Helmets now mandatory to be sold with two-wheelers

NOIDA/GHAZIABAD: The Regional Transport Office (RTO) has notified all the two-wheeler distributors across Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddh Nagar district that they will now have to sell a helmet along with their bikes and scooters, or risk having their dealership license will be cancelled, said RTO officials.

“As per the directions issued by Uttar Pradesh Transport Commissioner on February 25, 2016, the rule applies to all the two-wheeler dealers in the state that it is mandatory to sell a helmet along with the bikes and scooters. The commission mentioned that each dealer would have to give BSI certified helmets as original equipment. No vehicle would be registered by the authorities without it,” the RTO mentioned in the notice.

“Though the orders had been issued a year before, some dealers are still selling the vehicles without helmets. It is stringent for all the agencies to follow these rules. We have again issued notices to all the two-wheeler dealers. The record is maintained in the RTO. We insisted the dealers to attach the original bill of the helmet along with the sale documents in the RTO. We will now look into the records we have with us. Strict actions will be taken against those found on fault” said Mayank Jyoti, Regional Transport Officer.

The order would restrict the people’s choice to buy their own helmet.

Moreover, it would also force a person to buy a helmet again when he buys a new two-wheeler. This might burden those who already have a helmet.

With the arrest of a husband-wife duo, Delhi Police have busted a network of thieves who have been involved in a spate of house thefts in posh colonies of the city.

The accused have been identified as Vijay Singh (43) and Manisha (35), both residents of Odisha. Additionally, stolen items including diamond jewellery and electronic items worth over Rs 80 lakh have been recovered from the accused.

The case came to light on March 19, when the complainant in the case Nishu Tripathi reported that she had left with her husband for some function and when she returned she found her diamond jewellery NOIDA: A senior journalist of a local news channel was booked for allegedly molesting a woman from Gwalior, police said on Wednesday.

The woman was lured on the pretext of getting a job in his news channel, stated cops.

“The woman, who hails from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, has registered a complaint. She said that through some sources came in to the contact with a journalist who work in a local news channel of Noida. Sanjay Karan, the accused, called her to Noida on the pretext of making her the market distributor of the media firm.

"Her accommodation was arranged by him at a guest house situated in Noida Sector-50, where the accused molested her and asked her to have physical relations with him if she wants to get the job” said Bijendra Singh Bhadana, Station House Officer, Sector-49 police station, Noida.

“Based on the complaint, an FIR has been registered against the accused for sexual harassment with the lady under section 234/17, 354, 354/D and 506 IPC. We are investigating the matter” added Bhadana.

According to the complainant, she was in contact with the accused for the past one month.

After she landed in the city, the accused not only demanded a physical intimacy but also money from her.

When the woman refused his proposal, he started misbehaving and forced her into a physical relationship.

The woman somehow managed to flee the spot. Also, she was threatened of dire consequences if she lodged any complain against the accused. worth Rs 50 lakh had been stolen.

She told the police that her maid Manisha, who had been hired a day prior to the incident, was missing. The case was registered at Vasant Kunj (North) police station.

“We analysed the cell phone number reportedly belonging to the maid and it was found switched off. We also received inputs that the maid had come to Delhi only a couple of months ago. When the placement agencies working in the area were searched to obtain clues, it was learnt that over the past few months many such agencies had opened and later shut down in a short period of time. A search for these closed placement agencies revealed that most of them were being NOIDA: Noida Special Task Force arrested a wanted contract killer, who was accused in the murder of a Block Basic Education Officer in Aligarh.

The accused murderer is a sharp shooter of Neeru gang and around four cases of murder, Arms Act and Gangster Act have been registered against him, said police officials.

The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) have turned strict in all the wanted criminals.

On Tuesday, the Noida STF team arrested the accused Pramod Kumar Sharma (23), a contract killer and a sharp shooter who was wanted in around four cases including murder of Jitendra Sanger, Block Basic Education Officer on December 19, 2016. run by the accused,” said a senior police official.

Soon, police received a new set of numbers belonging to the couple. They were traced to a location in Nizamuddin and arrested upon identification.

The interrogation of the couple revealed that since 2005, they had started and closed various placement agencies beginning with Kalka Maid Services’ at Kilokari in New Delhi’s Ashram area.

In each such venture, they used to send chosen members of their gang as maid servants to prospective clients.

After winning their confidence, they would find an opportune moment and steal the house owners’ belongings and return to their native place in Odisha

“On Tuesday, we received a tip-off that Pramod is travelling to Noida from Aligarh district. A police team was sent immediately and the accused was arrested from Qwarsi area near Aligarh. He was a sharp shooter of Neeru gang and used to commit crimes on a contract basis,” said Raj Kumar Mishra, Deputy Superintendent of Police, STF.

“After interrogating Pramod, we came to know that Neeru Tiger – the gang leader who is in jail in a murder case – use to give him directions from the jail itself. Tiger has been charged with the murder of a village head in 2015. Pramod, Another member of the gang involved in the murder of Senger was Ram Singh, who later surrendered before the Hathras police station and was sentenced under Section 384 IPC,” added Mishra. GURUGRAM: Being unaware of role of civic agencies, most of the residents of the millennium city go to the cops for solving their civic woes.

A large number of complaints are being registered with the Gurugram Police , social media platforms on the prevalent civic woes in the city only to be then directed by the Gurugram Police towards the relevant agencies.

Increased encroachments, increase in the number of stray animals, dumping of garbage at the vacant plots, illegal constructions and even poor lighting at the streets of the city are the most common complaints received by the Gurugram Police in the social media sites.

“The Gurugram Police has a dedicated social media platform for helping the residents in Gurugram. Besides the problem that to pertains to Gurugram Police we are also receiving a large number of complaints on the civic problems in the city. Some of the major problems involve dumping of garbage in the vacant plots, poor conditions of footpaths, roads and street lighting in the area. We ultimately direct the residents to the relevant agencies like HUDA and MCG,” said a senior official from Gurugram Police.

When asked on the increased number of complaints and the disconnect of citizens in the city with the civic agencies, the official said, “I will not be the right authority to comment on the issue. However, on the positive note it can be seen that Gurugram Police continues to be popular with the citizens in solving the problems."

Speaking on the complaints of civic woes being addressed to Gurugram Police, Dhruv Bansal Gurugram Citizens Council highlighted the fact by saying that,

"The large number of complaints being highlighted to Gurugram Police highlights the failure of the civic agencies to connect with the citizens. Today there are various problems in the city like illegal encroachments, dumping of garbage at the vacant sites for which MCG is accountable. However, residents do not know about the role of MCG along with other Government agencies.”

“Another major problem why citizens are not aware of the civic agencies is because of the multiplicity of the agencies which are at work in the city, “Bansal further added.

Recently, a majority of the personnel of Gurugram police had to work overtime in the face of the agitation announced by members of the Jat community. The agitators were demanding reservation in government jobs and educational institutions. GREATER NOIDA: A professor from ITS College was thrashed and dragged by a car for over a kilometre when he tried to stop the vehicle moving in the wrong direction and advised the driver to obey traffic rules.

The victim, Kuldeep Malik, from Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, along with his other team members runs a traffic awareness campaign in Greater Noida under which any person found flouting the traffic rules are stopped and advised.

“On Wednesday morning around 6:30 am, I was with my team members near Beta-2 roundabout. As there is a CNG pump, we found many vehicles driving back in the wrong direction of the road after getting their vehicle filled. We stopped them and advised to drive in the correct direction and obey traffic rules.

"As we stopped a Maruti Alto car with registration number UP 16 Z 2400, the young driver misbehaved with us and tried to ram the car into me. I somehow managed to jump on to the bonnet of the car and got the hold on the wipers. He dragged me to around one kilometer and also hit two vehicles who tried to stop him while I was dangling on the bonnet of the car. After a kilometer when a car tried to stop him he applied sudden brakes which made me fell on the road thus getting some injuries as well,” said Malik.

He also stated that their team has been working to create traffic awareness among people for the past two months.

“Though we don’t have permission to run such a campaign it doesn’t mean that someone can commit a crime like this to us," added Kuldeep Malik.

The Regional Transport Office has notified all two-wheeler distributors across Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddh Nagar district