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Power theft of Rs 14.25 lakh detected
Gangster killed in encounter
Dalit office-bearer levels charges against ZP chief
Arrest warrants against BKU activists
DC orders probe into ‘poisonous’ lime water case
15-year-old girl gang-raped
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Man poisons wife to death
Man dies under mysterious
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Pilgrim visits Amarnath shrine 25 times in row
Municipal Council secy suspended
Infant’s body found
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Power theft of Rs 14.25 lakh detected
Hisar, July 14 According to official sources, direct supply was being taken by bypassing the electricity meters in a majority of cases. On the other hand, some flourmill owners were found using magnets or X-ray films to stop the meter discs. In one of the raids, direct power supply was detected at Kishan Pipe Factory in Jhojhu Kalan village in Bhiwani district. A fine of Rs 4.20 lakh was imposed on the factory owner. Irregularities were also detected at a few flourmills at Jamalpur village in Tohana, and their owners were fined to several lakh rupees. The vigilance team had some doubt about the power connection of Chawla Sweet Shop and Narula Nursing Home in Sirsa. Electricity meters of both premises have been sent for laboratory examination. A fine of Rs 24,000 has been imposed on Bimal Singh, a domestic consumer of Sirsa, the meter seals at whose premises was found to be tampered with. Meanwhile, the Electricity Bills Arrears Waiver Scheme launched by the Haryana Government has evoked a good response, with more than 2,60,000 defaulters in the state having paid their power bills till date. According to the sources, the maximum number of defaulters were in Bhiwani, Jind, Rohtak and Sonepat districts and Hansi sub-division of Hisar district. After the scheme came into effect on June 17, a large number of consumers who had not being paying bills earlier paid the current bills to avail the benefit under the scheme. On July 12, a record number of 12,660 consumers paid their bills under the DHBVN operation circle, a record in itself. |
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Gangster killed in encounter
Rewari, July 14 Vinod Sharma, a resident of Mithathal village, under the Bhiwani Sadar police station, carried a prize of Rs 50,000 on his head. He was involved in 50 cases of murder, dacoity, snatching and other crimes. Umesh Yadav of Jahidpur village of Kosli subdivision of Rewari district, who carried a prize of Rs 25,000 on his head, had been booked for various cases of loot and robbery. Constable Vijay Singh suffered a bullet injury in the encounter while several other policemen and villagers sustained injuries while overpowering Vinod Sharma. Vinod Sharma, who had sustained injuries, was admitted to the Civil Hospital here. Ms Deepa Mehta, Inspector-General of Police, Gurgaon Range, said Vinod Sharma topped the list of most wanted criminals in Haryana. She said Vinod Sharma and his three accomplices, who were in a stolen Scorpio vehicle (DL 5C B6859), had a brief encounter with the Bhiwani district police at the police outpost at Adampur Dadi, near Charkhi Dadri, yesterday in the afternoon. However, the gangsters escaped with Vinod Sharma, who was driving the vehicle, having a bullet injury in his leg. One of the wheels of the Scorpio got punctured in the firing. The gangsters reached Bahu Jholri village, about 20 km from Kosli, where two of them got down the vehicle while Vinod Sharma and Umesh Yadav drove to Juddi village via Nahar. They abandoned the vehicle in the village and reached Bhurthal village on foot where they reportedly spent the night at the tubewell in a field. Meanwhile, the police forces of Rewari, Mahendergarh, Jhajjar and Bhiwani districts launched a combing operation in search of the gangsters in the Nahar forest, but to no avail. Vinod Sharma and Umesh Yadav boarded a Kosli-Rewari bus, near Nangal Pathani village, this morning. They were spotted by constable Vijay Singh who was coming from Kosli to Rewari in the same bus. He made the bus driver to halt it at Berli Kalan village where both gangsters were dragged out of the bus by the police personnel manning the outpost there. Umesh Yadav fired at the police from his Italian-made pistol. In the retaliatory fire by constable Rajesh Kumar his was killed. Then the police personnel, with the assistance of the villagers, overpowered Vinod Sharma. |
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Dalit office-bearer levels charges against ZP chief
Fatehabad, July 14 Ms Gill alleged today that the Chairman did not allow her to sit on the chair reserved for the vice-chairperson and made her sit at a distance. Ms Gill alleged that the Chairman, who comes from the Jat community, treated her shabbily and always ridiculed her for her caste and gender. He did not allow her to use the office telephone for talking to government officers concerned, she said. Mr Balli, however, described the allegations as baseless. He said he had only prevented the vice-chairperson from using the office telephone for her personal purposes. He said he had objected to the undue interference of Ms Gill’s husband in the day-to-day affairs of the parishad. |
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Arrest warrants against BKU activists
Kaithal, July 14 It is learnt that the BKU leaders were to appear in the court on Tuesday in connection with a case registered against them by the previous government but they failed to turn up following which the court issued warrants of arrest. The court has reportedly fixed August 19 as the next date of hearing in this case. According to information, the present state government had taken a decision to withdraw cases, including those cases registered on the charge of treason, against farmers, who were booked during the tenure of previous government headed by Mr Om Parkash Chautala but no follow-up action had been taken to implement the decision. |
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DC orders probe into ‘poisonous’ lime water case
Ambala, July 14 The doctors collected samples of water, salt and lemon which were used for preparing lime water yesterday. Gurjant, a factory worker, had died while five others were taken ill after consuming the lime water yesterday. The factory workers had plucked lemon from a nearbyfield and had prepared the lime water. The factory workers, who were taken ill, were referred from Civil Hospital, Ambala Cantt to PGI, Chandigarh. Four of them have been discharged while one factory worker is still being under treatment. A team member said the possibility of
`salt’ being responsible for the incident cannot be ruled out. He opined that the factory workers had put salt in two small plastic bottles in which perhaps some other chemical had been kept. “The factory workers said that they have been using the salt without any problem. However, we noticed that the salt was wet which means that the chemical residue could have mixed with the salt,” he said. He said the different samples alongwith the viscera of the deceased would be sent forwarded for further tests. |
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15-year-old girl gang-raped
Kurukshetra, July 14 The girl was raped by four persons of her village — Angrej Singh, Mastan Singh and two others —when she was going to the fields to answer nature’s call. She narrated the incident to her parents, who brought the matter to the notice of Superintendent of Police Sat Prakash Ranga. The SP ordered the SHO of the police station concerned to lodge the complaint after medical examination and recording the statement of the victim. The medical examination of the girl was conducted at the local Civil Hospital. |
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Man poisons wife to death
Kurukshetra, July 14 After recovering the body of the woman, the police has registered a case under Section 302 of the IPC against the accused. Radhey Shyam, father of the victim, who lodged a complaint, revealed that her daughter was married to Roop Chand 18 years back, but the couple had never enjoyed cordial relations during the period. He alleged that his son-in-law was a drunkard and used to beat up his daughter every now and then. On few occasions, panchayat was also called in to solve the dispute but in vain. He also alleged that the accused and his family harassed his daughter for not bringing enough dowry. The body was handed over to her family after the post-mortem examination. Her viscera has been sent to the state forensic laboratory for chemical examination. No arrest has been made so far. |
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Man dies under mysterious
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Karnal, July 14 The police today recovered the body and sent it to the Civil Hospital here for a post-mortem examination. Inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC had been initiated into the incident by the local police. |
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Pilgrim visits Amarnath shrine 25 times in row
Ambala, July 14
He observed that due to lack of cleanliness, garbage keeps on piling up on the yatra route which spoils the natural beauty of the surroundings.
Mr Sharma said he first undertook the yatra in 1981. “Since then, I have gone on the Amarnath yatra for the past 25 years without any break. Every time I embark on the yatra, I feel inner peace,” he said.
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Municipal Council secy suspended
Karnal, July 14 It had been alleged that Mr Rameshwar Das, secretary of the Taraori MC, had failed to perform his duty by not informing the councillors about the election of the president of the MC well in advance by at least 48 hours as per the existing rules. His alleged negligence led to a chaotic situation at the time of election. |
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Infant’s body found
Karnal, July 14 As per the details available, Subash Gaba, a resident of Taraori, saw the body floating in the pond when he was going to his fields. He immediately informed the local police. The police had initiated inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC. |
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