Prawesh Lama covers crime, policing, and issues of security in Delhi. Raised in Darjeeling, educated in Mumbai, he also looks at special features on social welfare in the National Capital.
Articles by Prawesh Lama
Farmer suicide: After posing for cameras, he hanged himself
Minutes before Gajendra Singh, a farmer from Rajasthan, hanged himself from a tree in front of thousands of people at Jantar Mantar, people took his pictures and cheered as he hurled abuses at politicians.
Updated on Apr 23, 2015 08:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama and Shradha Chettri, New Delhi
AIIMS doctor commits suicide; Facebook post blames ‘torture by gay husband’
A 31-year-old doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) allegedly committed suicide by slashing her wrist at a hotel room in central Delhi’s Paharganj on Sunday.
Updated on Apr 20, 2015 02:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Gangs of Najafgarh: An hour's drive from Delhi, fear rules this village that lives in gaze of CCTVs
A little more than an hour’s drive from the city’s bustling crowd and traffic takes you to a small village, bordering Haryana, with not more than 9,000 voters. Green fields, narrow kuccha roads, make Dichaon Kalan seem like just another village in north India.
Updated on Apr 02, 2015 09:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Govt re-launches corruption helpline, ropes in volunteers
The AAP government in Delhi has re-started the anti-corruption helpline, a little more than a month after coming back to power in the Capital, sources told Hindustan Times.
Updated on Mar 24, 2015 12:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
After FIR rush in previous stint, AAP 2.0 goes soft on corruption
In the Aam Aadmi Party’s previous tenure of 49 days, the Delhi government’s Anti-Corruption Branch had booked government and police officials and prominent people, including Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit.
Updated on Mar 18, 2015 11:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Underground phone cables worth Rs 2 lakh stolen in Chanakyapuri
Underground telephone cables worth Rs 2 lakh were stolen from near the embassy of the Czech Republic in Chanakyapuri — one of the most heavily guarded areas of the Capital — leading to a partial disruption of phone lines in the diplomatic enclave last week.
Updated on Mar 17, 2015 12:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
English the only hitch as activist shows rape documentary at convicts’ slum
Sant Ravi Dass Camp that shot to notoriety when four of its residents raped a young physiotherapist in a moving bus on Thursday came face to face with the ugly truth. Some didn’t like what they saw and for many, the message was lost in translation.
Updated on Mar 13, 2015 09:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Dec 16 gangrape: After Ram Singh suicide, his ghost haunts his colony
They don’t live there any more but the convicts of the December 16 gang rape still scare residents of Sant Ravi Dass Camp, home to four of the men involved in the dastardly crime.
Updated on Dec 11, 2015 03:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Bulb thieves strike at bungalows of six MPs
Over the past two weeks, our members of Parliament have reported repeated episodes of bulb-thieving from their bungalows in Lutyens’ Delhi, which are believed to be the safest in the city.
Updated on Mar 09, 2015 12:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama and Mohit Sharma, New Delhi
Corporate espionage: Shastri Bhawan guards armed and helpless
Six hours after the offices of Shastri Bhawan officially closed, the three CISF personnel standing guard outside stare curiously at the lights still on inside the building and the shadowy figures in the corridors.
Updated on Mar 01, 2015 11:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Oil ministry leaks: Delhi Police trace keysmith
The Delhi Police have traced the keysmith who allegedly forged duplicate keys for the petroleum ministry employees arrested for stealing and selling confidential documents to private energy firms and consultancies.
Updated on Feb 23, 2015 01:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Saturday sizzler: Song, dance, AAP cola and a blockbuster show
Delite Cinema, one of central Delhi’s oldest movie theatres, is usually a packed house every weekend. But this was not a usual Saturday.
Updated on Feb 15, 2015 01:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama and Soumya Pillai, New Delhi
Delhi: Five attacks on churches in two months but only one case solved
The capital has witnessed five attacks on churches in the last two months but despite the home ministry’s intervention, little has been done to prevent or solve the cases.
Updated on Feb 04, 2015 08:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Liyaqat Shah case: Pathan slipped through NIA fingers 10 months ago
National Investigation Agency (NIA) missed police informer Sabir Khan Pathan, accused of framing former Kashmiri militant Liyaqat Shah in a terror case, by a whisker almost 10 months ago near Bhopal, sources told Hindustan Times on Wednesday.
Updated on Jan 28, 2015 10:43 PM IST
None | Rajesh Ahuja and Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Cops seek cyber wing help to retrieve Sunanda's SMSes, e-mails
The team set up to investigate the Sunanda Pushkar case has approached the Economic Offences Wing to help it retrieve messages from her mobile phone.
Updated on Jan 23, 2015 01:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Bedi gets Y-plus security cover ahead of polls
Retired IPS officer Kiran Bedi who joined the BJP last week has been provided heavy police security ahead of the assembly elections. Bedi, named the BJP’s CM candidate, was on Wednesday provided Y-plus security.
Updated on Jan 22, 2015 11:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Sunanda case: A mysterious death and endless theories
Police say Shashi Tharoor’s wife was poisoned but are yet to determine the exact nature of the substance and how it was administered.
Updated on Jan 17, 2015 11:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama and Mohit Sharma, New Delhi
Tharoor admitted to police about tiff with Sunanda
The Congress MP’s statement, exclusively accessed by Hindustan Times, was recorded on January 19 last year, a day after Pushkar was found mysteriously dead in her suite at the Hotel Leela Palace in Delhi. Docs pull up cops over crime scene inventory
Updated on Jan 11, 2015 10:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Delhi: Ferry homeless to night shelters, L-G tells cops
The Delhi Police have a new task on their hands — to shift homeless people sleeping on the roads to the nearest shelter homes. The onset of winter in the city has seen temperatures dropping to less than 5 degrees Celsius.
Updated on Dec 25, 2014 12:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama and Mallica Joshi, New Delhi
Swachh prison: Spit-free zones come up in Tihar Jail
‘Spit-free zones’ have come up in the jail premises, with posters warning officials of not spitting over the walls. The prison headquarters said the exercise is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
Updated on Dec 22, 2014 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Delhi: Lack of women officers in police ranks a major challenge
For a city that had once earned the ‘rape capital’ tag and that reports 42 cases of crimes against woman daily, Delhi has only one woman police officer for a population of about 1,600 women.
Updated on Dec 18, 2014 01:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Dec 16 gangrape convicts lead a secluded life in Tihar
Convicted in the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic intern on December 16, 2012, Vinay, Akshay, Pawan and Mukesh have been shunned by their family members. Their only visitor is their lawyer.
Updated on Dec 11, 2015 03:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Hand-picked cellmates for Uber cabbie in Tihar
Uber driver Shiv Kumar Yadav is spending his time in Tihar jail in a normal cell amid a group of hand-picked inmates, and under constant watch.
Updated on Dec 13, 2014 01:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Deserted stretch off old Rohtak road has no history of crime
The spot where the 25-year-old woman was raped by a Uber cab driver on Friday night is somewhere on a deserted five-hundred metre stretch in Zakhira village near Inderlok, North Delhi.
Updated on Dec 09, 2014 01:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
VIPs spice up jails: Inside the world of celebrity prisoners
From J Jayalalithaa to Asaram and Subrata Roy to Rampal, people who we thought law couldn’t touch, have landed on the cold, hard floor of prisons across the country. HT takes a look at their lives behind the bars.
Updated on Dec 07, 2014 08:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
BJP woos Valmikis in ‘tense’ Trilokpuri
Ahead of the assembly elections, fresh posters urging Trilokpuri residents to join the BJP have come up in the area. Locals claim that the posters are strategically placed at blocks where the population of the Valmiki community is large.
Updated on Dec 05, 2014 12:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Traumatised Trilokpuri hides behind iron gates
Trilokpuri residents feel that behind the gates, they will be safe from the madness and violence that started in October a day after Diwali and continued for at least three days.
Updated on Dec 04, 2014 12:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama and Faizan Haider, New Delhi
Aftershocks of Delhi's Trilokpuri riots felt in classrooms
The faultlines of the Trilokpuri riots have reached the classroom. A little more than a month after riots broke out in this part of east Delhi, at least two reports in the last three days of brawls involving school students have deepened the polarisation.
Updated on Dec 03, 2014 01:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Faizan Haider and Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Shaban anointed Naib Imam of Jama Masjid
Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, on Saturday anointed his son, Shaban Bukhari as the Naib Imam with the glittering Mughal-era mosque forming the backdrop and thousands in attendance.
Updated on Nov 23, 2014 11:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
Blood spills on Delhi railway tracks
Pedestrian bridges over railway tracks are stuck in official files and red tape even as trains continue to mow at least two persons in Delhi every day.
Updated on Nov 16, 2014 12:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Prawesh Lama, New Delhi
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