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Truckload of cement bags fails to reach refinery Six held, bags recovered Bathinda, November 30 With the arrest of six persons, the Raman police today claimed to have cracked the mystery behind disappearance of a truckload of cement bags from the Guru Gobind Singh refinery located at Phulokhari in this district. The police has recovered the truck and all 560 cement bags from Bangi Ruldu village in this district.
Minor sodomised
Tribune Impact
Seed distribution
Non-payment of farm loans
Prohibited drugs seized from medical shops
Sriganganagar-Sarai Rohilla
Aristotle, Socrates remembered
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Mosquitoes swarm dengue ward
Bathinda, November 30 Observing the rising number of dengue patients with every passing day, the state health department had set up the SSH to treat patients from four districts, namely Mansa, Muktsar, Bathinda and Faridkot. Besides, the Civil Hospital authorities were asked to set up a separate ward for dengue patients. Following the instructions, a separate 14-bedded ward for dengue patients was duly set up. However, TNS found that the ward located on the top floor of the hospital was poorly kept, worse than a general ward. Not only the suspected/confirmed dengue patients were admitted there, but few others complaining of stomach pain and hemophilia were also being treated in the same ward. Out of the nine beds, only three had nets to protect patients from a large number of mosquitoes flying around. It only exposed the indifferent attitude of the health officials towards the patients. Patients and their attendants lamented, "There is no special facility here which could distinguish it from other wards." "I am suffering from dengue fever. But this ward, which is said to be set up only for dengue patients, is a source of the disease itself. You can see it is full of mosquitoes. While it is the duty of the hospital staff to ensure that the ward is free of mosquitoes, we are using repellant coils that we have purchased to keep the insects away," said one Mohit Kumar of Balraj Nagar. "Mosquitoes and the mess around are not the only problems here. The staff is so cruel that they summon a patient to the ground floor to collect a blood sample rather than getting it from his bed itself. Ask for the test report of the sample and you have to deal with a discourteous laboratory staff," complained one Satpal Kumar of Bharat Nagar. One Gurjant Singh of Jaitu said, "My son is suffering from Hemophilia but he has been allotted a bed along with dengue patients. I wish doctors shift him to some other ward." When senior medical officer Dr Vinod Kumar was contacted, he said he was not aware of the situation. "As we have set up a 14-bed separate arrangement for dengue patients, the allotment of beds to other patients in those wards is a serious matter. Moreover, we had equipped the beds with nets to protect patients from mosquitoes. How can the nets disappear? I will look into the case and take action against the guilty," the SMO said. |
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Truckload of cement bags fails to reach refinery
Bathinda, November 30 The incident that took place on Sunday raised a question mark over the security arrangements at the refinery, where not even a single tool can be taken inside or brought out without proper documentation. Fearing that it would bring a bad name to the refinery, the security officials hid the issue from the media. However, the information was leaked after the Raman Mandi police arrested six persons, including two supervisors and two storekeepers of a private construction company, and a truck driver. The police is suspecting that the mastermind of the crime and some of his accomplices were absconding. Giving details, Rama Mandi SHO Harbant Singh said during the preliminary investigation, it came to light that the supervisors and the store keepers of a construction company, the BRC, were conspirators. Taking advantage of the good faith that the security officials at the refinery entrance had in them, they completed the formalities related to the entry of vehicle but did not take the vehicle inside. "Tempting the driver with an offer of Rs 15,000, they took the truck to the mastermind of the crime - Tarsem Chand, an employee of another construction company in the refinery - and unloaded it at his place in Bangi Ruldu village. Meanwhile, officials of the BRC came to know about the missing cement bags and they lodged a complaint with the police," the SHO said. About the involvement of security staff in the crime, the SHO said, "We have registered a case of theft and launched a probe to ascertain facts. As of now, their role could not be established." A trap had been laid to nab the mastermind, he added. |
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Shopkeepers encroach upon prime land in Fazilka
Fazilka, November 30 They have raised temporary huts by pitching tents on the plinth just under the main shed of the vegetable market for the last about couple of years. The farmers are supposed to keep their produce for auction at this place. It seems that the Market Committee authorities have turned blind eyes towards the encroachment. The farmers who bring their produce even during the midnight have to keep it in the open braving rainy, cold and hot weather resulting in damage to their produce. In some cases, stray animals roaming in the grain market also eat their vegetables. “We have brought the matter to the notice of the Market Committee authorities several times but nothing has come out so far,” alleged commission agents Ashok Bhusari, Subhash Gulbadhar and Satish Dhingra. The possibility of evasion of market fee cannot be ruled out as the small costly fruit boxes can be concealed in these tents easily, apprehended Dhingra. They warned that the authorities have been forcing them to resort to agitating means to get the encroachment vacated. On the other hand, secretary, market committee, Vijay Madaan maintains that the vegetable commission agents have been asked to remove the temporary tents through a public address system last Saturday and have been advised to construct their shops. In turn, the commission agents have sought demarcation of the auctioned shops, which has been sold to them by the New Punjab Mandi Township (Chandigarh) so that they could start construction of shops there. Madaan said the market committee would remove the tents within a few days. |
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Minor sodomised
Ferozepur, November 30 Besides raising slogans against the school authorities, the protestors also alleged that a functionary of the school also misbehaved with them when they went to school to make a written request to the authorities concerned to cooperate in police investigation. Later, the protestors submitted a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner KK Yadav in his office seeking his intervention in the matter. A case in this connection had been registered under section 377, 506 and 34 of the IPC against the alleged students at Sadar police station. No arrest has been made so far in this connection. Even the school authorities were yet to take action. Yadav, when contacted, said he had forwarded the copy of memorandum to the district police chief. He added that an FIR in the case had already been registered. Hence, no inquiry could be ordered. The DC added that he had also spoken to the district police chief in this connection. |
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‘Youth crushed to death’ Cops register case against bus driver Shariq Majeed/ TNS
Barnala, November 30 SHO (Bhadaur) Baljeet Singh confirmed to The Tribune that they have registered an FIR number 132 under relevant sections against Daljeet Singh, son of Nahar Singh of village Machike in Moga, the driver of the school bus of the Govind International Public School. Gulzar Ahmed, uncle of the deceased, while talking to the TNS said, “The police have registered a case in the back date.” Jameel Khan (20), son of Bhola Khan, was returning home on October 21 on his motorcycle from the grain market in Bhadaur, when he was allegedly crushed to death along Vidhata Nagar road by a bus of Govind International Public school owned by influential businessman Darshan Singh.
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Seed distribution
Abohar, November 30 Recalling that the agriculture minister had held a meeting with him under the directions from the Chief Minister on September 30 and assured that certified seed would be made available to the farmers on subsidised rates but recent media reports indicate again that seed was sold out to some flour mills in Bathinda district as well as other places. Regretfully, the food and supplies department also maintained a studied silence over the action taken after seizing hundreds of PDS (public distribution system) wheat seed bags during raids at some flour mills last year. It appears that the amount of subsidy received from the Central government was diverted to influential businessmen instead of giving the benefit to the deserving farmers. Regretfully, the state agriculture department had drawn Rs 35 crore only out of Rs 52 crore subsidy that had been earmarked by the Central government for Punjab under the national Food Security Mission last year, he said.
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Non-payment of farm loans
Bathinda, November 30 He alleged that officials of the Land Mortgage Bank, the Cooperative Bank and the Cooperative Department with the assistance of police were on an arresting spree in rural areas. Kin of the farmers were being harassed and humiliated in case the raiding parties were unable to trace the defaulting farmer at home, he added. Sidhu said the SAD-BJP combine government had failed to properly represent the case of Punjab before the Centre for the farm loan waiver thereby depriving the farmers of the one-time facility offered to all states. He pointed out that several farmers had been arrested in the Rama Mandi and Talwandi Sabo areas of the Bathinda district. |
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Prohibited drugs seized from medical shops
Bathinda, November 30 Habit-forming prohibited drugs were recovered during the raids by the sleuths of the Anti-narcotic Cell and cops from the Civil Lines, the Canal Colony and the Cantonment police stations along with staff of the district health department. Sources said in a well-planned move, the police department formed four separate teams to raid shops located in different areas, namely the Bhatti road, the Court road, the Puja Wala mohalla and one behind the Sports Stadium. The officials were completing formalities to lodge cases against the accused when this report was being filed.
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Sriganganagar-Sarai Rohilla
Abohar, November 30 Expressing concern over about eight months delay in launching the new train association vice-president Hanuman Dass Goyal faxed a memorandum to the Board on Tuesday regretted that the authorities concerned had decided to run the train tri-weekly and stoppages were fixed only for Bathinda, Dhuri, Jakhar, Jind and Rohtak. The train must be run daily with brief halts at Abohar, Malout and Gidderbaha and needs to be provided six sleeper coaches besides ordinary sitting coaches to facilitate those travellers who hail from low income group, the NGO demanded. |
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Aristotle, Socrates remembered
Abohar, November 30 Key speaker Dr MR Chilana, member UNESCO, UNICEF, CBSE and Navodya Vidyalaya advisory committees spoke on the occasion. Chilana regretted that education had developed politics, religion and society but it has been made slave by the politicians now. Prof SK Oberoi conducted the function. |
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