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16-year-old raped, 3 months later sister targeted
Ludhiana, October 14 The duo allegedly attempted to rape her eight-year-old sister on September 16. She was, however, saved by her relatives. The accused had offered her sweets and lured her to the tenthouse. However, when they began to tear her clothes, she raised the alarm and was rescued. According to SI Dalip Bedi, investigating officer in the case, the elder sister was enraged and lodged a complaint with the police last evening. In her statement to the police she explained the reason for the delay in filing the complaint; “I was frightened. They had threatened to kill my parents. I was also worried about family honour but when they tried to rape my sister, I realised my mistake. Had I reported the matter earlier, my sister would not have suffered the agony she is undergoing now”. She said her sister was unable to comprehend the incident and was terrified. Police sources said the family was receiving threats from the accused. The victim’s family told the police that it was still scared but had decided to lodge a complaint in order to save other girls. The sources said raids were being conducted since last evening but the accused had managed to give the police the slip.
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Rape victim pregnant
Ludhiana, October 14 The incident took place six months ago and came to light when the minor girl became pregnant. She was brought to the civil hospital for medical examination where quite a drama took place last evening. The family claimed the girl's age was 11 years. However, after medical examination by a board of doctors it was found that she was over 14 years old.
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Her plea for police protection goes unheeded
Ludhiana, October 14 While the court ordered the possession of the land in question, she is seeking the help of the Moga police, under whose jurisdiction her husband’s village falls, to get the crop harvested. She
alleged that during the wheat season, the crop was harvested by her stepsons and their accomplices. Despite her plea for the registration of a case, no FIR has been lodged by the police. She had filed a petition in the high court recently, seeking police protection and the court had directed the police to submit a report. In the report, ASI Bahadur Singh, SHO of Nihal Singhwala police station in Moga, stated that she had never approached the police seeking protection and if she asked for it, she would have been provided with it. However, she claimed that she was not heard by the police. Whenever she went to the SHO of the police station concerned, she was refused audience on one pretext or the other. She said she was told to get the application forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner of Moga and when she went to the latter’s office, she was told that the file had been closed as a criminal case was already pending in a court. With the harvesting round the corner, she apprehends that her crop would be taken away. The police, however, claims that the land was in her possession and she had been harvesting the crop for the several years. She said the land was in her possession and she used to cultivate the crops but since the last crop season, the accused were forcibly harvesting the crop. Ms Jaswant Kaur married Ginder Singh of Patto Hira village in 1938. As she was not able to bear a child, her husband re-married and she was thrown out of the house. She came back to her parents’ house at Amargarh Kaleran village in Jagraon subdivision in 1943. Since then she had been fighting for her rights and was given 30 kanals and 19 marlas of land in lieu of maintenance in 1959 by a court order. She was declared the owner of the land as per the provisions of Section 14(2) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956.
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Asia’s first Astro-turf in rural area
Ludhiana, October 14 The synthetic surface, donated by a Holland firm, has been laid down at Bhaini Sahib, situated on the Ludhiana-Chandigarh road. Capt Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister, Punjab inaugurated the Astro-turf. Satguru Jagjit Singh, head of the Namdhari sect, graced the occasion. The cost of laying down this surface was Rs 42 lakh and the Punjab Government gave Rs 12 lakh for this project. To mark the occasion, an exhibition match was played between the teams of Namdhari XI and the Punjab, Police, which ended in a goal-less draw. A large number of people gathered at the stadium to watch their heroes in action. Ace drag-flicker Jugraj Singh, who was seriously injured in a raod accident last year on the outskirts of Jalandhar city, along with dashing Gaganajit Singh and Tejbir Singh played the match. Deep-defender Harpal Singh could not occupy the ground as he was down with fever. Appreciating the contribution of Namdhari Darbar under the farsighted guidance of Satguru Jagjit Singh, the Chief Minister said since 1978, the Namdhari Sports Academy had produced a number of hockey players of international repute and the Namdhari Hockey XI had won many major national He said with this Astro-turf in the rural area, Namdhari Darbar had done a great service to Indian hockey. He hoped that this turf would prove to be useful for training young hockey players and for organising national and international hockey matches in the rural area. Referring to the all-round development of games in Punjab, the Chief Minister appealed to associations and sports clubs to concentrate their energies to provide excellent training to the available talent in rural areas and assured that the state government would extend all kind of assistance as suggested by them for the promotion of sports in villages. Responding to the demands, the Chief Minister announced that the indoor stadium being constructed at Bhani Sahib would be completed, the road from the Ludhiana- Chandigarh road to Bhani Sahib would be strengthened and widened, and a parking slot would be developed. Speaking on the occasion, Mr H.S. Hanspal, President, Punjab Pradesh Congress, said Namdhari Darbar at Bhani Sahib had been making concerted efforts for the promotion of hockey and other games so that the energies of rural youth could be channelled for the promotion of different games and to keep them away from intoxicants. He suggested that keeping in view the excellent sports infrastructure at Bhaini Sahib, the area surrounding the Astro-turf should be declared as a complete sports complex. A footfall ground and a swimming pool of
interventional standard would be prepared at Bhaini Sahib, Mr Hanspal added. The Chief Minister felicitated a number of former and present hockey players and sports promoters on this occasion which included S.S. Sodhi, D.S. Garcha, Pargat Singh, Hardeep Singh Grewal, Ramandeep Singh Grewal, Baljeet Singh Dhillon, Daljeet Singh Dhillon, Rajinder Singh (PSB), Jugraj Singh, Sawinder Billa, Gaganajit Singh, international umpires Satinder Sharma and Suresh Bhatia; Bhupinder Singh, Tejbir Singh, Harpal Singh and Paul Singh (coach); Sardar Singh and Ajmair Singh, members of the Indian junior hockey team, which is leaving for an Australian tour, Teja Singh Dhaliwal, secretary, Punjab Basketball Association, and S.L. Lotey, District Sports Officer, Ludhiana.
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Steel industry faces raw material shortage
Ludhiana, October 14 The chamber said the delay had caused acute shortage of raw material for the steel melting industry in Punjab and northern states of the country, which used 60 per cent of the imported scrap. Mr Inderjit Singh Pardhan, president, the CICU, said the prices of steel had shot up by another Rs 2,000 per metric tonne and were likely to rise. He said the restrictions imposed by the government had worsened the situation of the steel industry which was already suffering due to unprecedented hike in the steel prices during the past one- and-a-half year. He said instead of imposing restrictions on the import of scrap from Middle East countries, the government should utilise the services of international standard transport companies like SGS, Omic, Birovirtas, Kotecna and ITS Inter Tech. These companies got the scrap examined before its shipment at the source and took responsibility of the contents so that it contained goods exactly as per the description. They said the importers of steel were willing to pay extra charges incurred for pre-examination of goods before loading. The chamber stated that the government should avail services of such transport companies at the earliest so that the shortage of steel melting scrap could be removed and engineering goods remained competitive.
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Agricultural
technocrats threaten stir
Ludhiana, October 14 Speaking on the occasion, Dr Satnam Singh said in spite of the speedily changing equation of agriculture at the national and international levels, the state government was not giving due attention to strengthen the agricultural extension services. Rather, the previous government had even downgraded the pay scales of agriculture technocrats as they were enjoying pay parity with veterinarians and medicos. “What would be the fate of peasantry in Punjab when more than 500 posts of agricultural /horticultural diversification has been given to Punjab Agro Inds Corporation which has no professional umbrella?” he questioned. Delivering his presidential address, Dr Aulakh highlighted the long pending demands of agricultural/ horticultural development offices i.e. restoraton of professional pay parity, lifting the hurdles in case of eight and 16-year time scale placements, notifying agricultural service’s rules, rectifying the seniority list of ADOs, rationalising the mode of fertiliser verification, giving salary to the ADOs recruited during September, 2000, from the date of joining their duty in Chandigarh. Other demands include filling 500 vacant posts of ADO and HDO, handing over the corporation diversification responsibility to ADOs and HDOs instead of the Panjab Agri Inds Corporation, funding centrally sponsored schemes and starting conveyance allowance as is being give to veterinarians and medicos. Disclosing the line of action to get these demands fulfilled, he said, deputations of technocrats under the banner of the Plant Doctors Services association would submit memoranda of demands to the Deputy Commissioners and send the same to the Chief Minister, Punjab, after getting these recommended from all MLAs. Thereafter, agricultural technocrats and farmer rallies would be organised at the district headquarters, following which a state-level rally would be
organised in Chandigarh in which leaders of all farmer organiations would participate, he disclosed.
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Ramlila inaugurated
Ludhiana, October 14 The press secretary Sanjiv Malhotra stated that the chief guest appreciated the cause of religious celebrations on the ideals of Lord Rama, who preached love and peace, and went on exile to honour the promise of King Dashrath. “Raghukul Reet Sada Chali Aayee, Pran Jaye Par Bachan Naa Jayee” was adopted in true life.
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Ladies club celebrates Divali
Ludhiana, October 14 The members had also arranged a solo dance performance.
Ravneet Kaur was the winner of dance competition. The second prize was shared by Monika and Nidhi Gupta. Jyotsana was placed at third position while Niki was forth.
The dress code was red as a concession to the festive. Lucky draws were taken out and 15 lucky womens won prizes. A skit was also presented by Sur Sangam.
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LIC officers observe strike
Ludhiana, October 14 According to a press note by the National Federation of Insurance Field Workers of India, the secretary general of the federation, Mr Anand Tyagi, began his fast unto death at the LIC’s office in Mumbai.
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Prof Mohan Singh festival on Oct 20
Ludhiana, October 14 Punjabi artistes, folk singers, ballad singers, folk musicians, sculptors, painters and poets will take part in the festival. There will be an exhibition of books, folk instruments and rare relics.
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Another bomb found in Khanna
Khanna, October 14 This is the third bomb found in the Khanna area in the past three days.
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Three bodies found in city
Ludhiana, October 14 Sukhdev Singh, a middle aged man belonging to Rani village in
Moga district, was found dead under mysterious circumstances near a cremation ground, Model Town extension, this afternoon. The police
was awaiting post-mortem examination report to know the cause of the death. His relatives have also been informed. Joginder Singh, a resident of Haibowal, was found dead near railway tracks, Jassian village. He was a mason. The post-mortem examination would be conducted tomorrow. The third body was of an unidentified beggar lying near Sidhwan Canal. The police has recovered a number of capsules used as drugs by addicts. The police suspected
that the beggar might have taken an overdose and died.
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2 arrested with poppy husk
Khanna, October 14 
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Designerwear store
launched
Ludhiana, October 14 The service includes expert advise on make-up, dressing and accessories, based on current trends, body type and personal choice and lifestyle. Be: will offer this service to its clients free of cost after bookings.
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