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Partly cloudy day forecast

NEW DELHI MARCH 13. The weatherman has forecast a partly cloudy sky with possibility of a misty morning on Monday. The maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to hover around 29 degrees Celsius and 15 degrees Celsius respectively.

While Safdarjung recorded a maximum and minimum temperatures of 28.8 degrees Celsius and 14.7 degrees Celsius respectively, at Palam the maximum temperature was 29.5 degrees Celsius and the minimum was 14.9 degrees Celsius.

The maximum relative humidity at Safdarjung and Palam was 85 per cent and 95 per cent, while the minimum humidity at Safdarjung and Palam was 43 per cent and 41 per cent, respectively.

Student killed

NEW DELHI MARCH 13. A 19-year-old first-year engineering student of Pusa Institute was killed and his friend injured after a Tata-407 hit his motorcycle at Nandnagri in North-East Delhi today.

Around 11-30 a.m., Robin, the engineering student, was going somewhere with his friend, Devesh, who had come from Patna, when the Tata-407 hit his motorcycle. Both sustained injuries and were taken to a hospital where Robin was declared dead. The police said Devesh was out of danger. A case of rash and negligent driving has been registered at Nandnagri police station and further probe is on.

Bangladeshis arrested

NEW DELHI MARCH 13. Five Bangladeshi nationals, who were allegedly involved in the a robbery at the Anand Vihar residence of the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, were arrested at Karkardooma in East Delhi on Saturday. The police recovered two country-made firearms from their possession.

According to the police, the accused, Mohammad Haroon, Iman, Indadul, Mohammad Saleem and Mohammad Tauhid, were arrested when they had assembled near the MTNL office at Karkardoom to plan a dacoity. The policed said during interrogation, they confessed to their involvement in the Anand Vihar case.

The police said the gang usually targeted the houses of elderly citizen to minimise resistance. They would conduct reconnaissance during the day and would break into the houses in the wee hours. The accused had contacts which helped them pass on stolen goods from India to Bangladesh to their relatives against small monetary favours. Interestingly, even security personnel deployed along the Indo-Bangladesh border are suspected to be involved in such activities.

Two arrested

NEW DELHI MARCH 13. Two persons, who allegedly cheated young men of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of establishing tube chock and candle-manufacturing industries, have been arrested from Moti Nagar in West Delhi.

The police received a tip-off that some persons were cheating unemployed men by offering them quick income by establishing tube chock and candle-manufacturing unit. The suspects, who had their office at Moti Nagar, had got advertisements published in different newspapers. Acting on a complaint lodged by one of the victims, Kandarp Garg, the police mounted a raid and arrested Amit Bhatia and Bhagwant Talwar.

Investigations revealed that the accused used to charge money from the applicants in the name of training them in the manufacturing of tube chocks and candles and would promise to buy the products from them. However, they would not buy the products causing huge loses to the victims.

During interrogation, Amit disclosed that he was earlier arrested by the Punjab police in a similar case. The police are trying to trace other victims.

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