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Monday, Feb 13, 2006

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New Delhi

Around the City

Hoax calls forces evacuation

NEW DELHI: Hundreds of people were evacuated from a prominent Gurgaon mall and searches were conducted in three other malls as well on Sunday following a Short-Service-Message (SMS) to the Haryana Director General of Police about a bomb having been planted there. The SMS was declared "bogus'' after no explosives were found during the five-hour search.

It has been learnt that around 5-30 p.m. the Haryana DGP received an SMS claiming that a bomb would explode in Metropolitan Mall in Gurgaon. Immediately, the local police were directed to rush to the place and evacuate the premises. The police urged the mall owner to help evacuate the Sunday crowd.

While all the mall staff and the visitors were evacuated from the premises, the dog squad of the Haryana police reached there and began combing the place. Soon, about two dozen NSG commandos also arrived at the spot from the Samalkha base with the bomb detection and disposal gadgets. As a precautionary measure, the security personnel also carried out searches in the nearby Citi Centre, Sahara and Mega malls. The search operation went on till 10 p.m. but no explosives were found in any of the malls.

One injured in

godown fire

NEW DELHI: A person sustained burn injures after a fire broke out in a thinner godown allegedly operating illegally at Samaipur Badli in North-West Delhi on Sunday.

According to the Fire Department, the incident occurred around 8 p.m. when the thinner stocked in a private building caught fire. At least 10 fire tenders were pressed into action and the blaze was brought under control within one-hand-half hours.

Proposal for school

in Tihar jail

NEW DELHI: ``Education for all'' seems to be the latest buzzword in Tihar jail.

In a bid to make the jail an institution for reform, Tihar jail authorities have proposed to make learning mandatory for inmates. It has sent a proposal to the Delhi Government to set up a school inside the jail, facilitating the inmates to resume their education. ``Education will be mandatory for the inmates between the age group of 18-21 years. They will be admitted in the school, if it materialises, and will continue their study,'' law officer of the jail Sunil Kumar said.

Vikas Yadav denied bail

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has declined to grant any interim bail to Vikas Yadav, son of former Samajwadi Party MP D P Yadav and prime accused in the Nitish Katara murder case.

Justice S K Agarwal, however, asked the Delhi Government to furnish within two weeks all details pertaining to the efforts made for the production of Vikas's sister and key witness Bharati Yadav who is now said to be in the United States.

Compensation

NEW DELHI: Nearly two years after he was severely crippled when the motorcycle he was riding was knocked and dragged along the road by a truck, a 28-year-old man has settled for an amount of Rs nine lakh as compensation from the insurer.

The claim petition was settled by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal on February 10, when petitioner Irfan Ali agreed to accept the amount from Oriental Insurance, the underwriters for the truck.

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