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Woman abducted from court found murdered
Nurse raped in hospital
3 clinics carrying out sex selection tests sealed
Counselling centres for girl children in distress
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Efforts on to put Faridabad on fast track to development: Hooda
DSGMC to take jatha to Pakistan
Sewadar Committee wants youngsters to follow
Two injured in CP cylinder blast
Delhi has season’s hottest day at 39 degree C
GB Nagar gets new DM
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Woman abducted from court found murdered
Ghaziabad, April 7 The body of the woman had been dumped in the jungles of Hiranpur in the Garh Mukteshwar region. The police have sent the body for a post-mortem. Seema, 32, of Sathla village under the Bibi Nagar police station had gone missing at 1 pm on Wednesday from Hapur courts in a mysterious way. Her body was later recovered from the jungle in the Garh Mukteshwar police station area. When her relatives went to Hapur looking for her there they were told that the body of a woman had been found in Garh. The body was later identified as that of Seema. The police are now trying to find out when and how she was done to death. She must have accompanied people known to her, who later dumped her body after her murder, the police feel. Seema, 32-year-old daughter of Brij Kishore of Sathla, had gone to Hapur courts on Wednesday in connection with a property dispute in which her mother Saroj was a party. She was last seen there at 1 pm. When her family tried to contact her on her mobile phone, a male voice was heard saying, “at least lock the car door.” Later, her relatives came to Hapur but could not trace her. The next day, they saw Seema’s body in the Ghaziabad mortuary. There was no injury mark on her body. She had either been poisoned or killed by suffocation. But the police suspect her adversaries in the court case. Even her husband is not beyond suspicion. The police said Seema had been married to Sandeep Kansal of Shahjahanpur but after a year she had come to stay with her parents due to marital discord. Her three-year-old son is also living with her. Seema’s divorce case is pending in a court.
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Nurse raped in hospital
Greater Noida, April 7 The SO, Kasna police station, Mr Shailender Kumar Sharma, admitted that a rape had taken place but the family of the victim said they would not file a written compliant. A young woman was working as a nurse in a private hospital in Knowledge Park-I. A lab technician in the same hospital had raped her on the night of March 29. The nurse had complained to the Chairman of the hospital. The police were informed of the incident by the hospital management. The police had interrogated the nurse, but she was not prepared to lodge a formal report with police out of fear of social stigma. When the police wanted to interrogate the lab technician at the hospital his colleagues said he had been absenting himself from hospital duty since March 30, the very next day of the incident. The Kasna SO said the girl’s parents had come to the police station but said they were not keen to register a formal report.
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3 clinics carrying out sex selection tests sealed
New Delhi, April 7 Malini Bhattacharya, member of the National Commission for Women (NCW) and the Health Ministry’s National Inspections and Monitoring Committee (NIMC) told reporters that the NIMC also seized documents and sealed the machines after the clinics at Okhla and Sangam Vihar were found violating the law. The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act prohibits sex selection and empowers officials to suspend or cancel the registration of any hospital, clinic or laboratory where sex determination tests are done. Action was taken against Lokpriya Clinic and Shadaab Clinic in Okhla and Dr K P Singh’s clinic at Sangam Vihar on April 4 and 5, Ms Bhattacharya said. Speaking on the occasion, NCW Chairperson Girija Vyas deplored that the PCPNDT Act was not being implemented strictly in many states where the sex ratio was low. Different states should enact laws to set up their own monitoring committees of the NIMC kind, she said.
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Counselling centres for girl children in distress
New Delhi, April 7 Once the centres start running, which will most likely to be in the last week of April, distressed women will be able to reach the counsellors directly in their centres. They women could also reach the CSR’s office on 26899998 for any assistance. “We would like to tell our women friends that they need to come out of their shell and raise their voice to fight the cases of violence. From our experience, we will add that women who face the maximum torture are the ones who prefer to remain silent despite physical and mental abuse,” says Dr Ranjana Kumar, Director, Centre for Social Research. Apart from providing assistance, these centres will make communities in these areas aware of women’s rights by organizing legal literacy and awareness programmes regarding social, economic, political and human rights of women, mobilize community to stop anti-social activities like harassment of women, alcohol-related violence, dowry harassment, gambling, etc in their area. “We want to have a proactive approach in reaching out to the community, rather than waiting for the distressed women to reach us. Through these centres, we hope to develop an army of trained counselors who will regularly interact with the community, create awareness about the rights and win their trust,” adds Dr Kumari. CSR, with the help of its counselling centres, has successfully handled hundreds of cases of domestic violence, rape (minors and adults), dowry demands, and sexual harassment over the years. These centres are not only acknowledged by the beneficiaries, the victims, their family members, community elders, but also by the state and national government.
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Water problem to be solved soon: Sheila
New Delhi, April 7 Providing water to 1.5 crore people of the city was a priority as well as a challenge, she told children at the ‘Jal Jaagrukta Award’ ceremony this morning. “There is water shortage everywhere and Delhi suffers from this malaise as well. We are trying to do our best to overcome this shortage,” Ms Dikshit said. Surely we are going to overcome it, she added. “Our stress is on distributing water equally to all people in Delhi, and for this, we need the support of children and citizens. We will work towards this end and solve the problem, she said. Ms Dikshit later gave awards to 13 students and three teachers under the ‘Jal Jaagrukta Abhiyaan’, a school education programme initiated by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) with support from the Delhi Jal Board
(DJB). Calling children the ‘agents of change’ of future India, DJB CEO Arun Mathur said the objective of the programme was to educate and create awareness among children on water conservation, and for this, ‘Jal Jaagrukta Clubs’ will be opened in schools.
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Efforts on to put Faridabad on fast track to development: Hooda
Faridabad, April 7 The government would also step up the campaign to check the growing incidence of female foeticide and the misuse of sex determination tests in the State. He said the government had launched a special scheme,
‘Ayush’, to provide various treatments including Allopathic, Homeopathy, Unani and Ayurvedic for the benefit of the people. He said even as efforts would be made to popularise Yoga among the masses, other therapies to tackle health disorders would also be strengthened. He also promised to take measures to check the violation of the PNDT Act and misuse of sex determination test. He said the government had already announced to observe the current year as the ‘year of the girl child’ and had started a scheme, ‘Ladli’, to promote the interest of the girl child. The Health Minister, Ms Kartar Devi, said that the government had opened 240 delivery huts, especially in the rural areas to facilitate safe delivery. Claming that the health camps were getting popular, she said that over 15,000 people took part in a camp held in Jhajjar last month. According to the Health Department, the government had raised the health budget from Rs 45 crore last year to Rs 80 crore in 2006.
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DSGMC to take jatha to Pakistan
New Delhi, April 7 The DSGMC will also organise a seminar in Lahore on the contribution of the fifth Sikh Guru, with participation from Persian and Sikh scholars, said DSGMC president Harvinder Singh Sarna, adding that they had already placed a request for permission in this regard to both Indian and Pakistan governments. Presiding over a conference of Sikh leaders and intellectuals convened by the DSGMC here on Thursday, Mr Sarna said seminars, meetings, inter-faith dialogues and interactions with scholars would be organised on the eve of the ‘martyrdom day’ to remove various misgivings prevailing among a vast majority of Indians about Sikhs and their religion. The martyrdom observance will be spread over two years coinciding with the period of compiling of Sikh scripture Guru Granth by Guru Arjun Dev. The guru, who was ‘martyred’ in Lahore in the 17th century, also created a distinct script for Punjabi language, which later came to be known as Gurmukhi. The Sikh scripture, which is an anthology of holy hymns of 30 saints like Kabir, Namdev, Jai Dev and Dhanna and others was written and presented in Gurmukhi script.
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Sewadar Committee wants youngsters to follow ‘Rahat Maryada’
New Delhi, April 7 He stressed that the preaching of Great Gurus of Sikhs be narrated every day one hour in local language in all the gurudwaras of India. The younger generation should be encouraged to take ‘Amrit’ and follow the path—Rahatt Maryada—shown by the Gurus.. Sewadar Committee requested that ‘Amrit Prachar’ should be held in all the gurudwaras of India from the funds of the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Committee. Younger generation should come forward in this noble cause. All the gurudwaras of the country be brought under the banner of Gurudwara Act.
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Two injured in CP cylinder blast
New Delhi, April 7 The police have identified the injured as Annu Singh (40), working as a security guard at the restaurant, and Ramu (14), a servant. Both the injured were taken to RML Hospital where the condition of Annu Singh is said to be serious. According to the police, Ramu opened the restaurant in the morning. He found some leakage in LPG cylinder and asked Annu Singh to help him check it. But instead, Annu Singh sparked the match box and the cylinder blasted. The blast was so powerful that the roof and two adjoining walls of the restaurant collapsed, said the police. Ramu sustained 30 per cent burn injuries while the condition of Annu Singh is critical. A case has been registered in the Connaught Place police station, but no arrest has been made so far in this concern.
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Delhi has season’s hottest day at 39 degree C
New Delhi, April 7 The maximum temperature was four degrees more than what was normally expected at this time while the minimum was 20.1 degree Celsius, which was also a degree more than the normal temperature at this time, Indian Meteorological Department said. And as if this was not enough, similar temperatures had been predicted for the next 24 hours as well, with a clear wide sky and the sun beating down hard. Last week or so, temperatures had been rising steadily. Yesterday, the maximum temperature was 38 degrees C while the minimum was 20.2 degree C.
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One killed as car falls into Yamuna
New Delhi, April 7 The accident took place at 10 am at Geeta Colony Pantoon Bridge. The deceased has been identified as Kashmiri Lal (65) who was travelling in the car along with his two sons Amit (27) and Sanjay (30). They lived in Shiv Puri Extension and were going to their leather goods shop in Karol Bagh in Maruti-800 car. Sanjay was driving. As they reached at Panton Bridge, he lost control and the car hit the side rope of the bridge which broke and the car fell into the river. Kashmiri Lal died on the spot while his two sons were admitted to LNJP Hospital where their condition is said to be critical.
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GB Nagar gets new DM
Noida, April 7 The post of DM, Gautam Budh Nagar, had been lying vacant for a long time and the DM, Ghaziabad, Mr Santosh Kumar Yadav, was holding the additional charge of this district. Mr Sundram has been transferred from Jhansi district where he was the DM. The local MLA, the SP MLA from Garh, Mr Madan Chauhan, and a lot of other people had been pleading with Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav to post a separate District Magistrate for Noida. The administration is known to have decided about it a few days ago. The people of Noida, including heads of associations, are happy that with the coming of a new DM they won’t have to go to Ghaziabad to meet the District Magistrate for so many of their problems.
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