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Thursday,
August 14, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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‘Green
Kurukshetra’ drive launched Gang
selling girls busted, 4 held Demonstration
by villagers Promotion of 5 IAS officers recommended Karnal
girls back from NASA training DGP flags
off mahila helpline vehicles |
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Checking intensified at railway station Train robbery bid
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‘Green Kurukshetra’ drive launched Kurukshetra, August 13 According to the school Principal, Mr Rishi Goyal, students of the school, with the help of Forest Department employees, planted about 200 saplings on the roadside between Surya Gate and the railway station. District officials and representatives of social organisations also planted saplings. Mr Alok Verma, District Forest Officer, Mr A.L. Bathla, District Panchayat and Development Officer, and Dr Himmat Singh Sinha, former Chairman, Department of Philosophy, Kurukshetra University, were present at the function. Dr Shantinath Sahni, president of the school management committee, Mr Prem Chand Kohli, president of Lions Club, and Mr S.R. Kaushik, manager of the local Union Bank of India branch, were also present. |
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Gang selling girls busted, 4 held Hisar, August 13 The police, during a raid on a marriage bureau here, arrested Kiran Sharma, Mohammad Mujibur Ali, Jai Pal and Bhagwan Dass while striking a deal to ‘sell’ a minor Muslim girl. The girl was sent to the Nari Niketan after recording her statement and the four were sent behind bars till August 27 under Sections 366, 368, 370 and 371 of the IPC. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ajay Kumar Tewatia rejected their bail applications and remanded them to judicial custody till August 27. Preliminary investigations revealed that at least 12 girls had been sold in marriage for hefty sums — upto Rs 55,000 — per deal. The lion’s share — about Rs 40,000 — went to Mohammed Mujibur Ali. The police spread a dragnet to locate the girls who had been sold and married to various persons in Haryana. The sale and purchase of girls in Haryana is the result of a dearth of girls for marriage in Haryana due to an alarming fall in the male-female ratio of 1000:861. |
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Demonstration
by villagers Hisar, August 13 They complained that after the recent heavy rain three schools, several residential areas and the water works had been flooded. Despite their requests no arrangements had been made to clear the waterlogged areas. The stagnant water had already damaged these public buildings seriously. The rainwater had also entered the water reservoir in the water works of the village polluting it. Several water-borne diseases had broken out in the village because of this. Besides, the foul-smell
emanating from the standing water had made life difficult for the villagers. They threatened to gherao the Deputy Commissioner if the water was not drained out by August 17. The demonstrators submitted a memorandum to the SDM in this connection. |
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Promotion of 5 IAS officers recommended Chandigarh, August 13 There are five officers of 1975 batch in the state — Mr H.C. Disodia, Ms Urvashi Gulati, Mr N Bala Bhaskar, Mr R N Prashar and Mr Naresh Gulati. These officers had earlier met the Chief Minister and requested him to promote them as Financial Commissioners. In many states, including Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, the 1975 batch officers had been already promoted to the rank of Financial Commissioner, they reportedly told the Chief Minister. |
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Karnal girls back from NASA training Karnal, August 13 The students are from Tagore Bal Niketan, where the late astronaut Kalpana Chawla studied. After being thronged by the electronic media at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on their arrival, they were accorded a warm welcome by the people of Karnal and Gharaunda. They said there was more thrust on practical knowledge at NASA, adding that the training they received was adequate to enable them to travel in a NASA space shuttle to Mars. Both Deepika and Somya have expressed the desire to become aeronautical engineers and fulfil the dreams of Kalpana Chawla.
— UNI |
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DGP flags off mahila helpline vehicles Chandigarh, August 13 Telephones had been given to the four ranges to for providing help to women in distress. The phone numbers are 2642050 (Ambala), 240279 (Rohtak), 224107 (Hisar) and 2320777 (Gurgaon). Each helpline would have a doctor and a representative from a financial organisation to provide immediate medical relief and financial help to a victim. |
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Checking intensified at railway station Ambala, August 13 Trains are being checked at random and on specific information. Malwa Express coming from Jammu-Tawi and headed for Indore was stopped near the Ambala Cantonment railway station at about 4 p.m. As soon as the train came to a halt, personnel of the Government Railway Police and Railway Protection Force got on the train and began checking all
baggage. Sniffer dog tom and his handler, too, joined the search. The trained labrador began sniffing the baggage as if it didn’t want to leave anything to chance. |
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Train robbery bid Ambala, August 13 During interrogation, the robbers confessed to have planned to board Chattisgarh Express from Ambala and rob the passengers at gunpoint. |
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Army school
bus hit
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Ambala, August 13