After getting the death penalty for their gruesome, barbaric crime from a special fast-track court on Friday, all the four convicts of the December 16 gangrape case were shifted to different wards in the Tihar jail.

Crowds inside and outside the courtroom at the Saket Court applauded the judgment as the news of death penalty being awarded to the four convicts in the December 16 gangrape case was announced.

Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University went to polls on Friday amid tight security. JNU witnessed 56 per cent polling while Dusu election witnessed a low turnout of 39 per cent. Voting began in Delhi University at 8.30 am and went on till 12.30 pm. The evening college students cast their votes from 3 pm to 7 pm.

A 54-year-old security guard was found murdered in an MCD park in Netaji Subhash Place area of northwest Delhi.
A senior police official said the deceased was identified as Vidya Ram. The official said his body bore marks of multiple injuries.

The relatives of the five- year-old girl, who was raped on April 15, on Friday lodged a complaint with the Delhi Commission for Women and the Delhi police on the state of the victim.

Adding more trouble for the city Congress government before the Assembly elections, Delhi Lokayukta Justice Manmohan Sarin (Retd) refused to close a case against Delhi minister Raj Kumar Chauhan for his alleged involvement in protecting a leading resort in a tax evasion case.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said Delhi police is being sensitised to deal with cases of abuse and violence against children and women but voiced concern over rise in such incidents taking place within the four walls of a house.

Some foreign students have complained to the police that they were stalked and harassed in Nehru Park by two men. A group of 12 students from Pakistan, Bhutan and Bangladesh lodged a complaint with the police alleging that they were stalked and harassed by two men posted with the embassy of Egypt.

A team of Maharashtra police, accompanied by the Delhi police, raided the house of a Delhi University teacher on Thursday allegedly on the grounds that his residence was being used as “a place for the deposit of stolen property.”

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said that Delhi is the richest state in the country. While launching the Delhi Statistical Hand Book of year 2013, she claimed that the book reflects a “vibrant” capital city.