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Snehal Tripathi

Snehal Tripathi covers crime and policing in Delhi. A trained electronic and electrical engineer, she always wanted to be a journalist, starting this journey with the hyper-local edition of Hindustan Times in south Delhi.

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Dead sanitation worker was wearing a vest and underwear, given no protective gear

Pal and his two co-workers, who too fell unconscious but survived, did not have any safety gear when they were cleaning a sewer in Lok Nayak Hospital. They did not even have a ladder and used a rope to climb down the manhole of the sewer line.

Aditya, son of Rishi Pal ,with other family members. Rishi Pal died while cleaning sewer at Lok Nayak Hospital on Sunday. Family members claimed that Pal was never given any protective gear by any contractor.(Sonu Mehta/HT Photo)

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Published on Aug 20, 2017 11:31 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Cops say video shows Delhi biker speeding at 150 kmph, victim’s brother denies

The sport bike accident occurred while 24-year-old Himanshu Bansal was allegedly racing with his friends, Gazi and Lakshay, in central Delhi. He was riding a superbike Benelli TNT that can accelerate up to 200 kmph

Himanshu’s Benelli TNT, which was damaged in the accident.

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Updated on Aug 16, 2017 11:42 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySnehal Tripathi

Uphaar tragedy: Court issues production warrant against Gopal Ansal

The theatre owners, Gopal Ansal and his brother Sushil, and five other persons are accused of tampering with evidence in the case, pending since 2006.

A major fire broke out in south Delhi's Uphaar Cinema on June 13, 1997. Firefighters and locals rescued many trapped inside, but 59 died due to asphyxiation. Over 100 were injured. (PTI file photo)

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Published on Aug 11, 2017 10:34 PM IST

HIndustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Six months on, police still struggling for leads in Ramjas violence case

The Crime Branch officials told a court on Wednesday that they were examining students and teachers to identify the culprits involved in the clashes over an event at the Delhi University college. The police have also not been able to establish the veracity of a video of the event.

On February 22, violent clashes erupted between the Leftist students’ unions and the ABVP members, over a seminar at Ramjas College in which JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid were invited.(Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)

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Published on Aug 04, 2017 12:00 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Ramjas clashes: Police accuse 5 DU professors of leading ‘azadi-shouting’ group

On February 22, Ramjas students led by AISA carried out a protest march against the cancellation of a seminar in which JNU student Umar Khalid was slated to speak. Students alleged that some ABVP members beat up teachers and protesting students.

Clashes broke out between activists of ABVP, AISA and other students from the Delhi University on February 22, 2017.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Aug 03, 2017 11:43 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Jama Masjid blast: Court orders framing of charges against Yasin Bhatkal, nine others

On September 19, 2010, two bikers had fired upon tourists at the gate of Jama Masjid in Old Delhi. Two Taiwanese sustained bullet injuries. Also, there was a mild explosion from a bomb fitted in an abandoned car left in that area.

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Updated on Aug 02, 2017 10:58 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Delhi court says Ola, Uber may have overcharged, summons them for ‘violations’

The compliant filed by an NGO seeks recovery of Rs 91,000 from cab service providers for not adhering to rules under Motor Vehicles Act.

The plea also claims that none of the cab service providers are ensuring that the drivers have public service badges.(HT FILE)

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Updated on Jul 31, 2017 11:39 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi

Principal, director of Delhi school jailed for two months for not allowing child in classroom

During her cross examination in the court, the girl had said that she was told by her class teacher that the director and principal had given instructions to not allow her to sit in the classroom.

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Updated on Jul 28, 2017 11:16 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Court asks ‘lethargic’ Delhi police to de-seal room where Sunanda Pushkar died

The Delhi court has given police four weeks to de-seal the Leela Palace room. The court told the police that the hotel could not be made to suffer endlessly.

The city court has given police time of four weeks to de-seal the room.(HT FILE)

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Updated on Jul 22, 2017 12:01 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi

Man sent to jail for 10 years for sexually abusing 14-year-old boy

The court said the boy was telling the truth and his statement could be relied upon being trustworthy. It held Dinesh guilty under section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Arrest-haA Delhi court has sentenced a man to 10 years in jail for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old mentally weak boy in east Delhi in 2014.ndcuffs.

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Updated on Jul 18, 2017 11:00 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

2008 BMW hit-and-run case: Utsav Bhasin gets 2 yrs in prison, survivor unhappy

Utsav Bhasin was 21 years old when he hit two men who were on a motorcycle. Bhasin was caught when he was trying to flee to Chandigarh. The court had held Bhasin guilty and passed the verdict in May this year.

Utsav Bhasin, who was driving his BMW car, had hit two men — Anuj Chauhan and Mrigank Shrivastava — near Moolchand flyover in south Delhi in 2008.(HT FILE)

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Updated on Jul 15, 2017 09:41 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi and Abhinav Rajput

Sunanda Pushkar death: Hotel wants Rs 61,000/night room opened, cops say not yet

Despite two visits by forensic experts and five reports from different medical reports, police say they still do not know how Sunanda Pushkar died. Suite number 345 in Hotel Leela Palace, where Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda was found dead, has been closed since 2014.

The police said they will need more time to probe the case of murder of Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar and come to a conclusion.(Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Jul 15, 2017 12:50 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi

Delhi: Cops shot at and thrashed, accused boasts of being a gangster

Two Delhi police constables were attacked by a man, suspected to be a member of the Dabodia gang, in Narela on Wednesday night in a case of road rage.

The incident took place near a housing society in Narela where one of the two cops lives.(HT FILE)

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Updated on Jul 13, 2017 10:54 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi

He sold momos, dreamt of Audi: How Delhi murder suspect took shortcut to luxury

Delhi Police caught the 22-year-old domestic help Roshan by tracking his Facebook location. The accused has allegedly confessed that he committed the crime out of his dream to buy a black Audi.

Roshan murdered Sarita Jain at her house in Amar Colony on Tuesday morning.(Picture: Sourced)

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Updated on Jul 17, 2017 02:32 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi

Wife frames man in daughter’s rape case to avenge beating, Delhi court acquits him

A Delhi court has acquitted a man of the charge of raping his nine-year-old daughter after his wife admitted in the court that she had registered a false rape complaint against him to teach him a lesson.

The court granted the relief to southwest Delhi resident Amarjeet noting that his wife did not support the case of the police during the course of trial.(HT File)

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Updated on Jul 11, 2017 12:04 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

‘Where will I get my burger’: Delhi wonders as 43 McDonald’s outlets shut

Delhiiites are wondering where they will find their budget burgers after 43 of 55 McDonald’s outlets closed in the Capital due to health license and legal battle.

As many as 43 of the 55 outlets belonging to the American fast food chain in Delhi temporarily suspended operations from Thursday.(PTI)

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Updated on Jun 30, 2017 12:41 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Delhi cab accident: Court awards Rs 2.83L to victim, allows recovery from car owner

The accident took place on June 8, 2015, near Palam Mor in Delhi Cantonment when the victim was going to the airport in a hired car. The court noted that the vehicle was in violation of the terms of the insurance policy and gave the insurance company ‘right to recover it’ (compensation) from the car owner.

The accident took place on June 8, 2015 when the victim had hired a car to go to airport from him house in Rohini.(Saumya Khandelwal/HT FILE)

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Updated on Jun 20, 2017 06:37 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Theft in Delhi metro: Court pulls up police for not seizing CCTV footage for investigation

The court observed that all the metro stations must be fitted with CCTV cameras and the investigating agency should have taken adequate steps to obtain the CCTV footage of the relevant metro station

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Updated on Jun 15, 2017 10:20 PM IST

HIndustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi

Delhi man murders wife with shoe lace, court holds him guilty after children testify

A Delhi court held a Burari resident guilty of killing his wife because he suspected her of having an extramarital affair. Two of the couple’s four children deposed before the court as witnesses.

A Delhi court is yet to pronounce its order on the quantum of sentence to Burari resident found guilty of strangling his wife with a shoe lace.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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Updated on Jun 15, 2017 12:06 PM IST

HIndustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

‘Most reprehensible crime’: Delhi court convicts man for molesting mother

A 48-year-old man molested his mother in south-east Delhi in September 2012. She had to undergo a surgery and remained in pain for days. Delhi Police caught the man in 2015.

A Delhi court observed that a woman’s complaint that she has been molested must be taken at face value in a conservative society like India where indelible stigma is attached to the victim.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 19, 2017 07:33 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySnehal Tripathi

BJP member files Re 1 civil defamation suit against Kejriwal, Sanjay Singh

Ankit Bhardwaj, the state executive member of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), filed the suit for allegedly sharing his pictures in media and falsely declaring him as the one (also named Ankit Bhardwaj) who slapped former water minister Kapil Mishra on May 10.

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Updated on Jun 08, 2017 11:47 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Court tells anti-corruption branch to protect man who filed complaint against Kejriwal

Sharma, the founder of NGO Roads Anti-Corruption Organisation (RACO), is seeking directions to the police to lodge an FIR against Kejriwal, his brother-in-law Surender Bansal, proprietor of a construction firm and a public servant for the alleged Public Works Department (PWD) scam. Bansal has since passed away.

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Updated on Jun 09, 2017 12:02 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

US tourist’s gang rape: Court pulls up lawyers, grants bail to three accused

The woman had alleged that the guide, who befriended her while showing her tourist spots in India, entered her room in the hotel with his friends to discuss the following day’s itinerary and raped her.

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Updated on Jun 10, 2017 04:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Delhi: Asked to pay challan for riding bike without helmet, woman kicks cop

The incident was reported from South-west Delhi area after the duo, Praveen (28) and Sonam (26), were stopped by three policemen for riding a bike without a helmet.

A senior police officer claimed that the accused started the altercation with Delhi traffic police after they seized the bike for lack of relevant documents.(Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on May 31, 2017 11:43 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Destination bus: Signages, pamphlets, flexible time slots may draw passengers

HT found that some simple interventions by the Delhi government and the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), which operates the DS buses, can pull the service back on track.

DTC's DS 20 bus which heads to Balco Apartments from Shivaji Stadium Bus stop.(Saumya Khandelwal/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on May 28, 2017 03:20 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySweta Goswami, Shiv Sunny and Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Jaitley defamation case: Trial against Delhi CM Kejriwal, 5 AAP leaders to begin today

Trail will begin in a case of criminal defamation filed by Union finance minister Arun Jaitley against Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders for allegedly making defamatory allegations against him regarding his tenure as DDCA chief.

The criminal defamation complaint was filed in December 2015 by Jaitley. In his complaint, the Union minister alleged that Kejriwal and five AAP leaders made defaming statements against him regarding his tenure as the Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) president from December 1999 to December 2013.(PTI FILE)

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Updated on Jul 20, 2017 11:10 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Delhi hotel wants to de-seal suite where Sunanda Pushkar was found dead; court asks police to reply

Suite number 345 in Hotel Leela Palace, where Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead, has been closed since 2014. The hotel has now filed a plea to de-seal the room citing loss of revenue.

The hotel moved a plea in the court seeking de-sealing of suite number 345 as no investigating agency has visited it for the past one year and closing the room for the last three years has caused great loss to it.(HT FILE)

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Updated on May 18, 2017 02:14 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

1984 riots: Court asks Tytler if he wants to take lie-detector test

Tytler is accused of leading a mob near Pulbangash in north Delhi that led to the killing of three people on November 1, 1984, a day after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Jagdish Tytler is accused of leading a mob near Pulbangash in north Delhi that led to the killing of three people on November 1, 1984, a day after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

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Updated on May 10, 2017 01:46 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Issue galore in Delhi’s villages, residents hope local candidates will solve them

MCD election 2017: Villagers said there were certain issues that they wanted the candidates in general and civic bodies in particular to address.

Voters stand in a queue at a polling station at Madanpur Khadar in New Delhi on Sunday.(Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Apr 24, 2017 01:49 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByFaizan Haidar and Snehal Tripathi, New Delhi

Delhi: Man gets seven years in jail for robbing phone at knifepoint

A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years in jail for robbing a 19-year-old man of his mobile at knifepoint in broad day light at a public area in southeast Delhi’s Sunlight Colony.

The crime had taken place on December 29, 2014 at noon at a bus stand near Punjab National Bank in Sunlight Colony.(Representative image/AP)

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Updated on Apr 13, 2017 11:38 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Tripathi, New Delhi

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Snehal Tripathi

Snehal Tripathi covers crime and policing in Delhi. A trained electronic and electrical engineer, she always wanted to be a journalist, starting this journey with the hyper-local edition of Hindustan Times in south Delhi.

Pal and his two co-workers, who too fell unconscious but survived, did not have any safety gear when they were cleaning a sewer in Lok Nayak Hospital. They did not even have a ladder and used a rope to climb down the manhole of the sewer line.

The sport bike accident occurred while 24-year-old Himanshu Bansal was allegedly racing with his friends, Gazi and Lakshay, in central Delhi. He was riding a superbike Benelli TNT that can accelerate up to 200 kmph

The theatre owners, Gopal Ansal and his brother Sushil, and five other persons are accused of tampering with evidence in the case, pending since 2006.

The Crime Branch officials told a court on Wednesday that they were examining students and teachers to identify the culprits involved in the clashes over an event at the Delhi University college. The police have also not been able to establish the veracity of a video of the event.

On February 22, Ramjas students led by AISA carried out a protest march against the cancellation of a seminar in which JNU student Umar Khalid was slated to speak. Students alleged that some ABVP members beat up teachers and protesting students.

On September 19, 2010, two bikers had fired upon tourists at the gate of Jama Masjid in Old Delhi. Two Taiwanese sustained bullet injuries. Also, there was a mild explosion from a bomb fitted in an abandoned car left in that area.

The compliant filed by an NGO seeks recovery of Rs 91,000 from cab service providers for not adhering to rules under Motor Vehicles Act.

During her cross examination in the court, the girl had said that she was told by her class teacher that the director and principal had given instructions to not allow her to sit in the classroom.

The Delhi court has given police four weeks to de-seal the Leela Palace room. The court told the police that the hotel could not be made to suffer endlessly.

The court said the boy was telling the truth and his statement could be relied upon being trustworthy. It held Dinesh guilty under section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Utsav Bhasin was 21 years old when he hit two men who were on a motorcycle. Bhasin was caught when he was trying to flee to Chandigarh. The court had held Bhasin guilty and passed the verdict in May this year.

Despite two visits by forensic experts and five reports from different medical reports, police say they still do not know how Sunanda Pushkar died. Suite number 345 in Hotel Leela Palace, where Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda was found dead, has been closed since 2014.

Two Delhi police constables were attacked by a man, suspected to be a member of the Dabodia gang, in Narela on Wednesday night in a case of road rage.

Delhi Police caught the 22-year-old domestic help Roshan by tracking his Facebook location. The accused has allegedly confessed that he committed the crime out of his dream to buy a black Audi.

A Delhi court has acquitted a man of the charge of raping his nine-year-old daughter after his wife admitted in the court that she had registered a false rape complaint against him to teach him a lesson.

Delhiiites are wondering where they will find their budget burgers after 43 of 55 McDonald’s outlets closed in the Capital due to health license and legal battle.

The court observed that all the metro stations must be fitted with CCTV cameras and the investigating agency should have taken adequate steps to obtain the CCTV footage of the relevant metro station

A Delhi court held a Burari resident guilty of killing his wife because he suspected her of having an extramarital affair. Two of the couple’s four children deposed before the court as witnesses.

A 48-year-old man molested his mother in south-east Delhi in September 2012. She had to undergo a surgery and remained in pain for days. Delhi Police caught the man in 2015.

Ankit Bhardwaj, the state executive member of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), filed the suit for allegedly sharing his pictures in media and falsely declaring him as the one (also named Ankit Bhardwaj) who slapped former water minister Kapil Mishra on May 10.

The woman had alleged that the guide, who befriended her while showing her tourist spots in India, entered her room in the hotel with his friends to discuss the following day’s itinerary and raped her.

The incident was reported from South-west Delhi area after the duo, Praveen (28) and Sonam (26), were stopped by three policemen for riding a bike without a helmet.

HT found that some simple interventions by the Delhi government and the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), which operates the DS buses, can pull the service back on track.

Trail will begin in a case of criminal defamation filed by Union finance minister Arun Jaitley against Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders for allegedly making defamatory allegations against him regarding his tenure as DDCA chief.

Suite number 345 in Hotel Leela Palace, where Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead, has been closed since 2014. The hotel has now filed a plea to de-seal the room citing loss of revenue.

Tytler is accused of leading a mob near Pulbangash in north Delhi that led to the killing of three people on November 1, 1984, a day after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

MCD election 2017: Villagers said there were certain issues that they wanted the candidates in general and civic bodies in particular to address.

A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years in jail for robbing a 19-year-old man of his mobile at knifepoint in broad day light at a public area in southeast Delhi’s Sunlight Colony.

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