New Delhi, June 26
Cracking the whip on people involved in illegal filling of LPG from big cylinders into small cylinders and then selling it, the Commissioner of the Department of Food, Supplies and Consumer Affairs said that 161 premises were raided for being engaged in these activities.

The Commissioner said that the business of filling small cylinders is very dangerous and may lead to explosions and fire accidents.

"Such premises also abet in siphoning off of LPG from the domestic gas cylinders and cheating of consumers by supplying underweight cylinders. The department has seized 277 cylinders so far and FIRs under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, have also been lodged against the offenders. Raids are continuing. On conviction, the accused may face imprisonment up to seven years," he said.

Yadav said that LPG (Regulation of Supply and Distribution) Order, 2000, issued under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, bans unauthorized possession, supply and consumption of LPG, as well as unauthorized storage and transport of gas cylinders.

There is also a ban on the sale or distribution of cylinders below or in excess of the standard weight.

Yadav said that the main areas where raids were conducted are Sant Nagar, Wazirpur, Burari, Raza Pur, Shahbad Daulat Pur, New Seemapuri, East Vinod Nagar, Dakshinpuri, Mehrauli, Kapashera, Kalander Colony, Gokulpuri, Seemapuri, Dilshad Garden, Kartar Nagar, Usman Pur, Gamri Chowk, Mandoli, Harsh Vihar, Prem Nagar and Sadar Bazaar.

He added that this is the second such operation by the department within one month. Earlier, the department had conducted similar operation across the city and seized 315 cylinders and registered 34 criminal cases.

New Delhi, June 26
In a stern action against properties in which plastic is stored, segregated or recycled, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) sealed 30 such units in Narela Zone as they harm environment.

The action was taken by the corporation with the help of local police in pursuance of the order of the National Green Tribunal regarding the collection and burning of plastic in the area of Mundka and Nangloi, said an NDMC official.

Notices have also been sent requiring the owner and occupiers to stop such unauthorized activities that include storage, recycling, and burning of plastic and rubber waste in the areas of Nangloi, Mundka, Tikri Kalan, Ghevra, etc. While many traders have stopped these activities due to the ongoing drive, the sealing action will continue.

"The department of Narela Zone has also taken action against open unregulated burning of plastic and rubber in these areas. Action like electricity and water connections would also be disconnected by the agencies. The corporation has also requested the local police to keep strict vigil on these units," he said.

New Delhi, June 26
The first section of Metro's Phase-III from Central Secretariat to Mandi House (totally underground) was opened to the public today.

Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the train from the Mandi House Metro station at 9.30 am. The section is the first line to become operational under Phase III of the Delhi Metro, which is expected to benefit 70,000 additional commuters.

The 3-km-long underground corridor consists of two stations-Janpath and Mandi House-where interchange facility with the currently operational Line 3 (Dwarka Sector 21-NOIDA City Centre) is provided.

The section is part of Central Secretariat-Kashmere Gate line (9.37 km) of Phase III which is an extension of the Central Secretariat-Badarpur corridor (22 km) of Phase II.

"It has been completed in a short time span of only two years. The section was originally scheduled to be opened in October," said a DMRC spokesperson.

The Mandi House station will be the first interchange station of Delhi Metro's Phase III. The existing Mandi House station of Phase II has been expanded to cater to additional passengers.

The opening of this section has been advanced as this stretch will help in decongesting the busy Rajiv Chowk Metro station as the commuters of the Badarpur-Central Secretariat Line bound for Noida, Vaishali as well as Dwarka will be able to change trains at the Mandi House station without changing trains twice at Central Secretariat and Rajiv Chowk.

"The new stations--Janpath and Mandi House--are equipped with token vending machines and add value-cum-card readers, besides other passenger related facilities," said the official.

New Delhi, June 26
A 25-year-old married woman died under mysterious circumstances in her house in north-east Delhi's Karawal Nagar locality on Wednesday night.

The victim's parents have alleged that she had been harassed for dowry since her marriage. Her in-laws have claimed that she hanged herself.

The victim, Pooja, was married to Vipin Kumar, 28, in April 2012. She had been living with her husband, their one-year-old son and in-laws in their house in Karawal Nagar.

At about 11 pm on Wednesday, Pooja's sister Madhu allegedly received a call from the victim's in-laws that she had committed suicide. Madhu and her husband rushed to Karawal Nagar from their home in Bhajanpura and found Pooja's body lying on the floor in the house.

They were allegedly told by the woman's in-laws that they had found Pooja hanging from the ceiling fan in her room. However, Pooja's family has suspected she was strangled.

Madhu immediately informed the police and the body was taken to the Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital where its postmortem was conducted.

Pooja's family members then filed a case of murder and accused her in-laws of harassing her for dowry. Madhu has told the police that she had allegedly received a call from Pooja earlier on Wednesday informing her that she was being mentally and physically tortured for dowry. The victim had allegedly told Madhu that she wanted to return to her maternal home.

Pooja and her son Shubh were also allegedly dropped by her father-in-law at Madhu's home on Sunday, it has been alleged. She returned to her in-laws home the same evening after learning that Madhu was to go to one of her relatives' house in Uttar Pradesh.

Since Pooja and Vipin were married for fewer than seven years, the incident will be probed by a sub-divisional magistrate.

New Delhi, June 26
A 24-year-old sales executive was allegedly raped by her colleague in south Delhi's R K Puram locality on Wednesday.

The accused identified as Gaurav (26) has been arrested.

The victim works in a private company at Moti Nagar and lives with her family in Palam.

She told the police that she was friendly with Gaurav who hails from Bihar and works as a sales executive in the same company in which she works.

The victim joined the company three months ago and met Gaurav.

She told the police that after they became friends, they started meeting outside office.

On Wednesday, the accused called her to his house in RK Puram. When she reached there, the two had a heated argument over some issue, which has not been disclosed by the police. He then allegedly raped her, according to a police officer.

The victim managed to come out of his house and approached the police. She was taken to a nearby hospital where her medical examination confirmed that she had been sexually assaulted.

A case under the Indian Penal Code section 376 (punishment for rape) was registered against Gaurav at the local police station. He was arrested from his house, according to the police.

New Delhi, June 26
Two engineering students were killed and four others injured when the Wagon-R car they were travelling in, rammed into a divider at the Noida Link Road in east Delhi, overturned and hit a Swift car last night.

The police have identified the deceased as Ujwal Tyagi (22) and Vishal (20). Another youth, Neeraj (22), who was also in the Wagon-R car, is critically injured and has been admitted to Osmania Hospital in Vaishali, Ghaziabad. The three other youths in the car, Samarth Saxena, Shubham and Sagar, all in their early twenties, had also sustained injuries. The youths are engineering students at private colleges.

A married couple were in the Swift car. They have been identified as Kanwaljeet Kaur (30) and her husband, Siddharth Agnihotri, a software engineer. According to the police, Kanwaljeet had sustained injuries on her legs during the accident.

The police said that the six youths were coming from Noida in the Wagon-R car and were returning homes. Shubham lives at Anand Vihar, Sagar at Pitampura and the rest are residents of Arya Nagar Apartment at Patparganj.

The accident took place between the Mayur Vihar Phase I Metro station and the Delhi Police apartments about 11.30 last night.

"Samarth, who was driving the Wagon-R car, told us that the car hit a road divider, overturned and came on the opposite carriageway. The driver of the Swift, Siddharth, saw the oncoming Wagon-R and stopped his vehicle. The Wagon-R hit the front end of the Swift, damaging its headlights," said a police officer.

Roadside vendors confirmed the sequence of the accident and also said that the Wagon-R was speeding.

Eyewitnesses took the Wagon-R occupants to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital and another hospital in Mayur Vihar. "Three of the youths were critically injured. One of them had died at the spot and the second one was declared dead by the doctors at the hospital," said the officer.

Samarth had sustained injuries on his head. The car belonged to Sagar.

"The postmortem of the two deceased and the medical examination of the other youths revealed that they were not drunk when the accident took place," said the officer.

The police have registered a case under Sections 279, 304A and 337, IPC, Samarth.

He has not been arrested.