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Girl kidnapped from outside college
7-yr-old motherless child flees home to study
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Burglary in MP’s house at North Avenue
Bharat Bandh: BJP seekssupport of trade unions, RWAs
GDA nod to hike in development charges
Three car robbers held
3 held for cloning credit, debit cards
No bail for rapist of Dutch tourists
Jamia to have online file tracking system
Held for selling dummy phones
Fake maid service agency busted
MCD warns agitating sanitation workers
Sultry Saturday for Delhi, monsoon likely next week
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Girl kidnapped from outside college
Greater Noida, July 3 “Alka Singh, daughter of Pratap Singh, resident of village Dhoom Manikpur, studies in class XI at Badalpur Inter College. On Thursday, she had gone to school, but has not returned home till today. Her family members searched for her at all possible locations but in vain,” said Laxman Verma, SHO, Badalpur police station. “Someone informed her family that they had seen a youth taking her forcibly in a car from outside the college. They also gave the family the name of the youth. On that basis, her father lodged a kidnapping report against Dhiraj Singh (20) of the same village on Friday. The accused is educated up to high school only. His brother is a driver and he was learning driving from him. It appears he has used the car of his brother. His brother was being interrogated,” said Verma. “We have got some clue and the police team was sent to the suspected location this evening,” he said. “The girl came to college on Thursday and went out at the usual time. We have no control outside the school premises,” said Ritu Goyal, principal, Inter College. Meanwhile, three Noida Inter College girls Sita Kumari (16), Pooja Kumari (13) and Kumari Jyoti (15), who had gone missing on January 15 from outside the college, have not been found till today. Their parents lodged kidnapping reports against two youths at Sector 20 police station. “The girls could not be traced till today,” said P.P.Singh, SHO of the police station concerned.
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7-yr-old motherless child flees home to study
New Delhi, July 3 Wearing a dirty white shirt over a blue half pants and with untidy hair, Manish came to Mukti Ashram on a Sunday last month and said he would stay there only if they helped him study otherwise he would go back. Manish was six when his mother died. He was the only child. “My father is a drunkard and used to beat me. Since my mother died, I slept many nights without food. I wanted to study and so, I decided to leave. I did not have a single penny, but was sure that I would study,” Manish said showing the marks on his body he got from his father’s beating. Leaving his house, he went to Gwalior railway station as this was the only place he knew. He was standing at platform no 4 when some men came and took him with them saying that they would help him study and also give him all the good things. He fell into their trap and was later pushed into the business of beggary on trains. “There were five people who had caught around 28-30 children in a house. They forced us to beg on trains. If we failed to earn money, they would beat us,” said Manish. “Manish was begging at Mathura railway station when two Bachpan Bachao Andolan volunteers saw him. He said that he was hungry and wanted to eat something. The volunteers gave him 20 rupees and the address of Mukti Ashram saying that he could live, study and eat at this place,” said Kailash Satyarthi, BBA founder. Surprisingly, the little boy landed up in the ashram all alone. “I could see the passion to study in his eyes. Not many leave their parents and home at the age of seven just to study. He is undoubtedly a hero for us,” said BBA director Dhananjay Tingal. Presently, Manish finds himself in his element at Mukti Ashram. He will soon be sent to a different ashram where children of his age live and study. BBA officials say that after sometime as Manish becomes comfortable here, they will take him to Gwalior and rescue the other children.
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Burglary in MP’s house at North Avenue
New Delhi, July 3 Harish Chaudhary, who is MP from Barmer constituency in Rajasthan and lives here at 214, North Revenue, told The Tribune that his house was locked and he learnt of the incident from his neighbours who noticed the telltale signs of theft this morning. Police is learnt to have registered a case. Presently in Rajasthan, the MP said he was not sure of the loss though there were not many valuable items in his government residence. However, some reports pegged the loss to over Rs 4.5 lakh. What would shame cops is that the North Avenue is home to many ministers and other VIPs and supposed to be on the round-the-clock watch of cops due to its profile. Chaudhary had left for his home town a couple of days back. His domestic help was at the North Revenue residence yesterday and went to his house in the evening. The break-in is suspected to have occurred at night. Senior police officials and a team of forensic experts visited the spot. |
Bharat Bandh: BJP seekssupport of trade unions, RWAs
New Delhi, July 3 In a meeting held today, traders, industrial unions and RWA representatives agreed to extend their support to the bandh call. The trader associations and BJP workers also took out pubic awareness rallies. The BJP urged the management of all the schools to keep their institutes closed on Monday. The parents have been requested not to send their wards to schools. The workers have been cautioned to remain vigilant against the anti-social elements which might foment trouble during the bandh. He said all the shops would remain closed though health services are exempt from the bandh call. The BJP national president Nitin Gadkari, NDA chairperson Sharad Yadav, Akali Dal leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa will participate in the dharna at Ghanta Ghar, Chandni Chowk. Vijender said the common man could not bear the burden of price spiral. About 80 per cent goods come from outside. With the increase in the prices of CNG, petrol and diesel, the cost of transportation of goods has also increased. The Congress government which promised relief to the common man during the elections is simply betraying the people, he said. |
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GDA nod to hike in development charges
Ghaziabad, July 3 The board also sanctioned 10 vehicles to be given to the Ghaziabad police for patrolling in view of the Commonwealth Games. UP principal secretary, housing, J.N.Chamber, who headed the board meeting, told mediamen that the board has hiked the development charge from Rs 1,840 per sq mt to Rs 2,345 per sq mt. Hi-tech and integrated township builders too will have to pay the development charges. Total 24 proposals were put forward before the board. Three were rejected while the rest were approved. Briefing about the Metro extension plan, Chamber said the Metro Rail project is from Maharajpur to Vaishali having length of 2.574 km. It will cost Rs 320 crore. The board has also given approval for 29.75 km extension of Metro in phases. Routes approved were Dilshad Garden to New Bus Terminal and Vaishali to Dasna via Indirapuram. The board also gave approval for the system of tender process comprising technical and financial bids as was being done in Noida and Greater Noida. The Madhuban Bapudham project was also given approval. Educational institutions will be given allotment in this area. Kanshi Ram housing scheme project too was given approval. |
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Three car robbers held
New Delhi, July 3 The accused have been identified as Rakesh (28), Moin (21) and Sharafat (24). The robbery took place on the intervening night of June 22 and 23. Baljeet, a car driver, reported that on the night, he was returning from Ghaziabad and going towards Delhi airport. On the way, four boys robbed him of his car and dumped him in the bushes on the Yamuna Bridge near ITO, police officials said. Rakesh was arrested on June 25. On his disclosures, Moin and Sharafat were arrested later, senior police officials said. The police has recovered a Mahindra Logan car, the purse and shirt of the victim and some photographs and documents from the accused.On interrogation, the boys disclosed that they had committed several other car robberies. They used to target drivers who stopped their vehicles on the Ring Road for attending nature’s call or taking passengers. After gaining control over the vehicle, they would tie the driver and dumped him in the bushes near the Yamuna Bridge. Before targeting drivers, the accused used to do a reccee of the Ring Road in TSRs or buses to check if any police picket had been deployed on the road, said a police official.
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3 held for cloning credit, debit cards
New Delhi, July 3 The accused have been identified as Ravinder Sunekha, Anil Kumar and Sanjay Kumar Jha. Two others, Shoiab and Majid Khan, are absconding. There arrests were made on the basis of complaints made by some multinational banks like Standard Chartered, ICICI and Kotak Mahindra about transactions made through the debit and credit cards of their customers, but not by the customers. After going through the complaints, it was apparent that someone had been fraudulently using either cloned debit and credit cards or the data of the genuine cards, said a senior police official. On June 30, the police apprehended Sunekha and Kumar red-handed while they were exchanging cloned cards. Nine credit and debit cards of Punjab National Bank, Syndicate Bank, Corporation Bank, State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Bank of Montreal were seized from them. Besides, some papers bearing numbers of different credit cards along with their validity dates were also seized from them. During the interrogation of the accused, it was learnt that Kumar, who was a courier boy with Blue Dart Courier Company, used to take out credit and debit cards from the parcels meant for delivery to customers. He handed over the cards to Shoiab for cloning. Shoiab had a skimming machine. After preparing cloned cards, he used to hand them over to Ravinder. Ravinder knew Majid Khan, a former employee of ICICI Bank. Khan worked with the verification division of the bank and used to go to shops to verify the details of the customers whose transactions were declined by the bank. In the process of verification, he would note down the credit card number and date of validity. He then passed on the numbers and validity dates to Ravinder, who used the data on the cloned EDC machines. Some of the said numbers belonged to cards owned by foreign nationals also.
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No bail for rapist of Dutch tourists
New Delhi, July 3 District judge S.P. Garg dismissed the bail plea, saying, “The plea of Yasir Altaf, who has claimed that the physical relationship was consensual, was devoid of any merit as the investigation into the case was at the nascent stage.” In the bail plea, Altaf’s counsel, Sufian Siddiqui, had claimed that Altaf had been falsely implicated and that the police did not follow the basic procedure of verifying the claims of the complainant. Siddiqui claimed that Altaf had consensual relationship with one of the women. However, this was vehemently opposed by the public prosecutor, who said that the offence was strong and had more gravity as the victims belonged to a foreign country. Altaf and his accomplice were arrested from Kashmir after one of the women lodged a complaint at the Connaught Place police station here. The women had alleged that Altaf and his accomplice, posing as tourist guides, raped them several times over the past five months and also robbed them of their money. The woman had claimed that she and her companion were scared and succumbed to the men as they had taken their passports and were threatening to put them in trouble. Altaf is in judicial custody since June 26. |
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Jamia to have online file tracking system
New Delhi, July 3 Dr Simi Malhotra, the varsity’s spokesperson, said, “With the implementation of this utility, Jamia will become the first Indian university to have an online tracking system to monitor the movement of files in the university. The intranet utility will enable authorized users to track their files as they move through the administrative hierarchies.” In addition to the enhancement of overall transparency and efficiency in the university, the utility has the potential to uncover bottlenecks in file movement and also help the administration in the movement of staff across the varsity. “The system will facilitate access to files for the staff and users will be able to access different files in different sections,” said CIT director Z H Khan. |
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Held for selling dummy phones
New Delhi, July 3 Police has seized a Nokia N-95 phone, eight dummy phones of N-95 model, two stolen mobile phones and a scooter from their possession. The accused used to show original mobile phones to people and after finalizing the deal, they hand over dummy mobile phone wrapped in plastic polythene to them. On June 28, police apprehended the duo from South Extension Part-II after a tip-off.During the commission of crime, they posed as customs officers sometimes, added the police officials. The accused belong to Budaun in UP . They used to dispose of 5-7 dummies per day. |
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Fake maid service agency busted
New Delhi, July 3 There arrests were made on the basis of a complaint made by one Rajan Tara. Tara said on June 28, after seeing a pamphlet of Max Maid Bureau in his newspaper, he contacted the agency for a maid servant. The next day, Harish provided Tara a maid servant named Sushma Kumari and collected Rs 12,800 from him. But the next morning, the maid went missing. When Tara tried to contact Max Maid Bureau on the number given by it in the pamphlet, the mobile phones were found to be switched off. Even the address of the agency was found to be fake. On interrogation, Ram Kumar, who posed as the owner of the bureau, disclosed that he used to run a maid service agency. But he was facing financial problems, and so decided to dupe people like this, a senior police official said.
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MCD warns agitating sanitation workers
New Delhi, July 3 An MCD spokesman said that most of the demands of the kramcharis have been met and there is no reason for continued agitation in some of the areas. The MCD will expedite the process of regularization of safai karamcharies based on seniority and existing policy to fill up approximately 7,000 vacancies at the earliest. Since a number of safai karamcharis are working against piecemeal sanctions, the vacancies may also be filled up by regularizing the daily wagers based on their seniority, he said.
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Sultry Saturday for Delhi, monsoon likely next week
New Delhi, July 3 While the minimum settled at 30.5 degrees Celsius, the maximum temperature was at 38.9 degrees Celsius. The humidity level oscillated between 72 per cent and 46 per cent. According to an India Meteorological Department official, the temperature on Sunday will be around the same range. There will be partly cloudy sky with rain/thunderstorm in some areas. “The maximum and minimum will be around 39 degrees and 30 degrees Celsius on Sunday,” the official added. Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 27.7 degrees on Friday and a maximum temperature of 39.4 degrees — both two notches above average. The monsoon has so far played truant, missing its June 29 appointment with the Capital. — IANS
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A seven-year-old boy Manish has set an example for the other rescued bonded labourers and minor children in the country to study and dream high. He came from Mathura railway station to Mukti Ashram, nestled in the outskirts of Delhi, with just Rs 20 in his pocket.
Delhi BJP today stepped up efforts to make the party’s call for Bharat Bandh on July 5 a success.Its president Vijender Gupta said their protest against the rise in prices was being supported by all the trade unions.
A Delhi court today dismissed the bail application of a youth accused of raping two Dutch women after taking them to Jammu and Kashmir by posing as a government tourist guide.District judge
S.P. Garg dismissed the bail plea, saying, “The plea of Yasir Altaf, who has claimed that the physical relationship was consensual, was devoid of any merit as the investigation into the case was at the nascent stage.”
