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Doaba was Bheora’s sanctuary
Lightening the burden on students
New school principal
Two arrested in forgery case
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14-year-old dies after consuming celphos
CPM decries Centre’s privatisation drive
Nine Indians in Pak jails to be freed
Technical festival concludes
Drive to clean Kali Bein
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Doaba was Bheora’s sanctuary
Jalandhar/ Kapurthala, April 5 The three accused in the assassination of Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995, Paramjit Singh Bheora, Jagtar Singh Hawara and Jagtar Singh Tara, not only got financial help from the Hawala network spread in the region, but also used to stay at the residences of their accomplices here. Bheora and Hawara are in the police net again while Tara is still absconding. Sources in the police department claimed that a joint team of the Chandigarh Police and the Jalandhar Police is on the trail of the accomplices of the terrorists that might lead them to money exchange operators, through whom the accused used to get the money to lead comfortable lives in the region. The police has already raided several hideouts but has so far not announced any arrests, sources added. They said the fugitives used to get money via Hawala transactions executed through one Hardeep Singh, living in Jalandhar. Sources claimed the accused used to stay with Hardeep Singh who also supplied them with money. The money used to come from abroad and was reportedly collected by Hardeep Singh. Since Bheora’s arrest from New Delhi on March 20, Hardeep had gone underground, sources said. It was Bheora who gave the information about the illegal money transactions. The sources said Hardeep Singh, a resident of Purowal Jattan village in the Gurdaspur district, had been living in Jalandhar for the past few years and was part of the Hawala network set up by the Babbar Khalsa International terrorists in the region. The three fugitives stayed with Hardeep Singh after tunnelling their way out of the Burail Jail. Money was being supplied to them by their accomplices in foreign shores through the Hawala transactions. The SSP, Mr Ishwar Singh, when contacted, declined to comment on the issue. It may be mentioned here that after the twin blasts in Delhi, several persons with links to Babbar Khalsa International were arrested from the region. Meanwhile, the wife of Paramjit Singh Bheora, chief of the Babbar Khalsa’s India operations, Amanpreet Kaur, now in police custody, today claimed that she was tricked into marrying him since she was not aware of his real identity. Amanpreet Kaur was arrested on Monday by the Kapurthala Police on the charges of harbouring her husband, Paramjeet Singh Bheora. One Manjeet Singh, his wife Davinder Kaur and one Jaswinder Singh, all residents of Rail Coach Factory Colony, were also arrested on similar charges. Repenting on her decision, Amanpreet Kaur, who completed her graduation from a local government college in 2003, said she did not want to keep any relations with Bheora any more. “I don’t think my family will accept me and I don’t want to go with the family of Bheora either,” Amanpreet said. Amanpreet got married with Bheora at Danda Sahib Gurdwara at Sadhwan Purala village in Nawanshahr district on October 13 last year. Amanpreet claimed that she did not know that she was going to marry Bheora, a dreaded terrorist, till days before of the wedding. “Bheora himself told me about his identity, that too in a warning tone, two days ahead of our marriage,” Amanpreet claimed. “Davinder Kaur had introduced him to me as an NRI.” She claimed that she knew Davinder Kaur since her brother was a student of Davinder Kaur’s husband, Manjit Singh. Manjit Singh taught religious studies to students. “I couldn’t decide what to do after Bheora revealed his real identity. He said that now I had no other option,” Amanpreet said, adding that although they got married, she never lived with Bheora as a wife. Amanpreet belongs to the Jat community while Bheora is a Saini Sikh. Amanpreet claimed that she had stayed with Bheora in an Amritsar hotel. “We went there to pay obeisance at The Golden Temple after the marriage.” |
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I met Tara: Bheora’s wife Jagtar Singh Tara, a Babar Khalsa International terrorist and co-accused in the assassination of Beant Singh, was also present at the time of marriage of Bheora, his wife, Amanpreet claimed here. “Bheora introduced me to Tara during the marriage ceremony. At the time of the photo session, Tara put a revolver on my lap,” she further claimed. The police is still looking for Tara.
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Lightening the burden on students
Jalandhar, April 5 Heading the International Council for Educational Research and Training, which she had founded almost a decade ago with the same objective, Dr Venugopal interacted with The Tribune today. She had organised a three-day programme comprising a series of workshops for teachers of army schools, Kendriya Vidyalayas and cantonment board schools. The programme concluded at Vajra Central Hall, Jalandhar Cantonment, here today. A former principal of Chinmaya International School, Coimbatore, Dr Venugopal said the only effort required was to sensitise the teachers and parents in this direction. She discussed various issues listed in her “Life Oriented Inquiry Centre” (LOIC) programme for which she had got a national award from the NCERT in 1992 and which was accepted by the CBSE in 1995. She said, “All aspects of learning are integrated with concepts that can be taught through multi-media and other teaching aids. So there is no need to get books for different subjects. Instead, concentrate on creative learning and involve children in lots of activities.” Explaining her Concept Learning Integrated Package (CLIP), she said the school calendar could be divided into 18 academic weeks and 18 non-academic weeks. “During the academic weeks, the teachers could work on improving vocabulary, picture reading, picture composition, creative writing, number work and environmental studies. In the other half of the year, the teachers could help children enhance language skills through moral stories, rhymes, conversation and dictation. Creativity could come by way of paper cutting, picture making, fancy dress, role play, dance, music, ballets and group singing.” This educationist is also spearheading a movement for bringing about certain social changes, especially those related to marriage. “My stress is on legal motherhood. Why should a child be recognised only by the name of his father? I have been telling all schools in the south to take mother’s name in their records. That way no child could be questioned about his legitimacy,” she stresses. Domestic violence is another issue that has drawn the attention of this educationist-turned-social-scientist. She has been instrumental in getting two serials off the air. “I would not like to name them, but I felt that these were simply focusing on family violence and showing actors getting married thrice or even more times. I launched a mass campaign and was luckily successful,” she adds.
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New school principal
Kapurthala, April 5 Sainik School, Kapurthala, reached the second position in the academics among 20 Sainik Schools of the country during the tenure of Colonel Sandeep, who joined as the Principal in 2001. It is pertinent to mention here that seven cadets from the school were successful in joining the NDA in this session.
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Two arrested in forgery case
Phagwara, April 5 A case was registered against the accused under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120B of the IPC here today after one Balbir Kaur lodged a complaint with the Kapurthala SSP, Mr Rajiv Ahir, accusing the four persons of taking possession of a shop with the help of forged documents. Balbir Kaur, in her complaint, claimed that her husband Joga Ram, and her husband’s business partner Santokh Lal, were allotted a shop by the Punjab Waqf Board at the nearby Gandma village in 1992. After some time, Joga Ram and Santokh Lal went abroad. “My father-in-law Das Ram, brother-in-law Gurnam Das, sister-in-law Dyal Kaur and nephew Balihar Ram, in connivance with some other persons, presented fake registration deeds and sent some other person in place of my husband, Joga Ram, for mutation purposes. The said person, who is yet to be identified, got the mutation done in his name by putting the forged signature on the registration documents and took possession of the shop,” she alleged. The police, after registering a case of forgery, arrested the father-in-law and the brother-in-law of Balbir Kaur.
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14-year-old dies after consuming celphos
Jalandhar, April 5 The deceased, daughter of a labourer, was found reeling in pain by her mother, Sunita, this morning when she returned from work to her house. She was admitted to a private hospital from where she was referred to the Civil Hospital here. She died at the hospital later today. |
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CPM decries Centre’s privatisation drive
Jalandhar, April 5 The party, after the conclusion of its two-day meeting here, has also decided to accelerate the mobilisation of the masses against the “anti-people” approach of the government. Mr Mangat Ram Pasla, the State Secretary of the party, in a press release issued here, said the party was concerned about the UPA government’s advancement towards privatisation of profit generating airports and about “shedding its responsibility of providing health and education facilities in rural areas.” “Both the decisions show that the state governments are also buckling under the pressure of the corporate sector and imperialist agencies,” Mr Pasla alleged in the release. The meeting also condemned the government for its “failure” in controlling the price of essential commodities and unemployment. The CPM leader also alleged that the United States-based “imperialists” were resorting to arm-twisting methods with the governments of the developing countries and were “threatening” them with military might. Mr Pasla alleged that the Indian government, too, was wilting under such pressures and was extending concessions to them.
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Nine Indians in Pak jails to be freed
Kapurthala, April 5 The society, Mr Bhullar said, was working towards the release of innocent Indians languishing in jails across Pakistan, as well as, Pakistanis trapped in Indian jails. The nine youths from Punjab landed in Pakistani’s jails on charges of crossing over to other countries illegally. Mr Bhullar claimed that he had received a letter from the nine Indians urging him to secure a release. In the letter, they informed that they had reached Kot Lakhpat jail after going through the identification process by the Pakistani authorities that had been completed by February 28. They further mentioned the Pakistani authorities were likely to release them by the last week of April. In the letter, the youths claimed that more than 50 other Indians were still languishing in this Pakistani jail for the past 20 to 25 years even after completing their terms and some of them had even lost their mental balance, Mr Bhullar added. The youths, who are expected to be released this month, include Kulwant Singh, a resident of Boot village near Kapurthala, and Joginder Singh from Bhabiana village in Phagwara
sub-division of Kapurthala district. When The Tribune team reached the village of Kulwant Singh, his mother, a widow, and his two unmarried sisters were found sitting on a cot outside their one-room house. The family is poor and illiterate. None of the three members could tell the age of Kulwant or the time when he left for Greece. On asking anything, they just showed the letters written by Kulwant Singh from the Pakistani District Jail situated at HUDA Road in Quetta. Kulwant Singh used to work on his two-acre agriculture land after his father died 15 years back, leaving behind a family of seven members, including five daughters. “My son took a bank loan to buy a tractor, which he had to sell sometime later. Then he procured some loan to go abroad,” Gurmeet Kaur, Kulwant’s mother, said. In the process, all of their land was mortgaged to the bank and the family ended up owing Rs 4 lakh to the bank, Gurmeet Kaur added. Kulwant’s letters from Pakistan mention a travel agent from Naugham village in Hoshiarpur district who he claimed took Rs two lakh from him to send him abroad. “The agent put my son on a flight to Iran from Delhi. From Iran, he proceeded illegally to Turkey along with some other persons to enter Greece. But they were caught by the Turkish police, who sent them back to Iran. The Iranian police sent them to the Pakistani border, from where they were sent to a Pakistani jail,” the sobbing mother said. She added that she was informed of his son’s ordeal by the relative of another youth who was also lodged in a Pakistani jail. |
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Technical festival concludes
Jalandhar, April 5 On the occasion, five departments of the college organised various contests. Even as 400 students from various institutes participated in the event, prizes in most of the categories went to the host team. Mr A. Jaganathan, President of Net Pro certification, India, was the chief guest. Talking to media persons, Mr Jaganathan said that Net Pro was identifying and certifying skilled manpower so that they could be recruited in companies needing men to manage their systems, networking and telecom. He said the companies could directly pick up the certified candidates through employer login pick-up from its site, www.netPro-certification.net. He also signed an agreement with the institute, and appointed the institute as the company’s authorised training centre and prometric testing centre. Mr C.L. Kochher, Director-cum-Principal, welcomed the guests. Prizes were given to the winners of the contests during a valedictory function. The first prize winners of the contests organised by the five departments — Department of Applied Sciences — Harminder Kaur of DAVIET in poster-making, Karan Ahuja and Gautam Sharma of DAVIET in debate. Vaibhav, Sumit and Maninder of DAVIET in Quiz. Department of Electronics and Communication — Chandan Singh, Guriqbal and Vineet Ahuja of DAVIET in quiz contest. Manmeet Singh of DAVIET in poster-making. Department of computer science – Online gaming: Gurpal Singh of the Lovely Institute of Technology. Programming: Puneet Pathak and Sudesh Bhalla of DAVIET. Department of electrical engineering — Quiz: Vikas, Amritpal and Ritika of DAVIET . Best student project: Chatterdeep Singh, Gurpreet and Amrinder of DAVIET Department of civil engineering — Paper presentation: Amandeep Singh and Puneet Sabarwal of DAVIET. Treasure hunt: Paramvir, Vikas, Vaibhav and Nitin of the Rayat Institute of Engineering and Technology (RIET). Best design contest: Vikas Gupta and Pawan Kumar of the Giani Zail Singh College of Engineering and Technology. Generation and structures: Rohan Kohal, Ritu Gupta, Gaurav Bansal of DAVIET.
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Drive to clean Kali Bein
Kapurthala, April 5 A three-kilometre stretch of the Kali Bein is proposed to be cleaned with the help of local panchayats, different government departments, schools, religious and social organisations. The Kali Bein has a religious significance, as Guru Nanak Dev is said to have got enlightened after taking a dip in it. In the past, renowned environmentalist, Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, had also mobilised the people of the area and cleaned the rivulet. But due to “half-hearted” efforts of the administration, hyacinth kept on emerging in the rivulet as soon as the drive finished. After taking over as the Deputy Commissioner of Kapurthala, Mr Samir Kumar, started the “Shram Daan” drive on the pattern of “Shram Daan” at Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh. A belt conveyor machine worth Rs 10 lakh was also installed to remove hyacinth from the rivulet a few months back.
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‘Many Indian prisoners in Pakistan now mentally-deranged’
