Nikki Yadav & Sahil were married, say Delhi cops

NIA SEIZES 3 VEHICLES USED FOR MILITANCY PURPOSES IN J&K

Man Held In Goa For Possessing Narcotics

Panaji: Goa police on Saturday arrested a man with ‘ganja’ (narcotics) valued at Rs 2.6 lakh. The raid was conducted in Calangute area after receiving tip-off. “We had specific information that one person will come to deliver a narcotic substance to his prospective customers. We conducted a raid and nabbed one Rampriya Kumar, a native of Bihar, with 2.61 kg of narcotic substance,” police said.

Guwahati: Unidentified assailants attacked a lawyer with acid in Assam’s Kokrajhar district, police said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday in Gossaigaon area. The victim was identified as Abdus Samad Ahmed, a resident of Padmabil village who represents the Gossaigaon Lawyer’s Association as a senior advocate.

The assailants reportedly broke into Ahmend’s house and hurled acid on his face. He was immediately rushed to the hospital, the police said.

munition were recovered from their possession including one pistol, two pistol magazines and 13 live pistol rounds.

They have been identified as Mohd Abass Wagay, a resident of Imamsahab; Gowhar Shafi Mir and Nisar Rehman Sheikh, both resi-

G20 delegates to do yoga daily in Gurugram

Chandigarh: Delegates for the first Anti-Corruption Working Group Meeting of G20 nations slated in Gurugram from March 1 to 4 will do yoga daily and the host Haryana is providing instructors for holding sessions, state CM’s Additional Principal Secretary Amit Agrawal said on Saturday.

Reviewing preparations for organising the summit, Agrawal said the day of the participants would begin with a yoga session.

“All participants from different countries will be invited for the yoga session in the morning. Efficient yoga instructors will be provided for them and protocol yoga exercises, which are usually performed on International Yoga Day, will be practiced during their three-day stay at Hotel Leela,” he said.

In virtual meeting, Agrawal said it is a matter of pride for India to have presidency of G-20 Summit and it’s an opportunity to showcase Haryana’s cultural heritage to foreign delegates.

dents of DK Pora in Shopian.

“All the three persons were detained and after sustained interrogation, it was revealed that they were involved in terror crimes and were providing support to terror organisation,” police said.

Srinagar: The NIA on Saturday seized three vehicles used for militancy purposes in J&K. The case pertains to arrest of four accused persons, including two active terrorists of Hizb-ulMujahideen (HM), who were going out of J&K to commit militant acts in a car. “Based on information, this car was intercepted at Al-Stop naka on Srinagar-Jammu Highway on 11.01.2020. During search, one AK-47 Rifle, 3 pistols, 1 hand grenade, ammunition and other incriminating material were recovered and seized,” the NIA said in a statement.

7 die, 20 hurt in two accidents in MP’s Sagar, Dewas districts

Sagar/Dewas (PTI): Seven persons were killed in two accidents in Sagar and Dewas districts in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday.

In Sagar, four passengers, including a woman, were killed and 20 persons were injured after a speeding bus overturned at Niwar Ghati, 70 kilometres from the district headquarters, on the road leading to Chhatarpur, SP Tarun Nayak said.

The incident took place at 6am under Chhanbila police station limits and the bus was proceeding from Indore to Chhatarpur, he said.

“Three critically injured persons have been sent to Sagar district hospital. The deceased are yet to be identified,” the SP said.

In the second accident, a couple in the 4550 age group, and their 18-year-old daughter died after their motorcycle was hit by a car near Ramnagar village in the morning, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP)

2 KILLED AS MOTORCYCLE CRASHES WITH BUS IN MALDA Englishbazar (PTI):

Two people were killed after their motorcycle crashed with a minibus in West Bengal’s Malda district on Saturday, the police said. The incident happened in Dangapara in the Bamangola police station area, they said. The deceased were identified as Surajit Khan (24) and Pankaj Ray (19), they added. Their bodies were sent to the Malda Medical College and Hospital for post-mortem examination, police said. The bus has been seized and an investigation started, the police said.

Suryakant Sharma said.

“The couple died at Khategaon’s government hospital while their daughter succumbed on the way to hospital in Indore,” Sharma said.

The incident took place 140 kilometres away from Dewas district headquarters, he added.

New Delhi (ANI): In yet another revelation in the Nikki Yadav murder case, Delhi Police on Saturday said that the accused Sahil Gahlot and the deceased girl were married and not just live-in partners.

Officials of the Crime Branch after interrogating Sahil, accused of strangulating Nikki, 25 with a phone’s data cable and stuffing her body in the refrigerator of his family-owned dhaba in Mitraon village in South West Delhi, revealed that the duo had solemnised their marriage in an Arya Samaj Temple three years ago. “During police interrogation, Sahil disclosed that Nikki had been asking him not to marry another girl because both had already solemnised their marriage in 2020 and were actually husband and wife and not live-in partners,” police said.

116 fresh Covid cases in India

New Delhi (PTI): India on Saturday recorded 116 fresh COVID-19 infections, while the number of active cases increased to 1,867, Union health ministry said. With this, the number of COVID-19 cases has increased to 4.46 crore (4,46,84,775). The death toll stands at 5,30,757, the data stated. The active cases now comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.81 per cent, the ministry website said. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,41,52,151. The case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent.

Sahil told police that Nikki was repeatedly objecting to his impending marriage, fixed by his family on February 10.

Fed up with her repeated objections, Sahil planned to kill Nikki and executed the murder along with his accomplices- family mem- bers and acquaintances, on February 10 on the day of his second marriage,” Special CP Ravinder Yadav said. Delhi Police earlier told ANI that the Crime Branch had arrested five persons, including Sahil’s father in connection with the case.

Scholarship scam: ED raids 22 locations in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted raids across 22 locations in six districts of Uttar Pradesh in connection with “fraudulent” availment of postmatriculation scholarships by various educational institutes across the state.

Several institutes/ colleges “unlawfully” availed scholarships in the names of several ineligible candidates and “misappropriated” the same for their use, an ED statement said.

The scholarship is provided by the central and state governments to facilitate the education of SC, ST, PH (physically handicapped or differently-abled) candidates, and students

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from minority communities and economically weaker sections. Therefore, the scholarship scam has a huge social impact on the weaker sections of society, the ED statement said.