Delhi news live: 6,000kg firecrackers seized in city, 55 held

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Wednesday called upon citizens and all its constituents to light an earthen lamp on Diwali in the name of farmers killed during the ongoing farmers' protest. The SKM, in a statement on the eve of Diwali, said for protesting farmers, celebration time would arrive only when their demands would be met by the central government. (PTI)

A portion of a road near the Tilak Bridge bus stand caved in on Wednesday evening, disrupting traffic movement along the stretch, police said. The Delhi Traffic Police took to Twitter and urged commuters to avoid the stretch.

Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 15.9 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal, on Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department said. The maximum temperature settled at 29.9 degrees Celsius, a notch below normal. The mercury is likely to drop by a few notches over the next two to three days with the wind direction changing to northwesterly, the meteorological department said. (PTI)

The Delhi police has arrested 55 people and seized over 6,000 kilograms of firecrackers since the ban on fireworks in the national capital, officials said on Wednesday. According to police data, 56 cases have been registered against the 55 people for storing, selling and bursting firecrackers. (PTI)

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Wednesday appealed to the opposition parties not to link the bursting of firecrackers to religion and jeopardise the wellbeing of children and the elderly for political ambitions. (PTI)

A court here has acquitted the grandson of a former minister of industries in the Delhi Government accused of allegedly impersonating himself as an employee of the ministry in an attempt to extort money 15 years ago. Metropolitan Magistrate Rishabh Kapoor said that the prosecution failed to prove beyond all reasonable doubts that Amarpal impersonated as a ministry employee and attempted to extort money from two men on the pretext that their shops were unauthorized and liable to be demolished. (PTI)

The National Green tribunal has dismissed a plea filed by North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NrDMC) to summon the violators who have refused to pay Rs 5,000 fine for throwing waste or other items in the Yamuna river saying it cannot shift its own responsibility and obligation to any other body or authority. (PTI)

A 28-year-old woman was found dead at her house here on Wednesday with injury marks on the body, police said. It was her husband, Avdesh Kumar, who found her in an unconscious state at their rented accommodation in south Delhi's Mehrauli area, when he returned from work early on Wednesday. (PTI)

A man, who was brutally beaten up by two persons in West Delhi's Khyala area in a case of gang rivalry earlier this week, has died at a city hospital, police said on Wednesday. Two of the perpetrators have been arrested, they said. (PTI)

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