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Perform or face action, Hooda tells DCs, SPs
Rs 109 cr of foodgrains damaged in Haryana
Charge sheet filed against 2 under PNDT Act
KU fake-certificate
case re-opened
2 cops suspended for indiscipline
Fifty injured in Holi violence
22-year-old killed as youths open fire
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Students missing from Kharkhauda town
Mulana’s assurance to association
2 killed in road accident
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Perform or face action, Hooda tells DCs, SPs
Rohtak, March 27 According to sources, the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has told these officers clearly that they should not take their postings for granted and that performance would be the sole criterion for their continuation. He has also indicated that those failing to deliver will not merely be posted out, but will also face disciplinary action. The sources said during the last meeting of the SPs the Chief Minister had told them that the next meeting would be held after three months. This meeting would also be attended by the IGs of different police ranges in the state. The performance of the SPs would be reviewed and their future decided there and then. On the other side, the Chief Minister plans to offer incentives to those who perform well. So far as the police is concerned, the Chief Minister’s clear instructions are that criminal gangs must be eliminated without any delay. The drive against these gangs is primarily aimed at rooting out kidnappings for ransom. Over the past few years, several gangs had come up in the state which indulged in organised crime mainly abductions. The Chief Minister’s home district – Rohtak – was the worst-affected. The briefing given to the SPs clearly states that the new government wants an immediate overall improvement in the law and order situation. This means making the highways safe for travellers and a feeling of security among common men. According to the sources, the Deputy Commissioners have been told to tone up the administrative machinery and make it responsive. The Chief Minister, the sources said, expected the senior officers to be accessible to the people even if it meant some inconvenience to bureaucrats. One newly-appointed Deputy Commissioner of a district is likely to be shifted immediately after the local bodies poll because of complaints that he is not easily accessible and that he is too arrogant to come up to the level of courtesy expected from senior officers by the new administration, the sources added. Instructions to shift him after the poll have already been given. Sources close to the Chief Minister said even bureaucrats attached to the Chief Minister office were “on three months probation” and that in their case too, anyone found lacking would be ousted if needed despite the fact that all of them were confidants of Mr Hooda. |
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Rs 109 cr of foodgrains damaged in Haryana
Chandigarh, March 27 With nearly 11.89 lakh quintals of wheatgrain damaged in the three years since 2003, the maximum losses have been reported from Palwal and Hodal in Faridabad as well as from Sirsa district. According to statistics available, while 4.5 lakh quintal of foodgrains were damaged in 2002-03, a loss of 6.29 lakh quintal and 1.28 lakh quintal was reported in 2003-04 and 2004-05, respectively. This despite the fact that the Food and Public Distribution Department of the Government of India was regularly expressing its apprehensions about the carelessness with which state agencies were procuring and handling foodgrains. Since the state agencies are responsible for 80 to 85 per cent of the total procurement on behalf of the Government of India,
the foodgrain stocks lying in godowns has been an area of concern for the Food Corporation of India (FCI). Perturbed by
reports that stocks were being damaged within two to five months of their procurement by state agencies, the FCI officials even shot off a letter to Haryana’s Food and Supplies
Department. The letter stated that the FCI “would be constrained to recommend to the GOI that rent and other charges being reimbursed to the state government should be reduced to three-fourth of the present amount”. With only 10 qualified assistants at their disposal to look after storage and preservation of foodgrains, Hafed and other state agencies are short of qualified men to handle the stocks and nothing has been done over the last couple
of years to employ qualified staff. Interestingly, the payment for 2002, for 3.07 lakh metric tonnes of damaged foodgrains, is still pending with the FCI. While Hafed has shown it as “disputed” in its accounts the FCI is in no mood to release the payment on grounds that the grains were damaged due to negligent and careless handling by the state agency. In this particular case, an attempt was also made to fix responsibility for the damaged grains. Initially, the state agency pointed out that the inability of the FCI to take over the stock was responsible for damaged grains, the latter stuck to its stand that the state agencies were not managing storage of grains well. At present, the investigations have reached a deadend since the state agencies are not cooperating in
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Charge sheet filed against 2 under PNDT Act
Faridabad, March 27 Though about six persons have been booked under the PNDT Act in the district, of the total 25 cases registered in Haryana, so far, this is the first case, which has reached such a stage’, claimed a senior official of the Health Department. He said the case had been registered against the suspect identified as Dr A. Sabhani and his compounder, after a team of the Health Department officials raided at the ultrasound centre being run by him at Palwal town in October 2001. The team claimed that the accused was involved in ‘sex’ determination tests, which were banned under the Act and three women patients who had come for the test at the centre had testified before them. Faridabad was the first district in Haryana and the second one in the country, where a case under the PNDT Act was registered in 2001. While about 25 cases were registered for violating the Act in the past about four years in the state, this was the first case in which a charge sheet had been filed, claimed an official of the department. Although the authorities concerned have confiscated about 50 ultrasound machines from various parts of the state since 2001. The state government had constituted special PNDT committees in all districts under the chairmanship of the respective Chief Medical Officers, but hardly any raid was carried out at the district levels. Though senior officials in Chandigarh had been carrying out such raids, but due to the lack of coordination the drive against the had lost much of its steam. The district level committees had been mainly doing the work of granting licences to new ultrasound centres. |
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KU fake-certificate
case re-opened
Kurukshetra, March 27 A police team questioned a few officials of the department on Thursday and Friday to obtain a detailed list of as many as 80 candidates who had allegedly tried to get admission to the above-mentioned courses during the year 2003 on the basis of fake certificates of participation in national and international level sports events. Sources in the university revealed that Dr O.P. Gehlawat Chairman of the Physical Education Department, had submitted the list with proper addresses of the candidates. Surprisingly, a few candidates had even produced
certificates of participation in national events of games for which Haryana had never sent any players. Subsequently, a few of the certificates were sent to the state directorate of sports at Chandigarh for verification of authenticity. The directorate declared them as fake, following which the university registered the case in Adarsh police station, Kurukshetra. However, even after the registration of a criminal case in this regard, the investigation was left pending allegedly due to political pressure by the then Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) Government. During the past couple of days the police has recorded the statements of many students and some officials of the university in a bid to speed-up the investigation process and to book the alleged culprits. |
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2 cops suspended for indiscipline
Bhiwani, March 27
Naresh Kumar and constables Brij Lal and Ishwar Singh had gone to investigate the matter. However, Ashok, Swaran and others emphasised that the complaint was false they were asked to come to the police station but they refused to go there and also misbehaved with the police team. According to SP, over 20 persons joined Dinesh, Jogani, and Bintu and pelted stones on the police party. The miscreants also threw stones at the police station and Naresh Kumar was assaulted when he tried to stop them. The city police was informed and the Station House Officer Mr Darshan Lal, went to rescue the police team. He said the DSP also went to the police station and a case has been registered against Ashok, Swarn, Satish, Dinesh, Jogani, Bintu, Ramsamuj, Muktinath, Dev Singh, Yogesh, Pappu, Sunil and 20 other under Sections 147, 148, 332, 353 and 186 of the IPC. |
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Fifty injured in Holi violence
Panipat, March 27 Two groups clashed with each other in Bichpari village. Lathis and other sharp-edged weapons were reportedly openly used. At least seven persons belonging to both the groups received injuries in the clash. The injured were identified as Dayan Singh, Zile Singh, Anil, Amit, Shashi Pal, Bunty and Rajpal. Most of them were reportedly in a drunken condition. Similarly four persons, identified as Shashi, Suresh, Ramesh and Darshan, received injuries in a clash between two groups in Bharat Nagar. In the same way Jang Singh, Labh, Arun, Balbir and Anil were injured in a clash between two groups in Gopal Colony. Several others incidents of violence took place in different parts of Panipat. Fatehabad: Eleven persons were injured in holi-related violence here yesterday. The injured have been admitted to the local general hospital. Four persons were injured in an altercation in the local timber market. Sharwan Singh and Dariya Ram, who are undergoing treatment in the local general hospital, alleged that they were playing Holi at their residence when their neighbour Sheokaran and his sons Ram Phal and Charan Dass attacked them with ‘lathis’. In another incident, four persons were injured after an altercation that ensued due to an old enmity at Shakti Nagar. Father and son duo of Kirta Ram and Surender Kumar from one side and Naresh and Brahm Pal, both real brothers, were injured in a free for all that ensued after the altercation. ‘Lathis’ and ‘gandasis’ were freely used in the incident. Three persons — Anup Dutch, Sanjiv Chauhan and Bitto — were injured at the local Balmiki Chowk, when another youth Murti allegedly attacked them along with five of his accomplices.When they tried to molest her, she made cries for help. At this, several persons gathered there and the youths fled from the spot. |
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22-year-old killed as youths open fire
Sonepat, March 27 According to the police, the deceased was identified as Satyawan (22). The injured had been identified as Sumandar. Sumandar was rushed to the local Civil Hospital where he was given first aid and was referred to the PGIMS, Rohtak for further treatment. Both of them were sitting in the shop of Mr Ashok around 8 pm when a youth came there and inquired about Sumandar. Thereafter, two more youths entered the shop they switched off the lights and started firing indiscriminately. Satyawan was killed in the firing while Sumandar sustained injuries. The youths, however, managed to escape after the firing. According to another report one person identified as Rajbir was shot at and injured by Satpal and his son Mukesh at Bahalgarh village, about 10 km from here, last evening. The injured was immediately rushed to a private nursing home in Sector 14, Sonepat. He is stated to be out of danger. The police has registered a case against the alleged assailants who are still at large. The use of objectionable words by Rajbir under the influence of liquor had reportedly provoked Satpal to open fire. Meanwhile, as many as 24 persons were injured on Holi in the city and its adjoining areas. |
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Students missing from Kharkhauda town
Sonepat, March 27 According to another report, Dharminder, a student, had also been missing from his house in Kharkhauda town since March 25, 2004. It is stated that he was snubbed by his relative for not giving drinking water to milch animals. Thereupon he had left the house and since then his parents had been waiting for his return. Meanwhile, three students of Deaf and Dumb School, “Ruchi” are missing from their houses for the past one month. However, one student of the school, who was allegedly kidnapped by a few persons, was recovered from a train’s toilet at Jammu Tawi Railway Station and brought here by Army men. |
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Mulana’s assurance to association
Ambala, March 27 The association in the memorandum said the decision for the closure of unrecognised school would affect employment of thousands of teachers in the state. Moreover parents of lakhs of students would also suffer as it would force them to get their children admitted in big schools where they have to pay huge amount. The
association requested the minister to intervene in the matter. Mr Mulana said unrecognised schools which did not come under the framework of High Court order would be allowed to continue their admission for the present session. Mr Mulana said the state government was committed to providing better education even to the children of poor and weaker section. He said that standard of education in the government schools would be raised. |
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2 killed in road accident
Sirsa, March 27 Gurbax Singh, a resident of Bhrokan village along with his driver, Sikander, a resident of Bihar was on his way to Darba Kalan village in his car yesterday. The driver lost control over the vehicle the accident
occurred, killing Sikander on the spot and seriously injuring Gurbax Singh who later died on way to hospital, police said.
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One dead in road accident
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