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Tuesday, Feb 08, 2005

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Around the City

Cloudy day

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, FEB. 7.FEB. 7.FEB. 7 The weatherman has forecast a generally cloudy day for the Capital on Tuesday with the possibility of rain or thundershowers in some areas. There will be mist or fog in the morning, he said. The minimum temperature is likely to be around 12 degrees Celsius.

The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded at Safdarjung on Monday were 21.9 and 13 degrees Celsius, while at Palam the temperatures stood at 21.2 and 14.1 degrees Celsius respectively. The Capital also recorded 6.3 mm of rain at Safdarjung and 7.1 mm at Palam.

The maximum humidity recorded at Safdarjung and Palam was 91 and 95 per cent, while the minimum stood at 63 and 71 per cent respectively.

Arrested for issuing fake challans

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, FEB. 7.FEB. 7.FEB. 7 Three persons, including an `ahlmad' in the court of a special metropolitan magistrate (SMM) at Saket in South Delhi, have been arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi police for allegedly issuing fake traffic challans.

The Special Cell received a complaint from the SMM, A.S. Awasthi, stating that an advocate, on behalf of his client, had produced before him the photocopy of an arrest warrant for a traffic violation with a forged signature. Investigations revealed that a resident of Uttam Nagar, Vinod, had gone to serve the warrant posing as a traffic police constable. Subsequently, he was arrested. At his instance, the police arrested a former traffic police home guard, Harbhajan Singh, on whose disclosure they arrested the `ahlmad' posted in the court of SMM Awasthi, as he had provided the warrant.

Run over

by tanker

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, FEB. 7.FEB. 7.FEB. 7 A 20-year-old woman was killed when an overspeeding Mother Dairy tanker ran over her while she was crossing the road at Vivek Vihar in East Delhi today. The driver has been arrested.

According to the police, the incident occurred when Kirti Bansal, a third year B.Com student, was on her way home after attending her classes at Vivekanand Mahila College. Around 1-15 p.m., she was crossing the road at Vivek Vihar when the tanker hit her. She was rushed to a nearby hospital she doctors declared her dead.

Criminally assaulted

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, FEB. 7.FEB. 7.FEB. 7 A 19-year-old woman was allegedly criminally assaulted by her neighbour at Ambedkar Nagar in South Delhi on February 2. According to the complaint lodged today, the woman was alone in the house when the accused overpowered her and criminally assaulted her.

Held for impersonation

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW, FEB. 7.FEB. 7.FEB. 7 A man was arrested on the charge of impersonation when he was trying to fly from the Indira Gandhi Airport here to Hyderabad on February 4 on a ticket which had been issued in the name of another passenger but which he had bought at a discount at Andhra Pradesh Bhavan.

A spokesperson of the Central Industrial Security Force said it was around 8-15 p.m. that a passenger of flight DN 603, Gopal Krishna Reddy, reached Terminal 1B and got the boarding card of the said flight from the check-in counter of Air Deccan and entered the security hold area. A little later, another passenger reached the same counter and also introduced himself as G.K. Reddy.

However, he was shocked when the Air Deccan officials told him that they have already issued a boarding card to him. Subsequently, Mr Reddy approached the CISF in-charge at Terminal 1B and narrated the entire incident. Following investigations,`fake' G.K. Reddy was arrested

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