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CIPA now in North Delhi

NEW DELHI: Police Commissioner K.K Paul inaugurated the Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) in North Delhi on Wednesday. All the 13 police stations of the district have been connected to the system that facilitates computerised registration of First Information Report (FIR).

CIPA, which was first install in New Delhi district, provides easy and quick access to information pertaining to investigations into all the cases, apart from developing a big database on profiles of criminals and their modus operandi. Through Wide Area Networking, the system would like all the police stations cross the Capital for smooth police functioning.

Journalists assaulted

NEW DELHI: A photographer and a journalist of a national Hindi daily were roughed up allegedly by Delhi Bar Association (DBA) members at Rohini district courts premises in North-West Delhi after the Rohini Bar Association (RBA) members decided to join work on Wednesday.

The incident took place around 11 a.m. It is alleged that a number of DBA members arrived there and roughed up RBA general secretary S.P. Sharma and eight of his colleagues.

The DBA members allegedly snatched the camera of a photographer of a Hindi daily took away its SIM-card. A journalist of the same publication who objected to it was also allegedly roughed up.

New NTPC directors

NEW DELHI: Prof. Ashok Misra, Director IIT Mumbai, Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Director-General of The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, M.I. Beg, former Chairman of the Central Electricity Authority, and G.P. Gupta, former Managing Director of IDBI, have been appointed independent directors of the Board of NTPC Limited, according to an official announcement here.

`Godhuli' organised

NEW DELHI: The South-West Delhi police and the Vasant Kunj branch of Delhi Public School organised a senior citizens' welfare project "Godhuli" on Tuesday.

About 100 senior citizens attended the meeting in which some of them shared their experiences about their interaction with students who frequent their residence to give them company and listen to their problems.

Constable held

NEW DELHI: A Delhi Police constable and a tout of the Delhi Transport Authority have been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch of the State Government on charges of demanding and accepting bribe.

On Tuesday, the Anti-Corruption Branch received a complaint from Rajesh Chauhan, a resident of Najafgarh in South-West Delhi, alleging that Constable Ravi Dutt Bhardwaj had been demanding Rs. 1,000 to not to arrest him in a case in which a compromise had already been reached at between both parties.

Subsequently, the same day the Anti-Corruption Branch personnel laid a trap and arrested Ravi while he was accepting the bribe amount. In another case, Shanti Prasad was arrested for accepting a bribe of Rs. 500 from one Sanjay Pratap to renew his driving licence.

Auto-lifters nabbed

NEW DELHI: Two alleged auto-lifters have been arrested by the Najafgarh police of South-West Delhi. Three stolen motorcycles were recovered at their instance.

According to the police, the accused, Pramod and Ravinder, were involved in at least seven cases of auto-lifting. During interrogation, they allegedly revealed that they stole vehicles from Najafgarh, Nangloi, Tilak Nagar, Janakpuri and Gurgaon in Haryana.

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