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NEW DELHI: Indian Justice Party president Udit Raj along with Communist Party of India leader D. Raja and socialist leader Surendra Mohan among others held a protest demonstration at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences on Wednesday against alleged burning of books and other writings of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar at the Institute by some medical students in the past.

In a statement, Dr. Raj said the anti-reservation supporters at AIIMS "have burnt copies of books and writings of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, which is a most shameful act. It is under the overall guidance of the AIIMS director that the anti-reservation stir was started by a handful of doctors. Ever since then, doctors belonging to the backward classes are being harassed, humiliated and discriminated by the upper caste doctors".

"Neither the AIIMS administration nor the Central Government has taken any steps to stop the onslaught of discrimination and ill-treatment against Dalit medical students," he added.

Mr. Raja said if 15 per cent of the upper caste people continued to discriminate against people from the reserved category, a situation could come when these people would retaliate.

Pharmacist, aide held

NEW DELHI: A pharmacist with Babu Jagjiwan Ram Memorial (BJRM) Hospital and his associate have been arrested by the Crime Branch of the Delhi police for allegedly selling government medicines to private parties. The police claim to have recovered pilfered government medicines worth Rs.5 lakhs that the prime accused had allegedly sold for only Rs.40,000.

Acting on a tip-off, a Crime Branch team had arrested one Pradeep Kumar Gupta near BJRM Hospital on September 28. The police recovered four cartons and two bags of government medicines from the car he was driving. The car was also seized. At his instance, the police arrested Bharat Bhushan Mittal, the pharmacist at BJRM.

During interrogation, the accused allegedly confessed to having been involved in the dubious trade for the past four years. Pradeep would procure medicines from Bharat Bhushan and pass them on to one Anwar of Amroha and Dhirubhai Sharma of Kandhla in Uttar Pradesh. His son also ran a medicine shop at Bhajanpura in North-East Delhi. The police are also probing the role of hospital authorities in allowing the medicines to be sold in the open market.

Four get lifer

New Delhi: A Delhi court has sentenced four persons to life imprisonment in a case of double murder committed four years ago and ordered prosecution of two witnesses who had turned hostile during the trial.

Holding that the proved circumstances make a complete chain leading to irresistible conclusion of guilt of the accused persons, Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar convicted them for murdering a man, alleged kingpin of a prostitution racket, in Lajpat Nagar in south Delhi.

A woman, who was staying with him was also killed by the convicts -- Joginder Singh, Ramnath, Gulzar and Manjeet Nagar -- all residents of Ghaziabad and Noida.

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