Body of elderly woman found from bushes
Dehradun: A decomposed body of a 35–year-old woman was recovered from amidst bushes from Kuthal Gate near Shiv Temple area on Mussoorie Road under Rajpur Police Station on Thursday. The body is unidentified. Police said she might have died a week ago. It was sent for postmortem, said Rajpur Police Station officer.
Burglary case: Four held
Dehradun: Dehradun police have claimed to have solved armed burglary case by arresting four criminals and recovered the stolen car aside from .315 bore pistol and stamp paper from their possession. The accused were identified as Yogendra Singh, Dalbendra Singh, Ankur Malik and Dushyant, natives of Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh), said SP City Ajay Singh on Thursday.
lakshmi Chandra, resident of Turner Road, reported a complaint, stating that four armed persons had barged into his home on Wednesday evening and confined him and his son and daughter in separate rooms. The criminals had asked lakshmi Chandra to put his signature in a stamp paper at gun point by which his hotel located at Shimla Bypass would be transferred in the name of the accused. The criminals took away his car, threatening him of dire consequences if he disclosed the matter to anyone, including police. Acting on the complaint, a case under sections 342/385/392/452/506 of IPC was registered against unidentified persons in Clement Town police Station on Thursday. SSP Pushpak Jyoti formed a team consisting of Clement Town Police Station in-charge Manibhushan Srivastava, sub-inspector Dinesh Kumar, head constable Sanjay Mehrotra and constable Harendra Singh. They were deployed at various places to nab the accused. Tipped that the same criminals were moving towards Saharanpur, police conducted a vehicle checking drives at Asharodi and arrested them.
SP to field its candidates for Panchayat polls
Dehradun: Samajwadi Party will field its candidates in the forthcoming three tier-Panchayat election slated in November in Haridwar. The party would soon declare the list of candidates for the rural polls. The party has appointed Durgesh Pratap Singh, state general secretary, as in-charge of Haridwar district and Tofik Ahmed as party spokesperson. Rashid Rana, Chandshekhar Yadav and others have been given responsibility for this election, said Dr Satya Narayan Sachan, SP State president while interacting with media persons on Thursday.
Mobile services disrupted, thousands suffer
Dehradun: Thousands of subscribers across in Udham Singh Nagar district are suffering as the mobile services are being disrupted due to intentional damage done to mobile tower sites. Things are grim in Rudrapur. The High Court by way of a writ petition had ordered theState Government agencies, including police, to provide protection to the telecom sites at Udham Singh Nagar. Despite the High Court order, telecom tower sites remain vulnerable to miscreants that results in outages in mobile connectivity. S Majumdar, head, corporate communication VIOM network, said that the state government should protect the valuable telecom assets.