Two brothers die, two injured in accident
New Delhi, June 11
Two men in their thirties, both brothers, were killed when the Audi car they were sitting in, crashed into an electric pole in front of a petrol pump near Britannia Chowk in northwest Delhi on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.

Mangled remains of the car near Britannia Chowk in Northeast Delhi on Wednesday. Tribune photo

Man shot dead for resisting robbery
New Delhi, June 11
Three armed robbers barged into a jewellery shop at a bullion market in Kotwali locality, North Delhi, last night, tried to steal jewellery and cash, but were faced with resistance from the shop owner and his sons. One of the robbers fired a country-made pistol at the shop owner, who sustained a bullet injury in his abdomen and was declared dead at a hospital, police said today.

Govt forms task force to counter power crisis
New Delhi, June 11
Amid increasing outrage over frequent power cuts in the city, the Delhi government has sped up the restoration work of power plants and other damaged lines by forming a special task force which will take upon the projects on priority basis.

Kejriwal seeks appointment with PM over power issue
New Delhi, June 11
Former Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal today urged Prime Minister Nadrendra Modi to resume the electricity subsidy that the AAP government had provided for three months (January to March) when it was in power.

MP's car collides with union minister's vehicle
New Delhi, June 11
Three persons, including two Delhi policemen, were injured in a collision between the escort vehicle of Union Minister Uma Bharti and MP Parvesh Verma's car at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi this evening. Bharti and Verma, were not sitting in their vehicles at the time of the accident.

Two brothers die, two injured in accident
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 11
Two men in their thirties, both brothers, were killed when the Audi car they were sitting in, crashed into an electric pole in front of a petrol pump near Britannia Chowk in northwest Delhi on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.

According to the police, the two brothers, Nikhil Bansal (39) and Vineet Bansal (35), died while the other two men who were also in the car and are related to the deceased were injured. The two injured men were identified as Nitin (32) and Pradeep. They were taken to Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital and Agarsen Hospital, from where they were discharged after the treatment.

An eyewitness called the police about 12.30 am. He said a black Audi car crashed into the electric pole. The police found four men in an injured condition out of which the two brothers had sustained maximum injuries, including head injuries.

The police said they might have been driving the car at a high speed, as a result of which the driver lost balance of the car. The car first hit the divider followed by a sign board and then crashed into the electric pole.

They were returning from a party. "The wives of Nikhil, Pradeep and Nitin are sisters and the three with Nikhil's brother, Pradeep, were going to their father-in-law's house in Punjabi Bagh after attending the party. Nitin was driving the car at a high speed. We are yet to ascertain if Nitin was drunk or not," said a senior police officer, adding that they are waiting for the post-mortem reports and medical reports of the four.

A case under Sections 279, 337, 338 and 304-A (causing death by negligence) of the IPC has been filed.

Man shot dead for resisting robbery
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 11
Three armed robbers barged into a jewellery shop at a bullion market in Kotwali locality, North Delhi, last night, tried to steal jewellery and cash, but were faced with resistance from the shop owner and his sons.

One of the robbers fired a country-made pistol at the shop owner, who sustained a bullet injury in his abdomen and was declared dead at a hospital, police said today.

The victim has been identified as Kanhaiya Lal. The police apprehended Karan Valecha, one of the alleged robbers, at IGI Airport when he was trying to flee to Bangkok. The police have launched a search to apprehend the remaining two robbers, who are allegedly Valecha's friends.

DCP (North) Sindhu Pillai said that for the past four years Valecha has been staying in Bangkok, where he is working at a jewellery designing shop.

"Valecha is a Class XII drop out. He had also worked at Lal's shop in Dariba Kalan for nine months and knew him and his two sons well. He had arrived at India from Bangkok with an intention to earn easy money and had planned the robbery with his two friends," said Pillai.

Yesterday about 9.15 pm, three armed robbers barged into Lal's shop. "The robbers tried to loot the cash and jewellery, but were faced with resistance by the shop owners and his sons. In the scuffle one of them fired rounds. A bullet hit Lal in his abdomen. The robbers then escaped," said Pillai.

The police said that the robbers had surveyed the site of the incident on June 9 before committing the robbery. They had allegedly stayed at a hotel in Paharganj for a night on June 9.

"With the help of CCTV camera footage and a bag that the robbers had left behind at Lal's shop, we established their identity. The bag contained the robber's documents," explained Pillai.

Govt forms task force to counter power crisis
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 11
Amid increasing outrage over frequent power cuts in the city, the Delhi government has sped up the restoration work of power plants and other damaged lines by forming a special task force which will take upon the projects on priority basis.

Discoms have been directed to restrict load-shedding to one hour at best on rotational basis. "All discoms will ensure through surprise inspections that their complaint centres are operational on 24x7 basis. They have also been directed to immediately replace all their vulnerable or faulty lines," said a senior government official.

All the planned outages and load-shedding schedules of the discoms will be released in advance and will be available on the website of the companies concerned as a daily bulletin. This will also be released to the electronic media and will be updated at 8 am daily, said the official.

Giving details of the on-going work at different power plant, which does not seem to complete before June 16, he said, generation of additional 220 MW of power has started from Bawana (Pragati-III) Power Plant after additional gas was made available last night.

At Shalimar Bagh-Wazirpur 220 KV cable and six damaged joints have to be repaired and the work is likely to be completed by June 16 within the decided timelines.

Maharani Bagh-Ghazipur 220 KV line, which supplies major power to East Delhi, work on three remaining towers has been expedited with assistance and is expected to complete by June 16.

Repair of one gas turbine at Pragati Power Plant has been expedited under direct supervision of the Joint Managing Director of BHEL and is likely to be completed by June 16. This will add an additional 200 MW of power in the power network of Delhi.

Further, as the plant is situated within the boundary of Delhi city, it will bring substantial relief to areas where there are transmission constraints otherwise.

Witness peak power demand

• Delhi today witnessed highest demand of the year at 5470 MW at 2.45 pm which was successfully met. No load-shedding was carried out in Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited areas. However, reports of outages causing inconvenience to the public are being received from different parts of the city
• In the past 24 hours, total demand of power in Delhi was 112.97 million units of which 111.41 million units was successfully met and 1.546 million units were shed due to transmission and distribution constraints and 0.011 million units shed to restrict over-drawal at low grid frequency, said officials

Kejriwal seeks appointment with PM over power issue
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 11
Former Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal today urged Prime Minister Nadrendra Modi to resume the electricity subsidy that the AAP government had provided for three months (January to March) when it was in power.

He also sought an appointment with Modi over the prevailing power crisis that Delhi is witnessing while congratulating him for assuming the office of the PM in a letter addressed to Modi.

According to the licensing agreement signed by discoms with the government, it is their responsibility to ensure the maintenance of their equipment and network so that the people get uninterrupted power supply.

"On this pretext power tariffs have been hiked in Delhi from time to time and despite all this, if the discoms are failing to provide 24-hour supply, they should be dealt with sternly," said Kejriwal.

MP's car collides with union minister's vehicle
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 11
Three persons, including two Delhi policemen, were injured in a collision between the escort vehicle of Union Minister Uma Bharti and MP Parvesh Verma's car at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi this evening. Bharti and Verma, were not sitting in their vehicles at the time of the accident.

The police said that the accident took place about 5.30 pm when the drivers of Verma and Bharti were called to park the vehicles near the North Fountain at Parliament gate. "Bharti's escort vehicle was coming and Verma's Fortuner vehicle was coming from the wrong side. The Fortuner collided with the front end of Bharti's escort vehicle," said a senior police officer.

"Head constable Suresh Kumar, constable Trilok Chandra and the driver, sitting in the escort vehicle, sustained minor injuries," said the officer.

A case regarding rash and negligent driving under Section 279, IPC, was registered against Naveen Kumar.