Delhi transport minister Kailash Gehlot and various other officials were also present during the video conference.
Team met the parents of the deceased child. They informed that a priest at the cremation ground coerced them to cremate her body, and the mother also alleged that she suspects her daughter was raped before being killed.
The Students’ Federation of India (SFI), along with Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch and All India Democratic Women Association, held a protest at Jantar Mantar.
In his petition, Rizwan has alleged that the instant case is a classic example wherein unsubstantiated allegations have been embellished and exaggerated.
A nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped and killed by a priest and three employees of a crematorium near Delhi Cantonment in south-west Delhi on Sunday, the police said.
An FIR is registered on basis of her mother’s statement. Crematorium’s priest has been taken into custody. FSL and crime team collected samples for the investigation, said the Delhi police.
According to the officials, over 100 families living in the Yamuna floodplains have been moved to higher areas over the last few days.
The IMD on Friday had issued an orange alert, predicting moderate rain on Saturday and warning of possible waterlogging in low-lying areas of the national capital and major traffic disruptions.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell-Counter Intelligence) Manishi Chandra said Anuradha was an associate of gangster Anandpal Singh, who was killed in a police encounter in 2017 in Rajasthan’s Churu district.
A division bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh observed there is no need to initiate prosecution, especially against the backdrop where both Delhi government and the Centre failed to provide sufficient medical oxygen to the people.
Questioning his appointment, AAP legislators raised this issue under rule-55 of the Delhi assembly on the first day of its monsoon session.
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said: “Rakesh Asthana, the controversial IPS officer and the blue-eyed boy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is back in the news.”
Asthana, a former CBI special director, is 1984-batch Indian Police Service officer of Gujarat cadre.
Widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy falls that is likely to continue over east Rajasthan and west Madhya Pradesh during next 24 hours will reduce thereafter but is likely to increase from July 30.
Flowing over 22 km in Delhi — from Wazirabad to Okhla, which is less than two per cent of its total length, it accounts for around 80 per cent of the pollution load, according to an earlier report of the DPCC.
The weather forecasting agency also predicted light to moderate intensity rain over Agra, Katrauli in Uttar Pradesh and adjoining areas during the next 2 hours.
Justice Shah added common people were running from pillar to post to procure these medicines during the second wave.
With continued improvement in Covid situation in the national capital, Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has permitted multiplexes and spas to run from July 26.
This is the second time since the starting of the second wave of the pandemic in the national capital that zero fatality has been logged in a day.
According to the ‘Unlock 8’ order issued by the DDMA, the following relaxations on Covid curbs have been announced in Delhi. These relaxations will come into effect at 5 am on Monday, July 26.
A bench of Justice Pratibha M. Singh directed the Delhi government to decide, within six weeks, on an assurance given by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on March 29, 2020 to pay the rent of migrant workers in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) prediction in the wee hours of Monday, a thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain is likely in Delhi and its adjoining places including Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan.
Apart from Dadri-I, Reliance Infrastructure led BSES discoms have initiated the process with the DERC for exiting the remaining power plants in this category, according to people in the know.
Eighty-four more patients have recovered from the disease in the last one day, it said.
The national capital along with adjoining cities including – Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida, and Ghaziabad have also received rainfall.