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Sunday, Apr 30, 2006

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Around the City

Fire in Yamuna Pushta slums

NEW DELHI: A fire broke out in the Yamuna Pushta slum clusters at Shakarpur in East Delhi on Saturday evening. No one was reported injured.

According to the Fire Department, the fire that started around 8 p.m. was of medium intensity. About 350 slums were razed in the blaze that was finally brought under control in an hour and a half.

As many as 20 fire tenders were pressed into service. The fire led to a traffic jam on Vikas Marg and arterial roads.

On Friday, two serious incidents of fire in slum clusters had been reported from Shakarpur and Geeta Colony in East Delhi.

Boy run over by speeding car

NEW DELHI: A six-year-old boy was run over and killed by a speeding Honda City car at Shakarpur in East Delhi in the early hours of Saturday. The car driver has been arrested.

According to the police, the mishap took place around 3-45 a.m. when the car allegedly driven by 21-year-old Savita Verma, a resident of Preet Vihar, hit the boy while he was crossing the road on Vikas Marg.

After hearing the screams of Suhail, local residents rushed to the stop and gheraoed the car. Fearing for their lives, the car's occupants called in the police. Before the police arrived, the crowd smashed the vehicle's windscreen and roughed up the occupants. Savita's sister and her friend who arrived there in a Santro car were also manhandled.

Life sentence

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has sentenced a driver to life imprisonment for fraudulently withdrawing money from the bank account of his employer, a doctor, and later killing him when he found him out.

Dr Vishwakarma, working in GTB Hospital was found shot on July 4, 2001. Investigation revealed that the deceased had an account in the branch of a bank in the hospital premises from which huge amounts were recently withdrawn which were found linked to Yunus.

Yunus was arrested and it was revealed that he had been withdrawing amounts from the doctor's account by forging his signatures.

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