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Report on
HCS cadre review may be delayed LIC agents
allege raw deal Decision
on medical college resented Five
arrested on charges of murder, dacoity Bail plea of Sharan, Chadda shot down Plea to
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10-year
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Report on HCS cadre review may be delayed Chandigarh, July 16 The committee, headed by Mr Pradeep Kumar, Principal Secretary, Irrigation, held a meeting here today when the replies submitted by various departments were examined. Official sources said heads of various departments were asked to submit their requirements of HCS officers by July 10. However, most of the departments were yet to respond to the committee’s request. Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, while attending a conference of HCS officers at Karnal on Sunday (July 13), had reportedly accepted the demand of the HCS Officers Association for increasing the cadre strength from 240. He reportedly conceded that though the strength could not probably be increased to 323 as demanded it would be certainly increased to 300. It was learnt that the committee had been asked to submit its report within six weeks. “But in view of the procrastination of the heads of departments to comply with the committee’s request, the deadline will be difficult for the committee to meet”, stated a source. |
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LIC agents allege raw deal Fatehabad, July 16 They say the development officers have been thriving on their hard labour. The LIC agents have organised themselves under the banner of the Life Insurance Agents Federation of India (LIAFI), Fatehabad branch. They staged a dharna in front of the LIC office here yesterday and raised slogans against the management. They threatened to stall business in case their demands were not met. A Branch Manager of the LIC and a spokesman for the development officers, however, denied the allegation of the federation leaders and said only a few agents had been agitating at the behest of some outsiders. Addressing the agents, the LIAFI local unit president Mr Yoginder Kumar Jain, alleged that the development officers were cornering the benefits meant for the agents with the connivance of the management. The federation has also demanded seats to all agents and opening of a separate cash counter for LIC agents. The agents have also been demanding release of their commission on a monthly basis. Mr Wazir Singh Malik, Branch Manager, LIC, Fatehabad, said most of the demands raised by the agents were frivolous and were already being implemented in the branch. He said commission was already being paid to the agents on a monthly basis and it was being deposited in the bank accounts of agents who had provided their bank account numbers to the branch. Mr Mohinder Singh Malik, spokesman for the Development Officers, denied charges of exploitation levelled by the federation on them. |
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Decision
on medical college resented Karnal, July 16 The Congress at a meeting yesterday, decided to launch an agitation over the issue. It demanded the resignation of Mr I.D. Swami, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, who also represents the Karnal parliamentary constituency in the Lok Sabha. A large number of residents has termed the Union Government’s decision as “a betrayal” with Karnal residents, as earlier the government had repeatedly announced that a medical college after the name of Karnal-born US astronaut, Kalpana Chawla, who died in the Columbia blast, would be opened in Karnal. The announcement was made both by the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, and Mr Swami while addressing a condolence meeting in memory of Kalpana Chawla in the Sanatan Dharam temple here. |
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Five arrested on charges of murder, dacoity Hisar, July 16 A police spokesman said here today that Vikram of Ladwa village and Sandeep of Balsmand village had been caught from Rampura village near Hansi on a tip-off when planning to commit dacoity on the Hisar-Delhi national highway. A pistol and two cartridges were seized from them. Later, the police also arrested their accomplices — Virender Singh of Ladwa village and Chatar Singh and Rajesh Kumar of Mirkan village — from different places. It was from those persons that the cash and motor cycle were recovered. They have been charged with looting cash from Uchana in Jind district and Adampur and Gianpura village in this district. They have also been accused of killing a tantrik, Satyanarayan, at Ladwa village. |
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Bail plea of Sharan, Chadda shot down Ambala, July 16 The bureau had arrested Mr Sharan, the then Managing Director of the
HFC, from his residence in Delhi on June 25. The bureau had also arrested Mr Chadda who was also remanded in judicial custody. Two of the beneficiaries
R. P. Sareen and Vivek Sareen were taken into custody by the bureau two days back who were remanded in judicial custody by a local court here today. The counsel of Mr
Sharan, Mr Faquir Chand Aggarwal and Ashok Mehta argued that an SP rank officer of the bureau had already conducted an inquiry into the case a few years back and had given a clean chit to Mr Sharan in this regard. Mr.
S. K. Sood, counsel of Mr Chadda, said his client had nothing to do with the scam.
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Plea to Centre on consumer protection Chandigarh, July 16 In a proposal conveyed to the Union Government, Mr Chautala said the consumer courts should be rigid about not granting frequent adjournments and should decide the cases within the prescribed time-frame. Moreover, the consumer grievance redressal mechanism should function as a service organisation in order to provide simple, speedy and inexpensive redressal of grievances. The Haryana Consumer Protection Rules were being amended in accordance with the Consumer
Protection (Amendment) Act, 2002, and were in the last stage of finalisation. He said the process to create district consumer protection councils was also being
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10-year jail for drug trafficker Fatehabad, July 16 The police had got a tip-off on November 19, 1999, that Sukhdev Singh, son of Hazoora Singh, of Palsar village in the district was indulging in illicit trafficking of poppy husk. The police swooped on his residence with an Executive Magistrate, Mr Raghubir Singh, and the village sarpanch. The police seized 21 bags of poppy husk from his residence that contained 840 kg of the contraband. |
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, July 16 Accusing Mr Ranbir Singh of indulging in a “corrupt practice” during the election, Haryana Vikas Party candidate Narpinder Singh had earlier alleged that independent candidate Mr Amir Singh was “induced” by the returned candidate to contest the election. Mr Amir Singh, the petitioner added, was assured that all the expenses, including the security deposit, would be borne by Mr Ranbir Singh. Seeking directions for declaring Mr Ranbir Singh’s election as void, “as required under Section 100 (1) (b) of the Representation of People’s Act”, the petitioner also asked for disqualification of both the candidates for allegedly indulging in corrupt practices.
Record on SIs’ selection called Taking up a petition alleging favouritism in the selection of Sub Inspectors in the Haryana Police, a Division Bench of the high court has summoned the record. Issuing the directions on a petition filed by Sirsa resident Charanjit Singh Jatana, the Bench, comprising Mr Justice J.S. Khehar and Mr Justice S.K. Mittal, also fixed October 16 as the next date of hearing in the case. In his petition, Mr Charanjit Singh had earlier sought directions to the state of Haryana and other respondents for quashing the appointments made in April. A substantial number of appointees, the petitioners alleged, were either related to Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, or were the wards of senior officers. In an attempt to substantiate his contentions, the petitioner also referred to a press conference held in a similar matter by MLA Karan Singh Dalal. |
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Rewari Town Planner held
in Gaur case Sirsa, July 16 An investigation into the Gaur case had led to the disclosure that in the year 1993-94, when Aggarwal had been at Sirsa as Town Planner Executive Officer of HUDA, he along with Gaur had indulged in misappropriation of lakhs of rupees in flats distribution and manipulated records and documents. |
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Budget: directive to Haryana depts Chandigarh, July 16 A spokesman of the Finance Department said here today that all departments were required to submit various returns to the department for the finalisation of Budget estimates for the next financial year and to follow the additional instructions issued by it from time to time. The departments had also been asked to submit explanatory plan scheme memoranda giving full details. |
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RLD ‘jal yudh’
from today Chandigarh, July 16 The RLD would launch an agitation to put pressure on the BJP-led NDA to complete the SYL canal at the earliest. The party would launch a “jal yudh tayaari abhiyan” in 12 districts of Haryana tomorrow. |
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Ex-sarpanch shot Fatehabad, July 16 The miscreants had stopped his car before shooting him. The police has registered a case and launched a hunt to catch the killers.
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