Will not move from this site: Uttarakhand tunnel rescue hero after spending second night on footpath
New Delhi, Mar 1: "We will not move from this site," says Wakeel Hassan, a rat-hole miner who was part of the Silkyara tunnel rescue operation, sitting on a footpath where he and his family spent their second night after losing their house in a demolition drive.
"My family and I continue to spend the night in the open. Some locals are providing us with food and water, etc.," Hassan said on Friday, a day after he refused an offer by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to move him and his family to an EWS flat in Narela.
"We have now accepted the night as a challenge," he said, adding the family has not received any help from the government so far.
Hassan was part of a team of miners who rescued 41 workers trapped inside Uttarkashi's Silkyara tunnel by manually drilling through the debris in November last year.
His house in northeast Delhi's Khajoori Khas was razed in a demolition drive by the DDA on Wednesday.
He told PTI on Thursday that DDA officials had told him that he would be provided a house but he refused the offer as it was only a "verbal assurance".
Later in the day, he demanded that his house be reconstructed on the same land and threatened to go on a hunger strike if his demand is not met.
While Hassan claims his house was demolished without prior information, the DDA has said he was aware of his house's "status of encroachment" as it had been previously removed in 2016 and the land was encroached upon again in 2017.
The DDA said that "in its role as an authority, it cannot allow encroachment on its land or unauthorised constructions in its development areas".
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Mumbai nurse loses Rs 1 lakh trying to buy Rs 299 dress online
Mumbai (PTI): A nurse working at a private hospital in Mumbai was allegedly cheated of Rs 1 lakh after she tried to purchase a dress online for Rs 299, police said.
As per preliminary investigation, the fraud was orchestrated using a Facebook advertisement, a WhatsApp number and a fake delivery agent, an official from Deonar police station said on Saturday.
The nurse, who lives in a hostel here, in her complaint said she came across an advertisement on Facebook offering dresses at just Rs 299. She then tried to buy one piece.
The person at the other end initially sought payment for the dress, but later “continued to extract money under various pretexts such as shipping charges, GPS charges, tracking fees, verification codes and address confirmation,” the official said.
The nurse told the police that she paid Rs 1 lakh over five days between April 16 and 20, and was repeatedly assured that most of the money would be refunded and the order would be delivered.
When nothing happened, she realised that she had been scammed. She then contacted the Cyber Crime Helpline 1930 and lodged a complaint. The Deonar police have registered a case and launched a probe into it, the official said.
