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Sunday, May 02, 2004

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Mercury to go up

NEW DELHI MAY 1 .The Capital will have a mainly clear sky during the day with possibility of it becoming partly cloudy towards the evening on Sunday. There will be rise in the day temperature and the maximum temperature will be around 36 degrees Celsius.

The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded at Safdarjung were 30.8 and 16.7 degrees Celsius, while Palam recorded a maximum of 31 and a minimum of 16.8 degrees Celsius.

The maximum humidity at Safdarjung and Palam were 94 and 88 per cent while the minimum were 46 and 41 per cent respectively.

Held for liquor smuggling

NEW DELHI MAY 1. Four persons, including two women, have been arrested by the Crime Branch of Delhi police from different parts of the Capital on charges of liquor smuggling. The police claim to have seized 38 cartons of liquor bottles from them.

In the first case, a special team arrested a woman, Munni Devi, after it discovered an illicit liquor godown owned by her at Shalimar Bagh in North-West Delhi on Friday.

Over 750 quarters of country-made liquor of "Mastana Desi" brand were recovered.

Acting on a tip-off that one Mohinder, who had been smuggling in liquor from Rajasthan, was on way to the Capital with a consignment in a Maruti car, the police laid a trap on Nelson Mandela Marg at Vasant Kunj in the early hours on Thursday. Around 5-15 a.m., the police spotted the vehicle and intercepted it.

Its three occupants came out and tried to escape, but the police overpowered them after a brief chase. They were identified as Vinod, who was driving the car, his wife, Jyoti, and Mohinder. During interrogation, Mohinder disclosed that he has been in bootlegging for 15 years and selling the liquor brought from Rajasthan at Viswas Nagar and Kasturba Nagar in East Delhi. He would ask Vinod's wife to accompany them while smuggling the consignments to dodge the police in the border areas by posing as family members.

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