Delhi LG VK Saxena, on Tuesday (February 14), ordered the immediate stoppage of the drive and assured residents that while no action would be taken against “legal and rightful occupants”, any illegal encroachment or unauthorised occupation surrounding heritage monuments will be removed as per Delhi High Court orders.
The DDA has said it is undertaking a drive to clear unauthorised encroachments on government land that houses protected ASI monuments among others, in coordination with the Delhi Police at the Ladha Sarai Village falling in the Mehrauli Archaeological Park.
Machindra Kasture, executive chef to former Presidents Pratibha Patil and Pranab Mukherjee, died Tuesday night of a heart attack. He was 60.
His body is being taken to Pune for cremation. Kasture is survived by his wife, Hemlata, a Marathi news reader, daughter Vedvanti, an assistant film director in Mumbai, and son Vaishnav, a management trainee with a leading hotel chain.
Under Kasture, it was after nearly 250 years, when Marathas were ousted from Delhi, that simple Maharashtrian food was once again cooked in the highest citadels of power in the national capital. Kasture was chosen by President Patil to serve her simple fare of amti and pooran poli and adhere to her strictly vegetarian diet.
Nikki Yadav, the 24-year-old who was killed allegedly by her live-in partner Sahil Gehlot (24), had been in a relationship with the accused for more than five years, said police. The couple met soon after their class 12 exams and started dating without telling their families, police added.
The two first met on a bus en route Dwarka in January 2018, when Gehlot was preparing for SSC exams and Yadav was preparing for medical entrance exams, with both taking coaching in Uttam Nagar.
Police said that they would meet before and after classes every day. Though the two didn’t clear competitive exams, they started living together in Greater Noida.
