New Delhi, June 28
Ten people, including five children and two women, were killed while two injured when a four-storeyed dilapidated building collapsed today at Tulsi Nagar in a congested area of Inderlok in North Delhi.

The deceased were identified as Asif (10), Adeeba (14), Rehan (7), Saba (5), Abdul Adib (7), Rubina (30), Suhana (28), Mohammad Eijaz (24), Mohammad Ujala (22) and Imtiyaz Ali (24). The injured were identified as Abdul Rashid (38) and Mohammad Naim (39). They were admitted to the Hindu Rao Hospital. Two persons escaped unhurt. Four to five families lived in the building, the police said

The incident was reported at about 9 am when the members of the families living in the building were preparing to leave for their work. Just after the incident, four fire tenders of the Delhi Fire Service reached the spot and started the rescue operation.

The local police and North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) officials also reached the spot. The NDMC has provided an excavator to remove the debris.

They rescued 12 people from the debris. The victims were rushed to the Hindu Rao Hospital and Acharya Shree Bhikshu Hospital where 10 people succumbed to their injuries.

Two injured persons, rescued from the debris, are recuperating in the Hindu Rao Hospital, the police said.

A case of causing death has been registered by the police.

Meanwhile, the NDMC suspended two engineers-an assistant and a junior engineer--posted at Karol Bagh Zone. An inquiry has also been ordered into the incident. It will be conducted by the Additional Commissioner (Engineering). If found guilty of any irregularity, civic officials will not be spared, said an NDMC spokesman Yogendra Singh Mann.

He said construction work at an adjacent building might be one of the reasons behind the collapse.

The building was around 50 years old and a number of families lived there, added the NDMC spokesman.

New Delhi, June 28
In a bid to improve the maintenance of night shelters across the national capital, the Delhi government has decided to give the management of 20-25 homes to one Shelter Management Agency (SMA).

"The idea is to make the Shelter Management Agency responsible and answerable for the maintenance and management of night shelters and also to ensure that no homeless person lives outside," said a senior official of the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB).

The concept will be implemented on a pilot basis at Yamuna Pushta and the adjoining areas of the Central district in three clusters.

The DUSIB has also decided to procure mobile toilet vans equipped with the technology developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) at 67 identified locations.

"This technology is eco-friendly, consumes less water and the discharged water from these toilet vans can be used for gardening and other purposes," said the DUSIB chief executive officer Amar Nath.

At present, there are 55 SMAs manning around 180 night shelters across Delhi and each one of them is being managed by one or more NGOs which leads to different level of services being provided at different shelters.

The functions of the night shelter agencies will also involve interacting with different government and non-governmental organisations to converge the services at single window.

It has been made an open tender and agencies have been invited to bid. The issue of night shelters has often been raised by activists and NGOs.

New Delhi, June 28
With the arrest of four persons, including two women, the Central district police of Delhi today claimed to have solved the murder-cum-robbery case of Tarun Bajaj, a businessman of Rajinder Nagar.

The accused were identified as Sooraj, alias Sahil, Mohit Sharma, alias Sunny, Pooja, and Munni, alias Moni. Pooja is wife of Sooraj, the police said.

The police said Sooraj, Pooja and Mohit were arrested from Dehradun where they had gone after the police pressure. Moni was arrested from Sultanpuri.

The police came to know about the involvement of the accused in the case after questioning the neighbours and domestic servants working in the area. During investigation, the police came to know that Sooraj and Pooja who lived at Karampura used to visit the residence of the victim.

When the police conducted raids at their residence, they came to know that the accused had left for Dehradun.

The police reached Deradun and arrested them. Their interrogation led to the arrest of other accused.

Sooraj and Pooja disclosed that they had knowledge that the victim kept huge money at home. On June 25, the accused killed the businessman and robbed Rs 3 lakh and jewellery, the police said.