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Robbers kill businessman in Salem Tabri
Ludhiana, August 25
The victim, Chaman Lal Malhotra, who ran a suitcase shop on Old Court road, was
stabbed in the stomach. He died on the spot. His two sons, Ganpat Rai and Jatinder Kumar, also received minor injuries. They were admitted to
Dayanand Medical College and Hospital. According to his son, Jatinder Kumar (22), the unidentified persons had struck at their house between 2 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. with the motive of robbery after scaling the wall of the house. They had allegedly asked the sons for money. When they refused to give them money, the alleged robbers attacked them with a sharp edged weapon. Their father too jumped into the brawl and he was stabbed in his stomach. The police has registered a case under Section 302, IPC, against unidentified persons. The body of Chaman Lal was sent for post mortem. The deceased used to live with his wife and two sons in Aman Nagar. His two daughters were married in Ludhiana and Chandigarh respectively. The police said that it would start investigating the matter after Chaman Lal’s cremation. SP Kuldip Singh said that according to the complainant, the alleged robbers were clean-shaven and were between 18 to 20 years of age. They were speaking to each other in Punjabi. While the three robbers were fighting with father and sons on the first floor of the house, the fourth one was guarding the house at the gate. All of them fled after Chaman Lal collapsed. They did not take anything from the house. Meanwhile Mr Gurpreet Singh Toor, Superintendent of Police, said that the police was investigating the matter as per the version of the complainant. But there were certain questions which were unanswered after the examination of the crime scene. He added that the dog squad, which was pressed into service, was not able to gather anything, as there were no marks of footsteps in and around the house. This was suggestive that there was a possibility that nobody had come to the house at all. “But it too early to say anything. Thorough investigations would only reveal the exact story.” he added.
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Blast in house due to LPG ‘leakage’
Ludhiana, August 25 The incident took place in the house of Mr Surinder Arora, a VCD dealer at CMC chowk, when his wife switched on a light in the kitchen in the morning. A loud blast followed and a common wall of their kitchen, bedroom and drawing room on the first-floor collapsed and fell on the roof of their neighbours. Nobody was injured in the incident. Mr Arora and his two children were sleeping in the bedroom, whose wall was affected. The impact of the blast was so much that the windowpanes of many houses in the street were broken. “My wife woke up at 5 am and went to the kitchen. She switched on a light and a blast waked us up. Maybe LPG gas had leaked in the kitchen and switching on a light caused sparking and the blast took place. The house could have caught fire also. But we are saved,” said Mr Arora. His neighbours said the blast was so powerful that they were shaken out of sleep. Earlier, they thought that there was a bomb blast and started running away from the residential area. Later, they found out that it was due to gas leakage.
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Roadways staff stop private buses
Ludhiana, August 25 The Roadways employees alleged that most of the private bus operators were running buses more than the route permits they possessed. They alleged that this was being done in connivance with some officials of various departments. They said only when the government ensured that un-authorised buses were not run on the routes, the Punjab Roadways would not go into losses. The employees said they had been requesting the authorities to ensure that unauthorised buses did not ply without a valid route permit. They claimed to have “impounded” several such buses, which were being run without valid route permits. On the other hand, some of the private bus operators alleged that the Roadways employees picked up wrong targets. They claimed that buses owned by some transport companies from Chandigarh and Haryana were plying on unauthorised routes. This not only caused losses to the Punjab Roadways, but also to the private bus operators. The bus operators said they were themselves annoyed with the plying of unauthorised buses.
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Act against tipsy Patwari,
says SDM
Mandi Ahmedgarh, August 25 Dr Indu, SDM, said she had forwarded a report to Mr Hussan Lal, Deputy Commissioner, Sangrur, demanding disciplinary action against Mr Biker Singh, Patwari, posted at Kanganwal village. She had received the report from Mr Mukesh Kumar Sharma, Joint-Sub-Registrar at local revenue office. Mr Sharma had been receiving complaints form farmers and the civic body of the village that the revenue employee had been harassing them by ignoring their day to day jobs. They had complained that the Patwari was a drunkard and used to consume liquor while on duty. On receiving information, Mr Sharma raided the office of the Patwari today and found him drunk. The medical examination of the employee was got done at a local Civil Hospital. The doctors examining him declared that he was drunk. Seeking a disciplinary action against him, Mr Sharma sent his report to the SDM, Malerkotla, who forwarded the same to the Deputy Commissioner, Sangrur, for necessary action.
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5 held for kidnapping youth
Ludhiana, August 25 The city police arrested five of the 10 accused persons, who allegedly kidnapped youth Amritpal from Punjab Mata Nagar on Tuesday night. The police got Amritpal released on Wednesday morning. He was admitted to a local hospital. DSP R. K. Bakshi told Ludhiana Tribune that the five arrested persons had been identified as Johnson, Anthony, Ashok, Vinod and Mandeep. The five absconding accused are Albert, Joy, Pappu, Mainsh and Vikas. They allegedly kidnapped Amritpal on Tuesday night from near a liquor shop.
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PSEB ordered not to impose cuts
Jagraon, August 25
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Passing Thru
What scope does surgical correction have for epileptic patients?
About 70 to 80 per cent of epilepsy patients respond to medicinal treatment while the rest fall under intractable epilepsy who need surgery. The surgical treatment involves specialised equipment like MRI and video EEG, along with coordination of an epileptologist, neurosurgeon, neuroradiologist and neuropsychologist. Is the surgical procedure for epilepsy standardised and easily available? Though the procedure is straight forward and simple for a skilled neurosurgeon yet the medical fraternity had not been able to widely practice the same for several other factors involved. Presently, the facility is available only at places like Trivandrum, Bangalore and New Delhi. What is the risk factor and expenditure on epileptic surgery? The surgical procedure is relatively safe, although some element of risk is there and sideeffects involved as everything is related to brain. The preliminary tests will cost around Rs 15,000 and the cost of surgery will be anything between Rs 40,000 and
50,000. — Kuldip Bhatia
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Residents protest against lack of civic amenities
Ludhiana, August 25 Led by Mr Pran Nath Bhatia, patron, and Mr Arvind Sharma, Press Secretary of the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar Residents Welfare Association, the residents raised slogans against the LIT. They sat there for more than two hours till a trustee, Mr S.P.S. Bindra, reached the spot and pacified them. They handed over a copy of memorandum to him, who promised that their grievances would be redressed soon. Mr Sharma said they had already communicated to the LIT authorities that their delegation would meet the Chairman today but he had left for Chandigarh without even informing them. He added that he called up when they were staging a dharna that he was away. None of the senior officials were present in the office as all of them were said to be away. The residents claimed that it was impossible for them to live in the vicinity of slum-dwellers, who indulged in anti-social activities and littered their colony and parks. They said the jhuggis had sprung up in the area six-seven years ago and following protest by them these were razed during the tenure of former trust Chairman M.M. Vyas. These came up again before the elections and some candidates got their names included in the voters list. Later, nobody was able to remove them. Mr Bhatia said more than 250 jhuggis had come up on an area of 475 acres belonging to the Improvement Trust. The jhuggi dwellers were creating problems for them by drawing power through “kundis”, thereby increasing the load on the power supply in the area. They reared pigs, which created nuisance by entering the green belts of the colony. Moreover, the jhuggi dwellers used the parks as urinals and open toilets. The residents threatened that if the LIT authorities did not redress their grievances, they would be forced to intensify their agitation. Mr Bhatia said it was the duty of the LIT to provide proper environment and amenities to the residents as the area was developed by it.
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IHRO seeks ‘sewa’ rights for women
Ludhiana, August 25 The outfit said the concept of human rights had included women only in theory. But in practice, abuses of women had been ignored, dismissed or generally gone unpunished just because the victims were female. Outfit chairperson D.S. Gill and secretary-general M.S. Grewal, said: “Abuses against women included gender violence-female infanticide, genital mutilation, sex trade, rape, neglect and abuse of girl children, wife murder and sexual assault — as well as denial of civil, cultural, religious, legal and economic equality with men.” Even the denial by the SGPC to allow rendering of “palki sewa”, kirtan and other devotional “sewa” to Sikh women was no different. And it is a serious violation of religious right of the Sikhs, if not a crime, as is in the case of above violations, they added. They said the IHRO had resolved to get restored in all aspects the Sikh tenet of equality and equal status of Sikh woman in all gurdwaras, including Darbar Sahib at Amritsar. They said they needed to put pressure on the SGPC and Akal Takht for the restoration of service for Sikh mothers, sisters and daughters. They have urge the SGPC to devise measures and review old rituals (out-dated practices) to restore the Sikh tenet of service for all without any gender discrimination so that the true spirit behind the Sikh faith could prevail.
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Preparation on for state-level function
Ludhiana, August 25 Deputy Commissioner Anurag Verma today presided over a meeting of district heads of all departments concerned at the venue — grain market yard — to finalise the arrangements and directed them to ensure foolproof arrangements relating to their department. He directed the PWD XEN to carry out minor repair work on roads leading to Payal. SSP Naunihal Singh said anticipating a huge gathering, the police had made elaborate security arrangements and earmarked sufficient parking space on all roads leading to Payal.
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Tributes paid to Kewal Krishan
Machhiwara, August 25 The dignitaries who attended the programme included Punjab Congress president Samsher Singh Dullon, president of the Anti-Terrorism Front Maninderjit Singh Bitta, senior Congress leader Manish Tiwari and SSP Khanna Naunihal Singh.
— OC
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Two booked for assault
Jagraon, August 25 The injured has been admitted to the hospital. The Raikot police has registered a case under Sections 452, 323, 324, 506, 34, IPC. No arrest has been made so far. Illicit liquor seized The Sidhwanbet police has arrested Jil Singh of Madepur from the area of Galib Khurd and seized illicit liquor. A case under Sections 61, 1 and 14 of Excise Act has been registered.
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