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Delhi government’s demand for additional water: UYRB emergency meeting today

With Delhi grappling with a water crisis amid scorching heat, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered an emergency meeting of the Upper Yamuna River Board (UYRB) on Wednesday, June 5, to consider the issue. The UYRB was set up in 1995 and one of its main functions is to regulate the allocation of available flows among beneficiary states and to monitor and review the progress of all projects, including the Okhla barrage in Delhi. These 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?” the vacation bench of Justices PK Mishra and KV Vishwanathan initially asked. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and Haryana governments, said the issue was already being considered by the UYRB, in which all the stakeholder states, including Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi, are parties.

Pune Porsche accident: Police custody of minor’s parents to end today

A Pune court on Sunday sent the parents of a 17-year-old boy, allegedly involved in the Porsche car crash, to police custody till June 5 in a case of destruction of evidence, reports news agency PTI. The two are being investigated for their alleged role in tampering with the minor’s blood sample after the May 19 car crash in Maharashtra’s Pune city that claimed the lives of two IT professionals.

The minor’s mother, Shivani Agarwal, was arrested on June 1 after it was revealed that the boy’s blood sample had been replaced with her own.

The police have detained his father, real estate baron Vishal Agarwal, who was earlier arrested for his alleged involvement in destroying evidence in a related case.