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Two arrested for murders in Bihar

NEW DELHI: Two persons working as private security guards in Delhi and wanted by the Bihar police in a double murder case have been arrested by the South West Delhi police. The accused, Rajender Mishra and Gopal Mishra, both residents of Munger district of Bihar, were wanted by the Kotwali police of their district for their suspected involvement in a case of double murder.

The police said the accused were caught in possession of two self-activated knives on Wednesday while they were standing at the Dhaula Kuan bus stand here. As a search of the two led to the recovery of knives they were booked under the Arms Act at the Delhi Cantonment police station.

During sustained interrogation by the police they allegedly disclosed that in 2002 they had along with their accomplices attacked and killed two brothers, Sunil Mishra and Chander Shekhar Mishra, in their village. Both the victims had been shot dead in broad daylight.

As per the version provided by the accused, the police said, the murders were committed over a land dispute. After the crime, Gopal Mishra had left his village and settled in Delhi. He had also started working as a private security guard. As for Rajender Mishra, he was arrested by the Bihar police in this case but after some time he jumped bail and was declared a proclaimed offender. And ironically he too had started working as a private security guard after coming to Delhi.

Demolition drive begins

NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Thursday carried out demolition drives at two places in the Capital targeting ongoing unauthorised constructions. At Maya Enclave in West Delhi, Shiromani Akali Dal Councillor from Pratap Nagar Onkar Singh Thapar along with his supporters tried to resist the drive.

The civic body bulldozers targeted ongoing illegal constructions in at least three industrial plots on Rama Road in Karol Bagh, while illegal structures and encroachments on public land were demolished at Maya Enclave in the West zone.

Though residents and property owners alleged that the civic body was demolishing old structures and violating the new Act grating one-year moratorium on sealing and demolition drives, senior MCD officials said the city-wide drive is being carried out against ongoing illegal constructions.

At Maya Enclave, Mr. Thapar and his supporters were stopped by the police from disrupting the demolition drive. He later courted arrest in protest. "Under pressure from court commissioners, the MCD was illegally targeting old buildings," the Councillor alleged.

`Amend Act'

NEW DELHI: Bhartiya Patita Uddhar Sabha president Khairati Lal Bhola has demanded deletion of certain sections from the proposed amendments to the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act (ITPA).

In a statement, Mr. Bhola said Section 8 of ITPA that allows the police to book a sex worker on charges of seducing or soliciting customers in public places and Section 20 that relates to the removal of a sex worker from "any place" should be removed. He said his organisation was also against insertion of a new Section 5C which would for the first time punish a client visiting or found in a brothel for the purpose of sexual exploitation.

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