Anya Vats (L), Victim Yuvraj Singh Manchanda (R) NEW DELHI: “Sell your wife/do anything, just repay this,” read a WhatsApp message cited in an FIR filed by a senior executive who allegedly lost over Rs 1.2 crore in a fraud racket involving Yuvraj Singh Manchanda’s former colleague Anya Vats and her partner Sanyam Sachdeva. Police…
New Delhi: Lieutenant governor TS Sandhu Saturday joined Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) staff and young volunteers of the Vrikshit Foundation in a cleanliness drive at Durlabh Nath Vatika in Shakurpur, and urged citizens to make cleanliness a daily habit and Shramdaan a people’s movement.The visit was organised as part of the Swachhata Hi Sewa…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has dropped MCOCA charge against an accused absconding since 2013. The prosecution found no evidence linking him to an organised crime syndicate, and the court observed that no material on record justified invoking the stringent law against him.Special Judge Gagandeep Singh observed that “there is no connect or material with…
New Delhi: Delhi police conducted its weekly jan sunwai session at Maurya Enclave police station Saturday in the presence of LG Sardar Taranjit Singh Sandhu, which was attended by over 250 people. LG interacted with members of the public and personally heard their grievances.The presence of senior officers, as mandated by the scheme, ensures effective…
New Delhi: Delhi govt has approved a Rs 319.7-crore project to construct 160 high-category residential units for govt officers on a 3.99-acre plot at Bahapur in southeast Delhi, near Apollo Hospital.Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) cleared Public Works Department’s proposal for a residential complex comprising 80 Type-V and 80 Type-VI quarters. The land was transferred to…
PWD minister Parvesh Verma inspected Barapullah III on Saturday New Delhi: The much-awaited Barapullah phase-III elevated road across Yamuna will open for the public on Sept 29, making travel from many areas of east to south Delhi convenient and quicker. Union home minister Amit Shah will open the 3.5km corridor built for Rs 1,635 crore.“Delhi…
New Delhi: Delhi govt Saturday approved the notification of around 1,000 acres (400 hectares) of Southern Ridge as Reserved Forest, a move that will take the capital’s notified Ridge area to nearly 13,000 acres (5,250 hectares).The decision, announced by chief minister Rekha Gupta, comes days after Forest Department indicated that a 400.5-hectare parcel of Southern…
New Delhi: Deepanshu Shokeen’s victory as an Independent has emerged as the most striking story of this year’s Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) election — not just because he won the vice-president’s post by a huge margin, but because he did so after breaking away from Congress-affiliated NSUI, the organisation with which he had been…
New Delhi: A 35-year-old man was killed after being allegedly hit by a car on Main Rohtak Road in outer Delhi’s Nangloi on Sept 15. Police have arrested the driver and seized the vehicle involved in the accident.The deceased was identified as Mahesh Kumar, a resident of Nangloi. His father is employed with Secretariat Security…
New Delhi: Police are exploring whether Yuvraj Singh Manchanda, a project manager at Adani Realty, may have had doubts about a fraud racket allegedly being run by his former colleague, Anya Vats, and her partner, Sanyam Sachdeva. Manchanda was allegedly killed by the couple in Gurgaon on Sept 6.Police have found that the couple allegedly…
