Amid the crisis over pending salaries of doctors of civic body-run hospitals in Delhi, many medics on Thursday expressed their anguish over the issue, saying they would bravely combat the pandemic situation and serve people but "Covid warriors can't march on an empty stomach".
The Income Tax Department sleuths also seized incriminating documents of unaccounted cash transactions and investments made by the assessee over several years.
In yet another incident, a traffic cop sustained injuries after being dragged for around half a kilometre on the bonnet of a car by an errant driver who was trying to dodge police checking in Delhi Cantonment in Southwest district. The video of the incident shows the cop hanging on the bonnet of the car in the middle of a busy road and then falling off on road. The errant car driver was stopped by passersby and other police officers, who chased him after seeing the cop getting dragged and falling off the bonnet.
New Delhi, October 15
A woman in southeast Delhi has alleged that she was targeted by her landlady for being a ‘Kashmiri’, was called a ‘terrorist’, and in her absence had her
Delhi Police arrest four desperate extortionists - Dwarka district of Delhi Police arrested four extortionists after a complaint was received at Bindapur Police Station regarding threatening and extortion messages on Facebook and phone calls. On the basis of technical investigation, the police team raided various places of Haryana and Delhi and arrested the accused persons who were involved in demanding extortion money from the complainant. During the course of interrogation, accused Rinku, the mastermind of the whole incident, disclosed that he thought that it's a short cut to become rich in a very short time span. So he discussed this plan with his associates, and after that they identified the soft target and then sent threatening messages through a fake Facebook profile, police said. But when the complainant didn't respond, all four accused went to the complainant's office and threatened him of dire consequences if he does not give the amount of Rs 12 lakh.
The woman alleged that the landlady had broken into her flat in her absence and had taken away her belongings including furniture, clothes and even her passport.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Supreme Court that the inquiry pertaining to law and order in the national capital is not within the purview of the Delhi government.
A Supreme Court-appointed pollution monitoring authority made it clear on Thursday that it will not allow any relaxation, except for essential services, in banning the use of electricity generators in Delhi-NCR and asked people to "question" their state governments if there is a power outage in residential areas.
Delhi's overall AQI was recorded in the very poor category. The calm and variable surface wind condition continues and the AQI is likely to remain very poor on Friday, it said.
The police told the Delhi High Court on Thursday that the information about disclosure statement of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) student, who was arrested in a case related to communal violence in north east Delhi during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in February, was not leaked by its officials.
