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Friday,
June 27, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Haryana IAS officer, former
minister remanded Arrest of
2 ministers vindictive: HPCC chief 4 killed
as bus, LPG tanker collide |
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Widow
booked for abortion Haryana
Sikh panel’s plea to governments Permanent lok adalats
draw no response Emergency
jail revisited by Advani Bhagwan: no move to
merge corporations End division
of Dalits, demands samiti Two killed in mishap
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Haryana IAS officer, former minister remanded Ambala, June 26 Duty Magistrate Rajesh Sharma remanded the IAS officer in the police custody till June 28. The counsel for the IAS officer, Mr Faqir Chand Aggarwal and Mr Mehta, pleaded that Sharan was being framed in a politically motivated case and there was no tangible ground to arrest him. Three applications were moved on behalf of the IAS officer. The first application sought permission for the legal interview with Sharan on his production before the court. “The applicant was arrested on June 25 in Delhi. The applicant’s counsel require interview with the applicant on his production before the court which is necessary to defend the case,” the application states. The second application sought permission to examine the FIR and obtain its copy.“The applicant-accused has been arrested in the false case. It is prayed that the application may be accepted and Sharan’s counsel be permitted to examine the FIR and its copy may be provided to the counsel for defending the case,” the second application states. The third application sought the permission to meet the accused while in custody. “The counsel of the accused want to meet the accused in the police custody for properly defending the case. It is, therefore, prayed that the application may be accepted and the counsel be permitted to meet the accused while in custody,” the application states. Mr Ajit Mohan Sharan was the Managing Director of the Haryana Financial Corporation (HFC). According to a report from Gurgaon, a former Haryana minister, Mr Narbir Singh, who was also arrested by the SVB yesterday, has been remanded in police custody for three days. |
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Arrest of 2 ministers
vindictive: HPCC chief Fatehabad, June 26 The former chief minister said had their been any case against former ministers Mr Vinod Mariya and Mr Rao Narbir Singh, the state Vigilance Bureau should have served notices on them instead of arresting them straightway. He said the very action of the police smacked vindictive attitude of the state government. He said the HPCC had been organising sammelans of the Block Congress Committees in each district of the state and these sammelans had evoked heavy response from the party workers. He said the AICC president, Ms Sonia Gandhi, had announced during the All-India Sammelan of block presidents of the Congress held in Delhi in March that such gatherings would now be organised at the district level. Earlier, Mr Bhajan Lal addressed the party workers in the sammelan of the Block Congress Committees of the district. A former MP, Mr Ramji
Lal, a former MLA, Mr Atma Singh Gill, Mr Udai Singh Dalal, a former MLA and in charge of party affairs of the district; Mr Dilbagh Singh
Mor, HPCC organizing secretary; Mr Dura Ram, a senior Congress leader and party nominee in the recently concluded poll; Mr Dwarka
Prasad, Dr Virender Siwatch, Dr A.P. Mehta and Ms Bimla Rohaz were present on the occasion. |
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4 killed as bus, LPG
tanker collide Fatehabad, June 26 According to reports, the ill-fated (HR-62-0284) bus belonging to the Fatehabad Depot of the Haryana Roadways started from Rattia in the district at 4.15 a.m. for Delhi. The bus had about 25 passengers, many of whom had boarded from Fatehabad. It collided with the tanker of the Bharat Gas (HR-39A-0131) about 1 km ahead of the
bus stand at Kharakheri village. According to eyewitnesses, a tree was lying on the road and the bus driver tried to move ahead by taking his vehicle on the right side of the road. The tanker coming from the opposite direction hit the bus head on. Such was the impact of the accident that the conductor, Devi Lal, who was sitting on the bonnet pierced through the front windscreen and fell about 15 yards away from the bus. He received serious injuries and was stated to be in a precarious condition. Atma Ram, bus driver; Talwinder and Ramesh, both drivers of the tanker; and Rakesh, a passenger, who boarded the bus from Rattia died on the spot. Their bodies were brought here for a post-mortem. Krishana Devi, a resident of the local Regar Basti, Ratan Tayal from Rattia, Amit from the local MC Colony, Balbir from the local Sunder Nagar, Jarnail from Rattia and Sakil Khan, cleaner of the tanker, were admitted to Agroha Medical College. Ranjit Singh, a local youth, who was brought to the medical college by his brother with a broken arm told mediapersons that at least six to seven injured persons had gone to Fatehabad on their own. The local General Hospital also received some injured. The DSP, Fatehabad, Mr. S. L. Phogat, who was present on the accident site in the morning told mediapersons that the gravity of the accident could have been severe had the gas in the tanker leaked. He said the tanker was full of the gas when the accident occurred. |
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Widow booked for abortion Kaithal, June 26 Mr Moman Ram of Fatehpur village in his complaint to the police alleged that his widow daughter - in- law Rekha Rani, Dr Sanjay Kapoor and his wife Dr Nishit Kapoor, running a nursing home at Nissing, Rekha’s mother Sarbati and her father Mamu Ram killed the foetus in Rekha’s womb by hatching a conspiracy. Mr Moman Ram alleged that to justify the abortion the ultrasound report of Rekha was prepared by the doctors and later the foetus was aborted. According to reports the police has started investigation but no arrest has been made so far. The husband of Rekha had died in February in a road accident and at that time Rekha had two-month-old pregnancy.
Her father -in law had filed a petition in the court of the then Civil Judge, Mr Mohinder Singh, in May praying that her daughter-in-law be restrained from getting her foetus aborted. It was also pointed out in the complaint that Rekha had a female foetus in her womb and she wanted to get it aborted to get remarried . Moman and his wife Bimla had agreed to take care of the baby after birth as last memory of their deceased son.
The old couple had also assured their daughter- in-law of remarriage after the delivery. On the other hand Rekha in her reply filed before the court had alleged that her in-laws were greedy and they were forcing her to hand them over the papers relating to the insurance policy of their deceased son. She had alleged that on her reluctance to meet their demand , she was manhandled by her father-in-law and brother-in-law as a result of which she felt depressed and had
stomach pain and had to go for abortion. The counsel for Rekha had produced a certificate from the doctor confirming the termination of pregnancy. |
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Haryana
Sikh panel’s plea to governments Kurukshetra, June 26 Stating this in a signed statement released to mediapersons here today, the HSGPC (ad hoc), state general secretary, Mr Didar Singh
Kamboj, said that the five resolutions included establishing the HSGPC as a separate entity for Haryana state before
Baisakhi, assuming the control and management of gurdwaras and their related property comprising land, schools, colleges and other buildings by the proposed
HSGPC, according Punjabi language the second language status in Haryana educational institutions, conducting the SGPC elections for the management of Sikh Gurdwaras in Haryana under the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925, and giving Haryana a separate “State Board” status with at least 60 elected members on the pattern of Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra State Boards while drafting the proposed All-India Sikh Gurdwara Act. While despatching the resolution’s copy to the Home Ministry, Government of India, Mr Kamboj said that the HSGPC (ad hoc) had requested the Union Home Ministry to get each resolution examined sympathetically by the ministry, concerned with the directions that an appropriate action be taken at the earliest and the HSGPC (ad hoc) should be apprised of the action taken or being contemplated before August 15 so that the same could be placed before the executive body of the HSGPC (ad hoc) for its consideration. Meanwhile, a three-member discipline committee comprising Mr Sukhbir Singh
Siddhu, (Yamuna Nagar), HSGPC (Ad hoc), vice-president, Mr Avtar Singh Chakkoo (Kaithal), and Mr Karnail Singh
(Nimnabad) had been constituted. The copies of the resolution had also been despatched to the Chief Ministers of Haryana and Punjab Governments as well as the Government of India and the
SGPC. The meeting, among others, was attended by HSGPC (ad hoc), vice-president, Mr Avtar Singh
Chakkoo, Mr Didar Singh Kamboj, Mr Jarnail Singh Ajrana, Mr Surjeet Singh Bajwa Yamuna Nagar, Mr Bhagwant Singh
Azad, HSGPC (ad hoc), Pehowa unit, president, Mr Ujagar Singh, Mr Mahender Singh, Mr Iqbal Singh Warraish and Mr Mahinder Singh
Virk. |
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Permanent lok adalats
draw no response Chandigarh, June 26 Even though the permanent lok adalats were notified by the state government back on January 28, till date not a single complaint has been received by any of them, it was learnt. While permanent lok adalats for settling matters related to public utility services have been proposed by Delhi for all states and UTs in the country, Haryana is among the pioneer states in the northern region to have set up such courts (Punjab and Chandigarh are yet to constitute similar institutions). Serving Additional District Judges head these courts which are located within the judicial court complex in each of the 19 district headquarters of Haryana. There are also two other members of these courts. They are the Superintending Engineer of the power utilities services, or his nominee not below the rank of an Executive Engineer, and the Superintending Engineer of the PWD (Public Health) or his nominee. At Chandigarh also, the HSLSA has set up a such a lok adalat with the Member Secretary of the HSLSA as its chairman and DG(Health Services), Haryana, or his nominee, and the Engineer-in-Chief, PWD (Public Health) or his nominee as the two members. The lok adalat at Chandigarh can settle matters pending in the head offices of various state government departments. The public utility
services, as has been defined by the HSLSA, comprise transport services for carrying passengers or goods by air, road or water, postal, telegraph and telephone services, supply of power and water to the public by any establishment, sanitation services, services in hospitals or dispensaries, insurance services and services concerned with the preservation of natural resources. The lok adalats have been set up to settle at a pre-litigative stage complaints members of the public may be having regarding any of these services. While consumer courts and various other courts of the state are flooded with such complaints, free legal service offered by the HSLSA for settling such matters (no court fee is required to be paid for filing a complaint, neither any lawyer is needed for arguing, since the matters are sought to be settled at a pre-litigative stage) has not drawn any response. Mr Shekhar Dhawan, Member Secretary of the HSLSA, when contacted, said the lack of response to the HSLSA scheme could be due to ignorance of people regarding the facility. He said the HSLSA would soon issue advertisements in newspapers to publicise the scheme. |
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Emergency
jail revisited by Advani Rohtak, June 26 Accompanied by Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, Mr Advani spent about 45 minutes in the jail, where he was lodged from July 18 to September 22 in 1975 along with several other leaders. His party colleagues K.R. Malkani, Piloo Modi and Sikandar Bakht were also imprisoned in this jail during the Emergency. Mr Advani was here in connection with the shooting of a documentary film on his experiences during the Emergency days in the jail. Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar, former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal and the erstwhile Janata Party leaders Raj Narayan and Biju Patnaik were among other eminent personalities who were lodged in this jail for different periods.
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Bhagwan: no move to merge corporations Chandigarh, June 26 Mr Bhagwan was presiding over a meeting to review the working of the Haryana Agro-Industries Corporation, the Haryana Seeds Development Corporation and the Haryana Land Reclamation and Development Corporation (HLRDC), here today. He said there was no move to merge any of these corporations, but certain decisions were being taken in regard to sharing of their office premises to economise on payment of rent and other ancillary expenditure. The Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Finance, Mr Chander Singh, stressed the need for checking the wasteful expenditure and improve the efficiency of the existing staff. |
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End division
of Dalits, demands samiti Chandigarh, June 26 This move had resulted in the ouster of the Congress from power in Haryana, Mr Muwal said and expressed surprise about
adherence to the policy by the current Om Prakash Chautala-led government of the state. He said the division of the Dalits in A and B categories had been particularly detrimental to the interest of the Chamar caste who constituted a large chunk of the Scheduled Caste population of Haryana. He also demanded that members of the B category should be given jobs as sweepers. At least 200 vacancies of sweeper in the state should be filled from the affected people of Harsola village, he added. He said the state government should fill the backlog in the recruitment of people from SC categories. SC employees should be given promotion after every five years, he added. |
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Two killed in mishap Ambala, June 26 The deceased belonged to Ishapur village close to Dera Bassi. Baljinder had come to Ambala city on his scooter along with her mother and grandmother for getting the eyes of her mother, Balbir Kaur, checked by an eye specialist. When he was going back towards Dera Bassi, the scooter was hit by a tanker near the Punjab-Haryana border. Mohinder Kaur and Balbir Kaur died on the spot. |
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