She is the second woman in the national capital to contract the infection. (Photo: Getty images) Delhi News Today, Delhi-NCR News Live Updates (August 13): Delhi reported its fifth monkeypox case with a 22-year-old African woman testing positive for the infection, PTI reported quoting officials. The woman had travelled to Nigeria a month ago.
Meanwhile, senior farm leader Gurnam Singh Charuni was among the farmers detained in Manesar on Saturday as they blockaded National Highway-48 leading to traffic congestion. The farmers are protesting against the proposed acquisition of 1,810 acre land of three villages in Manesar and demanding that they should be paid due compensation.
In other news, the water level of the Yamuna, which is flowing above the ‘danger’ mark, is likely to remain above the danger level till Saturday evening, according to a Central Water Commission (CWC) forecast.
According to SpiceJet, the video -- in which Kataria is seen lying down on the aircraft seat and lighting a cigarette and taking a couple of puffs -- was shot on January 20, 2022. (Photo: Videograb/Twitter@Nitish_nicks)
A local court hearing a case related to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots expressed dissatisfaction with public prosecutors appearing on an ad hoc basis.
The judge directed the Commissioner of Police to ensure "appointment and regular appearance of a prosecutor in this case".
The judge's observation came after a Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) submitted that he was appearing in the case on an ad hoc basis without any concrete order from the police department.
"The matter is referred to the Commissioner of Police to get enquired as to why a proper regular public prosecutor for this case was not ordered till date in the backdrop of the fact that the previous prosecutor stopped appearing in the matter," Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala said in an order passed on August 4. (PTI)
Delhi reported its fifth monkeypox case with a 22-year-old African woman testing positive for the infection, official sources said on Saturday.
The woman had travelled to Nigeria a month ago.
She was admitted to LNJP Hospital two days ago and her reports came out on Friday night, confirming that she was positive.
She is the second woman in the national capital to contract the infection.
Four persons, including two women, are admitted to the LNJP Hospital with monkeypox while one patient was discharged from the facility. (PTI)
Police said on Saturday that they had arrested four men from Begumpur and Bawana for allegedly stabbing to death a 25-year-old in south Delhi after an argument about his urinating near a public wall.
According to the Malviya Nagar police, Mayank Panwar, a resident of Shahpur Jat and a hotel management graduate, was attacked on Thursday evening at Gate No. 3 of the DDA Market in Begumpur by four people, who first picked an argument with him and later, as he and his friend Vikas tried to run away, chased the duo. While Vikas managed to escape, Mayank was allegedly overpowered and stabbed many times in the stomach by Manish (19), the main accused. Read More
Several farmers have been detained and the traffic in NH-48 is now clear.
According to police sources, Haryana farmer leader Gurnam Singh Charuni is among the farmers detained.
Traffic congestion has been reported on both the carriageways of National Highway - 48 at Pachgaon Chowk after farmers from nearby villages of Manesar blocked the highway.
The farmers are protesting the proposed acquisition of 1,810 acre land of three villages in Manesar and demanding that they should be paid due compensation.
A youth was arrested in Haryana’s Rohtak for allegedly stabbing his widowed mother multiple times and strangling her to death after he suspected her to be in a relationship with another man, the Gurgaon police said Saturday.
Officers said that they received information at the police post in Sector 93 on Wednesday regarding a stench that seemed to be coming from a room locked from the outside in Garhi village. When the lock was broken, the police team found the decomposing body of a woman lying underneath a cot in the room, they said.
The victim’s brother identified the deceased as Sona Devi, 40, and said he suspected the role of her son Pravesh, 20, in the murder, the police revealed, adding that Pravesh was arrested on Thursday. Read more here
Very light rainfall and thundershowers in the afternoon or evening are on the weather forecast for Delhi on Saturday.
The DMRC said in an update at around 11.30 am that all gates are open for entry and exit at ITO, Lal Quila, Jama Masjid and Delhi Gate Metro stations.
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The Delhi Crime Branch on Friday arrested six men from Outer District for allegedly siphoning fuel from tankers and selling it at several locations across the national capital.
The police identified the accused as Amarjeet (34), the main accused, his associate Aakash (22), truck driver Chandrika Parsad (55) and his helper Anil Kumar (50), and truck driver Ram Kewal (50) and his helper Ram Nayan (35).
Police said that the owner of one of the tankers and a fuel station, Aradhana Sapehia, arrived at the spot, and gave a complaint to the police. The complainant said that the station used the tanker to get oil from a depot at Tikri to the pump. The accused, Chandrika and Anil, had been working for them for five years, and the complainant had suspected them of fuel theft because of the discrepancy in oil pumped at the station and depot respectively, Sapehia told the police. However, the accused allegedly denied it, and it could not be proven as the tanker had an automatic locking mechanism. Read more here
Gates of four metro stations will remain shut on Saturday morning on account of Independence Day rehearsals.
Gates 1, 2 and 3 at the ITO metro station, gate number 4 at the Lal Qila metro station, gates 3 and 4 at the Jama Masjid station, and gates 1, 4 and 5 at the Delhi Gate metro station, will remain shut till 11 am, the DMRC said in a tweet on Saturday. All stations will remain open and other gates may be used for entry and exit, according to the DMRC.
Meanwhile, parking facilities will not be available at Delhi metro stations from 6 am on Sunday to 2 pm on Monday due to Independence Day security arrangements, the DMRC said in a statement issued on Friday. Metro train services will, however, continue to run as per normal schedule.
The water level of the Yamuna, which is flowing above the ‘danger’ mark, is likely to remain above the danger level till Saturday evening, according to a Central Water Commission (CWC) forecast.
The water level at the Old Railway Bridge was 205.97 m at 9 am on Saturday, when the ‘danger’ level is 205.33 m. The level is set to reach 206 m by around 6 pm on Saturday. It is likely to remain stable at this level till around 7 pm, before decreasing, as per a communication from the East Delhi district administration.
Evacuation from parts of the floodplain is underway, according to officials in the East Delhi district administration. Tents have already been set up near NH-24 and Preet Vihar. “Camps have been set up at three places, more are being arranged. Arrangements were made in a school as well, but people have refused to move to the school. We will assess this once more later in the morning and see how many people have left the floodplains,” said Puneet Patel, additional district magistrate, East Delhi. Read more here
“Rifleman Manoj Kumar Bhati amar rahe [Long live Rifleman Manoj Kumar Bhati],” reads a large banner on a house wall with the soldier’s photo next to his regiment insignia as one enters a lane in Faridabad’s Shahjahanpur village. An elderly person comes and salutes the soldier’s family as villagers pour in to offer condolences.
Rifleman Manoj Kumar Bhati, 26, of Rajputana Rifles was among four soldiers who were killed in a militant attack on an Army camp in Rajouri district of J&K in the early hours of Thursday.
“Dukh toh hai par garv bi hai ki mera beta desh ke liye shaheed hua [There is sadness but I am also proud that my son sacrificed his life for the country]. He and fellow martyrs killed two terrorists and saved the unit…Since childhood, it was his dream to join the Army,” said his father, Babulal Kumar, a farmer. Read the full story here
The “lackadaisical and abhorrently unprofessional approach” of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is “unpardonable”, the Delhi High Court has said while rapping the planning authority for failing to hand over a plot in Rohini to an octogenarian woman, who had applied for it in 1981 and got an allotment letter in 1991.
Upholding a single-bench decision directing the DDA to hand over a 60 sq. metres plot to the woman within four weeks, the division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad said that the facts of the case only demonstrate the harassment of “a poor lady” at the hands of DDA for reasons best known to the officers concerned.
“In view of the harassment caused to the respondent by the DDA for over 30 years and for wasting precious judicial time by filing the instant frivolous appeal, this court is inclined to impose costs of Rs 50,000 on the DDA,” said the court. Read more here
Security agencies are facing a peculiar problem ahead of Independence Day – of ensuring the Red Fort remains monkey-free when Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation from its ramparts and hoists the tricolour on August 15.
Around 10 trained monkey catchers employed by the municipal corporation and eight by the Delhi government’s district conservator of forest office have been working for the last 48 hours after intelligence agencies flagged the presence of monkeys on the premises during Independence Day rehearsal on Friday morning. Not just Red Fort, officials of the Central district are also combing Rajghat, which too will be visited by the PM, to make sure it is free of monkeys.
Usually, the civic body removes stray dogs from the premises before Independence Day and Delhi Police deploys men who imitate sounds made by langurs to scare monkeys away. “I have been working for the police for the last 10 years. Every Independence Day, they deploy me and seven members of my team at Red Fort for around 10 days. We imitate langur sounds, and the monkeys leave. This time, agencies have also deployed dedicated monkey catchers alongside us,” said Ravi Kumar, a ‘monkey expert’. Read the full report here
Northeast Delhi BJP MP Manoj Tiwari Friday gave Rs 5 lakh to Commonwealth Games medallist wrestler Divya Kakran, who is currently at loggerheads with the AAP-led Delhi government after she claimed she had not received help from it though she has been living in the city for 20 years and training here.
Tiwari visited her home in Gokalpuri and said: “I’ve come to (visit) my sister… Like a brother, I will extend all support to make her excel in her field,” Tiwari said. Kakran also tied a rakhi on his wrist. Read more
A man and his father have been arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife and her family over dowry at an upscale society in Noida Sector 121, police said Friday.
“As per a preliminary investigation, the woman’s mother, older sister, and elder brother were visiting her when her husband and father-in-law allegedly assaulted them during an argument. The couple was having an argument when the situation escalated. The woman alleged that there have been demands for dowry in the past,” said Vijay Kumar, Station House Officer, Phase 3 police station. The woman lives with her husband and in-laws, police said. Read more here
With the water level in the Yamuna surging past the ‘danger’ mark on Friday, Delhi is gearing up for the annual inundation of the floodplains.
After a particularly dry summer, when parts of the river were parched leading to a water shortage in the city, this is the first time this monsoon the river has crossed the ‘danger’ mark.
Meanwhile, families living along the floodplains are shifting their belongings. Sona (40), whose makeshift home is closest to the river among those located on the floodplain under the Old Railway Bridge, said: “We have moved a few things to a shelf closer to the roof. We will move the rest… clothes, bedding, utensils, gas stove, up to the roof by evening. Ghabrahat nahi hain (there is no worry). We do this every year.” Sona is from Murshidabad, but has been living in the neighbourhood for nearly 25 years. Read the full report here
A 12-year-old girl, who had gone to relieve herself near a railway line in Faridabad, was allegedly raped and murdered on Thursday night. Police said the accused is yet to be identified.
Police said the girl lived in a slum area near the lines. Her mother works as a labourer with a private company while her father died a few months ago of an illness. A police officer said during the day, when her mother is at work, the girl would stay with her sister and her brother-in-law, who live near her house.
DSP GRP Faridabad, Sudhir Taneja, said, “We received information that a girl who had gone to relieve herself near the railway lines had been murdered. There was some bleeding injury. We have registered a case of murder against unidentified accused. The body was handed over to the family after the post-mortem…”
The DSP added, “We have added POCSO section in the FIR since it is a case of a minor girl. More details will be known after the post-mortem report comes out… A probe has been initiated and efforts are to trace the accused.” Read more here
Two men were arrested from Pune and Delhi after they were allegedly caught with nearly 400 fake SIM cards procured based on fake IDs. Police said that the accused were identified as Nitin Tomar and Parmanand Sahu.
Police said in a case in April, a fraudster had impersonated a senior dignitary via a social media display profile and the name on it. Using this, he had demanded financial favours from people in the form of e-commerce gift vouchers, claiming he was in trouble.
They added that these vouchers were then made available on social media sites and groups by the accused. Read more here
A 34-year-old man on a bike was killed after a Chinese manjha (kite string) cut his neck at Shastri Park flyover in Northeast Delhi on Thursday evening.
Police said the deceased, Vipin Kumar, was on the motorcycle along with his wife and daughter.
Police said he was taken to a hospital in Civil Lines in a passing ambulance but was declared dead at the hospital. Read more here