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Friday,
April 4, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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HVP in a
bind over defamation case Haryana
MPs, MLAs nominated to MCs CM lays
stones for 3 schemes SARS: DGHS
order to Civil Surgeons Youth done to death in broad daylight Incentives
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HIGH COURT
Nain’s bail plea dismissed Haryana
for uniform bus fare policy Bansal,
Malli made ADGPs Haryana Govt direction on retrenched staff Hearing
on Rathore’s plea adjourned Kalam
to visit Hisar on April 19 Contests mark Polyfest-2003
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HVP in a bind over defamation case Chandigarh, April 3 Even when defamation cases are filed, these are usually not contested seriously and end in a compromise. But the HVP is finding itself in a bind over making allegations of misappropriation of funds levelled against one of its former leaders, who filed a defamation case against his former colleagues. When Mr Ved Pal, a former Chairman of the Haryana State Agriculture Marketing Board and a senior leader of the
HVP, left the party after the fall of the Bansi Lal Government in 1999, Mr Balbir Singh, President of the Karnal district unit of the
HVP, alleged that Mr Ved Pal had misappropriated Rs 10 crore of the party funds. The allegation was made at a press conference. Mr Ved Pal, a former Deputy Speaker of the Haryana Vidhan
Sabha, filed a defamation case against Mr Balbir Singh and certain newsmen in a Karnal court. The Karnal court has accepted the request of Mr Ved Pal to summon the President of the
HVP, Mr Bansi Lal; a former Haryana Minister; Seth Shri Krishan Dass, who was also the Treasurer of the
HVP; and Mr Abhey Ram Dahiya, who was the organising secretary of the party. Mr
Dahiya, according to Mr Ved Pal, was also functioning as the second treasurer of the
HVP. Mr Dahiya, said Mr Ved Pal in his application for summoning the witnesses, was authorised to deposit and withdraw the party funds from the bank at Panchkula. The HVP leaders have been summoned to appear as witnesses on behalf of Mr Ved Pal. In his application, Mr Ved Pal said the statements of senior HVP leaders were important to check the veracity of the allegation levelled against him by Mr Balbir Singh. Mr Ved Pal wants that the HVP leaders should come to the court with the accounts of the party as on December 12, 1999, when the allegation was made against him, and prior to it. They should also clarify whether any party money was given to him or whether they ever issued any show-cause notice regarding any misappropriation by
him (Mr Ved Pal) of the party funds or whether they ever issued any cheque or draft from any party account to him which was not accounted for by him later. Mr Ved Pal said in these alternative the senior HVP leaders should dissociate themselves from the allegation levelled by a party functionary against him and they should come forward to deny the allegation because only these leaders were capable of giving the real position of the party account. If the HVP leaders dissociate themselves from the allegation, they will be accused of ditching one of their supporters. If they bring the party record to the court, the allegation may not be proved because the party had been claiming that it was not rich. If a leader could misappropriate Rs 10
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Haryana
MPs, MLAs nominated to MCs Chandigarh, April 3 Mr Rattan Lal Kataria, MP and Mr Chander Mohan, MLA, have been nominated as members to the Panchkula municipality; Mr I.D. Swami, MP and Mr Bhim Sen Mehta, MLA, to the Indri municipality. In the case of Nilokheri, the members would be Mr I.D. Swami, MP, and Mr Dharampal, MLA; Kharkhauda — Mr K.S. Sangwan, MP, and Mr Padam Singh, MLA, Pundri — Mrs Kailasho Saini, MP, and Mr Tejbir Singh, MLA; Kalayat — Mrs Kailasho Saini, MP; and Mr Dina Ram, MLA; Beri — Capt Inder Singh, MP; and Dr Raghubir Singh Kadiyan, MLA; and Bawani Khera — Mr Ajay Singh Chautala, MP; and Mr Ram Kishan, MLA. In the case of Siwani, the members would be Mr Ajay Singh Chautala, MP, and Mr Ram Kishan, MLA; Helly Mandi — Mr Ram Chander Bainda, MP; and Mr Rambir Singh, MLA; Pataudi — Mr Ram Chander Bainda, MP; and Mr Rambir Singh, MLA; Tauru — Mr Ram Chander Bainda, MP; and Mr Zakir Hussain, MLA; Narnaund — Mr Surender Singh Barwala, MP; and Prof Ram Bhagat Sharma, MLA; Kalanaur — Mr Inder Singh, MP; and Mrs Sarita Narayan, MLA. |
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CM lays stones for 3
schemes Kaithal, April 3 The Chief Minister said this during his whirlwind tour to the 22 villages of the Kalayat constituency under the third phase of “Sarkar apke
dwar” programme. Mr Chautala urged the people to pay the outstanding amount of their electricity bills and help the government in its endeavour of provide 24-hour power supply. He accepted the demands of the people of these villages. The Chief Minister also laid the foundation stones for three developmental schemes. He laid the foundation stone for the upgradation of the Chausala group of water supply scheme. This scheme costing Rs 1.24 crore will upgrade the water supply to 70 lped of three villages which includes
Chausala, Julani Khera and Ram Garh and benefit at least 20,000 persons. Later, he laid the foundation stone for the Badsikri minor extension. The scheme will benefit the farmers of Kheri Sherkhan and Ladhar villages. The minor will be extended to 8500 feet and will be able to irrigate 1645 acres of additional area. The Chief Minister also laid the foundation stone for Rs 1.40 crore 33 kv power sub-station at Kheri
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SARS: DGHS order to Civil Surgeons Chandigarh, April 3 He directed them to constitute teams of doctors, nurses,
para-medical staff and Class-IV employees to work round the clock and make a special screening area in hospitals where all such suspected cases were to be screened. The health staff should wear double or triple-layered masks and practise barrier nursing. The surgeons had also been instructed not to keep suspected cases with other patients in the ward but shift such cases directly to the isolation room from the screening area. |
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Youth done to death in broad daylight Ambala, April 3 According to hospital sources, the boy was dead when he was brought to the hospital. The mother of the deceased, Ms Vimla Devi, who rushed to the Civil Hospital after getting a telephone call from a friend of
Davinder, said her son had left for the school in the morning as he had to appear in his last practical examination. It could not be ascertained as to why Davinder had gone to Ravidass Majri after the examination. She said she was informed that her son had been injured in an accident, but when she reached the hospital, she found him dead. She said her son had had a fight with some students in his school about two months back and the matter was reported to the authorities concerned. She said, “My younger son recognises those students and will be able to identify them.” According to information available, Davinder was followed by around six youths on two motor cycles. The assailants were carrying sticks. When he reached near Ravidass
Majri, the assailants stopped him and attacked him with sticks and bricks. Davinder ran towards the locality and tried to take shelter in a house. But the youths nabbed him and beat him up mercilessly. He died on the spot. Eyewitnesses said the assailant also assaulted some women of the locality when they tried to intervene to save
Devinder. According to sources in the police, the assailants have been identified. Some of them are students of a local college. The police has also impounded one of the motor cycles (HR-01-L- 3456) used in the crime. The SHO (City), Mr Surender Singh, said police teams had been searching for the assailants. However, the police has been able to round up one of the assailants. He has been identified as Mandeep
Rana. He is stated to be the son of an ASI. However, the police has not confirmed it. |
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Incentives for Haryana cops
Bhondsi (Gurgaon), April 3 At the passing out parade of the India Reserve Battalion (IRB) at Ch Devi Lal Training and Research Centre here yesterday, Mr Chautala said constables would be eligible for promotion as head constables after 16 years of service. Head constables would be promoted as Assistant Sub Inspectors on the completion of 30 years of service and the promoted ASIs would retire as Sub Inspectors provided they had put in 35 years of service, he said. He wished success to all the 600 new recruits of the IRB who passed out yesterday. The Chief Minister also announced the grant of increments and an extension of two years in service to police personnel who had received the President’s Police Medal. The Class IV police employees, he said, would be given free travel facilities in the Haryana Roadways buses within the state. Special arrangements would be made for the treatment of prisoners in hospitals and the CID personnel would be provided the uniforms and an annual allowance towards the cost of these. He said 8,000 more police personnel would be recruited this year. The government had decided to grant Rs 5,00,000 each to the next of kin of police personnel who had died fighting criminals or during relief operations. The injured in such cases would be given a financial assistance of Rs 3,00,000 each. The families of slain police personnel would also be given family pension. Mr Chautala said the police tents outside residences or offices of the VIPs would be replaced with proper structures.
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, April 3 Claiming to have been implicated because of political reasons at the instance of Minister Mohammad
Illyas, ex-sarpanch and others had earlier stated that a false case had been registered against them. A first information report in the matter was registered on January 3, 2001, after the police received information about their alleged activities. According to the prosecution, four quintals of beef, along with knives and other stuff, was recovered from the accused. On Thursday , after hearing the arguments in the case, Mr Justice Mittal ruled that there was no justification to vacate earlier orders, directing their release on bail in case they were arrested by the police, on the basis of the allegations in the FIR. The Judge concluded that the prosecution may move an application before the trial court if they wanted to carry out the custodial interrogation of the accused.
Quashed The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday ruled that an employee was required to be granted an opportunity of hearing before the refixation of his salary. Quashing state of Haryana’s action whereby a Junior Engineer’s pay was reduced, Mr Justice
V.M. Jain and Mr Justice Viney Mittal of the High Court ruled: “We are of the opinion that the action of the respondents in refixing the pay and ordering the recovery of the alleged excess payment from the petitioner’s salary involved civil consequences. The petitioner was required to be afforded an opportunity of hearing before any such action could be taken against him”. Speaking for the Bench, Mr Justice Mittal concluded: “We quash the action of the respondents whereby the petitioner’s pay was reduced from Rs 10,700 to Rs 10,100 with effect from January 1, 1996, and amount of approximately Rs 40,000 was ordered to be recovered”. The Judge concluded: “The respondent would be at liberty to pass a fresh order after serving the requisite show cause notice on the petitioner, and after affording an opportunity of hearing to him”. |
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Nain’s bail plea dismissed Ambala, April 3 The BKU chief had been in judicial custody at Ambala Central Jail ever since he was arrested along with 17 other activists in Shahjadpur for leading sugarcane farmers’ agitation. This is the second time that Nain moved a bail application. His earlier plea was moved along with that of 17 other BKU supporters. The court had granted bail to the other accused. While four BKU workers were granted bail on December 12, the remaining 13 were released in January. Rejecting the bail plea, the court observed that the defence had cited no new grounds for his release. Defence counsel, pleading for bail, said the challan in the case ad already been presented, adding that no recovery was to be made from Nain. Moreover, the police investigations had been completed. Hence, it would be meaningless to keep the BKU leader in the jail any more. Opposing the bail application, the prosecution said as many as 133 criminal cases had been registered against BKU leaders and activists. Most of these pertained to damaging private and public properties, possessing illegal firearms, attacking government servants, especially policemen, and kidnapping cops and their family members. The prosecution said Nain had been declared a proclaimed offender in a case by the Additional Sessions Judge, Hisar, in 1998. The Jind police had also registered several cases against Nain. On February 26, when Nain was being produced in a Hisar court, nearly 80 to 90 BKU activists tried to free him. The defence was apprehensive of the law and order situation deteriorating in the state if the BKU chief was released. |
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Haryana
for uniform bus fare policy Chandigarh, April 3 Official sources here said that a meeting of the Transport Secretaries of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, J&K, Delhi, UP, Uttaranchal and Chandigarh would be held here on this issue on April 8. The meeting has been convened by the Transport Secretary, Haryana, to draw up a policy which would enable the state transport corporations to automatically increase the fares whenever the fuel prices went up. The sources said the move would also abolish the disparity in the rates of fares charged by the transport corporations of these states. |
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Bansal, Malli
made ADGPs Chandigarh, April 3 Mr C.P. Bansal, I-G, Modernisation and Welfare, and Mr G.S. Malli, I-G Hisar, have been promoted as Additional Directors-General of Police. While Mr Bansal has been posted at the Police headquarters in Panchkula against a new ex-cadre post, Mr Malli has been posted as Director, State Vigilance Bureau, Haryana, here vice Mr K. Koshy, who has been posted as Additional Director General, Armed Police and Training, Madhuban. Mr Resham Singh, I-G Rohtak range, goes as such to the Hisar range, vice Mr Malli. Mr Sharad Kumar, I-G, HAP, Madhuban, has been posed as I-G, Rohtak range, vice Mr Resham Singh. |
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L.M. Mehta Chandigarh, April 3 |
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Haryana Govt direction on retrenched staff Chandigarh, April 3 An
official spokesman said they had also been directed to implement these instructions by incorporating a note in the advertisement that the retrenched employees would also be eligible and would be duly considered against 25 per cent of the advertised posts. |
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Hearing
on Rathore’s plea adjourned Ambala, April 3 Mr Rathore has alleged in the application that Mrs Prakash and a few others had fabricated a document related to the Ruchika molestation case. He had requested the court to hold an inquiry in this regard. The Magistrate after hearing both parties adjourned the case. Earlier,
the court had dismissed an application of Mr Rathore in which he
requested the court to conduct the proceedings of the case in camera. |
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Kalam to visit
Hisar on April 19 Hisar, April 3 The university Vice-Chancellor, Mr Vinay Kumar, said the Governor of Haryana and Chancellor of the university, Babu Parmanand, would preside over the function, while the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, would be the guest of honour. He also said nearly 640 graduates and postgraduates would receive degrees and nearly 20 gold medals would be given away on the occasion. Awards for best teachers of the university would also be given away.
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Contests
mark Polyfest-2003 Ambala, April 3 Kalpana Chawla Government Polytechnic for Women, Ambala City, bagged the first position in the quiz competition. While Government Polytechnic, Ambala City, won the second position, the third position was bagged by Government Polytechnic, Hisar. The consolation prizes were won by Government Polytechnic, Uttawar, and Seth Jai Prakash (SJP) Polytechnic, Damla. Later in the evening, skit and fancy dress competitions were also held. A team of Chhotu Ram Polytechnic, Rohtak, bagged trophy in poetry recitation. In the individual category, Archana from Kalpana Chawla Government Polytechnic, Ambala, won the first prize, Manoj from Government Polytechnic, Sirsa, won the second prize and third prize was shared by the Deepika from Chhotu Ram Polytechnic, Rohtak, and Sandeep. The consolation prize was won by Gaurav Gulati of Government Polytechnic, Ambala City, and Mohit Malhotra from VTI, Rohtak. In
the folk songs category, Jagmeet Singh of Government Polytechnic,
Ambala City, won the first position, Meenu of Kalpana Chawla
Polytechnic, Ambala City, won the second position while the third
position was bagged by Baljit Kumar of Government Polytechnic,
Nilokheri. The consolation prize was jointly shared by Nitin of Seth
Jai Prakash Polytechnic, Damla, the Renu of Government Polytechnic,
Faridabad. |
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