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Wednesday, Feb 01, 2006

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Couple killed in house fire

NEW DELHI: A young man and his wife were killed in a fire that broke out in their house at Timarpur in North Delhi on Monday night.

The police said the incident took place in the multi-storey government flats. The victims, Naresh Dahiya and his wife, Sugand, used to live in a flat which had been allotted to the former's father.

As the fire broke out near the entrance, both of them got trapped and sustained serious burns. While Naresh was killed on the spot, Sugand, who was also in her later 1920's and a teacher in a Municipal Corporation of Delhi school, succumbed to her burns in LNJP Hospital.

Two married women commit suicide

NEW DELHI: Two married women in their 20's and having troubled married life allegedly committed suicide in different parts of the Capital on Tuesday.

In the first incident, 26-year-old Amarjit Kaur, who had been married to a bank peon Gunwant Singh, for the past two and a half years, was found burnt at her Tilak Vihar residence in West Delhi. She was taken to a hospital, where the doctors declared her brought dead. Amarjit has left behind a one-and a half year old child and the area Sub Divisional Magistrate is conducting a probe into the incident.

In the other incident, 27-year-old Sarika Kataria, who had been married to Vipul Kataria two-and-a-half years ago, allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a fan at her parent's home in Q-Block of Pitampura in West Delhi.

The police said Sarika had a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and had been living separately from her husband for the past six months. She left behind two suicide notes -- of which one appeared to be old and the other was freshly written. In the fresh note she held her husband and in-laws responsible for her death.

Inter-State train robbers gang smashed

New Delhi: With the arrest of two persons, police on Tuesday claimed to have smashed a gang of inter-State train robbers allegedly involved in looting passengers of Shaheed Express between Panipat and Delhi.

One Deepak (20) and one Manjit (19) were arrested a team of Railway Police and Railway Protection Force as they alighted from the Shaheed Express at the Subzi Mandi station on Monday, police said.

The duo had allegedly robbed passengers of the train of cash and valuables, they said.

On interrogation they admitted to have been looting passengers on the same train for the past fortnight, police said.

Boy drowned

NEW DELHI: A two-year-old boy drowned after he fell into a sewer in Najafgarh in South West Delhi on Tuesday night.

The police said the boy, Ashish, had ventured out of his house and accidentally fallen into the open sewer main. By the time he was fished out, the boy had died.

Young man stabbed

NEW DELHI: A youth was stabbed by some of his acquaintances following an altercation in the Sriniwaspuri area of South Delhi on Tuesday.

The police said the culprits, who numbered around four, had gone to Sushant's residence to meet him. There they stabbed Sushant following a bitter argument over some issue.

Sushant, whose father is a radio operator in Noida police, was later taken to All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where his condition was stated to be serious.

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