The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has begun probing the expenditure of `70 crores reportedly incurred by the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) to pay the salaries of personal trainers and their Indian assistants who were hired to work with participating athletes between September 26 and October 13 at the practice venues.

To clear the backlog of pending cases that have piled up in the courts, the Delhi Legal Services Authority (DLSA) in co-ordination with the Delhi high court will hold a Lok Adalat in its premises and in all six district court complexes on October 24 to render speedy justice to litigants.

A man’s attempt to avoid paying `10,000 monthly maintenance to his estranged wife failed as Tis Hazari Court additional sessions judge asked him to pay `5,000 extra to his wife, after noting that he had allegedly tried to conceal his income.

A Delhi police team rushed to Hardwar early Monday to retrieve child, a day after a 57-year-old sadhvi and her six aides were arrested for running a child trafficking racket. The police said seven persons, including a sadhvi identified as Binaji Maharaj, a childless couple identified as Afroz and Mona in addition to Mohammad Zuber, Saira Khusboo and Nanhi, the sadhvi’s partners in crime, were arrested in Neb Sarai on Sunday.

Dussehra celebrations turned sour for residents of Sangam Vihar when two youth tripped and drowned in the Yamuna while immersing idols of Goddess Durga on Monday afternoon.

A 26-year-old lecturer of a renowned west Delhi college has alleged that her father-in-law attempted to rape her at their residence in Outer Delhi’s Kanjhawala area on Sunday night.

Four days after the Commonwealth Games got over and a day after all the athletes and delegates left, the process of handing over of the Commonwealth Games Village back to the DDA began on Monday. The DDA will be taking up possession of around 700 flats out of a total of 1,168 flats, while the rest will go to the private builder EMAAR-MGF for further disposal.

The Blueline buses will stay off city roads for another week, with the Delhi government exploring ways to phase them out. In a move to decongest city roads, the city government had ordered the Blueline buses to stay off roads ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

In a move intended at making use of the stadia and the sports facilities put in place for the Commonwealth Games and to popularise sports culture in the capital, the Delhi Cabinet on Monday discussed a proposal to set up a sports academy in the city.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit is learnt to have asked all departments of the city government to keep relevant documents ready and to “fully cooperate” in the inquiry with investigators, after the Prime Minister ordered a probe into the Commonwealth Games corruption and the Comptroller and Auditor General also having begun its audit.