The weatherman has predicted moderate to heavy rainfall accompanied by gusty winds and thunderstorms in the Delhi-NCR region today. Hailstorms are also likely.

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for the national capital and its adjoining areas, including Noida and Gurugram, even as moderate-heavy showers accompanied by thunderstorms are predicted in several cities in the country, especially in Northwest and Eastern India.

According to the regional meteorological centre, cloudy skies, thunderstorms accompanied by light to moderate showers are predicted in Delhi over the course of next seven days. The national capital city and its adjoining areas will also likely experience gusty winds and hailstorms at some places.

According to the seven-day forecast, maximum temperatures during this spell are likely to remain around a pleasant 26 degrees Celsius while the minimum temperatures can dip as low as 16 degrees during night hours.

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The pleasant weather is likely to last for the entire week in Delhi and surrounding areas even as the weatherman has predicted rain along with hailstorms till Monday evening.

On Sunday, rains and hailstorms lashed parts of Delhi-NCR resulting in a drop in the mercury as the maximum temperature dipped three degrees below the season’s average to around 28 degrees Celsius, according to the IMD.

A PTI report quoting IMD regional forecasting centre chief Kuldeep Srivastava said that an active western disturbance over northwest India is causing rain in the region and hailstorms in some areas.

Srivastava said that another western disturbance will start affecting the region (from) Sunday while cloudy skies and on-and-off rain will continue over northwest India till March 21.

He said that precipitation is predicted to peak on March 20 and will result in a drop in mercury, adding that a hailstorm is forecasted in parts of northwest India, including Delhi-NCR, on Monday.

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A young man, identified as 23-year-old Rahul, was found hanging from a ceiling inside a hotel room at Devli road, Delhi Police said on Tuesday.

According to an official statement issued by the police, Neb Sarai Police Station received a PCR call from a hotel at Devli Road on the intervening night of March 12 and 13 and a police team was dispatched to the spot who found the victim hanging from the ceiling fan of a room.

The deceased was identified as Rahul, a resident of Dakshinpuri Extension, Pushpa Bahawan, they said, adding that the body of the victim was inspected by the Crime team and later sent to mortuary at AIIMS Delhi for postmortem proceeding under section 174 of the CrPC.

An official said that on March 11, the deceased had stayed at the hotel along with another person, identified as Sourav, and had checked out on the morning of March 12. However, the deceased once again checked into the hotel in the evening at around 5 pm on the same day.

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During initial investigation, police while scanning the security camera footage of the hotel, found a man dressed in Delhi Police uniform entering the hotel and it was later revealed that the man had introduced himself as Constable Nabab, posted in Jyoti Nagar police station, the official said, adding that the impersonator had failed to produce an identity card upon being asked to do so.

He said that on being enquired, the OYO hotel staff revealed that a policeman was staying with a woman at the hotel’s room no 206. On checking, the man—identified as Nabab Singh of Ashok Nagar, Mandoli—and a woman were found and questioned.

The official further said that the man who was donning a Delhi Police uniform, introduced himself as Constable Nabab posted in Jyoti Nagar police station. However, the impersonator failed to produce any identity card or any other relevant documents and later was revealed to be impersonating as a constable of Delhi Police but was actually a Civil Defence volunteer of Shahdara District.

A case of impersonation has been registered against him and further investigation is underway.

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A 60-year-old man was arrested by the police for allegedly sexually harassing a 7-year-old girl from his neigbourhood in Gulabi Bagh area of north Delhi, officials said on Saturday.

According to the police, the accused—an elderly man identified as Badrinath, resident of Delhi’s Pratap Nagar—allegedly undressed the minor girls and touched her private parts.

An official said that on Wednesday night, the girl’s mother, accompanied by her daughter filed a complaint against the accused at a local police station. She said that her daughter, a student of second standard, had narrated the ordeal to her mother, accusing the old man or sexually harassing her for the past 8-10 days.

On Wednesday, the man allegedly undressed the child and touched her privates. The girl told her mother resulting in an argument between her and the accused leading to the police being informed about the quarrel at around 10:29 pm on Wednesday night.

A senior official said the woman’s statement was recorded at the police station and a case under section 376 (punishment for rape) of the Indian Penal Code and section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was registered against the accused.

The accused has been arrested and further investigation is underway, he said, adding that a medical examination of the victim is being carried out.

In a similar incident, a seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an inebriated man while her friend (9) was injured, as she managed to escape a rape attempt the accomplice of the accused on Holi, Wednesday, in Bihar’s Begusarai.

According to reports, the two girls, aged 7 and 9, who belong to same village, were on their way back from a local market on Holi during afternoon hours. The girls stopped at a local government school in Panchdir Chowk on their way back home to enjoy a swing ride where they were approached by the two men, who tried to coax the minors to come with them. The men were reportedly drunk.

Liquor is banned in Bihar.

The girls, fearing their motives, refused and one child hid tried hiding in the school toilet where one of the accused, identified as Sohan Kumar alias Chhotu Mahto, allegedly raped her. The victim’s friend managed to resist the rape bid by the second accused, Bablu Kumar, and ran away to a nearby street where she informed people about the incident.

The girl sustained injuries while escaping the rape bid.

Reports said that locals soon rushed to the spot and rescued the rape victim who had been thrown into the bushes by the accused after the horrendous act.