Tuesday, May 22, 2001,
Chandigarh, India





THE TRIBUNE SPECIALS
50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

TERCENTENARY CELEBRATIONS
H A R Y A N A

Ex-minister, others granted bail
Narnaul, May 21
Mr S.K. Gupta, Additional Sessions Judge, Narnaul, today accepted the bail application of Mr Kailash Chand Sharma, advocate and former Haryana Revenue Minister, his brother Radhey Shyam Sharma, former Deputy Excise and Taxation Controller, Haryana, residents of Amerpura village (Narnaul tehsil) and Babu Lal, son of Sohan Lal resident of Sodawas Alwar district (Rajasthan), Shyam Sunder Sharma son of Birbal Prashad Sharma, brother of Kailash Chand Sharma.

DCC leader joins Paswan’s party
Rohtak, May 21
Lt-Col Bhagat Singh (retd), Senior Vice-President, District Congress Committee (Rural), has resigned from primary membership of the party and joined the Lok Janshakti Party headed by Union Telecommunication Minister Ram Bilas Paswan.

BJP to strengthen base in villages
Bhiwani, May 21
“To strengthen the party’s base in rural areas, the BJP has adopted several programmes and the Central Government has started allocating 50 per cent of the total budgetary provisions on rural areas”. This was stated by the Union Home Minister for State, Mr I.D. Swami, while addressing a gathering on the second day of a three-day workshop of the BJP being organised at the local Vidya Vihar. He alleged that the previous governments had been spending only 10 per cent of the total budget on villages.

HVPN decision arbitrary: CPM
Rohtak, May 21
The CPM, Haryana, has criticised the HVPN for its “coercive policy” on replacing electricity meters and the Telecommunication Department for imposing five months’ cumulative rent on its consumers.



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EARLIER STORIES

 

Fire mishap: factory has no licence
Jhajjar, May 21
The tragic fire incident which claimed the lives of seven workers in the Modern Industrial Estate area in Bahadurgarh town yesterday has exposed the inadequate fire-fighting measures being adopted by the factories, especially chemical factories. The role of the District Industrial Centre at Bahadurgarh is also being questioned as the factory was being run defying various industrial norms and without any permanent licence.

MC member remanded in custody
Faridabad, May 21
Ms Renu Bhatia, member of the local municipal corporation from ward No. 8 has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days by the local court in an attempt to murder. A case has been registered against her and five others. Her husband and one of her neighbours have also been remanded in judicial custody.

250 poor students get aid
Kalka, May 21
As many as 250 needy children, selected from 14 schools of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, were given aid worth Rs 70,000 in the form of books, stationery and uniforms by the Kalka-Parwanoo chapter of the Bharat Vikas Parishad on its annual day celebrations here yesterday evening.

Contractor snaps cables; 3000 phones dead
Faridabad, May 21
About 3,000 telephones of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited in NH-I, NH-II and NH-III locality of the New Industrial town here have been out of order for the past three days.

Hardcore criminal arrested
Ambala, May 21
A man arrested by the Delhi police for plotting to eliminate tehelka.com chief Tarun Tejpal and a correspondent, Aniruddh, is suspected to have committed a murder in Ambala.

2 youths held for dancing naked
Faridabad, May 21
Two youths, who were reportedly dancing in a street without any clothes on their bodies, were arrested by the police from the NIT area here last night.

Rajiv Gandhi remembered
Chandigarh, May 21
The Haryana Pradesh Congress today observed the 10th martyrdom day of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, President, HPCC, visited Vir Bhoomi, the samadhi of former Prime Minister, and paid floral tributes.

Suspects nabbed 45 minutes after robbery
Panipat, May 21
Within 45 minutes after a day light robbery today, the police succeeded in nabbing two of the three suspects and recovered the looted amount of Rs 3,65,000. Two country-made pistols were also seized from their possession.

Haryana Jats seek job quota
Sonepat, May 21
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, remained the target of severe criticism for his alleged anti-Jat activities at a meeting of the Haryana Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti held here yesterday. Mr Tara Chand Mor, co-convenor and spokesman of the samiti, presided over the meeting.

Jobs reserved for retrenched staff
Chandigarh, May 21
The Haryana Government has decided that 25 per cent of future vacancies in the case of direct recruitment in Groups C and D in government departments and state public sector and cooperative sector undertaking will be reserved for retrenched employees of state government departments and public sector cooperative sector undertakings.





 

Ex-minister, others granted bail
Our Correspondent

Narnaul, May 21
Mr S.K. Gupta, Additional Sessions Judge, Narnaul, today accepted the bail application of Mr Kailash Chand Sharma, advocate and former Haryana Revenue Minister, his brother Radhey Shyam Sharma, former Deputy Excise and Taxation Controller, Haryana, residents of Amerpura village (Narnaul tehsil) and Babu Lal, son of Sohan Lal resident of Sodawas Alwar district (Rajasthan), Shyam Sunder Sharma son of Birbal Prashad Sharma, brother of Kailash Chand Sharma.

According to the FIR registered against the accused, the complainant Sanwal Ram had alleged in a complaint to the Area Magistrate that one Matadin was the owner of agricultural land measuring 112 kanals 5 marlas in Amerpura village. In April, 1973, Matadin died issueless and his two sisters Gindori and Mahadevi had predeceased him. So, Babu Lal, son of Gindori, and Mahadevi’s daughter Santra inherited his land.

On May 26, 1973, Babu Lal filed a suit, claiming himself to be the only legal heir of Matadin. The two parties arrived at a compromise in that civil suit. Babu Lal was declared owner of 56 kanals and 2 marlas of land. Santra sold her share to the complainant and others vide sale deed dated October 4, 1973, for Rs 22,000/-.

The allegation of the complainant is that in order to grab the land, Radhey Shyam and Kailash got prepared a fake will dated April 3, 1973 of Matadin in favour of their uncle Jamni Sahai. On the basis of will, Jamni Sahai instituted a civil suit claiming his title over the land. On October 10, 1973, Jamni Sahai got the said decree nullified. The suit was instituted against Babu Lal alone. Somebody allegedly impersonating as Babu Lal went to court and said Jamni Sahai obtained decree of entire land in his favour. Mutation on the basis of that decree was also sanctioned.

On October 9, 1973, Babu Lal instituted a civil suit against Jamni Sahai and others. It was decided on November 11, 1998. The will relied upon by Jamni Sahai was held forged. Jamni Sahai was found having no right in the land of Matadin. Feeling aggrieved, Jamni Sahai had filed an appeal before the District Sessions Judge.

During pendency of the case, a compromise was submitted and the case was decided accordingly.

Regular second appeal against the order of the District Judge is pending before the high court. During the pendency of the appeal, Babu Lal has executed a released deed of the land in favour of Shyam Sunder, Radhey Shyam and Kailash, petitioners, without having any right in the land.

The Magistrate forwarded this complaint to the SHO concerned for registration of a case and investigation. Apprehending their arrest, they have applied for a pre-arrest bail.

Mr R.K. Mehta, counsel for the petitioner, submitted that a false complaint on the basis of wrong facts has been instituted only as a counter blast to a case registered against the complainant and 14 other persons under Sections 148/447/342/506/395 read with Section 149 of IPC in which charge against them has already been framed.

It was also submitted that the said compromise was between Babu Lal and Jamni Sahai. The remaining petitioners Shyam Sunder, Radhey Shyam and Kailash had no role in that compromise. It was also contended that moreover the matter is still yet to be decided.

The Judge, Mr S.K. Gupta, observed that since the forgery charge is yet to be decided, the petitioners be released on bail.
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DCC leader joins Paswan’s party
Jatinder Sharma

Rohtak, May 21
Lt-Col Bhagat Singh (retd), Senior Vice-President, District Congress Committee (Rural), has resigned from primary membership of the party and joined the Lok Janshakti Party headed by Union Telecommunication Minister Ram Bilas Paswan.

Mr Bhagat Singh said today he was resigning from the Congress as it had become the ‘property’ of certain families and had no concern for the problems being confronted by the ordinary workers, small and marginal farmers, Dalits and the petty shopkeepers.

Meanwhile, the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee has described the turnnot at its ‘lalkar rally’ at Panipat yesterday as a vote of no-confidence against the Om Prakash Chautala government and demanded its resignation.

Party spokesman Pardeep Punia said the ‘massive’ attendance at the rally had proved that Mr Chautala had lost confidence of the people and as such he had no moral right to continue in office.

The Congress spokesman said after ‘losing’ people’s confidence in Haryana, the Chief Minister, Mr Om Parkash Chautala, was searching political ground in other states like UP and Rajasthan. He cautioned the people of neighbouring states against falling a prey to the ‘false’ promises of Mr Chautala.

The DCC (Rural) chief, Prof Virender, said after the death of Rajiv Gandhi, the country had become ‘leaderless’. He paid glowing tributes to the latter on his 11th death anniversary here today.

He thanked the people for making the ‘lalkar rally’ a success and hoped that they would actively participate in making the agitation programme announced by Hooda also a success.
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BJP to strengthen base in villages
Our Correspondent

Bhiwani, May 21
“To strengthen the party’s base in rural areas, the BJP has adopted several programmes and the Central Government has started allocating 50 per cent of the total budgetary provisions on rural areas”. This was stated by the Union Home Minister for State, Mr I.D. Swami, while addressing a gathering on the second day of a three-day workshop of the BJP being organised at the local Vidya Vihar. He alleged that the previous governments had been spending only 10 per cent of the total budget on villages.

Highlighting the achievements of the NDA government, the minister said the government had prepared a five-year plan to connect all villages by road. Likewise, each village of the country would be provided with drinking water by 2002.

The Union Minister said an independent plan had been chalked out for the provision of water, wherein 90 per cent cost would be born by Centre and 10 per cent by the villages. He said at the preliminary level, two districts of each state had been chosen for this scheme as Karnal and Yamunanagar from Haryana. The scheme would be run by villagers themselves.
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HVPN decision arbitrary: CPM
Our Correspondent

Rohtak, May 21
The CPM, Haryana, has criticised the HVPN for its “coercive policy” on replacing electricity meters and the Telecommunication Department for imposing five months’ cumulative rent on its consumers.

The party, in a statement, has alleged that following privatisation and liberalisation, all government department are resorting to ‘blind loot’ of consumers.

The party has said the HVPN decisions on fixing powerload and replacement of meters smacks of highhandness. Because of “arbitrary” decisions and “anti-consumer” policies, the HVPN employees in the field are facing the wrath of the people.

Describing the policy of charging consumers for replaced meters as totally unjustifiable, the CPM state secretary, Mr Inderjit Singh, has asked the HVPN to explain the logic behind replacement of meters found functioning properly during statewide checking launched by the HVPN a few months ago.

The CPM has described the decision of Bharat Sanchar Nigam to charge five months’ cumulative rent from telephone consumers as entirely “improper”.

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Fire mishap: factory has no licence
Our Correspondent

Jhajjar, May 21
The tragic fire incident which claimed the lives of seven workers in the Modern Industrial Estate area in Bahadurgarh town yesterday has exposed the inadequate fire-fighting measures being adopted by the factories, especially chemical factories. The role of the District Industrial Centre (DIC) at Bahadurgarh is also being questioned as the factory was being run defying various industrial norms and without any permanent licence.

Reports say that the factory was manufacturing a particular type of solution by mixing LPG and mafrone with some other chemicals .

The Deputy Commissioner, Mrs Shashi Gulati, said the preliminary reports indicated that the factory had no fire- safety licence besides many other essential documents. She added that the factory had acquired provisional registration.

However, police sources stated that the police had raided the house of the factory owner and recovered some documents concerning the factory. An attendance register of the factory was also found in which only three employees had been registered.

No formal investigating committee has been set-up by the administration to go behind the causes of the tragedy so far. The owner of the factory, Sandeep Arora of Sudarshan Park in Delhi, has not been traced so far.

Meanwhile, the district administration has announced a compensation of Rs 10,000 to each of the families of the deceased.
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MC member remanded in custody
Tribune News Service

Faridabad, May 21
Ms Renu Bhatia, member of the local municipal corporation from ward No. 8 has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days by the local court in an attempt to murder. A case has been registered against her and five others. Her husband and one of her neighbours have also been remanded in judicial custody.

The accused were produced in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Jagdeep Jain today. He turned down the bail application of the corporator, her husband Om Prakash and Bharat Kumar.

They were arrested under Section 307 of the IPC on a complaint by Ms Lalita Shah, a tenant of the corporator. The complainant had charged the Bhatia couple and four others with assaulting her with an iron rod after a row. Ms Lalita had been hospitalised with serious head injuries. The latest altercation took place between the tenant and owner reportedly over the construction of a bathroom in the house. Ms Lalita is occupying a one-room set in the house and two other rooms are in possession of Ms Bhatia.
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250 poor students get aid
Our Correspondent

Kalka, May 21
As many as 250 needy children, selected from 14 schools of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, were given aid worth Rs 70,000 in the form of books, stationery and uniforms by the Kalka-Parwanoo chapter of the Bharat Vikas Parishad on its annual day celebrations here yesterday evening.

Rakesh Bansal, an industrialist, was the chief guest on the occasion. Mr Bansal lauded the efforts of the Parishad for coming to the help of the needy students. On the occasion, new office-bearers of the Parishad were also installed. Guru Dutt took over as the president for the period 2001-2003. Other office-bearers are J.N. Kaul — vice-president; Ashok Kansal — secretary; Ashok Jindal — cashier and Pramod Aggarwal and Vijay Aggarwal — joint secretaries.

Gainda Ram, a postman from Kalka, was honoured for his selfless services and presented a shawl. Seven new members were also in the Parishad on the occasion.

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Contractor snaps cables; 3000 phones dead
Tribune News Service

Faridabad, May 21
About 3,000 telephones of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited in NH-I, NH-II and NH-III locality of the New Industrial town (NIT) here have been out of order for the past three days.

The fault reportedly occurred due to the snapping of the telephone cables by a contractor of a private company, which was engaged in the laying of PVC pipes for underground cables.

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Hardcore criminal arrested
Tribune News Service

Ambala, May 21
A man arrested by the Delhi police for plotting to eliminate tehelka.com chief Tarun Tejpal and a correspondent, Aniruddh, is suspected to have committed a murder in Ambala.

Bhupendra Tyagi, a dreaded criminal, who was nabbed by the Delhi police, was questioned by the district police in connection with the Mikka murder case, which took place in 1998. The Superintendent of Police, Ambala, Mr Sandeep Khirwar, said Bhupendra Tyagi has admitted to the murder of a youth called Mikka in August 1998 near John Sahab Ki Diggi, Ambala Cantonment.

Sources said that Tyagi has provided details of what led to the murder of Mikka. Bhupinder had apparently met an Ambala Cantonment, referred to as Bobby, in Delhi. Bobby had told Bhupender that a youth had misbehaved with his sister and he was seeking revenge. Bhupender then came to Ambala Cantonment along with Bobby in order to seek revenge for the misbehaviour. One night, the duo who were travelling in a car, got the opportunity to strike when they found Mikka driving a scooter along with a pillion rider. The duo then shot Mikka.

During the questioning by the police, besides that, he has also admitted committing several other crimes including looting a bank.

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2 youths held for dancing naked
Tribune News Service

Faridabad, May 21
Two youths, who were reportedly dancing in a street without any clothes on their bodies, were arrested by the police from the NIT area here last night.

The youths, identified as Mahesh and Ravinder of the AC Nagar locality, were found dancing and roaming about in the street in a totally naked condition by policemen patrolling in the area. The power supply of the colony had been cut off at that time.

A case has been registered.
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Rajiv Gandhi remembered
Tribune Reporters

Chandigarh, May 21
The Haryana Pradesh Congress today observed the 10th martyrdom day of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, President, HPCC, visited Vir Bhoomi, the samadhi of former Prime Minister, and paid floral tributes.

In Chandigarh, a meeting was organised to pay tributes to the departed leader. It was presided over by Dr K.V. Singh, Vice-President of the HPCC. Tributes were paid to the departed leader by Mr Rajinder Hooda, Secretary, Media Department of the PCC and other party functionaries.
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Suspects nabbed 45 minutes after robbery
Our Correspondent

Panipat, May 21
Within 45 minutes after a day light robbery today, the police succeeded in nabbing two of the three suspects and recovered the looted amount of Rs 3,65,000. Two country-made pistols were also seized from their possession.

The Superintendent of Police, Mr P.R. Dev told mediapersons at a press conference that two employees of Mini Cooperative Bank branch at Seenkh village were on a motor cycle with carrying a sum of Rs 3.65 lakh.

On the Seenkh-Urlana road, three armed gangsters stopped their motor cycle after giving them lathi blows, snatched the bag containing the cash and escaped on a Yamaha motor cycle bearing registration No HR-06-4310.

The employees informed the police within 10 minutes after the incident. The police sealed all exit points of the district as per the newly introduced “district sealing plan operation”.

During checking, one of the gangsters was found travelling in a maxi cab along with the cash bag at Israna police naka on the Panipat-Gohana road, about 22 km from the site of the incident.

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Haryana Jats seek job quota
Our Correspondent

Sonepat, May 21
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, remained the target of severe criticism for his alleged anti-Jat activities at a meeting of the Haryana Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti held here yesterday. Mr Tara Chand Mor, co-convenor and spokesman of the samiti, presided over the meeting.

The meeting adopted a resolution unanimously asking Mr Chautala to immediately fulfil his promises of extending job reservations to the Haryana Jats who were facing hardships due to unemployment. It also warned Mr Chautala that the samiti would launch a massive agitation if the Jats were not declared a backward community within a short span of time for the purpose of getting job reservations.

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Jobs reserved for retrenched staff
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 21
The Haryana Government has decided that 25 per cent of future vacancies in the case of direct recruitment in Groups C and D in government departments and state public sector and cooperative sector undertaking will be reserved for retrenched employees of state government departments and public sector cooperative sector undertakings.

A retrenched employees will be eligible to apply for such a vacancy within three years from the date of his retrenchment. The provision of reservation for retrenched employees will remain operative for five years.

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Peak-load curbs lifted
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 21
The Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam today claimed that it had removed all peak-load restrictions on industries in the state with immediate effect.

An official spokesman of the nigam said earlier the restriction were being observed from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
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