Officials said relief camps have been set up at 38 locations across Delhi, with 522 tents installed at 27 sites to accommodate those displaced. (Express photo by Abhinav Saha)Delhi-NCR Weather Highlights: Moderate rainfall with thunderstorm and lightning is likely to occur at isolated places in Delhi (Karawal Nagar, Dilshad Garden, Seemapuri, Vivek Vihar), NCR (Loni Dehat, Hindon AF Station, Ghaziabad, Indirapuram, Chhapraula, Dadri) Assandh, Safidon, Gannaur (Haryana) Baraut, Bagpat, Khekra, Pilakhua, Gulaoti, Sikandrabad, Bulandshahar, Jahangirabad, Anupshahar, Shikarpur, Debai (UP). The water level in the Yamuna was recorded at 205.56 metres at 8 am on Sunday at the Old Railway Bridge, which is below the 206 metre evacuation mark officials said.
Lawyers’ protest: The Bar Council of India (BCI) urged the coordination committee of all district court bar associations of Delhi to defer or recall its indefinite strike call from September 8 in protest against L-G V K Saxena’s August 13 notification allowing police personnel to give evidence to courts from police stations via video conferencing.
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Life in a tent: Families from the Yamuna Khadar, whose homes were inundated by the river, are left with no option but to live on the roads. The conical white tents outside Shastri Park Metro station stand in a straight line, their canvas flapping in the wind. Step closer and you’ll see damp mats spread on the ground, clothes strung across ropes to dry, utensils washed in plastic tubs of muddy water. In the absence of beds, people sleep on plywood boards pulled from scrap, thermocol and foam sheets that bend under weight, or on rickshaw carts. Inside one tent, an elderly woman pointed to a corner where a small polythene bag sat. “This is all that is left,” said Kamlawati.
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