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Eye donor families felicitated

NEW DELHI: The 21st National Eye Donation Fortnight organised to felicitate eye donor families culminated at Venu Eye Institute and Research Centre (VEIRC) here over the weekend.

Venu Charitable Society president Supriya Gupta thanked all the donor families for being attentive to the cause of eye donation even during their time of grief and bereavement.

Traders challenge RWAs' recommendation

NEW DELHI: Delhi traders have challenged the residents' welfare associations' recommendation to the Government to close down business establishments operating in residential areas of the Capital, particularly in A and B category colonies.

At a meeting here under the Confederation of All-India Traders banner, they lamented that putting the traders at the mercy of the RWAs was a blatant violation of the rights guaranteed under the Constitution.

President for Kannada conference appointed

NEW DELHI: National Human Rights Commission member and former Supreme Court judge Justice S.V. Patil has been appointed president of the 10th All-India Kannada Literary and Cultural Conference to be held in Mumbai on December 2 and 3.

Announcing this at a function here over the weekend, M.B. Samaga, convenor of the conference, said the All-India Kannada Literary and Cultural Conference would be organised by Dehali Kannadiga, a Kannada monthly published from Delhi.

Convicted in dowry death case

New Delhi: A Delhi Court on Tuesday sentenced a woman and her son to seven years' rigorous imprisonment for driving her daughter-in-law to commit suicide for bringing insufficient dowry. Finding both Shashi Chawla and her son Vishal Chawla guilty under Sections 304 B (dowry death) and 498 A (husband and relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) of the IPC, Additional Sessions Judge O.P. Gupta, however, acquitted her daughter Rakhi. A case against all the three was registered on August 6, 2002 a day after the suicide of Sonia Chawla, based on the statement of her mother Usha Rani, a resident of Hari Nagar. Sonia's mother had alleged that her 28-year-old daughter, married to Vishal in May 1997, was often tortured by her in-laws.

RI for armed robbery

New Delhi: A city court on Tuesday sentenced one Mohammed Wakil to seven years' rigorous imprisonment for committing an armed robbery in broad daylight 15 years ago. Additional Sessions Judge Rajiv Mehra also imposed a fine of Rs 2,500 on Wakil. The court found the convict guilty of offences under sections 392 (robbery), 397 (robbery or dacoity with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) of the IPC.

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