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Friday, Aug 06, 2004

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Around the City

Rain predicted

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, AUG. 5.AUG. 5.AUG. 5 The weatherman has forecast a generally cloudy sky with possibility of rain/thundershower in some parts of the Capital on Friday.

On Thursday, Safdarjung recorded a maximum temperature of 36.1 degrees Celsius and Palam 36 degree Celsius. The minimum temperature recorded at Safdarjung and Palam was 28 degree Celsius.

The maximum and minimum humidity registered at Safdarjung was 88 and 54 per cent, while Palam recorded 92 and 53 per cent respectively.

Cheat arrested

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, AUG. 5.AUG. 5.AUG. 5 A person who along with his accomplices allegedly cheated people on the pretext of providing them loans by posing as an ICICI Bank direct selling agent has been arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Delhi police. Three of his accomplices were arrested last month.

The accused has been identified as Mohammad Javed Khan. The police had earlier arrested Vijay, Arun and Khalid on the same charges. The accused would pose as ICICI Bank selling agent and extract money from people on the pretext of providing them loans.

Drug peddlers held

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, AUG. 5.AUG. 5.AUG. 5 Two persons, who allegedly sold drugs, were arrested by the Narcotics Branch from Anand Vihar Bus Terminus in East Delhi on Wednesday. The police recovered 1.2 kg heroin from their possession.

Acting on a tip-off that two drug peddlers from Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh would come to deliver a heroin consignment at the bus terminus, the police laid a trap and arrested them. They were identified as Mohammad Irshad and Lokender Pal. During interrogation, Irshad disclosed that his father died when he was very young. His elder brother also died later and the younger brother committed suicide. Irshad then took over the family business of selling vegetables but incurred heavy losses. Meanwhile, he came in contact with one Ansar, a drug peddler, who lured him to the business for easy money.

The second accused, Lokender, is the son of a retired Government school-teacher. After he suffered heavy losses in the businesses he tried to establish, he started smuggling heroin. Further investigations are on.

Impersonator held

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, AUG. 5.AUG. 5.AUG. 5 A person allegedly posing as a Railways Vigilance Officer was arrested from Old Delhi railway station by the Crime Branch on Tuesday.

According to the police, the accused approached two Ticket Collectors and introduced himself as an inspector with the Vigilance Branch of the Railways. He asked them to show their passes and the money they had collected. Suspecting his intentions, the Ticket Collectors asked him to show his identity card. He took out an identity card issued in the name of Ajit Kumar, which appeared to have been forged. They overpowered the suspect and handed him over to the Railway Police for verification. He was found to be an impersonator after which he was arrested.

Suicide bid

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, AUG. 5.AUG. 5.AUG. 5 A man allegedly trying to set himself ablaze outside the Prime Minister's Office was arrested today.

It is learnt that the accused, S.N. Shukla, is a resident of Bara Banki in Uttar Pradesh. He had recently informed the police and other agencies that he would set himself on fire outside the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday if the authorities did not solve his land dispute that had been going on for the past several years. The police kept a watch over the movements of people passing by the Prime Minister's Office and after a while spotted the suspect who had already doused himself with some oil. He was overpowered immediately.

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