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HP INTUC chief picked up, let off
Shimla, April 4
Himachal State Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) President, Mr Amarjit Bawa, was picked up from his residence at Chapslee , here today early morning by the Haryana Police and released later when the Himachal Police intervened. 

Audience pelts cops with stones
Mandi, April 4
Five policemen were injured, one of them seriously, at Jogindernagar late yesterday when the audience at a cultural nite during a five-day fair there indulged in hooliganism and threw stones at the stage.

Poll code from May 25

HP INTUC chief picked up, let off
Tribune News Service

Shimla, April 4
Himachal State Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) President, Mr Amarjit Bawa, was picked up from his residence at Chapslee , here today early morning by the Haryana Police and released later when the Himachal Police intervened. A Kalka police station team headed by Mr Ishan Singh Rana, Station House Officer, arrived here at 4 am and took Mr Bawa away in connection with two cases registered against him in December 2001 (FIR No. 129 and 130). General secretary of the state INTUC, Thakur Das Sharma, and other leaders brought the matter to the notice of the higher police authorities here.

All exit points were sealed by Himachal police and the vehicle in which Mr Bawa was being taken away was intercepted at Dharampur. The police asked the Kalka team to show warrant of arrest which the party from Kalka team could not do.

Mr Bawa told the police that he had secured an anticipatory bail in the case from the Punjab and Haryana High Court soon after the incident had taken place. The bail was confirmed in July 2002 and even the Section 307 was also dropped from the FIR. He had also obtained regular bail in the cases against him registered by the Kalka police and it had to give a week’s notice before arresting him.

Mr Bawa returned to Shimla from Dharampur and complained to the Superintendent of Police alleging that he was illegally taken away from his residence by a Kalka police party. His driver Anil was beaten up, he alleged. He also alleged that Mr Pal Chand, a sub-inspector at Lakkar Bazar police Chowki was hand in glove with the Kalka police and he did not inform senior officers about it. He said the Kalka police did not arrest him as it would have invited the contempt of court proceedings.

Audience pelts cops with stones
Our Correspondent

Mandi, April 4
Five policemen were injured, one of them seriously, at Jogindernagar late yesterday when the audience at a cultural nite during a five-day fair there indulged in hooliganism and threw stones at the stage.

When contacted, the Superintendent of Police, Mr Satinder Pal Singh, said today that hooligans pelted the police with stones when it intervened to bring the situation under control. A brickbat hit the ASI, Mr Baldev Singh, on the head and he had to be rushed to hospital. Four other policemen received minor injuries. He said the hooligans had some important persons of the town among them. A case of rioting was already going on against some of them, he said.

The SSP said a case under Sections 147, 148, 149, 332, 353, 336, 506 and 427 of the IPC had been registered against the hooligans, who were likely to be arrested by late today.

Poll code from May 25
Tribune News Service

Shimla, April 4
The model code of conduct will become effective in the state from May 25 in view of the Assembly election to the three tribal seats scheduled for June 8. It will remain in force up to June 13, 2003. Mrs Manisha Nanda, Chief Electoral Officer, said here yesterday as the Assembly elections to the three constituencies had been deferred due to inclement weather till June 8, the code would come into force from May 25.