New Delhi   

Around the City

R. K. Sharma in AIIMS

New Delhi: Ravi Kant Sharma, a suspended Haryana cadre IPS officer and prime accused in the journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, has been admitted to AIIMS for undergoing spinal surgery.

Taking into consideration his condition, Additional Sessions Judge Sunil Gaur, who is holding trial in the case, has exempted him from appearing before it for the whole of September.

Sharma, who was admitted to AIIMS on September 1, had filed an application before the court expressing his inability to appear before it on eight days of hearing this month.

Three arrested

NEW DELHI: Three persons have been arrested by the Special Staff of the East Delhi police for allegedly printing and selling inlay cards for pornographic video CDs. The police have recovered printed material worth Rs. 1 lakh.

According to the police, a raid was conducted at the hideout of suspects in Old Seelampur on Friday and three accused, Naim, Dushyant and Harish Kumar, were arrested. The police recovered 1.5 lakh pornographic inlay cards, several negatives of such cards and plates of the inlay cards for the blue films.

Job racket, two held

NEW DELHI: Two persons have been arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Delhi police for allegedly duping people of their money promising jobs abroad.

Investigations, under the supervision of Assistant Commissioner of Police M.K. Sharma, revealed that the accused, Prem Nath Singh (36) and Ashok Kumar Singh (53), had opened an office in at Uday Park in Masjid Moth, South Delhi.

The police conducted a raid at their office and recovered more than 40 passports and fake certificates and arrested the duo on Thursday.

Man ends life

NEW DELHI: A 26-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance in his house at Narela in North-West Delhi on Saturday.

According to the police, Vijay Dahiya, a resident of Swatantra Nagar in Narela, was taken to near Maharishi Valmiki Hospital by his family members around 12-30 p.m. where he was declared brought dead.

Girl knocked down

NEW DELHI: An unidentified girl was knocked unconscious when a vehicle hit her near a flyover at Rajouri Garden in West Delhi on Saturday.

According to the police, a call was received around 8 p.m. that a girl had been thrown out of a moving car. The police, however, reached the spot and found that the girl was apparently crossing the road when the vehicle hit her after which she became unconscious.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Ministers, MLAs clash at meeting
Three held in income tax refund racket
A healing touch with a difference
Govt. assurance sought on no power tariff hike in future
Slums show the way
Govt. bid to tackle rising crime against women
AIIMS, IIT join hands for research in nano-technology
Notice to Dyal Singh principal
A clean sweep
Slums found to have better child sex ratio
Bishop breaks silence on St. Stephen's issue
Sheila writes to Sonia on power tussle in party
Around the City
Briefly
In the Capital Today

Copyright © 2005, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu