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Thursday, Dec 23, 2004

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Foggy morning

NEW DELHI DEC. 22. Delhiites will wake up to yet another foggy morning on Thursday. According to the weatherman, the sky was likely to remain partly cloudy for the rest of the day with minimum temperature hovering around 10 degrees Celsius.

The maximum and the minimum temperatures recorded at Safdarjung on Wednesday were 20.1 and 11.8 degrees Celsius respectively, while Palam recorded a maximum of 17.2 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 11.7 degrees Celsius.

The maximum and the minimum relative humidity at Safdarjung was 100 per cent and 67 per cent respectively. At Palam also the maximum humidity stood at 100 per cent while the minimum humidity was 70 per cent.

Kids killed

NEW DELHI DEC. 22. Four children were killed apparently due to asphyxiation after a fire broke out in a jhuggi at Nangloi in West Delhi this morning.

According to the fire service department, the fire broke out around 8-30 a.m. Two fire-tenders were pressed into action and the fire was put off within half-an-hour. However, all the four children, Manish (10), Jyoti (7), Neeraj (5) and Rahul (4), of the jhuggi owner, Vijay, were found dead in their room. Circumstantial evidence suggested that they died of asphyxiation while they were asleep, as there was no ventilation in their room.

Body found

NEW DELHI DEC. 22. The body of a seven-year-old boy, who had gone missing from a farmhouse at Mehrauli in South Delhi on December 15, was found in the premises of the same farmhouse today. The body was partly burnt.

According to the police, Salman, son of Wahid, a gardener employed at Modi Farmhouse in Mehrauli, had gone missing a week ago. The Mehrauli police had registered a case of kidnapping in this connection. Today, when the police had gone to question people staying at the farmhouse they stumbled upon the body which had been lying in a thick growth in the rear side of the farmhouse. The body had been partly burnt.

Held with ganja

NEW DELHI DEC. 22. One person has been arrested by the East Delhi police for allegedly possessing about 50 kg of "ganja". According to the police, a scooterist carrying two huge sacks was flagged down for routine checking at Mayur Vihar, Phase-II, around 6-45 p.m. on Tuesday. The police found that the person, identified as Mohammad Farman, a resident of Trilokpuri in East Delhi, was carrying "ganja" leaves. The total weight of the leaves came to be 48 kg.

Two arrested

NEW DELHI DEC. 22. An engineer and a management executive, who allegedly tried to withdraw money to the tune of Rs.1 crore from the account of Air Sahara by using stolen cheque leaves, have been arrested by the New Delhi police.

According to the police, they recently received a complaint from the accounts manager of Air Sahara alleging that someone had stolen three blank cheque leaves of the company. The police were also told that the culprits had forged the signature of the authorised signatory of Air Sahara and submitted it in bank account they had opened in a bank at Rudrapur in Uttanchal. The culprits were trying to withdraw Rs. 1 crore from the Air Sahara account.

Acting on the complaint, the police registered a case and arrested one of the culprits, Akhilesh Saxena. He used to work with Progressive InfoTech Software at Noida, which has a contract with Air Sahara for hardware repairs. Taking advantage of his access to the Air Sahara office, he stole the cheque leaves and passed them on to his relative, Vineet Saxena, who worked as an executive with India Cements Capital.

At the instance of Akhilesh, the police arrested Vineet.

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