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Sunday, Jan 23, 2005

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Rainy Sunday likely

NEW DELHI JAN. 22. Delhiites would wake up to a misty morning on Sunday. The sky will remain generally cloudy with possibility of light rain/ thundershowers in some parts of the Capital. The minimum temperature is expected to hover around 8 degrees Celsius.

The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded at Safdarjung on Saturday were 16.9 degrees Celsius and 9.7 degrees Celsius respectively, while Palam recorded a maximum temperature of 16.2 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 10.2 degrees Celsius.

While Safdarjung recorded a maximum and minimum relative humidity of 88 per cent and 53 per cent respectively, Palam recorded a maximum humidity of 97 per cent and a minimum of 54 per cent.

SHO transferred

NEW DELHI JAN. 22. The Sangam Vihar Station House Officer (SHO) has been transferred to the Legal Cell in the wake of allegations by the relatives of a 20-year-old woman that the local police were not investigating her husband's suspected involvement in her murder. On Friday, agitated family members and relatives had blocked the Tigri intersection in South Delhi and pelted stones at the police demanding proper inquiry, following which the case was transferred to the Crime Branch.

Couple held in cheating case

NEW DELHI JAN. 22. The prime accused and his female associate in the multi-crore cheating case pertaining to a fake buying house in the Capital have been arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Delhi police. One person was earlier arrested in this connection in July 2004.

Last year, the EOW had arrested one Lalit Mishra, proprietor of M/S Falcon India Buying House at Okhla in South Delhi, for his alleged involvement in duping several exporters to the tune of Rs. 50 crores. They were looking for the main accused, Tej Bahadur Rai, and his associate, Meenu Sahdev, both residents of Kalkaji Extension in South Delhi.

The police got a tip-off about presence of the accused in the Capital and arrested them on Friday. Several laptop computers, incriminating documents and 400 cartons of home furnishing items were recovered from them.

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