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Property dealer robbed of Rs 40 lakh
Porn Slur
Spurious milk racket busted
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Farmers protest against water shortage
Bank cashier informs cops of ‘robbery bid’
Trader’s Murder
Relatives of a local trader, who was allegedly murdered on May 15, block traffic at Bighar Chowk in Fatehabad on Friday.
— A Tribune photograph
Transport firm raided
Protest by photographers
4 IAS officers get new assignments
8 bureaucrats promoted
Three held for drowning youth
5 shopkeepers challaned
Stones of substations laid
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Property dealer robbed of Rs 40 lakh
Panipat, May 29 The incident took place on the outskirts of Biholi village, when Shiv Kumar, son of Desraj, who was a resident of Nalwa Colony in Bapoli, was on his way to Samalkha to make payment for a land that he had recently purchased. Four persons, travelling in a car, forced him to stop his car, overpowered him and managed to snatch the bag containing the cash. They fled the spot within no time. They even took two of his mobile phones and the car he was driving. Shiv Kumar had recently sold a piece of land in Bapoli and had deposited the said amount of money in one of the rural banks there. Today, he withdrew the amount and was on his way to Samalkha where the registry of the land that he had bought in Bodwal Majri village was to be made. After being robbed, Shiv Kumar immediately got in touch with the local police and reported the matter. A team of senior officials, including SP MS Sheoran, DSPs from Samalkha and Panipat along with SHOs of Samalkha and Bapoli and in charge of the CIA staff, reached the spot and sealed the area. A search-cum-combing operation was also launched immediately. The car of Shiv Kumar was later recovered from Haldana village on the Panipat-Sonepat border. The senior officials got in touch with the police of Sonepat, Jind and Karnal districts and sought their help. They also got in touch with the police of Bagpat and Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh believing that the robbers could have escaped into the neighbouring state. A case has been registered. |
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4 teachers sacked, 6 suspended
Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Sirsa, May 29 Asha Kiran Grover, District Education Officer, Sirsa, told The Tribune that Janak Raj and Gurmeet Ram, two computer teachers working in Government Senior Secondary School in Jodhkan village in this district, had been removed from their job. They were on a contractual appointment through an NGO, the NICT. Chander Jit, a mathematics teacher, and Suresh Kumar, a Hindi teacher, were both working as guest teachers with the department and the school Principal had removed them with immediate effect, she said. “Raj Pal, a drawing teacher, Sanjeev Kumar, a DPE, Raj Kumar, a lecturer in economics, Sat Pal, a social studies teacher, Ravel Singh, a science teacher, and Mool Chand, a mathematics teacher, have been suspended with immediate effect,” said the District Education Officer. The police had booked seven teachers and arrested four of them after they were found watching a porno CD on a computer during the school hours yesterday. While Janak Raj, Gurmeet, Sat Pal and Suresh were arrested by the police under Sections 292, 294 and 34 of the IPC yesterday, Raj Kumar, Ravel Singh and Mool Chand had fled. Satish, a shopkeeper, who had supplied the obscene CD to the teachers, was also booked by the police, but he too fled. Interestingly, the names of Sanjeev Kumar, Raj Pal and Charan Jit did not figure in the FIR registered by the police yesterday, yet they too have been proceeded against by the departmental authorities. “These three teachers went missing after the registration of the FIR and did not even come to school today. Nor did they give any reason for their absence, giving credence to their involvement in the illicit activity,” said the District Education Officer. Meanwhile, the locks of the school put up by villagers yesterday were opened by the authorities today for its smooth functioning.
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Spurious milk racket busted
Chandigarh, May 29 He said in the raid conducted at Dharuhera in Rewari district, it was found that a plot was taken on lease in the name of Essential Milk Producer Cooperative at Industrial Area, Dharuhera, for trading in spurious milk. The police seized 26,000 litres of milk, 150 kg caustic soda, 158 bags of milk powder and 16 barrels of glucose. The police also seized 1,900 litres of spurious milk from the chilling plant. He said this milk used to be brought from Dosa in Rajasthan and after adulteration it was being supplied in Delhi under the Delhi Milk Scheme and also to a milk powder manufacturing factory in Kundli in Haryana. The police also recovered a canter carrying about 2,400 litres of milk from the owner of an ice factory located near Partap Gate, Kaithal, besides 15 kg of glucose. This milk was to be supplied to Madhu Milk Food Factory at Pehowa. Two tankers full of milk were recovered from Ram Dairy, Sadhu Mandi, near railway station in Kurukshetra district. These tankers contained 13,000 and 7,000 litres of milk, respectively. The police also recovered over 11 kg powdered sugar, more than 26 kg of caustic soda and a chemical measuring about 14 kg. He said one of these tankers used to reach Ram Dairy from Darbha from where both the tankers used to supply milk to Rahul Dairy near Shahabad. The police also took into its possession a tanker carrying 16,500 litres of milk, which had come from Samana in Punjab. He said 9,000 litres of milk and 30 bags of milk powder were recovered from the chilling plant of AR Milk Foods, Industrial Area, Dharuhera. This milk was to be supplied in Delhi. |
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Benefits subject to decision on writ petitions
Saurabh Malik Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 29 It means the state can go ahead and give the benefits, which can go, if the court orders are not favourable to the guest teachers The state, vide the circular dated March 2, had sought to change the terms and conditions of engagement of the guest teachers. The circular from the financial commissioner-cum-principal secretary to the government of Haryana, education and language department, had asserted guest teachers would be engaged for a year on contract basis, instead of their earlier engagement on per day/per period basis. The guest teachers, the circular had added, would be entitled to all gazetted holidays. The monthly remuneration with effect from April, 2009, were also specified. As the case came up for hearing this afternoon, the Bench of Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice Hemant Gupta, verbally asserted the directions were being passed in view of the applications seeking stay on the operation of the circular in all the four petitions before it in the matter. The Bench asserted the issue of grating weightage to the guest teachers was a roadblock in the matter. Before parting with the orders, the Bench fixed July 24 as the next date of hearing. The Judges have already expressed prima facie view that they want Haryana to continue with the ad hoc arrangement of guest teachers for its schools, till regular selections are made. But, the state should not change the nature of the guest teachers’ engagement. The petitioners are seeking directions to Haryana and other respondents not to implement the latest policy on appointing teachers in the state-run schools on contract basis on a consolidated monthly salary. Directions have also been sought to make regular appointments after advertising the posts and giving an opportunity to every eligible candidate for the selection. There are about 15,000 guest teachers in Haryana.
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Farmers protest against water shortage
Yamunanagar, May 29 Staging dharna at Hamida headworks, state president of the BKU Gurnam Singh said farmers in many parts of the state had been facing acute water shortage as water was not being released from Hamida headworks. Farmers said they neither have water for irrigation purpose nor for animals. They have also been demanding that the Western Yamuna Canal should not be made concrete as it would further decrease the water level. They said arrangements should be made to provide drinking water for animals in each village along the canal. The check dam should be made in Western Yamuna Canal to store and reduce the speed of water at different places, he added. The BKU president also claimed that the state had been supplying more water to Delhi then its stipulated quota. Moreover, the state government had motivated the farmers for turmeric farming but failed to purchase the same from the farmers. Keeping in view the tense situation, SDM HC Jain, DSP Krishan and Dadupur XEN SN Bhardwaj held a meeting with the farmers for over two hours. The farmers lifted the dharna in the afternoon after Jain convinced the BKU leaders that a list of their demands had been sent to the Chief Minister through the Ambala commissioner and the Irrigation Department released nominal water in the canal. Bhardwaj told The Tribune that there was not much water at the headwork and water level at the headwork was 1,848 cusecs today. “We can release water only if we have. Following their demand, we have released nominal water into the canal,” he added. |
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Bank cashier informs cops of ‘robbery bid’
Sirsa, May 29 However, it turned out to be a case of scuffle over public dealing of the cashier. The police has booked Harjinder Singh for causing hurt and using force to deter a government servant from the performance of duty under Sections 332, 353 and 186 of the IPC. Jaspreet Singh, a cashier working in the Cooperative Bank of the village, today informed the police that three persons had come to rob the bank. When the police reached near the bank, they found three persons escaping on a motorcycle and nabbed them. On reaching the bank, the police came to know that Harjinder, whose woman relative had visited the bank for some transaction in the morning, had complained of the cashier’s behaviour to him after which he along with two of his friends reached the bank and had a scuffle with Jaspreet. The police has booked Harjinder but let off his two accomplices. |
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Kin block traffic
Tribune News Service
Fatehabad, May 29 The trader was allegedly killed by his partner Ramit and his father Inderjit after a dispute over accounts. While the police has arrested Ramit, Inderjit is still absconding. The victim’s kin had been demanding his arrest and had met senior police officers several times in this regard. They had also threatened to block traffic in case the accused was not arrested by today. The traffic on the Fatehabad-Hisar road had to be diverted through Matana-Bighar-Bhodia-Fatehabad due to the blockade. The situation deteriorated further when the demonstrators placed the cot of 80-year-old mother of the victim, who was not well, in the middle of the road demanding justice. The blockade was lifted when the police assured the relatives of the victim that the accused would be nabbed within two days.
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Transport firm raided
Fatehabad, May 29 It was Aprazolam Tablet manufactured by an Uttaranchal-based company and the goods were being returned to their Hisar office Regain Pharmaceuticals, said the drugs authorities. As many as one lakh tablets were found lying with the transporter. Mittal said the authorities had checked the bills and transportation documents of the consignment and found that Bansal Distributors, a local chemist, had returned the consignment to a Hisar-based party. He maintained that after frequent raids by the authorities, the chemists have started returning their stocks of intoxicant drugs back to the manufacturers. |
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Protest by photographers
Sirsa, May 29 They, however, left after the police assured them of action. The victim, Sushil Sharma, is in hospital and the police is waiting for his condition to improve to record his statement. The victim was allegedly beaten up by the owners of the colour lab over a dispute yesterday and was taken to the local general hospital for treatment. The photographers closed their shops in protest and demanded action against the lab owners. |
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4 IAS officers get new assignments
Chandigarh, May 29 Malik, FCPS, Industries and Commerce and Mines and Geology, has also been given additional charge of the Electronics and Information Technology Department, relieving SS Prasad of the said charge. Chander Parkash, who was yesterday posted as Director and Joint Secretary, Education Department, has now been posted as Joint Commissioner-II, Municipal Corporation, Gurgaon, against a vacant post. |
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8 bureaucrats promoted
Chandigarh, May 29 The officers who have been promoted are Deepti Umashankar, Neerja, Ashok Kumar Yadav, TK Sharma, Balbir Singh Malik, Suresh Kumar Goyal, Balwan Singh and Rajinder Paul Gupta. The promotion is subject to the condition that these officers will complete phase IV of the mid-career training when the Union Government organised the training for them. Yadav, Malik, Balwan Singh and Gupta will proceed for the training to Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, from June 1. They will spend two weeks in South Korea as part of their training. |
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Three held for drowning youth
Rohtak, May 29 The Sampla police has registered a case against Sunil, Yudhisther and Satish, residents of Jhajjar district, in this connection and started investigation. Earlier, the body was taken out from the minor by the police and sent to the PGIMS here for a postmortem. All accused have been arrested. |
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5 shopkeepers challaned
Kurukshetra, May 29 DC Pankaj Aggarwal said the five shopkeepers had been challaned during the inspection of their premises. |
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Stones of substations laid
Kaithal, May 29 The substations will be set up at an estimated cost of Rs 660 lakh by Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam. The substations will be commissioned by December this year. |
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