traders, leaders stage dharna
Angered over the deteriorated law and order situation which has rattled the city, leaders of the traders’ organisation and political parties came on roads, jammed traffic, took out processions and staged dharna at the police office and also on Ambedkar Road. A jeweller was robbed late on Sunday, which triggered the strike. The city unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged an indefinite dharna at the police office. The jewellers’ association has announced its support to the striking BJP leaders. Jewellers’ association leader Rajiv Sharma said the jewellers in the city are the soft target of the robbers. late on Sunday night, unidentified armed robbers shot at the city’s prestigious jeweller Gaurav Garg of Deepali
Jewellers and looted cash, jewellery, scooter worth several lakhs from him. At about 10.00 pm, when the trader was leaving for home on his scooter , five robbers in a car hit Gaurav’s scooter from the front and fired indiscriminately at him. The robbers snatched his bag containing about 35 gold rings and other precious jewellery worth lakhs and fled the spot with the scooter. He was rushed to the local Yashoda Hospital where doctors declared his condition stable. He sustained three bullet injuries and is admitted to the ICU.
Cop’s son held for molesting labourer’s wife
A 24-year-old youth, son of a Head Constable of the Delhi Police, was arrested for allegedly molesting a woman inside the Police Colony in Model Town area of North-West Delhi. Preliminary investigation revealed that the victim is wife of a labourer and she, along with her husband, was working in the area since 15 days. The accused was stalking her and also molested her in several occasions. Police said that the accused has been identified as Sher Singh, who stays with his parents in Police Colony. “The incident came to light late on Saturday night when the victim made a call to the police control room and informed that a youth barged into her house and molested her,” a senior police officer said, adding that when the victim screamed, the accused fled.After receiving the PCR call, police rushed to the spot and the victim’s statement was recorded. On the basis of the victim’s statement, a case was registered under
Sections 354 (I), (II) and 451 of Indian Penal Code at Model Town Police Station of North-West Delhi. “After molesting the victim, Singh managed to escape from the spot but later, with the help of technical surveillances, police traced him and he was arrested,” the officer added.
Illicit liquor takes the bait: 12 more cartons seized
In order to check the sale and consumption of liquor in the coming Assembly elections, the West district police have been keeping a strict vigil and have seized 12 cartons of liquor from different areas. On Sunday, the West district police had seized 149 cartons of liquor. Another incident was reported from Khayala area on Sunday evening. Acting on information received about liquor being kept at a house in Vishnu Garden. The police team immediately raided the residence which belonged to Gurdeep Singh (25). The police recovered four cartons of Royal Stag whisky and also arrested Gurdeep. Since the sale of liquor is curbed 48 hours before the polling day, people in huge quantity keep the liquor at their residences for sale and consumption during the polling time. Delhi Police recovered 5,000 full bottles, 1,400 half bottles, 60,000 quarts of countrymade liquor and 2,800 bottles of Indian Made Foreign liquor till Monday. The police have also seized 70 weapons, 85 cartridges and 1,623 licenced arms. This year only eight cases of poll related violence have been registered. These cases are being investigated and the challans will be filed once the election process is over, said a Delhi Police officer.