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Doon murder case: Decayed left foot recovered
Family couldn’t smell rat for two months
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Murdered Anupama’s tale of sufferings
BJP govt has failed state people: Arya
2 held for poisoning fish in Gang Canal
Thief held, 11 tolas of gold recovered
Monica’s 60-year journey into world of art
8 tenements burnt, 2 cows perish
2 killed in accident
Oppn locks gates of Haridwar MC Chairman office
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Doon murder case: Decayed left foot recovered
Dehradun, December 15 The police took Rajesh Gulati along with them to the Mussoorie Road where he had thrown pieces of the body of his wife after killing her. The police took him also to Shiv Mandir, but couldn’t find anything there. The cops that only recovered a part of the body, which was badly infected by bacteria, think that some pieces might have been eaten up by wild animals or hawks. The police through DNA test will try to match the body parts of the victim. With this the police investigation seems to be completed. Meanwhile, the police really had a tough time, while looking for the pieces of body in jungle area. The police had to go deep down to the rivulet in the jungle area. The police had gone to the place this morning and returned late in the evening. Meanwhile, the person who did the post mortem of Anupama’s body said this was the first such case in his life. He came out four times while doing the post mortem due to the stink that was emanating from the body. He also found it hard to cut the parts of the body as they were very hard due to being kept in the freezer two months. Maternal uncle gets kids’ custody
The court today gave interim custody of the two children, whose mother Anupama was murdered by her husband Rajesh Gulati, to their maternal uncle Sujan Kumar Pradhan. Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Kanwar Amaninder Singh has given December 24 as the next hearing date. He also said the two children be produced in the court every month. The court said if Gulati wanted to meet the kids, he could meet them on the fourth Saturday of every month. It was expected in the morning that the father and brother-in-law of Gulati would also come to the court. But they didn’t come. However, Gulati was produced in the court as he had requested the court to let him be allowed in the court whenever the decision on his children’s custody was given.
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Family couldn’t smell rat for two months
Dehradun, December 15 It was only after about two months that the family felt something wrong at the bottom since they couldn’t talk to Anupama for long. Following this, her brother Sujan Kumar Pradhan came to Dehradun on December 12. Pradhan after reaching Doon sent an e-mail to his sister to contact her as he was in the city. But the e-mail kept coming from her, which was being replied by Gulati that everything was well between them and they didn’t want to contact the in-laws. Same sort of repeated replies made Pradhan suspicious and he lodged a complaint with the police and the truth could come to light later. The police think that since Gulati was an engineer he must have hacked his wife’s e-mail ID. However, it is unclear whether Anupama herself had given the password to Gulati. |
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Murdered Anupama’s tale of sufferings
Dehradun, December 15 “We told her under the current circumstances she should leave Gulati. We also offered to give her a house, money and help her get a good job in an IT firm in Delhi, but she didn’t agree to come back,” said Sujan Kumar Pradhan, her brother. “She used to speak less with her mother since the mother used to sometimes rebuke her. So she mostly used to talk to me. I had told her she should leave Gulati if he had some another woman in his life. But she wanted to settle everything considering the future of her kids,” Pradhan said adding that Rajan, brother of Gulati, had himself informed him about his affair with a woman in Kolkata, who also has a child from her husband. Pradhan said Gulati had a property dispute with his brother Rajan, who asked him to leave the Kolkata woman and get back to his family life. Pradhan told The Tribune, Gulati wouldn’t allow his wife to talk to her family and often beat her. Even Anupama had told her family members not to call her and that only she would contact them as her husband used to fight over the issue. The brother of the brutally murdered woman also rubbished the claims of Gulati that he used to give Rs 20,000 per month to Anupama, and said she wouldn’t even get money if she wanted to buy something. This was the reason, Pradhan said, he would send money to her through Anupama’s friend in the USA. Anupama’s has two elder brothers. Another brother who is living in Singapore came to Delhi after hearing the sad news. He couldn’t come to Doon since his parents in Delhi are very old and need help and support. Father of Anupama is a retired government doctor and the mother a housewife.
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BJP govt has failed state people: Arya
Dehradun, December 15 “The state government has spent Rs 2,000 crore out of the total budget of Rs 6,800 crore till December. It shows that there would be hurry to spend the budget in the coming three months compromising on the quality of works and leading to pilferages,” he alleged. The state government has been misleading the people on the help provided by the Union Government. The Union Government provides grants up to 90 per cent on various schemes but the state government has failed miserably to take advantage of the schemes. “The state government for the ongoing Central schemes have utilised only 20 per cent of the amount and the rest 80 per cent of the Central grants have lapsed,” he said. The Uttarakhand Congress Chief said his party would launch an agitation to make the state government accountable to each and every penny given by the Central Government for disaster relief. On being asked about the formation of his new executive, Arya said the state executive of the Congress would be announced within 15 days. |
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2 held for poisoning fish in Gang Canal
Haridwar, December 15 Fear of poisonous river water running into the Jhilmil lake via the Gang Canal is also being expressed. Wild animals quench their thirst from this lake. Notably, some residents of Tatwala village mixed poisonous liquid into the conserved lake of Jhilmil to net thousands of fish. This crime took place in approximately 600-metre area of the river bed where fish are found in abundance. The incident came into light when some local people found thousands of fish dead in the lake. Speaking to The Tribune, District Forest Officer Gopal Singh Rana said four villagers of Tatwala village were primarily involved in this act and under the Wild Life Act they had been charged and raids were being conducted for their arrest. Meanwhile, the officials are waiting for the sample report of the water and the dead aquatic species which have been sent to Dehradun and Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh)-situated laboratories. While animal lovers have expressed fear of such acts being occurring in regular intervals, they have demanded strict steps to prevent such acts in future. Divisional officer KS Rawat stated samples of both river water and lake water had been taken and reports were awaited for the necessary action in the case. Jhilmil Jheel, a wetland, was declared Swamp Deer Conservation Reserve by President APJ Abdul Kalam five years ago and is spread in more than 3,000 hectares of area falling in Haridwar forest division. The only other such conservation reserve in the state is Assan Barrage situated in Dehradun district where any type of hunting or fishing is prohibited.
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Thief held, 11 tolas of gold recovered
Pitthoragarh, December 15 “The thief named Manoj Koranga (17), a resident of the Thal Thana area in the district, has been arrested and almost all gold ornaments stolen from the house of Rajendra Singh Mahar on December 6, have been recovered,” said Nilesh Anand Barane, SP, Pitthoragarh, in a press conference here today. The police also produced the goldsmith who had purchased all gold ornaments from the thief and said this nabbing would pave way to expose other thefts that had taken place in the town last month. “IG, Kumaon, Ram Singh Meena has awarded a prize of Rs 5,000 and the Pitthoragarh SP Rs 2,500 to the police team who had nabbed the thief,” said the SP.
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Monica’s 60-year journey into world of art
Dehradun, December 15 About 50 of her works of art done over a period of 60 years are on display at the exhibition called “Full Circle”, a journey into the world of art from 1950-2010. In her early 70s, Monica has been painting all her life. She first copied a portrait of Radha and Krishna at age five when she was visiting her grandfather in Patna. So impressed were her grandfather Rai Bahadur Ashatosh Ghattak, an educationist, and others in the family that she became known as a “little artist”. Besides the master degree in English, Monica did a diploma course in Fine Arts and Crafts at Allahabad. “Thereafter, it seems if art has become an inseparable part of my life. I was head of the department of art at Welham Boys School from 1980 to 1985. Then I taught painting at Doon School from 2000-02. I also worked in the graphic studio of Lalit Kala Akademi in Delhi. However, my most exciting assignment came when I was made an art consultant to ONGC Golden Jubilee Museum now renamed Subir Raha Museum,” she explains her journey in the world of art. This is not the first time that Monica is holding a solo exhibition. Earlier, her solo exhibitions were held in Government Museum, Chandigarh, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, All-India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi, Washington DC (twice) and Chicago. She also displayed her paintings in London in a group exhibition. Her paintings are in the collections in many places, including Lalit Kala Akademi, Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi, Uttarakhand Secretariat, Dehradun, and ONGC Subir Raha Museum. Her paintings also adorn many private and public collections in India and abroad. Monica is now having her first solo exhibition in Dehradun, the city where she moved in 1956 with her husband SN Talukdar (he retired as Member, Exploration, ONGC. Art gallery within year: Alva
Speaking on the occasion, Governor Alva said a proper art gallery would come up within a year at the Himalayan Cultural Centre in Dehradun, which would facilitate painters and artists to put up their art exhibitions there. The work on the construction of the cultural centre is underway at the designated site situated near IHM in the Garhi Cantonment area here. Praising the works of Monica, in particular her rendition of Jai Shankar Prasad's "Kamayani" through water colours, the Governor said the fusion of literature and painting was very unique. Going around the exhibition accompanied by Monica, she appreciated the depiction of natural beauty in all its splendour through different forms of art, including sketching, etching and acrylic painting on canvas. The Governor said the Doon Art Society, of which Monica is the founder president, was serving as a platform for nurturing young talent. She said with the growing membership of the society, it had become imperative to raise funds for the development of the gallery. "The state government has already committed Rs 25 crore for the ambitious project and there is a commitment from my side to raise a matching amount to provide fillip to the growth of art and culture in the state," she said. |
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8 tenements burnt, 2 cows perish
Nainital, December 15 According to information, residents of these tenements were out for work when they caught fire. The fire was brought under control by the local population. The losses are being put to the tune of Rs 20 lakh by the locals. Since the tenements were made of wood, it took little time for them to be reduced to the ashes. With the village not being connected by road, fire tenders could not reach the spot. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. |
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2 killed in accident
Dehradun, December 15 Accident happened when a city bus (UP-11-T-42610) hit the Activa scooter coming from Haridwar to Dehradun. With the impact of the collision the riders died on the spot. The police also reached the spot with its team. |
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Oppn locks gates of Haridwar MC Chairman office
Haridwar, December 15 Protesting palika members, from the Congress, the Bahujan Samaj party, the Samajwadi party and independents, gathered on the Palika premise in the morning and raised slogans. They marched towards the offices of the Chairman and Executive Officer and locked their gates, bringing the civic authority’s working to a halt. Demanding that the election of vice-chairman be held as the Chairman is not able to carry out its duty properly, Leader of Opposition in the Palika Sanjay Sharma said development works had got stalled in the whole area under the Palika purview and it was in the best interest of the city that vice-chairman gets elected for a better representation of the Opposition. Dinesh Joshi, head of a sub-panel committee, pointed out that despite formation of the state ten years back, the respective state government’s had failed to make our own municipal Act. Palika’s executive Officer BL Arya expressed resentment over the move of the Opposition, saying that in a democratic way councillors could have expressed their demands and by stalling the working of the Palika the developmental would be affected.
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Dehradun, December 15
After the incident of illegal killing of fish in the Gang Canal near Jhilmil Lake Conservation Reserve, Chidiyapur Forest Range, came to light, the Forest Department has arrested two culprits who have admitted to their involvement in killing the fish by adding poisonous substance in the canal water. Forest Department officials have said soon more arrests would be made and a decision to keep a regular vigil in the area to check such illegal practice has been taken.
Dehradun, December 15
The working of the Haridwar Municipal Committee (MC) was severely affected today with opposition ward members locked the gates of the municipal premises in connection with various demands. They were demanding from municipal Chairman Kamal Johra that elections for the post of vice-chairman in the Palika be held as well as their protest against state government’s failure to compile its own Municipal Act be registered.
