Month: February 2013

Another person died of swine flu today in the national capital and 34 new cases have been detected with the deadly H1N1 virus, taking the total number of cases this season to 834.

The person, who was admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya hospital in a critical condition, succumbed to swine flu
today, doctors said.

With the death, the number of people succumbing to the virus went up to 12 this season.

According to hospital sources, 34 fresh cases were reported today.

Delhi government has designated 23 hospitals in the city for treatment of the ailment.

Sheikh Moktar, one of the accused in the sub inspector killing case in violence in Garden Reach area in south-west part of city on February 12, was arrested this evening, a senior CID official said.

We have arrested Sheikh Moktar from Howrah station area this evening. He was apprehended with one of his associates.

He will be brought to the CID headquaters and interrogated,”IG CID Vineet Goyal told PTI.

Kolkata Police Sub-Inspector Tapas Choudhury was killed during violence between Congress and Trinamool
supporters near a college in Garden Reach on February 12.

A Delhi court today directed DCP Crime Branch to appear before it in connection with a plea seeking registration of an FIR against city Transport Minister and others alleging that the December 16 gangrape incident had occurred due to their “corrupt” activities.

DCP Crime Branch is directed to take required action and appear in the court on February 27,” Special Judge Sangita
Dhingra Sehgal said.

The court passed the order displeased with three different reports furnished before it regarding the status of the
complaint made by RTI activist Vivek Garg.

Some unidentified persons today hurled a crude bomb outside the office of the Deputy Commissioner-cum-Returning Officer of Nagaland’s Phek district, where sealed EVMs were stored in a strong room for counting of polls on Thursday.

Phek SP Deepali R Masirkar said the crude bomb was hurled from the main road towards the DC’s office at Phek but the
blast did not cause any damage.

She said the strong-room where the EVMs from five constituencies were stored was safe as the bomb was hurled on
the opposite end.

No arrest has been made so far, Masirkar said.

A former branch manager of Central Bank of India and three others were sentenced to three years in jail by a Special CBI Court here today.

The former branch manager R S Ayer, working in the Bank’s Shahpura Branch, had disbursed housing loans worth Rs 51.77
lakh in a dubious manner in connivance with four private persons, CBI sources said.

After getting a complaint in this regard, CBI registered a case against Ayer and others on March 21, 2001, for
fraudulently sanctioning housing loan worth Rs 51.77 lakh.

A Superintendent of Land Records Office was today caught red-handed by Lokayukta Police while accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000.

Acting on a tip-off, Lokayukta Police caught the superintendent, L J Ahirwar, while he was accepting Rs 10,000
from Suresh Jaiswal for making amendments in the map of a land, official sources said.

Ahirwar was subsequently arrested and a case under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act was
registered against him, they said.

The Land-Records Office is situated in the district Collectorate premises.

In the first major attack on Army personnel this year in Manipur, insurgents today exploded a powerful remote-controlled bomb, killing one jawan and injuring three others in interior Churachandpur district.

The banned Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) claimed responsibility of the attack, officials said.

The bomb, attached to a roadside culvert, went off at about 6.40 am when personnel of Gorkha Rifles were on patrol
duty in the area. A sniffer dog of the army was also killed in the blast, they said.

A youth was arrested in connection with the alleged murder of his neighbourhood couple at Neemkheda area here, apparently over an old dispute, police said today.

The victims are identified as Jitendra Dixit and his wife Laxmi, they said.

Police said the victims were stabbed and clubbed to death allegedly by the son of their neighbour, along with his
accomplice, while they were taking a walk last night outside their house.

After initial probe police stumbled upon the dispute the victims were having with their neighbour and subsequently
picked up the suspect.

A gram panchayat secretary was held by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for allegedly accepting a bribe, a press release said.

M C T V S Suguneswara Rao Patnaik, panchayat secretary of K Kotapadu gram panchyat in Visakhapatnam district was
caught red-handed by the ACB at the complainant’s house when he accepted a bribe of Rs 15,000 for issuance of a death
certificate.

The accused officer would be arrested and produced before the Special Judge for ACB cases at Visakhapatnam, ACB
release said.

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A youth, who had shot dead an alleged sex worker as she was an obstacle in his love life with another sex worker, was today sent to seven days’ police custody by a Delhi court.

Metropolitan Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal remanded accused Munshi Ram, 25, to Delhi Police custody till March 4 for
taking him to Saharsa in Bihar to find out source of the weapon used in the crime.

Police sought Ram’s custody saying he had bought a country-made pistol from Bihar to kill the deceased woman whom