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PAC chairman’s resignation turned down by Speaker
Taj Expressway probe entrusted to Vigilance
Revenue men holding up registration of 500 properties
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NCW probes rustication of girl from school
Businessman, family commit suicide
Wanted criminal in police net
Agitated slum dwellers disrupt anti-encroachment drive
Dengue fever: Tally crosses 170
Army man, millionaire’s son held for theft
Three killed in road accident
Two cops in jail for extortion
Sheetla Saras Mela ends
Govt to survey 26 more industrial areas
Twinning programme at AIT
Parliament employee gets 5-yr RI for ‘spying’
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PAC chairman’s resignation turned down by Speaker
New Delhi, September 27 “I haven’t accepted his resignation. He has made no mistake,” Singh told reporters here. The Speaker, who was responding to a query on whether he had accepted the resignation of PAC chairman and Congress MLA S C Vats, said the committee was a mini-house whose duty it was to study the CAG Report on power privatisation in Delhi. Vats, meanwhile, said he will go by the Speaker’s ruling. “I will do as the Speaker asks,” he told reporters PTI when asked if he still stood by his decision to quit the post. “It is the job of the committee to study the CAG Report, hold
discussions on it and prepare its own report on the issue,” Singh said. Vats had resigned from the PAC chairman’s post on the eve of the Monsoon Session, hinting that there was an attempt to sabotage the report. The Report of the Public Accounts Committee on the Privatisation of Power in Delhi, which reportedly indicts the Sheila Dikshit government on the issue and has called for a CBI inquiry into the reforms process, was to be tabled in the three-day Monsoon Session which ended yesterday. Singh said he will ask Vats to take back his resignation, adding he will call a meeting of the nine-member committee over the report. “I will tell them that it is their responsibility to prepare the report, which they should fulfil. There should be no politics over the report,” Singh said. When asked whether Vats had not lost the confidence of the PAC members as revealed by the opposition by majority of them to the report on power privatisation, Singh said, “I have chosen him for the post, not the members”. Parrying a question on whether the contents of the report getting “leaked” to the media was not a breach of
privilege of the House, the Speaker said, “If you have any complaints to make, give them in written to me and action will be taken”. Meanwhile, giving an overview of the business transacted during the Monsoon Session, Singh said while the House was supposed to run for ten hours and 30 minutes, it transacted business for 18 hours and 30 minutes.
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Taj Expressway probe entrusted to Vigilance
Greater Noida, September 27 The vigilance team had visited the Greater Noida office last week to examine the documents connected with the case. The vigilance team is also understood to have taken along certain files. The state government had approved the 160-km-long eight-lane Taj Expressway from Noida to Agra in 2002. The implementation of the project had been entrusted to the J. P. Group. But later some amendments were affected in the land acquisition plans. Under the changed scheme, it was decided that 70 per cent of the land would be returned to the land owners/farmers for putting up industrial units by constructing a service lane on either side while no compensation would be paid for the remaining 30 per cent land to the farmers. Following this, a number of IAS officers and land sharks had reportedly purchased huge chunks of lands from the farmers near Amarpur village where plans for a township were also approved. Since the strong IAS lobby and land mafia syndicate had developed vested interests in this project, the alignment of the Taj Expressway was got altered in connivance with Greater Noida Authority bureaucrats. In keeping with the original plans, the Taj Expressway was to pass from Murshidpur and Jaganpur villages. But under the influence of the IAS lobby and land mafia the alignment of the Expressway was changed to pass through Amarpur village abadi land where IAS officers and the land mafia had developed strong vested interests. After this, under the new requirements of land acquisition 70 per cent of the land of Narinder Kumar, Charan Singh, Deepanjali Agarwal, Raju Singh, Lajja Ram, M/s Rekha Estates P Ltd, Premlata and Mahabir Prasad was transferred to the Greater Noida Authority’s developed area under Section 161. A letter to the SDM was sent by the Greater Noida Authority and on the basis of this communication the then SDM had allowed the exchange of land which was, however, cancelled later when an inquiry into the whole case was ordered to be conducted by the ACEO, Greater Noida, Sudhir Garg. In his inquiry report to the government, Mr Garg had said this exchange of land should not have been allowed by the Greater Noida Authority under the UPZA and LR Act. But the then General Manager Project, Mr S. S. Raghav, of the GNIDA had placed the entire records before the then Deputy CEO, Mr Komal Ram, who had signed it, which was against government policy.
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Revenue men holding up registration of 500 properties
Ghaziabad, September 27 In this connection, a delegation of the persons affected has met the City Magistrate and the District Magistrate. As a result of this delay, the government is also losing sizeable revenue by way of stamp duty. They apprised the District Magistrate that the registration was hanging fire because the reports needed about the ownership of these properties were not being forwarded on time. The main culprits for holding up the report were the corrupt lekhapals, the delegation told the District Magistrate. The owners have pleaded with the District Magistrate to allow registration of all those 500 properties. In future, the inquiry report should be insisted upon before parties are asked to buy stamp papers. The Additional DM City, who is looking after the work of Additional Magistrate (Revenue), said a way was being devised to solve this ticklish problem. The report on the whole case is being sent to the Principal Secretary (Revenue), Lucknow, and on his instructions further action will be taken. The tehsildars have also been asked
to expedite reports about the sellers of properties, the Additional DM (Revenue) said.
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NCW probes rustication of girl from school
New Delhi, September 27 Taking suo-motu cognisance of a media report regarding expulsion of a class XI girl student of Janki Devi Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in Mayur Vihar area of east Delhi, an inquiry committee of the Commission visited the school premises today and carried out a detailed inquiry, an NCW spokesperson said. The committee, headed by NCW Member Yasmeen Abrar, examined the School Principal Rajesh Kumari, Vice-Principal Beena Kanojia as well as the father of the girl. The NCW spokesperson said that the Commission will also write to the Director, Education, Delhi Government to submit a report to it regarding the circumstances of expulsion of the girl from the government school. The Commission will also examine the representatives of an NGO, Pratidhi and other persons who have been associated with the case. The girl had allegedly been abducted outside her school on August 23. She was rescued from a village near Noida on September 5. However, the school principal had said that the girl had eloped with a man known to her and rusticated her for long absence from school, a media report said.
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Businessman, family commit suicide
New Delhi, September 27
While the businessman Vinod Rathore (43) was found hanging in the verandah of the ground floor residence, his son Karan alias Abhi (15) had allegedly hanged himself from the fan in the drawing room and his wife Soma (40) and daughter Neha (18) in the second room from the ventilator and fan respectively, according to a senior police official. The were found hanging by their landlord, who lived on the first floor, early this morning when he did not get any response. Rathore, who owns an embroidery unit at Shanti Mohalla in Gandhi Nagar, was facing severe financial difficulties and was being
harassed from recovery agents of the banks he had taken loans from. The suicide note, found pasted to a calender in the drawing room, said that machines in his factory
be sold off to pay the dues of two of his employees — Sheikh Mohammad and Salman. It also mentioned that no one from among his relatives came forward to help him except his landlord
and the two labourers who did not leave him till the very end. The bodies have been sent for postmortem examination. The family suicide caused considerable concern in the predominantly middle class colony. A large number of neighbours and residents of the area gathered outside the house as the bodies were discovered this morning.
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Wanted criminal in police net
New Delhi, September 27 The sleuths also claimed to have recovered one pistol along with four live cartridges from the criminal, who was earlier detained under the National Security Act. The accused has been identified as one Krishan Solanki alias Billu, resident of Dabri in South-West district. Acting on a tip-off that the suspect would come near Mathura Road to meet his associate on September 26, the sleuths formed a special team to nab him. Sensing trouble, Solanki whipped out a pistol and fired at the police party. However, Solanki was soon overpowered by the alert cops. During interrogation, Solanki told the sleuths that he along with his associates, Deepak, Hari Kishan and Rajesh Deshwal alias Dholu, stopped a bus on Ring Road and severely beat up the driver. Solanki also confessed that he beat up the driver to take revenge for his advocate’s murder. In another case, the Crime Branch claimed to have arrested three persons on charges of murder-cum-robbery of a businessman on August 20 in Ashok Vihar area. The accused persons arrested have been identified as Suraj Chaudhary alias Chintaram alias Chintamani (30), Santosh Kumar Shukla and Jai Ram, all residents of Basti. The accused persons reached the house of the businessman, identified as one Pardeep Gupta and decamped with Rs 10 lakh in cash after inflicting serious injuries to him. The victim owned ‘Krishna Metals’ on Qutab Road. The sleuths mounted electronic surveillance and sent teams to Dehradun, Basti, Meerut, Roorkee and Faizabad. Based on a tip-off, the sleuths arrested the suspects in Faizabad. During interrogation the accused persons confessed to their crime and disclosed their involvement in several cases of murder, robbery, snatching and Arms Act.
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Agitated slum dwellers disrupt anti-encroachment drive
New Delhi, September 27 As a huge posse of policemen arrived here at around noon to supervise the demolition of the unauthorised slums between Anand Lok societies and Sahyog Apartments as per orders of the Delhi High Court, they were confronted by the slum dwellers, who put up barricades to block the demolition drive and shouted slogans against the Delhi Development Authority and the Sheila Dikshit government leading to tension in the area. As the stand-off between the police and the slum dwellers continued, additional force had been summoned, the police said. The demolition drive was in pursuance of the recent order by the Delhi High Court directing the authorities to file affidavits detailing the action taken to implement its earlier order calling for removal of unauthorised structures on the Yamuna riverbed as well as on its embankments. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice B. C. Patel and Justice B. D. Ahmed last month gave the directions to the Union and Delhi Governments, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and its Slum Department, Delhi Development Authority, Delhi Jal Board and Public Works Department after failing to get a satisfactory answer to what had been done by the authorities to comply with the Court’s March 3, 2004, order of a Division Bench comprising Justices Vijender Jain and B. N. Chaturvedi in this regard. On February 11, the High Court had vacated its stay on the demolition drive by the city authorities and thereby allowed simultaneous operation to evict or relocate encroachers from the Yamuna Pushta, the illegal hutment colony along the Yamuna river in the Capital to different re-settlement sites to continue.
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Dengue fever: Tally crosses 170
New Delhi, September 27 From September 1 to 24, 153 cases of Malaria were reported in the Capital out of which 55 cases were from Delhi, 58 from Uttar Pradesh, 16 from Haryana and five from other states,
he said. The minister instructed health officials to speed up efforts to further minimise cholera cases as in the reported week. 35,51,280 cholera tablets and 14,336 ORS packets were distributed in the city. Out of the total of 2,762 cases of water tested by MCD staff for free chlorine, 20 were found unfit whereas out of the total of 488 cases of joint water testing with DJB two were found unfit. In the reported week, 6,72,509 Blood slides were collected and 13,34,741 houses were sprayed. 9,72,062 houses were inspected for domestic breeding out of which 28,667 houses found positive for breeding, whereas during Anti-Malaria operations 29,402 legal notices were issued and 15,562 cases were launched for prosecution. Stressing on the need of awareness among the people about the dangers of mosquito breeding in houses and other premises, Dr Shastri said the government would take all possible preventive measures for Malaria cases so that mosquito breeding was controlled. The minister also instructed to issue legal notices and chalans to the owners of buildings for non-compliance of anti-larval measures. Senior officers from Health Department, MCD and NDMC were present in the meeting.
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Army man, millionaire’s son held for theft
Noida, September 27 One of the criminals arrested, the police said, was an Army jawan currently posted with Rajputana Riles in Assam while the other was running a restaurant in Gurgaon and the son of a millionaire. According to SSP Piyush Mordia, a police team headed by the Sector 39 police, Mr Anil Pratap Singh, which was patrolling, signalled a Wagon-R car in Sector 43 in which three youths were sitting to stop for a check. But the youth, instead, fired on the police team and tried to flee. The police were able to surround and overpower them. A bag full of coins worth Rs 10,000 was found in the car and so was some gold jewellery. On frisking, two local revolvers and one dagger were seized from the thieves. The thieves identified themselves as Satpal, alias Satu of Gurgaon, Surinder of Gurgaon and Ranveer of GB Nagar. According to the police Circle Officer Uday Shankar, Satyapal was an Army man currently posted in Delta Company 11, a platoon of Rajputana Riles, posted in Guwahati, Assam. On leave these days, he had surveyed Sectors 36, 37, 39, 40 and 41. The houses they had found locked during the day were rechecked in the evening. They selected the house of a businessman from Kerala, T. S. Murli, in Sector 39 which was locked till late in the evening. Surinder, the other accused, the police said, was a millionaire. He had a roaring hotel business and his father, from Kasan village in Gurgaon, had recently got land compensation from HUDA running into crores, the SP City said. He had fallen in bad company due to his habitual drinking.
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Three killed in road accident
Noida, September 27 The Expressway, which has been dubbed an expressway of accidents, is mostly used by young people “who love to fly over” it, which sometimes result in fatal accidents. Most of the drivers in the evenings are drunk. Both the vehicles were flattened in the accident that took place near Amity School in Sector 39. According to eyewitnesses, there was no obstruction on the road which could have caused the accident. The injured were rushed to Noida hospitals where three men were declared dead. SSP Piyush Mordia said, “Police Gypsys cannot catch up with the vehicles as drivers tend to speed up on the Expressway as there is a quite bit of traffic on the road” Those who travel on this 25-km-long road die either due to their own mistakes or the faults of other drivers who are tempted to press the accelerator on their vehicles. The low level of dividers and heaps of building materials on the sideways and stationery vehicles parked in the middle have also been the cause of many accidents. The police have also not been able to fix cameras and speed testing metres to haul up the overspeeding vehicles.
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Two cops in jail for extortion
Noida, September 27 Dy GM Sanjeev Dhar of Hind International Co of Okhla, Delhi, had come here with a lady officer of the company to take a house on rent in Greater Noida on September 20. A little farther from Pari Chowk, Constables Sudesh Kumar and Jitender came up in a police gypsy and frisked them and their car. During the search, they beat up Sanjeev Dhar and misbehaved with the woman. They forcibly took out Dhar’s ATM card, took him to HDFC Bank in Greater Noida, withdrew Rs 10,000 from it and then only allowed them to leave. According to the report, Sanjeev Dhar and his colleague were talking while standing near their car. The policemen took them for lovers and planned to exploit the situation. They also snatched Rs 5,000 from them which they were carrying. The victim Sanjeev Dhar complained to the SSP the next morning. Mr Piyush Mordia asked CO K.K.Gautam to conduct an inquiry, which proved
the misconduct of the policemen. On getting the report, SSP Mordia has suspended both the cops and arrested Sudesh Kumar and Jitender and sent them to jail. A case under Sections 386, 342 and 304 has been registered against them in Surajpur police station.
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Sheetla Saras Mela ends
Gurgaon, September 27 The Mela, sponsored by the Union Rural Development Ministry, was attended by artisans from 16 states. Among the states of the region, Jammu Kashmir and Delhi were conspicuously missing. The event was for the members of the Self Help Groups (SHGs), constituted under a scheme of the Union Rural Development Ministry, to help its members showcase their products manufactured through their group enterprise. The scheme is implemented in all the states through the District Rural Development Agencies (DRDA) in the districts under the chairmanship of the deputy commissioners concerned. The event is an annual affair and it was the first time that it was organised in Haryana.
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Govt to survey 26 more industrial areas
New Delhi, September 27 The list of 26 areas has been sent to Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation (DSIDC) for carrying out the survey, officials said. Bowing to pressure from owners of small manufacturing units in the capital, Chief Minister Ms Sheila Dikshit had said her government would consider the claims of localities left out of the forthcoming notification of industrial areas. She gave the assurance that the claims of the remaining areas will be examined and forwarded to the Union Urban Development Ministry.
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Twinning programme at AIT
Gurgaon, September 27 The Director of AIT, Prof M.P.Singh, said that it combines the best of Indian and foreign educational system. The AIT has twinning programme arrangements with US-based universities like Clemson University, North Dakota State University, Tarleton State University and Coastal Carolina University.
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Parliament employee gets 5-yr RI for ‘spying’
New Delhi, September 27
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