Noida:

Two persons allegedly hit a young man with a bat when he complained about being hit by a ball during a cricket match at a ground here in Surajpur town. The youth fled and hid in the ruins of an old building but later succumbed to his injuries, police said on Tuesday.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone I, Hirdesh Katheria said on Tuesday that Manish (32 years), who ran an RO plant in Surajpur town, was passing by the cricket ground on Monday evening. Some boys were playing cricket on the ground and a ball hit Manish.

When Manish protested, two youths named Shivam and Manish beat him with a bat, the officer said, adding that Manish hid in a ruin in an injured state and the accused fled.

Katheria said when Manish did not return home till late at night, his family members searched for him and on Tuesday morning, he was found in a blood-soaked state in the ruins of the building. He was already dead by the time police got there.

Police will investigate the matter after registering a report of the incident, he said.

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With about 8 to 10 lakh vehicles passing through Noida Expressway daily, traffic congestion has become a significant issue. So to address this, the Noida Traffic Police has introduced new rules for vehicles that break down and disrupt traffic on the Noida Expressway. The new rule will allow the traffic police to issue heavy fines and even impound vehicles that break down and obstruct traffic flow on the expressway that connects Noida, Greater Noida, Delhi and Yamuna Expressway. For now, the rules only apply to commercial vehicles, but officials made it clear that these rules will soon be implemented for all kinds of vehicles.

The fines for obstructing the free flow of traffic on the Noida Expressway will be levied under Section 201 of the Motor Vehicles Act, with penalties ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 20,000.

Lakhan Singh Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic), said that the new rules aim to raise awareness among commercial vehicle owners to keep a check on their vehicles so traffic snarls can be avoided. He clarified that commercial vehicles include buses, trucks, DCM, overloading vehicles, etc. Mr Yadav also said that the penalty would be imposed on private vehicles soon. 

“About 8 to 10 lakh vehicles pass through Noida Expressway. Areas like DND Flyover, Chilla Border, Prerna Stahl, etc., are the main hotspots where traffic-related issues emerge the most,” DCP Yadav told PTI.

“In the last seven days, we have seized 22 vehicles for breakdowns and around 210 vehicles were also issued challans,” he added. 

Krishna Kumar Sharma, a resident of Greater Noida said, “It is a good initiative and will help in the unwanted disruption of the traffic on the Noida Expressway.” However, another resident Anil Kumar Chetiwal said, “Vehicles with emergency situations like flat tyres or some technical issue should not be fined.” 

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Meanwhile, the new rules come about 2 months after officials announced new speed limits for light and heavy vehicles on the Yamuna Expressway and the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway. 

On Yamuna Expressway, the speed limit has been reduced from 100 km/h to 75 km/h for light vehicles. For heavy vehicles, the speed limit has been reduced from 80 km/h to 60 km/h. 

On the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway, the speed limit is reduced from 100 km/h to 75 km/h for light vehicles. For heavy vehicles, it has been restricted to 50 km/h from 60 km/h earlier.

The new rules will remain in effect until February 15, 2025, covering the peak winter months when road conditions are often considered hazardous.

Noida:

A 50-year-old doctor was found murdered in a house he had rented out in Greater Noida, while the two tenants living there are on the run, police said on Tuesday.

Dr Dinesh Gaur’s body was found soaked in blood in a room of his house in Sanjay Vihar Colony, Kulesara village, on January 26, police said.

Police suspect that a man and a woman who were living on rent in the house murdered the doctor.

The accused woman and man had rented the doctor’s house just three days ago and have been on the run since the incident, they added.

“Gaur used to live with his family in Pocket-D, Kundli, Delhi. He also had a house in Sanjay Vihar Colony, Kulesara village, Greater Noida, where he had built a room to rent out. He had made this room his temporary rest area,” said Lakshmi Singh, Media In-charge of Noida Police Commissioner.

“On the evening of January 25, Gaur came from Delhi to his house in Kulesara. His son called him on January 26 but did not get any response. When he reached the house late at night, the door of the room was found locked from outside,” Lakshmi Singh further said.

Lakshmi Singh added that when the doctor’s son opened the door, he found his father lying in a pool of blood following which he informed the police.

While Gaur’s body has been sent for post-mortem, police said that the accused are being tracked using CCTV footage and a search team.

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New Delhi:

At least 16 employees of the Noida residential plot department had a back-to-school moment when they had to remain standing for 20-odd minutes as a punishment for keeping people waiting at their counters. The ‘stand-up’ punishment, visuals of which were caught on camera, followed an order from Noida CEO Dr Lokesh M, who was infuriated with the staff for making people wait at counters for long durations.

About 65 CCTV cameras have been set up at the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority’s office that hundreds of Noida residents visit every day for a variety of work. The CEO, a 2005-batch IAS officer who took charge of Noida last year, often scans footage from these cameras and asks staff not to keep people, especially senior citizens, waiting for long.

On Monday, the CEO spotted an elderly man standing at a counter. He immediately asked the woman official at the counter to attend to the elderly man and not keep him waiting. He also asked her to tell the man clearly if his work could not be done.

About 20 minutes later, the CEO noticed that the elderly man was standing at the same counter. Upset with this, the CEO reached the residential department and gave a dressing down to all the officials at the counters. He then asked them to stand and work for 20 minutes. A video that has now gone viral shows the officials, many of them women, standing and working after the CEO’s punishment.

Social media users have praised the CEO’s move and said such actions were necessary to ensure prompt response in government offices.

Noida:

A factory owner has been booked after a fire broke out in his factory here and three workers were charred to death, police said on Wednesday.

A fire broke out in a sofa manufacturing factory on Tuesday morning. Five fire brigades were rushed to the spot and doused the flames, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone III) Ashok Kumar Singh said.

He said that three people — Gulfam (23), Mazhar Alam (29) and Dilshad (24) — were found dead on the spot. During the investigation, the police found that the factory had been shut since the Covid-19 period. The factory owner had given some space to the victims to repair sofas.

Gulfam’s brother-in-law filed a case against the factory owner and alleged that the fire broke out due to the owner’s negligence. He said the fire broke out due to a short circuit and the owner had not made proper security arrangements in the factory, Singh said.

Based on the complaint, a case has been registered under sections 289 (negligent conduct with respect to machinery) and 106 (causing death by negligence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Further investigation is underway, Singh added.

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Ghaziabad:

A case of double murder was reported in Ghaziabad when a 23-year-old man strangled his sister-in-law and her three-month-old daughter at their residence to settle old scores with the woman, police said on Tuesday. The accused has been arrested.

A detailed probe is underway but initial investigations revealed that the accused, Zeeshan, wanted to exact revenge on the woman for the assault and humiliation he suffered from her cousin brother two months ago. Besides, he suspected that the woman had convinced his brother not to give him Rs 30,000 to go to Dubai for work.

Police said another daughter of the woman, who witnessed the murders, however, survived a similar attack as she ran away from the spot.

Those murdered were identified as Shaheen Parveen (34) and her daughter Aafiya.

According to Ghaziabad Rural Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Surendranath Tripathi, the murders took place in Bamheta village under Wave City police station on Monday.

Police said Zeeshan first used a dupatta to strangle Shaheen in front of her two children. He then strangled Aafiya with his hands.

“Three-and-a-half-year-old Anbiya ran away, crying. Zeeshan would have killed her too had she stayed in the room,” the DCP said.

Explaining the possible reasons behind the murders, Tripathi said: “Two months ago, Shaheen’s cousin brother Afroz had humiliated Zeeshan during a dispute over the construction of a house by Zeeshan’s family in Bihar, and even pulled him by his collar. The accused wanted to seek revenge over this. Besides, he wanted to go to Dubai and needed Rs 30,000 for the visa. He suspected that Shaheen had convinced his brother Burhan to not give him the money.”

After committing the crime, Zeeshan fled to Noida, where he snatched a woman’s mobile phone and made a call to Burhan, threatening to kill.

The accused was arrested while he was returning to Ghaziabad on Tuesday, police said.

(With inputs from Pintu Tomar)

Noida:

A man here has been booked for allegedly uploading a picture of mafia Dawood Ibrahim’s picture on his social media profile, police said on Friday.

Phase-1 police station in-charge Amit Bhadana said sub-inspector Rahul Pratap Singh got information that Junaid alias Rehan, a resident of Sector-9, has put a photo of Ibrahim on his X account.

A case has been registered against accused Junaid under section 196 (1) (B) (disturbing harmony among communities) of the BNS and the matter is being investigated, he said.

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Prakasam:

A 16-year-old intermediate student gave birth to a stillborn baby in the bathroom of a government girls’ hostel at Kothapatnam in Andhra Pradesh’s Prakasam district.

The student, a first-year intermediate student at the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV), had been living in the hostel for the past two months.

According to school authorities, the student had been complaining of stomach pain and was taken to the bathroom, where she gave birth to a stillborn baby. The incident happened on Wednesday when the student failed to return to her classroom after a long time, and her classmates informed the teachers.

The student, a resident of Cheemakurthi Mandal, had joined the KGBV on June 19 and had been attending classes regularly. She had gone home for a week and returned to the hostel, where she had been living with other students.

The school authorities claimed they were unaware of the student’s pregnancy, and it was only when she failed to return to her classroom that they discovered what had happened. The student was taken to the RIMS hospital in Ongole for medical attention.

Kothapatanam Circle Inspector Jagadish stated that a sixteen-year-old girl gave birth in a college washroom at Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya. The college staff noticed she had not come out of the washroom for a long time. A lady lecturer went in and found a baby boy lying dead beside her. They informed the police, who rushed to the spot and shifted the girl to RIMS Hospital in Ongole.

A case has been registered, and a person from Chimakurthi is suspected to be involved in the incident.

Further investigation into the matter is underway.

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Noida:

Two men were arrested for allegedly selling juice contaminated with their spits here, police said on Sunday.

The alleged incident took place on Saturday evening at a juice stall located near Garhi Chaukhandi village in Sector 121 when a local resident, Satish Bhatia, went there to have juice, they said.

“An FIR was lodged at the local phase 3 police station on Sunday morning and later in the day both the accused — Jamshed (30) and Sonu alias Sahabe Alam — were taken into police custody,” a police spokesperson said.

The accused were booked under sections 153A(1)(b) (disturbing public tranquility), 270 (malignant act of spreading infection of disease dangerous to life) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the spokesperson said.

Further appropriate legal action has been initiated against the accused in the case, the official added.

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Noida:

In a concerted effort to maintain public order, the Gautam Buddh Nagar Police conducted a daylong campaign and targeted individuals consuming alcohol in public spaces across Noida and Greater Noida, taking action against 670 people, officials said on Sunday.

“Operation Street Safe” was carried out on Saturday on the instructions of Police Commissioner Laxmi Singh across all three police zones of the district.

“Across the three zones of Noida, Central Noida, and Greater Noida, a total of 4,630 individuals were checked during the operation, leading to action against 670 individuals under Section 290 (public nuisance) of IPC (Indian Penal Code),” a police spokesperson said.

Led by Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Vidya Sagar Mishra, the Noida zone police conducted checks at 46 locations, including Sector 51 VDS Market, Haridarshan Chowki Sector 12, and several village areas.

“A total of 1,807 individuals were inspected and 221 offenders booked in the Noida zone,” the official said.

In the Central zone, the campaign was supervised by DCP Suniti as the police inspected 28 locations, such as Yakubpur Tiraha and the area near NSEZ liquor shop.

“They checked 1,860 individuals, resulting in 258 being booked under Section 290,” the spokesperson said.

DCP Saad Miya Khan led the operations in the Greater Noida zone, covering 33 locations, including Ansal Plaza and Pari Chowk, and, out of 963 individuals checked, 191 were booked for creating public nuisance, the official added.

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