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Tuesday, Dec 14, 2004

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Around The City

A clear day

NEW DELHI DEC. 13. Delhiites will experience mist or shallow fog on Tuesday morning. However, the sky will remain mainly clear during the day with the minimum temperature hovering around 7 degrees Celsius.

The maximum and the minimum temperatures recorded at Safdarjung on Monday were 23.1 degrees Celsius and 9.6 degrees Celsius respectively. At Palam, the maximum temperature recorded was 22.2 degrees Celsius and the minimum was 7.2 degrees Celsius.

The maximum relative humidity recorded at Safdarjung and Palam was 97 and 100 per cent respectively, while the minimum humidity at the two places stood at 48 per cent and 59 per cent respectively.

Bail plea dismissed

NEW DELHI DEC.13. A Delhi court today dismissed a bail plea by the Shivani Bhatnagar murder accused R. K. Sharma of the IPS.

Mr. Sharma's bail application was rejected by the Additional Sessions Judge, Sunil Gaur.

Lifer for woman

New Delhi Dec. 13. A woman, who killed a two-a-and-half-year-old girl child to appease the gods so as to improve her relationship with her drunkard husband, was sentenced to life imprisonment today.

The Additional Sessions Judge, S.C. Rajan, also imposed a fine of Rs. 2,000 on Santosh who killed the minor with a spade in the Nangloi area on December 6 last year.

Police said the accused committed the crime after a tantrik told her that her relationship with her husband would improve if she sacrificed a child on Saturday. She had visited the tantrik as her husband was a drunkard and used to quarrel with her frequently.

The accused used to stay with her husband in the Bawana area and on the day of the incident she had gone to Nangloi to visit her parents, the police said, adding it was here that she killed the innocent girl.

Seven convicted

New Delhi Dec. 13. A City Court today convicted seven people, including two Afghans and a British, for possessing huge quantity of heroine in the country four years back.

Additional Sessions Judge Narottam Kaushal sentenced Gom Singh, Kunal Singh, Yaqub Khan, Mohammad Gani and Noor Hyder Siddique (both Afghans) imprisonment of 20 years.

Rehmatullah and British national Raymond Bernand Dun were sentenced to ten years for imprisonment.

All the convicts were caught at Rajheri Chowk on March 18, 2000 for possessing high quality heroine.

Md. Gani has been convicted in absentia as he fled from the country after the case was filed.

The Judge also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on the convicts.

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