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One arrested in cheating case

NEW DELHI: A 53-year-old Prasar Bharati employee who allegedly cheated unemployed men of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of providing them jobs has been arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch.

According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (EOW) Prabhakar, the police received a complaint from Vijay Kumar alleging that he and his friends were cheated of Rs. 7.5 lakhs by Anil Kumar Dhawan, who worked as an assistant with Prasar Bharati. The accused had taken money promising them jobs as lower division clerk, computer assistant and peon in Prasar Bharati. The accused also gave them receipts against the payment. Later, he supplied them appointment letters and I-cards, asking them to join their duties. However, when they went to Prasar Bharati they were told that no such recruitment had been done. Acting on the complaint, the police registered a case and arrested Anil from his residence on Monday.

During interrogation, he allegedly revealed that he took Rs. 2 lakhs for the post of computer operator, Rs. 1.50 lakhs for LDC and Rs. 1 lakh for peon.

Sealing drive continues

NEW DELHI: Squads of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Thursday sealed more than 300 illegal shops in various civic zones across the city.The squads carried out sealing exercise in seven zones -- Civil Lines (65 shops sealed), Central (45), West (38), Shahdara-South (22), Rohini (18), Shahdara-North (14) and Karol Bagh (2). The areas and roads covered during the drive included Timarpur, Burari, Nathupura, Govindpuri, Barbala village, Pandav Nagar, Janakpuri, Najafgarh, G.T. Karnal Road, Ravi Das Marg and Loni Road. The civic body officials also de-sealed around 200 shops in seven zones.

Similarly, the civic body's demolition squads razed around two-dozen illegal structures at Aya Nagar Extension and Gulmohar Enclave in the South zone besides taking action in the Saraswati Vihar and Deepali areas in the Rohini zone. Major demolition exercise was also carried out in the posh M-block market in Greater Kailash-I.

In Rohini, the MCD officials cleared several encroachments from government land in Sector-15 besides pulling down two under-construction buildings.

"Candidates should be scrutinised"

NEW DELHI: The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) on Wednesday called for careful scrutiny of the candidates standing for elections to the United Nations newly constituted United Nations Human Rights Council to ensure that countries with a record of human rights violations are not elected to the body.

`Intervene in Budhia case'

NEW DELHI: The Asian Centre for Human Rights has urged the National Human Rights Commission to intervene against endangering the life of four-and-a-half- year-old Master Budhia Singh who ran 65 km from Puri to Bhubaneshwar on Tuesday.

The ACHR urged the NHRC to direct the Orissa Government to register an FIR against Sports Minister Debashish Nayak, Member of Parliament Archana Nayak, and Additional Director-General of the Central Reserve Police Force B. S. Gill, Police Chief of Puri Range Sanjeev Panda, Bhudia Singh's coach Biranchi Das and 50 other CRPF jawans who accompanied the boy during the marathon for endangering the life and safety of the boy.

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