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Nilgai creates panic

NEW DELHI: Panic gripped Saket here on Friday morning after a nilgai strayed into a residential complex. It took the Municipal Corporation of Delhi staff over two hours to overpower the wild animal.

Around 9-30 a.m., the police received a call claiming that a nilgai had been spotted in a Saket colony. Some police personnel reached the spot and were shocked to find the nilgai lurking about in the colony with the civic body staff in hot pursuit.

The animal was finally trapped after about two hours and handed over to Forest Department officials.

Minor girls assaulted

NEW DELHI: A 65-year-old retired head constable allegedly criminally assaulted two minor girls at Mongolpuri in North-West Delhi on Wednesday. The accused is yet to be arrested.

It is learnt that the fathers of the two victims lodged complaints with the Mongolpuri police alleging that their neighbour, Badan Singh, criminally assaulted them. It is learnt that the accused is a retired head constable. According to the police, the victims were taken to hospital for medical examination that confirmed that they had been raped.

Man arrested

NEW DELHI: A 42-year-old man was arrested at Chanakyapuri here on Friday on the charge of molesting a three-year-old girl. The arrest took place after some local residents allegedly found Leela Dhar, who worked as a security guard at a guest house on Sardar Patel Marg, molesting the victim. They overpowered him and handed him over to the local police.

Sanskrit Festival

NEW DELHI: In an attempt to popularise and promote Sanskrit among students, Delhi Public School at Indirapuram near here organised the first Inter-DPS Sanskrit Festival on Monday in which 14 schools participated.

The programme started with a welcome song in Sanskrit, followed by dance performance based on Mahalakshmi Stuti. DPS Indirapuram students also staged a Sanskrit play to promote harmony with nature.

DPS Society chairman Narendra Kumar lauded the fact that children were being exposed to various languages.

Japanese grant

NEW DELHI: The Embassy of Japan has decided to extend grant assistance totalling Rs. 48 lakhs to two non-government organisations under its "Grant Assistance for Grassroots Projects" scheme.

The two NGOs -- Aravali Education Society and Global Cancer Concern India -- are providing vocational training and undertaking healthcare projects in different parts of the country respectively.

Aravali Education Society provides quality education, including vocational training, to rural and backward minorities in the Mewat district of Haryana, while Global Cancer Concern India organises cancer-screening programmes in the slum and rural areas of Delhi and neighbouring Gurgaon.

Remand extended

NEW DELHI: A city court on Friday extended the police remand of the key accused in phone tapping case, Vijay Dhawan, by two days after the Delhi police claimed to have made some crucial recoveries.

The police claimed to have seized some SIM cards, blank papers with fake signatures and trace papers which Vijay had allegedly used in forging the letters of Principal Secretary (Home), R. Narayanswami, and Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Ranjit Narayan, to get "sanction" for tapping the phone of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh.

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