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It was an accident, says Maninder

NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer Maninder Singh, who was admitted to hospital this past weekend with mysterious cuts on his wrists, told the police on Monday that he had sustained the injuries by accident.

Maninder was shifted out of the Intensive Care Unit on Monday morning after his condition improved. In his statement to the police, he said he returned home late on Friday night and knocked at the door. When he did not get any response, he went to the balcony and banged on the glass window to wake up his family. As a result, the window was shattered, causing cut injuries on his wrists.

Businessman found dead in car

NEW DELHI: A 31-year-old businessman was found dead inside his car under highly mysterious circumstances at Rajouri Garden here on Monday.

The police received a phone call around 7-30 a.m. saying that a man, later identified as Harpreet Singh, was lying unconscious in a car near Milap Chowk in Subhash Nagar. Blood was oozing from his nose and mouth. The police took him to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead.

Preliminary investigations indicated that Harpreet had an extra-marital affair and thus had strained relations with his wife. "Harpreet had called up his wife around 10 p.m. on Sunday and told her that he would reach home soon and then made another call probably to his paramour," said a police officer.

Tihar inmate dies

NEW DELHI: A 27-year-old convict in an attempt-to-murder case died in Tihar Central Jail here on Monday. It was the fourth death in the jail in the past five days.

According to the police, Ajay had high fever and was admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (DDU) Hospital in the early hours on Monday. He died later.

Ajay was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in an attempt-to-murder case registered at the Najafgarh police station.

Four arrested

NEW DELHI: Four persons, including two employees of the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), have been arrested by the Special Staff of the North Delhi police on charges of pilfering and selling medicines meant only for distribution through the CGHS. The police claim to have recovered a big consignment of medicines from the accused.

Acting on a tip-off that two persons were selling medicines meant only for CGHS in the open market, a Special Staff team laid a trap and arrested them last week. The two were identified as Maya Ram and Lal Chand. On their disclosure they arrested two more persons.

Post office robbery

NEW DELHI: Three men allegedly made off with about Rs. 90,000 from Gole Dak Khana here in the early hours of Monday after drugging two employees.

According to the post office staff, Pratap Singh and Ramesh Kumar were on duty at the Speed Post counter when three men approached them around 1-30 a.m. They offered them drinks following which the two men on duty fell unconscious. The visitors then vanished with the cash kept in the counter.

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