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Friday, May 13, 2005

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Power cut in Parliament House

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHI: Power supply to Parliament House was affected for a few minutes on Thursday afternoon due to a technical snag. Though the New Delhi Municipal Council claimed that the supply to Parliament House was restored within seconds by activating alternate sources, those witnessing the Parliament proceedings said supply remained shut for at least 10 minutes.

At 12-56 p.m., the Park Street sub-station tripped due to some snag in the Vasant Kunj Ridge Valley circuit affecting supply to Parliament House and in some parts of the civic body's area including Parliament Street and Rafi Marg.

According to the NDMC spokesperson, the breakdown was for 13 minutes only, and the supply to Parliament House was hardly affected as alternate source of supply were immediately switched on.

`ISI agent' held

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHI: A suspected agent of the Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan, who is a citizen of Nepal, was arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi police from New Delhi railway station on Wednesday night when he had just arrived from Siliguri by the North East Express. The police said the accused, Mohammad Aish-ur-Rahman, was caught in the possession of high quality heroin worth Rs 1 crores and fake currency worth Rs 1.95 lakhs. The Southern Range received a specific information that a suspected ISI agent was likely to entry Delhi by the North East Express and shall be carrying huge consignment of fake Indian currencies.

Subsequently, a Special Cell team took up position around the exit gate of New Delhi railway station on the Ajmeri Gate side and when at 9-40 p.m. a person wearing a kurta pyjama and holding a jute bag in his hand was seen walking cautiously towards the public urinal, the informer pointed him out as the ISI agent. The police team moved in and nabbed him.

A search of Aish-ur-Rehman led to the recovery of two unreserved general tickets of North East Express from Jalpaiguri to New Delhi besides a personal diary, a bag containing 390 fake Indian currency notes of Rs 500 denomination worth Rs 1.95 lakhs and a polythene packet which contained 970 grams of heroin worth approximately Rs 1 crore in the international market.

Man held for car thefts

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHI: A 26-year-old young man who had allegedly stolen four Maruti vans in the recent past and had sold them for Rs 8,000 each in the Mayapuri junk market after using them for 10 to 15 days was caught by the West Delhi police with a stolen vehicle on Wednesday.

The police said the accused, Joginder, was a resident of Shahbad Mohammadpur and was moving in a Maruti van which he had stolen from Dwarka when he was nabbed. As he was driving with a fake number plate, the Anti Auto Theft Squad nabbed him in Paschim Vihar area. During questioning, he allegedly confessed to his involvement in fours case of auto theft.

Man killed in accident

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHI: A passenger of a three-wheeler scooter rickshaw (TSR) was killed when the vehicle was hit by a truck in the Usmanpur area of North East Delhi on Wednesday night.

The police said the victim, 31-year-old Rajinder Prasad, a resident of Shiv Vihar, was going along with his brother in the TSR when it was hit by a truck near 5th Pushta. Rajinder Prasad was killed on the spot.

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