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Transfer of industrial plots made difficult
Hooda fails to provide e-mail ID
Hooda promises overhaul of policies
Rs 225 crore to develop sugar complexes in Haryana
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Rs 1 crore for medicines
for flood-hit
Govt ignoring urban residents, says BJP
Carcass of spotted
deer recovered
‘Poisonous’ lime water claims one life
Sentenced for attacking Baba Bhaniarawala
Cancellation of bail to Pataudi sought
University College: panel opposes fresh appointments
GJU students to be involved in CEET counselling
Haryana appoints 18 more law officers
Two new awards for writers planned
Truck mechanic murdered
Four held for kidnapping, raping girl
Dera head ‘faces threat’
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Transfer of industrial plots made difficult
Chandigarh, July 13 Announcing this here today the Chairman of the HSIDC, Mr M.L. Tayal, said no industrial plot developed by the corporation would henceforth be transferred before an allottee had completed one year of commercial production. The second transfer would be allowed after at least one year of the first one. Mr Tayal, who is also the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, was announcing the HSIDC’s Estate Management Procedures, 2005 (EMP 2005), for the management of estates, allotment, transfer, leasing and renting of industrial plots and other assets developed by the corporation at various locations in the state. He said the new EMP had been framed as a sequel to the industrial policy announced by the state government last month. He said the revised procedures had been developed keeping in view the current market scenario and aspirations of the entrepreneurs. For the purpose of implementation of the revised EMP, the industrial estates developed by the HSIDC had been divided into three categories. The high potential zone comprising industrial estates at Gurgaon, IMT Manesar and Faridabad would fall under category ‘A’, whereas the industrial estates located at Kundli, Rai, Bahadurgarh and Panchkula would be in category ‘B’. All remaining industrial estates had been placed under category ‘C’. Mr P.K. Chaudhary, Financial Commissioner, Industries and Information Technology, said as a major relief to the IT sector, the general extension allowed to the IT units up to September 25, 2003, under the existing policy had been extended up to December 31, 2005, without the payment of any fee. The occupation certificate, which had been a major irritant in the existing procedures, had been done away with. The building now could be occupied by the allottee on the basis self-certification that the construction was as per the approved building plan. The scheme of self-certification had been introduced in the Industrial Policy, 2005, announced by the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, in June last. He said the policy regarding the leasing of plots had also been liberalised. The allottees could now lease out the constructed area to more than one lessee after having implemented the project. The total number of permissible lessees had been increased to three depending upon the size of the project. All appeal cases pending before the Secretary, Industries, would now be considered by a committee comprising the Financial Commissioner, Industries; the Director, Industries; and the Managing Director, HFC. Mr Rajeev Arora, MD of the corporation, said the earlier policy for the allotment of plots on an ongoing first-cum-first-served basis had now been restricted to the projects involving investments of more than Rs.30 crore, NRI/PIO applicants, units with 33 per cent or more FDI, IT-related projects and projects being set up in industrial estates falling under category ‘C’. In all other categories, the plots would be allotted after inviting applications through advertisement in leading newspapers. Preferential allotment would be made to women entrepreneurs, unemployed engineering graduates and ex-servicemen. Ten per cent of the plots would be reserved in each estate for allotment to NRIs, PIOs and units with 33 per cent or more FDI. Some additions had been made in the documents to be submitted along with the applications for the allotment of plots to curb speculative tendencies. The applicants would have to now submit details of plant and machinery and profitability projections with their project report whereas under the earlier procedures only the project report with details of the implementation schedule was to be annexed to the application. It had been made mandatory for the applicant to affix his photograph on the application form. As against the earlier provision of construction of building on the plot within one year of offer of possession and commissioning of production within three years, the allottee would now be required to implement and start commercial production within three years from the date of offer of possession. |
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Hooda fails to provide e-mail ID
Chandigarh, July 13 The present Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, had followed in his footsteps by dropping the idea of having an e-mail ID dedicated exclusively to receiving complaints from the public, particularly those relating to corruption in field offices. The idea, announced by Mr Hooda himself soon after he became the Chief Minister, was to curb corruption in the field offices. It was reportedly decided that a record of the field offices would be kept so that it could be known which offices and which officers were facing the maximum number of complaints. The plan was that Mr Hooda would be opening the mailbox himself and the mail requiring action would be downloaded and sent to the officers concerned for examination. However, the idea has been given a burial. An aide of the Chief Minister told TNS, that the system of receiving complaints through e-mail would not have yielded the desired results because the ordinary people, whom the CM wants to listen to primarily, do not have access to e-mail”. He added that the deputy commissioners in the districts had e-mail IDs and they would forward complaints to the Chief Minister, if necessary. An official in the Electronics and Information Technology Department of the state government, when asked about the issue, admitted that so far the Chief Minister had not opened the e-mail account that he had announced in April. “We are in the process of installing a broadband Internet connection at the residence of the Chief Minister so that he can access the Internet quickly”, the official said. The official added that they could only facilitate the Chief Minister’s access to e-mail but whether he used the facility or not was Mr Hooda’s prerogative. Incidentally, it is not that the Chief Minister does not have an e-mail ID. When the Haryana Vikas Party formed the government in the state in 1996 with Mr Bansi Lal as the Chief Minister, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) had set up an e-mail ID for the Haryana Chief Minister. However, this ID is not advertised any more and does not figure in the directory of telephone numbers and addresses of government functionaries published by the state government. The usefulness of the NIC ID is highly doubtful and that only prompted Mr Hooda to announce having a new e-mail ID to receive feedback from people direct. Something similar happened during Mr Chautala’s tenure with the video-conferencing facility. Even on the day of the launching of the system, its performance was miserable and there were many interruptions in both video and audio receptions. Later an exasperated Chautala removed the equipment put up in his office for video conferencing with the deputy commissioners. |
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Hooda promises overhaul of policies
Sanghi (Rohtak), July 13 Addressing a public meeting at his ancestral village on the concluding day of his three-day tour of his Assembly constituency Kiloi he said though the development of new towns was a slow process, nevertheless the new modern towns would become hubs of business, industry and commerce in the coming years which would in turn make the state prosperous. The projects would also open up new investment opportunities for the entire country and even multinational companies. He said the concept of these towns would be futuristic and when fully developed these would be even better places than Chandigarh, Gurgaon and Panchkula. Mr Hooda said his government would ensure that these towns become models for the entire world. The infrastructure would be planned and developed keeping in view the requirements for the next 100 years. The Chief Minister said the Rajiv Gandhi Educational City planned for Kundli on the banks of the Yamuna would be one of the best places of learning in the world. It would be equal in scale to many universities combined and all conceivable courses would be run from specialised learning centres to be set up there. The project would open up new opportunities for scientists, teachers, technocrats and other professionals. He said the government would in the coming future recast all its policies. The new industrial policy was already in place. Changes were in the offing in educational, planning, sports, media and other important policies to make these relevant to the growing needs of the state. These policies would take care of all hurdles in the development of the state and would remain relevant for years to come. The Chief Minister covered all but one village of his constituency during his three day whistle stop tour and approved projects worth several crores on the spot. For a cluster of five villages around Sanghi village which are on a higher plateau than the surrounding villages he today announced construction of new canal with lift system to provide irrigation water. Incidentally, these villages had been seeking lift irrigation system for the past 40 years but no government in the past sanctioned the project. Earlier, addressing mediapersons at Rohtak, Mr Hooda said the new media policy would strive for more transparency in the government functioning to help the media discharge its duties even better. The government would ensure that nothing was hidden from the media deliberately to cover up its lapses. He said organised crime in the state had been almost fully controlled and criminals found Haryana no longer a safe haven for them. Most of them had fled for good and others were being hunted down to bring them to book. He said corruption in the government had been curbed to a large extent and efforts were on to root it out completely. |
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Rs 225 crore to develop sugar complexes in Haryana
Karnal, July 13 Haryana Finance Minister Birender Singh stated this reporters here, today. He said that in these complexes there would be provisions for power generation, bio-composts, sugar refinery, distillery and production of ethanol used in petrol. Talking about the financial position of the sugar mills, he said that out of the 12 cooperative sugar mills, eight were in profit while the rest were in losses. He said that the figure of losses had touched Rs 570 crore. He revealed that it had been decided to run cooperative sugar mills of Bhuna and Panni Wala in Sirsa district on contract. He clarified that the cooperative sugar mills running in losses would not be privatised and their employees not retrenched. Mr Birender Singh said that crushing capacity of these mills would be enhanced from 2500 MTs to 3500 MTs per day and the sugarcane crushing period would be increased to minimum of 150 days. Similarly, the land under sugarcane cultivation would be increased so that the sugar mills get adequate sugarcane for entire season. He stated that there was a proposal to set up a sugarcane refinery and distillery in the Karnal Cooperative Sugar Mill. He claimed that the sugar produced in this mill would be of high quality and fetch good price in the market. Experts would be posted in the sugar mills to increase the production and quality of the sugar produced by these mills. Earlier, addressing a seminar organised on sugarcane production, he said that the present government was pro-labour and pro-farmer. He said that the new varieties of sugarcane would be developed so that it could benefit the farmers and the mills. The services of scientists of Hisar Agricultural University would be sought for increasing the per acre production of sugarcane. He said that the cooperative sugar mills had made the payment of the entire outstanding amount of Rs 209 crore of sugarcane to the farmers for the year 2004-05. He said that Farmers Service Centres would be opened in all the sugar mills so that the farmers could get high quality pesticides, weedicides, seeds and other agricultural inputs without any difficulty. He said that farmers would also be provided loans and subsidy for sugarcane sowing. He said that if any farmer brings high quality seed of sugarcane, he would be adequately compensated by the mill.
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Hundreds forced to leave houses, sleep in open
Hisar, July 13 While some of the hapless villagers are putting up in nearby buildings, many have no option but to spend their nights in the open. With their houses having collapsed or filled with water, there seems to be no end to the woes of the victims of nature as well as administration, and there is no immediate solution in sight. “We had been getting langar from the village Gurdwara for the past few days, but today, they plainly told us that no more food would be available for us,” says Suresh, a resident of Gaibipur village in the district, whose family is staying on the premises of a factory near the village. On the other hand, more than 60 families of the same village, who have taken shelter in a school at Dhani Prem Nagar, have been told to vacate the premises by the school authorities. But with about 3 to 5 feet of water still standing in their houses, they do not know where to go. The affected villagers maintain that they had to leave their houses all of a sudden and their household goods and other belongings were rotting in their houses as they were unable to reach there. The villagers lament that while the administration was making efforts to dispose of the accumulated water from the highway and fields, nobody had approached them to know their plight. “We don’t have any big demand…we just want some food and, if possible, some tents as it becomes difficult if it rains in the night…” states a humble Hawa Singh. Most of the affected residents of Gaibipur village belong to the lower socio-economic class and they have been left with no source of livelihood. While some are looking for work in the nearby townships, others are pulling on with the help of loans taken from their relatives. Due to water being accumulated on the premises, the schools, mini-banks, cooperative societies, veterinary hospitals and panchayat houses are either lying closed or non-operational. The situation was equally bad in Badhawar, Bobua, Kahrkari, Niana, Shikarpur, Mirzapur, Dabra and Hasangarh villages of the district, in which cotton and other crops standing on hundreds of acres of land were submerged in water, causing heavy losses to the farmers. Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Arun Kumar Gupta, has directed that no government official could proceed on leave without due permission and sanction in view of the existing situation. The Civil Surgeon, Dr S.K. Nawal, and the District Health Officer, Dr Anoop Singh, said mobile medical teams had been deployed to survey the affected areas and provide medicines and chlorine tablets for purifying drinking water. |
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Rs 1 crore for medicines
for flood-hit
Panipat, July 13 A spokesman said that the Health authorities had been instructed to ensure that these medicines
were used in the flood affected districts and hospitals of flood-affected areas only. He said that a sum of Rs 24.50 lakh had been sanctioned for the flood relief measures in the districts of Bhiwani and Jhajjar. The spokesman said that Bhiwani district had been allocated Rs two lakh for the repair and reconstruction of houses in the flood affected areas. A sum of Rs one lakh each had been sanctioned for assistance to farmers on the death of cattle, supply of tents and dewatering in rural areas. The amount sanctioned for supply of food and clothing and transportation is Rs 50,000 for each purpose. |
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Govt ignoring urban residents, says BJP
Panipat, July 13 Mr Sajjan Kumar said the Hooda government had waived power arrears of Rs.1600 crore of farmers and other rural domestic consumers but it did nothing for the benefit of the urban residents. Also the former president of the Jind Municipal Council, Mr Sajjan Kumar, demanded that the Hooda government should not only abolish house and development taxes imposed on urban residents but should also provide free water to them. Accusing both Hooda and Chautala governments of ignoring the interests of urban residents, the state president of the cell said there was a dire need to improve the water supply system in cities as there were reports of supply of contaminated water in several areas. Mr Sajjan Kumar said the BJP and its frontal organisations were organising several programmes in view of the silver jubilee of the former. The cell will organise a sapling plantation day on August 15 besides a cleanliness campaign on December 25 in the state, he added. Former president of the Municipal Council Mr Sanjay Bhatia, general secretary of the cell, Mr Rajpal Sharma and its vice-president Mr Lal Chand Chaabra, were also present on the occasion. Earlier, Mr Sajjan Kumar also addressed a state-level meeting of the cell.
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Carcass of spotted
deer recovered
Sirsa, July 13 Following a tip off by an informer, the district wildlife officials raided the house of Mr Beant Singh in Mojukhera village, about 60 km from here in Ellenabad subdivision on Monday. The raiding party successfully recovered the remains of the cheetal bundled in a sack from the rooftop of the accused. Talking to this correspondent, the District Wildlife Inspector, Mr R.P. Dangi, said the action was taken after the department received specific information. He said along with the wildlife team, the department also roped in the district police from Ellenabad while raiding the premises of the accused. Sources said soon after the raid, the carcass was taken to the Ellenabad hospital where a board of veterinary doctors conducted the post mortem. Later the body was cremated. According to Mr Dangi, the report mentioned that the cheetal, the Schedule 3 animal was killed 24 hours prior to the post mortem. The deer was done to death by a pointed weapon, added Mr Dangi. Though the Wildlife Department under the Wildlife Protection Act has registered a complaint, no arrests have been made so far. Coming down heavily on wildlife officials, the president of the PFA, Haryana chapter, Mr Naresh Kadyan, demanded strict action against the officials concerned. According to a senior police official, the accused and his relatives had enmity over property. The police is looking into the conspiracy angle to
ascertain whether the accused was falsely implicated in the case. Citing the post mortem report, an investigating official said probably someone from the rival family could have thrown the sack on the rooftop as the house was situated on the road. |
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‘Poisonous’ lime water claims one life
Ambala, July 13 At about 5 pm, a group of workers decided to drink lime water. They brought lemon for making the lime water from a nearby field. After preparing the lime water, the group of six workers drank the lime water. Soon thereafter, one of the workers, Gurjant, 25, complained of uneasiness and he collapsed. Even as Gurjant was being attended to, another worker Ram Pal also began to vomit. Within no time, four other workers —
Surjan, Rinku, Ram Swaroop and Jaipal — started feeling sick. The six workers were immediately taken to the Civil Hospital, Ambala Cantt. where Gurjant was declared brought dead. Ram
Swaroop, who was critically ill and others were referred to PGI, Chandigarh. The workers complained of uneasiness, head ache and vomiting. Jai Pal, who was admitted in Civil Hospital, said they had plucked the lemon from a nearby field. “We used normal tap water for making the lime water,” he told and added that after drinking ‘nimbu
paani’, they started working again. “However, Gurjant suddenly collapsed. Then, Ram Pal also began to vomit. Soon, all of us, who had taken the lime water, fell ill,” he said. Jai Pal said they had no inkling that drinking lime water could possibly lead to the death of a co-worker. A doctor at the Civil Hospital said it seemed to be a case of suspected poisoning. “While one worker was brought dead, the remaining five are being administered medication. We are referring them to PGI, Chandigarh,” he said. He said the possibility of poisoning being caused due to some insecticide or pesticide used on the lemons could not be ruled out. |
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Sentenced for attacking Baba Bhaniarawala
Ambala, July 13 The court convicted Gopal Singh for three years imprisonment. The other two accused, Dilip Singh Vikkar and Sukhwinder Singh, were acquitted due to lack of sufficient evidence. Later the court granted bail to Gopal Singh on furnishing bail bond of Rs 10,000. Initially, the case was registered against them under Section 307, IPC, but after the investigation it was converted into Section 324, IPC. According to prosecution, a murderous attack was made on Baba Bhaniarawala on September 24, 2003, outside the court premises of the Judicial Magistrate at Ambala City. Even though a security arrangement was made in the court premises for Baba, Gopal managed to attack him by posing as a devotee of Baba. The police had nabbed the attacker on the spot. Baba had sustained injuries in the attack and he was admitted to local Civil Hospital. Later, the police arrested Dilip Singh Vikkar and Sukhwinder in this connection. |
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Cancellation of bail to Pataudi sought
Chandigarh, July 13 The petition, filed through the Haryana unit convener Naresh Kumar Kadyan, states that the Chief Judicial Magistrate at Jhajjar, who granted the bail to Mr Pataudi and Mr Shashi Singh, was not competent to do so. The petition says that the Haryana Government had set up two special courts to deal with such offences that fall under the purview of the Wildlife Act. These courts are located at Faridabad and Kurukshetra. It adds that the court at Faridabad had the jurisdiction to hear the bail plea of Mr Pataudi and Mr Shashi Singh and the Jhajjar court could not have decided the matter. The petition is likely
to be taken up for hearing soon. |
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University College: panel opposes fresh appointments
Sirsa, July 13 Financial burden is learned to be the reason behind the probable move, says a member of the association. He said the CDLU preferred to appoint teachers on contract for less salary than the regular scale lecturers. Talking to the TNS, a number of staffers of the UC showed their disappointment over the possible move by the
CDLU. As on now, the sources said, of the 200 staffers of the UC, including 114 lecturers, the entire staff is send on deputation by the state Higher Education Staff to the CDLU after Government National PG College was merged in the university. |
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GJU students to be involved in CEET counselling
Hisar, July 13 Acting GJU Vice-Chancellor, R.R. Fuliya, said all arrangements had been made for the counselling for admission to engineering and architecture courses under the AIEEE and CEET exams, which is slated to begin tomorrow. While AIEEE counselling will be held from July 14 to 16, the CEET counselling will begin on July 17 and go on till July 25. Mr Fuliya said unlike last year, when the counselling process went on for more than 20 days, it would be limited to 11 or 12 days. Moreover, unlike the past experiences, the students and their parents would not have to wait till late in the night and the daily counselling would be over by 6 p.m. The Vice-Chancellor said instead of faculty members, the non-teaching officials would handle the task this time. |
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Haryana appoints 18 more law officers
Chandigarh, July 13 Adding to the previous tally of 62 law officers, the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government today appointed 18 new law officers, while redesignating one law officer appointed earlier. The total number of law officers in Haryana is now 85, excluding Advocate-General (AG) Hawa Singh Hooda. According to available information, Mr Randhir Singh and Mr Sudhir Makkar have been appointed Senior Deputy AGs. Mr Makkar was appointed Assistant AG in the first list. The new Deputy AGs are Mr Surinder Kumar Bishnoi, Mr Parduman Yadav, Mr Satbir Gaupuria and Mr H.S. Beniwal. The Assistant AGs appointed now are Mr H.S. Khera, Mr A.K. Saini, Ms Tara Jecia, Mr Yashpal Malik, Mr Sandeep Yadav, Mr Amit Arora, Mr Ashwani Markandey, Mr Deepak Jindal, Mr Vikas Chaudhary, Mr K.C. Gupta, Mr Sidharth Sarup, Mr Rajiv Goyal and Mr Neeraj Budiani. Incidentally, the government has not been able to pay salaries so far to the law officers who were appointed in the first batch. |
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Two new awards for writers planned
Chandigarh, July 13 He also talked about the need for rationalisation of the amounts fixed for other awards while retaining Rs 1 lakh for the Sur Puraskar. Mr Sharma, who was addressing a press conference here, said the Haryana Gaurav Award carrying Rs 51,000 in cash was proposed to be given to those persons of Haryana domicile who had made a significant contribution to Hindi literature or poetry, but were not residing in Haryana. The Baal Lekhan Puraskar was proposed to be given to those who had made a significant contribution to children’s literature. Mr Sharma said there was also a proposal to rationalise the cash awards as there was a lot of difference between Rs 1 lakh for the Sur Puraskar and Rs 15,000 for the Bal Mukund Puraskar. He said while retaining Rs 1 lakh for the Sur Puraskar, the amount for the other awards should be raised to Rs 50,000 and Rs 25,000. |
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Truck mechanic murdered
Yamunanagar, July 13 Accused, Santokh Singh allegedly attacked Ram Narayan with a screw-driver and a rod. Ram Narayan was rushed to a private hospital but he could not be saved. As per police sources, Ram Narayan owed Rs 500-Rs 700 to Santokh Singh. Last evening Santokh Singh came to him to collect the money. A dispute arose and Santokh Singh allegedly killed him. Ram Narayan, a resident of Nalagarh, Himachal Pradesh was father of three children, all below five years. A case under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered. |
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Four held for kidnapping, raping girl
Sonepat, July 13 According to police sources, the arrested persons were identified as Luxman and Suraj Narain of Bihar, Roshni Devi and Saroj residents of Sidharth Colony on Dewru road. A case under Sections 376, 363, 366, 363-A, 170 and 506 of the IPC has been registered. The arrested women had posed themselves as police constables of the mahila police station, Sonepat and taken away the girl with them on the pretext that she would be questioned at the police station. The girl was illegally kept in a room where she was repeatedly raped by Luxman. |
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Dera head ‘faces threat’
Kaithal, July 13 The caller allegedly asked Mahant to deliver Rs 4 lakh to Santosh Kumari at Shukar Tal in Muzzafar Nagar (UP) and if he failed he will be eliminated and Santosh will be appointed as ‘Dera’ head. According to reports Swami though under threats refused to accept the demand of the extortionist. He also informed that Santosh used to live in this ‘Dera’ but she was forced to leave Ashram some time back due to her undesirable behaviour and activities. When contacted S.P. M.S. Sheoran said that matter would be investigated. |
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Youth electrocuted
Jhajjar, July 13 |
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Farmer crushed under train
Panipat, July 13 He fell on the track accidentally. His body was reportedly not removed from the track for several hours. |
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Boy drowns in tank
Bhiwani, July 13
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Ambala, July 13 A team of state Vigilance Bureau alongwith
Haryana Roadways officials impounded the buses. The buses were plying from
Ambala to Punjab.
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