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Man held for duping 2,000 of Rs 50 crore
NCW fined for not replying to RTI on Nithari killings
Bikers snatch Rs 11.5 lakh from car-borne trader
Illegal colonies come up on govt land
Life term for killing husband upheld
Father killed by bullets
meant for sons
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City turns dim as Delhiites observe Earth Hour
A view of the Rashtrapati Bhavan during the Earth Hour in New Delhi on Friday. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal
Prosthetic aids given
to disabled
Grandpa, uncle kidnapped
2-yr-old
The roadside restaurant at Dundhahera village on the outskirts of Gurgaon whose owner was shot dead on Thursday night. Tribune photo: Sayeed Ahmed
HC asks why poor student was denied admission
Verdict on park gangrape on Aug 7
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Man held for duping 2,000 of Rs 50 crore
New Delhi, July 31 The police said Sharma was hiding in a rented house in Dehradun for the last three months and was brought to the Capital this morning. Most of the investors were from the armed forces. They had not ben paid any interest from November last year. DCP Neeraj Thakur said Sharma used to advertise in newspapers and hired agents to trap prospective investors. To gain the confidence of investors, he gave them four cheques — one undated cheque for refund of the amount and three cheques for the interest of the next three months at the rate of 10 per cent. Thakur said the basic membership fee of his scheme started from Rs 15,000, after which Rs 1,000 was to be given for the next three years. “Sharma was running the firm for the last three years and invested the amount in stock market. He suffered huge losses in stock market due to recession and the sudden downfall in stock market last year,” informed Thakur. Even after losses, Naveen continued paying monthly returns to his investors. Investors approached the economic offences wing (EOW) after Naveen absconded in April and the cheques given by him bounced. So far, about 250 victims have approached the EOW, aggregating cheating amounting more than Rs 5 crore. Meanwhile, investigation is on. “The exact money siphoned off by the accused and role of the other persons involved with him is being probed,” said Thakur.
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NCW fined for not replying to RTI on Nithari killings
Noida, July 31 The chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullahah in a latest order has lambasted the NCW and slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 for delay in providing information to an RTI applicant about its investigation about the killings. The central information commission
(CIC) has slapped the fine for not providing complete information pertaining to tours undertaken by its members to Nithari to investigate reports of missing
children. Habibullaha directed the member-secretary of the NCW to pay a compensation of Rs 10,000 to RTI applicant
(Retd) Commodore Lokesh Batra, who had demanded a compensation of Rs 1 lakh from NCW for the “time and money wasted and physical and mental torture” suffered by him for almost 18
months. Batra had approached the CIC seeking directions to the NCW to provide complete information sought by him through his RTI application. But despite the directions of the CIC in August last year, information was not provided to
Batra, prompting him to file a complaint of “contempt of CIC’s orders” with
Habibullah.. The Nithari tragedy had come to light on December 29, 2006, while the NCW had known in May, 2005 that children had been disappearing from the Nithari village. Commission member Nirmala Venktesh was asked to visit Nithari on August 4 and 5, which she did on August 24, 2005. After that,
Venktesh, who had to submit a report within 15 days, forgot to do so. Instead, she sent her report on November 6, 2005 — two months late. A copy of this report was sent to the Noida police. However, the NCW forgot to ask for an explanation from the Noida police. The CIC has also asked the member secretary of the NCW to update all relavant records in the next 45 days so that the same could be made available to the public. According to
Batra, only after the Nithari episode came to light, the NWC, on January 2, 2007, had issued a notice to the UP government, asking it to submit its reply to its November 2005. A total of 38 children were reported to have gone missing from Nithari village in Noida during 2005 to 2006, who were eventually killed. Had the UP police and the NCW taken prompt actions, perhaps the lives of some of the unfortunate victims could have been saved. |
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Bikers snatch Rs 11.5 lakh from car-borne trader
New Delhi, July 31 According to the police, the incident took place around 10.15 am near Siege restaurant on Lawrance Road. The victim, Sanjeev Gupta, who runs a foodgrain business, was on way to his factory in his Santro Car when the bikers attacked him. There were two robbers on a motorcycle. After overtaking the car, the pillion driver got down and broke the window glass of the car with the butt of a revolver and tried to take away the moneybag. When Sanjeev resisted, the robber threatened to shoot him and managed to flee with the bag containing the money,” said a police official narrating the sequence of events. According to Sanjeev, he was to deposit the money in bank later in the day. Immediately after the robbery, Sanjeev called the PCR and informed about the incident. The police has lodged a case and is investigating the matter. “We suspect that some persons known to Gupta could be involved in the incident as the robbers knew that he was carrying cash and were following him,” said the police. The robbers were wearing helmets and that was the reason no one could see them. This is the second incident of road robbery in Keshapuram in last 13 days. Last week, two bank employees were robbed of Rs 9.5 lakh by four bike-borne after injuring them with pistol. However, the accused were later arrested.
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Illegal colonies come up on govt land
Noida, July 31 Sources say the lands have already been acquired by the Noida Authority. Colonisers are, reportedly, fleecing the gullible buyers by misleading them. Buyers are being enticed from far off places. The colonisers have even fixed electric poles in the colonies. According to sources, some influential people from Okhla who have set up their offices a few meters from Garhi Chowkhandi village are selling the plots like hot cakes. Though the Noida Authority has developed roads for planting saplings here, it is technically “not aware” of the large-scale encroachment of its land. Some buyers have also constructed boundary walls around the plots. Meanwhile, the colonisers assert that the Noida Authority has nothing to do with it as they have directly purchased these land from farmers. However, according to sources, the land in question has been acquired by the government after proper notification. The colonisers who have developed colonies in Garhi Chowkhandi have earlier been sent to jail by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for having developed similar colonies in the Okhla area of Delhi. Additional CEO of Noida P.N. Batham said that the Noida Authority would file a case against these colonisers for developing illegal colonies on its land. |
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Life term for killing husband upheld
New Delhi, July 31 Asra Bano had strangled her husband to death in July 1996 after she came to know that he had secretly married another girl. According to the prosecution, Asra Bano had chopped off her husband Raju’s private parts after killing him. She had then gone to the chamber of a public prosecutor in the Delhi High Court and confessed her crime. Relying on her confession made before the public prosecutor and testimony of witnesses, the trial court had convicted her in March 2001 and jailed her for life. She approached the high court against the sentence. The high court, after going through all evidence, found no deficiencies in the trial court verdict. “It is clear from the reading of these testimonies that there is no discrepancy in any of these statements,” a bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Indermeet Kaur said, dismissing Asra Bano’s plea.
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Father killed by bullets
meant for sons
Greater Noida, July 31 A report has been lodged in this regard with the Jahangirpur police station. The cause of the murder could not be ascertained. But the police feels that the man was shot due to enmity. The victim, Chattarveer Singh of Ghori Bachhera village in Greater Noida, with his sons— Suraj, Satish and Ghayaninder— had gone to Jahangirpur to see a hakeem (doctor). Chattarveer was not keeping well so his sons used to take him to the hakeem every Thursday. They had just started their return journey, when the assailants rained bullets on them. The assailants had actually targeted Chattarveer’s sons, but since Chattarveer was seated in the front, he sustained four bullets– two in head, one in chest and one in waist, the police said. The assailants then sped away. Though, Chattarveer had died on the spot, his sons took him to a Khurja hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead. |
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City turns dim as Delhiites observe Earth Hour
New Delhi, July 31 Suhani, a student of National Institute of Fashion Technology, feels it is the onus of every citizen to shoulder the cause. She urged people to join the campaign to save power by turning off all non-essential lights from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm. Given the success of saving 1,000 MW during the global earth hour, the power department of Delhi government has asked 2,000 RWAs, school and college ecological clubs and market associations to support the campaign. “Let us fulfill our duty towards the planet and society by saving power during the Earth Hour,” said Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. In fact, “The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has also been asked to switch off the lights at monuments like for one hour. With a target of saving up to 400 MW in a year, the activity is going to be practised quarterly on the last day once in every three months,” said an official from the Delhi government. |
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Prosthetic aids given
to disabled
New Delhi, July 31 Inaugurating a two-day camp for free distribution of prosthetic and orthotic aids to people with disabilities at Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya on Raj Niwas Marg, Dikshit said it was the first such camp organised this year. The target is to cover about 4,000 beneficiaries in a year. She said the beneficiaries would be provided with on-the-spot and free prosthetic and orthotics aids such as Jaipur artificial limbs (lower limbs), lightweight polio calipers with sports shoes, cotton leprosy footwear and modified shares. The Chief Minister informed the social welfare department had been organising camps for the disabled on a regular basis. Services like disability certificates, identity cards, DTC bus passes, railway concession certificates, various aids and appliances as well as information about various government schemes are provided in the camps. Dikshit informed that under financial assistance schemes, the differently-abled are provided with unemployment-cum-subsistence allowances of Rs 1,000, scholarships and stipend. |
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Grandpa, uncle kidnapped
2-yr-old
New Delhi, July 31 The police said the child was kidnapped by his maternal grandfather Dharam Singh who had demanded Rs 1 crore to release him. Yash’s father Balmukund runs a Jewellery shop at Jhajjar in Haryana. Yash’s 14-year-old maternal uncle visited his sister’s house on July 20 to give her Teej gifts. “Yash went missing on July 20 while he was playing outside his house with his uncle. When we interrogated him, he broke down and narrated the entire incident. Dharam Singh had conspired with his son to kidnap his grandson for money,” said a police official. Dharam Singh kept Yash at an orphanage in Gohana, Haryana. Yash was rescued yesterday and was healthy. Yash’s uncle has been sent to observation home. |
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Dhaba owner shot dead
Gurgaon, July 31 According to the police, the victim Rakesh was sitting at his dhaba ‘Rao
Dhaba’ at Dunda Hera in Udyog Vihar when three youths came on a bike and called him out. They started firing at him. Five bullets hit
Rakesh. A case has been registered against unknown assailants on the complaint of Sandeep who was sitting at the dhaba at the time of the incident. Meanwhile, Rakesh’s post-mortem has been conducted and the police has handed over his body to his family. The police commissioner has formed three teams to investigate the matter. It is learnt that CCTV cameras were installed in the dhaba but they were not working. |
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HC asks why poor student was denied admission
New Delhi, July 31 Justice Anil Kumar issued notice to the Delhi government and Taksila Public School in Shahdara and directed them to explain by August 10 why Apurva Sharma was not given admission. The court was hearing the student’s plea, filed through Social Jurist, an NGO. He has contented that the school, where he studied till Class X, has refused to promote him to Class XI under the EWS category. Apurva’s counsel Ashok Agarwal told the court that the school had thus violated provisions of the Delhi School Education (Free Seats for Students belonging to Economically Weaker Sections) Order, 2006.
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Verdict on park gangrape on Aug 7
New Delhi, July 31 The Patiala House court had reserved its order last week and was to pronounce it today but, additional sessions judge S.K. Sarvaria deferred the verdict. The case dates back to October 6, 2003, when the victim, who had gone with her friend to the Buddha Jayanti Park near the Rashtrapati Bhawan for sight-seeing, was allegdly raped by Harpreet, Satendra, Kuldeep and Manish.
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With the clock ticking 8:30 pm, many parts of the Capital wore a dim look today as people observed the Earth Hour on the lines of the global Earth Hour on March 28.
Delhiites played a responsible role as they apprised their friends who were ignorant about it via SMSs and emails.
