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Two auto-lifters arrested

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHI: The North West District Delhi Police arrested two auto-lifters, Sukhvinder alias Pintu and Vivek Sharma alias Vicky, on Saturday and claimed to have solved four cases of theft and recovered three motorcycles and an engine of another from their possession.

Acting on a tip-off, a police team laid a trap on Karala-Kanjhawala Road and tried to stop the duo, riding a motorcycle bearing a fake number plate. But the two abandoned the motorcycle and tried to flee. However, they were nabbed after a chase.

The police said the duo used to steal motorcycles, dismantle them and then dispose of their parts.

Gas thieves caught

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHI: : The Delhi Police has arrested five persons on charges of stealing cooking gas by tampering with the seal of cylinders before supplying them to customers of various gas agencies.

The accused, Ram Charan, Kripa Shanker, Rajeev Singh, Vishnu and Raghu Nath Pandey, were arrested near the CGHS dispensary in Paharganj area, police said today.

Police said 49 cylinders, pipes and a weighing machine were seized from them while they were taking out gas to fill empty cylinders.

A case has been registered against them.

Two held in rape case

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHI: A woman along with a minor boy was arrested by the North-West Delhi police for hatching a conspiracy to eliminate her daughter who got pregnant after being physically assaulted by the latter for five months.

On Friday night, the Vijay Vihar police station got information about a quarrel in the Block C of the area. On reaching the spot, the police team found a seriously injured teenaged girl, who was immediately rushed to the hospital. During treatment it was found that she was pregnant.

After the girl's allegations, the police arrested her mother and the accused who raped her.

Survey

NEW DELHI: A vast majority of Pakistan's business representatives are of the view that easing of visa restrictions and removal of other trade barriers can take bilateral trade between India and Pakistan to five billion dollars.

Responding to a recent survey conducted by the PHD Chambers of Commerce and Industry, over 300 business representatives from Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Gujranwala Chambers of Commerce and Industries said it was high time that both the neighbours forged greater economic cooperation by promoting people-to-people interaction.

Monorail system

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHI: : The National Capital may join the select band of advanced cities in the world having monorail if a proposal for introduction of the hi-tech system is approved by the Government.

The Government of National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi proposes to get a feasibility study conducted before taking a decision on introduction of monorail and in this regard, a private company, Geobase Techniques, has recently made a presentation to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.

According to sources in the Union Urban Development Ministry, the Indian company, having collaboration with Hitachi of Japan, has claimed that it would be able to do the job at a low capital cost of Rs 45 crore per kilometre, as against that of Metro Rail of Rs 130 crore.

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