SHO directed to file case against five PANCHKULA, Nov 28 — The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Ved Pal Gupta, today directed the SHO of the Sector 5 police station of Panchkula to register a case against five persons on the basis of a complaint filed by Mrs Jai Hind Kumar Mehta, a resident of Ambala City. Punia calls on Sonia CHANDIGARH, Nov 28 — A former industry minister of Haryana, Dr KR Punia, today called upon Mrs Sonia Gandhi at her residence in Delhi and presented her a book " Administration of Credit Cooperatives in India" written by him.

Laws for women ‘only on paper’ Rs 18,000 stolen from car Frames that depict spiritual journey

Students hold rally on AIDS awareness

Contempt notice to Dist Magistrate

Case against Mayor adjourned

50 donate blood

Rally by CTU conductors

He wins race, but loses life
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 28 — Sant Hari Singh (92) began the race with gusto which could make a youngster envy him. What is more he won the race. But the cruel hands of death snatched him after he crossed the end line.

Sant Hari Singh died after taking part in the race for the age group of 85-95 age group, organised as part of the Chandigarh Carnival here today. His victory today was the repeat of last year's performance.

Sant Hari Singh was a former engineer at Bhakra Dam. Sporting his characteristic walking stick, he was a familiar figure at Sukhna Lake.

His daughter who went to drop him at the venue in the morning said that he was an extremely religious man. "He seemed spirited when I dropped him. On return I received a call about the tragedy. He was brought home dead".

After retirement in early 60's, Sant Hari Singh had settled in Chandigarh and spent his time reading, doing yoga and visiting religious places.

Sant Ram Handa finished second in the race. He came second last year as well.

Other winners include 60-65 yrs, Daljit Kumar Saggar, Iqbal Singh and Harbans Singh : 65-75 yrs-Gian Singh Virdi, Sardul Singh Vilkhu and Riara Singh: 75-85 years — Major Gian Singh, TS Virdi and Jai Dyal Rehani and Ms Daulat Devi Rehani in the women's category : in the 85-95 yrs category for ladies Mohinderjeet Kaur, Rajinder Gill and Sarla Rani were the winners.

Villagers hold up traffic for over three hours
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 28 — Irate residents of Mullanpur Garibdass and several surrounding villages of the city's vicinity held up traffic for more than three hours today to protest against the poor condition of the Chandigarh-Kurali road, the lifeline of these villages.

Scores of commuters, who were caught unaware, had to put up with the blockade. Several persons could be seen pleading with agitators to let them go.

According to the protesters, neither the Chandigarh Administration nor the Punjab Government has bothered to improve the condition of the road, an important alternative route to Ropar. The monsoon was the worst period when the road resembles a mud track and accidents are common.

Mr Arvind Puri, president of the welfare committee of the village, said they had on numerous occasions given representations to the government but the efforts proved futile. The importance of the road could be gauged from the fact the road shortens the distance between Chandigarh and Ropar by almost 25 km.

Mr Tota Singh, Punjab Education Minister, who was on a tour to inspect village schools of the area, assured the protesters that he would take up the matter with the department concerned.

Demand to transfer Panchkula DC
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 28 — The Congress MLA from Kalka, Mr Chander Mohan has demanded immediate transfer of the Deputy Commissioner of Panchkula and certain other officers for allegedly committing atrocities on the people of the district.

In a statement issued here today, the elder son of the former Chief Minister, Mr Bhajan Lal, alleged that in an operation reminiscent of the Emergency days the Panchkula administration not only demolished residential houses of the poor but also did not spare their temples and even cowsheds.

Expressing anguish over the demolitions, Mr Chander Mohan said it was ironical that a government which had the BJP as a partner had demolished the boundary wall of Anand Ashram, Manav Kendra, and the gate and the approach road of the Radha Krishan Temple. He said on one hand the BJP was demanding the construction of Ram Temple at Ayodhya, on the other hand its Government was demolishing temples in Haryana.

Mr Chander Mohan, who visited the demolished buildings at Nadha Sahib and Saketri along with his party leaders, including Mr Sanjeev Chopra, warned the State Government that if it did not mend its ways, the Congress would be compelled to launch a State wide agitation.

Accusing the Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, of adopting discriminatory attitude in the matter of development works, Mr Chander Mohan said he should quit on moral grounds. He said even Mr Bansi Lal's own partymen were leaving him and accusing him of being dictatorial and partisan. He said 120 irrigation schemes had been approved for the entire State. Of these 59 schemes were for Bhiwani district alone which was the native district of the Chief Minister. For Panchkula district only one scheme had been sanctioned and that too had been sanctioned to protect a hotel owned by the powers that be.

Criticising the decision of the State Government to shift certain offices outside Chandigarh and Panchkula, Mr Chander Mohan said it was a part of the conspiracy to handover Chandigarh to Punjab without getting Abohar-Fazilka and other Hindi-speaking areas for Haryana from that State.

Housing society case
SHO directed to file case against five
Tribune News Service

PANCHKULA, Nov 28 — The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Ved Pal Gupta, today directed the SHO of the Sector 5 police station of Panchkula to register a case against Mr Inder Sain Aggarwal, Mr Chaman Lal, Mrs Neelam Chopra, Mr D.D. Sharma and Mrs Anu Aggarwal on the basis of a complaint filed by Mrs Jai Hind Kumar Mehta, a resident of Ambala City.

The complainant stated that her husband was a member of the IDC Employees Cooperative Group Housing Society, Panchkula. She claimed that her husband, Mr Bhagwan Chand Mehta, had deposited a sum of Rs 21,000 with this society by way of his share money or the cost of the plot. The name of her husband figured in the list of members at serial no. 24.

She alleged that Mr Inder Sain Aggarwal, who was then the president of the society, and the remaining respondents connived with one another and transferred the share of her husband in the name of Mrs Anu Aggarwal, daughter of Mr Inder Sain Aggarwal.

The CJM observed: "It (suit) discloses the commission of cognisable offences. Hence the same is entrusted to the SHO, Sector 9 police station, Panchkula, through the office of the Superintendent of Police, Panchkula, with the directive to register a case against the guilty ones under appropriate provisions of the law treating the same as first information report, and then investigate the same as envisaged under Section 156 (3), Cr P.C..

Punia calls on Sonia
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 28 — A former industry minister of Haryana, Dr KR Punia, today called upon Mrs Sonia Gandhi at her residence in Delhi and presented her a book "Administration of Credit Cooperatives in India" written by him.

Dr Punia, who was an AICC observer for the Gole Market constituency in Delhi, where the Congress candidate, Sheila Dikshit has won, claimed the book was useful in providing adequate and easy credit not only for the farming sector but also to landless labourers and other poor people.

Students hold rally on AIDS awareness
From Our Correspondent

CHANDIGARH, Nov 28 —Various events marked the week-long AIDS awareness campaign here today.

An inter-school and inter-college on-the-spot essay writing competition was organised by Government College, Sector 46. Cash prizes of Rs 1500, Rs 1000, Rs 750 and Rs 500 will be given on 1st December at Government College, Sector 11 in each category.

A poster-making contest was organised at Punjab Engineering College in which 180 NSS volunteers from six states participated. It was organised by the Panjab University branch of State Bank of India.

The NSS unit of GMSSS-46 organised a rally of 400 students. The students carried banners and placards, showing the dangerous results of the disease and raised slogans.

Contempt notice to Dist Magistrate
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 28 — The Civil Judge, Junior Division, Ms Paramvir Nizzar, today issued notice to the District Magistrate under the Contempt of the Court Act on an application moved by the Consumers Protectors and Mr Baljit Singh, a resident of Sector 40.

The applicants said that the court had directed the District Magistrate to conduct a survey about the fire-fighting equipment installed in various cinema halls in the city to avert a tragedy like the one occurred in Uphar Cinema in Delhi.

The District Magistrate ought to have to file his report by now. As he had not filed the report, he was liable to be proceeded against under the Contempt of the Court Act.

Case against Mayor adjourned
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 28 — The Judicial Magistrate, Mr Tejwinder Singh, today adjourned to December 12 the case registered against the Mayor of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, Mr Gian Chand Gupta, for allegedly assaulting Mr K.B. Sharma, Superintending Engineer with the Chandigarh Administration.

The adjournment was granted to allow the Administration to file reply to the objections raised by Mr Sharma and Mr Ajay Jagga, president of the local unit of the Janata Party, to the move of the Administration to withdraw the case.

50 donate blood
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 28 — Fifty volunteers today donated blood at a camp organised at Government College, Barwala. A declamation contest was also organised under the auspices of 'Build India Group' in which 20 students from various educational institutions of Barwala participated.

Pooja Kaushik of Government Senior Secondary School, Barwala, Sangeeta of Government College, Barwala, Bharti of Government College, Barwala, and Sandeep of Government Senior Secondary School, Barwala, won prizes in the contest.

The Build India Group President, Mrs Meenakshi Saxena, gave prizes to the blood donors.

Rally by CTU conductors
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 28 — Members of the CTU Conductors' Union held a rally in front of the office of the Divisional Manager in support of their demands here today.

Mr Devinder Kumar, senior vice-president of the union, said the main demands of the union include payment in lieu of working on national holidays, bonus for the past two years and payment for overtime. The protesters raised slogans against the "corrupt officers" of the organisation.

A mass rally will be held on December 11 at the ISBT in case their demands are not met, he added.

Frames that depict spiritual journey

CHANDIGARH: Art in any form takes one away from the humdrum of life. It is not necessary to be an artist to go through the experience. These days city residents are getting ample opportunities to savour such moments.

Last evening offered one such moment to enrich the soul. The venue was Indus Ind Art Gallery, which is holding an exhibition of paintings by Pimi Khanna. The exhibition provided a platform for a get-together of artists. What was served on the platter along with a collection of myriad colours was poetry recital by Nirmala Singh and Sneh Sharma and a flute recital by Raj Jain, who played three ragas — Hansdhwani, Khamaj and Pahari.

Pimi, born in Lahore and graduate of Allahabad University, has been painting for over three decades. She started with figurative, but switched to abstract. After attending Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi, she trained in graphics in the USA and in graphic-design and fine arts in Germany.

Though she shifted to Germany in 1972, she could not shake off the influence of her native land. Her experiences of the mountains and their purity are brought across through her paintings. She says: "Through dreams, and with art as the medium, my aim is to reach the destination of spirituality".

Every painting of hers has some philosophical nuance behind it. Sometimes it is the process of becoming and dissolving, with frames relating to enlightenment and "tattav" (the ultimate reality), attained by people like the Dalai Lama.

To some her creations might seem to present the pristine glory of nature, while to the others they might seem to depict the channel of spiritual journey.

— Priti Verma

Laws for women ‘only on paper’
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 28 — Waris Shah was rooted in the patriarchal manipulations of gender representation, said Dr Pankaj Singh from Himachal Pradesh University in her paper on "Textual politics and formation of gender — the case of Hir Ranjha" at a seminar on "Gender relations in Punjab" at the ICSSR complex in Panjab University here today.

The scholar contented that though the legend gives voice and visibility to the protagonist Hir, yet the narrative is firmly characterised by patriarchal closures in its strictures and rhetoric as well as character conception.

Shalini Shah's paper dealt with gender and sexuality in ancient Punjab as seen in the study of the Mahabharata. According to her, the woman's sexual subordination was institutionalised in the Brahmanical legal codes which were underwritten and enforced by the power of the monarchical state.
Ms Jaishri Thakur, a lawyer of Punjab and Haryana High Court, talked about the "right to property and safeguards for women". She was of the opinion that the laws were merely on paper and were not enforced properly.

Others who spoke were Dr Rajesh Gill, Ms Renuka Dagar, Mr Joginder Singh and Dr Gurnam Kaur.

Workshop: Panjab University will host UGC curriculum development centre workshop on December 7 and 8, a press note of the Centre of Advanced Studies in Geology said here on Saturday.

The secretary-general of the Association of Indian Universities, members of the UGC, Earth Science Panel and heads of over 30 universities are to participate in the event.

Convention: A regional convention for the formation of the All-India Federation of University Teachers’ Associations is scheduled for Sunday at Commerce auditorium at Panjab University, a press note said.

Universities from Punjab, Himachal, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan are expected to participate in the convention.

Rs 18,000 stolen from car
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Nov 28 — A sum of Rs 18,000 and jewellery was reportedly stolen from a car parked in the Sector 9 market.

Mrs Gyan Bala of Sector 27 has lodged a complaint with the police in this regard.

A case under Section 379, IPC, has been registered.

Cheated: Mrs Savitri Chainna of Sector 6, Panchkula, has alleged that she has been cheated of Rs 86,000 by a Chandigarh-based private housing development company.

A case under Sections 420 and 120-B, IPC has been registered.

Injured: Ms Ritu Arora of Sector 35, who was on a scooter, was hit by a mini-truck near the Panjab University gate on Saturday.