AI chief engineer, wife stabbed in Gurgaon
Trying to burgle a house in Gurgaon’s upscale Sector 43, six armed men stabbed Air India’s chief engineer and his wife early on Saturday morning. Police said the victims, identified as Kapil Tiwari (43) and Kavita Tiwari (45), have received multiple stab wounds on the chest and abdomen. They were rushed to Artemis Hospital where Kapil’s condition is stated to be critical. He is in the ICU. According to DCP East Nazneen Bhashin, robbers struck the Tiwaris’ residence around 4 am by sawing through the rear grille gate. The Tiwaris and their two children were asleep when the purported attack happened. The robbers demanded keys to the closet. On being denied by the house owners, they broke the door down and decamped with cash and jewellery, the estimated value of which is as yet unknown. The accused also had their face covered with balaclavas and could not be identified by the family. No forensic evidence was supposedly left behind since their hands were gloved.
help held for ‘harassing’ employer’s wife
A 20-year-old domestic help was arrested for allegedly harassing, stalking and threatening his employer’s wife over phone in South Delhi’s Safdarjung Enclave area. Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused was abusing the victim over phone for the last 25 days and threatened her of dire consequences, if she informed police about this matter. Police said that the accused, Sunil Yadav, native of Azamgarh, was working with his Delhi-based financer in Safdarjung Enclave area for the two years. “The arrest was made on Saturday evening following the complaint of his employer in Safdarjung Enclave police station,” the officer added. During interrogation, the accused told the police that he had asked his employer to give him the loan of Rs 25,000, but they only gave Rs 12,000 to him. Unhappy with this, he first purchased a new SIM card after submitting forged documents and started harassing her.
Day II: Delhi Police grills Vijay Jolly
Delhi Police on Friday questioned Delhi BJP leader Vijay Jolly for the second consecutive day at Saket police station and asked him to again appear on Monday to record his statement for defacing the name plate at Tehelka’s former managing editor Shoma Chaudhury outside her residence in Saket. On Saturday, Jolly reached at the Saket police station around 10 am and was questioned for over three hours till 1.15 pm. “Today, he accepted several things. Now, we have proper clues against him. We called him to appear again on Monday. He will be arrested soon,” a senior police officer said. A case of rioting, wrongful restrain and defacement has been lodged against Jolly and his supporters at Saket Police Station.