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Delhi Govt Plea For Surplus Water: UYRB’s Emergent Meeting Today
As Delhi grapples with a water crisis amid the unrelenting summer heat, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered an emergent meeting of the Upper Yamuna River Board (UYRB) on June 5, Wednesday, to address the issue. The UYRB was set up in 1995 with one of its main functions being to regulate the allocation of available flows amongst the beneficiary states and also monitor and review the progress of all projects up to and including the Okhla barrage in Delhi. The states include Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, and the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi.
“Why can’t there be a joint meeting of all the stakeholders?” a vacation bench of Justices P K Mishra and K V Viswanathan asked at the outset. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and the Haryana government, said the issue was already being considered by the UYRB where all stakeholder states including Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, and Delhi are parties.
Pune Porsche Crash: Minor’s Parents Police Custody Ends Today
A Pune court on Sunday remanded the parents of a 17-year-old boy allegedly involved in the Porsche car accident in police custody till June 5 in a case pertaining to the destruction of evidence, news agency PTI reported. The duo is being probed for their alleged role in tampering with the blood sample of the minor following the car accident on May 19 in Maharashtra’s Pune city, which claimed the lives of two IT professionals.
The minor’s mother, Shivani Agarwal, was arrested on June 1, after the revelation that the boy’s blood samples were replaced with hers.
The police had taken custody of his father, realtor Vishal Agrawal, arrested earlier in a related case, for allegedly being involved in the destruction of evidence.
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