The Asian Age

Pas Partout Cato Giles

- AGE CORRESPOND­ENT

The Delhi police arrested four sharpshoot­ers of Neeraj Bawana gang. The accused were involved in several criminal cases, the police said. DCP ( Outer) Seju P Kuruvilla said that the accused criminals have been identified as Satish ( 30) of Bahadurgar­h in Haryana, Amit alias Toto ( 23) of Bakkarwala in Delhi, and Hemant ( 22) and Amit alias Daku ( 22) from Jhajjar in Haryana. One country- made pistol, three live cartridges, and a car have been recovered from them. Accused Satish and Toto were previously found to be involved in five cases each, while Hemant and Amit were involved in an attempted murder case in Jhajjar. Following a tip off, a trap was laid. At around 2.55 am, the accused were seen driving a car. Seeing the police, Satish came out of the car while brandishin­g a countrymad­e pistol. However, they were overpowere­d by police. The accused revealed that they wanted to carjack a luxury car so that they could use the vehicle for further activities of their gang, the DCP added. In a related incident, a criminal who was carrying a bounty of 1 lakh was arrested by the sleuths of Crime Branch. The accused was wanted in a double murder case. New Delhi: Around 300 nurses of a private hospital in Delhi are on a strike for the second day demanding minimum wages as per the Supreme Court recommenda­tions. The nurses at the Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre in south Delhi have alleged that they had been forced to work for extra hours and were not being paid accordingl­y. Their other demands include maintenanc­e of the nursepatie­nt ratio as per the norms of the National Accreditat­ion Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers ( NABH), annual increments, implementa­tion of the maternity leave policy and insurance coverage, said a member of the nurses’ union. The nurses have submitted their list of demands to the management, besides putting forth their complaints to Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain and the Nursing Council of India. “There is paucity of staff and the management makes the nurses work overtime and does not even pay for that,” said Joldin, general secretary, United Nurses Associatio­n- Delhi.

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