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Two criminals gunned down in Noida
UP policemen keep vigil after two alleged criminals were gunned down in an encounter in Noida Phase-II late on Monday evening. Tribune photo New Sanjay Amar Colony Missing Kids’ Case |
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Workers’ strike in hospitals hits patients
Saving church, mosque: Govt forces MCD to change flyover plan
Eight-year-old girl crushed to death
Privatisation may hit ragpickers
JNUSU to stop sale of prospectus from today
Dalit Christians accuse govt of indifference
Mobile phone seized from murder accused
REC, DHBVN ink pact on training
Cops clueless about scientist’s missing wife
Boy who circulated girl’s video clip suspended
Assembly pays tributes to RV, Hooda, Sharma
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at the Vidhan Sabha in New Delhi on Tuesday. Tribune photo
Govt urged to resettle traders
hit by sealing
Ridge murder suspect in police net
Groom-to-be stabbed
Grain mart strike ends
Car hits bike, crashes into house
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New Sanjay Amar Colony Missing Kids’ Case Tribune News Service
New Delhi, February 24 Rajesh (13) told the police that he had been held captive in a village near the Baghpat area of western UP and was made to work forcibly in sugarcane fields by his captors. He also revealed that he was taken there by one Kapil, resident of Shahdara on the pretext of meeting some relatives and saying that they would be back by evening. Rajesh told police that he wanted to come back earlier but his captors kept an eye on him all the time and even locked his room from outside in the night. According to Anand Vihar police station sources, Rajesh has further told police that another boy of his age group had also been kept captive by the same people where he was held. However, he could not clearly tell the name of the village or place where he was held. “The only thing that he could tell for sure was that they had crossed Baghpat town after which they got down from the bus and went to the farms,” said a police official. Based on the information provided by Rajesh, a police team has been sent to trace the place and captors of Rajesh. Rajesh has not been taken along but he could be asked to come along in case the police is not able find the place as narrated by him. The police questioned Rajesh for hours to cross check the authenticity of his claims. “Sometimes children on returning home tell false stories to escape the ire of their parents and so we wanted to be sure. Even now it cannot be said with guarantee that what he is telling is truth,” said a police official. As per the claims of the residents of New Sanjay Amar colony, the slum cluster behind the Karkardooma courts has seen at least 22 children go missing in the past four years. The news of six children going missing on a single day gave rise to the speculation in media about Nithari like tragedy and pressurising police authorities to show some results. The police had negated this, saying that it did not find any pattern in the disappearance of children.
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Two criminals gunned down in Noida
Noida, February 24
Senior superintendent of police Naveen Arora said, “Late last evening we got information at the control room about the movement of criminals in the Noida area. The area was searched and the suspected white coloured Esteem car was found in Noida, Phase-II. A phase II police team intercepted them and signalled them to stop.” “Two criminals in the car fired at the police team which returned fire. The criminals came out of the car and while firing at the policemen, tried to escape through the jungle area to Hindon. However, the police team continued firing at them,”said Arora. “One constable Dharamender Singh suffered bullet on his hand. He was rushed to hospital. When area was combed two criminals were found lying injured. They were rushed to district hospital where they were declared dead. On further search of the area no other criminal was found from the jungle area,”said Arora. “One carbine and one factory-made revolver was seized from the site. They had come to loot in the area,”said Arora. ‘They were identified as Vinay Katiar and Manoj Nai the hardened criminals Katiar has over 13 cases of loot and murder in Kasganj area while Majoj has over a dozen cases at Eta.,”said Arora.
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Workers’ strike in hospitals hits patients
New Delhi, February 24 These employees were protesting against the government. A number of patients were seen waiting outside the hospitals helplessly. In case of casualties and emergency, the employees are helping the doctor, but they are marking themselves absent on their attendance chart to protest against the government, say sources. It is the second day and OPDs of almost all the government hospitals have been closed as the registration staff are not working.
Tehzeeb Banu, 67, came with her husband to admit him to hospital. He was suffering from diarrhea. She waited for an hour. Finally, she was trying hard to move him back home. “I don’t have enough money to take my husband to any private hospital. The doctor says that OPDs are closed and so he cannot be admitted. I hope the strike gets over as it is only affecting poor people like us,” says
Tehzeeb. Several hospitals, including Guru Tegh Bahadur (GTB), Lady
Hardinge, Hindu Rao, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, G. B Pant Hospital, Maulana Azad Medical College, Kalawati Hospital, Guru Gobind Singh and Lok Nayak Jai Prakash
(LNJP) Hospital are amongst the worst affected. “Ward boys and attendants are missing. There is no receptionist even. This is causing major problems to patients,” claimed another person seeking help to carry his father to the
doctor. Convenor of the All-India Health Employees and Workers Confederation, Ram Kishan says, “We have put our demands before the government, but there is no response. Unless the government responds to our demands, we will continue strike.” A hospital spokesperson said, “Even after ESMA has been implemented, paramedical staff are on strike. They are protesting silently outside the hospital premises, causing no harm to the hospital equipment or doctors.” Warning the government, Rajendra
Thakur, ex-general secretary of the confederation, says, “If the government keeps silent for another two days, we will have to intensify the strike. We will go on an indefinite hunger strike.” |
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Saving church, mosque: Govt forces MCD to change flyover plan
New Delhi, February 24 As a result, the MCD today conducted a meeting with Delhi Minorities’ Commission members — Arnold James, Christian representative; Pushpinder Singh, Sikh representative and its chairman Kamal
Faruqui, who represented Muslims. The design of the flyover prepared by the Anjuman Wakil Qaum Punjabian was presented before the civic body once again. Earlier, the Corporation discussed its design minutely but had not given any response. Executive engineer Narang Singh, deputy commissioner of Sadar Paharganj zone Renu K. Jagdev, deputy commissioner of Civil Lines zone Azimul Haq and deputy secretary of the urban development ministry, Delhi government, approved the design as proposed by the Anjuman Wakil Qaum Punjabian today. It might be recalled that the project is a two years’ old. But it was stopped after the Delhi Minorities’ Commission approached the then Lieutenant Governor on May 16, 2007, to protect Haji Fakhruddin Mosque near Pul Bangash and Christ Methodist Church on Bouleward Road, sources said. According to sources, Muslim and Christian representatives approached the Commission just after they learnt about the project. Thereafter, the Commission took the issue to the Lieutenant Governor, who reportedly had stopped the project. Meanwhile, it is being realised that if the flyover is constructed as per the new design, the religious places will be safe. But shops and residential buildings will be demolished. The MCD is also conducting a survey to find out the number of shops and residential buildings that would come under the flyover, as it plans to rehabilitate the sufferers. Some tyre shops are also there. The civic body had planned to shift them to Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar. They will be given a plot measuring 150-sq metre in which construction of basement will also be allowed. |
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Eight-year-old girl crushed to death
New Delhi, February 24 Angoori (8), daughter of a migrant labourer, was crushed to death when a government Ambassador car allegedly hit her from behind while she was playing in the IP Estate Area of Central Delhi around 10 am. According to information, the driver of the car belonging to the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) was returning from hospital after dropping his boss. The girl suffered critical injuries in the accident and succumbed to them while being taken
to LNJP hospital. She is a native of MP and had been living with her parents and two sisters while her father Haridas works as a labourer. A case of rash and negligence driving has been lodged with the IP Estate police station. Police have arrested the accused Ambassador driver Satish Kumar and have impounded the vehicle. In another fatal accident in South Delhi, a 26-year-old newspaper distributor was killed when his speeding car rammed into a stationary truck on the Hari Nagar Ashram flyover in the New Friends Colony area in the wee hours of morning. Identified as Rajiv Kumar, he was a resident of Faridabad and worked as a newspaper distributor with a Hindi daily. According to police, Rajiv was coming from Noida in his Maruti Omni car when he met with the accident. According to information, a truck with flat tyre was parked on Hari
Nagar Ashram flyover while the driver was changing the tyre as Rajiv’s car hit the truck. The driver had alleged that Rajiv lost control of the car as he was
overspeeding. He called the PCR around 4 am in the morning and reported the accident. Rajiv was rushed to the AIIMS Trauma Centre but was declared brought dead. |
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Privatisation may hit ragpickers
New Delhi, February 24 According to sources, the privatisation of waste gathering might take away the jobs of more than one lakh rag pickers and garbage collectors. “The contract of rag picking in garbage dumps has also been handed over to a private company,” said Standing Committee chairperson Vijender Gupta. Rag pickers, who have been collecting and segregating waste since childhood, are worried. With privatisation, they fear losing their only source of livelihood. However, MCD officials maintained that rag pickers working for the civic body would be absorbed in the project. But as there are more than one lakh rag pickers in the city, only a small percentage is expected to be employed. “All rag pickers working in the city are not employed with the
MCD. Only a few thousand of them are working with us and they would be employed in the project. The others are working on their own,” he said. The civic body is all set to launch the door-to-door waste gathering project in Rohini from March 1. Though the project was announced a year ago, it got hit due to recession. The civic body failed to rope in any private company despite floating several tenders. The project has recently been awarded to a private company which will collect garbage and dump it at landfill sites. |
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JNUSU to stop sale of prospectus from today
New Delhi, February 24 Intensifying their struggle against the increased prices of prospectus for the next academic year, JNU Students’ Union
(JNUSU) has alleged that JNU administration has played a cruel joke on the poor. “The JNU administration has come up with a sham proposal to waive prospectus fee for applicants from BPL families and refused to roll back prospectus fee hike as we were demanding,” said
Sandeep, president, JNUSU. For the past three weeks, students have been engaged in a struggle against the university administration’s move to allegedly commercialise spaces and services on campus. “We held an urgent general body meeting of university students and according to the resolution passed, admission proceedings had to be stopped if the administration did not roll back the increased price of prospectus. We tried negotiating for long and the university came out with an absurd proposal,” said
Roshan, secretary, SFI JNU. He added, “Our organisation believes that providing free education is the responsibility of the state. So, it not just about the rich or poor, but it is about ensuring the right to education.” Following the unrest, the JNU administration backtracked on some of its “commercial” moves. However, on the issue of 67 per cent increase in the prices of prospectus, the administration refused to roll back and instead proposed a clause of providing free prospectus to the students of the BPL category. |
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Dalit Christians accuse govt of indifference
New Delhi, February 24 The Constitution Scheduled Caste Order
(CSCO), 1950, proclaims 15 per cent reservation to scheduled castes people of Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism. Demanding to amend the
CSCO, father Franklin Caesar Thomas of NCDC said, “The paragraph three of the CSCO introduces a religious criterion, which is against the spirit of the Constitution. Even Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission stated that the non-inclusion of scheduled caste Christians list is a discrimination based on religion, and goes against the Article 14, 15 and 25 of the Constitution. Religion must be segregated from caste.” To challenge the legality of the third paragraph of CSSO, a writ petition was filed by Centre for Public Interest Litigation headed by Prashant Bhushan and Shanti Bhushan in 2004. “Directed by the Supreme Court in 2005, the government referred the case to the Ranganath Mishra Commission, which after receiving a positive response from 12 state governments, submitted its favourable report to the Prime Minister (PM) in May 2007,” informed father Cosmon Arokiaraj of
CBCI. The facts of the report should be made public, urged the bishops and representatives of Dalit Christians. Father Franklin said that the UPA government has been delaying in taking any affirmative action and has failed to file any counter affidavit despite the directions of apex court. A bishop on conditions of anonymity, outlined, “We have received an indifferent response from the PM who said that there is no consensus within the political parties.” |
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Mobile phone seized from murder accused
Bhondsi, February 24 The ACP was killed on March 25, 2008. Bhardwaj had been brought here on judicial remand on January 7. The police had recovered the articles after the search of more than two hours. During the operation they found five mobiles from other five prisoners also. Joint commissioner Manjit Singh Ahlawat has said that they had seized the illegal objects from prisoners in the jail here on Monday after they raided the premises. The team was lead under the guidance of newly appointed police commissioner S S Deshwal who along with DCP East Jagdish Nagar, DCP South Inder Singh Saini, DCP crime Anil Dhawan raided at Sohna, Bhondsi and Badshahpur police stations. The police got the information that the robbery of Rs 2 lakh from a businessman at Nazafgarh on Delhi border on Monday has some links with Bhondsi jail whereupon they reached their immediately. It was also disclosed that the mobile jammer installed in the jail was not working. The police is now searching where these criminals had made calls. Even jail superintendents are being interrogated for the use of mobile phones by the prisoners. Police had found half dozen of mobile sets, batteries and charger from the barracks. The commissioner feels that the jail management has also been involved in it as it is not possible to do anything illegal inside and that too under their eyes. He has given the detail to DG (jail) and had even warned them that a case will also be registered against them if they don’t work properly. The cyber cell will investigate the
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REC, DHBVN ink pact on training
Gurgaon, February 24 The union ministry of power has nominated REC as the nodal agency for the programme. The REC, in turn, selected the DHBVN to conduct training programmes for franchisees starting from April, 2009. M.B.Vashisth, chief general manager (operations) of the Delhi zone, signed the MoU on behalf of the DHBVN, while Vinod Behari, executive director (HR) signed it on behalf of REC at Haryana Energy Training and Research Institute here today. The DHBVN was also the first utility of the country to hold the three-day inaugural training programme for C and D categories of employees jointly with REC during the last week of December, 2008. It was due to the success of program that the REC decided to sign the first MoU in the country with DHBVN for continuation of such training programmes in the coming financial year 2009-10. As per the MoU, the DHBVN would provide training infrastructure and the faculty to hold regular three-day training sessions every month starting April, 2009, in batches of 40 participants per batch for the power franchisees as well as for the C and D categories of employees. This is expected to enhance the knowledge base of the employees at all levels and also help the franchisees to understand the concept of franchising and to work in close coordination with power nigam employees. Study material prepared by a team of experts from REC and DHBVN would also be provided to the participants during the training programmes. |
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Cops clueless about scientist’s missing wife
Noida, February 24 Her husband, Shankar Das, suspects that she might have been kidnapped. Das said, “Till late evening today my wife Geetanjali Das (42) was clueless. I have not even received any ransom call too. On Saturday night after laying the dinner and had gone for a routine walk in the courtyard. After that she went missing. I suspect she might have been kidnapped and doubt the anti-social elements who roam around in the colony. I have apprised DSP Shailender Lal about my suspicion too.” Meanwhile, Lal informed, “The police looked for her in nearby villages, but she was not traceable till late Monday evening. We are working on all possible angles, including kidnapping. Suspicious persons in the colony are being interrogated.” “Geetanjali is an arthritis patient and suffers from hypo throidism too. She has been under treatment for many years,” Lal added. |
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Boy who circulated girl’s video clip suspended
Noida, February 24 “It is extremely unfortunate that such an incident took place. We have suspended the student from his course and an enquiry has been instituted. The boy would remain suspended till the enquiry report is submitted,” said Savita
Mehta, vice-president, corporate communication, of the university. The video clip apparently shot with a mobile camera shows the 23-year-old MBA student stripping inside what looks like a bedroom, with a laptop and a music system around. Students of the institute said the girl had complained to a teacher about the video clip. Her boyfriend leaked the clip to fellow students through e-mails sent from the girl’s ID. “The boy, whom the girl had trusted with even her e-mail password, logged in to her mail and sent it out to almost her entire contact list,” said the student, who had received the clip. Girl’s version was not available as her mobile phone was switched off. Psychiatrist Poornima Sahay said this was a classic case of a girl being immature and falling prey to gross misuse of modern technology. “When some girls fall in love, they believe the relationship is forever. If the boy has bad intentions, he can even get her to pose for such videos. It’s just so tragically foolish act. What else can one say?” he said.
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Assembly pays tributes to RV,
Hooda, Sharma
New Delhi, February 24 Speaker Yoganand Shastri said the leaders were senior statesmen and had worked for the society as well as the nation. R. Venkataraman was President of the country from 1987 to 1992 and during those days he had done many commendable works for the nation. Giving tribute to the deceased leaders, Chief Minister Sheila
Dikshit, Kuwar Karan Singh and Naseen Singh from the Congress, leader of opposition
V.K. Malhotra, Ramesh Bidhuri, Karan Singh Tanwar and Kulwant Rana from the BJP said that a void had been created with the demise of these leaders. They said that Ram Babu Sharma was a dynamic leader. He was a senior MLA. He was also the president of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee. He was active in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi before contesting the assembly elections in 2003 for the first time. |
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Govt urged to resettle traders
hit by sealing
New Delhi, February 24 Assembling at Hindi Bhawan Auditorium in the Capital, they demanded that the National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy
(NRRP), 2007 should be implemented in letter and spirit for giving relief to those traders whose business has been affected by the sealing campaign. “Despite statutory provisions of the NRRP 2007, the sealing and demolitions are still being carried without providing rehabilitation. The government should resettle the traders whose lives have been affected due to the sealing and demolition drive in the Capital,” urged Praveen Khandelwal of Confederation of All India Traders, which had organised the conference. |
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Ridge murder suspect in police net
New Delhi, February 24 According to police, the recovery of firearm used in killing Ankit and whereabouts of other accomplices in the crime are yet to be done. Ankit Minocha was shot dead while one of his friends was injured two days earlier when Arora and others allegedly opened fire at them near Buddha Jayanti Park in the southern Ridge area of central Delhi. According to police, Minocha and seven others had accompanied their friend Mahender to Karol Bagh to meet car dealers Pushkar and Sushil Arora who were not returning Rs 10 lakh they had borrowed from
Mahender. |
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Groom-to-be stabbed
New Delhi, February 24 The victim’s family suspects a neighbour’s hand in the attack. Sunil Kumar, of South West Delhi, was stabbed 18 times by five assailants, said a police officer. “Kumar was to get married on February 28 and was returning home after distributing his wedding cards when the assailants forcibly stopped him. They attacked him with some sharp weapons,” the police officer said. Kumar was rushed to a hospital. Kumar’s family members alleged their neighbour Satish was behind the attack. “Satish had some argument with Sunil (Kumar), after which an enmity developed between them. We are sure that Satish and his friends are behind the incident,” said Kumar’s uncle,
Surajbhan. — IANS |
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Grain mart strike ends
Gurgaon, February 24 They were protesting against the government for not providing them with proper space to sit. Mukesh
Dagar, general secretary of the association said, “The CM had asked us to wait till tomorrow as he would definitely find a wayout for us.” It is to be stated that most of the members have purchased the shops in new grain market in an open auction at exorbitant rates and are paying fees to the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board (HSAMB), but now they have been asked to vacate them. The market was established around 33 years back when the old grain market from subzi mandi of the city was shifted to the place at Khadsa Road. |
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Car hits bike, crashes into house
Ghaziabad, February 24 The occupants of the house at the Kavi Nagar area were enjoying a meal on a lawn when they heard a crash. “We were terrified and shocked to see all this happen within seconds. The car driver fell unconscious and the two men on the bike were in a pool of blood,” said one of the house owners. According to witnesses, the black colour car had taken a sharp turn towards Shastri Nagar when it hit the motorbike. The car driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle. The car dragged the bike for some distance before coming to a halt.
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Minor raped
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Two alleged criminals were gunned down in an police encounter in Noida Phase-II area on Monday evening. One constable too was injured in the encounter.
The first session of the fourth Delhi assembly was adjourned today after a condolence message for former President R.
Venkataraman, former Haryana Congress leader and constituent assembly member Ranvir Singh Hooda and Congress MLA from Rohtas Nagar Ram Babu Sharma.
