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Woman alleges land grab by MLA Gupta

Jalandhar, November 20 A woman has alleged that Congress MLA Raj Kumar Gupta has grabbed her 30 Marlas at Raj Nagar and her two of the seven shops located at Shaheed Babu Labh Singh Nagar. Renu Marwaha with her father Comrade Baldev Singh and two children at a press confernece in Jalandhar on Monday. — A Tribune photo

Two groups clash over girl
Phagwara, November 20
A woman received head injuries when two groups hurled stones at one other outside the police station here today in connection with the “mysterious” disappearance of a girl four days ago.

Building gate for voters
Kapurthala, November 20
In an apparent attempt to attract Lubana votes in the ensuing Assembly elections, DCC Chief Sukhpal Singh Khaira inaugurated today the construction of a gate being built in the memory of Sant Baba Prem Singh Muralewale on the Begowal- Nadala road in Begowal.

Students of the Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar, in a jubilant mood after winning the overall trophy.

APJ College lifts overall trophy   
Jalandhar, November 20
The APJ College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar, and the Guru Nanak National College for Women, Nakodar, lifted over-all trophies in Division A and B, respectively, in the Guru Nanak Dev University Zonal Youth Festival (Women) held at GND University Regional Campus here today.

Samra speaks at coop meet
Jalandhar, November 20
The farmers of the state will be benefitted as Capt Amarinder Singh -led Congress government has reduced the interest rate from 14.5 to just 7.25 percent on the loan taken from cooperative banks.

Grant interim relief, say pensioners
Jalandhar, November 20
The Pensioners’ Steering Committee has urged the Central Pay Commission to grant an immediate interim relief of Rs 1,000 per month to the pensioners. The committee, which represents 35 lakh Central Government and family pensioners, is meeting on December 16 and 17 at Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, to give final touches to their charter of demands for the Sixth Central Pay Commission.

Woman alleges land grab by MLA Gupta
Dharmendra Joshi
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, November 20
A woman has alleged that Congress MLA Raj Kumar Gupta has grabbed her 30 Marlas at Raj Nagar and her two of the seven shops located at Shaheed Babu Labh Singh Nagar.

The woman ,Ms Renu Marwaha ,further alleged that apart from grabbing their land, two false criminal cases had also been lodged against her father Comrade Baldev Singh of Mohalla Saidan in Sultanpur Lodhi of Kapurthala district and her brothers Jaswinder and Kulwinder at the behest of Mr. Gupta.

Comrade Baldev Singh said that he had approached Mr. Gupta four years ago for the settlement of Renu’s matrimonial dispute with her husband Mukand Hari. Subsequently, Renu was sent to her husband’s house on March 7, 2002 at the behest of Mr. Gupta, he added.

Instead of mending his way, her husband developed illicit relations with a girl. He contacted Mr. Gupta who got Mukund arrested for illicit relations ,but Gupta’s son Pawan, a councillor, got him released within a few hours.

Shockingly, two false cases were registered on October 23 and November 23, two years ago ,against him and his two sons under different sections at division number five and Sadar police station for which he and his sons had to remain in jail for 23 days, he alleged. However FIRs in the both the cases were cancelled after an inquiry by DSP Gurmel Singh.

Ms Renu Marwaha, mother of two children, has alleged that Mr. Gupta and his son Pawan grabbed the 30 marlas belonging to her husband where initially Shiv Shakti Printing Press was located. The Congress MLA has also usurped two of her seven shops, she alleged.

However, Mr. Gupta denied the allegations. He claimed that he did not know either Comrade Baldev Singh or his daughter Renu Marwaha. He said that he was paying Rs. 3000 rent for the 10 marla land to Sanjiv Gupta and Rekha every month.

Meanwhile Comrade Baldev Singh said that her daughter Renu, her children Isha (5) and Sanchay (3) were fully dependent on him as they had been deprived of their resources of shelter and living means. Further, the matrimonial dispute had been widened between Renu and her husband Mukand, he added.

Two groups clash over girl
Tribune News Service

Phagwara, November 20
A woman received head injuries when two groups hurled stones at one other outside the police station here today in connection with the “mysterious” disappearance of a girl four days ago.

The police resorted to mild lathicharge to disperse the groups.

Shopkeepers put down the shutters of their shops on the Banga road and Bansanwala Bazaar.

“I had lodged a complaint with the police about the abduction of my daughter,” said the girl’s father.

The police has arrested Jai Singh and Sham Lal, father and brother of Rustam, respectively, both local residents, and asked them to produce the girl and the accused in the police station within two days.

Today when both the parties assembled at the police station, they clashed. During the clash, Urmila, mother of the girl, got head injuries.

Urmila alleged that the police shielded the accused and demanded the registration of a case against them.

Four youths, Rustam, Harsh, Ghoian and Sanjay, entered the house of the girl on November 16 and allegedly abducted her. The police had registered a case under Sections 363 and 366 of the IPC against the accused.

However, police officials denied all allegations, including the lathicharge on the warring groups.

Youth commits suicide

Jiwan Kumar (23), a resident of Khilwara Gate locality, committed suicide by hanging himself from a fan in a shop at Subhash Nagar today.

According to police sources, the victim was working in a furniture shop and had been suffering from depression for the past seven months. The body was sent to the Civil Hospital for postmortem.

14 cows rescued

Activists of various social organizations rescued 14 cows which were being brought by three persons identified as Balram, Ibrahim and Daler, all residents of Delhi, in a truck from Kala Bakra village in Jalandhar to Delhi for slaughter this evening.

Local Shiv Sena (Bal Thakeray)activists helped stop the truck on the GT Road and informed the city police station SHO. Later, the cows were sent to a Gaushala in nearby Burj village.

The police has registered a case against the accused.

Building gate for voters
Tribune News Service

Kapurthala, November 20
In an apparent attempt to attract Lubana votes in the ensuing Assembly elections, DCC Chief Sukhpal Singh Khaira inaugurated today the construction of a gate being built in the memory of Sant Baba Prem Singh Muralewale on the Begowal- Nadala road in Begowal.

The gate will be constructed at a cost of Rs. 25 lakh specially granted for the purpose by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh during his visit to Nadala on September 16, this year.

Meanwhile the PWD had given the contract of constructing the gate to a Jalandhar- based construction company ,Dhingra Brothers which would construct it by February 20 ,next year, Mr. Khaira added.

Mr. Khaira said Sant’s biography would also be inscribed on the gate, he added.

APJ College lifts overall trophy
Tribune News Service

Staff of HMV College with the first runner-up trophy in the Category A of the GND University Zonal Youth Festival (Women) at Ledhewali in Jalandhar on Monday. —Tribune photos by Pawan Sharma

Samra speaks at coop meet
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, November 20
The farmers of the state will be benefitted as Capt Amarinder Singh -led Congress government has reduced the interest rate from 14.5 to just 7.25 percent on the loan taken from cooperative banks.

This was stated by Cooperative minister Amarjit Singh Samra addressing a gathering at state -level function in connection with National Cooperative Week at Nakodar on Monday.

Mr. Samra said that cooperative banks located in the state were a prominent part of the cooperative movement. Jalandhar MP Rana Gurjit Singh also addressed the gathering.

Grant interim relief, say pensioners
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, November 20
The Pensioners’ Steering Committee has urged the Central Pay Commission to grant an immediate interim relief of Rs 1,000 per month to the pensioners. The committee, which represents 35 lakh Central Government and family pensioners, is meeting on December 16 and 17 at Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, to give final touches to their charter of demands for the Sixth Central Pay Commission

The All-India Central Government Pensioners Association northern region general secretary and steering committee member, Mr V.S. Jolly, said here today that the demand had formally been sent to the commission by the committee.

He said at the Secunderabad meeting delegates from different parts of the country representing various pensioners associations would participate.

The charter of the demands would be submitted before the commission by December 31.