Three from Bawaria gang held in Gurugram
GURUGRAM: Three members from dreaded Bawaria gang were arrested by the crime branch of Gurugram Police on late Saturday night.
The trio was arrested from Bilaspur area from the outskirts of Gurugram.
The police recovered one stolen auto- rickshaw, one country-made pistol and 11 live cartridges from them.
Those arrested have been identified as Dharamveer, Bunty Panwar and Ajay. While Dharamveer and Bunty are from Rewari district of Haryana, Ajay belongs from Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan.
With this, there have been total of four members of Bawaria gang that have been arrested by Gurugram Police. All the four will now be interrogated by the police personnel to know what criminal activities they were planning to commit in the city.
Active in western Uttar Pradesh, members of Bawaria gang are involved in various incidents of heist, rape and murders.
The three were arrested after a tip-off that certain member of Bawaria gang were present in the city and were carrying out a recce of the area. The arrest of members of Bawaria gang has highlighted the dangers of gangs of outside regions now carrying out criminal activities in Gurugram and its outskirts.
On Friday, a family was looted of lakhs in amount in Farukhnagar in which the members of Kaccha-baniyan gang are believed to be involved. On Saturday, the Gurugram Police also arrested members of a Delhi-based gang that used to rob people along NH-8 on the pretext of giving them lift.
“The police are always on a vigil to keep a look at these gangs who come from the outside states to carry out crimes. We have been successful in arresting most of these criminals,” said a senior police official from Gurugram Police. NEW DELHI: A question by a transgender from Cochin during a video-conference prompted the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to exempt fee for the students from the community, its vice chancellor has said.
During the video-conference meeting last month, one of the participants asked as to what has the Indira Gandhi National Open University done for the community.
In his impulsive answer, Vice Chancellor Ravindra Kumar announced the university is going to make it free for the community.
"Everything fell in place after the announcement," the VC said. Starting this year, instead of "Others", the varsity has included "Transgender" category in its admission form.
"We don't want to categorise and create further divide, but initially they will need a push to make them feel secure and confident," noted Kumar, who feels such initiatives will give them the much-needed push.
The IGNOU will also set up dedicated learning support centres, apart from libraries and Internet facility, exclusively for the community at every regional centre.
"If we could give them the identity of a student, their status will be elevated. None will ask your gender if you are a student, lawyer, doctor or a professor," the VC said.
Since the introduction of "Others" category in the admission form in 2012, IGNOU has enrolled 661 students from across the country to its various programmes, mostly from Delhi, Jammu, Ranchi, Bhubaneshwar, Agartala, Imphal and Itanagar. NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has directed the Centre and the Aam Aadmi Party government to run an awareness campaign informing the general public about their rights in the event of arrest or detention by the police in criminal cases.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar observed that there were Supreme Court judgements stating that no automatic arrest or detention can be made by the police, even in non-bailable and cognizable offences.
It noted that pursuant to the apex court's direction, the police has also issued standing orders in this regard, but the public appeared to be ignorant of their rights in the event of an arrest. The Supreme Court, in its ruling, had emphasised on the need of caution while exercising the drastic power of arrest, which has for years, been treated as a tool of harassment, oppression in the hands of the police authorities and greatly contributed to police corruption in India.
"Respondents (Centre and Delhi government) shall ensure that steps are taken forthwith to disseminate information about the standing order (issued in October 2008 by the Delhi police) setting up guidelines for arrest.
"The same should be published in the vernacular languages and circulated amongst the public. A copy there of be made available to every person upon their arrest," the bench said. The court's direction came on a plea by Subhash Vijayran who had alleged that the governments were violating the mandate of Article 22(2) of the Constitution taking advantage of the ignorance regarding the rights of the citizens.
An accused may be kept in detention beyond 24 hours of his arrest only when authorised by the Magistrate, it added.