A Street vendor selling her peanuts on a cold winter evening in New Delhi. (PTI)
In other news, residents of a slum in Southwest Delhi’s Dhaula Kuan circle were served an eviction notice by the public works department to vacate the place in 15 days. While the residents allege that the eviction drive was carried out ahead of the G20 summit, the officials denied it and said it was part of an encroachment removal drive. The notice, issued by the office of Divisional Commissioner of PWD, stated that the slum residents will subsequently be shifted from the homeless shelter within three months but didn’t specify where. It also stated that if not vacated, police assistance will be sought.
A day after his arrest, Ankush Khanna, who lied about the identity of the driver in Anjali Singh’s hit-and-run case was granted bail by a Delhi Court on Saturday. Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order, Zone II) Sagarpreet Hooda said that Ankush, accused Amit Khanna’s brother, was produced before the Rohini court and police demanded his police custody. “However, the punishment under IPC section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and 212 (harbouring offender) is only three years. Hence, it is a bailable offence. The court granted him bail on a personal bond of Rs 20,000,” he said.
Shankar Mishra, who was accused of urinating on a female passenger on an Air India flight last November, was sent to a 14-day judicial custody, a Delhi Patiala House Court said on Saturday. Metropolitan Magistrate Anamika at Patiala House Court rejected a three-day police custody application moved by the police, saying police custody was not a punishment.
The cold wave condition over the national capital is likely to evade with an increase in temperature. On Saturday, the maximum temperature is likely to settle at around 18 degrees Celsius, while the minimum temperature could be around 5 degrees Celsius. Moderate to dense fog is likely to persist on Saturday, dense fog and cold wave conditions are likely to abate next week.
In other updates, Noida police and students together have started crowdfunding for the treatment of 20-year-old Sweety Kumari, who went into coma after being hit by a vehicle from behind as she and her friends were making their way back to her house. So far, Noida Police commissioner Laxmi Singh has donated Rs 1 lakh and her team Rs 10 lakh, or a day’s salary and the Greater Noida Institute of Technology has donated Rs 1 lakh.
Around 100-150 AAP workers gathered outside Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena’s residence and chanted slogans Saturday morning. A few km down the Ring Road, the Delhi BJP staged a “peaceful dharna” near Rajghat against what they alleged was a deliberate insult of the Constitution by AAP leaders a day ago.
The BJP contingent also included the nominated Aldermen who are at the core of the tussle that erupted in the unprecedented violence which unfolded over who would be sworn in first on Friday.
