Romesh Sharma moves court

NEW DELHI: Romesh Sharma, an alleged front-man of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, on Thursday moved Delhi High Court challenging the life sentence awarded to him by a city court for killing his fashion designer girlfriend Kunjum Budhiraja. On February 18, a Delhi court had awarded life imprisonment to Sharma and five others for murdering Kunjum in 1999.
The Court had also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on Sharma and Rs 5,000 each on his nephew Surinder Mishra and a woman convict Tejinder Virdi alias Dolly. Other convicts - Hemchand, Santram and Ramesh - were fined Rs 1,000 each.
College teacher shot: A college teacher was shot by assailants around 9 pm on Thursday. The victim, Azad Singh, taught at Alok Kunj Inter College in Delhi. He was a resident of Siroli in Loni. The incident took place near Siroli, where Singh also owned a brick kiln. Two persons, Rajesh and Veeru, have been named in the FIR filed in the case.