Aspiring wrestler wanted in assault case arrested

An aspiring wrestler, who was wanted in a case of assaulting excise officials, was arrested by the Delhi police. The accused was also found to be involved in smuggling liquor in Delhi. The accused had earlier participated in several state level wrestling competitions or dangals. According to the police, on the intervening night of October 3- 4 the accused along with his seven to eight associates thrashed excise officials with iron rods and sticks. The latter were deployed in Bawana area to curb the activities of bootleggers. Following this, a non- bailable warrant was issued against the accused by the court. Pawan Kumar, alias Pony, attacked two policemen attached to the Delhi excise department deployed to curb the activities of the bootleggers. On the day of the incident, he was waiting in his private Santro car for the other team members. In the meantime, a gang of bootleggers, equipped with iron rods and sticks, came there and assaulted the excise officials. The accused persons broke the windshields of their car and thrashed them brutally. They were retaliating as the excise staff regularly booked their men, vehicles, and illicit liquor. In this incident, head constable Jaibhagwan, constable Sunil Kumar, and constable Harpawan Jeet of the excise department were injured. During the course of investigation, Govind, Mannu, and Naseem were arrested. New Delhi, April 17: The Delhi high court was on Tuesday informed that the Delhi Assembly secretary, whose repatriation to his parent department — the All- India Radio ( AIR) — had become a contentious issue between the Speaker and the lieutenantgovernor, has been sent back with effect from February 26. The development was communicated to the high court on behalf of Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, who had been opposing the repatriation of House secretary Prasanna Kumar Suryadevara even though the then lieutenant- governor ( LG) Najeeb Jung had ordered that he be sent back to AIR. The counsel for Mr Goel also told the court that since Mr Suryadevara has been repatriated, the Speaker was not pressing the plea challenging the L- G’s decision to send him back. In view of the submission made on behalf of the Speaker, Justice Rajiv Shakdher dismissed the matter as not pressed.