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Sharma-Dawood nexus: Police claim enough proofNEW DELHI: Delhi Police has said there is sufficient evidence to show controversial politic...

Sharma-Dawood nexus: Police claim enough proof

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has said there is sufficient evidence to show controversial politician Romesh Sharma’s link with Dubai-based Don Dawood Ibrahim and his having taken help of Dawood henchman Abu Salem for extortion of money and grabbing of properties. Police in two separate chargesheets filed before two city magistrates today and earlier this week alleged that Sharma had taken help of Salem in grabbing a house at Lajpat Nagar in South Delhi in August last year and in extorting Rs 50 lakh from a city businessman.

Train mishap

CALCUTTA: Fourteen persons were injured, three of them seriously, when five rear bogies of 315 up Howrah-Adra-Chakradharpur Fast Passenger derailed between Salboni and Chakradharpur stations, about 158 kms from here, on the South-Eastern Railway’s Adra division in the early hours today, according to railway sources here.

CPI leader dead

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NEW DELHI: CPI leader and women’s activist Vimla Farooqi passed awayhere this morning after a heart attack. She was 75. Farooqi, one of the founder members of the National Federation of Indian Women, is survived by a son and daughter-in-law. Born in Rawalpindi, she migrated with her parents to Delhi after Partition and joined the Communist Party in 1948.

Scribes killed

BHUBANESWAR: Two journalists were killed and three others seriously injured when the car in which they were travelling dashed against a tree near Begunia, about 45 km from here, in the wee hours today. The scribes were on their way from Bolangir to Cuttack to attend a two-day conference of Orissa Union of Journalists, affiliated to the NUJ, beginning today.

UP cold wave

LUCKNOW: The plains of Uttar Pradesh continued to reel under cold wave with dense fog affecting normal life. There was an fall in night temperature in various places in Agra, Allahabad and Varanasi divisions, while Aligarh recorded the lowest temperature of five degree, Met office reports said. Sixty-one have died sofar.

MP arms racket

GUNA: Three members of an inter-state gang involved in illegal manufacture of arms were arrested by police yesterday. Police arrested a person at Guna railway station and seized from him an unlicensed weapon which he claimed to have brought from one Sunderlal Lohar.

J&K ultras held

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NEW DELHI: Delhi Police today claimed to have averted a major terrorist activity in the Capital on the eve of the Republic Day with the arrest of two Kashmiri militants from the walled city area. Bashir Ahmed Billo and Mohd Asraf alias Golo were arrested in Jama Masjid area yesterday following a tip off that the two were staying in a guest house.