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Four held for trying to sell 4-month baby
Land Mafia Cases
Court orders police action on lawyer’s assault
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Expedite flats of 20,000 slum dwellers waiting for 27 yrs, HC tells govt
Sikhs protest outside CM’s house
Activists of SAD (Badal) Delhi shouting slogans during their protest against the Congress government’s leniency to a convict of the 1984 Sikh genocide outside Sheila Dikshit’s residence in New Delhi on Thursday. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal
JNU Students Poll Parties’manifesto to restore its constitution
'Anathalaya conditions not as pitiable as reported'
Lt. Governor Tejendra Khanna, along with Delhi police commissioner BK Gupta, inspects the parade on the occasion of 65th Raising Day of the Delhi police at the Police Lines in New Delhi on Thursday.
Tribune photo
SP has accepted defeat before polls: BJP
Police lensmen do not know what to click, says court
Insurance amount cut as woman remarries
HC upholds BJP councillor’s election
MCD contractual teachers to get hike
in salary
Injured Israeli woman stable
This Honda City car collided with a divider on the RTR flyover and caught fire in South Delhi on Thursday. Tribune photo
Delhiites experience warm day
15 Bangladeshis held for living illegally
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Four held for trying to sell 4-month baby
New Delhi, February 16 Sanjay Bhatia, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (crime), said, "We had received a tip-off that a woman identified as Chandra Devi was searching for a prospective buyer for a four-month-old child. “This information was developed and the woman contacted by our decoy customer." The customer was told that the boy was available for sale. He said, "We then struck a deal and agreed to pay the demanded money and gave the woman Rs 10,000 as token money." He said that Chandra Devi was arrested along with Hira and Pooja Devi when they walked into a trap. A member of Shakti Vahini, an NGO working on anti-trafficking, was accompanying the raiding party. The child was rescued and produced before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Lajpat Nagar. The committee ordered that the boy should be admitted to Upvan, an NGO in Safdarjang Enclave, for care and protection. During interrogation, the women disclosed that she was not the child's real mother. Bhatia said, "They also disclosed the baby's father was a man named Neeraj. All the women were selling children at his behest on commission basis." Neeraj Mahalwal, 22, was later arrested. During interrogation, he disclosed that that he had been living with a woman in rented accommodation at Dakshinpuri for the past one and a half years. "They were not married, but the woman gave birth to a child in October 2011. Neeraj then wanted to split from her and get rid of the child. So, he contacted Heera Devi to sell the child," Bhatia added. |
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Man sent to 5-day police custody in Rs 53-cr cheating case
New Delhi, February 16 Metropolitan Magistrate Munish Markan remanded Gurgaon-resident Suresh Kumar Sharma to the police custody till February 21, saying a detailed probe was required to ascertain the money trail. Sharma was arrested yesterday by the police on a complaint by AD Kaushal on behalf of M/s Vikram Electrical Equipment Pvt Ltd, a firm engaged in business of procuring contiguous land in Gurgaon and NCR for companies. The prosecution, while seeking six days' police custody remand of the accused, said 59-year-old Sharma, along with his son, had cheated and misappropriated 78 cheques and transferred Rs 53.98 crore to the accounts of his family members. "Detailed investigation is required to trail the money misappropriated and properties purchased. “Therefore, considering the nature of the offence and totality of facts and circumstances, accused Suresh Kumar Sharma is sent to police remand for a period of five days," the Magistrate said. The police told the court that in 2004, Sharma had approached M/s Vikram Electrical Equipment Pvt Ltd and promised prime contiguous land in Gurgaon provided the payments were readily available to deal with the farmers/sellers of the land with the condition that identity of the company shall be concealed. "Shiv Raj Singh Dabra was used as a front man before farmers instead of the company. The complainant company transferred a huge amount into the account of Dabra. The accused father and son duo collected the blank cheques from Dabra to strike the deal with farmers and used these cheques for advanced payments," the police, in its remand application, said. The police said that instead of handing over the cheques of M/s Vikram Electrical Equipment Pvt Ltd, which was represented through advocate Manoj Taneja in the court, to farmers, Sharma and his son transferred the money in their and in those of their kin's accounts for allegedly purchasing properties. "Sharma has misappropriated 78 cheques and transferred an amount of Rs 53,98,83,972 in various accounts of his family members," the police said. It said the accused was required to be interrogated to ascertain where he has siphoned off the cheated money and to know about his absconding son Parvesh Sharma. The police said the documents of the properties, which he purchased with the cheated money, was also required to be recovered. — PTI
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Court orders police action on lawyer’s assault
New Delhi, February 16 Family members of Sanjeev R. Vashisht, 38, alleged that he was beaten up badly on Wednesday near Bhagat Singh College by goons linked to the land mafia. Vashisht, who was fighting a property related case against the land mafia in a trial court, was brought to court on a stretcher by his mother and brother. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice R.S. Endlaw directed Pawan Sharma, government's standing counsel, to look into the matter and get a proper complaint registered against accused. The victim's brother Sanjeev Vashisht alleged that officials at Malviya Nagar police station lodged a first information report (FIR) under minor sections of the penal law under the influence of the land mafia. No arrests had been made despite the victim naming two people, he said. The police "deliberately lodged the case of simple injury, wrongful restraint and criminal intimidation against the accused, while we sought registration of attempt to murder case", Vashisht said. The family of the victim alleged that the court had provided protection to the victim in its earlier order despite which the police had not taken action against the land mafia. - IANS |
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Expedite flats of 20,000 slum dwellers waiting for 27 yrs, HC tells govt
New Delhi, February 16 "The chief secretary, Government of NCT of Delhi, shall convene a meeting to be attended by the principal secretary, Department of Urban Development as also the secretary, Land and Building Department of the Govt of NCT and the CEO, Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB), the implementing agency, to discuss the manner and the timeline in which the wait-listed registrants can be allotted residential flats. "The said meeting shall be convened within a period of two weeks," Justice Him Kohl said, hoping that the slum dwellers will get homes in their "lifetime". Issuing a slew of directions, the court lamented the "lack of communication" among government agencies as it led to delay in allotment of flats. "It appears ... There is some lack of communication and co-ordination among the three government agencies, which has not been ironed out despite pendency of the present petitions. As a result, though the petitioners are wait-listed registrants for the past innumerable years, they have been kept waiting for allotment of flats under the scheme floated by DDA in 1985," it said. The order came on a batch of petitions filed by five persons, who had registered with the Residential Flats Registration Scheme for Slum Dwellers and Others 1985, seeking directions to agencies to allot them flats. The petitions said that the flat aspirants had been residing in slums here since 1985. The DDA had launched the scheme in 1985 to improve the quality of life of poor citizens, living in notified slums, by allotting them flats on easier terms. Each of petitioners had deposited the registration amount under the scheme. "They have been patiently waiting for the past 27 years in the hope of being allotted flats under the said scheme, but till date only 5,662 registrants have been allotted flats under the scheme, leaving 20,000 in the waiting list," a counsel for one of the slum dwellers said. The court asked the government and its agencies to make available land plots and funds to DUSIB for construction of remaining flats. "The Delhi government shall process the request received from DUSIB for allocation of funds for the purpose of construction of flats under the aforesaid scheme, so that the petitioners and all other similarly placed wait-listed registrants can be allotted flats under the aforesaid scheme, hopefully in their lifetime," it said . — PTI
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JNU Students Poll Parties’manifesto to restore its constitution
New Delhi, February 16 Different political parties have their own priorities when it comes to their manifesto pointers and have already started spreading a word about what they intend to do, if elected. However, the most basic overriding feature topping every party's agenda list is bringing back of the constitution of the JNU students' union. Up until now, the elections were conducted according to its own constitution and not the Lyngdoh Committee guidelines. Now after the elections have been restored with relaxations in Lyngdoh guidelines, students' parties are awaiting if the next elected union will fight for the restoration of its constitution. "The JNU students' union elections are different from other universities'. We always followed our own constitution and it's the only university wherein the administration has nothing to do with the elections. It was a process of, by and for the students. But with the Lyngdoh Committee guidelines coming in, the role of administration has become significant in campus politics. This would make it hard for the coming unions to fight back strongly with the administration. Its role needs to be phased out, and that is achievable only if the constitution prevails again," said Zico Dasgupta, vice-president, SFI. Shivani, vice-president AISA, said, "Everyone buys the notion that Lyngdoh guidelines help regulate muscle power and money use in students' union elections. If that was the purpose of these guidelines, they have failed terribly. Dirty politics still takes place and no one does anything. The Lyngdoh guidelines in JNU will depoliticise students. That is what the guidelines do. It prevents a social movement to shape up on a student level. With the restrictions, a candidate can run for the central panel only once. It will be a one time union that will disseminate during next elections as they will not be able to contest again. The students' union constitution needs to come back. The next union's utmost responsibility will be to take this movement forward." Apart from this, parties have listed many common concerns plaguing the student community currently. "There is a need for increase in MPhil/PhD scholarships from Rs 3,000-5,000 to Rs 5,000-8,000, which was recommended by the UGC in January 2009 itself, but has not been approved by the government. The process of disbursal of scholarships also needs to be made time bound. The strength of the university has increased considerably after the implementation of 27 per cent OBC reservation and 54 per cent seat increase with no-commensurate hike in infrastructure in the university. "A hostel crisis continues to persist in the university. Many students admitted that they did not get seats in hostels. The majority of these are the OBC students. With such a shortfall the situation is likely to worsen in the next academic session," said Dasgupta, elaborating on some of the problems in the university.
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'Anathalaya conditions not as pitiable as reported'
New Delhi, February 16 When this correspondent visited the Anathalaya, children were seen cleaning room and dormitory. Most of the small children did not have warm clothes. There was no bed for them though caretakers and seniors children had proper arrangements for lodging. The secretary of Anathalaya, Balraj Chaudhary said that rooms and dormitories are cleaned by the children themselves, but toilet is cleaned by a sweeper. He said that due to lack of space, every child is not given bed. The number of children is more while the space is less. As far as senior children are concerned, their section has sufficient space. New block will be constructed soon to accommodate more children. President of the boys' section, Teljal Bharti said that whatever had appeared in the media was not correct. "We have been running the institution for the last 94 years. People are getting their wards enrolled in the Anathalaya as they believe that the children are given better environment for study. So far we have not been given any medical record of the girl who died in hospital in December last year. She was admitted to hospital after she had made a complaint of some problem. Now the media has alleged that she was raped, but we have not been given any report by the police," he said. He added, "We have a separate section for girls. We have arrangements for senior girls at East of Kailash. They are shifted there after they pass out the fifth class. We have been running senior secondary school inside the Anathalaya since 1994 and children are doing well."
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Don’t trouble poor vendors, LG to police
New Delhi, February 16 He also asked the police to develop a "good rapport" with common man so as to encourage them to cooperate and share information regarding suspicious people in their locality. Addressing the personnel after receiving salute at the Raising Day parade, Khanna said, "We are hearing about the problems faced by roadside vendors that police personnel harass them by asking for money. "We keep hearing that policemen harass them asking them whether they have permission from municipal authorities. They are working for earning their livelihood. Don't extort money from them. Don't put pressure on them." Noting that Delhi being the capital face tremendous hostility from anti-Indian forces, he said common man's participation should be ensured in intelligence gathering. "For that, you need to gain their confidence. Common man should feel that they need to help. You have to create that atmosphere," the LG said. Delhi Police Commissioner BK Gupta said the force had given a "befitting" reply to terrorists by smashing a module of Indian Mujahideen, which was involved in a series of blasts in the capital and other places in the country. He also said more than 80 per cent of the 5,200 houses to be built for police personnel in Dheerpur will be allotted to constabulary. The Rs 1,500-crore project is expected to be finished in the next four years and once completed, this will result in ensuring that 25 per cent of the over 83,000 Delhi police personnel will get official accommodation. Currently, this figure is at 18 per cent. Gupta said the company which had won the contract for executing the project would carry out maintenance work of the buildings in Dheerpur for the next 25 years. He said the residential campus would have a shopping complex and school among other facilities. - PTI
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SP has accepted defeat before polls: BJP
Noida, February 16 Prasad was addressing the mediapersons at the Kailash Hospital auditorium this afternoon. Kailash Hospital chairman Dr Mahesh Sharma is BJP candidate from the Noida Assembly seat. While introducing Dr Sharma, Prasad claimed that he will become a successful MLA as he is a social worker associated with several organizations in Noida. He was the BJP candidate in parliamentary elections too. Though he had lost parliamentary polls by around 15,000 votes, in Noida segment which now forms the Assembly seat, Dr Sharma had polled 41,000 votes more than those of the winning BSP candidate. Observing the track of Sharma, the BJP national president has selected Sharma as BJP candidate for this seat. In his address, Prasad said, "The SP and BSP's support letter to the UPA government is still effective at Centre. While they are supporting the Congress at Centre, they are having an electoral fight in Uttar Pradesh. This is just eyewash. After the elections, they will come together." Attacking the Congress, Prasad said, "Will the Congress rule Uttar Pradesh the way they have been doing so for the seven years at Centre. I ask Rahul Gandhi as to what has happened to the promise of checking rising prices and corruption in 100 days. The 2G scam has exposed the Congress." Further, he attacked the Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi for tearing the manifestoes of other parties. "Publicly tearing the manifestoes of any political party by a leader of his stature needs to be condemned," said Prasad. On the Muslim reservation issue, Prasad said, "The BJP condemns the divisive policies of the Congress, SP and BSP. Population of UP is 20 crores. Can the appeasement of Muslims at the cost of Dalits and others be justified? We treat all the castes equally."
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Police lensmen do not know what to click, says court
New Delhi, February 16 Lamenting the poor works of photographers in clicking pictures at a crime scene and the body of the victim of a 2007 murder case, the court asked the city police chief to "formulate a specific training course for photographers and other crime team members in consonance with the best practices adopted by pivotal investigating agencies the world over. Additional Sessions Judge Surinder S Rathi made the critical remark against the Delhi Police photographers while acquitting six persons in a 2007 murder case for want of sufficient evidence and due to poor probe. The court noted none of the five photographs on record helped the trial as the crime team had not taken even a single photograph of the actual site and of the deceased showing the details of the injuries suffered by him. "As far as the photographing the spot of assault is concerned, I see that Delhi police photographers are so poorly trained that they absolutely do not know as to what to click and from which angle. "Focussed photographs of one sq. ft area containing blood drops are of no avail to the prosecution in so far as it does not throw any light on the surroundings," Additional Sessions Judge Rathi said. He also sought to know as to why the crime team or at least its photographer did not visit the hospital or the mortuary to take photographs of the deceased so that the court could have a clear view of the nature of the injuries.
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Insurance amount cut as woman remarries
New Delhi, February 16 "The overall compensation is reduced from Rs 26,78,800 to Rs 22,53,176. The sum of Rs 4,25,624 shall be refunded to the appellant Oriental Insurance Company," said Justice G P Mittal while allowing the insurance firm's plea for reduction of compensation amount awarded to deceased family last year. The court gave its ruling on the insurance firm's plea that the amount awarded to the man's family should be reduced as the deceased' wife had re-married after two years and ten months of her husband's death in 2005. The insurance company also contended that as she had got married, now she could not be considered as a dependent anymore. Allowing the plea, the court also observed that since the woman had remarried, she would not be considered as dependent after the date of her remarriage. "Thus, the first respondent (wife) would be entitled to compensation only till the date of her re-marriage," the court said in its judgement, while asking her to refund the amount received after her marriage. The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal had on July 28, 2011 awarded a compensation of Rs 26.78 lakh to the family of the victim, who was 34-year-old at the time of his death. — PTI
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HC upholds BJP councillor’s election
New Delhi, February 16 Allowing Tyagi's plea against the single judge order declaring his election as null and void, a Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw upheld the trial court's 2010 order holding his election as valid. In April last year, the single judge had declared Tyagi's election null and void and had ordered a fresh election for the Vikaspuri MCD ward. Rejecting JMM candidate Dhanwanti Chandela's argument, the division bench said "Chandela was not able to prove the charge of corrupt practice (against Tyagi) beyond reasonable doubt." "Various anomalies and loopholes pointed out in his testimony in support of his allegation are sufficient to raise reasonable doubt," the Bench said. Tyagi's election was challenged by Chandela on the ground that he had indulged in corrupt practices to win and had appointed Raj Pal, an MCD employee, as his polling agent. "Since we are holding that the issue of corrupt practice was rightly decided by the learned trial court, it is not necessary to go into the question as to whether mere appointment of a government/MCD official as a polling agent is sufficient to prove the allegation of indulgence in corrupt practices," the Bench said. - PTI
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MCD contractual teachers to get hike
in salary
New Delhi, February 16 Now with this order, they will get Rs 13,500 per month. The decision to hike their salaries was taken after former Mayor of Delhi, Mahesh Chand Sharma tabled a proposal for an increment in the salaries of teachers
working on contractual basis. Sharma had also demanded that contractual teachers who had been working for years in the MCD schools and were not able to fulfill the age criteria should be allowed to appear in the Delhi Subordinate Selection Service Board (DSSSB) exams. In this regard, Nagpal said that the DSSSB should complete the process of recruiting teachers in art, music and physical education field as soon as possible. Deputy chairman of the Education Committee, Bhupender Gupta and member of the Education Committee, Narender Jeet Singh have
given consent to the proposal. He said the officials have been instructed to increase the salaries of contractual teachers by increasing the dearness allowance. |
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Injured Israeli woman stable
New Delhi, February 16 He declined to say when she might be discharged. "Such things can't be predicted and we will keep her till she has completely recovered," said Khurana. Koren, wife of the Israeli defence attaché, and an Israeli embassy staffer herself, suffered multiple injuries in Monday's bomb attack. A motor-cycle rider came from behind Koren's car, quickly attached a magnetic bomb on its rear door and sped off.
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Afghan dead, 3 hurt as car rams into divider, catches fire
New Delhi, February 16 The incident took place on Rao Tula Ram Marg between Vasant Vihar and Munirka around 5 am and the deceased has been identified as Kasim (25). "The car was speeding and it rammed into the divider. Then the car caught fire. Kasim died in the incident, while three other Afghan nationals were injured," a senior police official said. The injured are undergoing treatment in a city hospital. - PTI
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Delhiites experience warm day
New Delhi, February 16 The weather office
forecast cloudy but warm day on Friday. "A partly cloudy sky is expected.
The day will be warm," said an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The minimum temperature on
Thursday dipped four notches below the average, settling at 7.1 degree Celsius. "Maximum and minimum temperature will be around 22 and 7 degree Celsius, respectively," the IMD official said. Maximum humidity
for the day stood at 68 per cent. — IANS |
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15 Bangladeshis held for living illegally
New Delhi, February 16 They were not having any valid documents to stay in India. Hence, they were handed over to Foreigner Regional Registration Offices, Delhi, for their deportation to Bangladesh," a senior police official said.
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sentence of Kishori Lal - convicted for the murder of eight Sikhs during the 1984 riots, the police said.
