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All Panipat units declare lockout
Birender cancels meeting of supporters
Police takes control of Satlok ashram, arrests preacher
Plea against levy of conversion fee disallowed
Talentship exams results declared
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Most-wanted criminal held
Rainwater harvesting
in Sirsa
Cong protest against poor power supply
CM grants Rs 1 lakh to cancer patient
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All Panipat units declare lockout
Panipat, July 13 Industry owners demanded the arrest of Mr P.P. Kapoor, state convener of Indian Federation of Trade Unions, Haryana, blaming him for the labour unrest. The owners were invited by the administration for talks on Tuesday. Additional Labour Commissioner M.S. Yadav also held talks with the industrialists on Wednesday evening, but the owners insisted on the arrest of Mr Kapoor. However, the industrialists were told by Mr Yadav that their could be no compromise on implementing the labour laws. Meanwhile, thousands of labourers protesting against the lockout after a long march in the city held a rally in front of the residence of Mr D.P.S. Nagal, Deputy Commissioner, Panipat, and submitted a memorandum. Addressing the rally, Mr Kapoor blamed the factory owners for the industrial unrest in the city saying they had not implemented the agreements reached between both parties regarding implementation of labour laws. Now, they had resorted to a lockout. Mr Kapoor alleged that some elements among industrialists at the behest of a dissident minister in the State Cabinet were trying to create a ‘Gurgaon-like’ situation in the local industry, to malign the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Mr Roshan Lal Gupta, state spokesman of the Haryana Vyapar Mandal, alleged that the unrest in the Panipa industry was the handiwork of vested interests at the behest of a senior minister in the Cabinet. The Deputy Commissioner, when contacted, said efforts to solve the problem were on. |
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Birender cancels meeting of supporters
Chandigarh, July 13 When the Pradesh Congress Committee was reconstituted recently, Mr Birender Singh's supporters did not find suitable representation in the organisation. The sources say Mr Birender Singh's supporters had been telling him that while he had become a Minister, he was not able to solve their problems. To assuage the "hurt" feelings of his supporters, Mr Birender Singh decided to meet them at a series of meetings. The first meeting was convened at his official
residence here on July 6 when it was decided that he would meet his long-standing supporters in various districts. The series of meetings was to culminate at Kaithal when his supporters from all over the state would have gathered to have their say. However, thanks to certain overzealous supporters, these meetings were projected in a section of the Press as if these were being organised to put pressure on the party high command to replace the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, with Mr Birender Singh. Mr Birender Singh, a veteran of dissident politics in the Congress, was quick to realise the damage these reports had done to his political ambitions, if any. He immediately denied the Press reports. He said he was well aware how Chief Ministers were made in the Congress and such meetings were definitely not one of the means to be a Chief Minister. The sources say the series of meetings was planned about a month ago but the plan became public at a time when a misunderstanding arose between Mr Birender Singh and Mr Hooda. This added to the confusion about the purpose of the meetings. Mr Birender Singh, who will lead an official delegation to the USA from July 22, the sources say decided to cancel the Kaithal meeting because he did not want to give the impression that he was a party to the faction fighting between Mr Hooda and Mr Bhajan Lal, former Chief Minister. Mr Hooda is scheduled to visit Narwana, a constituency neighbouring Mr Birender Singh's own constituency of
Uchana, on July 20. The same day Mr Bhajan Lal will start his public-contact campaign from Kurukshetra. Mr Birender Singh, the sources say, felt that if he also held a meeting of his supporters at Kaithal the same day, the impression that the Congress was a divided house, would be further strengthened. It is not known if Mr Birender Singh was influenced to cancel his meeting by the Power Minister, Mr Venod Sharma, when the latter met the former for a breakfast meeting on July 11. Mr Sharma is a confidant of Mr Hooda and is also a friend of Mr Birender Singh. |
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Police takes control of Satlok ashram, arrests preacher
Karontha (Rohtak) , July 13 Rampal and 16 of his men have been booked for murder. As many as 60 other unidentified followers have also been named in the FIR registered under Sections 302, 307, 120B, 147 and 148 of the IPC. Five firearms were also recovered from the premises. Arms were recovered from the preacher and the 16 followers. After last evening's violence by the preacher's followers that left one dead and 51 injured, the administration swung into action at 2 am and took control of the ashram premises after attaching the property under Section 145 of the CRPC. More than 4000 followers camping inside the ashram for the past five days were evacuated in police vans after heavily armed security personnel pushed an angry mob of residents from nearby villages to a safe distance from the ashram. The mob was threatening to burn the ashram and kill the preacher and his followers. The evacuees were sent to their homes in buses of Haryana roadways. At the start of the operation, Deputy Commissioner R. S. Doon accompanied by police commandos went to the ashram but the preacher's men refused to open the gate. However, when he urged that unless the insiders were evacuated there could be bloodshed by the mob, the ashram management let the officers in. Security forces had a tough time controlling the mob, which wanted to avenge the death of two villagers, as a result of indiscriminate firing by ashram people earlier in the day. The mob burnt down a bus, a police gypsy and some other vehicles. Mr Doon said the operation ended around 6 am. He said most of the people inside were women, children and elderly persons. CRPF personnel have been posted at the ashram and the police spent the day today searching the premises and making an inventory of the goods in the ashram, he added. The DC said two of the injured were in serious condition. He said the situation was back to normal but security forces had been deployed in the area as a precautionary measure. The police have detained the preacher at an undisclosed place because of threat to his life. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda paid an unscheduled visit to Rohtak today to look up the injured persons. He went to the PGIMS in Rohtak and met all those admitted there. He also reviewed the situation in Karontha and adjoining villages with senior district officials. Mr Hooda announced an ex-gratia grant of Rs 5 lakh for next of kin of Sonu of Baghpur village who died in firing by ashram supporters yesterday. He also announced compensation of Rs 50,000 to each of those injured in the incident. The government, he said, would bear the cost of treatment. |
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Plea against levy of conversion fee disallowed
Chandigarh, July 13 The petitioners — M/s Trishul Industries, Golden Green Golf and Resorts and another — who had acquired 47,841 sq yd land in Gurgaon for building a resort-cum-hotel, had been ordered to pay revised conversion fee as per the decision of the Haryana Cabinet on September 6, 1996. While acquiring the land, the companies had entered into a contract with the government, undertaking to pay the revised conversion charges whenever ordered to do so. However, they moved court when they were told to pay the revised charges as, according to them, the charges were much more than even the original cost of land paid by them. They had prayed for setting aside the government order asking them to pay revised conversion charges. However, a Bench headed by Mr Justice S.S. Nijjar dismissed the petition, holding that the companies could not cry foul after they themselves had agreed to pay conversion charges whenever fixed. The court observed that the petitioners were all along aware that they were liable to pay conversion charges and also that the same were not finalised when they entered into agreement with the state government. Therefore, holding that their grouse was unjustified, the Bench dismissed the petition. Haryana Police restrained
The High Court on Thursday restrained the Haryana Police from arresting Bhupinder Singh, treasurer of the Haryana Olympic Association
(HOA) faction headed by former MLA Abhey Singh Chautala. The court was hearing Bhupinder Singh’s plea for grant of anticipatory bail in connection with a case registered against him by the Panchkula police on June 5 for allegedly having taken away the record of the HOA from its office at Olympic Bhavan, Panchkula, on May 6. The case was registered on the complaint of Surinder Singh Dangi, joint secretary in the HOA body headed by Congress MP Naveen Jindal. A bitter struggle is on between the two factions for the control of the
HOA. In his petition, Bhupinder Singh had alleged that the case against him was false and frivolous and had its origin in the tussle for the control of the
HOA. Apart from the petitioner, H.S. Bhadu, former joint secretary of the
HOA, is also named in the FIR. Sometime back, the Bench of Mr Justice Vinod Kumar Sharma had stayed the arrest of Mr
Bhadu. Today, the court, while restraining the police from arresting Bhupinder Singh till July 24, directed him to join investigations from July 18. |
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Talentship exams results declared
Bhiwani, July 1 A board spokesman said the candidates appeared for the talentship examination could see their results through board’s website, http://hbse.nic.in, on July 14. He said that 100 candidates had been selected in the talentship examination, of which 50 were from government schools and remaining 50 from government aided schools. The spokesman said that headmasters connected with the first 25 selected students would be honoured. Under it 23 headmasters would be honoured with a prize of Rs 500 and a certificate.
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Most-wanted criminal held
Hisar, July 13 The Kaithal police had even announced a cash reward of Rs 10,000 on his arrest. The Inspector-General of Police (Hisar range), Mr Yashpal Singal, while addressing media persons here on Wednesday said that Rajesh had dodged the Delhi and Punjab police in Hardwar last year. His three accomplices had been killed in an encounter in a joint operation by the Punjab and Delhi cops. The Hisar SSP, Mr Arshinder Singh Chawla, said Rajesh was arrested along with his accomplice Naresh of Moth Karnail village. |
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Rainwater harvesting
in Sirsa
Sirsa, July 13 This was stated by the Deputy Commissioner, Mr V. Umashankar, while talking to newspersons here yesterday. The rainwater would first be collected in huge tanks and then used to recharge the groundwater and the Public Health officials had been asked to locate areas for the purpose. The Deputy Commissioner maintained that unauthorised sewerage connections would be regularised and the practice of illegal water and sewerage connections would also be curbed. He said that prior information regarding power cuts would be provided through the local cable television network. A mobile van to attend electricity complaints had also been rolled out. |
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Cong protest against poor power supply
Karnal, July 13 More than 50 residents and Congress workers led by a former chairman of the City Congress Committee and staunch supporter of Mr Bhajan Lal, Mr Tarlochan Singh, sat in the open under the scorching sun for three hours. Protesting Congress workers removed their shirts and sat on dharna at the crowded Ghanta Ghar Chowk. The protesters were demanding action against the Superintending Engineer allegedly responsible for the erratic power supply. Slogan-raising protesters started the dharna at 9.30 a.m. that lasted till 12.30 p.m. Talking to The Tribune at the dharna site, Mr Tarlochan Singh lamented the role of officials for not maintaining the power supply in the town. He charged them with brining a bad name to the Congress. |
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CM grants Rs 1 lakh to cancer patient
Rohtak, July 13 When Mr Hooda was meeting those injured in an ashram clash, the woman’s daughter, Kavita, tried to break the security cordon to meet him. When he noticed the commotion he summoned the girl and listened
to her woes. Kavita told the Chief Minister that her mother needed immediate treatment and her family had no money. Mr Hooda announced a grant of Rs 1 lakh for Naresh Bala’s treatment on the spot. The girl was so overcome by emotion that
she began to cry. |
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