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Three cops suspended for torture, death of junk dealers
Narcotics worth Rs 2.5 cr seized
Son of senior journalist killed
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Haryana has low percentage of birth, death registration
HC for laws to regulate installation of colony gates
Expressions of freedom through films
Women’s safety still given the go-by
Big hike likely in Ghaziabad land prices
Amity students on the warpath
Ghaziabad, Vaishali bedevilled by robberies
Link road to Dwarka to be partially opened soon
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Three cops suspended for torture, death of junk dealers
Greater Noida, March 8 The police had tortured the three and killed them later. The cops then destroyed their bodies, the relatives have alleged. A case has been filed in Kasna police station against Aloke Sharma and 10 other policemen. SSP Piyush Mordia said three junk dealers, Asif, son of Abdul Rashid, Meherban, son of Jaffer and Arshad, son of Jamir, had come from Dadri to Gama Sector of Greater Noida on September 24, 2004. They were all between 18 and 24 years. When they did not return home for five days, their relatives filed a missing report in Kasna police station about the three on October 10, 2004. But the police did not take any step to locate them. On March 1, 2005, the families of the missing junk dealers complained to the SSP Mordia that their sons had gone missing during the days when the police had launched a campaign against the junk dealers. The police had tortured the three. They were later killed and the cops then destroyed their bodies, the relatives have alleged. It is suspected that one of the junk dealers had died during police torture and the other two were killed so that the incident remained under wraps. Police Circle Officer, Greater Noida, Sarvanand Yadav was asked to probe the whole matter. The CO in his report has stated that security guard Chander Pal of Gate No. 1 of Gama-II sector had handed over the three junk dealers to the Kasna police on the fateful day for having entered the forbidden area. An SI, Attar Singh Meena, then posted in the Kasna police station, has stated that the then SO Aloke Sharma and 10 other policemen had mercilessly beaten up the three men. Later, the detained men had disappeared. Now that for five months, three young men have not returned home, their families suspect that they have been killed by the police and the evidence has been destroyed. After the CO Sarvanand Yadava’s report, an FIR under IPC 364, 330, 342, 201 and 120 has been filed against SO Aloke Sharma, Hd Constable R Sanchi Mishra, policemen Ravi Dutt, Tyagi, Kumar Pal Singh, Sanjay Singh, Safdar Khan, Parminder Singh, Karamveer Sing, Sat Prakash and Netra Pal Singh. All these cops are currently posted in different police stations of the district while Aloke Sharma is in the police lines. The SSP Mordia has constituted a committee comprising SP (rural), MP Singh, CO-I SR Yadav and CO Javer Dev Kalan Ken. DIG RK Vishwakarma had also visited Kasna police station on Monday to inquire about the crime.
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Narcotics worth Rs 2.5 cr seized
New Delhi, March 8 Acting on a tip-off, the sleuths nabbed one Manish Kumar from Lal Bagh Azad Pur and seized 500 grams of heroin from his possession. In the second case, one Suresh Kumar, who hails from Bihar, was arrested and five kilograms of charas was seized from his possession. In another case, one Pradeep Kumar Gupta, alias Bhure from Uttar Pradesh, was arrested and two kilograms of heroin was recovered from his possession. During interrogation, the accused told the sleuths that he purchased opium from one person in Badayun and manufactured heroin at his home.
Policeman
killed
A policeman posted with the 8th Battalion of the Rajasthan Armed Constabulary allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself from his service weapon last night in the
Nizammuddin area of south Delhi. The deceased has been identified as Satbir Singh, who hails from Churu
of Rajasthan. The police said the cause of his suicide is yet to be ascertained, as the deceased had not left any suicide note. However, sources said that the deceased was under depression for quite some time, as he was unable to visit his family in Rajasthan. The Rajasthan Police has been informed and the postmortem examination will take place today.
Suicide case
A 28-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in Turkman Gate area of Central Delhi by hanging himself with a chain due to disputes with his
in-laws. The neighbours of the deceased alleged that Iqbal was beaten up by the police last evening in front of his wife and his family members in the police station. A worker in a meat shop, Iqbal was summoned by the police following a complaint by his wife, Nawabjadi. The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central), Mr M. M. Oberoi, said that Iqbal hanged himself with a chain near the staircase of his house last evening after his family and his in-laws failed to come to an agreement over ‘settlement’ of their marital disputes. ‘’There had been a discord going on between Iqbal and his wife, where she demanded expenses for living separately, which he refused citing financial constraints.’’ The families approached the police in Turkman Gate ‘Chowki’ to settle the matter yesterday. However, the dispute could not be amicably settled. A resident of Pahari Peepla in Peepul Wali Gali under Turkman Gate police station, Iqbal had been accompanied by his mother to the police chowki, while his wife was led by her brothers and parents, Mr Oberoi said. After reaching home Iqbal hung himself with a chain. He was noticed hanging by his neighbour, who then rushed him to the hospital, where he was declared brought dead.
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Son of senior journalist killed
New Delhi, March 8 The victim, Kinshuk Sharma (21), who was riding a motorcycle, was hit by the vehicle from behind. He was rushed to hospital by his friend, who was riding along with him on another motorcycle. He was, however, declared brought dead. Kinshuk was studying Journalism. The accident occurred at around 1 a.m. Kinshuk was the only son of Mr Vinod Sharma, Associate Editor, Hindustan Times and Ms Ritambhra Shastri, Senior News Editor with the UNI. The cremation of the victim took place today at the Lodhi Road cremation grounds. The former Prime Minister, Mr V. P. Singh, Union Ministers, Mr Kapil Sibal and Mr Jaipal Reddy, the Chairperson of the Congress party, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, senior party leaders, serving and retired bureaucrats and a large number of journalists were present at the cremation. A prayer meeting will be held on March 10 at the Samachar Apartments in Mayur Vihar 1.
‘Hospitals run without forensic experts’
The former BJP Councillor, Dr Mahender Nagpal, alleged that hospitals run by the Delhi Government are without forensic experts. Moreover, there was lack of proper equipments for the postmortem examination, he alleged. Nine posts of forensic experts are lying vacant in different hospitals. As a result of the lack of forensic experts and other staff members in the mortuary, the postmortem examination reports are often delayed.
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Haryana has low percentage of birth, death registration
Faridabad, March 8 He said the states like Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and
Maharashtra had been doing well and were nearing the cent per cent target. He said even in the neighbouring state of Punjab, it was 89.3 and 87.8 per cent respectively. In Haryana, the rate of birth and death registration was just 75.7 and 72.6 per cent respectively. The situation in the rural areas of the state was well below average and only few people could produce the birth certificate of their children at the time of admission in the school. He said as part of the measures, the authorities concerned had distributed 37 lakh certificates in the state to be given to the children at the time of their birth in the past about two years. In Faridabad district, 1.30 lakh and 2.05 lakh certificates had been given in the rural and urban areas respectively during this period. He stated that the government had made compulsory the birth certificates at the time of admission to the schools in every government and private school. The Census Commissioner also announced that the Union government would soon be providing ‘multi-purpose identity cards’ to the residents and for getting such a card, one would need a birth certificate. He said from January 1, 2005, the government had authorised the primary health centres to register the birth and death, which had earlier been done by the police stations of the area concerned. He said now all such incidents could be recorded by the authorised persons, including the Anganwadi worker, village chowkidar, multi-purpose health workers and the sarpanch of a village. He said the applicant would be required to fill up a form and submit at the health centre. He asked the district officials to create an awareness among the people, especially in the rural areas about the need and importance of the registration of births and deaths.
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HC for laws to regulate installation of colony gates
New Delhi, March 8 Rejecting the MCD’s status report in this regard, Justice S. Ravindra Bhat directed the civic body to involve all the parties concerned, preferably after seeking the opinion of RWAs, which were likely to be affected by any such decision. “It would be in the interest of transparency
that public comment is elicited, in some manner, through public notice, advertisement or notice
on the MCD website,” Justice Bhat said. The petitioner’s counsel, Ms Rekha Palli, pointed out that the status report was not in tune with the court’s August 20, 2004, order, which required the MCD to frame a policy to regulate and check “haphazard erection of entry gates” after due consultation with the Police Commissioner. The matter was adjourned to May 2 after the MCD counsel, Mr Ashok Bhasin, sought time to obtain instructions and file an appropriate response or take action on the court’s advice. The court is dealing with a PIL filed by Sarita Vihar RWA seeking direction to the MCD to frame proper guidelines for installation and manning of security gates in areas under its jurisdiction in consultation with the police and the RWAs. The PIL also sought a direction to restrain the MCD from removing the duly manned security gates in Sarita Vihar. Under Section 317 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, projections upon streets are prohibited unless the same was
done with the written permission of the MCD Commissioner. Palli submitted that security of residents should be one of the prime considerations while framing the policy.
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Expressions of freedom through films
New Delhi, March 8 A three-day film festival titled, ‘Expressions of Freedom’, is an attempt to define freedom and feminism. It shatters the myths about the bra burning aspects of feminism as it draws out and frames the hopes and aspirations of women, who are supposed to hold up half the sky and puts forth their everyday trials and travails. Through the works of women filmmakers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Palestine, the ideas of liberation and a woman’s quest for freedom of expression are displayed and examined. If Paromita Vohra’s ‘Unlimited Girls’ asks questions about feminism in our lives and why women must lead double lives, her counterpart from Sri Lanka, Sharmini Boyle and Siyangka Nawaz, through ‘Rajeshwari’, a television series, explore situations of conflict and their impact in the lives of people. It is a story of the experiences of a woman, who was affected by the conflict in Sri Lanka. These films draw attention to issues of gender, sexuality, violence, conflict and human rights. In ‘India Cabaret’, Mira Nair focusses on the hopes and fears of female strippers in a Mumbai nightclub while respecting their pride and resilience. Striking a similarity between the lives of women separated by the boundaries of land, the film from Palestine, ‘Until When …’ by Dahn Abourahme, depicts the lives of Palestinians today. Films on socially relevant issues like the declining sex ratio, relationships, economic freedom and the different roles of women will be screened at the event, being organised at the India International Centre till March 10.
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Women’s safety still given the go-by
Faridabad, March 8 The law and order machinery was unable to provide security to them and had been taking the pending cases of crime against women rather lightly. This was observed in a special meeting organised here today to observe the day by the Sarva Karamchari Sangh, Haryana. Speaking on the occasion, Mrs Asha Sharma, a leader of the Sangh, expressed concern over the rising crime graph against women in the state and the district. She said the police had been unable to arrest even one person in connection with the alleged abduction and murder of Puja Grover, a young fashion designer, whose body was found hanging from a tree in December 2003. The police administration took the matter lightly and the case was closed, she regretted. Mrs Sharma said the incident would remain a ‘blot’ on the functioning of the police administration and it would remind the people, especially the women of the district, how safe they were in this developed society. Meena Kumari, another speaker on the occasion, said that there was no use of observing such days, unless we did not educate and make the women aware of their rights and responsibilities. She said the women would have to make efforts to meet the challenge, as the number of educated and independent women had been still few, especially in the rural areas. She said the majority of the women in the villages and towns of the state did not even know if there was anything like ‘women’s day’, as their daily routine begins and ends with the usual grind. The speakers asked the government to take measures to provide an easy justice to the women in the various spheres of life and ensure that they were not discriminated against in any matter. The participants decided to set up a district unit of the ‘Janwadi Mahila Samiti,’ here, to take up the matters of ‘injustice’ to the women.
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Big hike likely in Ghaziabad land prices
Ghaziabad, March 8 The UP Housing Development Council could be expected to hike its land prices by at least 16 per cent, according to insiders. The Housing Development Council has fixed its land prices from Rs 6,750 to Rs 8,100 per sq mt. The rate of land under Scheme No. 3 in Sectors 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 19 has been fixed at Rs 8,100 per sq mt. According to senior officers, since the market rate is Rs 10,000 per sq mt, the council is also likely to hike the land rates by 25% to fix it at Rs 10,000 per sq mt. The present rates of land are Rs 6,750 per sq mt. under Scheme No 3 in Sectors 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17. But it is to be hiked by 50 per cent in keeping with the market trends. The council is also known to have taken a decision to hike the land rates of its Varindavan project and Hardoi Road project by at least 16 per cent. The Parishad has also decided to increase the rates of land in its Kamla Nagar project (Agra), Sekandra and trans-Yamuna projects, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Meerut, Kanpur, Bareilly housing projects by at last 16 per cent. The rates of land in projects in other towns, where the demand for the housing plots is almost nil, will not be hiked, it is learnt.
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Amity students on the warpath
Noida, March 8 A large posse of police had to be deployed to maintain peace as the students gave vent to their anger against the Supreme Court orders, denying 100 private institutions, including Amity Business School the status of a private university, following a decision on a PIL filed by eminent educationist, scientist and former chairman of UGC Prof Yashpal on February 11. The students accused the Amity school management of misleading them. They felt their future was dark. The Sector-39 police had a tough time in persuading the students to clear from the expressway. The Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice R.C. Lahoti, Justice G.P. Mathur and Justice P.K. Bal had ruled, denying the status of private universities to 100 institutions recognised by
Chhattisgarh University. Amity Business School and Rai University of Noida were affected by the apex court order, which thousands of the students of Amity International School felt had sealed their future. The internal exam of 1st year students was being conducted yesterday, which was boycotted by the students, who had torn off their exam papers. The students had levelled charges of serious mismanagement and cheating against the Amity school.
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Ghaziabad, Vaishali bedevilled by robberies
Ghaziabad, March 8 In an advocate’s house in Vaishali, under Sahibabad police station area and a few yards from Vaishali police posts, robbers had ransacked the house and decamped with valuables worth lakhs. The advocate had gone out to attend the last rites of his mother in Madhubani, Bihar. In Sahibabad area, the number of incidents of loot and theft has gone up alarmingly of late. Some criminals in Ambe Market had looted Rs 3 lakh worth of goods and valuables from a tyre merchant Prahlad Kumar Khanna’s place. The list of incidents of loot and robberies in this area is quite long. In Rajinder Nagar, robbers had looted a house when a marriage was to be solemnised recently. In Vijay Nagar, the criminals had targeted the house of a railway employee while under Kotwali police station in Kela Bhatta area, the house of a furnisher, Shakil Ahmed, was targeted. The police have not yet registered any case. In Shakil Ahmed’s house, robbers had broken in at night and decamped with jewellery worth lakhs and Rs 10,000 in cash. The family came to know of the burglary in the morning. Immediately a written report was filed with the police. Robbers ransacked the house of Ramveer Singh, an
Asst Transport Manager in the railways, in Vijay Nagar, Sector-9 on Saturday.
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Link road to Dwarka to be partially opened soon
New Delhi, March 8 One of the existing entry to the sub-city from the IGI Airport side through Shahbad- Muhammadpur railway crossing is also being widened to a 16 mts road. The flyover from domestic airport to Sector 1 Dwarka is also expected to be thrown open by April 5. Meanwhile, the Delhi Metro Rail and the Delhi Development Authority are also in the process of finalising the extension of metro services from Dwarka Sector 9 to Sector 22. The DDA is also considering to provide an alternative road to the present congested road through Mahavir Enclave connecting the sub-city with West Delhi.
Maintenance of streetlights
The Leader of Opposition, Mr Subhash Arya, welcomed the decision of the Lt-Governor, Mr B. L. Joshi, to stop the handing over the maintenance work of streetlights in the national Capital to private companies.
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Sikh scholar remembered
New Delhi, March 8 He said Maskeen not only preached the Sikh scriptures but also highlighted the importance of morality, ethics and ones duties towards his family, society and
country. — TNS
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French academicians at AIT
New Delhi, March 8
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