The Hindu : Around The City

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Tuesday, Jan 20, 2004

New Delhi

New Delhi

Around The City

Cold day ahead

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, JAN. 19.JAN. 19JAN. The weatherman has forecast a cold day for the Capital on Tuesday. Fog will prevail till forenoon. The minimum temperature is expected to be around 8 degrees Celsius.

On Monday, Safdarjung recorded a maximum temperature of 17.1 degrees and a minimum of 12.7 degrees Celsius, while at Palam it was 16 and 12.3 degrees Celsius respectively.

The maximum and minimum humidity recorded at Safdarjung was 90 per cent and 78 per cent respectively. At Palam, the corresponding figures stood at 93 per cent and 80 per cent.

Two suicides reported

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, JAN. 19.JAN. 19JAN. . Two persons, including a 23-year-old woman, allegedly committed suicide in separate incidents reported from different parts of the Capital today.

A 23-year-old woman was found hanging from the ceiling in her house at Chanakyapuri in New Delhi today.

According to the police, Lalita, a resident of NDMC servants' quarters at Bapu Dham in Chanakyapuri, was found hanging by her grandfather, who had gone to Lajpat Nagar on Saturday and returned today around 11 a.m. No suicide note was recovered.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Lalita, who had studied up to only Class V, used to stay in the house along with her brother, grandfather, uncle, his son, wife and her two children in the house. Her parents had died long ago.

On Saturday, her grandfather had left for Lajpat Nagar. Today morning, her brother and cousin too left with their autorickshaws. Some time later, her cousin's wife, a sweeper in the NDMC, too left for her work after which she committed suicide. Chanakyapuri police have initiated inquest proceedings in the case.

In another incident, a 40-year-old man was found hanging in his house at Sarita Vihar in South Delhi today. According to the police, Mahesh Chand, a resident of Madanpur Khadar, used to work in a factory at Okhla. He was a chronic alcoholic and his wife and children had left the house a couple of days ago following arguments.

Job racket smashed

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, JAN. 19.JAN. 19JAN. The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch has arrested a person on the charge of cheating people on the pretext of getting them jobs in the Airports Authority, the Metro Railway and the Planning Commission.

The EOW recently received a complaint from one Indu Kapoor alleging that Prakash Meena, who ran one "Devi Ram Social and Educational Development Institute", cheated her and her relatives of Rs. 10 lakhs in the name of giving them government jobs. The accused met her at the Khadi Cottage Industries at Badarpur and offered her jobs. Lured by the offer, she along with nine other people gave him Rs. 10 lakhs.

However, the accused did not fulfil his promise nor returned the money, following which Indu got a case registered.

Burglars arrested

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, JAN. 19.JAN. 19JAN. The Special Cell of the Delhi police has arrested two persons on charges of their involvement in cases of burglary.

The accused have been identified as Nazim and Wajid Mian. The police said they were involved in at least 16 cases.

Doctors threaten strike

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, JAN. 19.JAN. 19JAN. After yet another incident of on-duty doctors being beaten up in Kasturbha Gandhi Hospital, the doctors today threatened to go on an indefinite strike unless urgent action was taken against the accused.

An on-duty doctor was brutally beaten up and had to take refuge in the hospital bathroom after the relatives of a patient allegedly attacked him on Sunday. It all happened after the patient's child died in the ward. This is the second such incident in a matter of nine days in the same ward.

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