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Inter-caste Marriage
160 child labourers rescued
Senior citizens sans pension for
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Over 600 take part in mutation camp
Siamese twins dead
Extortionist arrested
Man booked on charge of bid to kill wife
5 tantriks held
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Inter-caste Marriage
Fatehabad, June 19 After Dalip Singh, a former sarpanch of Hinjrawan Khurd village, allegedly hit the car thrice, both the tractor as well as the car overturned and fell on roadside fields, resulting in serious injuries to the alleged assailant. The boy’s parents and other kin also sustained injuries. The boy’s kin alleged that Dalip Singh was a close relative of the girl and he allegedly tried to kill them in the name of family honour “under the cover of a road accident”. Admitted to the general hospital here, boy Parveen’s father Shamsher Chand Kamboj alleged that the police had not registered their FIR, though they had given a written complaint. “My son had eloped with Santosh, a girl of the Bajigar community from our village on March 22 this year. Both are major and we do not have any news regarding them since then. However, members of the girl’s family have been threatening us since then,” he alleged. The girl’s family, he said, was angry with his son’s relation with Santosh. He said he was going towards Haripura village with his wife Sita Rani, brother Krishan, sister-in-law Krishna and a relative Sheela Rani today, when Dalip Singh allegedly tried to crush their car with his tractor. “First I thought that it was a simple accident. But, he hit my Alto car thrice before I could recover from the jerk received from the first thump,” said Shamsher Chand. The SHO of the Sadar police station, Vijender Kumar, said Dalip Singh was critically injured and the police would register an FIR after recording the statements of both the sides. Dalip Singh has been shifted to Hisar in a critical condition.
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160 child labourers rescued
Sirsa, June 19 The department launched the campaign to mark the World Day Against Child Labour on June 12 and the drive will continue till June 20. A spokesperson for the department said under this campaign, 13 commercial establishments in Sirsa had so far been served notices and 21 children had been rescued. The spokesperson said 15 children from Sirsa, five from Dabwali and one from Ellenabad, who had been working as child labour, had been rescued. He said two teams had been constituted for conducting raids in the state. Teams had also been constituted at the district and subdivisional level, comprising the Subdivisional Officer, the Executive Magistrate, the Tehsildar concerned and officers of the Social Justice and Empowerment Department. Apart from organising awareness camps, surprise checks were being conducted by these teams. Information about the Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act was being given to representatives of brick-kiln owners, industries, hotels, and dhabas, he said.
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Senior citizens sans pension for
3 months
Sirsa, June 19 Senior citizens allege that they have been running from pillar to post for their pension since April, but every time they were told that they would get their pensions soon. “Our pension is our only financial support at this age. But for the last three months, we have not received a penny,” said Parmeshwari Devi from Dabwali town. The authorities have entrusted the job of distribution of pension to the Axis Bank. The pension is to be distributed through biometric cards. The bank, in turn, has delegated the task to Fino, a company providing business correspondent services. Beneficiaries alleged that though the company has prepared biometric cards for a majority of them, the correspondents have not been visiting with the ATM machines for the distribution of their pension. Sumit Kumar, assistant manager of the Axis Bank, maintained that the pension of the beneficiaries would be distributed soon. “Ever since some unidentified miscreants looted Rs 9 lakh from a block coordinator of Fino on May 13, the workers are scared to venture out with money,” he said. |
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Minor’s Gang-rape
Jhajjar, June 19 According to the sources, the DGP has asked the SP what steps were being taken to arrest the sixth accused in the case, ESI Mahender Singh, who had been absconding since the incident. The DGP has also directed him to expedite the investigation process, besides taking strong measures to control the crime in the district. Six persons, including two Haryana policemen, had allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl under the jurisdiction of Bahadurgarh city police station when she was coming back to her home on June 14. The police had arrested five accused, identified as constable Rakesh of Bohar village in Rohtak, Ravi, Ajay, Sandeep and Vipul, but failed to nab Mahender Singh after registering a case under Sections 376 G, 506, 120 B and 366 of the IPC against them on the complaint of the victim’s father Trimal Singh. Later, both the policemen were placed under suspension. “Raids are being carried out at the possible hideouts of Mahender to arrest him but he is so far out of police net,” said the SP.
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Over 600 take part in mutation camp
Gurgaon, June 19 More than 600 applicants visited the camp to get their mutations registered. As many as 268 mutations were registered on the spot and copies of mutations were handed over to the applicants. In this novel initiative of the district administration, all revenue officials were available “and easily accessible” to the people under one roof. The camp was organised for residents of 40 villages in Gurgaon kanoongo circle. In Gurgaon kanoongo circle, there are 10 patwar circles namely Gurgaon, Sarhol, Wazirabad, Sukhrali, Bajghera, Garhi Harsaru, Harsaru, Budhera, Wazirpur, Dhankot and Daultabad. Interacting with newspersons at the camp, Deputy Commissioner PC Meena said during the computerisation of the land records, it was noticed that a number of mutations were pending in the Gurgaon tehsil area and complaints of harassment of people at the hands of revenue officials were also there. “So, we decided to organise a mega camp to enable the people to get their mutations registered,” Meena said. |
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Siamese twins dead
Fatehabad, June 19 Dr Ravi Kant Dawra, a paediatrician in Patiala Children and Maternity Home, where the conjoined twins were born last evening through a caesarian section, declared them dead late last evening. The thoracopagus twins - those conjoined at the thorax - had a common heart and even their lungs were interlinked. Sukhwinder (22), a woman from Sanga village near here, delivered the Siamese twins last evening in the nursing home. “As the auscultation of the heart rate by stethoscope was not possible due to their unison at the thorax, pulsation at their umbilical chords, which too was united, was the only source of recording the rate of blood circulation,” said Dr Dawra. The twins’ pulse ran at 100 beats per minute at the time of birth, but they had a problem in breathing. Dr Dawra said he tried his best to resuscitate the twins by giving artificial respiration through ambubag, but as was feared, the pulse stopped in the night and he had to declare the twins dead after all signs of life diminished. He said the Siamese twins with conjoined vital organs “are either delivered stillborn or have bleak chances of survival”. To avoid such situations, Dr Dawra said, the parents should follow modern obstetrics care that includes an ultrasound test in the sixth week to confirm the pregnancy and another in the second trimester to ascertain the wellbeing of the foetus. “The process of organogenesis (formation of body organs) is complete by 12 weeks and if the parents come to know of deformities like the conjoined twins at that stage, they have sufficient time to opt for abortion,” said the hospital gynaecologist, Dr Anjana Dawra. She said under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act - 1971, any doctor approved to conduct abortion, could legally recommend the medical termination of pregnancy in such cases, if the pregnancy was up to 12 weeks old. However, in case of more than 12 weeks and up to 20 weeks of pregnancy, a medical board of three doctors could recommend abortion legally. “The period between the 12th to 14th weeks is the optimum time for confirming the wellbeing of the foetus, so that timely steps could be taken, if needed,” she added. |
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Extortionist arrested
Kaithal, June 19 Accused Rajinder Singh was produced in a local court here on Saturday and sent to jail to effect the recovery of mobile phone used in making threatening call. SP Simardeep Singh gave this information here. — OC |
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Man booked on charge of bid to kill wife
Sirsa, June 19 The woman, Harpreet Kaur (30), was shifted to primary the health centre with a bullet injury on her thigh. Dr Bhushan Kumar, medical officer of the PHC, said the victim had been referred to the general hospital, Sirsa. A case has been registered agaisnt the husband, Gurpreet Singh. — TNS |
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5 tantriks held
Karnal, June 19 The villagers were randomly moving around the cremation ground to identify the tantriks and finally succeeded when they found two persons sitting near the pyre and performing some “unconventional rituals”. The villagers caught hold of them and in the meantime three more tantriks also arrived and were nabbed by the police. The police station in charge of Sadar Thana, Preetam Chand Saini, said the tantriks have been booked under the Section 297 for trespassing into cremation ground with intentions to wound the feelings of people and showing indignity to any human corpse. The arrested persons would be produced in the court for remand.
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The tale of an inter-caste love affair and marriage of a runaway couple turned murkier today when a kin of the girl allegedly tried to kill the parents and three other kin of the boy by crushing their car with his tractor.
Fatehabad, June 19
