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Saturday, Jun 24, 2006

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French company offers to run MCD toilets

New Delhi: A French multinational company has approached the MCD to run its close to 2000 public lavatories in the Capital.

The proposal by the French company follows MCD's decision to scrap its agreement with Sulabh International for running the toilets after complaints of poor management of the lavatories by the NGO.

As per the arrangement being worked on, the MCD would hand over to the international company the rights for the advertisements to be placed on them, sources said.

In return, the French company would be in charge of maintenance of the toilets and people would get to use them free of cost, they said.

Meanwhile, a Swiss company is also understood to have approached the MCD for running the lavatories.

S-I arrested

NEW DELHI: A sub-inspector posted with the Sultanpuri police station has been arrested near Ambedkar Hospital by the Anti-Corruption Branch of the State Government for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs. 25,000 from a woman. He was allegedly threatening to arrest the victim in a case.

The Anti-Corruption Branch received a complaint from one Veermati alleging that Sub-Inspector Rajender Singh was threatening to arrest her in a case of property dispute in which the police had already arrested her husband and a property dealer through whom she had bought the land. Rajender was allegedly demanding Rs. 50,000 from her to not arrest her.

Acting on the complaint, the Anti-Corruption Branch sleuths laid a trap near Ambedkar Hospital on Thursday and arrested the accused when he was accepting a part of the bribe amount from Veermati.

Minor fire at AIIMS

NEW DELHI: A minor fire broke out at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here in the early hours of Friday. No one was reported injured.

According to the police, the fire broke out around 1 a.m. in the X-ray Department of Neurology Section apparently due to an electric short circuit. Fifteen fire tenders were pressed into service and the blaze was brought under control within three hours. Expensive medical equipments were destroyed in the fire. The police have initiated a probe.

Drug peddlers nabbed

NEW DELHI: Three alleged drug peddlers have been arrested at Kamla Market by the Special Staff of the Central Delhi police. The police claim to have recovered 100 gm of smack from them.

The accused have been identified as Rasul Sheikh, Kalim and Manir. During interrogation, Rasul Sheikh, a resident of Murshidabad in West Bengal, allegedly revealed that he used to procure the drugs from Lucknow. Kalim and Manir allegedly bought smack from one Aslam, who is at large.

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