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Subsidised pulses at Mother Dairy a big relief
Delhi-Noida Route
Speaker seeks CBI probe into ghost MCD staff
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Anand Vihar to get Metro in a week
Illicit liquor of premium brands seized
One trader dead, another hurt in shooting incidents
Rs 1,250-crore
Ghandy wants to retract ‘forcible confession’
Blackmailer astrologer arrested
Woman gang-raped by acquaintances
3 killed, 3 hurt in mishaps
HC protection to teen, older husband
H1N1 toll reaches 39
2 gangsters in custody
BJP walkout on adulteration case
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Subsidised pulses at Mother Dairy a big relief
New Delhi, December 11 According to the shopkeepers, there is tremendous demand for the pulses as they are sold at significantly low prices. The decision to sell pulses at subsidized rates was taken by the Delhi government in August. “The stock is generally sold within a few days. In fact, people buy them more than vegetables and fruit,” said a Mother Dairy staffer at a Model Town outlet. However, some people have also complained of the non-availability of sugar and poor quality pulses. “No doubt, dals at Mother Dairy are priced low, but their quality is not up to the mark,” said Vijay Kaundal, a housewife in RK Puram. People are also wondering about the sale of subsidized sugar at the Mother Dairy outlets. “There is no sugar available at the outlets,” said Sangeeta Sharma, a resident in Malviya Nagar. According to some residents, the outlets in their vicinity are not selling anything other than fruit and vegetables. “The Mother Dairy in our locality only sells vegetables and fruit. It is only in Kendriya Bhandar that we get subsidized food items,” said a resident of Mukherjee Nagar. In August, the Delhi government had tied up with merchants to sell pulses at subsidized prices through 80 government and 288 Mother Dairy outlets. |
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Bluelines ignore withdrawal order
Commuters say DTC buses not sufficient Parmindar Singh
Noida, December 11 The president of the Blueline Bus Association, Rajiv Chaudhary, said the permits of Blueline buses plying on the Delhi-Noida route had not been cancelled, but the buses have been shifted to Delhi. “Blueline buses will continue to ply on the route till the Delhi transport authorities issue new bus permits for them. We have paid all the taxes till 2010,” said Chaudhary. He further said that Delhi transport minister Arvinder Singh Lovely had assured him that new permits for Blueline buses would be issued soon. “Lovely said Blueline buses had been withdrawn from Noida as an agreement could not be reached with the UP authorities,” said Chaudhary. Noida ARTO Anil Kumar and transport inspector Saffuddin said they had not yet received the written order about the cancellation of permits of the Blueline buses running on the Delhi-Noida route and so that they could not take action against these buses. Meanwhile, commuters in Noida are having a harrowing time. Besides being angry over the hike in the fares of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses, they are also upset over the fact that only 150 DTC buses have been introduced to replace about 300 Blueline buses. These 150 buses are in addition to the existing 40 low-floor DTC buses already plying on the route. According to an estimate, around 25,000 to 30,000 people travel on buses running between Noida and Delhi every day. The shortfall of buses leaves a large number of commuters stranded at bus stops during the peak hours. Large crowds of commuters were seen waiting at Sectors 12–22 and 37.
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Speaker seeks CBI probe into ghost MCD staff
New Delhi, December 11 He made this recommendation after Congress MLA Anil Bhardwaj raised this issue under Section 280 of the Delhi Assembly Act and claimed that it was a major scam which required a thorough inquiry. Bhardwaj claimed that there were 22,000 fake employees in the MCD who were not on the record but they drew salaries. This has been accepted in the vigilance report of the corporation submitted to the municipal commissioner, K.S. Mehra. He said that the issue had affected the revenue of the civic body. The government should find out the culprits. Just after his statement, the BJP MLAs stood up, claiming that the fake employee issue had been going on for many years when the Congress was in power. They also demanded the CBI inquiry. Former leader of opposition, Prof Jagdish Mukhi said that the scam was busted by the BJP-ruled corporation. The credit should be given to the BJP, he said. Veer Singh Dhingan, a Congress MLA, also raised this issue, claiming that the case was related to safai karamcharis though they were not bogus. About 35,000 employees are on regular basis while 15,000 to 20,000 workers are temporary. Responding to the opposition, urban development minister A.K. Walia said the CBI inquiry into the case would be recommended after examining the MCD’s vigilance report.
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Anand Vihar to get Metro in a week
New Delhi, December 11 The official added if things went smooth, the Metro line could be opened for public soon. The official date for the opening of Anand Vihar stretch was scheduled for the end of this year. The total length of this corridor is 6.17 km. The Metro would pass through five stations— Laxmi Nagar, Nirman Vihar, Preet Vihar, Karkarduma and Anand Vihar. The opening of this line is crucial as it is part of the public transport compatibility plan charted out by the Indian Railways and ISBT. DMRC officials said the upcoming Anand Vihar Metro station on the Yamuna Bank to Anand Vihar corridor had been “planned as a major integrating terminal that would bring together three modes of public transport— the Metro, Indian Railways and the ISBT.” The Anand Vihar ISBT has been functional for a few years now and the Indian Railways is coming up with a terminal for all east-bound trains by the end of this month. The government is also planning to remodel the ISBT as per international standards. The Anand Vihar station is 300 meters from the Indian Railways terminal. The area of the Metro station and the ISBT is common, enabling commuters to reach both the systems. A 10-meters-wide passage connecting the station from the ground level to the ISBT and Indian Railways terminal is also being planned. This passage will be open for the public 24 hours. The PWD has undertaken restructuring of the approaching roads to ISBT to ensure access to all three stations. The daily station load forecast for the Anand Vihar station is almost 2.5 lakh for 2011.
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Illicit liquor of premium brands seized
New Delhi, December 11 “A total of 108 bottles of different premium brands i.e. Jack Daniel, Chivas Regal, Red Label, Black Label etc. of illicit liquor were recovered with 60 empty bottles of the above mentioned brands from his possession,” said N S Bundela, DCP (NW). The arrest came after a policeman went as a decoy customer to the accused and asked for premium brand liquor with signed two currency notes of Rs 1000 each. “The decoy customer fetched a bottle of Chivas Regal premium Scotch whisky for Rs 2,000 from a person inside H No. A/390 DDA Flats Jahangir Puri, Delhi and signalled the raiding party. The raiding party thus apprehended Jai Prakash from the said house and recovered Rs 2,690 from his possession which contained the two signed notes of Rs 1,000 denomination each given by the decoy customer,” informed DCP Bundela. On further search of the house, 19 bottles of Chivas Regal, 60 bottles of Director Special for sale in Haryana, 9 bottles of black label, 12 bottles of Red Label and seven bottles of Jack Daniel were recovered along with 24 empty bottles of Director Special, 12 empty bottles of Black Label, 7 empty bottles of Chivas Regal, 10 empty bottles of Red Label and 7 empty bottles of Jack Denial. The accused Jai Prakash disclosed that he used to purchase Director Special whisky from Haryana and empty bottles of premium brand from the local Kabaris and he used to fill low quality Director Special whisky into high quality premium brand bottles and sell the same in open market and banquet halls etc. and thus used to earn quick and easy money from the sale of low quality illicit liquor.
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One trader dead, another hurt in shooting incidents
New Delhi, December 11 A businessman was killed by car-borne assailants in P4-Block of Sultanpuri at 11 pm. The victim, Sanjay Chaudhry, a cable operator, was watching a wedding procession when he was fired upon. “Sanjay was rushed to the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. He received two bullets. A case has been lodged at the Sultanpuri police station and investigations are on,” said a senior police official from the district, adding that personal enmity could be the reason behind the attack. He added that the assailants, whose number is not clear, used a unique modus-operandi to shoot the victim. “As Sanjay stood watching the wedding procession which was accompanied by sounds of crackers, the gun shots were initially mistaken to be crackers. Only when the bleeding Sanjay fell down, people realised that he was shot. By the time, the assailants had fled,” said the police. The police has reasons to believe that the assailants knew that the marriage procession would pass through the area and so they waited for the opportune time to commit the crime. In yet another incident of shooting reported from the Najafgarh area of west Delhi, a property dealer was shot at by bike-borne assailants last night. Surinder Kumar, a resident of Mitarao village, received two bullets in the attack that took place not far from his house. “Kumar was rushed to Ayushman Hospital in Dwarka, where he was operated upon. He is critical, but doctors are hopeful that he would pull it off,” said the police. A case under section 307 of the IPC has been registered in this regard. According to the police, besides property dealing, Sanjay was also engaged in supplying building material and business rivalry could be the reason behind the attack.
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Delhi-Meerut Expressway approved
Our Correspondent
Ghaziabad, December 11 The Expressway is likely to cost Rs 1,250 crore. Its approval was confirmed by Ghaziabad district magistrate R.Ramesh Kumar last week. With the proposed Expressway, traffic snarls from Modi Nagar to Meerut would become a thing of the past. The commissioner of Meerut division has called for a report about land acquisition in and around Bhojpur village of Modi Nagar Tehsil. The details of forests, temples, tubewells, etc in villages Vidhapur, Patti, Kalcheena, Umarala, Bhadjan , Chidyala, have also been called for, it is learnt. The letter issued from the surface transport ministry received in Tehsil headquarters also mentions that government officials are now busy in connection with the Commonwealth Games. The work on Meerut-Delhi Expressway will be taken in hand in 2011 after the Commonwealth Games.
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Ghandy wants to retract ‘forcible confession’
New Delhi, December 11 The senior naxal leader was today produced before chief metropolitan magistrate Kaveri Baweja, who after taking his application into records, sent him to judicial custody till December 25. In the application, he said he wanted to retract his confession recorded by the police during his custody. Ghandy alleged he was not aware of the contents of his confession as he was forced to sign on a blank paper. Sixty-three-year-old Ghandy was brought to Delhi from Andhra Pradesh, where he was in custody since November 18 to face charges under the Explosive Substances Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with a case registered in Karimnagar district in 2008. Meanwhile, the court also issued notice to the Delhi police and AIIMS to reply by December 16 on Ghandy’s plea regarding his treatment at the premier institute. He is said to be suffering from prostrate cancer. Ghandy, a think-tank of the banned outfit, has been booked under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Earlier, the Delhi police, which on October 31 secured a green signal from a lower court to conduct narco-analysis test on Ghandy, had suffered a setback after the Delhi High Court accepted Ghandy’s plea that the test should not be conducted as its constitutional validity had been challenged before the Supreme Court. |
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Blackmailer astrologer arrested
New Delhi, December 11 Three mobile phones used for commission of the offence and two ATM cards were seized from his possession. A businessman of west Delhi lodged a complaint in the Special Cell that he was receiving extortion/ blank calls from a mobile phone. The caller then started making calls to his relative’s mobile also and demanded Rs 10 lakh and warned that if his demands were not met, he would eliminate the family of the businessman. “After investigation we zeroed in on Hargovind Sharma, an astrologer who has an office in Rohini. The investigation revealed that the businessman along with his family used to visit him. However, Hargovind got infatuated by the daughter of the complainant. When her marriage was fixed, Hargovind devised a modus operandi to extort money. For this, he first obtained a new SIM card on the basis of fake identity and then he started making threatening/blank calls to the complainant’s mobile and landline phone numbers, demanding extortion money,” said Alok Kumar, DCP (Special Cell). |
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Woman gang-raped by acquaintances
Faridabad, December 11 The victim Mamta (name changed) worked at Munrika in Delhi and stayed there. She knew the accused from before. When Mamta was returning from Munrika to Lakarpur on December 6, Harish and Sushil offered her a lift in their car. They took her to jungles in Anangpur and threatened her with dire consequences. They took her to a secluded place in Sector-31 and raped her. Later, four other friend of the accused too took turns to rape Mamta. The accused dropped her outside Lakarpur village the next morning. Mamta first went to lodge a complaint at Suraj Kund police station. However, the Suraj Kund police was not sure at what location the rape took place. Mamta too had difficulty in pointing out the exact place where she was raped. This caused a delay in registering of the complaint. Later, it was learnt that the incident had taken place in Sector-31 where a case was. Mamta said the other four accused were also from Anangpur village. No arrest has been made yet. |
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3 killed, 3 hurt in mishaps
Noida, December 11 Narinder, alias Naresh (22) of Badalpur village was going to Dadri from Ghaziabad when a truck hit himnear Chhapraula, killing him on the spot. In second accident, Ashok and Arun of Dairy Machha village on G.T. Road were going home from Shadopur when a car hit them near the village. They have sustained serious injuries. They were rushed to Ghaziabad’s Yashoda Hospital. In another accident, Mohinder of Dankore was returning with his wife Maya Devi when his bike was hit by a truck near foot overbridge. Maya Devi was crushed to death while Mohinder was seriously injured. Another accident victim Shekhar was hit by an unknown vehicle in the Sector-20 Kotwali area on December 6. He was admitted to a hospital, where he breathed his last night. |
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HC protection to teen, older husband
New Delhi, December 11 Justice Kailash Gambhir extended protection to the couple by a week and asked them to approach the appropriate court that lies within their jurisdiction. Earlier in the day, the court had directed the couple and their families to the mediation centre but there was no concrete result. The teen had filed a petition in the court seeking protection from her family. She stated that she had married her much older husband of her “own free will and without any influence and coercion” “But I fear that my husband could be eliminated by my family members,” she said. Her husband was a teacher in a Madhya Pradesh college but has now resigned, she said. The couple now lives in Delhi. According to the prosecution, he was married with children and therefore his second wedding was null.
— IANS
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H1N1 toll reaches 39
New Delhi, December 11 Asistant nodal officer for H1N1 Dr Anjan Prakash said with the city recording three new deaths, the tally of fatalities here has gone up to 39. The total number of H1N1-infected people has climbed up to 7,019, with the city today recording 250 confirmed cases of the flu. However, the aggravating winter might bring down the number of cases of the contagious flu, given the virus demands favourable temperatures and humidity levels to survive, said a city health official. |
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2 gangsters in custody
New Delhi, December 11 It is alleged that Sheikh looked after Bajrangi’s gang in Mumbai. The Delhi police special cell arrested him from Mumbai. Hussain was arrested from Varanasi in November.
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BJP walkout on adulteration case
New Delhi, December 11 They walked out alleging that the ruling party was not serious to discuss the issue. The resolution was moved by BJP MLA Kulwant Rana. The resolution said the department concerned had only 93 officials to lift the samples while requirement was of 132 officers. The government should recruit more officers so that action can be taken to check adulteration, said the resolution.
— TNS |
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