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Akriti Case
BJP, Congress intensify campaign
Wife’s day out…campaigns, meetings, padyatras
Fee can be hiked by 25%: CM
Auto driver catches snatcher
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Five carjackers arrested
GDA refuses funds for Metro’s extension
Noida, Ghaziabad reel from power, water shortages
6 killed in 6 road accidents
Martial arts instructor alleges threat to life
Woman killed for dowry in Ghaziabad
Trader robbed of Rs 4 lakh
Eunuch shot at over ‘territory’ dispute
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Akriti Case
New Delhi, April 25 The committee, reportedly, will be formed in two days and no one from the school would be a part of it. Confirming the development, Modern School managing trustee Ashok Pratap Singh said the committee would consist of five members and medical experts. The committee would investigate the matter and file a report. “We will take help of some medical experts as they can investigate the case in a better way,” said Singh. The committee will also consist of a teacher and a parent who will not participate in the investigation process but will help experts in throwing light on Akriti’s death. He added, “No action can be taken against the school principal till the committee files its report.” When asked if principal Goldy Malhotra was being pressurised to resign, he said, “We have not yet decided to remove her. We are waiting for the report. If she is found guilty, action will be taken against her.” The school remained closed even today. However, many students did not know that the school was closed and were seen standing outside the school gate. Meanwhile, the Delhi government has also constituted a committee to probe the case. The area’s deputy director of education has been entrusted with the task of probing the matter.
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BJP, Congress intensify campaign
New Delhi, April 25 Chauhan said he would try to develop sports. Kawariya appeals to traders
BJP candidate from North West Meera Kawariya is trying to woo traders. Concentrating in commercial and industrial areas, she said the Congress had betrayed traders by sealing commercial establishments. She appealed to the people to vote for the BJP so that business could be flourished and job opportunities increased. Bidhuri woos morning walkers
Starting his second round of campaigning, Ramesh Bidhuri, who is contesting from South Delhi, appealed to morning walkers in City Forest Park, Saket, to vote for the BJP. He assured them that he would strive to make South Delhi a model constituency. This area has been neglected during the Congress regime, Bidhuri claimed. Mukhi regrets power shortage
Campaigning in West Delhi, Jagdish Mukhi said that summer had just begun and electricity and water problems had started. Water is being supplied by tankers. ‘Water mafia’ sends tankers to places of their choice. The government has no control over them, he added. Sandeep’s office in Patparganj
East Delhi candidate Sandeep Dikshit along with Delhi education minister Arvinder Singh Lovely and Youth Congress leader Anil Chaudhary today campaigned in Trilokpuri, Patparganj and Gandhi Nagar areas of East Delhi. He also opened an office in Patparganj where he assured people of development work. Agarwal promises jobs
Addressing a meeting at Kardampuri, Jai Prakash Agarwal who is contesting from North East Delhi said more facilities would be provided in the area like construction of tarred roads, drinking water, electricity supply, etc. Employment opportunities would be created for youths and women while ambulance services would be made available for maternity facilities, he assured during a foot-march in Seelampur, Brahampuri, Mojpur, Jyoti Colony, Shahdara and Babarpur. Sajjan’s brother wins over Gujjars
Having seen the significance of the Gujjar voters, the South Delhi candidate has taken community’s prominent leaders like Sheeshpal, Om Prakash Bidhuri and Veer Singh in his fold. They are known Gujjar leaders. These leaders said that sitting MP Sajjan Kumar, brother of the Congress candidate Ramesh Kumar, had worked for all the 36 communities living in the villages without any caste discrimination. They appealed to the Gujjar community to vote for the Congress so that further development work could be done. The leaders said that their unity would not be for the Lok Sabha elections only but for the Delhi Vidhan Sabha elections also. |
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Wife’s day out…campaigns, meetings, padyatras
New Delhi, April 25 The condition of East Delhi MP Sandeep Dikshit’s wife Mona Dikshit is no different, as her husband is seeking re-election from the constituency. Mona, employed with BASICS, an NGO that works for underprivileged children, is on an extended leave to assist her husband in campaigning. She is multi-tasking — planning her husband’s schedule for the day, the poll strategy, publicity, campaigning and meeting visitors. Besides, she has moved on to padyatras and public meetings. She slogs for 12 to 14 hours daily. Mona said, “Sandeep has asked me to go out, meet people,” adding that she had just returned from a padyatra in the Old Seelampur area. She said the public’s response was positive and Sandeep would win the elections again. But ask her to guess by what margin Sandeep would win, Mona refuses to take the bait. “It is hard to say, for everyone we interact with says nice things about Sandeep and the Congress,” said Mona. Mona, a post graduate from Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, met Sandeep at the institute. “We met at IRMA. Sandeep too was pursuing his post graduation in rural management. We got married in 1992,” grins Mona when asked how she met her husband. Mona stays in the government bungalow alloted to Sandeep at Pandara Road with him and their daughter. “We have been living in this house for the last five years ever since Sandeep became an MP. But we meet mummy regularly. Sandeep visits her daily and me and my daughter every second or third day. Being busy with campaigns, we have sent our daughter to stay with mummy,” said Mona. She said theirs was a close-knit family and the dinning-room conversation was not always politics. “We talk about development, books, music, dance…just like any other family. Sandeep is fond of folk dance, theatre and literature,” said Mona. Riveting back to the battle at hand, Mona says the development work done by Sandeep in his constituency would compel people to vote for him. “Sandeep has a vast experience and a sharp analytical mind. The development work he has carried out is for all to see. People know this and they would re-confirm it on May 7,” she signs off to catch a quick grub (lunch) before it’s time for another meeting.
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Fee can be hiked by 25%: CM
New Delhi, April 25 Dikshit said no school could hike fee by more than 20 to 25 per cent of its existing tuition fee. Slabs have also been created for the guidance of school management and PTAs. |
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Auto driver catches snatcher
New Delhi, April 25 On April 22, Pradeep Khanna and his wife Bela were walking in the Uday Park area. When they moved to August Kranti Marg opposite Ansal Plaza, they saw two youths on a black Pulsar motorcycle near a local taxi stand. As soon as the couple crossed them, the two came on their bike snatched Bela’s gold chain. She fell on the road. Her husband was also stunned, but then they screamed out for help. An autorickshaw was passing through the same way and the auto driver Prashant saw the act. He started chasing the bikers. The snatchers drove towards Andrews Ganj flyover. In their haste, they lost balance fell down. Instead of taking their bike, they stood up and crossed the road. While Prashant continued the chase and stopped at a petrol pump near Ansal Plaza. He saw a boy sitting near a tree with a wounded hand. On seeing Prashant, the boy started running. But Prashant overpowered him and handed him over to the police. The gold chain and the bike used in the crime have been recovered. |
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Five carjackers arrested
New Delhi, April 25 Mohit Malik, an accused, was apprehended first. His accomplices Jitender Malik, Vikas Malik, Naresh Kumar and Mohd Shamim were arrested on his instance. They have admitted of being involved in five cases of car theft.
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GDA refuses funds for Metro’s extension
Ghaziabad, April 25 Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is currently building two and a half km long Metro track at an estimated cost of Rs 260 crore which includes building three stations at Kaushambi, Vaishali, etc. According to information available, DMRC had demanded a second instalment of Rs 130 crore from GDA for extension of track up to Vaishali according to the MoU. But GDA has refused to release the second instalment. According to GDA vice-chairman Ram Bahadur, the DMRC has not performed up to the expected level after the release of the first instalment as per the MoU conditions. DMRC and GDA signed an MoU last year for extension of Metro line up to Vaishali, but later some dispute cropped up due to a letter sent by DMRC that in the absence of Delhi NCR government’s agreement, Metro extension work up to Vaishali could not be undertaken. DMRC asked GDA to pursue the NCR Delhi government for the agreement. GDA’s stance is that there is no mention of agreement in principal in the MoU signed by it. However, GDA V-C Ram Bahadur said DMRC was continuing the work in Ghaziabad territory and this will pick up speed after the Lok Sabha elections. But the dispute is for completion of DMRC work up to Vaishali before the start of Commonwealth Games. The Metro extension up to Vaishali, including three stations was to be completed before the start of Commonwealth Games, under the terms and conditions of the MoU, the V-C said. |
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Noida, Ghaziabad reel from power, water shortages
Ghaziabad, April 25 Several areas are also facing an acute water shortage. Factories have been asked to remain closed for four hours every evening when demand during for power is at its peak. Amit Makkar, a casting unit owner at Bulandshahr Road Industrial Area in Ghaziabad, said, “Apart from the scheduled 8 pm- 6am power cut, electricity goes off any time before and after it at unscheduled hours, hitting our production badly. There are some forging units that require regular flow of electricity and at adequate voltage for their operations but in the absence of power, they are suffering immensely.” Terming the present power supply situation to Ghaziabad as “extremely grave”, Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd’s (UPPCL) superintending engineer S.N. Yadav said, “The industries have been asked by Lucknow to cease their production during night. We have received many complaints from industrialists but we are helpless as there is scanty supply of power from the state capital.” The ongoing general elections have also forced neighbouring states to halt power supply to Uttar Pradesh, as they are focusing on supply in their own states. The state is not getting any power from them presently, he said. “We are facing a demand of about 575 MW from the district and are trying to supply an equivalent amount, provided we get sufficient power from Lucknow. The current crisis is not due to regional factors but due to less generation of power in the state,” Yadav added. According to sources in the UPPCL, apart from some existing ailing units, some more units of Anpara power station have been shut down due to which current power supply in the state is reduced. Ghaziabad is struggling for power with outages lasting for 10 hours in the urban pockets and 18 hours in the semi-urban zones. Posh areas like Raj Nagar, Kavi Nagar, Chiranjeev Vihar, Gandhi Nagar and Vaishali are going powerless the whole night long. Areas like Raj Nagar, Kavi Nagar, Nehru Nagar and Gandhi Nagar and Vasundhara, Vaishali and Surya Nagar in trans-Hindon are also facing an acute water shortage. Residents in these areas complained of no water supply in the morning and evening hours. Long queues of residents were seen in many colonies waiting for their chance to draw water from the corporation water tanks. In Noida, there is no power for four hours a day as the electricity demand has shot up significantly. The town is witnessing a demand of 490-560 MW. Residents in many sectors are also facing trouble getting water. — IANS
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6 killed in 6 road accidents
Noida/Greater Noida, April 25 In the first incident, a cab driver of Met-Life call centre in Sector 135 was crushed under a truck on the expressway. The accident occurred while he was returning Noida from Greater Noida after dropping an employee. A speeding truck hit his cab on the expressway. When Shabir, the injured driver, got out of the cab to seek help, he was hit by another truck. He died on the spot. He was repeatedly crushed by a number of vehicles on the expressway. The Sector-39 police has sent his body for post-mortem. The second accident also took place on the expressway. A software engineer Harish Mathur, on his way to Logistix Park, was run over by an unidentified truck near Shiv Mandir. He died on the spot. In the third incident, Ashok Shah, 32, a native of Bihar, along with his friend Nasiruddin, was going to Noida from Sadarpur on a motorbike. Near Film City in Sector-16, Shah suddenly lost control over the bike and hit the divider. He died on the spot while Nasiruddin was seriously injured. The fourth mishap took place late in the night. An unidentified vehicle crushed one Pankaj Kumar while crossing road. The police has sent the body for autopsy. Besides, a bike hit road divider in Noida’s Sector 12-22. Three young men riding the bike were seriously injured. In another case, a Tavera car was damaged near S-1 television news Channel. Two persons sitting in the vehicle were injured and rushed to a hospital. In the fifth accident, an Indica car collided with a bike in Javer, killing the rider and injuring the pillion rider. The police said one Bhika of Nifali village in Aligarh was going on a bike with his friend to Palwal. When they climbed the Palwal-Jhuppa road, the bike was hit by an Indica car near Javer police station. Local people informed the police who rushed the injured to a hospital where Bhika succumbed to his injuries. His friend is in critical condition. The sixth accident occurred on Rabupura -Jhajhar road. A youth was killed when his bike collided with another bike. Three more persons were injured in the collision. Neither the deceased nor the injured could be identified, the police said.
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Martial arts instructor alleges threat to life
Gurgaon, April 25 While talking to the media here today, he said that since the day he was appointed as a martial arts trainer in the country by UK-based Traditional International Shotokan Karate Association, people are jealous of his achievements as he is the youngest person all over the country to reach such a height. He said that he was recently called upon by a few people in Bihar to train them, but when he reached there, things turned out to be different. “Those people kept the pistol on my forehead, hit me and took away all my belongings like gold chain, rings and cash and said that they are leaving me because they got lots of things from me,” he claimed. Yadav added, “They also threatened me that I should leave the post of trainer with Shotokan Karate Association as it should have been taken over by Shobhit Sahani, one of my students and also asked me to pay Rs 5 lakh to him. They warned me if I complain about them, they will kill my family and me. I was so afraid that I came back and went to Islampur police station. Sahani stays in the area under this police station. However, I was told that the crime should be reported in the area where it had happened. Now I have given application to the commissioner of police.” Shobit Sahani was contacted many times, but his cell was out of reach and no one was available at his home. Yadav said that the person behind the crime stays in Gurgaon only but has been absconding since then.
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Woman killed for dowry in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, April 25 The police on Friday registered a criminal case against Sunita Kumari’s husband and in-laws on the complaint of the girl’s family. According to the police, Sunita Kumari, daughter of Bhagwan Das, had married her landlord’s son Vinod Kumar, alias Ajit, a resident of the Ram Nagar Colony in Mohan Nagar on June 20, 2006. The girl’s family then shifted elsewhere. However, after marriage, Sunita’s husband and in-laws Seeta Ram and Anguri Devi started harassing her for dowry. On many occasions, they turned violent, beating her up badly. Sunita was allegedly killed on March 27 by her husband and in-laws, who then called up her father and told him she had died of some illness at Amroha. By the time Bhagwan Das and his son reached the place, the body had already been cremated. However, her brother came to know that Sunita was burnt, and was also told about the violence she had been subjected to. When Sunita’s father and brother approached the Sahibabad police station, the police did not register the case. However, the case of dowry killing against Ajit and his parents was later registered on the orders of senior superintendent of police (SSP) Akhil Kumar.
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Trader robbed of Rs 4 lakh
Noida, April 25 According to the police, Shailesh Gupta, 38, owner of a collection agency of telecom company Airtel, was in his shop in Sector-20 when four men came on two motorcycles at 4:30 p.m. Three of them entered the shop while the fourth stood guard outside. One of the robbers pointed a gun at Gupta’s head and another held a knife to his family members present with him. There were two family members and four employees present in the shop at the time of the robbery. The three men took away a bag that contained the money, which Gupta had just withdrawn from the bank, and fled, police said. Superintendent of police (city) A.K. Tripathy said, “We are investigating the case and are in the process of lifting fingerprints from the (crime) spot.”
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Eunuch shot at over ‘territory’ dispute
Noida, April 25 According to the police, a group of eunuchs of the Atique gang, aiming to muscle into the “territory” of the Pappu group, shot at Rekha (32), who protested their entry into the phase-II area. Rekha heads the group in the absence of Pappu, who is in jail. Rekha sustained injuries in her abdomen and was rushed to Kailash Hospital, where doctors described her condition as “critical”. According to the police, the two groups were operating in Ghaziabad and Noida - Pappu in Noida and Atique in Ghaziabad - and phase II in Noida had been fixed as the dividing line between the territories. However, the Atique group used to frequently enter Pappu’s territory. Rekha claimed she had asked for security earlier, but the Noida police had denied her request.
— IANS |
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Chauhan
vows to develop sports
New Delhi, April 25
