Work in progress
After Delhi Finance Minister A K Walia expressed interest in salvaging the ITO-flyover project, the Delhi government forwarded it to UTPEC for review. However, when a meeting was held to discuss this, none of the officers carried papers prepared by them on the proposed designs for the flyover, compelling them to scribble on the papers during the meeting. The L-G then sent all these “designs” to the Public Works Department for consideration. PWD engineers given the task are now perplexed, desperately trying to make sense of the carelessly doodled sketches.

Bogged down
It proved to be quite a week for Shahdara (Karkardooma court) Bar Association president Mahesh Sharma. It started on Tuesday when a lawyer was abducted by five unidentified men from inside the court complex but was released later because they mistook him for someone else. While the lawyer was describing the incident to Sharma the next day, another brawl broke out when a lawyer passed a comment against a woman law student visiting the court for training. The lawyer reportedly slapped her and then some women advocates beat him black and blue. Sharma had to intervene here. Within an hour of this, another fight took place when lawyers beat up three men trying to “abduct” a person, who later turned out to be an accused. Being president, Sharma had to mediate here as well. “This is unfair to me. The election for the new Bar is to take place this month and technically, I may not be considered the president. But as you see, I have to do all this work,” Sharma complained. On Thursday he will be busy coordinating the token strike called over inadequate security arrangements in court complexes.

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