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Tug-of-war for state Cong chief’s
Police to approach The Sun on call
Bank keen to set up 1200 cr project at Panipat
Chamar samiti for release of figures of 42 communities
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Jindal inaugurates de-addiction centre
Qualis-bus collision leaves three dead, 9 hurt
Crime rate down in Haryana: DGP
Seven tractors recovered, one held
Woman, paramour end life
Labourer clubbed to death
Inquiry ordered
against 2 SHOs
Youths snatch gold chain
Erratic water supply irks villagers
Yamuna level increases
Admission date extended for Kashmiri migrants
Council forms sub-panels
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Tug-of-war for state Cong chief’s post hots up
Gurgaon, June 26 The lobbying has become all the more intense on account of the strong probability of the incumbent president and former Chief Minister, Mr Bhajan Lal, being relieved on account of ill health. According to the Congress insiders, it is almost certain that the choice as replacement will fall on a leader who is not from the traditional farming community. The reason being that Chief Minister Bhuinder Singh Hooda has the background of farming community and that political balance has to be maintained in the choice of the new president. Mr Bhajan Lal is said to be angling the post for his younger son from Bhiwani, Mr Kuldeep Bishnoi, however, his alleged open defiance of the party’s Central leadership along with his supporter-MLAs at the time of election of Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda as the Leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) is said to be working against him. There are many, however, who feel that Mr Bhajan Lal’s espousal of the case for his son is an effort to buck up the latter’s case for induction in the Union Council of Ministers or a post in the party organisation at the Centre. The name of one of the seniormost leader of the state and two time HPCC President, Sardar Harpal Singh, and Backward Class leader, Dr Ram Prakash, is also doing the rounds in party circles. Sardar Harpal Singh is considered to be the tallest leader from the Punjabi community. His strong point is that he has the respect of a larger section of the Congress. Dr Ram Prakash has an academic background and has been the think-tank of the party when Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda was its president. Those in his favour say that making him the state party chief would also be taking on board the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) sections in the state. The BCs and the OBCs would account for more than 40 per cent of the population in the state. Also, the Congress MLA from Rai, Mr Ramesh Kaushik, is angling for the post. He is considered to be close to the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) and in-charge of Haryana Affairs, Mr Janardan Diwedi. The case of Mr Kaushik appears to be getting weakend by the general feeling in the party that he is a late entrant to the organisation. However, many in the party are not convinced at his name being bandied about for the post. Those who are of this line of thinking feel that he is propping up his case as a bargaining chip, to get inducted in the Council of Ministers in Haryana. Mr Arvind Sharma, the Congress MP from Karnal, is also lobbying for the post. His supporters say that he has the backing of the former Union Minister, Capt Satish Sharma. However, like Mr Ramesh Kaushik, the factor weighing against him is his late entry to the organisation. |
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Police to approach The Sun on call centre leak
Gurgaon, June 26 The police version is that in the absence of a formal complaint, no first information report (FIR) has been registered. According to it, there are only two sources having vital links with the case: one, Mr Karan Bahree, an employee of a business process outsourcing (BPO) firm, Infinity e-Search”, based here and who is alleged to have sold information collected from call
centres. The second is the British tabloid, which did the sting operation. The police says it will also approach The Sun to give details. A police team led by the DSP, Mr Kulwinder Singh, visited the residence of Mr Baharee at Dilshad Gardens in Delhi yesterday. The E/236B address (residence) where the police went in search of Mr Bahree, was locked. In case Mr Bahree is not tracebale, the police will approach The Sun, a senior member of the district police said. The police today emphasised that someone would have to cooperate, and The Sun should give the details which it claims to have. It said at present its approach in the case was only pro-active, based on the newspaper reports. The confession by Mr Bahree made to his employer has been handed over to the police. However, the confession is made on a simple blank paper, the probative value of which can be ascertained only after the police records his (Mr Bahree’s) statement. The police says when the Managing Director of Infinity e-Search, Mr Rahul Dutt, has already made it clear that his firm is not into call centre business, his authority in procuring the purported confession is doubtful. It said both The Sun and the accused have not made any discloures whether the call centres from where the information had been leaked were based in Gurgaon. For that matter, it was not clear if the centres were in India. So far Gurgaon’s only link to the case is Mr Bahree, employed with the Infinity e-Search located here. Meanwhile, a strict security cordon has been place around the Golf View buidling, housing Infinity e-Search, since the case was reported in newspapers. While the police continues to whistle in the dark, the BPO industry mood on the whole is cynical on the authenticity of the development. An executive of Cybersys Infotech, Mr Rajeev Chibbar, whose firm has clienteele in the UK and the USA, said the information parted by The Sun does not reveal much. |
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Bank keen to set up 1200 cr project at Panipat
Chandigarh, June 26 He said the proposal of setting up an integrated textile mill at a cost of Rs 600 crore could also be looked into as Haryana was a good producer of cotton. Mr Tayal also offered to handle the banking jobs of the state government, which included treasury, collection of electric bill, sewerage, property charges etc., as was being done for the governments of Maharashtra and Rajasthan at present. Mr Hooda asked the delegation to initially study the feasibility of taking up the work of distribution of old-age pension in the state by the seventh of every month. Mr Tayal said they would open the account of all the pensioners in the Bank of Rajasthan and issue ATM cards to them so that the pensioners could get their pension in time. He said there were 10,000 ATMs of the Bank of Rajasthan in the country. After the meeting while talking to mediaperson Mr Tayal said Mr Hooda had many plans to make Haryana the leading state in the country. He hoped that Haryana would emerge as a top industrial center in the country due to its proximity to the national capital and having world-class infrastructure. Earlier Mr Hooda was felicitated at an impressive function at Mumbai by Raja Surajmal Heritage Foundation for his dedicated and selfless services to society. The Chairman of the Natak and Sangeet Academy, Mr Ram Niwas Mirdha, was also present on this occasion. |
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Chamar samiti for release of figures of 42 communities
Chandigarh, June 26 In a statement issued here today the press secretary of the samiti, Mr Bahadur Singh, said a resolution to this effect was unanimously adopted at a meeting of the working committee of the samiti held under the chairmanship of its president, Mr Gaje Singh Muwal, in Kurukshetra today. He said if the details of the population figures and the jobs given to members of the various communities were released, it would become clear that only members of the Dhanak community were cornering the jobs reserved for the “A” category of the Scheduled Castes. Mr Bahadur Singh said if the state government did not abolish the categories of the Scheduled Castes, the samiti would go to the Supreme Court because the categorisation of the Scheduled Castes was “unconstitutional”. He said the meeting chalked out a programme to mobilise people for the proposed Chamar Mahasammelan to be held in Jind on August 7. A meeting of the samiti would be held in Delhi on July 3. |
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Jindal inaugurates de-addiction centre
Kaithal, June 26 Mr Jindal said that public cooperation was very important to eradicate the menace of drug addiction from the society. He said that drug addicts need sympathy and care and society should own responsibility to bring such people on right path and drug de-addiction centres being set up by the government and the NGO’s can play an important role in this direction. He cautioned the law enforcing agencies to remain vigilant and take steps to check smuggling of Narcotics. On a demand made by Guhla MLA, Dillu Ram, Mr Jindal announced a grant of Rs 2 lakh to set up a de-addiction centre at Siwan . Deputy Commissioner Ashok Khemka called upon the people of Guhla area to come forward to make this effort a success. Mr Mohinder Singh Sheoran S.P., Mr R.C. Verma, ADC, Mr Jeet Singh, SDM, Guhla and Mr Sushil Panchal, DCWO were also present in this function. |
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Qualis-bus collision leaves three dead, 9 hurt
Panipat, June 26 The victims belonged to a family of Adarsh Nagar Colony in Safidon town of Jind district. The family members of Prem Chand from Safidon were coming to attend a religious ceremony at village near Gharonda in a Qualis (car) near village Utala on the highway, the qualis collided head on with bus. In the accident, Bajrang Bali, Santosh and Qualis driver Suraj Bhan died on the spot and nine others namely Rakesh, Sudesh, Kapil, Baby, Sunil, Khushi, Sarita, Disha, Sweta and Pragati were injured. Except for Suraj Bhan, those killed and injured were relatives and were going to attend kriya at Raseen village near Gharaunda in Karnal. The bodies were taken to the Bhim Sen Sachar Civil Hospital here for post-mortem. |
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Crime rate down in Haryana: DGP
Ambala, June 26 Talking to mediapersons he said the Haryana police had worked hard to check crime in the state and it deserved appreciation for it. He said the state police had recently launched a campaign against unsocial elements and hardcore criminals and some of the goons had been killed recently in police encounters. He said the state government had recommended the name of two police officials for President’s Gallantry award. He also said the hardcore criminals were now fleeing from the state due to the heavy pressure of the police. Earlier, while addressing police officers he asked them to work impartially for the betterment of society and maintain cordial relations with the public. He said the Haryana police had the potential to be the best police force and it had proved its worth on several occasions. The SP, Ambala, Mr Rajinder Singh, welcomed the DGP on his arrival. |
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Seven tractors recovered, one held
Kurukshetra, June 26 Stating this here today, the district police chief, Mr S.P. Ranga, said the arrested person had been identified as Balwinder Singh, a resident of Sirsala village in Kaithal district, and the police had succeeded in recovering seven stolen tractors and the tractor-trailer on which the tractors were loaded. Mr Ranga said a tractor-trailer driver, Karnail Singh, a resident of Roshanpur in Patiala district, had lodged a complaint at the Pipli police station, 5 km from here, that he got loaded seven new tractors on a tractor-trailer and left Hoshiarpur in Punjab for Ranchi, Dhanbad in Bihar. His co-driver, Balvinder Singh, also accompanied him. When he reached Pipli, he parked the loaded tractor-trailer on the outskirt of Kserla village at night and went to meet his in-laws there. Meanwhile, Balvinder Singh, who was left with the tractor-trailer to take care of it, escaped with the loaded tractor-trailer under the cover of darkness. Next morning, when Karnail Singh returned to the parking place, he found the same missing. Mr Ranga said when Karnail Singh failed to trace the tractor-trailer, he informed the police. A police party was constituted and raids were conducted at various places, but in vain. Ultimately, Balwinder Singh’s residential address was taken from the tractor company where he was employed. From enquiry at his residence, the police came to know that Balwinder was at somewhere at the Hisar road, near Agroha in Haryana. He was nabbed by the police while he was searching for customers to sell the stolen vehicles, Mr Ranga added. Admitting his crime during interrogation, Balwinder Singh said when Karnail Singh left the tractor-trailer in his custody, he was tempted to be a rich person overnight by selling the new tractors. Having this idea in mind, he drove away the vehicle to Agroha village, where he was nabbed by the police, Mr Ranga added. |
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Woman, paramour end life
Rewari, June 26
Her husband, Ganesh Chauhan, had lodged a complaint with the police following which a case was registered under Sections 365, 34 of the IPC against accused Jai Prakash (who ran a flour mill in Hira Nagar colony of Gurgaon) and his accomplice. Jai Prakash and the woman went to Rewari. There they were caught at an STD booth near Gol Chakra here last evening. Confronted with the predicament, both of them consumed Celphos and had to be hospitalised. When their condition grew critical, they were referred to a hospital in Delhi. Ganesh Chauhan works as a stringer for a Hindi daily at Gurgaon. The woman was cremated at Gurgaon, while the body of Jai Prakash was consigned to flames at his village, Bohra Kalan, near Pataudi, today. |
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Labourer clubbed to death
Yamunanagar, June 26 As per police, the victim, Balbir Singh was sleeping beside his children when Kashmir Singh, Jagat Singh and Kartar Singh attacked him with farm implements. Labourers who were sleeping nearby tried made a futile chase to catch the attackers. Kashmir Singh had earlier threatened Balbir Singh to keep off from her sister but the latter did not react and allegedly kept meeting his sister. A case of murder has been registered. |
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Inquiry ordered
against 2 SHOs
Rewari, June 26 Mr Pat Ram Singh, DSP, headquarters, has been deputed to conduct the inquiry. Earlier, the investigation of the Veer Bhan murder case was entrusted to the two SHOs who failed to find any clue to the killers. Taking a pique at ‘inept handling’ of the case the village elders, along with Ram Kishan, son of the deceased, had recently urged the district police chief to initiate tangible measures to trace and apprehend the killers. |
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Youths snatch gold chain
Ambala, June 26 The husband of the woman, who runs a wholesale cloth shop near Dev Samaj College, said today that when his wife was on the way to the temple, two youths on a motor cycle snatched the gold chain and fled. The matter is yet to be reported to the police. It was not the first incident in this sector. |
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Erratic water supply irks villagers
Rewari, June 26 The blockade was lifted at the intervention of the SDM, Mr Sujan Singh Yadav. Earlier on Friday night, infuriated residents of Mohalla Nai Basti had also resorted to blockade on the circular road here protesting against the increasing frequency of unscheduled power cuts which, they pointed out, had made life miserable for the citizens here. Eventually Mr K.K. Sharma, Xen, DHBVN, alongwith the city police officials , had to intervene to save the situation from taking an ugly turn. The blockade was lifted only after he assured the irate residents that they would take all possible steps to improve the situation. |
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Yamuna level increases
Yamunanagar, June 26 Trash in the waters has, however, affected power generation at the four hydel power units build over a link channel of the Western Yamuna Canal (WYC). One unit each at the four power houses has been shut down. The department concerned has pressed in labourers to clear the trash, said sources, adding that all generation units were likely to be functional soon. The sources said after supplying water to Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, about 12,000 cusecs of water was redirected to the Yamuna from the barrage. |
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Admission date extended for Kashmiri migrants
Chandigarh, June 26 While stating this here yesterday, a spokesman of the Haryana Technical Education Department said that a communication to this effect had been sent to the Registrars of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar, and Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. |
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Council forms sub-panels
Ambala, June 26 The building sub-committee comprises Ms Ajay Walia, Dr Vikas
Bhateja, Bholi Bindra and Mr Subhash Sharma. The sanitation sub-committee comprises Mr Roop Chand, Ms Dimple Mittal, Mr Bhupesh Sharma and Mr Goel.
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