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Spate of suicides Chandigarh, May 29 Vipin Kumar was unemployed and had reportedly been depressed because
of his prolonged illness. Vipin had very frequent fits and was taking treatment from a local hospital. He allegedly attempted suicide when his other family members had left home during the day. However, the neighbours came to know about his suicide attempt early and tried to save him. He had kept the door of his room open while attempting the suicide. The police handed over the body to his family members after a post-mortem.
Death of
mother leads to step Panchkula: An 18-year-old youth hailing from
Bihar committed suicide by hanging himself with a ceiling fan in
Haripur village this morning after he came to know about the death of
his mother at his native place. According to the police, the youth, Anil Kumar, was staying with his brother in Haripur village for the past over one-and-a-half month and took the extreme step in absence of other family members. Anil came to know about the death of his mother after he gave a call to his home in Bihar. He went to a STD booth to make a call to Bihar when his brother and the sister-in-law were
not at home. His sister-in-law found the body hanging with the ceiling fan after she returned home from market. Subsequently, neighbours assembled and the police was called. The body was handed over to the family after a post-mortem examination at General Hospital, Sector 6, this evening.
Failed love
affair proves fatal Mohali: Nitin, alias Goldy, a 23-year-old
resident of Phase V, here allegedly committed suicide last night by
consuming a poisonous substance. According to police sources, Nitin
was facing stress relating to a love affair. He had allegedly broken
up with his girlfriend recently. Nitin was working with a computer
company in Chandigarh. He was found in a critical condition at his
residence last evening after which he was rushed to the PGI where he
died. His body was handed over to his mother after a post-mortem
today. |
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helmetless women booked Chandigarh, May 29 A team of around 20 police personnel stood were posted at Sectors 18 and 19 traffic signal point. The team was led by Inspectors Shivraj Sidhu and Ishwar Mann. Two women officers were also in the team. The police today also booked women whose name had a suffix of Kaur. The
police has clarified that only turbaned Amritdhari girls were exempt
from wearing helmets. |
Murder
accused in police net after 6 years Chandigarh, May 29 This came to the notice of the police today when it confirmed from the Punjab police as to what his status in the murder case was. Rakesh Kumar became a proclaimed offender in the case and eluded arrest for six years, while two of his co-accused were sentenced to death by a Patiala court. Rakesh Kumar had allegedly been involved in the murder of five family members of the Madans in Sector 16, Chandigarh, in 1989. Sources
said Rakesh Kumar was more dreaded than Tota but he accepted the
subordination of a scheming Tota who emerged leader of the gang.
Rakesh Kumar is known as a criminal who commits daring crimes under
other’s leadership. He likes women as his gang leader Tota does. Rakesh Kumar allegedly killed the two children and attempted to murder their mother Baljit Kaur in a car in 1998. The woman, wife of his then gang leader Kulbir Singh, survived the attempt. Rakesh Kumar wanted to kill them at the behest of Kulbir Singh as the latter suspected that his wife was infidel. One of the co-accused in this case facing gallows is Kulbir Singh. Kulbir Singh allegedly assigned the job of elimination of his family to Rajesh Kumar after he found out that Rakesh had allegedly killed five persons of a family. Rakesh Kumar had earlier worked with the family he eliminated for a long time, but killed them for money. He has seven murder and one attempt to murder cases against him. Rakesh Kumar tried the same trick before the robbery of a gas agency owner. His recent live-in partner Madhu Bala had been working with the gas agency for eight years before he looted the agency owner. Madhu
Bala was a sister of Rakesh Kumar’s wife. Rakesh Kumar, like Tota,
developed relations with Madhu Bala. He eloped with her eight months
back. Madhu Bala is said to be pregnant from Rakesh Kumar and had been
part of his robbery attempts. |
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Land-grab
case: 2 booked Zirakpur, May 29 The duo — Gurcharan Singh,
a resident of Chunni village near Fatehgarh Sahib, and Pritpal Singh,
a former kanoongo of Dera Bassi, — have been booked under Sections
429, 167 and 120-B of the IPC for their involvement in the case. However, the police has not made any arrest in this regard. The accused have been evading arrest since last evening. After investigations of the case registered on a complaint of Mr Harbhajan Singh, a resident of Nabha village near Zirakpur, Mr Pritpal Singh Virk, SP (Operations), Patiala, found that Gurcharan Singh, in connivance with Pritpal Singh, had managed to change the girdawari of the land, measuring 2 bighas and 8 biswas, comprising khasra No. 328/1 in Dhakauli village, illegally. In the complaint, Mr Harbhajan Singh had alleged that Mr Kamaldeep Singh, a resident of Dhakauli village, had encroached upon the land which he had purchased from Gurcharan Singh. It may be recalled that the circle revenue officer (CRO), Mr Sanjeev Bansal, had corrected the girdawari of the land after The Tribune team highlighted the role of the police-politician land mafia in grabbing the government land. Over 24 armed henchmen of the land mafia had also attacked The Tribune team on March 22 night. The girdawari was changed in the favour of the state government. The CRO also asked the sub-divisional officer of the Drainage Department, Punjab, to look after the land for avoiding any type of encroachment on it. Mr
Bansal, CRO-cum-Tehsildar of Dera Bassi, during inquiries revealed
that the girdawari of the land was illegally transferred to the name
of Mr Gurcharan Singh on March 30, 1993. He also found that the land
was actually acquired by the government for the Drainage Department
till 1993. |
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Couple
held for abetting nephew to rape minor Chandigarh, May 29 This came to the notice of Chandigarh Police after the arrest of the couple from Bapu Dham in Ludhiana today fallowing months of efforts by Sector 26 Police Station. The police had been looking for the couple since March 2004 when the girl reported to the police that the 45-year-old Sushil Kumar and his 25-year-old wife Beant Kaur forcibly kept her and Rajinder in a room promopted Rajinder to rape her. The girl said that the uncle and the aunt of the boy joined them at the Sukhna Lake on February 28 when she was kidnapped. The girl told the police that Rajinder kidnapped her from her house and reached the lake. After sometime, the relative couple of the boy also reached the lake. The couple gave the girl Rs 4,000 saying Rajinder would marry her and asked them to run away. Rajinder
was arrested on March 7, 2004, and the girl was freed from his
detention. On the statement of the girl and her medical examination,
the rape charge was added against them. They had earlier been booked
for kidnapping the minor girl. |
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