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A special two-day session of Delhi Assembly is likely to be held around mid-May to discuss various public issues and to pass a Bill to regulate the fees charged by private schools in the capital, the ruling BJP said on Sunday.

A BJP legislative party meeting was held at the Secretariat to discuss the preparations for the upcoming Assembly session, which was attended by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, Cabinet ministers and BJP MLAs, Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood told reporters.

"The likely dates for the Assembly session are May 13-14, although the Cabinet is yet to take a final call on it," a BJP MLA said after the meeting.

The Delhi Cabinet on April 29 approved a draft Bill to regulate fees at all private schools in the capital, with Chief Minister Gupta saying that a special session of the Assembly will be convened to pass the Delhi School Education Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees Bill, 2025.

The Bill recommends steep penalties as well as cancellation of registration of schools found involved in unauthorised fee hikes or harassment of students on that pretext. (PTI)

A businessman returning home from work was injured after being shot at by unidentified assailants on a motorcycle in central Delhi's Tilak Marg, a police official said on Sunday.

According to police sources, Rajendra, a Noida resident who owns a perfume shop in Chandni Chowk, was returning home when he was attacked near Bhairon temple at around 10.15 pm on Friday.

"The attackers, who had allegedly been trailing Rajendra, opened fire near the temple. Despite sustaining injuries, he managed to alert his business associate who took him to a hospital," police said. The man is currently undergoing treatment.

The hospital authorities informed police, who have registered an attempt to murder case.

According to police, preliminary probe suggests that the attack could have been carried out in a robbery bid, though nothing was stolen.

CCTV footage from the area is being examined to identify the suspects and trace their route, police said. (PTI)

Delhi PWD Minister Parvesh Verma on Saturday announced a 21-day special campaign for cleaning civic infrastructure, including roads, drains and flyovers, and removing the beggars staying underneath the flyovers from there.

Following a visit to the New Delhi area, Verma held a meeting with officials and discussed the flood-prevention strategy, stressing that every department -- from the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and the Public Works Department (PWD) -- is aligned in ensuring smooth execution.

"In the next 21 days, all of Delhi must be clean. Roadside debris, open drains, waterlogged areas -- everything must be cleared. No dirty spots should remain. We will not let public money go waste," Verma said. (PTI)

The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday accused the BJP government of repackaging the Atishi-led dispensation's electric 'Mohalla Buses' project, inaugurated last October, as Delhi Electric Vehicle Initiative (DEVI) to take "undue credit".

A day after Chief Minister Rekha Gupta inaugurated 400 new electric buses under the DEVI project to provide connectivity to areas inaccessible by standard 12-metre buses, AAP's Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj termed it a "blatant attempt to mislead the public".

"The BJP is re-inaugurating the same Mohalla buses that were flagged off by the AAP government last year. This is a blatant attempt to mislead the public and take credit for a scheme that was already operational," he claimed.

He said the electric 'Mohalla Buses' project was launched in October 2024 with a contract awarded to the Central government entity CESL to maintain transparency and prevent any corruption allegations.

"If the buses were non-compliant in October, how did they suddenly become compliant in April 2025? Or did the BJP government simply ignore the tender rules and put the buses on the roads for the sake of optics?" he asked.

Bharadwaj demanded a CBI inquiry into the matter, calling it a potential scam involving thousands of crores. (PTI)

The Delhi High Court has sought the CBI's response to a plea seeking an investigation into allegations of corruption and financial misconduct in the operations of a shopping mall project in the national capital.

Justice Girish Kathpalia issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the petition which also sought registration of an FIR under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the criminal penal law.

The court, in its April 30 order, listed the matter for further hearing on May 27.

The plea alleged that several government officials, real estate developers, corporate tenants, and sub-registrars were also involved in the multi-crore "land scam".

It alleged that corporate entities, their directors, government officials and sub-lessees have conspired to defraud the public exchequer and unlawfully create third-party interests in the property despite the termination of its perpetual lease deed by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA).

The petition claimed there was a financial fraud of over Rs 100 crore, causing a loss to the public exchequer in unpaid dues including ground rent. (PTI)

A decomposed body of a 32-year-old man was found inside a locked house in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar area, police said on Saturday.

Police on Friday received a call from a woman who reported that her brother, Subhbrata Ghosh Chaudhry, had been missing for the past almost a week and his phone was unreachable.

A police team went to Chaudhry's house, where a cousin of his was already waiting.

"The house was locked from inside. When the team broke open the door, it found a decomposed body of Subhbrata lying inside," an officer said.

The body was in an advanced state of decomposition, the officer said, but there were no signs of foul play, prima facie.

The matter was booked under section 194 (dealing with unnatural, suspicious deaths) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the body was sent for post-mortem, he added. (PTI)