New Delhi, June 29
The east district police has arrested three people involved in the killing of a police constable in Uttar Pradesh and carrying a reward on their heads.

According to the police, the arrested identified as Tony Ojha (24), Manoj Ojha (19) and Sanjay Ojha (22), all residents of Sant Kabir Nagar district of UP. They were arrested yesterday from the Pandav Nagar area of east Delhi.

According to Prabhakar, DCP (East), all the accused were caught after investigation into a theft of Santro car in the Madhu Vihar area on June 10.

"The police team succeeded in intercepting their car near Pandav Nagar yesterday evening. The search of accused persons yielded a .32-bore pistol with 11 live cartridges from Tony Ojha, .38-bore revolver with three live cartridges from Manoj Ojha and .315-bore countrymade pistol with one live cartridge from Sanjay Ojha," said Prabhakar.

According to the police, Tony revealed that on June 22, he along with his associate Pintoo Singh, killed Ashok Gaur, a constable of UP police and got his brother Manoj Ojha escaped from the police custody. Manoj was arrested from Gorakhpur (UP) two months ago.

"Manoj was brought to the court in the custody of constable Ashok Gaur when Tony and Pintoo Singh killed him and freed Manoj. Sanjay is also a member of the same gang and was involved in the plotting of the murder," said Prabhakar, adding that the UP police then declared a reward of Rs 10,000 on their arrest. It was also revealed that Tony ran a gang of vehicle thieves in Delhi and the NCR area and used to sell the stolen vehicles to Pintoo Singh.

Tony and his younger brother Manoj are school dropouts and had lived in the areas of Mandawali and Geeta Colony of east district. Their father Purshottam Ojha used to work for Super Bazar and later became a priest in a temple at Mandawali, Fazal Pur. Both the brothers took sundry jobs before taking to the crime. Their criminal activities started in 2008 wherein they forged bank drafts to purchase vehicles and sold them to unsuspected buyers. Over a period of time, they graduated to stealing vehicles and then took to carjacking and even murder.

New Delhi, June 29
A technical snag at the check-in counter system at Terminal-3 of the national Capital's airport on early Wednesday led to the delay of 45 flights. The glitch was fixed after nearly 12 hours, an official said.

The technical snag occurred around 3 am on the common user interface system that is used at the check-in counters for the passengers.

"Systems were brought back fully online around 3 pm," said a senior Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) official.

According to airport sources, the snag delayed around 45 flights till afternoon and was fixed by the information technology (IT) company which had installed the high-tech 
system.

A DIAL official said, "No flights were cancelled. However, some flights were delayed by 15-25 minutes. As a result, passengers on early morning flights were checked in manually at some counters."

Airlines like Air India, which operates more than 50 of the 173 counters with the new common use passenger processing system (cupps) were hit. AI's five flights were delayed.

"Around 15-odd counters are operational for the three domestic airlines which operate from here, while a few counters are still functioning for some international airlines," the official said.

The cupps system operates on a common software-and-hardware driven platform that integrates all the information such as an airline's reservation system, the expected time of departure, and the capacity at the waiting lounges. — IANS

New Delhi, June 29
Delhi Transco Limited today said it had asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), public works department (PWD) and other local bodies to remove the unauthorised structures under its high-tension lines.

Transco officials said they would serve notices to the occupants of the unauthorised structures near these lines. They said Transco would write to the Delhi government to intervene in the matter.

Recently, a high-tension wire had fallen on houses at Sri Ram Colony, Khajoori Khas, north-east Delhi, leaving many people injured.

The National Human Rights Commission has written to the state government, asking for a reply on the incident.

"The transmission lines are corridors for power supply from the generating sources to the substations. The corridors need to be kept free of all obstacles for smooth and efficient transmission of power as well as maintenance of the transmission lines," said VP Dutta, director (operations) DTL.

As per the Electricity Act, a 35-meter Right of Way is required for a 220-KV transmission line (17.5 metre each side of the transmission line) and it is 52 metre for a 400-KV line (26 metre each side). Any constructions, even plantation of a tree, within this area is illegal.

"Transco has been taking up the issue of unauthorised constructions in the way of its lines with various land owing agencies, but to no avail. When the transmission lines were laid, all safety measures were followed as per the rules. Later, people encroached upon the Right of Way. These structures are not only illegal and an obstacle in the smooth transmission of power, but also a threat to the lives and properties of the occupants," said a senior Transco official.

He said apart from creating hindrances in the efficient functioning of the transmission system, such illegal structures can also damage the transmission lines and other electrical installations.

"Notices have been served upon the illegal occupants from time to time. During the last one year, around 5,000 people have been served notices," he said.

New Delhi, June 29
The Delhi government has decided to computerise its hospitals so that all of them can be e-connected.According to the government, once this happens, it will be possible to collect the data of allhospitals at one place.

At present, whenever seasonal diseases erupt, one has to go from hospital to hospital to collect their respective data.

Sources said Delhi health minister AK Walia today held a meeting of senior officers of the department and health experts in this regard. Hospitals run by the Delhi government, MCD and NDMC will be interconnected through computers, it was decided.

At present, computers are installed only at the registration counters of the hospitals.

Dispensaries run by the city government and MCD do not have computers and patients' registrations are done manually.

The sources said due to lack of computers, sometimes patients have to run from one department to another even for minor things.

If all departments are interconnected through computers, patients will be saved the harassment and it will also help the doctors.

New Delhi, June 29
The south district police has arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly cheating several people by promising them memberships of clubs and associations.According to the police, the accused, identified as Vineet Mehra, masqueraded as an authorised signatory of various RWAs, associations and clubs in Civil Lines, Survpriya Vihar, Defence Colony and Hauz Khas.

Mehra was held on a complaint of Rajeev Chhabra.

"Two days ago, Mehra introduced himself to Chhabra as the joint-secretary of RWC Club, Defence Colony, and lured him into paying Rs 4,200 for the membership of the club.

According to the police, Mehra works as a typist with various press agencies. He got the idea of cheating people on the pretext of giving them club memberships when he visited a club in Civil Lines. He noticed that there was a long queue of people applying for the membership of the club and they were ready to pay lakhs of rupees for it.

New Delhi, June 29
Prices of vegetables have shot up in the retail market just after the monsoon started in the Capital and the rate of diesel hiked by the government.Tomato that was available in the market at the rate of Rs 10 per kg is being sold at the rate Rs 30-Rs 40 and potato Rs 15- Rs 18. Likewise the rate of ladyfinger, beans, onion and other vegetables has also increased in the retail market.

The vegetable sellers give two reasons for the increase of the rates - firstly, unavailability of insufficient vegetables in the wholesale market and secondly, transportation cost of the vegetables has increased due to hiked rate of diesel. They also say that a large quantity of vegetables has perished in the rainy water logged in farms.

Umesh, a wholesale dealer in Azadpur Sabzi Mandi, said tomato could be perished in the water. But in case of other vegetables this was not true. There was no hike in the rate of other vegetables in the wholesale market. These were available in the market in sufficient quantity. As far as potato was concerned, it's kept in cold storage. It had no effect of rain.

He said even if the price of diesel had increased, there was no change in the cost of transportation so far. Cost of transportation was increased when new crops of vegetable came. At that time trucks were in demand and the transporters took advantage.

Delhi minister of food and civil supply, who looks after the wholesale market of vegetables and fruits, said prices of vegetables slightly went up during monsoon. But within a few weeks it would be normal. The government was monitoring the market.

There would be no hoarding of vegetables as majority of these were perishable, he said.

Greater Noida, June 29
The work for procuring and distributing the Ganga water in the city has finally been begun by the Greater Noida Authority. The Authority will begin mixing 85 cusecs of Ganga water with groundwater across the city by 2012. The project will cost Rs 300 crore.

According to GNIDA sources, "Groundwater will be enough for the estimated population of 12 lakh by 2021. However, it is the quality of water that the residents have been complaining about. The water here is very hard and unfit for human consumption. It even damages bath fittings. To begin with, we will get 85 cusecs of Ganga water and mix it in a ratio of 15:85 with groundwater," said PC Gupta, Dy CEO of Greater Noida Authority.

The Authority has started lining existing canals and began construction of several underground water reservoirs to store the Ganga water.

A regulator will also be constructed at Dehra village.

A water treatment plant is in the offing at Palla in consultation with IIT-Kanpur, it is learnt.

"Land has already been acquired for the treatment plant and work is expected to start any day. The irrigation department has already finished lining the canal so that water does not dry up," added PC Gupta.

Five years ago, Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority had announced that it would get 85 cusecs of Ganga water for drinking. The deadline for it had been fixed in September 2010.

The Authority had at that time entrusted the UP Jal Nigam with the task of procuring 85 cusecs of Ganga water through the Masuri-Dehra Ganga Canal.

However, the Jal Nigam could not begin the work on time and the work had to be given to the development corporation.

New Delhi, June 29
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) today told the Delhi High Court that an ailing woman seeking treatment for liver transplantation free of cost was not admitted here, as claimed by her lawyer.

Justice ML Mehta asked the counsel appearing for the poor woman to find out if she was shifted to any other hospital by her relatives and file an affidavit in this regard by July 5.

The court was hearing a plea for the treatment of Manju Devi, 42, who is suffering from chronic liver disease, alleging that AIIMS has denied treatment to her on the ground that she could not bear the cost of liver transplant.

The woman's lawyer submitted Devi, who hailed from Bihar, was first admitted to the hospital on May 31, 2010, and despite being below the poverty line was told to bear the medical expenses.

According to the petition, she was admitted to AIIMS (Department of Haemotology) with initial manifestation of portal hypertension and splenomegaly (enlarged spleen).

Upon investigations like bone marrow biopsy and other tests on the petitioner, it turned out that she was suffering from chronic lever disease hepatitis B+ and was referred to the Department of Gastroenterology of the hospital in July last year.

In February this year, her health condition started deteriorating and after diagnosis that she had ascites (accumulation of fluid in abdomen) which was associated with progressive weight gain and persistent pain in abdomen at later stage.

In April, she was admitted to the emergency ward of the hospital where she was given symptomatic treatment for ascites and later diagnosed with cirrhosis due to chronic hepatitis B. -- PTI

Greater Noida, June 29
An assistant sub-inspector of police and three cops of Kasna Kotwali have been suspended for extorting money from a scrap dealer. The police had earlier beaten up the scrap dealer and his driver at Pari Chowk in Greater Noida and let them off only after extorting Rs 1 lakh from them on Sunday.

The victims had complained to the SSP Jyoti Narayan who placed all the four under suspension. A case has been registered against them in Kasna police station.

Kullan, a resident of Tughlakpur, is a scrap dealer. He was taking scrap to Tughlakpur from Kasna with his driver Mobin. ASI Ramji Lal Dhakar, constables Dinesh, Anil and Sunil, on duty at Pari Chowk, stopped him. On searching the vehicles, Ramji Lal said he was carrying stolen goods. All the four cops then started beating Kullan and Mobin.

The police reportedly demanded Rs 1 lakh to let him go and threatened to arrest him if he did not cough up the amount. At first Kullan said he had no money. Later, Kullan paid it to the cops. But the next day, he also made a complaint to the SSP.

A case was registered against ASI Ramji Lal Dhakar and three cops in the Kasna police station. SSP Jyoti Narayan said it was a very serious complaint against the policemen. Circle officer Rahul Kumar has been assigned to probe the case. Interestingly, the police post was set up at Pari Chowk last week only.