A radioactive material leak was detected at New Delhi’s international airport on a shipment of nuclear medicine from Turkey before being plugged by emergency teams, officials said.
The incident happened near the cargo area of Turkish Airlines where four cartons containing nuclear medicine material were found to be damaged, an official in the National Disaster Response Force told AFP.
“The situation is under control, our teams are at the spot. There is no need to panic,” the official added on condition of anonymity.
“Atomic energy experts are on their way to assess and analyse the situation. The consignment has been isolated.”
India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh confirmed the incident at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, adding that the “leakage has been plugged”.
The NDTV network reported that two cargo workers who were exposed to the leakage had been taken to hospital for precautionary checks.
The material was meant to be delivered to a private hospital in the Indian capital.
In 2010, a scrapyard worker in Delhi died from radiation poisoning and seven others were injured, raising concerns over the handling of radioactive material in India.
A Danish woman has alleged that she was gang-raped in the Indian capital of New Delhi – the latest high-profile case of sexual assault against women in the country.
Reports say the 51-year-old woman was in New Delhi for a week and had been visiting touristy sites in Agra and later the National Museum in the capital.
She had lost her way on Tuesday evening on the way to her hotel in Paharganj, a crowded locality in New Delhi where many foreigners stay in affordable lodgings. She was later accosted by a group of men who then assaulted her.
Police said the rapists were “vagabonds” and the tourist was assaulted and robbed of cash and valuables on her person. Her iPad, Euros were taken and she was also beaten. The police have registered a case of rape and robbery.
She had been taken to the Danish embassy in Delhi and she had expressed her wish to return home after a medical examination.
The Delhi police, according to news reports, have detained six suspects based on the complaint made by the woman.
The Danish woman left India on Wednesday morning, according to Delhi police.
Alarming assaults
Frequent news reports of rapes have given cause for alarm at the rate of violence against women in Indian metros.
In December 2012, the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi had angry citizens protesting across the streets for stringent rape laws and fast track courts to punish the perpetrators.
Political parties such as the Aam Aadmi Party have assured on public platforms to make safety for women a priority. – aljazeera.com
Indian police filed charges on Monday over a match-fixing scandal involving the late South African captain Hansie Cronje, 13 years after the revelations sent shockwaves thr
Hansie Cronjé
ough the cricketing world.
Police filed the charges in a New Delhi court against bookmakers and Cronje himself, who died in a plane crash in 2002, over allegations of fixing dating back to South Africa’s tour of India in 2000.
The charges are the first by Indian police over the scandal, which revealed the shady world of Indian bookmakers in cricket.
“There are six accused in this case, three of them are on bail while two are abroad,” Inspector Keshav Kumar told the court.
“The sixth is Hansie Cronje, who is dead,” said Kumar, the investigating officer in the case.
Cronje, once the darling of South African cricket, was banned from the sport for life after admitting taking bribes from bookies in exchange for providing match information and influencing games during the 2000 tour.
Cronje admitted to a South African commission investigating the scandal to taking thousands of dollars in bribes from bookies to underperform, although he denied match-fixing itself.
Delhi police have alleged that Cronje persuaded some of his teammates, including Herschelle Gibbs, to agree to underperform in a one-day match in 2000, including by making fewer runs than he might otherwise have tallied.
Gibbs and bowler Henry Williams were both banned from playing for six-months and fined by South African authorities over their admissions in the scandal.
The scandal broke when New Delhi police, working on an unrelated extortion case, tapped a telephone conversation between Cronje and one of the bookies, Sanjeev Chawla.
Chawla is believed to be living in the UK and Indian police hope to seek his extradition now that the charge sheet has been placed before the court.
“We will now request the court to grant approval to seek extradition of Chawla from the UK to India,” Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime), Ravindra Yadav, told AFP.
“The UK government does not allow extradition without the charge cheet. We are almost sure Chawla is in England,” he said.
Yadav said the case was one of “criminal conspiracy” and has only now been filed in court after police finally received in January this year voice samples from tapped phone conversations.
“This is criminal conspiracy. People went to the ground to watch the games thinking they would be played in the true spirit. They did not know the outcome was fixed. That’s why we have filed the charges,” he said.
Police named the accused as bookmakers and gamblers Rajesh Kalra, Krishan Kumar and Sunil Dara — who are all on bail — and Chawla and Manmohan Khattar who are overseas.
Cronje died in June 2002 when a light plane in which he was travelling crashed in bad weather in South Africa.
Monday’s action came after Delhi police chief Neeraj Kumar told local media that he planned to file charges in the Cronje case and a separate Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal, before the end of the month.
Kumar told the Hindustan Times newspaper on Saturday that he was working on tying up “some loose ends” before his retirement at the end of July, including in both cases.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) was rocked by allegations of spot-fixing in May this year, with some 29 people arrested including three Indian players. The cricketers, who have denied wrongdoing, are accused of deliberately bowling badly in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars from bookies.
Betting on sports is illegal in India except at horse races, but major betting syndicates have been in operation for many years. – AFP
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