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Husband, in-laws burn woman for dowry
Country Club cheats 4 Delhiites
Bus conductor during day, robber at night
Bikers rob Dadri trader near police station
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DTC in debt of Rs 7,200 cr
Engineer robbed, killed in Ghaziabad
16 years later, man acquitted of forex irregularities
HC ruling in Nanda case today
Eclipse chasers set for flight of lifetime
59-year-old woman murdered
Blueline crushes man
Woman kills daughter, commits suicide
Three test positive for swine flu
Mishap victims lie on road for an hour
Robbery
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Husband, in-laws burn woman for dowry
New Delhi, July 19 The police said that the incident came to light around 8.30 am when Deepika Bajaj gave a call to the police from her house in Gopal Park area of Krishna Nagar. She told the police that she was burning and was set on fire by her husband and in-laws. “When we reached the spot, Deepika was badly charred in her room upstairs while her in-laws were standing outside. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared brought dead,” said the police. The police further stated that Deepika got married to Aditya Bajaj two years ago after falling in love with him and they had a one-year-old daughter. The police has registered a case of murder, dowry harassment and detained her father-in-law, Ashok mother-in-law, Chand and Aditya’s cousin, Abhishek while Aditya is absconding.
Deepika was working as a customer relationship executive with the Hyundai Group while her husband used to give tuition to students from his house.
Deepika’s family members alleged, “She had been trying to fulfill their demands on her own. Recently, she had purchased a Hyundai Santro car for her husband and before that she had brought money from her parental home to fulfill their other demands. Nowadays, they were demanding Rs 5 lakh as they wanted to marry their other son in a grand manner.” Her brother, Harmeet told the police that three months ago, she had filed a complaint of domestic abuse and torture against her husband and in-laws at the Crime Against Woman Cell of Krishna Nagar. A police officer said that they have got a copy of the complaint and also got an affidavit signed by Aditya in which he had apologized for assault and making financial demands on her. “Prima facie it suggests that Deepika’s in-laws are involved as Aditya’s family was going through hard times while the financial position of Deepika’s parents is much better. However, we are still not clear about their role in the case and are further investigating,” added the police. |
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Country Club cheats 4 Delhiites
New Delhi, July 19 According to the victims, they were promised membership of the Country Clubs located in Delhi and NCR after payment of Rs 25,000 each. However, once they deposited the said amount, the CCIL executives demanded another Rs 1 lakh for the membership. Angry over being misled by their executive concerned, the victims asked for the refund of their money. The CCIL executives then said that it would not be possible and they would get the membership only if they deposited Rs 1 lakh more. Ankit Kapoor (27), Amit Tewari (34), Manish Kapoor (33) and Mohit Gulati (35), all executives with Birla Sunlife distribution company, were approached by Arun Kumar, senior marketing executive with CCIL about two weeks ago. He offered them the 1.25-lakh membership for a discounted rate of Rs 25,000. “We had no interest in taking up the CCIL membership, but when Arun Kumar constantly badgered us and agreed to give the membership for Rs 25,000, we agreed. However, after a few days when we enquired about our membership cards, we were told to give another Rs 1 lakh, else the membership would not be given,” alleged Ankit Kapoor. The four called up Arun’s immediate senior Rajan Mishra and told him about the case, but nothing happened. When Radha Krishan, deputy general manager (Sales and Marketing), CCIL, was approached for his views on the alleged misleading, he categorically refused to refund the money. “These people are bothering me by calling every day. Please tell them we will not refund their money and they may do whatever they want,” said Radha Krishan. The aggrieved party is now contemplating a legal action against the
CCIL.
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Bus conductor during day, robber at night
Noida, July 19 All the four were involved in looting cabs after taking a lift in them. They were wanted in about a dozen incidents of loot. They were notorious for snatching gold chains, bangles, etc at gunpoints, police said. The bandits confessed to stealing five vehicles. Their modus operandi was to take a lift in the vehicle, throw away the driver at gunpoint and drive away with the vehicle. A revolver and a few looted mobile phones were recovered from them. The robbers have been identified as Asif, Vimal, Ashok and Rakam Singh. Vimal is the ring leader of the gang. One of their accomplices had been caught earlier for a robbery. Rakam Singh was a conductor in a Blueline bus. He was on a Blueline bus plying on route No. G-L-32. He used to work as a conductor during day and would join his other gang members in robberies at night. While Ashok was wanted in the murder of Surinder who was killed under Dankore police station area four years ago. According to police, they had carried out the first loot near DND flyover on February 27, when Vimal, Rakam Singh and another member of their gang robbed the cab from Tauseef. While trying to escape, they drove the vehicle at reckless speed and collided with a truck. Police had then nabbed one of the injured accused, while Vimal and Rakam escaped. Subsequently, the gang along with Asif and Ashok got into chain-snatching and carjacking. They snatched a gold chain of a woman, Alolika on February 12 near DND, police added. |
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Bikers rob Dadri trader near police station
Greater Noida, July 19 According to information, Bittu, son of Baldev, the wholesale agents of Thukral Paints, was at the shop on Saturday when two youngmen came there on a Pulser bike. The visitors asked if they could get a change for Rs 500. As Bittu took out a wad of currency notes from his pocket, one of the robbers put a gun at Bittu's earpit and snatched Rs 6,500 from him. Soon a large number of traders in the market collected at Bitu's shop. As the traders informed the police, the cops did not even bother to come to the shop to make an inquiry. |
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DTC in debt of Rs 7,200 cr
New Delhi, July 19 According to sources, the reason for loss is that the bus is taken empty from the depot to the bus stand. It is also taken empty from the last stand to the bus depot when the driver and the conductor call off their duty. Buses engaged with the schools also contribute to losses as they are taken empty from depot to school or vice versa. The sources also said that 600 employees of the DTC are engaged every day for counting the coins that are brought by the conductors after ferrying the vehicles from their destinations. Giving the break-up, the sources said that the DTC is in loss of Rs 66 per bus per km. The DTC has inter-state buses. It also drives buses in NCR region, that is adjoining areas of UP and Haryana. These buses are also running in losses. The sources said that DTC is in debt of Rs 7,200 crore and it is giving interest of Rs 106 crore to the agency concerned from where it has taken loan. The total revenue of the DTC is between Rs 35 and Rs 37 crore while expenditure is Rs 57.80 crore. Commissioner of transport K. R. Verma admits that the DTC is in loss. Former leader of opposition, Jagdish Mukhi said that the reason for DTC losses is mismanagement. The government is purchasing new buses, but nothing is being done to improve the management. Transport is a public utility service on which subsidy is given. As far as DTC is concerned, it is being run on subsidy totally, he added. |
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2 kanwarias hurt in mishap
New Delhi, July 19 According to information, around 1.40 am, a speeding car hit two kanwarias, which led to the breaking of their urns and the holy water getting spilled over the road. Infuriated at this, the kanwarias blocked the Bagh road and damaged four buses and two cars. They also tried to set afire some of the vehicles, but were unsuccessful, police said. They demanded from the authorities that either somebody is sent to fetch holy water for them from Haridwar or they punish the man whose car had hit the two kanwarias. The Punjabi Bagh section of the Ring Road was blocked by the protesters and as the Ridge Road was closed due to the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, west Delhi was cut off from some areas of the capital. The situation was brought under control only after senior police officials reached the venue and pacified the kanwarias. In yet another incident, two motorcyclists-borne kanwarias were hit by a speeding Blueline bus in Bawana area of outer Delhi this afternoon leading to road jams by the angry kanwarias. According to information, the incident took place around 2 pm when Sanjay and Rakesh, riding a bike were hit by the Blueline bus number 708 near Bawana Chowk. The badly injured kanwarias were rushed to Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital where condition of Rakesh is said to be critical. As a result, the angry kanwarias blocked traffic at Bawana Chowk for almost two hours. |
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Engineer robbed, killed in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, July 19 The incident occurred late on Friday night, but the victim Shish Pal Negi’s body was only found on Saturday night in Sector 5 of Vasundhara locality under Indirapuram police station of Ghaziabad, police said. Negi was a junior engineer with the Uttarakhand PWD. “Negi was on his way to Vijay Nagar locality in Ghaziabad to pick up his mother. He found the road blocked and he took a rickshaw from Mohan Nagar to Vijay Nagar via Vasundhara-Shipra Suncity, but he was murdered by robbers in Sector 5 of Vasundhara and robbed of his mobile phone, wallet and other belongings,” a police officer said. Negi’s brother Jawahar said, “Shish called at 3.00 a.m. on Friday and said that he had taken a rickshaw and would be reaching home soon, but his phone was found switched off even at 6.00 a.m.” “We found his body lying in an abandoned area of Sector 5 Vasundhara late on Saturday night. There were injury marks on his neck and body and all his belongings were missing,” Jawahar added. Superintendent of police (City) Rahul Yadvendu said, “A case has been registered and police is
investigating.” — IANS |
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16 years later, man acquitted of forex irregularities
New Delhi, July 19 Justice Anil Kumar allowed Prabhat Kumar Srivastava’s petition, which challenged the FERA (Foreign Exchange Regulation Act) Appellate Tribunal’s decision dismissing his plea for quashing of the proceedings against him. The court directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to refund all the currencies recovered from his house during a raid in 1993. The court also waived a penalty of Rs 500,000 the ED had imposed on Srivastava. Slamming the ED for giving erroneous findings, the court said, “The findings have been arrived at without any basis... and in the circumstances it has to be held that the adjudication order is not
sustainable.” — IANS |
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HC ruling in Nanda case today
New Delhi, July 19 Justice Kailash Gambhir, who had reserved the judgement in May, would announce the verdict on petitions filed by three convicts, including Nanda, challenging the trial court order. Besides Nanda, the court had also convicted Rajiv Gupta and Bhola Nath and sentenced them to one year and six months, respectively, in jail. Challenging his conviction in the case, Nanda argued that the trial court had convicted him under “media pressure” and on presumption without evidence. He submitted that the trial court had erred in believing the controversial eyewitness, Sunil Kulkarni, who, he argued, was not present in the Capital on the day of the incident. Nanda also contended that Kulkarni’s testimony, which he termed “unreliable”, was considered by the trial court despite Kulkarni coming before the court only after the prosecution had finished submitting its evidence. Nanda was returning from a party in suburban Gurgaon with his friends Manik Kapoor and Siddharth Gupta in his luxury car in the early hours of January 10, 1999, when he mowed down six people in south Delhi’s Lodhi Colony area. Sanjeev, son of arms dealer Suresh Nanda, is a British national. He studied in Modern School, Delhi, and was a management student from Wharton Business School in the
US. — IANS |
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Eclipse chasers set for flight of lifetime
New Delhi, July 19 In fact almost 80 per cent of the window seats on the chartered flight have already been sold for the July 22 celestial event. The flight is being organised by Cox and Kings India, a travel agency, under the technical guidance of Eclipse Chasers Athenaeum (ECA), a wing of the Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE). It is a Delhi-based organisation working to make science and astronomy popular among youngsters. “We have received a very good response for the eclipse flight. There have been inquiries and bookings from all over the country. After all, this is a once in a lifetime event. We have almost 80 percent sellout on our sun side seats,” Karan Anand, head of relationships and supplier management, Cox and Kings India, told IANS. A JetLite 737-700 has been chartered for people to watch the century’s longest solar eclipse. The flight will last three hours. It will take off from New Delhi at 4.30 am, fly towards Gaya in Bihar and hover over the city while the eclipse is on. Gaya is one of the regions where the eclipse will be total. The aircraft window seats have been divided into two categories. The sun side seats are the 21 window seats on the right side of the aircraft. “We have bookings from Delhi and Mumbai. Our oldest passenger is a 70-year-old gentleman and our youngest is an 11-year-old girl,” said Anand. The sun side seats are priced at Rs 79,000 while the earth side are being sold for Rs 29,000 each. “The aircraft will be intercepting the middle of the eclipse shadow at 6.26 a.m. at a height of 41,000 feet. Eclipse chasers sitting along the sun side seats will be able to photograph the eclipse, while the chasers sitting along the earth side seats will be able to photograph the lunar shadow moving over the earth,” said Anand. SPACE has planned a series of activities for the passengers aboard the flight. “There will be an astro magic show, explanation of the eclipse before and during the actual totality, a question and answer session and an eclipse parade,” said Anand. The total eclipse is expected to last six minutes and 44 seconds, making it the longest till 2132. It is starting at sunrise near Surat in Gujarat. The shadow of the moon will be so large during this eclipse that even at sunrise the duration of totality will be over three minutes. The shadow very quickly moves across the breadth of India towards Arunachal Pradesh. It spans a third of the entire path in India, 900 km out of 2,500 km.
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59-year-old woman murdered
New Delhi, July 19 Sumitra Gulati was at her house with only her five-year-old grandson Pranav when a robber impersonating a cable TV operator came in. The woman was stabbed to death, and Rs 50,000 in cash and some jewellery taken away. “The neighbours told us that Pranav said a man had come to repair the cable TV,” a police officer added. The woman had multiple stab wounds on the neck. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared brought dead. Her husband O.P Gulati and son Rohit were at their shop in Moti Nagar area while her daughter-in-law had gone to Hisar for some
exam. — IANS |
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Blueline crushes man
New Delhi, July 19 3 bodies found
Three unidentified bodies have been found in a DDA park in Usmanpur area of east Delhi, police said today. Aged 25, 30 and 40 approximately were suspected to be beggars. 3 cabbies held
The Crime Branch of Police has arrested three call-centre cab drivers for allegedly robbing a TV journalist of cash and two mobile phones. The robbers, identified as Jitender (21), Jai Parkash (21) and Ashish Kumar (25), fled after throwing the journalist from the cab in which he had taken a lift on July 12. On that day, Amit Chand Deshmukh took a lift around 3 am in a call-centre cab which was occupied by the three youths. |
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Woman kills daughter, commits suicide
New Delhi, July 19 According to information, Kiran Raj (22) hanged herself from a ceiling fan along with her daughter Gracy inside her house. The incident took place in DDA Park residence in Pocket 8 of Palam and her husband Johhny Raj (26) was not in the house at the time. According to police investigation and statement given by Johhny Raj to the police, he had arguments with his wife over a trivial issue last night and believes that she could have been upset because of it. The two had married five years ago and knew each other before the marriage. “It was a love-cum-arranged marriage solemnised with the blessings of respective families. However, lately, there seemed to be frequent disputes between the couple and is probably the cause of suicide by the woman,” said a police official close to investigation. The police has registered a case and investigations are on. “Since the death has taken place five years after the marriage, we are concerned whether issue of dowry was not the matter of dispute. We are recording the statements of the neighbours and the victim’s parents in this regard,” said a police official close to investigation. |
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Three test positive for swine flu
New Delhi, July 19 She said, “While the three positive cases of today have been quarantined at Ambedhkar Hospital, Aruna Asaf Hospital and Lok Nayak Hospital respectively, the reports of the five people who have been admitted to various health centres would be coming by tomorrow evening.” |
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Mishap victims lie on road for an hour
Greater Noida, July 19 Riyaz Ali was taking two sick women in a jeep from Achheja village when a tractor trolly collided with the jeep which, under the impact of the accident, hung on the edge of a ditch. Only after the cops reached the site, the women were rushed to a hospital. |
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