Articles by Snehal Tripathi
Liquor ban: Shops, bars down shutters on NH-8 after Supreme Court’s order
The Supreme Court had ordered to close liquor vends falling within 500 metres of the state and national highways. According to the Delhi excise department, about 50 restaurants and hotels serving licensed on and around NH-8 liquor have been shut.
Updated on Apr 04, 2017 10:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Court summons former Delhi law minister Tomar as an accused in fake degree case
Former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar has been summoned as an accused by a court which took cognisance of the charge sheet in a fake degree case.
Updated on Mar 29, 2017 12:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Delhi hit-and-run: Parents allowed teenager to drive without licence for 3 years
The 17-year-old boy, who crushed management student Siddharth Sharma on April 4 in 2016 under the wheels of his Mercedes car, was allowed to drive without a licence for three years by his parents.
Updated on Mar 26, 2017 08:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Jaitley defamation case: Court frames notices against Kejriwal, five other AAP leaders
Updated on Mar 26, 2017 07:49 AM IST
Jaitley-DDCA defamation case: Kejriwal, 5 AAP leaders to face trial from May 20
In December 2015, Jaitley filed a civil defamation case against these leaders claiming they made “false and defamatory” statements in a case involving the DDCA.
Updated on Mar 27, 2017 10:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Snehal Tripathi
AAP ex-minister Tomar failed to finish graduation from two DU colleges: Police
Former Delhi law minister Jitender Tomar got admission at DU’s Shivaji College and Radhani College but did not finish his graduation. The police have filed a 54,000 page chargesheet against Tomar and others who allegedly colluded with him in getting a fake degree and marksheets
Updated on Mar 17, 2017 08:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Delhi Police says ex-AAP minister Tomar’s degrees fake, submits 50,000-page proof
Delhi Police has filed a 4,000-page chargesheet that names 17 people, including Jitender Singh Tomar, an ex-principal and some members of the clerical staff of Bihar’s Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University, from where Tomar allegedly obtained the law degree.
Updated on Mar 16, 2017 11:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Families of firemen killed in Delhi restaurant fire mourn the dead
Two firemen were killed and two others injured when a gas cylinder exploded in a restaurant that was on fire in Vikaspuri.
Updated on Feb 25, 2017 12:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
2005 Delhi serial blasts: Tariq Dar released from Tihar, will go home on Friday
Tariq Ahmad Dar is the sole convict in the serial blasts at Paharganj, Govindpuri and Sarojini Nagar Market in 2005. A Delhi court had granted him bail in a money laundering case. Dar says he will go to his home in Srinagar on Friday and meet his two daughters.
Updated on Feb 24, 2017 08:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Hauz Khas rape: Accused Raja sent to 14-day custody
A Delhi court sent the 20-year-old accused in the Hauz Khas rape case to 14-day judicial custody on Tuesday.
Updated on Feb 23, 2017 10:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Delhi serial blasts: No justice even after 12 years of wait, say kin of victims
For 12 years, Das had waited for this day and she wasn’t going to let her bad health prevent her from seeing the accused punished.
Updated on Feb 17, 2017 01:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Delhi serial blasts: End of 12 agonising years of wait, says family of acquitted
Police charged three people with murder and waging war against the state but even the convicted mastermind – Tariq Ahmed Dar – will walk out a free man as he has already served 12 years in prison. Two other suspects -- Mohammed Rafiq Shah and Mohammed Hussain Fazili – were acquitted.
Updated on Feb 16, 2017 11:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Homeless man sleeping on pavement run over by drunk man in speeding car at Chhatarpur
Locals say 27-year-old Kanhaiya had sought refuge in a shelter for homeless people but could not get accommodation since he did not have an identity proof.
Updated on Feb 15, 2017 09:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Enforcement of road safety rules leads to 8.8% drop in accidents in Delhi
The annual Delhi Police data was released on Monday. It says a total of 7,375 accidents were reported in 2016, while there were 8,085 accidents in 2015.
Updated on Feb 14, 2017 08:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
1.1 lakh complaints against Delhi Police last year, only 1 in every 400 probed
Delhi police annual report: While 93,350 complaints were received through WhatsApp on vigilance helpline number 9910641064, 13,765 came through calls. A total of 5,029 complaints against police personnel were sent as text messages.
Updated on Apr 19, 2017 11:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | , New Delhi
Karn Pratap Singh and Snehal TripathiGrenade found in old well at Red Fort, fire tenders reach the spot
A grenade has been found inside an old well during its cleaning. The grenade was hidden inside a box and reports say more such boxes could be seen in the well.
Updated on Feb 09, 2017 08:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Delhi shocker: Tempo kills 8-yr-old watching Saraswati immersion, driver held
An eight-year-old boy, who went to see a Saraswati immersion procession in south west Delhi’s village Kakrola’s Raju Extension, was crushed to death by a tempo carrying the idol on Thursday, while his 14-year-old sister witnessed the incident. The case was registered in Dwarka.
Updated on Feb 07, 2017 12:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Thirty homeless, 3 injured as tree falls on shanties in Mandir Marg
Locals said that the 20-year-old tree, which stood about 30 metres from the shanties, fell on the roofs around 5am. At least seven families were trapped and neighbours had to rescue them.
Updated on Feb 01, 2017 11:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Delhi Police seizes 15,000 bottles of illicit liquor meant for poll-bound UP
Delhi Police seized over 15,000 quarter bottles of illicit liquor in south west Delhi’s Dwarka Sector 2 on Wednesday morning. They were bound for Uttar Pradesh where assembly polls start on Feb 11.
Published on Feb 01, 2017 11:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Delhi woman who threw son from first floor was angry with her father-in-law
Sonu Gupta threw her son off the staircase after and argument with her father-in-law in southeast Delhi’s Pul Prahladpur.
Updated on Jan 27, 2017 10:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
On way back from wedding in Delhi, bus crashes into truck; 19 injured
At least 19 members of a family, including four women and a child, were injured when a bus carrying them back from a wedding celebration allegedly rammed a truck in southwest Delhi’s Cantonment
Published on Jan 24, 2017 10:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Delhi bus accident: Wedding party recalls 15 minutes of horror, groom informed in the morning
A sudden collision, glasses shattering, passengers thrown sideways, and then — pin drop silence. It took the occupants of the bus few seconds to realise that they had met with an accident.
Updated on Jan 24, 2017 10:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Locals in Delhi where boy drowned say children keep falling in open drain, don’t die
A seven-year-old boy died after drowning in an open drain in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar on Thursday evening. Raja Babu was reportedly playing with his friends inside a park around 2 pm when the incident occurred.
Updated on Jan 20, 2017 11:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Serial ‘rapist’ Rastogi was fired from job for stealing, fighting
The owner of the shop in Delhi’s New Ashok Nagar says alleged serial rapist Rastogi was as one of his best tailors but short-tempered and misbehaved with colleagues
Updated on Jan 16, 2017 10:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Delhi trader found dead in car, blames business losses in suicide note
Hemant Dhall’s body was found on Thursday along with a suicide note which said he was upset over business losses and was unhappy with his son
Updated on Jan 13, 2017 04:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
East Delhi online casino busted: No children came to the ‘gaming zone’, say shopkeepers
Located on the second floor of a shopping complex in east Delhi’s Krishna Nagar, the online casino that was being run in the garb of a video game parlour for children, was always a mystery for other shopkeepers.
Updated on Jan 12, 2017 10:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
35-year-old stabs father to death, triggers cylinder blast in east Delhi, held
A 35-year-old man went on a stabbing spree, killing his 64-year-old father and injuring two locals on Sunday in east Delhi.
Updated on Jan 09, 2017 03:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
I am sorry, I shouldn’t have driven the car, says minor driver who hit woman in Sagarpur
The victim, identified as Kanta Anand, had a miraculous escape, despite being dragged by the teenager’s speeding Maruti Ertiga car for more than 50 meters, has been admitted to a city hospital.
Updated on Jan 06, 2017 01:57 PM IST
Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi
Adarsh Nagar custodial death: SHO used official car to dump the body
Sompal was detained and brought to Adarsh Nagar Police station after he picked up an argument with a shopkeeper in Azadpur.
Published on Jan 04, 2017 12:04 AM IST
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Karn Pratap Singh and Snehal TripathiDelhi custodial death: Body was dumped in cop’s official car
Investigators have revealed that the SHO, along with five other policemen, allegedly transported the body and destroyed evidence of the vendor’s death at the police station
Updated on Jan 04, 2017 12:46 AM IST
Hindsutan Times | , New Delhi
Karn Pratap Singh & Snehal Tripathi