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Driver held with

stolen money

NEW DELHI: A driver, who had allegedly stolen Rs. 6 lakhs from the car of a person who had given him his car keys to fetch another set of keys, has been arrested by the New Delhi police.

According to the police, the accused Sanjay Chauhan was arrested when he was trying to flee along with the money, kept in a handbag, in his employer's car in Aadishwar Apartments Complex on Ferozeshah Road in New Delhi on Monday.

The police said Prabha Rani, an airhostess living in flat No. 304 of Aadishwar Apartments, had complained about some doors, which belonged to her house, lying in the neighbouring flat that usually remained vacant as the owner lived in the United States.

On Monday, the caretaker of flat No. 306, Randhir Singh Chaudhary, came there. Prabha brought the problem to his notice. Mr. Chaudhary agreed to open the flat to check out if the doors lying in the flat indeed belonged to the airhostess. He gave the keys of the car to Prabha's driver, Sanjay, to bring the keys for the flat.

Mr. Chaudhary was about to leave after sorting out the problem with Prabha when he realised that a handbag, in which Rs. 6 lakhs were kept, was missing from his car. The security guard told him that he saw Sanjay taking out a handbag. Constable Satish Malik, who had been present all along, managed to nab Sanjay before he could escape.

The handbag was also recovered from rear seat of Prabha's car in which he tried to flee.

Girl dead in mishap

New Delhi: A 10-year-old schoolgirl died after a pick-up van hit her in Nangloi area here on Tuesday, police said. Soni was returning home from school when the accident occurred at Nilothi Road, police said. The van driver, Shamim, has been arrested.

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