The Centre had last year supported the plea and argued that fair price shops play an important role in the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA). (Express file)Delhi News Live Updates: The Delhi High Court on Thursday set aside the AAP government’s scheme for home delivery of ration. The court allowed the petition of Delhi Sarkari Ration Dealers Sanghi which last year challenged the tenders issued towards the implementation of the Mukhya Mantri Ghar Ghar Ration Yojana. The Centre had last year supported the plea and argued that fair price shops play an important role in the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA).
Delhi logged 520 fresh Covid-19 cases and one fatality due to the disease on Thursday, while the positivity rate was recorded at 2.09 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. On Wednesday, the national capital had recorded 532 cases at a positivity rate of 2.13 per cent and zero fatality.
A Delhi High Court division bench Thursday transferred former JNU student Umar Khalid’s bail plea in the larger conspiracy case of Northeast Delhi riots to a different bench for hearing on Friday. Following a change in the roster, the bail plea was listed for hearing before a division bench headed by Justice Mukta Gupta on Thursday. However, the bench after going through previous orders of the case observed that the matter was part-heard before the division bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and L-G Anil Baijal (Express file photo by Praveen Khanna)
The father of the 13-year-old girl who was allegedly gangraped by at least four men, after they kidnapped her and took her out of the city, on Thursday alleged that he had approached police thrice but they delayed registering his complaint.
The girl went missing on April 24 and was eventually abandoned and found outside a Metro station a week later. Police had said they arrested three accused and apprehended a minor so far.
Speaking to The Indian Express, the girl’s father, a driver, alleged: “My daughter went out to eat momos around 5 pm… I was waiting for her, but she didn’t come back. I thought she went to meet her friends… their school had reopened recently and she would often go for a sleepover. However, the next day, I called her friends and found she wasn’t there. I went to the police station, but they asked me to enquire about her whereabouts myself. I called almost everyone but nobody knew where she was. I called police but they said she isn’t missing and must be with her friends. I tried to explain but they didn’t listen. At night (on April 25), I went to the station again and begged them to take a report. My complaint was lodged the next morning on April 26. I don’t know when they started the investigation. I wish they had taken us seriously. My daughter is traumatised. She doesn’t have a mother and I’m clueless.” Read More
The All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS-New Delhi) has done away with user charges for all tests and diagnostics that cost below Rs 300 “with immediate effect”. This will make most blood and urine tests, plain x-ray, and ultrasound among others free to patients visiting the outpatient department or admitted to general wards.
Currently, most blood and urine tests at AIIMS cost around Rs 25, plain x-rays cost anywhere between Rs 30 to 200 depending on the body part being investigated, mammography costs Rs 300, and ultrasound costs Rs 200.
“The president of AIIMS is pleased to approve the abolition of user charges for all investigations or laboratory charges currently costing upto Rs 300 per procedure in AIIMS hospital and all centres, with immediate effect,” read a hospital notification. Read More
A signboard of Aurangzeb Lane in Lutyens’ Delhi was defaced on Thursday by the Delhi BJP Yuva Morcha, which pasted a banner that read ‘Baba Vishwanath Marg’ over it.
BJYM president Vasu Rukhar said the morcha demands that Aurangzeb Lane be renamed as Baba Vishwanath Marg at the earliest else the workers will take to the streets. BJYM state general secretary Sandeep Sehrawat, state vice-president Kamal Bagri, state minister Nitesh Rajput, office minister Arjun Vilotil were also present when Rukhar pasted the poster.
A senior official of New Delhi Municipal Council said action under the Delhi Defacement Act is to be taken by police based on their complaint. He said the poster was removed before the civic body team arrived and no damage was found. Read More
Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik was convicted Thursday by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Delhi after he pleaded guilty in a case related to alleged terrorism and secessionist activities that disturbed the Kashmir Valley in 2017.
On May 10, Yasin Malik pleaded guilty to all the charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
Malik was produced before Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh, who is expected to hear arguments on the quantum of the sentence on May 25. The court has asked Yasin Malik to furnish details of his financial assets and ordered the NIA to assess his financial condition. Read More
The Delhi High Court on Thursday ordered a stay on further felling of trees in the national capital till June 2 after it was informed that more than 29,000 trees have been cut or transplanted in city in the past three years. The court said that there was “no other way” to mitigate the environmental degradation, while ordering the interim stay.
“It would therefore be in the fitness of things and in the public interest as well as for the sake of environment, for present and future generations, that tree felling in Delhi is not permitted till the next date so as to ensure that felling is done only when it is fully assured by the applicant that the trees would at least be transplanted,” said Justice Najmi Waziri in an order.
Observing that that geographically distant compensatory plantation can hardly be of any respite or actual compensation, the court in April had said that the tree officers in the national capital must give due consideration to transplantation of each tree, which is sought to be cut, before granting any further permission for cutting of trees. Read More
Three members of an interstate gang have been arrested after a brief exchange of fire in Delhi's Wazirabad area, police said on Thursday.
The three men are sharp shooters of the Tillu Tajpuria - Parvesh Mann - Neeraj Bawana gang, they said, adding that the trio were planning a "big attack" against their rivals and their families.
Two semi-automatic pistols, two country-made pistols and 19 live cartridges were recovered from them, police said. The accused have been identified as Pawan Shehrawat (30), a resident of Bawana, Ashu (21), a resident of Bahadurgarh in Haryana, and Gaurav Tyagi (27), a resident of Hapur in UP, they said. (PTI)
- GNCTD is entitled to frame a scheme for doorstep delivery of foodgrains/ rations to the beneficiaries under the TPDS at the doorsteps of the TPDS beneficiaries. However, the same has to be done by the GNCTD from its own resources in compliance with the prevailing laws.
- Any such scheme framed by the GNCTD should comply with all the requirements of the NFSA and the Orders issued under the ECA. The impugned scheme as presently framed by the Cabinet Decision No. 2987 on 24.03.2021, does not comply with the provisions of the NFSA and TPDS Order, 2015.
- The Council of Ministers headed by the Chief Minister is bound to communicate its decisions/ resolutions, including any such scheme or proposal to the Lieutenant Governor, so as to enable him to examine the same and to take a call on whether, or not, he has a difference of opinion with any such scheme.
- When any decision of the Council of Ministers headed by the Chief Minister is placed before the Lieutenant Governor for his approval, he shall be mindful of the decision of the Supreme Court ...and shall take his decision to express his difference of opinion, if any, in the light of the aforesaid Judgment.
- In case the Lieutenant Governor expresses his disagreement with his Council of Ministers headed by the Chief Minister, he may either require the Chief Minister to refer the matter to the President for his decision, or he may, on his own, refer the matter to the President for his decision. Even when the Lieutenant Governor requires the Chief Minister to refer the matter for his decision to the President, it is reference by the Lieutenant Governor and would, therefore, meet the requirement of the proviso to Article 239AA(4) of the Constitution.
- The final decision shall rest with the President on the difference of opinion and the said decision shall prevail and bind the Council of Ministers headed by the Chief Minister and the Lieutenant Governor, who shall act in accordance with the said final decision.
Fire broke out in the forest area near Majnu Ka Tila in North Delhi on Thursday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday produced S Bhaskar Raman, alleged chartered accountant of Congress MP Karti Chidambaram, before the Special CBI court in Delhi, in connection with the ‘bribe for visas’ case.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed that the bail plea by former JNU student Umar Khalid in the UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the riots here in February 2020 be sent to another bench for hearing on May 20.
A bench headed by Justice Mukta Gupta considered the previous orders passed in the case and observed that the matter was part-heard before the bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Rajnish Bhatnagar.
"Let the matter be listed before the bench of Justices Mridul and Bhatnagar on Friday subject to the order of the Acting Chief Justice," the bench also comprising Justice Mini Pushkarna ordered. (PTI)
Amit Shah at DU: "Today AFSPA removed from 75% of NE-an answer to those who (asked for) removing AFSPA on the basis of human rights...They talk about human rights of those spreading terror,I want to tell them that even those who die due to terrorism have human rights."
Speaking at a Delhi University event on Thursday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that universities should not become the “wrestling ground for ideological battles”. “Some people call India a country of problems, but we have potential to find solutions,” he said.
A company of CRPF comprising 60 jawans will be deployed to prevent ingress of cattle into the Central Ridge forest area, the Delhi Police has told the Delhi High Court.
The Station house officer (SHO) of Inderpuri in a status report told the court that the reinforced cement concrete (RCC) boundary wall protecting the “green land” under Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has been breached at 11 points.
The police said it had deployed eight personnel from DCP-Reserve along with vehicles to prevent ingress of cattle into the forest area but the same was not sufficient. “At the request of Delhi Police, one company of CRPF (60 jawans) has been made available to the local police station. They are likely to be deployed in three shifts round the clock. The SHO is confident that this should be sufficient deterrent to prevent ingress of cattle into the forest area,” Justice Najmi Waziri recorded in an order. Read more.
The national capital witnessed a warm Thursday morning as the minimum temperature of the day was recorded at 27.5 degrees Celsius, one notch above normal. The weather office predicted a clear sky.
“There will be mainly clear sky on Thursday and the maximum temperature of the day will hover around 42 degrees Celsius,” an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The maximum temperature on Wednesday had settled at 40.6 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the season.
Delhi had recorded a maximum temperature of 45.6 degrees Celsius, the highest this year so far, on Sunday. The relative humidity at 8.30 am was recorded at 56 per cent, the weather office said. (PTI)
A fire broke out at a factory in Bawana Thursday afternoon. Fire officials said 17 fire tenders rush to the spot. So far, no casualties have been reported.
The national capital witnessed a warm Thursday morning as the minimum temperature of the day was recorded at 27.5 degrees Celsius, one notch above normal. The weather office predicted a clear sky. “There will be mainly clear sky on Thursday and the maximum temperature of the day will hover around 42 degrees Celsius,” an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The maximum temperature on Wednesday had settled at 40.6 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the season. (PTI)
Haryana Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala: "Today if Gurgaon has become an iconic destination for investors, it is due to the base provided by Maruti, which started its production in Haryana four decades ago. Maruti group is the Hanuman of Haryana."
Speaking about the state government's agreement with Maruti Suzuki, Chautala said: "I remember when we were bringing in The Haryana State Employment of Local Candidate Act [which reserves 75 percent jobs in private sector for those from the State], there were reservations from Maruti that the act may hurt the industry. But, we sat with the officials and friends from industry, and revised upper limit for exemption and now, I can proudly say that all now agree that the Act will help the State towards the path of prosperity and reduce housing and other costs."
Speaking at the event, Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said: "We have seen in the last five decades that
Haryana is a goldmine for investment and a land of opportunity. There is not a single industry that does not have its base in Haryana. More than 250 fortune 500 companies have their operations in Haryana."