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Friday, Jun 03, 2005

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Revolutionary dead

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHI: Roopwati Jain, revolutionary and writer, died here on Tuesday. She was 93.

Born into an aristocratic family of Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh, she married the well-known freedom fighter Vimal Prasad Jain at the age of 15. When she realised that her husband was a member of Chandrashekhar Azad's Hindustan Republican Socialist Army, she chose the revolutionary path to overthrow the British Empire. During those days she also worked in a bomb-manufacturing factory.

Later on she took to writing and had many novels and storybooks to her credit. In 1994, the then President Shankar Dayal Sharma released one of her books based on her husband's life.

Jeweller robbed

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHI: Four young men allegedly beat up and robbed a jeweller of ornaments worth lakhs of rupees at Krishna Nagar in East Delhi on Thursday.

It all happened around 12-30 p.m. when the four young men entered the Shree Jee Jewellers and asked the shop owner, Puneet Narula, to show them some jewellery. While he was showing them an ornament, one of them hit Puneet on the head with an iron rod. Subsequently, the culprits gathered the jewellery and Rs. 10,000 in cash and fled from the scene.

Puneet was taken to a hospital.

Bootleggers nabbed

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHI: Two alleged bootleggers, including a woman, were arrested at Narela and Ashok Vihar in North-West Delhi on Wednesday. The police recovered 48 halves and 156 quarters from their possession.

The accused, Ram Bai, was arrested when she was carrying the liquor consignment in a bag at Narela. During interrogation, she allegedly disclosed that she had bought it from a Haryana liquor shop.

In another case, the police arrested Amar Singh, a resident of Model Town, after they recovered liquor bottles concealed in a box he was carrying.

Bank dividend

NEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHINEW DELHI: The Chairman and Managing Director of Syndicate Bank, N. Kantha Kumar, has handed over a dividend warrant for Rs.48.57 crores to the Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, for the financial year 2004-05. The amount represents the final dividend of 14 per cent payable to the Government. So far, Syndicate Bank has paid a total of 20 per cent dividend amounting to Rs.69.39 crores. The Director of the Syndicate Bank, M. Deena Dayalan, was present on the occasion.

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