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Honour killing: Family behind woman’s murder
Tiff brews over removal of foundation stones
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Environmentalists flay axing of trees along GT Road
NRI Sabha polls on February 3
City students narrowly miss NASA landing
Wadala opposes delimitation
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Door-to-door polio drive ends
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Honour killing: Family behind woman’s murder
Kapurthala, January 17 Enraged over Kamaljit Kaur’s alleged illicit relationship with two persons, the family brutally killed her, said the police. After committing the crime, the family, residing in Begowal village here, told the villagers that the woman had gone to the UK to meet her father, the police added. With the arrests, the local police claimed to have solved the mystery behind the sudden disappearance of Kamaljit Kaur. Disclosing the details of the blind murder case, the Kapurthala SSP, Mr Rajiv Ahir, revealed that Kamaljit Kaur had allegedly developed illicit relations with one Sukhjinder Singh. When Sukhjinder went abroad, she later developed relations with another youth, Happy, from the village, he added. On July 26, 2003, Sukhpreet Singh, the woman’s brother, reportedly saw his sister in an objectionable position with Happy at their house. On the same night, when Kamaljit Kaur was asleep, Sukhpreet Singh allegedly strangulated her in the presence of his mother Surinder Kaur and his sister, Sharanjit. Thereafter, he informed his father, Sardul Singh, settled in the UK about the murder. After allegedly committing the murder, Sukhpreet, with the help of his friend, Manjit Singh, put the body of his sister in a car and dumped it on the banks of a canal near Dasuya. To hide the murder, the family members told the villagers that Kamaljit Kaur had gone over to England to meet her father and even prepared a fake photograph that showed her sitting with her father in the UK. Three days later, the police recovered the body in a decomposed state on the banks of canal. The police has registered a case under Section 302, 201 and 120 B of the IPC against the four accused. The case, lying dormant for sometime, was solved after the higher police authorities last week ordered the reopening the missing cases registered in the region. |
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Tiff brews over removal of foundation stones
Kapurthala, January 17 While one foundation stone was reportedly removed from Gurdwara Shaheedan in Surkhan village today, two stones were uprooted in Government Senior Secondary School, Ibrahimwal village, a few days ago. Mr Khaira said that if the police did not take nay action in this regard by tomorrow, he would start removing the stones laid down by Akalis in the township. He added that the two stones in the school had been laid after he had donated a grant of Rs 1 lakh that he had obtained from the funds as Rajya Sabha MP and former Chief Election Commissioner, Mr M.S. Gill. He said one of the stones that had been removed from the school had Mr Gill’s name too. The tussle reportedly started when the members of the Rural Development Committee decided to hold a function for the inauguration of newly-constructed rooms. Mr Vinay, a member of the committee, said that two sets of rooms – one constructed with the grant from the Committee and the MP, and the other by Sarb Sikhya Abhiyan – were to be inaugurated by Mr Khaira on January 8. The function, he said, somehow got postponed and an Akali sarpanch from the village had the stones removed on January 12, he added. Mr Khaira also alleged that Rana Gurjit Singh, the Congress MP from Jalandhar, was “supporting the Akali workers in the area.” He said he had reported the matter to the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Sameer Kumar. “I shall also complain about the interference of Rana Gurjit Singh with the Chief Minister.” Meanwhile, DSP, Bholath, Mr Amrik Singh, said the case pertaining to the removal of stones from the school would be registered.
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Environmentalists flay axing of trees along GT Road
Phagwara, January 17 The flyover, going to be raised at the cost of the green cover along the GT Road near Mehtan village, is supposed to link the Mehtan-Mehli Phagwara bypass. “The trees should not have been felled, and if the process was unavoidable, then a minimum of trees should have been axed,” Dr Chosar said. He demanded that an equal number of trees, if not more, be planted immediately before or after the work of the flyover was completed. “The greenery along the GT Road must be maintained.” Nearly 50 trees, mostly eucalyptus, were felled yesterday near Mehtan village for clearing the area for the foundation stone laying ceremony of the flyover that would be attended by the Union Minister, Mr T.R. Balu, on January 19. It was learnt that over four hundred trees, mostly eucalyptus, sheesham and a few others, would face the axe in the coming days. The process is going to denude the left side of the National Highway No. 1 on Phagwara-Jalandar side that presently has dense groves. A few trees would also be felled on the opposite side of the GT Road. However, the authorities involved in the felling of the trees for the project said to had got a permission for this from the Forest Department. The felling of trees seemed to have given more voice to the environmentalists. They also raised the issue of the land mafia “aggravating the environmental crisis” and added that the administration had chosen to ignore their “illegal” activities. They alleged that along the Mehtan-Mehli bypass, saplings too were being crushed by private colonisers under the tractor trollies and trucks loaded with construction material. “Norms are being flouted and structures are coming up within 100 feet of the bypass.” Environmentalists said the administration had announced a many times that the 9-km long stretch of the bypass would be covered with trees, “but nothing has been done in this regard so far.” They said that no saplings were planted along the Phagwara-Palahi link road “as was declared by the authorities.” Meanwhile, no official version was available to the points raised by the environmentalists.
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NRI Sabha polls on February 3
Jalandhar, January 17 Though no communication in this regard has been dispatched to the Sabha here, Mr N.S. Kalsi, the NRI Commissioner, confirmed this during a telephonic conversation here today. The announcement has brought cheers to hundreds of NRIs settled across the world as elections for the post of President had been due for the last two years. The Sabha members had been demanding that elections be held soon. They had also been ruing that the administration and politicians had been trying to take over the NGO. The NRIs also resented the acceptance of the resignation of Mr K.K. Sharma as Managing Director of NRI Sabha and subsequent appointment of Mr Ajoy Sharma, ADC (Development), as its Executive Director by Mr Kalsi, NRI Commissioner-cum-Chairman of the Sabha. Now, with the announcement of the date of the elections, the Sabha members expressed happiness. They said the right of the nominees of the NRIs to exercise the franchise on their behalf had been restored. However, many ex-NRIs, including Mr Pritam Singh Narangpuri, a member of the Sabha, resented for being disqualified for contesting for the post as the NRI Commissioner had allowed only NRIs to file their nominations. |
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City students narrowly miss NASA landing
Jalandhar, January 17 The team of 11 students from Apeejay School and one student from Army Public School here could only come second in the Asia-level Space Settlement Design Competition organised by American Institute of Aeronautics, missing their chance to participate in the final event that is scheduled to be held at NASA in Florida (US). Eight teams had been part of the contest organised in Chandigarh. Yesterday, Ankur Mahajan, Ankit Singhal, Saurabh Chopra, Arvinder Singh, Hardeep Singh, Anroop Singh, Rohan Sardana, Mohit Thukral, Aseem Handa, Kanika Puri, and Harleen Kaur from Apeejay School, and Sandeep Aggarwal from Army Public School returned from City Beautiful with a trophy but not with tickets to the astronomers’ haven. The students today gave a multimedia presentation of their project—“Space settlement in a satellite in the orbit of Mars.” It was a cylindrical satellite with an area of 4-lakh sq metre and the capacity to house 14,400 persons. The project had provisions for radiation protection, temperature control, sustainability and availability of materials for habitation and was equipped to generate its own water cycle. The students said they also presented their concept of bio-suit to the panel of judges at the competition. They added that they also faced a volley of questions from the jury and other contestants after the presentation. Sandeep Aggarwal, a participant, said there was another round in which each team was asked to give a 35-minute presentation on their topic but with specific details. “We were given 23 hours to prepare and we worked for 20 hours without a break to come up with a new presentation.” Mohit Thukral, another team member, said they were also asked to come up with a 50-page report on the topic within the same time period. A team from Apeejay School had recently stood first in a national-level competition on “Latest technologies on landing on moon” organised by Aeronautical Society of India.
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Wadala opposes delimitation
proposal
Jalandhar, January 17 Asserting that the matter was “very serious,” as the proposed delimitation would take away the constitutional rights of some sections to get elected to the Parliament for the next 25 years, Mr Wadala, urged the Chairman of the National Delimitation Commission to hammer out a widely-accepted solution to the problem. Addressing a press conference here today, Mr Wadala, who was accompanied by Akali leaders, including Mr Kuldip Singh, Mr Ranjit Singh Kahlon, Mr Gurmit Singh, Mr Jaswant Singh, Mr Dalbir Singh Mahl and Mr Sucha Singh Johl, said the proposed delimitation criteria was not justified as the seats, which were reserved for the past 25 to 30 years, were going to be reserved once again. “The result would be that the general category would continue to come under reserved seats for another 25 years or more. “Their right to getting elected is going to be taken away and they have no chance to go to any other general category constituency as people from that constituency will not allow them to contest. Similarly, and vice-versa, the SCs in those constituencies, where their population is low, shall remain in general seats for a long time,” he said. |
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Door-to-door polio drive ends
Phagwara, January 17 Around 31,000 children were given polio drops in Phagwara Block during this drive, Dr Yash Mitra, SMO, Civil Hospital, Phagwara, said. The WHO Observer for Punjab, Dr Y.C. Dolima, also oversaw the concluding day’s programme of the door-to-door drive in both urban and rural areas here. |
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Three get life term
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