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TIMES CITY

New Delhi: Do gods sit in the Cabi-net meeting and decide the issues oris the Cabinet something beyond theheaven which can’t deal with a rele-vant issue, the Delhi high court onWednesday said expressing annoy-ance at the Centre’s delay in sanctio-ning additional police for the capital.

The bench’s observation came af-ter the additional solicitor general,Sanjay Jain, submitted that an inter-ministerial Cabinet note is beingprepared on the issue of additionalpolice force in the capital.

“As a judge and as a person, I amvery dejected with the way the mat-ter is dealt (with) by the Centre andauthorities concerned. You all arekilling your people. These very peo-ple elected you. Every day, incidentsof crime are reported against wo-men, child and senior citizen,” Justi-ce B D Ahmed said.

The bench also pulled up the bu-reaucracy, saying what kind of offi-cials were they that they can’t prepa-re a note in six weeks for the Cabinet.

“Even judges write thousand pa-ges judgment, then why can’t theseofficials prepare a three-page note-..what kind of efficiency is this,” thebench asked. The bench asked Cent-re to file an affidavit by the next dateof hearing on whether it has funds tocreate additional force or not andwhether it intends to create the addi-tional force or not. PTI

HC: Do gods sitin Cabinet meet& decide issues?

New Delhi: Parents of the 17-year-old girl who was raped and strang-led are yet to come to terms with thefact that the youth they had shelte-red for so long turned out to be theirtormentor. Rajkumar (22) was ar-rested for not just raping theirdaughter but also murdering theirrelative’s eight-year-old son whohad come to stay with them duringDiwali.

The girl has been battling for herlife at Lady Irwin hospital. Whenshe had tried to resist the rape at-tempt, Rajkumar repeatedly hit her

worked at a nearby eatery. On No-vember 11, the girl’s grandfather,who stayed in another block, diedout of a heart attack after which thefamily shifted to that house.

However, the girl, who had takenup the job in a garment shop nearby,stayed back with her cousin and Raj-kumar promised to take care ofthem. He attacked her on the day shegot up early to prepare breakfast.

Rajkumar claimed that he com-mitted the crime in a fit of rage as hepresumed that she might get marri-ed elsewhere. DCP (northwest) Vi-jay Singh said that he was taken tothe scene of the incident to recreatethe scene to verify the versions.

have lost his parents when he was achild. But two years later he starteddemanding that the couple marrytheir daughter to him.

“He threatened to ruin the girl’sfuture if they refused to get himmarried to her. Once, during an ar-

gument, the girl hadslapped him in thepresence of her pa-

rents after he touched her inappro-priately. This had upset him,” saidthe girl’s aunt, adding that he hadvowed to avenge this humiliation.

A month later, the family shiftedto the basement apartment in J-Block in November. Rajkumar toorented a room opposite them and

on the head with an iron rod. He kil-led the girl’s cousin with the samerod when the boy tried to stop the ra-pe after hearing her cries for help.“She wanted to be an independentwoman and support her mother,”said the child’s father.

The family hadshifted to the two-ro-om basement apart-ment in Khadda Colony in north-west Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar areathree months ago from another hou-se in the locality where they have be-en staying for the past four years.Rajkumar was the family’s neighbo-ur even then. The girl’s mother trea-ted him like a son as he claimed to

Family shocked as ‘son’ rapes their girlSomreet.Bhattacharya

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UNSAFE IN CITY

New Delhi:The driver of a truck car-rying 1,000 mobile phones, along withfour associates, fled with the vehiclein an attempt to make a fortune.Three days after the matter was re-ported by the e-commerce firm whichhad couriered the handsets for delive-ry, police managed to arrest two accu-sed, Sunil Kumar and Shravan.

While cops recovered the stolengoods worth Rs 58 lakh, efforts are onto nab the driver, Lallan Singh.

On November 28, company offici-als informed the police that one oftheir trucks (407 model) carrying1,000 mobile phones of differentbrands went missing on the way tothe airport.

The last location of the truck wasnear the TERI University in VasantKunj. A police team reached the spotand found the vehicle abandoned. “Ateam led by K P Kukrety, ACP VasantVihar, started tracking the driver and the cleaner who were missing

truck, Lallan had loaded the goods in-to another truck, which was driven toKhizrabad in south-east Delhi. Heplanned to sell the mobile phones to a dealer.

A raid was conducted and SunilKumar and Shravan were arrestedfrom the spot while Lallan managedto escape. Police said that during in-terrogation, the duo confessed thatLallan had asked them to wait onanother container truck around 11pmand loaded the mobile phones into it. However he was unaware thatboth the vehicles were fitted withGPS devices.

“We could recover the stolen go-ods and arrest two of the associates.Efforts are being made to nab Lal-lan,” said Nath.

Police said that legal actions wo-uld also be taken against the trans-porter for the gross violation of thestatutory norms. A case under sec-tions of criminal breach of trust hasbeen registered against the driverand other accused.

from the scene,” said Prem Nath, DCP south.

A search was launched and it wasfound that the transporter who wascontracted for the job did not have therecords of the driver. “Lallan wasemployed barely two days before theincident occurred. The transportergave us just the name of the driver, ba-sed on which the investigations werestarted,” the officer said.

According to the GPS log of the

Truck Located After 3 Days, Goods Worth ̀̀ 58L Found

Driver flees with 1k mobiles

WRONG CALL: Sunil Kumar and Shravan

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Noida: Police returned to Bi-sada on Wednesday to nab sixmore people accused of beingpart of the mob that lynchedMohammad Akhlaq, but re-turned empty handed as allthe suspects managed to flee.

The six were named byAkhlaq’s daughter Sahista inher statement before a magis-trate on November 26, sourcessaid. But the police took al-most two months since Ak-hlaq’s murder at the hands ofa mob on September 28 to getSahista’s statement recorded,when more urgency couldhave had all the suspects be-hind bars and a chargesheetready by now.

The family had initiallynamed 10 suspects, all ofwhom have been arrested. Sa-hista, police sources said, isthe most important eyewit-ness in the case as she was theonly family member on thefirst floor of the house otherthan Akhlaq and her brotherDanish when the murderousmob stormed in, baying forAkhlaq’s blood because theybelieved he had slaughtered acow and had beef.

In her statement beforethe magistrate, Sahista alsosaid the mob poured keroseneon the house’s walls, with theintention of burning it down,after dragging Akhlaq’s limpbody down the stairs to theroad outside, sources said.The family’s counsel, YusufSaifi, said, “Ten people havebeen named in the FIR. All the

accused are behind bars. Sa-hista has named some morepersons.”

Sahista said in her state-ment her mother Ikramanand grandmother Asgariwere on the ground floor oftheir two-storey house in Bi-sada and were about to go tosleep when they heard an an-nouncement from a nearbytemple. “People were asked togather near the transformer(near the house) as a cow hadbeen slaughtered. Just afterthe announcement, some vil-lagers gathered outside ourhouse and started abusing myfather and brother. Theybroke our gate and some ofthem scaled the perimeterwall, through our uncle’shouse. Around 20 people en-tered the house,” she said inher statement.

Dadri killing:Akhlaq daughternames 6 more

Police took almost twomonths since Akhlaq’smurder at the hands ofa mob on September 28to get Sahista’s state-ment recorded. Thefamily had earliernamed 10 suspects

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New Delhi: A 15-year-old girlhas accused her stepfather of ra-ping her for over a year afterwhich the man was arrestedfrom their residence in southe-ast Delhi’s Jamia Nagar on Tu-esday. The girl is at about two-and-a-half months pregnant,police said.

Her mother had initially ig-nored the girl’s complaints ofmedical issues. But when theproblem persisted she got thegirl checked up.

“After sensing pregnancy,the woman questioned herdaughter but she tried to hidethe matter. However, upon pres-suring the girl opened up andtold her about the rape. The wo-man then informed her friendswho approached the police,” sa-id a senior official.

Amedical examination con-firmed that the girl was preg-nant. “A case of rape and underPOCSO Act was registered aga-inst the accused and he was ar-rested,” the official added.

A senior officer said thatwhile the actual duration of theabuse is not known, initial in-vestigations suggest she was re-peatedly raped for at leastayear.

The girl told police that herstepfather would rape her whenher mother, a housemaid, lefthome for work. She had drop-ped out of school a few yearsago. The man allegedly threate-ned her with death whenevershe resisted his bid. “She was soterrified of her stepfather thatshe never showed signs of abu-se all these months,” said thecop who talked with the survi-vor’s mother.

After separation from herfirst husband, the girl’s motherhad married the accused aro-und seven years ago.

Man held forraping teen

stepdaughterTIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: An elderly busi-nessman played cop aftertwo men snatched his bag atknifepoint near Khan Mar-ket on Monday afternoon.

Around 11am, SurenderKumar Gupta and his son,Deepak, were returning ho-me to Greater Kailash fromnorth Delhi in their car.When they reached GolfLinks road, their vehiclemysteriously got punctu-red. They stopped the car torepair it. As they were about

Lutyens’ Delhi till Humay-un Road where they decidedto overtake them. However,the accused lost balance andtheir two-wheeler skid neara Metro station.

The father-son duo nab-bed the man riding pillionand called for help. A fewpassengers exiting the Met-ro station helped them pindown the man. In the mean-time, the other accused pick-ed up his scooter and fled.

The PCR was informedand the man arrested. Hewas identified as Sumit.

to restart it, the two men on ascooter tried to open its reardoor and steal their bag.

“Though it did not havemuch valuables, I held on it.One of them pulled out a kni-fe and threatened to stab me

if I resisted,” said Gupta inhis complaint. He had a mi-nor scuffle with the man ri-ding pillion after which theduo sped off towards KhanMarket. Surendra and Dee-pak chased them through

Elderly bizman plays cop,chases and nabs snatcher

BRAVE ACT

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: In a significant mo-ve, the Delhi government hasdecided to free 44 life convictswho have spent over 14 years injail, while rejecting the plea offormer Congress leader, SushilSharma, convicted of murde-ring his wife, Naina Sahni, andtrying to burn her body in a tan-door in 1995.

The Sentence ReviewingBoard (SRB), chaired by the Del-hi home minister, Satyendar Ja-in, had received petitions from 50 life convicts, including Sharma, and decided to release44 inmates. LG Najeeb Jung hasgiven his nod to the SRB’s recommendations, a seniorofficial said.

In September this year,Sharma, a former youth Cong-ress leader who is in jail for thepast 20 years, was released onparole by the Delhi high court.While granting him parole, thecourt had said till his plea see-king remission and prematurerelease has been decided by thecompetent authority, he wouldremain out of jail.

“The board has rejected fourapplications for premature rele-ase, including that of Sushil Ku-mar Sharma,” the official said,adding the SRB has deferred de-cision on two cases.

Constituted in 2004, the SRBdecides the pleas of convictsand other related issues. Representatives of Tihar jailand Delhi Police are membersof the board.

“Before taking the decisionon premature release of lifeconvicts, the board examinesthe records of those who havespent over 14 years in jail andwhether they are still a threat tolaw and order,” the official said.PTI

44 life convictsto walk free,but Sushil’s

plea rejected

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THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2015