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Report on building by-laws submitted

NEW DELHI: The Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi, B. L. Joshi, on Thursday received the report of the Steering Committee on the "New Regulatory Framework for Building Regulations in Delhi". The Municipal Commissioner, Rakesh Mehta, who heads the Committee, presented the report in the presence of Rebecca Black, the director of USAID, which is providing funding support for the project.

Mr. Mehta informed the Lieutenant-Governor that the project was started in December 2003 and took one-and-a-half-years to complete. The report seeks to replace the existing Delhi Unified Building By-laws, 1983.

Businessman stabbed to death

NEW DELHI: A 50-year-old man driving his scooter was stabbed to death by unidentified assailants on Tilak Marg here on Tuesday. The police suspect personal enmity to be the reason behind the killing that occurred a few metres from the Tilak Marg police station during peak hours.

According to the police, Radha Raman Gupta, a garment and jewellery shop-owner in Darya Ganj and a resident of Green Park, was going on his scooter along with his 21-year-old daughter, Neha, when the incident occurred around 8-15 p.m. Mr. Gupta's two younger brothers, Rakesh and Pradeep, were also on a scooter following Mr. Gupta. All of them were on their way to home after closing the shop for the day.

After taking a turn from the ITO on Tilak Marg, Rakesh and Pradeep noticed that two persons on a motorcycle had drawn parallel to Mr. Gupta's scooter. They thought the duo were passing remarks at Neha. Soon after, they found Mr. Gupta bleeding from the chest as he lay on the road along with Neha. They immediately hired an autorickshaw and rushed Mr. Gupta to All India Institute of Medical Sciences where he was declared dead on arrival. Man electrocuted

NEW DELHI: A 23-year-old man was found electrocuted in his rented accommodation at Narela in North-West Delhi on Thursday.

According to the police, Raj Prakash Sahu and his maternal uncle Sunil Sahu, both residents of Dhanbad in Jharkhand, had rented a second floor accommodation in the house of Ranvir Singh at Shiv Mandir gali in Bohargarh, Narela, two days ago.

On Wednesday night, Sunil decided to sleep on the terrace. When he came down on Thursday morning, he found Raj Prakash lying dead.

The police suspect that Raj was tying to switch on a table fan, which had some lose wires, but came in contact with water stored in a tank and got electrocuted.

Meanwhile, Narela police have initiated inquest proceedings to ascertain the cause of death. Further investigations are on.

Two drown

NEW DELHI: Two young boys drowned in a pond at Alipur in North-West Delhi on Wednesday.

According to the police, two boys, Rahul (9), son of Dharamveer, and Vikrant (8), son of Jaiveer, both residents of Mohammadpur village in Alipur, had gone missing since Wednesday evening. Their parents told the police that they were last seen playing near the Mohammadpur pond. Their bodies were fished out from Mohammadpur pond after a night-long search around 1 p.m.

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