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Bikers shoot traders, snatch Rs 15 lakh
After firing at cop, man dies in mishap
SHO found dead in police station
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Shift badminton court from Sirifort, Correa tells SC
DU protests against improper action in harassment cases
BJP says ‘Haar ho’ for Cong’s ‘Jai ho’
DELHI POLL
Cong accused of violating code
Man kills self
Residents oppose design of new clinic
Couple found dead
Servant kidnaps master’s child
Get errors in voter lists corrected
Father trying to save
son lynched
Rs 8-lakh goods looted from factory
Bus staff thrash cops
Demolition
Ex-judge in police trouble
over maid
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Bikers shoot traders, snatch Rs 15 lakh
New Delhi, March 6 The shocking incident took place around 9 pm when Satnam (30) and Ram Ashrey Tewari (50), both working for a plastic trader, were going on scooter with about Rs 15 lakh. Satnam died on the spot, while Ram Ashray succumbed to his injuries later. According to the police, the victims were on their way to Haiderpur in Shalimar Bagh to deliver the money when they were suddenly overtaken by motorcycle-borne assailants who tried to snatch the money bag. “The miscreants tried to snatch the briefcase containing Rs 15 lakh from the traders, who put up stiff resistance. On this, the robbers shot at them with a pistol,” said a senior police official. The bullet hit Satnam in his throat, while Rameshwar was injured in the abdomen. Both were rushed to Bara Hindu Rao Hospital. The robbers managed to flee with the bag of money. Although there is no clarity on the number of assailants, according to preliminary investigations, the victims were chased by four youths on two bikes, who intercepted the scooter near the gate of Roshanara Bagh after chasing them for few kilometers. The police has managed to speak to some eyewitnesses. Sagarpreet Hooda, DCP (North Delhi) reached the crime scene along with other senior police officials of the area. The police believes that the robbers had done a recee and were aware of the movement of the traders beforehand. atnam and Ram Ashray worked for plastic trader Shyam Sunder and worked in his factory which manufactured plastic granules in Azad Market. The two had reportedly struck an important business deal for their company and were carrying the cash from Azadpur Market to Haiderpur.
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After firing at cop, man dies in mishap
New Delhi, March 6 The victim, Ravi Shankar, also suffered a bullet wound besides accident injuries, giving rise to speculation that the gun carried by the pillion rider went off accidentally and hit him. As a result of bullet injury, Ravi Shankar lost balance of the motor cycle and dashed against the trees on the road. The pillion rider who could not be identified fled the spot. Constable Kailash, working with the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Delhi police, said he was standing at the Ghoga bus stand in the morning to board a bus when the duo came on a motor cycle and fired at him. Kailash, who drives the official car of DCP I.D. Shukla, was not injured in the incident. He, however, does not recognise the two and said he had no enmity with them. The police has recovered two countrymade pistols from the accident site. The driving license found in the pockets of Ravi Shankar gave his address in Trilokpuri area and a police team had reached his house to gather further information besides the identity of the pillion driver. According to police officials ,Ravi Shankar was hit in the backbone, indicating firing by the pillion driver. “We are investigating the matter and will arrest the absconding criminal,” said the police official.
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SHO found dead in police station
New Delhi, March 6 “Around 7 am, one of our constables had gone to his room early in the morning to report about a complaint. However, he found him unresponsive in spite of repeated calling. When he physically tried to wake him, it was found that he had been bleeding from the nose and had no pulse,” said a police officer from Gulabi Bagh police station. Ranga was then rushed to the hospital where he was declared brought dead.
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Shift badminton court from Sirifort, Correa tells SC
New Delhi, March 6 The Supreme Court’s Forest Bench headed by the Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan had appointed the former chairman of Delhi Urban Art’s Commission (DUAC) to examine all options, including moving the badminton and squash courts, under construction for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, from the dense forest area near Sirifort. The project had run into rough weather after 891 trees were cut to construct the stadium. The report blamed the DDA of “procrastination” in reconsidering the location of the stadium to an alternate site two years ago when there was ample time to do so. However, admitting to the paucity of time, Correa said going ahead with the construction of a court at the current site should be subject to design modifications suggested by him. The town planner said the penalty of Rs 5 crore as suggested by the court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) was too little and a “much larger penalty needed to be imposed on the DDA.” He said the officials involved in the decision to set up the court in the present site should be identified and held responsible. Correa said the proposal to set up a monitoring committee to oversee the re-forestation of the area should be implemented immediately.
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DU protests against improper action in harassment cases
New Delhi, March 6 Members of the Centre for Struggling Women along with democratic and progressive teachers and students had organised the protest. Maya John, a student and member of the Centre said, “The Apex Complaints Committee is the chief regulating body of the university as regards to cases of sexual harassment. Unfortunately, many cases are still pending with the Committee. These reflect that many victims are being denied justice.” The protesters also pointed out the Committee’s failure in solving cases within the stipulated time frame. “This shows the Committee’s insensitivity,” rued John. Protestors who met the chairperson of the Committee highlighted “instances of insensitive handling of victims” during inquiry. In many cases, victims were uncomfortable with certain questions posed to them while their statements were being recorded. Many felt “harassed by the high-handedness and the bureaucratic functioning of the Committee.” For instance, even after repeated appeals for the Committee’s intervention in certain cases, the appeals have been sent back to local committees (college or department). As in a case at Kamla Nehru College where a staff had complained against a colleague who had been assassinating her character. She had lodged the complaint in the college early in 2008. The rumour has been sexual in nature and the work environment has become hostile for her. The accused’s wife had even assaulted her physically on the college premises. Initially, a three-member committee was set up in the college to look into the matter. It ruled the victim’s experience was one of sexual harassment and had asked the accused to apologise to her. But the accused did not obey. Both the victim and the accused were later asked to vacate the college staff quarters. Stating that the victim was sexually harassed, the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has asked the college to take appropriate action. Later when she approached the Apex Committee, it ruled that her experience did not even qualify as one of sexual harassment. It upheld the college’s decision to deny her a housing quarter. Further, it asked the accused to apologise to the college and not to the victim. It reflects how the Committee is refusing to even grant prima facie in such cases. While in another case at the university’s Hindi department, it took the victim, an M.Phil researcher in the department, months to convince the Apex Committee to intervene. As she has complained against department professors (Ajay Tiwari, Ramesh Gautam and HOD Sudhish Pichori), her case has been sabotaged at the local committee i.e. the Faculty of Arts committee at North Campus. Matters were so hostile at the committee that it had to be removed. Meanwhile, the Centre has demanded sensitive submission of some audit by the Apex Committee to the university community, handling of victims during inquiry, a break-up of the number of cases received in the last five years, number of cases registered and rate of convictions.
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BJP says ‘Haar ho’ for Cong’s ‘Jai ho’
New Delhi, March 6 According to sources, the BJP is preparing a “Haar ho” jingle to jostle Congress’ “Jai ho.” Earlier, the saffron party had found it too trivial to even respond. According to some party workers, the BJP has already approached big music companies to compose the lyrics that would be in contrast to the opposition’s song. Besides, the party has launched 70 cassettes. “The songs are catchy,” said a BJP leader. He said the cassettes would be played in all 70 assembly constituencies of the national capital. “The cassettes will be played during all campaigns and party functions,” he affirmed. Meanwhile, the Congress has rewritten the lyrics of the “Jai ho” song. The video has also been shot. “The music video will definitely appeal to voters. It traces the legacy of the Congress and has been filmed in such a manner that it will strike a chord with the youths, who are yearning for some action in politics,” said a Congress leader. It may be recalled that the Congress had recently bought the copyright of the Slumdog Millionaire signature song from T-series for the election campaign. However, if one peeps into the past it is found that experimenting with film songs during election campaigns have not really worked for both the BJP and the Congress. Shahrukh Khan’s “Chak De!” was not good enough in Gujarat for the grand old party. Jagjit Singh failed to set the vote box jingling in 2004 for the BJP. Both the parties are now hoping that “Jai ho” will favour them.
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DELHI POLL
New Delhi, March 6 National president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Amit Thakkar and the Delhi Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha president Atul Sharma led the yatra. Referring to the economic crisis and retrenchment in jobs, Kohli asked youngsters to acquaint the electorate with the week points of the UPA government. He said five lakh youths had been retrenched from October to December 2008. This needs a political change at the helm of affairs, Kohli suggested. He said the Congress-led UPA government needs to be dethroned if people want to save their jobs and control the economy. Amit Thakkar said the UPA government had no agenda for national development. Employment opportunities are shrinking. It has no job-training programme for youths and education is very costly in the country.
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Cong accused of violating code
New Delhi, March 6 He lodged the complaint referring to an advertisement that appeared in newspapers with the headline ‘The XIX Commonwealth Games promise for Indians’. He said the advertisement violates the election code of conduct, as it does not carry any information regarding the issuing authority. The BJP treasurer and trade leader further termed it to be another stunt of the Congress trying to influence voters from backdoor. It is a clear case of violation of election rules by the concerned agencies and the Congress, said
Khandelwal. He demanded stringent action against them.
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Man kills self
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Residents oppose design of new clinic
Gurgaon, March 6 “This will cause chaos as the roads will be blocked with patients parking vehicles outside the clinic, on the road,” stated Kalyan Samiti Sector 31-32 A president Pawan Kumar Singhal. He told the Tribune that HUDA administrator must review the design constructed on a vacant land behind commercial complex of the sector. We had given a letter to HUDA Administrator to look after the matter and they should keep in mind the difficulties that can be faced in future.” All the sides should have at least 16-metre broad roads, he said. Former chief engineer of the CSIR R.K. Sethi who resides near the site said, “There will be traffic problem on the road once the clinic is completed. It will be difficult for us to move out of our places. According to the norms service lane are normally 10 metres wide but it has to be around 16 metres near the commercial sites,” and added, “HUDA should make the clinic but road should be widened by at least 18 metres as once the clinic is complete we can expect around 150 patients daily and the parking will then create problem for everyone.”. Ramesh Mehra, another resident, said that they have requested the HUDA Administrator to revise the map so that they can escape from the problems they may face later. Gurgaon Citizen Council president R S Rathi and Federation of Resident Welfare Association (FORWA) president Dharam Sagar also said that HUDA should make norms that no construction should be made on 10 metre road and added that their demands had been accepted but not in written. “If the administration doesn’t listen to us we will agitate and if necessary move the court,” they threatened.
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Couple found dead
Gurgaon, March 6 A suicide note was found. Prasad has held five persons responsible for his death. According to the police, Prasad in his suicide note has alleged that Rita (35), his second wife, and had relations with others, including his landlord Harpal, neighbour Joginder, Madan Sharma and two more. He was unable to control his wife. The note said the five of them had even kidnapped him on February 26 and hit him badly.
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Servant kidnaps master’s child
Gurgaon, March 6 Vijay Kumar, a resident of Hira Nagar locality in the city, runs a printing press. In a complaint lodged with the police, he alleged that Kamlesh, a migrant worker from Bihar, who had been working at his press for the past about two months went to his house and took his daughter, Ria, along with him on some pretext. When he did not return, the family grew suspicious and informed the police. The police has registered a case and investigations are on in this regard. |
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Get errors in voter lists corrected
Gurgaon, March 6 Sajjan Singh, who was here to address a meeting of the district electoral officers, asserted that the complaint of a large number of bogus votes in certain areas of the district had been found untrue. “An inquiry had been conducted into the allegations of bogus votes by an SDM, and the complaint was found to be untrue,” he maintained. Gurgaon deputy commissioner-cum-district electoral officer Deepti Umashankar, who was also present on the occasion, said a booth-level officer would be available at 151 polling centres of the district between 10 am and 1 pm on Sunday to deal with voting-related complaints. |
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Father trying to save
son lynched
Greater Noida, March 6 The police has arrested three of the six accused. Vinode, son of Kamal, was having drinks along with his friends Gajender, Ghanender and six others at the village restaurant. In an inebriated state Vinode, had picked up a pup and placed it at Ghaninder’s table which resulted in an argument and later to a brawl between the two. Hearing the commotion, Vinode’s father Kamal rushed in to the rescue of his son. The drunk assailants left Vinode and started thrashing Kamal and allegedly beat him to death. The police has registered a murder case and nabbed three of the six accused.
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Rs 8-lakh goods looted from factory
Greater Noida, March 6 The intruders had decamped with goods worth over Rs 8 lakh from the factory. The robbers had beaten up the factory hands who tried to resist them. A report has been lodged in Badalpur police station. But the police are treating it a case of theft. Akhil, a resident of Dadri is the owner of the hand pump factory. Three workers and Akhil were present in the company on Thursday night while security guard Arjun Singh was also on duty when about a dozen armed robbers had entered the factory after scaling the boundary wall. The intruders overpowered every body and put a gun at Akhil’s ear-pit. They thrashed the factory hands, tied them up, locked them in bathroom and stuffed their mouths with clothes. The robbers loaded a drilling machine, Kharad machine, iron grill- weighing over two tons and 600 pipes into a vehicle who later sped away. Akhil said assailants were over a dozen in number and all were armed. SO Laxman Singh of Badalpur police station said it was a case of theft not of a loot or robbery.
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Bus staff thrash cops
Noida, March 6 Sector-20 Kotwali police has registered a case of assault on public servants on duty and detained the bus and the four bus staff members. ASI Radhy Shyam of the Delhi police had lodged a report at the police station sector 20 against staff of the bus which was allegedly plying on he route without valid permit for some time. The four policemen under ASI Radhey Shyam had earlier tried to stop the bus at Okhla in Delhi, but the bus driver not only not heed the signal but banged the bus into police jeep and fled toward Noida. The cops gave the bus a chase and at 31 x 25 crossing red light, as the bus got stuck in a traffic jam, the Delhi cops got boarded the bus. Soon, the bus staff assaulted the cops saying that they were in UP and not in Delhi. The cops were intimidated at a dagger and revolver point by driver, conductor and two others, ASI reported. The assailants were identified as Azam, Rajwan, Sajjid and Riyasat. The Noida police control room was informed by Delhi cops. Noida police reached the spot soon and seized the bus and arrested all accused.
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Demolition
Noida, March 6
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Ex-judge in police trouble
over maid
Ghaziabad, March 6 The judge in turn has filed a police complaint against the girl for stealing money from his house, the police said today. The girl’s father, Jai Dev, alleged his daughter had not returned for the last two days and when he went to the judge’s house in Mohan
Nagar, the judge accosted him by accusing the girl of having stolen Rs 1,00,000 from the house. Jai Dev then filed a complaint with the police. Additional superintendent of police Happy Guptan said, “Medical examination of the child is being conducted. The judge has also lodged a complaint against the child for stealing money from the house. A case under the Child Labour Act has been registered against the retired judge.”
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