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Three illegal cracker godowns raided
Trader’s 8-yr-old son kidnapped
Court turns fortress for Sajjan after
blast threat
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MCD collects Rs 912.54 crore
as property tax
Jobless youth hangs self as father watches
Jail to 2 DDA officials
for graft
Blueline runs over youth; tempo crushes old man
Imposter TTE held
Brand TJ’s going places this Divali
Call centre worker held for rape of
ex-colleague
Diagnosed with life-threatening
obstetric condition, woman saved
MCD urged to form panel
for naming roads
Pleasant days ahead
Thus speak soldiers on Kashmir…
Irom Sharmila’s supporters manhandled
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Three illegal cracker godowns raided
New Delhi, October 19 The police said that 5,340 kgs of illegally stored firecrackers were seized. The firecrackers are worth Rs 50 lakh on the Indian market. Ashok Chand, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime and Railways, said that the godowns were located at Samaipur Badli, Mangolpuri and Naveen Shahdara. Three arrested persons were identified as Pankaj Kansal (35), Bipin Kumar (24) and Aditya Aggarwal (23). "On October 18, we busted three godowns in which firecrackers were illegally stored. The first godown raided was at Chandan Park, Samaipur Badli and 2850 kgs of illegally stored firecrackers were seized. Pankaj Kansal (35) was apprehended. The second godown raided was at Mangolpuri and 2080 kgs of firecrackers were seized. Bipin Kumar (24) was apprehended. The third premises raided were at Panchsheel Garden in Naveen Shahdara and 410 kgs of firecrackers were seized. Aditya Aggarwal (23) was apprehended," said the DCP. During the interrogation, Kansal disclosed that he had procured the firecrackers from a wholesaler in Gurgaon. He then stored them at his godown in Samaipur Badli. Kumar revealed to the police that he stored the firecrackers in a godown at Mangolpuri. He had bought it from Farukhabad in Uttar Pradesh. Aggarwal disclosed that he runs a merchant shop at Shahdara. He also had procured the firecrackers from a wholesaler in Gurgaon and stored them in a rented godown at Shahdara. "They have stated that they were motivated by earning fast bucks as in the past, they had earned a good profit by the sale of firecrackers," said Chand.
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Trader’s 8-yr-old son kidnapped
Ghaziabad, October 19 The police immediately erected barricades in the city. The traders downed their shutters in protest in Hapur main market. Angry people jammed the Meerut road in protest against this daytime kidnapping. Additional DG police K.L. Meena, IG police Rajiv Krishen and SSP Ghaziabad Raghubir Lal rushed to the spot and enquired from the family members about the incident. The officials persuaded the public to lift the jam. Fifteen teams, including STF and SOG from Noida and Meerut, are out to nab the kidnappers. Metal trader Amit Jain lives in New Alok Colony under the Hapur Kotwali area from where his son Pasharv Jain was walking to his school just 400 mt away. Domestic help Anand was taking Pasharv to Dewan Public School on Tuesday when the abductors snatched the child and escaped. The boy was snatched at the gate of his house by two bandits who sped away towards Meerut in a silver colour vehicle parked nearby.
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Court turns fortress for Sajjan after
blast threat
New Delhi, October 19 Sources said the police received information about the BKI targeting Sajjan Kumar, a senior Congress leader facing trials in two cases of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. A police official said 70-80 Delhi police personnel were guarding the Karkardooma Court for Kumar's hearing today. Also, the Congress leader, who already had a pilot and escort cars, has been given one more escort car. "The security has been strengthened at the court. The measures taken include deployment of SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) commandos, sniffer dogs and men from the Delhi police and RAC (Rajasthan Armed Constabulary). In the morning, all vehicles entering the court premises were checked strictly," said the official. On October 12, the Delhi police and the Ambala police seized an explosive-laden Tata Indica car parked at the Ambala cantonment railway station. The special cell of the Delhi police had received intelligence from the Central Intelligence Agencies that the consignment, meant for the BKI, was sent by Lashkar-e-Taiba. However, HS Phoolka, the advocate for the victims of the riots, said the bomb threat was generated by Sajjan Kumar. "The court did not receive any information about a possible bomb explosion today. The story has been created by Sajjan Kumar because he knows that the case is nearing its end and he is very close to going to jail. Why would anyone attack him now? The Delhi police is trying to save him," he said. Meanwhile, talking about the case, Phoolka said Sunita Gupta, a judge at the Karkardooma Court, had been promoted to the Tis Hazari Courts. "The new judge did not come today, and so, the hearing of the cases related to riots in Delhi Cant and Sultanpuri had been fixed for November 11," he added. |
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MCD collects Rs 912.54 crore
as property tax
New Delhi, October 19 Chairman of the MCD’s High-Powered Property Tax Committee, Ved Prakash Gupta said the civic agency has collected tax higher in comparison to the corresponding period last year. He said that from April 1 till September 30, the MCD has collected Rs 7516.59 lakh more than last year during the same period. As many as 20,946 additional tax payers have been brought under the property tax net during the period. From April 1 till September 30, the number of taxpayers was 7,94,169 and the total tax collection was Rs 83738.19 lakh. Gupta said that there has been noticeable increase in the total online collection and taxpayers in the past six months. A sum of Rs 19637.08 lakh has been collected from 4,56,137 taxpayers this year till September 30 in comparison to last year’s Rs 18360.20 lakh from 4,32,394 taxpayers. “Delhi Metro has also paid MCD the property tax of Rs 3 crore and the Railways has agreed to pay property tax for using services for commercial purpose. The transfer duty collected in the past six months till September 30 is Rs 36,910 lakh while it was Rs 34138 lakh in the corresponding period last year,” said Gupta. In a letter written to the Union home minister, Gupta has requested him to carry out amendments in the Act for extending the benefits of exemption from payment of property tax to one-time property taxpayers who paid their 10 years’ property tax. “If no addition or alteration is done, exemption from property tax should be given to the residential properties in use of original owner or his legal heir in village abadi,” he said. |
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Jobless youth hangs self as father watches
New Delhi, October 19 According to the police, Rahul Verma had come to the house in a drunken state in the wee hours of today and killed himself around 3.30 am by hanging from the ceiling fan. "Rahul was unemployed and had come home drunk last night whereupon his father Kulbhushan, a retired Punjab National Bank employee, scolded him. Later, he went inside his room and locked himself. About an hour later, his father heard some noises coming out of his room and as he peeked in from the window, he saw Rahul making a noose and attempting suicide. Despite the old man's pleas, Rahul hanged himself before his eyes," said a police official, adding that no suicide note has been recovered from the room. |
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Jail to 2 DDA officials
for graft
New Delhi, October 19 "Corruption is corroding our country like cancerous lymph nodes, the vital veins of the body politics, social fabric of efficiency in the public service and demoralising the honest officers," special judge (CBI) PS Teji said, while sentencing DDA junior engineer Indira Prasad Uniyal to five years in jail and his conduit Sri Ram Sharma, a supervisor with the agency, to four years imprisonment. The judge said, "It is important to note that corruption by public servants has become a gigantic problem. It has spread everywhere and no facet of public activity has been left unaffected by the sting of corruption". The court made the observations in its verdict in a corruption case registered by the CBI on a complaint by Rajeev Kumar, a medicine supplier to government hospitals.—PTI |
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Blueline runs over youth; tempo crushes old man
New Delhi, October 19 In the first incident reported from the Surya Nagar area, 62-year-old Praveen Kumar Mahajan was killed when a speeding tempo hit him from behind while he was alighting from a bus. A resident of Vivek Vihar in east Delhi, Mahajan was declared brought dead at the hospital while the tempo driver managed to flee. A case has been registered. In the second incident, a 30-year-old unidentified youth was killed after a Blueline bus ran over him while he was crossing a road near Anand Vihar.
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Imposter TTE held
New Delhi, October 19 The accused identified as Vivek Shukla (30) was arrested on October 17. He was found in coach number S-5 of the Haridwar Ajmer Special train, wearing the uniform of a TTE, which had a nameplate of "V K Tiwari TTE/NCR Kanpur Central". The train was positioned between Sarai Rohilla and Delhi Cantt stations at the time of his arrest. "Shukla was found checking tickets of the passengers. He was carrying five used general coach tickets and old railway charts so that nobody suspected him. He was arrested by the railway police on charges of impersonation," said Ashok Chand, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime and Railways. During the interrogation, Shukla disclosed that he is a school dropout and is unemployed. Earlier, he worked as a courier delivery man, but was unable to earn enough money. "He used to wear the uniform and nameplate of of a TTE and exhort money from the passengers without tickets," he said. The police said that the recovered tickets and charts were taken by Shukla from a wastebin for tickets at the Kanpur Central railway station.
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Brand TJ’s going places this Divali
New Delhi, October 19 According to R N Sharma, DIG, Tihar Jail, the money which comes from the sale of these products is used for rehabilitation of the inmates after they leave Tihar. "The products prepared by the inmates are sold with the brand name TJ's and are prepared in the most hygienic conditions from the best available ingredients. Your contribution in purchasing these items will go a long way in our endeavour to reform and rehabilitate them in society after their release," Sharma says appealing to the public to buy goods prepared at Tihar this festival season. With soap and blanket-making units to come up at Tihar soon, a spice unit has recently been inaugurated. According to inspector Pradeep Kumar, security-incharge of jail factory, more than 50 products are being currently made by the inmates. "We are already making namkeen, biscuits, muffin, rusk, papad, pickles, shirts, trousers, bed sheets, pillow covers, carry bags, dhoop and agarbattis, handmade papers, file covers, envelopes, home and office furniture, etc. Soon a soap-making unit will be started and then blanket-making unit," says Sharma who also looks after the marketing of these products. According to him, the brand TJ's products are available at various outlets in the Capital, including Delhi High Court, Udyog Bhawan in Patparganj, DDU Hospital and five district courts of Karkardooma, Dwaraka, Saket, Tis Hazari and Rohini. "Our products can also be brought from Delhi police canteen at PHQ, Delhi Secretariat canteen and all the Kendriya Bhandar outlets," revealed Sharma, adding that the products could also be bought in Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad. The quality and demands of the Tihar products can be gauged from the fact that the file-making unit has orders worth Rs 12 crore already. "We have orders of around 33 lakh file covers from various government agencies. The Delhi police alone has given us orders for 3.6 lakh file covers while the Supreme Court has ordered around 12 lakh file covers. These are made out of handmade papers and are in huge demand," said Ajay Jindal, a consultant at the paper-making unit here, who retired from Star Paper Mills, Saharanpur (UP) a few years ago. With the festival round the corner, candles, gift boxes, various cookies are high on demand and anyone purchasing TJ's products is not only gifting his loved ones but also helping unseen faces who would need your support on their release.
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Call centre worker held for rape of
ex-colleague
New Delhi, October 19 The accused has been identified as Gaurav Sharma (28), who had been a friend of the victim for several years. The incident came to light from Hari Nagar, after the accused confessed to his guilt on Monday. The victim registered a complaint stating that Sharma had deceived and raped her on the pretext of marriage. The official pointed out that Sharma was already married when he was in a relationship with the victim. They are natives of Jalandhar, Punjab, where they were working together in a private bank, said the official. Sharma was working as a senior executive in the bank, added the official. When they came to Delhi, they lived together in rented accommodation at Hari Nagar, said the police. In Delhi, they were working in different firms. The complaint, however, was registered in July. |
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Diagnosed with life-threatening
obstetric condition, woman saved
New Delhi, October 19 According to the doctors of Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute, who peformed the corrective surgery for the abnormal placentation, the condition is rare and is noticed one in 10,000 pregnancies. Among other predisposing factors for the life-threatening anomaly of palcenta, uterine scars such as those after caesarean section are quite common and patients like Nishi who have undergone previous caesarean sections are prone to develop them. "It is a very rare and a life-threatening condition in which the mortality is as high as 98 per cent. The prognosis is really bad and it is just the timely availibility of all blood components that she survived and returned home recently after 18 days of hospital stay," Dr Ruby Sehra, who headed the operating team, told The Tribune. "She was posted for a caesarean in the hospital and when our team opened up her abdomen, the low-lying placenta was found to be badly stuck into the uterine wall to the extent that it couldn't be pulled out. Normally, the placenta is stuck with uterus and is easily detachable. In her case, her blood pressure fell to 40 mm/Hg as she was bleeding profusely and we had to remove a part of her uterus (sub-total hystectomy)," Dr Sehra said. After the surgery, her condition worsened as blood had accumulated in her abdominal cavity that had distended and following which she was reoperated twice to stop the massive bleeding. In total, she was tranfused 84 units of blood and blood components. "Her abdomen was packed and closed, but clinically we could see she was bleeding throughout surface and her condition didn't improve even after she was put on ventilator in ICU and given blood. As she couldn't be stabilized, we had to carry out laparotomy which involves tying up of the vessel for stoping the blood loss. The second similar surgery had to done within 48 hours," said Dr Sehra. |
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MCD urged to form panel
for naming roads
New Delhi, October 19 He said that along with other communities, Christians have also contributed to the development of the country, but not a single road has been named after any Christian leader in Delhi. Mother Teresa was the only Christian social worker in whose honour, a road has been named. Since the BJP has come to power in the MCD, it has changed names of many roads. All the roads have been given names of either BJP or RSS leaders. This kind of discrimination is not fair, he said. James said that Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit should interfere in the working of the civic body so that the secular character of the MCD is not tarnished. |
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Pleasant days ahead
New Delhi, October 19 The maximum temperature was recorded at 33 degree Celsius, the average for this time of the season. "The minimum temperature was recorded a notch above the average at 18.6 degrees," an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said. The humidity levels wavered between 83 and 31 per cent. "For the next few days, early mornings and evenings will be cool and the day would be clear and sunny," the official said. Thursday's maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to be at 33 and 19 degrees Celsius, respectively. |
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Thus speak soldiers on Kashmir…
Tribune News Service The book called 'Warriors after War' was today launched by Jaswant Singh, member of Parliament in the presence of other dignitaries, including Major-General (retd) Dipankar Banerjee; Mentor, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, Major-General (retd) Gagandeep Bakshi; executive editor, Defense and Security Alert magazine, Dr Wael Awwad and Hartosh Bal, political editor, Open magazine. There are references of a variety of authors in the book and the officers who have been interviewed cover many generations of experience of pre-independent and post-independent India. The book is a narration by soldiers from both the sides of the border, who were actually involved in the wars happened over Kashmir. "Most of the 26 retired military figures from India and Pakistan interviewed in the book accept that with both the countries possessing nuclear weapons, choosing war to resolve the outstanding disputes is no longer a sensible or realistic option," said Maini. "This is a book that will make you repeatedly dipped into the experiences of past 63 years of life in India and Pakistan," said Jaswant Singh while inaugurating the book. The book contains brief accounts of partition and reviews of many officers who have actually experienced and participated in the war. "India and Pakistan have been in conflict for 63 years. We need to reflect on the problems facing the two countries. There is no resolution in war and we need to find an answer to the problems that confront us outside the war," he said. "Since retirement from the Army, I had the privilege to participate in the dialogues between India and Pakistan on various issues where we strongly recommended talks between the serving military officers of both the sides," said Gagandeep Bakshi.
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Irom Sharmila’s supporters manhandled
New Delhi, October 19 The incident took place near the Kingsway Camp area of north Delhi around 2.30 pm. People from the Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign (SSSC), who are working nationwide in Sharmila's support, were on a tour when they were attacked by a group that raised slogans of "Bharat Mata ki jai" and "Vande Mataram". "We were taking out a caravan when some people came shouting slogans. They asked us to stop, and when we refused, they manhandled us and splashed black ink on our clothes," said Faisal Khan, coordinator of the Save Sharmila Jan Caravan. He added that even after the police was informed, no action was taken. "The group first raised slogans against us. In Gandhian style, we started singing Gandhian songs; irked by this, the group attacked our people," said Khan. As part of the campaign, the SSSC has organised a Srinagar to Imphal Save Sharmila Jan Caravan, covering 4,500 km across 10 states. The caravan that started on October 16 from Srinagar reached Delhi today.
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