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Trilokpuri tense after stoning incident

NEW DELHI: More than a dozen people were injured in clashes that broke out between two groups at Trilokpuri in East Delhi late on Wednesday night. The situation on Thursday was tense but under control with heavy police deployment.

According to the police, clashes broke out around midnight in Trilokpuri when one of the groups began pelting stones at the other. The police were trying to ascertain the cause for provocation which led to heavy stone pelting from both sides.

One of the groups alleged that some women kawarias of the locality were singing when members of the other group passed some objectionable comments. However, the other group claimed that some of their youngsters were abused and beaten up by drunk men from the other group.

Meanwhile, the police have registered a case and are in the process of identifying the culprits who incited violence.

Metro traffic

warden killed

NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old man, employed by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation as a traffic warden, was killed when a truck broke through a barrier and knocked him down at Rajouri Garden in West Delhi on Thursday.

According to the police, the truck broke through the barrier -- put up to stop vehicles coming from Mayapuri side -- under the Raja Garden flyover around 4 a.m. and killed Vikrant, who was deployed there to monitor the traffic.

The truck driver, Kiranpal, has been arrested by the Rajouri Garden police on charges of causing death due to rash and negligent driving.

Man commits suicide

NEW DELHI: A 27-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling in his house at Narela in North-West Delhi on Thursday.

According to the police, Sandeep, a resident of Naya Bans Colony, hanged himself around 5-30 p.m. No suicide note was recovered from the spot. The police suspect that he was passing through a phase of depression.

Labourer dies in hotel

New Delhi: A labourer today died while cleaning a sewage tank in a five-star hotel in the heart of the city and two persons were arrested in this connection, police sources said.

Hari Prakash (27) was cleaning the tank in the Le Meridien hotel this morning when he slipped and fell into it. He was rushed to a near-by hospital where he was declared brought dead.

Prakash was working for a Gurgaon-based contractor Amit Sen who was arrested on charges of negligence along with the head of the hotel's engineering department, S. Sohi, the sources said.

Green signal for

foot over-bridges

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has decided to build six foot over-bridges with escalators in the Capital.

The State Urban Development and Public Works Department Minister, A.K. Walia, on Thursday gave the green signal for commissioning of six foot over-bridges on major roads where crossing had become difficult and dangerous for pedestrians due to extraordinary quantum of vehicular traffic.

After meeting senior officers and engineers of the PWD, Dr. Walia informed that these foot over-bridges would be constructed near the Moti Bagh flyover, Sri Venkateshwara College, AIIMS, Ansari Nagar on Aurobindo Marg, Inter-State Bus Terminus in Maharani Bagh and Dhaula Kuan flyover.

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