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Man allegedly kills his wife

NEW DELHI: A young man allegedly killed his wife and attempted suicide by taking poison at Nabi Karim in Central Delhi on Monday. While he has been admitted to hospital, two of his brothers have been arrested on charges of harassing the victim for dowry.

According to the police, it all happened on Monday evening when Tilak Raj allegedly stabbed his wife Rameshwari and then consumed some poisonous substance. They were both rushed to Lady Hardinge Medical College where Rameshwari was declared dead on arrival. Tilak Raj was kept under observation and is now stated to be out of danger.

On the basis of a complaint lodged by Rameshwari's relatives alleging that she was being harassed for dowry by her husband and in-laws, the police have registered a case of dowry death and arrested Tilak Raj's brothers, Man Singh and Ram Swarup. Tilak Raj has been named the prime accused in the case.

Four alleged auto-lifters held

NEW DELHI: The East Delhi police have arrested four persons allegedly involved in cases of auto-lifting. The police claim to have recovered five vehicles at their instance.

Acting on a tip-off, the Anti-Auto Theft Squad of the East Delhi police arrested the accused when they were travelling in a Maruti car in the Vivek Vihar area a few days ago. The four have been identified as Ram Kumar Gupta, Mukesh Pandey, Praveen and Bobby Chauhan. The police claim to have recovered a Tata Sumo Victa, a Mahendra Scorpio and two more Maruti cars from them.

The police said the accused used to work for Tej Singh Yadav and Subhash Yadav, both alleged auto-lifters based in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. Barring Praveen, all the other accused hailed from Morena and Gwalior. They used to visit Delhi frequently for stealing vehicles.

National TB Control Programme

NEW DELHI: Municipal Corporation of Delhi Standing Committee Chairman J. K. Sharma on Tuesday said the civic body would consider the demands of TB health visitors for revision of pay scales, promotional avenues and TB risk allowance.

"Justice would be done to the TB health visitors who are the backbone of the National TB Control Programme," he told a delegation of Delhi TB Health Visitors' Union who met him at Town Hall.

Mr. Sharma was informed that the TB health visitors working for other government organisations were getting higher scales. He assured them that he would get the matter examined.

Metro services affected

NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro train services on the Shahdara-Rithala Line 1 were affected for 20 minutes on Tuesday due to a signalling problem near Shastri Park.

According to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, the train services subsequently had to be regulated from 1-10 p.m. to 2-57 p.m. and this resulted in a delay of six trips in both directions.

Gandhi Jayanti Mela from tomorrow

NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi will organise its popular annual five-day "Gandhi Jayanti Mela" from September 28 where several government departments and non-government organisations will put up their stalls. Being organised at Roshnara Garden to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, an important feature of the event would be an "akhand charkha yajna" at the mela site.

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