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Baljeet Singh Malik,one of the accused in TV scribe Soumya Vishwanathan murder case,has requested a city court to discharge him,claiming the police had miserably failed to link him with the crime.

Soumya case: accused moves plea
Baljeet Singh Malik,one of the accused in TV scribe Soumya Vishwanathan murder case,has requested a city court to discharge him,claiming the police had miserably failed to link him with the crime. Malik moved an application before ASJ S K Sarvaria and said he should be freed because the chargesheet submitted by investigators did not attribute any role to him in the case. The court is expected to take up his plea on Monday.

Cultural programme
Renaissance Artists and Writers Association (RAWA),the cultural wing of Ananda Marga Pracharak Sangh,organised a symposium cum lively cultural evening on Saturday evening. Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar organised the programme and it began with an invocation dance by Dr Yamini Krishnamurti. The guest list included Padmabhushan Raja Radha Reddy,Prof B B Bhattacharya,VC of JNU and Prof Priyadarshi Mukherji,Chairperson,Centre for Chinese and South-East Asian Studies.

Goods worth Rs 25 lakh looted
Unidentified persons robbed a truck and fled with articles worth Rs 25 lakh in North Delhi area,police said on Sunday. About 10 people stopped the truck transporting articles from Khan Market to Uttar Pradesh,near Timarpur last night and looted it after attacking the driver,police said. Robbers first attacked the driver and took the truck to an isolated place in Rithala area and transferred the articles into another truck and fled,police said. No arrests have been made so far.

Two factories catch fire
Two factories on Lawrence Road in Keshavpuram industrial area were ravaged by fire on Sunday. The police suspect a short circuit may have caused the fire. No casualties were reported. At 3.20 in the afternoon,a shoe factory Hero went up in flames and soon the fire spread to another factory that manufactures mobile chargers. The police said 21 fire tenders were sent to douse the fire at 3.30 pm. It was a major fire but luckily there was no casualty. We were able to control the fire in more than an hour, a fire official said.

Woman commits suicide
A woman died on Saturday night at Vaishali in Ghaziabad after allegedly jumping off the 11th floor of a residential building. The police said prima facie the death looks like a case of suicide. The body has been sent for postmortem. Pallavi was found in a pool of blood near Vaishali Apartments,where she used to live,on Saturday night. She was rushed to the nearby Yashoda Hospital in Kaushambi where she succumbed to injuries later.

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