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Sewers to be laid in villages
3 children die of diarrhoea
Faridabad industrialist killed
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DU student leaders make money from cos
Metro survey shocking: RWAs
RWAs flay government plan
Lycra cut
NCW to summon IO in girls’ abuse case
Fixer sent to jail for 14 days
Court summons Yuvraj
Prison clashes: Charge sheet against 81
Fire in automobile unit
No trace of missing girl
Burglar held
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Sewers to be laid in villages
New Delhi, June 7 It was decided at a high-level meeting chaired by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Development minister Raj Kumar Chauhan, divisional commissioner Rakesh Bihari, CEO DJB Arun Mathur and senior officers of urban development department were present in the meeting. It was decided to start laying of sewer lines in those 30 rural villages where trunk sewer line exists very near to the villages. There would be no need of acquisition of any land for commissioning of sewer lines in these villages. There would be no difficulty in laying sewer lines in another 49 villages as trunk sewer lines are passing from a reasonable distance from these villages. It would be necessary to acquire land for commissioning of ponds and mini sewer treatment plants for the rest of the villages. Dikshit has directed divisional commissioner office and Delhi Jal Board to expedite the matter relating to acquisition of land. She has further assured that there would be no dearth of funds for this project. |
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3 children die of diarrhoea
Faridabad, June 7 The health authorities claimed to have set up some teams to provide immediate treatment to the affected persons in rural and remote areas. According to reports, the children who have become victims in the past two to three days have been living with their parents at some brick kilns near Tigaon village of Ballabgarh subdivision. The persons whose children have become victims have been identified as Jassu, Rampat, Gajender, all working as labourers at the brick kilns. Two others identified as Rupesh and Basant have reportedly moved to another place with their children down with diarrhoea, it is learnt. Though the authorities have not disclosed the exact number of persons who have been treated or admitted in the various government hospitals in the past one month, it is reported that the number of the victims, mainly the children could be six to eight in the past one month in the district. According to the public health department sources, the cause of the growing number of water-borne diseases, including diarrhoea and cholera has been the unavailability of clean drinking water and the sale of eatables in open. He said the sale of unbranded ice-creams and drinking water in pouches had been common and there was no one responsible for checking the quality and hygienic level of such items. The quality of water supplied through private tankers and hand pumps in various parts of the urban and rural areas has also been a major cause of disorders, said a doctor practising in Sector 10 here. |
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Faridabad industrialist killed
Faridabad, June 7 Several persons got killed or maimed in road mishaps involving trucks and commercial vehicles in the district each year. F. C. Singhal, a leading entrepreneur and businessman residing in Sector 15 here, was coming back from Delhi via Surajkund Road at about 2 this morning when his BMW car collided with a truck near an educational institute, about 10 km from here. The car was driven by his driver. Singhal was owner and partner in several industrial units here and in the region. One of his units supplied parts to Maruti Udyog Limited. The car was crushed badly and the windscreen was also completely smashed. The driver escaped with injuries. The deceased was aged about 75 years. The Surajkund road is a popular alternative route to New Delhi for the residents here due to heavy congestion and traffic bottlenecks at the Badarpur border on the main Mathura Road. The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has spent several crores of rupees on widening and repairing of this road in the past few years. "There is an accident every third or fourth day on this route because of the heavy presence of dumper trucks moving at a fast speed and no check on the speed limit of the vehicles moving on the road", claimed Tarun, a resident here. He said there was no police checkpost or speedbreakers on the entire stretch. The road was undulating and uneven, inviting accidents if the speed of a vehicle was too much. Moving on this stretch, especially at night, was risky due to truck drivers throwing caution to wind, he claimed. Parvinder Singh, nephew of a local municipal corporator, was killed yesterday when the motorcycle on which he was returning from Delhi along with his friend was run over by a dumper truck on the same road. While the accused driver fled from the accident site in both the cases, the police failed to confirm if it was a dumper truck which killed Singhal. Though the District Transport Authority has been carrying out raids and checking illegal vehicles and overloaded trucks, the police is quite complacent about nailing down recalcitrant drivers of overspeeding vehicles. |
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One killed as crane carrier hits bike
Gurgaon, June 7 According to eyewitnesses, a crane carrier bearing registration no DL 1L-E-1578, coming from the Delhi side, hit a motorcycle. All three sitting on the motorcycle were crushed under the crane carrier. Sunil, aged 23, Amit, 25 and Satinder, 18, were on the motorcycle (HR 26-N-1442). All three got serious injuries, including multiple fractures, and became unconscious. They were immediately taken to a private hospital which declared Sunil brought dead and admitted two in the intensive care unit. Both were still critical and not out of danger, informed the attending doctor of the hospital. |
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DU student leaders make money from cos
New Delhi, June 7 The situation took a nasty turn recently when conflict arose between representatives of two different companies and the university authorities adopted a tough stance. Things had become particularly ugly when representatives of the two companies resorted to violence and began uprooting banners and tents on Tuesday. Both had been allowed to picket by two rival factions of the NSUI. The police had to be called to restore order. Nakul Bhardwaj, former president of DUSU, commented recently to the press, "Our leaders have been told not to get involved in such things. We have got our accountability and responsibility towards the student community." DUSU is not authorised to allow entry of these companies on the campus. Students at large feel the admission process should not get politicised and university life be brought to a standstill through company politics sponsored by rival student political parties. Students are of the opinion that many old students who have passed out become active during the admission process and indulge in illegal activities using the name of different student bodies. The companies pay stupendous sums to student leaders to get a foothold in the university. |
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Metro survey shocking: RWAs
New Delhi, June 7 "I want to meet any person who suggests that the long-term interest of Delhi should be compromised by the undue hurry of DMRC for an 11-day event," said Wing Commander J.S. Chadda of the East of Kailash RWA Federation and coordinator of South Delhi Association. Kuldip Singh, a town planner, strongly condemned the survey. All over the world, metros are going underground, he said. "The current elevated metro has already finished the heritage status of Delhi, wasting hundreds of kilometers of land. It has already consumed land as large as the size of Chandigarh. Nowhere in the world, metro goes along with the road as in Delhi," he added. He said, "Due to elevated metro, every commuter is being forced to reach the main road to catch metro. The rural travel vehicle (RTV) buses started for metro routes have already congested the roads in entire trans-Yamuna and become major traffic problem. On the underground stretch from Delhi University to Central secretariat, there is no traffic or parking problem and is easily accessible to all." Varinder Arora of URJA criticised the DMRC for allowing malls to come up on all metro stations, particularly near Commonwealth Games village. |
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RWAs flay government plan
Gurgaon, June 7 The RWAs, under the aegis of JAFRA (Joint Action Force for RWAs), a voluntary organisation, flayed the government's lack of vision in the long-term planning of the city. The government officials cut a sorry figure at a meeting of RWAs convened by the district administration with regard to central help for developing cities. The Centre had launched a "City Development Plan" scheme in 2005 for development of cities and towns under various projects through its funds. The City Development Plan was discussed in the meeting. The members of JAFRA criticised the City Development Plan. The office-bearers of the body said that the very plan was a heap of garbage. According to it, the present population was 17 lakh. The City Development Plan projects the population to be 56 lakh in 2021. The residents' representative bodies feel it would be more than 62 lakh. Any planning based on faulty demographic figures would be wobbly and inadequate. |
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NCW to summon IO in girls’ abuse case
New Delhi, June 7 Ms Bhattacharya who visited the Bal Gram along with a volunteer from 'Jobala', a non-government organisation, said that the Commission wants to know whether the Faridabad police has filed the chargesheet in the case. She said that their interaction with the girls offered fresh insight into their backgrounds. The NCW member said that it seems that one of the three girls rescued from the Faridabad home of the industrialist, hails from Orissa. The NCW member, however, expressed satisfaction over the condition of three girls.
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Fixer sent to jail for 14 days
New Delhi, June 7 Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Seema Maini sent the accused, 40-year-old Lajpat Nagar resident Barun Kumar Verma, to judicial custody till June 20 after the expiry today of his one-day police
custody. Verma had allegedly been making phone calls to the Samajwadi Party general secretary, claiming that he was a senior law officer and could help him if he paid him Rs 5 crore, a senior police official said. The man, said to be a tutor, claimed he was very close to a central minister and a retired Supreme Court judge. He had allegedly been calling Singh and even tried to meet him when he was hospitalised last month. Singh informed Police Commissioner K. K. Paul about the incident when Verma showed up at his Lodhi Road residence on June 4, after which he was arrested by Special Cell officials. Verma has been booked under sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 420 (cheating) and 511 (doing any act towards commission of an offence). |
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Court summons Yuvraj
Gurgaon, June 7 The mother of the boy took up the matter with the court asking for police action against Yuvraj and his mother, Mrs Shabnam Singh. The local court had on earlier occasions, too, had directed Yuvraj to appear before it. However, he failed to turn up due to his engagement with the Indian cricket team for the World Cup in West Indies. The matter also reached the Punjab and Haryana High Court, but the court took a lenient view because of his overseas assignment. |
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Prison clashes: Charge sheet against 81
Ghaziabad, June 7 The charge sheet was filed in the court of a judicial magistrate. All those chargesheeted were already in jail, police sources said. Seventy persons, including two senior police officials, were injured in clashes in the high-security Dasna jail on April 14. The search for firearms, mobile phones and other items by the jail authorities triggered the clashes. |
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Fire in automobile unit
Faridabad, June 7 The presence of a large quantity of furniture items posed a challenge in putting out the fire for about two hours. The flames threatened to spread to neighbouring areas due to windy conditions. The staff working in the office were evacuated safely before the fire spread to all corners, stated an official. |
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No trace of missing girl
Faridabad, June 7 The girl, a student of Arya Vidya Niketan School situated at Bamni khera village of Palwal subdivision, had gone for tuition to a teacher identified as Dev
Raj, a resident of Gori Chant village, on the school premises in the village and failed to return since then. The accused Dev Raj had also been missing since then. |
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Burglar held
New Delhi, June 7 A countrymade pistol along with one live cartridge have been seized from him. Following a tip-off, he was apprehended when he was going to meet a close associate, Sanju. During interrogation, it was revealed that he had come here from Saharsa in Bihar about two years back Earlier, he used to work as a casual worker for some factories around the area. Later, he indulged in burglary for easy money, said a police officer. In another incident, the South-West district police claimed to have arrested notorious auto thieves, Ashok Kumar (25) and Ravinder (23), from Najafgarh. About one dozen cases of auto theft have been solved with their arrest. |
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Mongoose skins seized, three held
Ghaziabad, June 7 Ajay Jain and Ramesh, hailing from Delhi and an unidentified person were arrested near
Loni, senior superintendent of police Deepak Ratan said. |
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