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GHAZIABAD: A 32-year-old com-puter engineer after beatinghiswife to deathwith a cricket bat,committed suicide at the rail-way tracks in Ghazaibad onSaturday, the police said.Thedeceased engineer,Nitin
Sharma (32), allegedly had analtercationwith his 28-year-oldwifeVijayLaxmiSharmaat theirflat in Vasundhara sector 5 inGhaziabad. It was during this
thathebeathiswifewithacrick-etbatwhich led toherdeathdueto excessive bleeding andinjuries, police officials stated.The coupleweremarried for
four years and were residentsof Meerut district in westernUttar Pradesh. They had shift-ed toVasundharadue to thehus-band’s job. He was employedwith a reputed multinationalfirm inNoida.The couple is sur-vived by a three-year-old son.The police sources said the
couple had gone to Shirdi last
week where they picked up afight and had returned home aday before the incident.“After beating his wife to
death, the husband locked theflat and took his child to his sis-ter’s residence at Shalimar
Garden,” Indirapuram SHOinspector Rajesh Dwivedi said.After leavinghis son,Sharma
allegedly went to the railwaytracks near Arthala, adjoiningVasundhara area, and commit-ted suicide by jumping before apassing train, police said.“We have sent both the bod-
ies for post-mortem and theirrelatives have been informed atMeerut. Their neighbours saythe woman could have beenkilledbecauseof a fight betweenthe two,” Dwivedi said.
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NEW DELHI: Squeals of joy, gaspsof disbelief and sighs of frus-trations and finally euphoria,the city had a share of all fourduring the cracker of a WorldCup final match between Indiaand Sri Lanka on Saturday.People came out on the
streets within minutes of thewin to celebrate themomentousvictory. India Gate, KatwariaSarai , Delhi University hostelsand colony parks reverberated
with cries of joy and songs at10.50pm in the night.“This is amazing. I cannot
believe this. We had waited forthis for so long and now that ithas happened, I amoverjoyed,”said Satish Dogra (54) a busi-nessman.The city had gathered in
sports clubs, parks and any-where they could find a screento watch the match and cele-brated in style — and noisilywith crackers—once India lift-ed the trophy after a wait of 28long years.
Kasbah, a club in GK 1 MBlock market was jam packed,with every entry costingbetween R1,000and R 1,500.Thecrowd broke into cheers whenthe match winning six was hit.Thepolicewerealso ready for
an uproarious response. Theybarricaded most of the OuterCircleofConnaughtPlace.Afterthe win, the police stopped alltrafficmovement at IndiaGate.Securitywas stepped inallmar-ket places including GK Part-I,DefenceColonyandothermajormarkets.
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GHAZIABAD:Threemendiedafterconsumingcountry-made liquor,while anotherpersonwasadmit-ted to hospital in a critical con-dition in Mukimpur area ofPilkhuwa town inGhaziabad onSaturday afternoon, police said.
In all four persons, AnilKumar (23), SatishKumar (30),Sundar Kumar (45) and oneother, consumed liquor at theirresidence and thereafter wenton the fields where rose farm-ing was undertaken.All of them complained of
deterioration in theirhealthcon-dition andwere later rushed to
hospital. “Three of themdied atthehospitalwhile the fourthoneis still critical,” Ajay Kumar,superintendent of police, said.Thepolicewent for an exten-
sive search after the incidentand seized around 100 emptybottles of different brands fromtheir respective houses. Policesaid the fourmenhad sprinkled
somepesticide in the rose fieldsand thereafter went on for adrinking spree inside the fieldswhich could have led to a liquorcontamination.Althoughpolicedid not comment on the exactcause of death, theydidnot ruleout the possibility of spuriousliquor as the reason behind theincident.
Engineer kills wife,commits suicideBIZARRE Beat wife with cricket bat, jumped before a passing train
Both the bodies havebeen sent for post-mortem
examination.RAJ E SH DW I V ED I
Indirapuram SHO
NEW DELHI:Praveen KTripathi, a 1977-batch IASofficer and chief ministerSheila Dikshit’s principalsecretary since 2006, wason Saturday appointed asthe new chief secretary ofDelhi. Top sources in Delhigovernment said Tripathiwill take charge on Monday.Tripathi also served theDelhi Jal Board as CEO,besides being theCommissioner of Sales Taxin Delhi government. PTI
Aiming at raising studentenrolment to 45 mn:SibalNEW DELHI:The governmentis aiming at the expansion ofgross enrolment ratio inhigher education to 30%with 40 million students inthe next 10 years, HRDmin-ister Kapil Sibal said onSaturday while addressingthe IGNOU convocation viavideoconferencing. As manyas 78 IGNOU studentsreceived gold medals thisyear. In all, 44,926 bachelor’sdegree, 20,775 Master’sdegree, 59,042 diplomas,90,618 certificates and 3PhDs were awarded to stu-dents during the ceremonywith 10 gold medalists from
Delhi and four cash awardrecipients. HTC
24-year-old highway robberarrested in south DelhiNEW DELHI:A 24-year-old manwas arrested in south Delhion Saturday for his allegedinvolvement in a series ofhighway robberies. Thearrested has been identifiedas Sattar Ahmed. With hisarrest, several cases of high-way robberies in whichgoods worth lakhs of rupeeswere looted have beenworked out. “He was arrest-ed on Friday from nearNBCC Plaza. During inter-rogation he confessed thathe was working for RajuBechain gang and had com-mitted highway robberies inChanakyapuri and Kash-mere Gate,” HGS Dhaliwal,DCP (south), said. HTC
Do everything to keep aliverich traditions: Dalai LamaNEW DELHI:Tibetan spiritualleader the Dalai Lama saidthat young Indians shoulddo everything to keep alivetheir rich traditions devel-oped over thousands ofyears. “On non-violence andspirituality I have nothing tosay to Indians, you alreadyknow these things for atleast the last 2000 modernyears,” he said at a gather-ing in Delhi on ‘non-violenceand spirituality in India’ tomark the birth centenary offormer president R Venkat-araman on Saturday. HTC
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■ Congress president Sonia Gandhi celebrates Team India’s World Cup victory with fans near the AndhraBhawan roundabout in New Delhi on Saturday night. ZABEEH AFAQUE/HT PHOTO
POWER CUTSLEAVE CRICKETFANS ANGRYHT Correspondent■ [email protected]
NEWDELHI:Evenas the entire citystayed glued to television setswatching the World Cup Finalmatch, some households inSouth Delhi had to remain indarkness for some time in theevening, thanks to power cut.Around 7pm, houses in
Gulmohar Park plunged intodarkness, leaving cricket fansshocked and angry. “Therewasnopower formore than 30min-utes. Some houses which hadinverted could watch thematch,” said PN Gupta ofGulmohar Park Residents’Welfare Association.“Some of us went to our
neighbour’s houses which hadinverters. But luckily the powercutwasnot for long,” saidShivajiPurohit, another local resident.Someof the adjoining areas likeArjun Nagar and SafdarjungEnclavealso sufferedpowercutsfor a brief period.“We were scared that there
would be a power cut in theevening also,” said KhogendraSingh, a residentofArjunNagar.Other South Delhi Areas likeGreater Kailash-I, Saidul Ajab,SunlightColony,ZamrudpurandKailash Colony also witnessedshort power cut during the dayandonce in theevening.SourcesatDelhiTranscoattributed thattominor fault thatwas restored.
‘Spurious’ liquor claims three lives
