police post. District Panchayat chief Naresh Bhatti had died on the spot while four were injured. Eight persons had been named in the sensational murder case, including Sunder Bhatti of Dhandhola. The police could arrest three of the accused two months after the murder. The cash rewards on all the accused were also declared. The Delhi Police had arrested Sunder Bhatti and Sandeep last month. SP (rural) M.P. Singh said the accused were taken in remand for interrogation and recovering the weapons of murder. Though the police had raided many places and jungles of Dhandhola along with the accused, the weapons used in the crime could not be recovered, Mr Singh added.
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Indefinite stir as lawyers, cop slug it out
New Delhi, September 10 According to the police, the trouble ensued when a Sub-Inspector, Dinesh Kumar, posted at Seelampur police station, had an altercation with a lawyer, Ravinder Kumar. The matter got out of hand and Ravinder Kumar allegedly slapped the policeman; in retaliation, Dinesh also slapped the lawyer. Subsequently, Ravinder Kumar reportedly summoned his collogues and they, too, surrounded Dinesh Kumar and gave him a beating. Later, to protect himself, the Sub-Inspector ran and took refuge in the court of Assistant Sub-Judge S. P. Garg. According to one account, the livid lawyers chased him into the courtroom and reportedly bashed up the sub-inspector in the courtroom in front of the judge. Following the incident, the lawyers have gone on indefinite strike, demanding action against the sub-inspector. They have also demanded the sub-inspector’s suspension and sought a departmental inquiry against him. The lawyers have also demanded that an FIR should be registered against Dinesh Kumar who should be arrested on non-bailable charges. Meanwhile, the senior police officials have said that Dinesh Kumar had been taken to a nearby hospital and his condition was said to be under control. Tension gripped the area after the incident. Now, a large number of police personnel have been deployed. The DCP East District, Nuzhat Hussain, has refused to say anything on record. She said that Dinesh was present in the court in a bail matter. Late night reports said that the sub-inspector has been suspended and the case has been transferred to the Crime Branch for further investigation.
Fireman dies in
rescue bid
A fireman died in a fire in Nangloi area today. The deceased has been identified as Jasbir Singh (30). He was posted at Jawala Puri fire Station. According to the police, there was a fire call at 1.30 p.m today in Bhim Nagar slum cluster in Nangloi. Immediately nine fire-tenders were pressed into action; they reportedly took 15 minutes to control the blaze. While trying to save a person who was trapped in a hut, Jasbir Singh sustained grave burn injuries. He was rushed to the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital but was declared brought dead. Jasbir Singh is survived by his two children and wife, who live in Roadh village in Bahadurgarh, Haryana. He was working as a fireman in the fire service for the past seven years.
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Farmhouse murder: Cops trying to trace party guests
New Delhi, September 10 Milan’s bullet-riddled body was found on the second floor of the farmhouse. The wife of the deceased, who resides in Chattarpur, has told the police that at 11.30 PM there was a call from her husband that a fight was going on in the farmhouse. However, the police was informed about the incident only at 9.15 am the next day. At that time of the fight, the wife of Mr MK Subba and their eight-year-old son were reportedly present in the farmhouse. According to senior police officials, “We have sent teams to find out the versions of the people who were present at the party in the farmhouse on the night of the incident. According to officials, most of the guests had left for Assam on the night of the murder or the next day early in the morning. Result: The police has not been able to get details of what transpired at the party. The police sources, however, said that sleuths had been sent to Assam to interrogate the people present at the party that night. Meanwhile, the police have said that Narender, the brother in law of M.K. Subba, and three other persons are still absconding. “We have some leads and shortly we would be able to trace the main culprits in the murder case,” said Additional DCP Southwest district Shalini Singh. According to the preliminary investigations, the shot was fired from point blank range from a .12 bore gun. There are at least 40 persons who reside in the vicinity of the farmhouse, yet no one heard the gunshots. Mr M. K. Subba was elected on a Congress ticket from Tejpur and was popularly known as the lottery king.
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Flash strike as student is slapped for ragging
Ghaziabad, September 10 They indulged in stone-pelting, damaged the glasspanes and raised slogans against their teachers and the college management. No classes could be held in the college for the day. When Prof Lalit Mittal of Inderprastha College came to know that senior students were engaged in ragging the
freshers, he went out and slapped Himanshu, a 2nd year B-Tech student who was ragging a 1st year student. This led to the protest among students. In a
climbdown, the college management had to assure the student that such incidents would not take place in future. In Greater Noida, the senior students of various institutions were more ingenious. They placed themselves at parking slots, canteens, and main gates to the institutions and at the bus stops to have their pick of the docile
freshers. The seniors also made the best of the vacant periods between classes to indulge in ragging. The administration had issued terse instructions to the educational institutions, asking them not to allow ragging in keeping with the apex court orders on the subject. The college faculty and management had also taken sufficient precautions. Teachers and members of the disciplinary committees were taking rounds of the premises by turn. All the same, the seniors had thought of newer ways of ragging. Some of the antics were pleasant and enjoyable like asking the fresher to recite a poem, sing a favourite film song, narrate the dreams, make a speech etc.
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Gang of dacoits busted
New Delhi, September 10 Following the incidents, a team led by ACP Operations, DKS Singh, intensified the picket checking in different areas and raided different places and arrested the accused. The police also recovered one Nokia mobile phone, three country-made pistols and three live bullets.
Robbery case cracked
With the arrest of two persons, the east district police claim to have solved a case of daylight robbery in which two motorcycle borne persons robbed two persons of Rs 3.88 lakh. The arrested persons have been identified as Krishan Kumar (22) and Arun Kumar (25). Both are the residents of Karkardooma, Anand Vihar. The police said that on September 6, Amit Dubey, a manager in a petrol pump in Karkardooma, was escorting his friend Brijesh to the Central Bank of India, Karkardooma branch, where they had to deposit Rs 3.88 lakh in cash. As they reached the Karkardooma village, two youths on motorcycle snatched the bag containing the money. Brijesh, however, managed to catch a glimpse of the pillion rider. They were on a blue coloured motorcycle. The police team, with the help of Amit and Brijesh, arrested the duo. Brijesh has identified the accused.
Racket in stolen mobikes
The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested one person who was allegedly involved in selling stolen bikes. The person arrested has been identified as Raju, alias Sunny, a resident of a slum colony, Mundka village. According to the police, Raju dropped his studies after matriculation. He then started assisting his father. Soon, he came in contact with an auto-lifter who enticed him into the business of selling stolen vehicles.
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Manual on legal rights of kabaris released
New Delhi, September 10 It is brought out with the aid of
Chintan, an environment research and action group. The booklet aims at enabling the rag-pickers to understand the law in its most basic sense and also gives them the confidence to interact with the law enforcers. Rag-pickers in the Capital are more often than not subjected to harassment by the police and the municipal workers. During a survey carried out by
Chintan, rag and waste pickers in the Capital had pointed out that their biggest problem was not the toxic waste, which they handle, but the police harassment which they face every day. Some complained that they had to pay bribe to avoid harassment. The law-enforcers even set their goods on fire at times. A year-long programme was launched by Chintan following the survey to help the rag-pickers. The programme was aimed at helping them understand their basic rights. A workshop was deigned and implemented in many areas across the city where a platform for interaction between the law enforcers and the rag-pickers was provided. The illustrated booklet was put together following these interactive workshops. A documentary ‘Are all rag-pickers thieves’ was also released on the occasion. This film sensitises the masses about the legal rights of the rag-pickers.
Campaign to revive India’s golden past For revival and restoration of ancient India’s rich art, culture, values and healthy lifestyle, a fortnight-long “Golden Culture Awareness Campaign” is being organised by Art and Culture Wing of Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwaria Vishwa Vidyalaya in and around Delhi. The campaign will be inaugurated by Mrs Shiela Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi in a public function and colourful cultural evening at Pyarelal Bhavan here on September 13, 2004. The campaign will consist of 30 to 40 cultural artistes from all over India and a mobile exhibition depicting deterioration of decency and civility in today’s art, culture and films and the emergent need to contain the current spate of cultural pollution through the practice and promotion of ancient India’s positive values,
spirituality, art, culture, character and lifestyle. By holding a series of public programmes in different schools, art and cultural institutions in about 30 different places of Delhi, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Meerut and with the help of value-based songs, dance, drama, skits, video shows, lectures, exhibitions and meditation sessions, the campaigners will create awareness among
people in the field of art and culture, on the virtues of India’s rich heritage, culture, values and lifestyle in contrast to the harmful effects of western culture and lifestyle. The inaugural function will also be addressed by Dr Sudhakar Sharma, Secretary, Lalit Kala National Academy, among others. The troupe from Maharashtra will also present aesthetic cultural items during the inaugural ceremony of the campaign.
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Death sentence in gruesome stabbing case
New Delhi, September 10 “The act of the convict is visualised. It has been extremely brutal, gruesome, callous with full determination in order to leave no chance of survival of the deceased,” Additional Sessions Judge Lal Singh said, handing down capital punishment to convict Brijkishore, alias Bittu, after terming it as “a rarest of rare” case. Bittu was incensed with the deceased Madan Mohan Lal Verma for removing an unauthorised construction belonging to his (Bittu’s) father which had come up in a park in the Sukhdev Vihar area. Bittu murdered Verma, secretary of Sukhdev Vihar House Building Cooperative Society and Sukhdev Vihar Welfare Association, on January 1, 2000.
Nigerian gets 4-yr RI in cocaine case A city court today sentenced a Nigerian national to four years of rigorous imprisonment for possessing 70 gm of cocaine. Special Judge N. K. Sharma also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the accused Shokambi Anthony, alias Frady. Acting on a tip-off that four Nigerian nationals — Frady, Emeka, Ola-Yinka and Ikechi — would assemble at a house in Vikaspuri with heroin and cocaine, the Narcotics Branch of Delhi Police nabbed Frady on April 15, 2003. However, his three associates managed to escape. In a subsequent search, the police seized the banned drug from his possession. Charges were framed under the relevant sections of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act against Frady on November 12, 2003.3. Shokambi added a lot of drama to the case when he alleged that he was accosted by the policemen on his way back from the embassy. They also took away his US $ 1,500, he had alleged. When he objected, he was beaten and falsely implicated in the drug case, he told the court. However, the court did not find his argument tenable. The testimony of the police officials was found to be fully reliable, the court said. This is not the first catch involving a foreigner in a drug case.
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Land mafia in 30 villages to get the stick
Greater Noida, September 10 The main issue to be probed will be the illegal possession of village society (Gram Sabha) land or the government land by the mafia in connivance with certain officials. A complete report is being prepared on the involvement of government officials in getting the public land transferred to the mafia. Dy DM, officer in charge, tehsildars and naib dy tehsildars have been assigned this job. The SDM Dadri and Sadar have already started scrutinising the documents in connection with two villages each. DM Santosh Yadav has ordered that the inquiry should be completed by September 30, 2004. The committee will also examine whether any documents had been replaced in the files to facilitate the work of the mafia. In Sadar Tehsil, City Magistrate RK Singh and officer in charge Rajiv Gupta will conduct the probe of 18 villages. The state government has recently directed all the district magistrates to identify persons who have encroached upon or got the village land transferred to their names illegally.
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Campaign to focus on young diabetics
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 10 Dr Ashok Jhingan, diabetologist and Chairman of DDRC told mediapersons here today that the Centre’s sixth annual diabetes health mela on October 1 will mark the beginning of the campaign. The mela will be held at the Talkatora ground from October 1 to 3. Dr Jhingan said that diabetes is affecting the youth in India at an endemic pace. “In many cases, diabetes can be prevented and trials have shown that sustained lifestyle changes in diet and physical activity can reduce the risk of developing type II diabetes.” Dr S. K. Wangnoo, Senior Endocrinologist at Indrapratha Apollo Hospital, who will lead the working group for the proposed FYD project, said that India is facing a growing diabetes epidemic. “WHO is supporting ongoing initiatives to prevent and manage diabetes. We want to help safeguard the interests of the young, especially from the underprivileged segments by asking for government intervention in programmes.” The working group will comprise leading endocrinologists, diabetologist, experts in diabetes management and diabetes education, bureaucrats, members of Parliament, professionals from media and health sector and association representatives.
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IN NUTSHELL Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 10 The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) claimed that the ‘bandh’, which began yesterday, was a ‘’complete success’’. “The teachers in all colleges have responded to our call. The strike is a complete success,’’ said DUTA president Aditya Narayan Mishra. The DUSU and DUCKU have also joined in the bandh. Mr Mishra said Vice-Chancellor Deepak Nayar has refused to meet DUTA office-bearers to discuss their demands.
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Stress on oral health at dental congress
New Delhi, September 10 This is for the first time that several heads of the international dental community from across the globe have come together under one roof to promote the concept of Oral Health care & Hygiene. “Traditionally, oral health care has low priority in developing countries. Most resources devoted to health are channelled towards the control of communicable diseases. Besides, dental decay in number of countries, oral cancer, tooth loss, oral manifestations of HIV infection are also common oral public health problems. In some countries in Asia, oral cancer accounts for up to 50 per cent of all cancers. We in India, therefore, need an appropriate coordinated national and global oral health strategies and a strong preventive oral care, to avert the incident of oral diseases, majority of which are preventable and can be simply treated,” says Dr Subhash C. Shetty, president, Indian Dental Association.
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Photo show on Sept 11 US attack
New Delhi, September 10 A large number of students from different schools in the Capital have witnessed the exhibition, which will continue till September 11. The Delhi Police Commissioner, Dr K. K. Paul, inaugurated the exhibition on September 6. Dr Michael Anderson, Minister Counsellor Public Affairs, US Embassy, and Mr Deepak Mishra, Joint Commissioner of Police, were also present on the occasion. Dr Anderson praised the commitment of the school and the students in raising awareness against this serious threat. The students also staged a peace march from the school to the Central Market, Ashok Vihar, which was flagged off by the police chief. The police chief urged the public to cooperate with the police to eliminate crime and terrorism from the society. The Principal, Dr Subhas Arora, praised Mr Kamal Sharma for his efforts to raise public awareness against terrorism. The exhibition is expected to sensitise the students to the cause of preserving world peace and to impress upon the elders to leave a legacy of peace and harmony for posterity, a release said.
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Eight thieves nabbed, goods seized
Ghaziabad, September 10 The criminals have confessed to a number of heinous crimes. The thieves came from Bihar, Khagadia district, Chhapra, Katehar, Eta, Meerut and Ferozabad. The thieves, the police said, looted a house after making some women captive in Kavi Nagar five years ago and had looted Rs 30,000 from the house of a trader in Sihani Gate area.
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BJP activist dies while giving speech
New Delhi, September 10 According to the police, Deepak Bhatia was on a hunger strike for the last three days on the issue of shifting industries from Vishwas Nagar to some other industrial area. When he stood up to deliver his speech, he did not have the energy to carry on. While he was delivering the speech, he suddenly collapsed on the ground. Later, he was taken to the nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead. According to party workers, who were present at the spot, “He was fighting for the rights of the small scale industrialists for a long time. His aim was to get the industrialists best possible relief while shifting the factories from Vishwas Nagar to another industrial area.”
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Contractors’ strike threatens to spill over
New Delhi, September 10 Apparently, the MCD has not paid money it owes to these contractors. The non-payment of outstanding dues has resulted in delay of civic works. The contractors have also stopped taking up development works.
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Sajjan, CM discuss closure of units
New Delhi, September 10 Mr Sajjan Kumar, who was accompanied by certain legislators, later told reporters that he had sought urgent steps to safeguard the interests of industrial workers and owners alike. He quoted the chief minister as saying that a meeting would be called to arrive at an acceptable solution.
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Polio case in Sambhawali
Ghaziabad, September 10
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Preservation of ozone layer
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HelpAge tie-up
New Delhi, September 10
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