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Friday, Nov 05, 2004

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Misty morning

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, NOV. 4.NOV. 4.NOV. 4 A misty morning will greet Delhiites on Friday. The minimum temperature is likely to hover around 12 degrees Celsius.

The maximum and minimum temperature at Safdarjung on Thursday was 29.0 degrees Celsius and 13.8 degrees Celsius respectively. At Palam, the maximum temperature was 28.5 degrees Celsius and minimum was 11.8 degrees Celsius.

The maximum humidity at Safdarjung and Palam was 74 per cent and 86 per cent respectively, while the minimum was 23 per cent and 22 per cent respectively.

NRI cheated

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, NOV. 4.NOV. 4.NOV. 4 The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch has arrested two directors of a financial firm on charges of cheating an NRI of funds and shares to the tune of Rs. 3.5 crores.

The complaint in the matter was recently filed by a London-based Indian national, N.S. Hoon. He told the police that two years ago, Arun Gupta and Naveen Gupta, the directors of OJ Financial Services Limited and OJ Securities Private Limited approached him through their agent, Sunil Singhania, offering him good returns against investigation in their firm.

Mr. Hoon invested funds and shares to the tune of over Rs. 3 crores between April 2002 and February 2003. Initially, they gave monthly interests to them but later stopped it without any valid reason.

Two nabbed

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, NOV. 4.NOV. 4.NOV. 4 Two persons have been arrested for alleged involvement in a robbery reported from Srinivaspuri in South-West Delhi this past Tuesday.

The accused, identified as Ghanshyam and Sanjay, had allegedly robbed Sushena Bhera, a resident of Sarai Julena, of his gold chain and ring. When they were fleeing, Assistant Sub-Inspector Chander Pal, heard Sushena scream for help and trailed the accused. He managed to overpower Ghanshyam. At his instance, the police arrested Sanjay from Patel Nagar in West Delhi this morning and recovered the stolen articles.

Four held

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, NOV. 4.NOV. 4.NOV. 4 Four persons have been arrested by the South Delhi police for allegedly a killing man whose body was found at Amebdkar Nagar in South Delhi on October 28.

According to the police, the body, found lying half-naked in a park at Madangir in Ambedkar Nagar, had several injuries marks. It was identified as that of Vinod Kumar, a resident of Madangir. Following investigations, the police arrested the four accused, Ballu alias Balram, Vinit Singh, Babloo and Chinu.

Crackers seized

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, NOV. 4.NOV. 4.NOV. 4 Over 100 kg illegal crackers were seized from seven shops in North Delhi this past week. Two persons have been booked in the case.

The police mounted raids on shops at Roop Nagar, Prem Nagar Azad Market and Sadar Bazar. While licences of four shops were cancelled, those of three were suspended on the basis of various violations.

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