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Engineer held in dowry death case

NEW DELHI: A 26-year-old software engineer was arrested at Indraprastha Extension here on Tuesday in a suspected dowry death case.

Twentyfour-year-old Ruchika, who was married to Atul Joshi in December 2005, was found hanging from the ceiling fan at her Friends Apartments flat on Monday morning. Her parents alleged that she was being harassed by her in-laws for dowry. Following the allegation, a case of dowry death has been registered. Ruchika was a teacher at Lovely Public School in Laxmi Nagar.

Two held for fraud

NEW DELHI: Two young men have been arrested by the Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi police for allegedly running bogus mailing companies and committing a fraud of over Rs. 20 lakh.

Krishan Kanahiya Noorie (31) and Anil Deswal (33) together launched a mailing company, Star Mailing Solutions, and earned a contract from DLF Universal Limited to dispatch letters to their shareholders for a debenture issue on December 23, 2005. But the letters were never posted and they claimed charges by issuing fake acknowledgment receipts and stamp impressions. Similarly, another company, Sunshine Mailing Services, was floated and a contract to mail admission cards for Basic Teacher Certificate (BTC) Entrance Examination-2006 conducted by the Uttaranchal Government was grabbed. The accused adopted a similar modus operandi and allegedly committed fraud. Following a complaint at the Sarojini Nagar police station regarding the earlier case of DLF, investigations were conducted and the accused arrested.

`Criminal' nabbed

NEW DELHI: A 24-year-old alleged criminal has been arrested by the police at Yamuna Pushta here with five country-made pistols.

Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested Mohammad Islam of Muzaffarnagar in U.P. when he was standing near the electric crematorium to deliver the consignment to a customer.

During interrogation, Mohammad purportedly confessed to having delivered illegal firearms and ammunition to one Ravi several times. Mohammad, a school dropout, earlier worked as a labourer.

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