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Man, aunt found dead
Flying squad team in schools
Gang of chain snatchers busted
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Sculptor and painter Shiv Singh
Forum asks insurance company to pay claim
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Man, aunt found dead
Jalandhar, March 21 The victims, Ravi and Sunanda, along with some other members of their family, used to work as goldsmiths in the city and were natives of Maharashtra. Ravi’s wife, Jyoti, said she was the first to discover the bodies when she returned from the market at 11:30 am. Jyoti raised an alarm and called the neighbours. Then came Kalidas, Ravi’s uncle and Sunanda’s husband. Later the police was informed. According to Kalidas, Ravi had left for his home from the ornament workshop to get food. Kalidas said Ravi had come to Jalandhar when he was merely seven and had started living with him and Sunanda. Later, Ravi joined Kalidas as a goldsmith in the workshop. Ravi’s had got married to Jyoti six months back and the two families continued living under the same roof, Kalidas added. The SHO of Division Number 3, Mr Bhupinder Singh, said that the victims were already dead when Jyoti returned to the house. A case has been registered under Section 174 of the IPC. The bodies have been sent for postmortem. |
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Flying squad team in schools
Phagwara, March 21 According to sources, a flying squad team headed by Assistant DPI, Punjab School Education Board (PSEB), Mr S.S. Gill, had conducted inspection of various schools in Phagwara, including the Government Senior Secondary School for Boys on the Old Post Office Road. During the inspection, a student was caught red-handed while he was using a mobile phone. A written complaint had been sent to the PSEB authorities in that regard, said the Assistant DPI. It was also learnt that the supervisor at the said school had been relieved of his duties. When The Tribune team visited the said school, ‘paper slips’ could be seen scattered outside the school. Copying was rampant at other centres also, alleged the students. Meanwhile, a school teacher, who was on duty as an examiner in Plus Two Physical Education examination conducted at a school in the nearby Palahi village on Monday, was reportedly manhandled by a student when the said teacher stopped him from copying. Later, the student tendered an apology to the teacher. This was the second incident of alleged manhandling of a school teacher by a student within a span of three days. Earlier on Saturday, a teacher on examination duty at a government school had been allegedly manhandled by a relative of a student. A complaint in this regard was lodged with the City police station. Later, a compromise was reached between the teacher and the student, and the latter was let off by the police when he admitted to his “mistake”. |
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Gang of chain snatchers busted
Jalandhar, March 21 He said the police was on the lookout for the other members of the gang, who used to snatch chains riding on stolen two-wheelers. The accused, he said, used to put fake number plates on their vehicles, and after committing the crime, they used to park the vehicles at a scooter stand. In another case, the Nurmahal police recovered two sacks of poppy husk from the residence of one Bhupinder, alias Bhogi, in Lakhanpal village. |
‘Art transcends boundaries’
Jalandhar, March 21 “Art may not be an exact replica of reality that confronts you, but you cannot escape your perceptions. Visual art has a visual vocabulary,” he explains. Most of his sculptures take their shape from his visual perceptions. Interestingly, he says, he does not work with any preconceived notions. “A visual imprint just stays with you, and automatically expresses itself in your art.” He believes that artists are made, not born. “Art is about transcending boundaries. Boundaries scotch creativity,” says this Hoshiarpur-born artist. From 1963 to 1968, he taught at Sainik School, Kapurthala. At that time, he was offered a scholarship for advanced studies and research in art for three years in Germany. A great admirer of flamboyant artist Amrita Shergill, he feels that art teachers today are blocking creative expressions of youngsters. “The art teachers are more into conditioning the youngsters to respond to art in a conventional manner,” he adds. His 65 one-man shows in India, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland and the United Kingdom have been critics’ delight. |
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Forum asks insurance company to pay claim
Jalandhar, March 21 The case was decided in favour of the resident, as the insurance company failed to produce an affidavit that the driving licence was fake and the owner of the car knew about it. The president of the forum, Mr M.M. Bhalla, gave the judgment relying on observations from a similar case reported last year in the National Commission, wherein the claim of the complainant was not repudiated owing to lack of such an affidavit. The complainant, Mr R.K. Anand, had said he was the owner of Maruti Omni 800cc bearing registration number PB-08-AJ-6020, insured with a company from October 25, 2003 to October 24, 2004. He had claimed that the vehicle was insured for value for the sum of Rs 1.91 lakh and premium thereon was duly paid by him. He had further claimed that the vehicle had met with an accident on November 5, 2003, at Ganaur near Panipat. He had also claimed that his car was being driven by Mr Chtkhan Chouhan, whom he had employed as a driver since June 2003 after verifying his driving licence (number 387) issued on September 25, 1998, by Khadoor Sahib Transport Authority, Amritsar. According to Mr Anand, he had visited the branch of the insurance company at Rajpura, submitting details of the accident in writing and had asked them to depute a surveyor for assessing the damage. He claimed that he had submitted a bill for Rs 26,253 for re-imbursement on December 3, 2003. He had added that on January 29, 2004, he received a letter from the company stating that the driving licence of his driver had been found to be fake. He had claimed that he visited the office of the company three times, but was refused reimbursement of the claim. The company officials, however, had claimed that they had got the licence of the driver checked from the licencing authority at Khadoor Sahib and found that his name was not present in the records. The car owner, however, had replied that he was bound to see that the driver was holding a licence and not liable to make any inquiry about the genuineness of his licence. The forum decided the case in favour of the resident, as the company’s officials had failed to prove that the driving licence was fake to the knowledge of the car owner. It asked the company to make the payment against the bill of Rs 26,253 with 8 per cent interest from December 3, 2003 — the date of the claim. It also directed the company to pay Rs 2000 as cost of litigation. |
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