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Thursday, May 20, 2004

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Around the City

A windy, hazy day ahead

NEW DELHI MAY 19. The Capital will on Thursday experience strong surface wind accompanied with dust and haze, the weatherman has forecast. However, the sky will be mainly clear. The maximum temperature is likely to hover around 44 degrees Celsius.

The maximum temperatures recorded at Safdarjung and Palam on Wednesday were 43.8 and 44.5 degrees Celsius respectively, while the minimum were 30.2 and 28.5 degrees Celsius. The maximum and minimum humidity recorded at Safdarjung were 35 and 17 per cent, while Palam recorded 40 and 12 per cent respectively.

Cop arrested for graft

NEW DELHI MAY 19. A Delhi police sub-inspector (SI) has been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Delhi police for allegedly demanding and accepting bribe from the complainant in lieu of not implicating him in a false case. He was also trying to pressurise the complainant to arrive at a compromise with a woman who had lodged the complaint against him.

According to the police, SI Raghubir Singh Malik, posted with Mongolpuri police station in North-West Delhi, was pressurising the complainant to arrive at a compromise with one Jyoti, who had lodged a false complaint against him. He also demanded Rs. 50,000 from him for not implicating him in the case. Finally, Raghubir asked the complainant to pay him Rs. 5,000. The complainant approached the Anti-Corruption Branch. Accordingly, a trap was laid and the police arrested Raghubir when he accepted the bribe from the complainant on Tuesday.

Raghubir has been booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act and further investigations are on.

Custody extended

New Delhi May 19. A city court today extended the judicial custody of all 12 accused persons arrested in connection with leakage of question papers of this year's All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT).

Accused Vikas Verma, Rakesh Verma, Kuldip Tyagi, Bhani Singh Gautam, Ranjit Verma, Satinder Verma, Hemant Sharma, Krishna Thaplu, Parimal Thakur, Laxmi Sharma, Nikhil Mehrotra and Rajeev Ranjan were produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Shahabuddin, who send them to judicial custody till June 2.

The court also rejected a bail application moved by the accused Kuldip Tyagi.

The accused were arrested after sleuths of Crime Branch detected the leakage on the eve of the prestigious All India exam conducted by CBSE. Consequently the exams were also cancelled.

Meanwhile, the court fixed September 25 for recording evidence on an application filed by father of accused Satinder and Ranjit Verma, wherein he prayed for registering a case of criminal breach of trust against the former investigating officer in the case Sanjay Gupta and five other police personnel.

The applicant O.P. Verma claimed that Gupta and others, had not returned valuables seized from his house.

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