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Sunday, Feb 01, 2004

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Around the City

Another cold Sunday likely

NEW DELHI JAN. 31. Delhi will wake up to yet another cold morning on Sunday. The sky will remain cloudy with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers.

According to the weather department, there would be mist and fog in the morning. The minimum temperature is expected to be around 8 degrees Celsius.

The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded at Safdarjung on Saturday were 16.9 and 10.0 degrees Celsius respectively, while at Palam it was 16.1 and 10.1 degrees Celsius.

Safdarjung recorded a maximum humidity of 95 per cent and a minimum of 72 per cent. At Palam, the maximum and minimum humidity recorded were 97 per cent and 82 per cent.

Robbers strike at two places

NEW DELHI JAN. 31. Robbers struck at two places in the Capital since Friday afternoon. Two persons were arrested in one of the incident.

At Lahori Gate in North Delhi, three young men entered the second floor house of Mohan Singh Kalodia, a resident of Dua Bazar in Lahori Gate, on Friday afternoon. At that time, Mohan's wife, Sushila (49), and his daughter were at home. The trio robbed them of eight gold bangles, a gold ring and some cash at gun-point. As the trio began fleeing, the women raised an alarm.

Hearing the commotion, two persons, working in nearby shops chased the robbers and managed to catch two of them. In the other incident, a lantern manufacturer's family was robbed of a huge amount of cash and jewellery at Hauz Qazi in Central Delhi on Friday night. According to the police, three men came to the house of Anees-ul-Haq, a resident of Lambi Gali in Hauz Qazi. While one of them entered the house at gun-point, the other two kept vigil on the main door. The intruder whipped out a country-made revolver and forced Haq's family to part with Rs. 92,000 and 10 tolas of gold jewellery worth several thousand rupees before fleeing.

Teenager crushed in lift

NEW DELHI JAN. 31. In a freak incident, an 18-year-old boy was killed while trying to get out of a stuck lift that suddenly started moving in a banquet hall at Model Town in North-West Delhi today.

According to the police, Bharat, son of Dal Bahadur, a waiter at Gola Banquet Hall on G.T. Karnal Road, had come to meet his father around 6-30 p.m. He took the lift to go up. As the lift began moving there was a power cut. Bharat then tried to forcibly open the door of the lift. Even as he was trying, the power supply was restored and the lift began moving. He got crushed between the lift and the walls. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.

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