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Haryana DGP focuses on women
Urban renewal mission to be launched soon
Family pressure main cause of female foeticide: survey
No-trust plea against MC chief falls flat
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High Court
Victoria Cross winner dead
‘Tainted’ SI claims innocence
Dharna to seek quota for women
Authorities gear up to tackle encephalitis
2 booked for kidnapping minor girl
2 IPS officers shifted
251 students get degrees
Ex-minister Shivram Verma dead
Award for Principal
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Haryana DGP focuses on women cells’ corruption
Panchkula, November 21 The move has been initiated following large-scale complaints of corruption by women cops in 19 districts (barring Mewat, which does not have a CAW cell). The DGP also ordered that the CAW cells in all district headquarters be shifted to the offices of Superintendents of Police... “because CAW cells are functioning as interrogation centres like CIA Staff, rather than counselling centres. The CAW cells have become dens of corruption,” he informed TNS, while ordering the transfer of all incharge of cells. Conceding that corruption within the force and its politicisation is the biggest challenge before him, Mr Nirmal Singh says that he is not doing anything extra- ordinary, rather streamlining the force with the established system. From walking to a police station in Ambala to offer bribe to a Station House Officer, to stopping a commuter violating traffic regulations, and giving a lecture on traffic rules - he is the first head of state police to make efforts to reach out to the public and win them over. “My approach is to tell people that the police is the government- in- action- willing to help them in case of difficulty, and also tutor them to help us serve the masses better,” he says. In fact, his crusade against corruption within the police has invited wide appreciation, and people from all over Haryana flock to his office for redressal of complaints. Gone are the days when the top police chief was inapproachable to even his own men within the force, Mr Nirmal Singh has issued instructions that his mobile number be given to anyone who asks for it. His office, too, does not have any of the paraphernalia like metal detectors and other frisking gadgets, which he views “as a deterrent for a simple villager, who comes to meet me.” But it is not that he is only taking on the force. He is also undertaking a massive exercise to instill confidence within the force, by holding regular meetings and field visits. “We have to give the cops margins for being rude or insensitive... because they work under the most stressful conditions — without getting any weekly off, staying away from their families, and in shanty rooms in rundown police station buildings,” he says. He was sidelined by the previous Chautala government, when he was posted as ADGP/ DGP OSD Rules, without work for six years. He then took legal recourse and recently won a long legal battle. His views on the issue are pasted on the Haryana Police website — “Putting up with injustice would have meant encouraging the perpetrators of injustice... often at the risk of being described as impulsive and rash.” |
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Urban renewal mission to be launched soon
Fatehabad, November 21 The minister was talking to mediapersons at the residence of the Congress leader, Mr Arvind Sharma. Mr Atma Singh Gill, an MP and Mr Paramveer and Mr Dura Ram, both MLAs were present on this occasion. Ms Selja said the Urban Renewal Mission was a reform-based programme and was an ambitious programme of the ministry. She said launching of the programme was delayed because the model code of conduct was in force due to the Bihar Assembly elections and it would now be launched any day after the declaration of Bihar results. She said 60 big cities of the country, including Faridabad in Haryana would be covered under the programme, in the first phase. She said the mission would have two sub missions. The first sub mission would be for the infrastructure development in cities and the second sub mission would be for development activities in slum areas including providing potable water, healthcare facilities and education facilities in these areas. The mission, she added, had been prepared for the next seven years while 60 big cities would be taken up in the first phase, medium and small towns would be taken up in the second phase. The minister said the implementation of the Urban Renewal Mission would be tripartite in which the Union Government, the state government and local bodies would be associated. She said even NGOs, community-based organisations and ward committees would be associated with the implementation. Replying a question on the impact of the Volker Committee report on the Congress, Ms Selja said the Congress President, Ms Sonia Gandhi, had made her stand amply clear that the party believed in transparent probe and the party would not save anyone, who was found involved in the murky deals. She said it was only this reason that the government had ordered a probe by retired judges. She termed the results of the exit polls on the Bihar Assembly elections as untrustworthy and said even during the parliamentary polls the exit polls were proved wrong. She exuded confidence that the UPA would form the next government in Bihar after the declaration of results. On the Women Reservation Bill, Ms Selja said, her party was committed to the Bill and added that the Bill could be placed before the House in some form or the other in the next session of Parliament. She hoped that other political parties would also show the same commitment to the Bill. Ms Selja refused to be dragged in to the Hooda-Kuldeep Bishnoi controversy on the law and order situation in the state and said she had not been able to read newspapers for the past few days and she had not read those statements. She said she did not want to make any comments on the controversy. She, however, said the law and order in the state had improved after the Congress Government had taken over. |
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Family pressure main cause of female foeticide: survey
Hisar, November 21 According to the survey, conducted by Nisha under the guidance of Dr Sandeep Rana of the department, as many as 85 per cent people contacted have maintained that family pressure was the main cause behind it. A majority of persons felt that more often than not, the parents or other family members exerted undue pressure on the couple to go in for abortion in case a female foetus was detected. Another significant finding of the survey was that a majority of girls, especially those belonging to the rural areas, were deprived from higher education due to their vulnerability and safety concerns. Most rural women approached for the survey asserted that marrying away highly educated girls became difficult for parents. Many of them even said, high education among girls, often led to post-marriage clashes. As many as 66 per cent respondents stated that a majority of girls and women were dependant on others. A considerable number of them said the increasing crime rate against women, especially rape cases, post-marital violence and exploitation at workplace were also responsible for female foeticides. The Director of Research, Dr Rana, said there was a dire need to spread awareness amongst the masses so that gender discrimination could be ended. He said the girls should be made self-dependant so that they were able to assert themselves. He said in a view of the skewed sex ratio in the region, it was high time the primitive mindset, that boys were required to continue genealogy or family tree was changed. Dr Rana also advocated the provision of reservation in jobs for women. |
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No-trust plea against MC chief falls flat
Ambala, November 21 The Deputy Commissioner, Mr J.P. Kaushik, in a communique to the councillors who moved the application, today pointed out that there was lack of consensus among the 12 councillors on moving a no-confidence motion. Hence, action could not be initiated in the matter and it had been “filed”. This has dealt a body blow to the aspirations of rebel Congress councillors who were hoping to remove Ms Neelam Sharma from the post. The letter from the Deputy Commissioner has been marked to councillors — Mr Omkar Nath, Dr Vikas Bhateja, Mr Roop Chand, Mr Sudhir Jaiswal, Ms Dimple Mittal, Ms Ajay Walia, Ms Nisha Goel, Ms Riya Ratra, Mr Kamal Kishore Jain, Ms Nisha Parmar, Mr Naveen Yadav and Mr Suresh Garg. The Deputy Commissioner has stated in the letter that the councillors had presented an application seeking a no-confidence motion against the Ambala Sadar MC president. He said of the 12 signatories to the application, nine had presented themselves while three had not. The letter states: “But on November 11, a fax message was received from Mr Naveen Yadav of ward No.31 stating that some persons had lied to him and got his signature appended to the application and he requested that the signature should not be considered since he was not in agreement with the move.” The Deputy Commissioner has stated in the letter that Mr Naveen Yadav had personally met him in this regard. The move to initiate a no-confidence motion against Ms Neelam Sharma had repeatedly hit the roadblock before the effort came to a final halt today. The rebel Congress councillors had come in for flak for trying to seek a no-confidence motion against their own president. Local Congress leaders had even termed it as an unheard of instance. The rebels had tried to cobble together a common platform with councillors from other parties. That too did not work out since the Vikas Parishad, led by a former Ambala Cantonment president, Mr Anil Vij, categorically stated that it would not support the move. |
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Vigilance Bureau asked to probe employees’ appointments
Our High Court Correspondent
Chandigarh, November 21 Disposing of the petition filed by Mr Dharamvir and 13 other persons, who had been appointed Class IV officers in various battalions of the Haryana Armed Police by the previous Om Prakash Chautala government but had been later shunted out by the present Congress government after it took over, the Bench directed that the SVB would also fix responsibility for lapses, if any, in the selection process. The SVB has been given six months' time to complete the inquiry. In their petition, Mr Dharamvir and others had stated that they had received their appointment letters on December 17, 2004, but after coming to power, the Congress government removed them from service on July 8. The government's claim in dismissing them was that they had been selected and appointed when the model code of conduct was in force. However, the petitioners claimed that they had been shunted out only because they had been appointed by the previous government. Cancellation of bail
Animal rights activist Naresh Kadyan has moved the High Court seeking cancellation of bail granted to Shashi Singh, Shahid Ahmed, Balwant Singh and Dayal Singh etc in the case relating to alleged poaching of black bucks. These persons, who along with former Indian cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi had been booked under the Wildlife Act following recovery of carcasses of a black buck and two rabbits from their vehicle on June 3 at Jhajjar, had been granted bail by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jhajjar. In his petition, Mr Kadyan has claimed that the CJM did not have any authority to give bail to them. He has said that only the Special Court at Faridabad could 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. After hearing the petitioner's counsel, Mr Justice K.S. Garewal issued notice of motion for December 7. No threat to life
A senior Haryana Police officer has informed the High Court that Mr Abhey Chautala, a former Haryana MLA and son of former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, did not face any threat to his life. In an affidavit submitted in the High Court, the SP-ranked officer has stated that the October 10 decision not to provide security cover to Mr Abhey Chautala was based on sound reasoning and intelligence reports. He has claimed that all security agencies, including the state police, the CID wing and the Intelligence Bureau, had made it clear that the petitioner did not face any risk to his life. Mr Abhey Chautala has moved the High Court seeking directions to the Haryana Government to provide security to him as he is facing threat to his life. He has also offered to pay for the security. His security cover had been withdrawn after the Congress assumed office in Haryana early this year. On Monday, the Division Bench of Mr Justice N.K. Sud and Mr Justice Virender Singh adjourned the matter to December 1. |
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Victoria Cross winner dead
He was reportedly the only living person holding the highest military honour for bravery conferred by the British Government to an Indian. The mortal remains of the former soldier of the Artillery Regiment of the British governed Indian Army, will be brought to his native village, Palra tomorrow where he will be cremated with full state and military honours tomorrow. A district administration spokesperson confirmed that Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and military and civil officials would attend the cremation ceremony. He was 85 and survived by two sons and a daughter. Umrao Singh fought against the Japanese Army as part of the British-led powers, in the World War II. He took the charge with his regiment in the Kalajan vally in Burma. He was conferred with the Victoria Cross in 1942 by the then Queen of England, Victoria, at the royal palace. Every year he was invited to the royal palace in England by the royal family. Talking to this correspondent, Mrs Indira Yadav, his daughter said he was admitted to the hospital yesterday following complications as he was not keeping well for some time. |
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Asha vows to fight female foeticide
Ambala, November 21 Ms Hooda and Ms Shakti Rani Sharma, wife of Haryana Excise and Taxation Minister Venod Sharma, were felicitated at a function organised by Mr Dilip Chawla in Ambala City. Later, Ms Hooda laid the foundation stone for Bhagwan Mahavir Chowk on Jagadhari Road in Ambala Cantt. She said the major reason for female foeticide was that there was a lack of awareness in society. She said owing to female foeticide, there was a large difference in sex ratio leading to social problems. She opined that if steps were not taken now, it could lead to a major problem. She said she would involve the women of Haryana in a mass movement against female foeticide. The mass movement would take place in urban and rural areas, Ms Hooda said, adding that special attention must be paid to education of the girl child as women empowerment could only be brought about through education. |
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‘Tainted’ SI claims innocence
Ambala, November 21 The SI was brought to the Civil Hospital, Ambala Cantonment, for a check-up today. He said he had worked under a number of police officers and that the complaint against him was false. He levelled serious charges against senior police officers and claimed that he had nothing to do with the case pertaining to the Nanhera chowki. Meanwhile, SI Suraj Bhan, posted at Ambala Cantonment police station, has been placed under suspension for allegedly accepting bribe. He is alleged to have accepted money from a former sarpanch for releasing three boys who were arrested by him in a mobile theft case. The three youths had snatched a mobile of a woman at Model Town in Ambala City while riding a motor cycle. The SI had nabbed the youths in Ambala Cantonment. It was alleged that he had let the youths off after accepting money.
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Dharna to seek quota for women
Fatehabad, November 21 Mr Krishan Swaroop, a member of the state secretariat of the CPM, Mr Ram Kumar and Mr Devi Lal, both members of the district secretariat of the CPM, Mr Rajesh Mahiya and Mr Ram Swaroop, both farmer leaders, Mr Joginder Singh, a trade union leader and a number of CPM activists participated in the dharna. A large numbers of women also participated in the dharna. Addressing party workers, Mr Krishan Swaroop said that the reservation bill was being delayed in the name of evolving unanimity and women were being denied their due. He said that no political party except the CPM was serious on the bill and that was the reason for the inordinate delay in the passing of the bill. He demanded that the government must place the bill before Parliament during its coming session due to start on November 23. Mr Ram Kumar, Mr Devi Lal, Ms Kranti and Ms Chameli also addressed the workers sitting on dharna. The party gave a memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister to the Deputy Commissioner for its demand. |
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Authorities gear up to tackle encephalitis
Panipat, November 21 The District Malaria Officer (DMO), Dr Anil Malik, said the health authorities were keeping a vigil to minimise the risk of encephalitis and dengue. He said special teams had been constituted to control the diseases. The authorities were regularly taking water samples to weed out the probability of spreading of the diseases. The DMO further informed that places touching Karnal and Uttar Pradesh had been declared high-alert zone areas, as there was possibility of spreading of diseases from these two spots. |
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2 booked for kidnapping minor girl
Karnal, November 21 According to a police spokesman, an FIR was lodged against Ranbir of Badarpur village and his brother-in-law Leelu of Baderi village in Yamunanagar district in this regard on the complaint of the victim of Class XI student. The complainant alleged that Ranbir took her to Hardwar after luring her. Following which, he forcibly kept her at Leelu’s house for several days. Somehow she managed to escape. The FIR was lodged under Sections 363, 366, 323, 506, 120-B and 34, IPC, against the accused at Indri police station. |
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2 IPS officers shifted
Chandigarh, November 21 An official spokesperson said Mr Navdeep Singh Virk, Superintendent of Police in the Chief Minister’s flying squad, would now be Superintendent of Police, Kaithal. Mr Sat Parkash, SP, Kaithal, has been posted as Assistant Inspector-General, Administration, Panchkula, against a vacant post. |
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251 students get degrees
Yamunanagar, November 21 The function was presided over by Dr Ram Parkash, working president, Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee. The Principal of the college, Dr Urmil Sharma, read out the annual report. Fifty meritorious students were also honoured. |
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Ex-minister Shivram Verma dead
Karnal, November 21 Mr Verma had won the assembly elections several times from Nilokheri and became minister in 1970 and 1982. |
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Award for Principal
Ambala, November 21 According to a press note of the school, Ms Virk was presented the award by Union Minister of State for Planning M.V. Rajshekharan.
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