New Delhi, March 10
Still grappling to establish the identity of the person involved in shooting a 20-year-old college student two days ago, the Delhi police is staring ahead at a long and tedious investigation on the lines of infamous Dhaula Kuan rape case of a BPO employee which ultimately bore fruit with the arrest of five culprits from the Mewat region about a week after the incident.

Launching a similar investigation led by the same officer, HGS Dhaliwal, DCP (south), more than 20 personnel of the Delhi police are working to identify and nab the culprit who shot dead Radhika Tanwar outside her Ram Lal Anand College on Tuesday morning.

While addressing a press conference, DCP Dhaliwal assured of the positive result very soon, but another official close to investigation said the arrest could come only after the accused was identified.

"With no name, no address and an unreliable sketch of the accused, it is going to take some time to reach him. However, now we have come across two reliable persons, a friend and one relative of the deceased, who are helping us with the identity of the accused," said the official.

Meanwhile, Dhaliwal said the police was working on some leads and had narrowed down in the line of investigation. He said though Radhika's family was not aware of the stalking, the police had learned from her friends that there was indeed some one stalking her for the last one year or so.

"Incident of stalking was never reported to the police. We are clueless since nobody knows about his looks and where does he reside," said Dhaliwal. He would be nabbed nevertheless, he added.

According to the police sources, the police has detained a person, who somewhat resembles to the sketch, and questioning him.

The police has also learnt about three incidents of bashing up of eve-teasers or stalkers that have taken place at Nariana village in last year and is working to identify these culprits.

According to a senior police official, the police believes that the stalker could be a neighbour of the deceased or a tenant. As a result, the police is working to cross check the antecedents of more than 3,000 tenants who have left Nariana village in the last one year.

"The village has lots of embroidery units and thousands of people live here as tenants. We are cross checking these people. It is going to be a huge effort and several police personnel are already engaged in the process," said the official.

Meanwhile, the DCP again appealed for anyone who could help the police with the investigation to come forward and assist them.

"We still do not have a single witness of the murder," he added.

New Delhi, March 10
Hundreds of students protested at Delhi University today for the third day in a row to demand justice for Radhika Tanwar, a student of Ram Lal Anand College who was shot dead on Tuesday.

Agitated students took out a rally in North Campus and burnt an effigy of university vice-chancellor Dinesh Singh.

The Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) and ABVP, the students' wing of the BJP, have joined hands to protest against the increasing violence against women in the city and have declared Delhi University closed on March 11 and 12.

"Violence against women in the Capital is increasing every day, but nothing is being done about it. Radhika was murdered three days ago, but no one has been arrested till now. The university and the government have completely failed on this front, but the students will not take this lying down. We will not rest till Radhika gets justice," said DUSU president Jitendra Chaudhry.

The DUSU has demanded that Radhika's murder be probed by the CBI.

The students' body has expressed concerns on the large number of attacks being faced by girl students and has criticised Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit for asking students to arrange for their own defence.

Reacting to Dikshit's statement, the DUSU president said, "Where will the students go? When will we study if we spend our time arranging for our defence."

Reema Singh, a second year student of DU who participated in the protest, said, "Me and my friends are participating in the protest. The increasing violence against women is a black mark on the city and the university and we will not tolerate this. The government must fulfill its responsibility towards the students. How can the Chief Minister wash her hands off by asking us to arrange for our own defence. This is a responsibility of the government and the police. We will continue to protest till we get justice for Radhika."

Mukesh Sahai, another student at the protest, says, "Radhika's murder is a terrible incident, and students of the university must get justice for her. This is not the first such instance of gruesome murder of a university student. The campus and the Capital are not safe for women and the government must realise its responsibility towards the citizens. This protest will continue till we get justice."

New Delhi, March 10
A five-year-old girl was raped and left behind as dead in Dwarka.The girl was discovered in the bushes of Durga Park with a head injury today morning. The girl had gone missing while playing outside her house yesterday evening.

New Delhi, March 10
West district police has arrested a 38-year-old man for cheating a number of job aspirants in aviation sector.According to the police, accused Deepak Mishra was apprehended from the Uttam Nagar area yesterday on a complaint lodged by one Vishnu Kumar Sharma that he was cheated of Rs 1.40 lakh by the former by promising him a job.

According to DCP (west) V Renganathan, the accused despite being a postgraduate in mathematics, was unemployed and started Exalt Aviation Academy to dupe prospective candidates by offering them the tempting job in the aviation sector.

"He started recruitment branches in Patna, Ranchi, Jaipur, Bhopal and Dehradun. These centers published advertisements to lure candidates and scores of candidates were duped by them," said Renganathan.

Mishra used to offer jobs like air hostess, flight steward, airport ground staff, etc. and conducted the interview himself the DCP added.

According to information, the complainant, who hails from Rajasthan's Dausa, had approached the police on March 1. "Sharma approached academy after seeing an advertisement after which he was asked to appear for the test and an interview at its Jaipur office.

Later, he was told that he was selected at a salary of Rs 35,000 which will rise to Rs 50,000 and asked to join in his job at Indira Gandhi Airport.

However, he was first asked to deposit Rs 1.40 lakh in the academy's bank accounts," said Renganathan. But when he paid the money after selling his land, he realised that he was not hired by the airport authority at Delhi for any kind of job, he added.

The case is under investigation and efforts are being made to nab Mishra's other associates and to ascertain their previous involvement in the similar cases.

New Delhi, March 10
The health committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) today claimed that 18 per cent of the water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is contaminated.According to a survey done by the civic body, out of 616 samples lifted from DJB connections, 111 were found to be contaminated.

"We wanted to find out if the water supplied by the DJB is potable. Out of the 616 samples that were lifted from various corners of Delhi, 111 were found to contain faecal contamination," said V.K. Monga, Chairman, health committee, MCD.

"And we know that every fifth person in Delhi consumes DJB water," he added.

The colony count, which is the measurement of the growth of bacteria in a water sample, revealed that every 100 ml sample of water contained more than 10 bacteria, most of them because of faecal contamination, said Monga.

"Consuming contaminated water can cause diseases like cholera, gastroenteritis, typhoid and jaundice, among others," said Mongia.

The samples were collected between January and February 2011 and were tested by the public health laboratory of the MCD.

According to Monga, feces from sewerage get mixed with most of the water that is being supplied to Delhi.

"Water contamination happens because of interrupted supply, corroded pipes, mixing of sewer plant pipelines and water pipelines," he said.

Meanwhile, reacting to the report, BJP president Vijender Gupta asked the government to look into the matter.

He said it was a criminal offence that the government had taken no concrete steps to check water contamination yet.

"At a time when 60 per cent of the households in Delhi consume water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board, it comes as a surprise that 18 per cent of the water contains human feces," said Gupta.

New Delhi, March 10
Even as there are 20 lakh people currently living with chronic kidney disorders in India, an estimated 1.70 lakh people enter into the terminal renal stage each year, suggest studies conducted by the Indian Society of Paediatric Nephrology.

To add more alarming facts, about 80 per cent of critically unwell newborns suffer from acute kidney injury (AKI) and as many as three lakh young children with end stage renal disease do not have access to renal replacement therapy, following which three-fourth of them succumb to their ailments, say doctors.

Paediatrician and senior consultant at the nephrology department of Batra Hospital Dr Sanjeev Bagai said, "A vast majority of children do not have reach to nephrology care and the primary reasons behind it are lack of trained manpower and inadequate specialised centres of treatment. There are around 15 specialised centres in India."

To tackle the tremendous disease burden, it is important to catch the disease at its initial stage and this, according to Dr Sanjeev, could effectively be done through school health programmes, entailing simple urine test and monitoring of blood pressure.

Besides, the parents have to be apprised of the basic symptoms of kidney ailments, which in the majority of cases, as per experts remain undiagnosed until 50 per cent of the damage occurs. Calling for immediate intervention, Dr Sanjeev explained, "The parents should ensure that the child does not have less than 8 mg/dl of haemoglobin and reduced growth in terms of weight and height. And if the child shows obvious symptoms of vomiting, headache, less flow of urine, the child should be immediately rushed to the doctor."

Owing to several reasons, like changing lifestyles, two babies among every 1,000 live births are found to have some or the other anomalies and of these, nearly 20 per cent of the abnormalities are associated to the kidney.

Thus, early diagnosis through ante-natal foetal tests would go a long way in saving several children from the life-long pain in the form of urinary tract infection, which if left untreated, would lead to terminal renal damage and scarring of kidney, said Dr Sanjeev.

Gurgaon, March 10
Gurgaon deputy commissioner P.C. Meena today directed the officials concerned of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway concessionaire DS Construction (DSC) company to get the exit point of a peripheral road connecting Udyog Vihar to a service lane of National Highway No.8 on Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway opened at the earliest.

The NHAI and DSC people, who seem to be working in consonance, had blocked the said exit point by dumping loose soil and parking huge dumpers and other equipment there.

After having knocked at all possible doors to get the exit point opened, the local residents, industrialists and employees got fed up and staged a protest demonstration and even employed a JCB machine to clear the blockage yesterday. The protesters were also stoned by DSC men deployed there.

Chairing a meeting of NHAI and DSC officials a day after the clash, Meena pulled up the NHAI officials for the undue delay in getting the formal approval in this regard.

Manoj Garg, the manager of the local NHAI office, assured the DC that the case would be taken up at the technical members' meeting of the NHAI scheduled to be held tomorrow.

The representatives of DS Construction said they were ready to provide access to the general public through the said point, provided the NHAI gave formal approval for it as the NHAI is a co-sharer in the toll amount collected.

New Delhi, March 10
The budget session of the Delhi government is likely to be stormy as the main Opposition in the assembly BJP has decided to raise the issue of Tivoli Garden Resorts tax evasion case in which Delhi Lokayukta had recommended to the President the removal of PWD minister Rajkumar Chauhan from the council of ministers.

The budget session is to be started on March 15. The PWD minister had tried to pressurise a team of the Excise Department for tax evasion in favour of the resort owners.

Leader of the Opposition in Delhi Legislative Assembly Vijay Kumar Malhotra said during the session the BJP would demand the resignation of the PWD minister from the Chief Minister.

Tomorrow a delegation of the party will visit Lt Governor Tejender Khanna with this demand. Later, they will meet the President.

Malhotra also announced that he had resigned from the committee constituted by the government to examine the division of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in different units.

The BJP has decided to oppose the government for division of the civic body as by doing this government wanted to bring the municipal body under its jurisdiction. It's a party decision, he said.

He termed the government's decision to divide the MCD as politically motivated.

The MCD is being ruled by the BJP. The Congress government in Delhi has always been critical of the MCD. Now, it has constituted a five-member committee to examine a possible division of it, Malhota said.

He added that the BJP would cooperate with the government provided committee's mandate is extended to suggest reform in the Delhi Development Authority and the Delhi police.

The government had in the past setup various administrative committees to recommend reorganisation of the civic body, but this was for the first time that a committee comprising political leaders had been formed.

Senior minister AK Walia was appointed as chairman of the committee which also included his cabinet colleagues Arvinder Singh Lovely and Raj Kumar Chauhan.

The committee, which will meet tomorrow for the first time, is expected to study all recommendations of earlier committees constituted by the union government to suggest reforms in the MCD.

Greater Noida, March 10
The residents here have decided to set up an anti-theft fund to hire security guards in their colonies.

"The Greater Noida Authority deployed security guards at the gates of every sector. There are five or six gates per sector and two guards were deployed at each gate. This was done to attract the buyers as guards provide a sense of security," said Ramesh Negi, general secretary, Lok Kalyan Sammittee.

"Since last year, the authority has discontinued the services. This resulted in rise of theft cases. Now, the residents are collecting anti-theft funds and hiring security guards at the block-level Residents Welfare Associations," said Negi.

"The residents have adopted block-level security concept as was being done in Noida," said Negi.

"However, there is a need to employ proper security guards. Their police verification is must, otherwise these guards would connive with criminals which could lead to major criminal strikes," Negi added.

Meanwhile, the police has promised to intensify patrolling in the sectors at night.

New Delhi, March 10
With the arrest of a 32-year-old Sonepat resident, the outer district police has claimed to have solved the sensational murder of a motorcycle dealer who was found shot dead in his house in the Narela area on Monday morning. According to the police, the accused, Jitender Sharma, killed Surender because he failed to return his money despite repeated promises.

Surender (38) was found dead with bullet wounds in his house in Bankner village. According to Chhaya Sharma, DCP (Outer), Sharma and Surender were good friends and the former had loaned Rs 5 lakh to the latter.

"Surender had borrowed the money for his business. However, when Sharma asked Surender to return the money, Surender kept making excuses. Finally, Surender promised to return the money on March 6. On the day, Sharma reached Surender's house and asked for his money, but Surender refused to pay. On this, Sharma got furious and shot Surender and fled the spot along with Surender's mobile phone," said Sharma.

He added that the police had recovered the weapon used in the murder. Sharma is a graduate from Delhi University and an agriculturist in Sonepat. 

Faridabad, March 10
The police today arrested a relative of Haryana minister Mahender Pratap on the charges of assaulting and threatening a lawyer, R.M.S. Kundu .

According to the station house officer (SHO) of the SJM Nagar police station, Ravinder Singh, the accused, Dani alias Dinesh, was arrested from the court area here. The SHO said that Dinesh was presented before a court and had been sent to one-day judicial custody.

The FIR in the case was lodged on the complaint of Kundu. He has alleged that Dinesh, a nephew of the minister, along with four others assaulted him in the Sainik Colony market on February 25 and told him to leave Faridabad within three days.

Kundu lives in Sainik Colony, where Mahender Pratap also lives.

In his complaint, Kundu has alleged that Dinesh and his five men attacked him in the Sainik Colony market on January 1also. An FIR was lodged in connection with the January 1 incident also.

In the second incident, in connection with which the arrest has been made, Kundu has alleged that Dinesh attacked him at the behest of the minister.

Kundu had met Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, demanding justice.