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Man fires outside daughter’s in-laws house, booked
Amritsar, April 21
Upset over the love marriage of his daughter, an enraged father, in a fit of rage, fired outside the residence of the boy and threatened to kill him along with his family members.

PADB-Deputy Registrar tussle takes
new turn
President says bank not a scapegoat
Nawanshahr, April 21
The ongoing row between Balachaur Primary Cooperative Agriculture Development Bank Ltd. (PADB), Balachaur (Nawanshahr), and Darshan Singh, Assistant Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Balachaur, over the issue of bearing the burden of expenses of the building rent and electricity of the office of the Assistant Registrar has taken a new turn as the president, board of directors of the bank, Tarsem Lal, has demanded action against the Deputy Registrar.

We’re taken for granted, say committee members
Hoshiarpur, April 21
Members of the District Congress Committee met former Chief Minister and Congress campaign committee Chairman Capt Amarinder Singh on his arrival here today and alleged that they were being ignored by Congress nominee of Lok Sabha seat Santosh Chaudhary.

Three file nominations

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	Man fires outside daughter’s in-laws house, booked P.K. Jaiswar Tribune News Service Amritsar, April 21 Upset over the love marriage of his daughter, an enraged father, in a fit of rage, fired outside the residence of the boy and threatened to kill him along with his family members. The police, after receiving the complaint and investigating into the matter, has registered a case under sections 307 and 506 of the IPC and 25, 27, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act, on the charge of attempt to murder against them. Those booked include Pritam Singh, father of the girl. In his complaint, Avtar Singh, father of the boy, Surjit Singh, stated that his son, who had fallen in love with Navdeep Kaur, married her in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on April 19. However, the couple did not return home. Agitated over this step taken by his daughter, Pritam Singh last evening came to their house and fired at their door and started threatening them. He said listening to the gunfire, the people of the area started gathering outside his house. Seeing this, the accused fled from the scene. The police authorities said raids were being conducted to nab him.
	PADB-Deputy Registrar tussle takes new turn President says bank not a scapegoat Parmod Bharti Nawanshahr, April 21 The ongoing row between Balachaur Primary Cooperative Agriculture Development Bank Ltd. (PADB), Balachaur (Nawanshahr), and Darshan Singh, Assistant Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Balachaur, over the issue of bearing the burden of expenses of the building rent and electricity of the office of the Assistant Registrar has taken a new turn as the president, board of directors of the bank, Tarsem Lal, has demanded action against the Deputy Registrar. Lal is of the opinion that the Deputy Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Balachaur, had challenged the elected body’s rights by pressurising it to change its resolution passed unanimously. Giving details to The Tribune, Lal said earlier the office of the Assistant Registrar had been housed in a rented building of the bank situated at Gahun Road, Balachaur, for the past about 12 years and the bank had been bearing the expenses like building rent, electricity and telephone bills. In April last year, the PADB had to be shifted to another rented building at Bhaddi Road. The office of the Assistant Registrar could not be housed in the new building, so it had to be shifted to another building but the burden of its expenses, like building rent and electricity bills, continued to be borne by the PADB, said Lal, adding that in September last year, the board of directors unanimously decided that the bank would not pay the building rent and electricity bills after March 31, 2009. In reaction to the resolution passed by the board of directors, PADB, the Assistant Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Balachaur, in a letter dated March 12 addressed to the manager, PADB, Balachaur, asked him to do the needful in connection with the building rent, otherwise he would be held personally responsible for it. A meeting of the board of directors was convened to discuss the letter but the board again endorsed its resolution passed earlier regarding refusal of further bear the burden of the building rent and electricity bills, etc. of the office of the Assistant Registrar. In reaction to it, the Assistant Registrar, in a letter dated April 1, addressed to the Managing Director, Punjab State Cooperative Agriculture Development Bank, Chandigarh, accused the manager, PADB, Balachaur, of misleading the board of directors in connection with the payment of the rent as the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Punjab, in his letter dated September 9, 2005, had made clear instructions to provide the space for the office of the Assistant Registrar in the rented building of the PADB, Balachaur. Moreover, the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, while granting sanction to shift the PADB to the new rented building, the provision of space for housing the office of the Assistant Registrar was also made. The Assistant Registrar has recommended action against the manager. Besides, the Deputy Registrar, District Cooperative Societies, in his letter dated April 15, addressed to the manager, PADB, Balachaur, asked him to comply with the instructions of the Registrar, Cooperative Societies, in connection with paying the rent of the office of the Assistant Registrar, Balachaur, otherwise action against the board of directors (on the charge of functioning against public as well as government interest) would be recommended. Accusing the Deputy Registrar of using “threatening” language against the elected body, president Tarsem Lal reacted sharply and demanded action against the Deputy Registrar. “The bank should not be made a scapegoat for bearing the burden of the expenses of the office of the Assistant Registrar, rather it should be borne by the department concerned,” said Lal. Deputy Registrar Darshan Singh, when contacted on the phone, while denying the allegation of using threatening language in the letter, said he had only asked the manager, PADB, to comply with the instructions of the head office.
	We’re taken for granted, say committee members Our Correspondent Hoshiarpur, April 21 Members of the District Congress Committee met former Chief Minister and Congress campaign committee Chairman Capt Amarinder Singh on his arrival here today and alleged that they were being ignored by Congress nominee of Lok Sabha seat Santosh Chaudhary. The disgruntled elements included Devinder Mahajan from Mukerian, Jasjit Singh Balgan and former MLA and PPCC Vice-President Ram Rattan, PPCC secretaries Vipan Ghambir from Dasuya and Jasbir Singh Pal from Garhdiwala, Supinder Kaur from Tanda, along with former MP Charanjit Singh Channi. They said they were ready to campaign in favour of Santosh Chaudhary, but she at the behest of their rivals within the party was ignoring them. Capt Amarinder Singh assured them that he would take up the issue with Santosh to settle the issue amicably. Former CM claimed that there was no factionalism and all the workers and leaders were united and campaigning in favour of the Congress candidates in Punjab. The Congress would capture all the 13 Lok Sabha seats in the upcoming poll, hoped Capt Amarinder Singh.
	Three file nominations Our Correspondent Tarn Taran, April 21 On the third day of filing nomination papers for the Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha constituency, three candidates - Baba Balkar Singh of Kukka village (as a member of the Bharti Gaon Taj Dal), Rajinder Singh of Arrafke village (Ferozpore) and Bhupinder Singh of the town (independents) filed their nominations.
	SAD goes differently about it Our Correspondent Nawanshahr, April 21 An election office of the SAD was opened and a conference of its youth wing organised here on Sunday with a view to spearheading the campaign in favour of SAD-BJP nominee Daljit Singh Cheema, SGPC general secretary. But lack of coordination among the local SAD-BJP leaders was quite visible as both the events were organised separately. SGPC general secretary Sukhdev Singh Bhaur and local SAD MLA Jatinder Singh Kariha inaugurated the main election office to carry out and control the poll campaign-related activities in the Nawanshahr assembly segment. The district SAD (youth wing) organised a conference of its workers at KC Palace. Kiranbir Singh Kang, Harprabh Mahil Singh, Balbir Singh Dhillon, national president, vice-president and district president of the SAD (youth wing), respectively, while addressing the conference, exhorted the youth workers to propagate the achievements of the Badal government to mobilise people to vote in favour of Cheema.
	State BJP chief sings achievement tunes Our Correspondent Batala, April 21 BJP state President Rajinder Singh Bhandari visited the town for electioneering here today. While addressing party workers, he said the BJP-SAD government had fulfilled all its poll promises. He highlighted the achievements of the government like atta-dal scheme, shagun scheme, abolition of house tax, octroi and grant of old age and widow pensions and the augmentation of water and electricity supplies in the state.

DTO gets duty pangs while bus is en route
Impounds vehicle, causes inconvenience to passengers
Parmod Bharti

Nawanshahr, April 21
A number of passengers, including women and children, travelling in a private tourist bus (UP-77-N-7000), were subjected to a lot of inconvenience and suffering as the bus they were travelling in was impounded by the local District Transport Officer (DTO) on the charge of discrepancies in the route permit and payment of taxes, etc. on Monday night.

The passengers, who boarded the bus from Katra (J&K) at about 3 pm on Monday for New Delhi, had to spend the night in the open in front of the city police station here as no alternative arrangement for them was made.

However, at about 6 am on Tuesday, the passengers, while walking on the nearby Chandigarh Road, seeing the signboard of a newspaper office, noted the telephone number of a local mediaperson and made a telephone call to him.

While narrating their tale of woes, the passengers, Satinder, Gaurav, Sitara Devi, among others, said they had been facing a lot of inconvenience since midnight for no fault of theirs.

“We were sleeping when the bus stopped here. We thought the driver had halted for drinking tea, but when we saw the bus had been stopped somewhere else, we remained stunned,” rued the affected passengers, adding that if there were any discrepancies in the route permit or payment of taxes, then why had the bus been permitted to start from Katra in the first place.

“Though we had paid a hefty amount for travelling in a tourist bus, we had to suffer here in the open. Both the drivers had gone somewhere and only a helper was present here and he had not been telling us anything,” further said the passengers.

District Transport Officer R.L. Jassal, when contacted on the phone, said the bus was impounded and would be released only after the payment of due taxes amounting to about Rs 26,000.

However, answering a query regarding making an alternative arrangement for mitigating the sufferings of the passengers, the District Transport Officer said it was the responsibility of the owner of the bus.

However, the bus owner reportedly made an alternative arrangement to ferry the passengers to their destination at about 9.30 am today.