Delhi court awards over Rs 59L to husband of doctor killed in road accident EOW nabs pvt firm director for duping over 500 people

NEW DELHI: A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has awarded over Rs 59 lakh as compensation to the husband of a 29-year-old doctor who was killed after being hit by a tractor in 2008 here.

The offending tractor with an open trolley had hit the car in which south Delhi-resident Pooja Verma, a third-year PG student then, was travelling with her husband and his family on the Delhi-mathura road near Haryana.

Verma was pursuing MD in Biochemistry from Lady Hardinge Medical College.

MACT presiding officer Sameer Bajpai awarded the compensation to the husband of Verma, who was a qualified MBBS doctor working with Lady Harding Medical College & Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, New Delhi.

"The petitioner has successfully established on record that Pooja Verma succumbed to the injuries sustained in the road accident due to rash and negligent driving of vehicle... Therefore, this issue is decided in favour of the petitioners and against the respondents," the court said.

On December 14, 2008, Verma was travelling with her husband Manasvi Kumar and his father, mother and sister when the offending tractor turned towards them on the highway and dashed their vehicle, the complaint filed by Kumar said.

In his complaint, Kumar also stated that he was not employed at the time of his wife's death and therefore was completely dependent upon her.

However, the court noted that since Kumar was remarried now, therefore he was not entitled to get any compensation towards loss of dependency. NEW DELHI: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police has arrested a director of a private company for cheating more than 500 people through various fraud schemes.

Police identified the accused as Dharmender who lives in Tri Nagar. He was managing director of BLS Realty Infra India Ltd.

Additional Commissioner of Police (EOW) OP Mishra told that the accused raised public money through various schemes like FDS, RDS and Kishan Vikash Patra.

"More than 500 to 600 people are victims in the case. He had fled from Delhi after closing the registered office," said Additional CP.

In August, EOW has registered a case against a private company for cheating.

The complainant in the case alleged that he was duped on the pretext of earning profit by investing in various schemes of the private firm.

According to police, a case was registered on the statement of one Daya who lives in Kirti Nagar Delhi against BLS Realty Infra India Ltd, BLS Cooperation Credit Society and officials including directors.

"Complainant has alleged that the company has raise deposits in various schemes like fixed deposit (FDS), Recurring Deposit (RDS), Daily Plan etc. Complainant deposited Rs 1,68,000 in RDS and Kishan Patra since Dec 2016 and after maturity, his money was not returned," police said.

The investigating further added that the complainant alleged that there are 600 to 700 victims who deposited money in the various schemes of the alleged company besides him. The director of the company has fled after closing the registered office at Anand Nagar in Inderok.