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Computer teacher rapes Class XII student
Kapurthala, July 7
A teacher allegedly raped a plus two student of a government school of Saidpur village in Sultanpur Lodhi subdivision on Tuesday afternoon.

Powercom sets up 43 complaint centres, four control rooms
Jalandhar, July 7
Taking note of low voltage and frequent power cuts in Doaba region, the Powercom authorities have directed its officials to redress consumers’ grievances in time.

Hazare’s draft flawed: Ashwani
Gurdaspur, July 7
Ashwani Kumar, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Planning, Science and Technology, today asserted that the original Lok Pal Bill draft presented by Anna Hazare and his team was flawed and added that the government would rework the draft before it was presented to the Cabinet for final approval.

Crime Zone

3 brothers booked for murder
Murder case solved; brother, wife held

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	Computer teacher rapes Class XII student Dharmendra Joshi Tribune News Service Kapurthala, July 7 A teacher allegedly raped a plus two student of a government school of Saidpur village in Sultanpur Lodhi subdivision on Tuesday afternoon. The village panchayat handed over the computer teacher Talwinder Singh of Government Girls High School, Saidpur, to the Talwandi Chaudhriya police after thrashing him on Wednesday. Talwandi Chaudhriya SHO Sub-Inspector Kulwant Singh told The Tribune that a case was registered against the teacher of Saadwala village under Sections 376 and 506 of Indian Penal Code on the basis of the girl student’s statement. The teacher had not been formally arrested. Earlier, the teacher tendered an apology to the panchayat for his misdeed. The SHO claimed that nobody had beaten the teacher in front of the police. According to police sources, the girl of Mangupur village turned 18 just two months ago, whereas the computer teacher is 25 years’ old. The sources said the computer teacher took the student with him at around 1 pm during school time to his maternal uncle’s house in the village and nobody was at the house at that time as his uncles were evading arrest in a dowry case. However, when the teacher and the girl were coming out of the house after about half an hour, some villagers noticed them. Meanwhile, sources said some senior villagers were trying to sort out the issue by persuading both the parties to arrange marriage of the teacher and the student. However the SHO said the police would formally arrest the teacher and produce him in the court. The police was awaiting the report of the girl’s medical examination.
	Powercom sets up 43 complaint centres, four control rooms Bipin Bhardwaj Tribune News Service Jalandhar, July 7 Taking note of low voltage and frequent power cuts in Doaba region, the Powercom authorities have directed its officials to redress consumers’ grievances in time. Besides this, the Powercom has also directed its officials to ensure uninterrupted power supply to the consumers. A spokesperson for the Powercom revealed that for the convenience of consumers, the department had set up 43 complaint centres and four control rooms in Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Nawanshahr districts. The consumers, in case of emergency, could register their complaints at their nearest complaint centre and control rooms, he added. Complaints could also be registered at its main complaint centre at Ludhiana (0161-5055510). The management had also offered a round-the-clock helpline to the consumers of the region if their problems were not solved within two hours. The incidents of damage to transformers and transmission lines had been reported in the region in the past couple of days, sources revealed. The authorities, however, claimed that the local breakdowns and damage to roadside electricity poles were the main hindrances in the regular power supply. The incidents of local breakdown in power supply had witnessed a sharp increase as temperature had gone up in last months, an official said.
	Hazare’s draft flawed: Ashwani Tribune News Service Gurdaspur, July 7 Ashwani Kumar, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Planning, Science and Technology, today asserted that the original Lok Pal Bill draft presented by Anna Hazare and his team was flawed and added that the government would rework the draft before it was presented to the Cabinet for final approval. “The draft after getting approval of the Cabinet will be presented in the monsoon session of Parliament slated to commence from August 1. The Parliament will then constitute a standing committee, which will go into the merits and demerits of the draft before it is sent back to the Parliament for further discussion. Only then the draft will take the contours of a Bill,” Ashwani Kumar added. He said the original Lok Pal draft, as envisaged by Anna Hazare and his team, had “many fundamental flaws and contained too many frivolous things, which needed to be rectified.” He added that he personally was not in favour of bringing the Prime Minister and the higher judiciary under the ambit of the Lok Pal Bill. “Let me make it clear that we do not agree with the draft and we will bring in our own draft for discussion in the Parliament. As far as the Prime Minister is concerned I feel that he being the highest executive authority in the country should be left out of the Lok Pal’s scope. You can not make the country’s Prime Minister answerable to anybody. Moreover as per the present constitutional provisions, Judges of the Supreme Court can not be brought under the Lok Pal.”
	Crime Zone 3 brothers booked for murder Hoshiarpur, July 7 Balkar Singh of Khichian village succumbed to his injuries at the Civil Hospital, Mukerian, last night. According to police sources, Balkar Singh was seriously wounded when Bachan Singh, Satta and Lucky, all sons of Baldev Singh of Bhattian Rajputan, assaulted him when he tried to stop them from ploughing fields adjacent to his haveli, where he was resting, on July 2. The Mukerian police has registered a case under Sections 302, 324 and 34 of the IPC against the trio. — OC Murder case solved; brother, wife held Batala, July 7 The police has solved the murder case of Mohinder Singh, resident of Kotli Surat Malian village, with the arrest of his brother and his wife. The SSP, Gureep Singh, told mediapersons here today that Mohinder Singh, resident of Kotli Surat Malian village, was murdered by his brother Davinder Singh in connivance with Sandeep Kaur (Mohinder Singh’s wife) on Sunday. Davinder Singh and Sandeep Kaur had developed illicit relations, which were objected to by Mohinder Singh. The SSP said Davinder Singh, resident of Kotli Surat Mallian village, and Sandeep Kaur, resident of the same village, were arrested here on Thursday. The Sadar police station had registered a case under Section 302 of the IPC. Sandeep Kaur and Davinder Singh were produced in the court, which remanded them in police custody. — OC
	Two killed in blast at junk dealer’s shop Our Correspondent Pathankot, July 7 Two persons were killed in a blast in a junk dealer’s shop near MSP cinema on Pathankot-Jalandhar road here today. The incident occurred at 4 pm when junk dealers Ravi Kumar (47) and Rakesh Kumar (22) were trying to cut an oil tanker with gas cutter. During the process of cutting the tanker the oil which was said to be in the tanker caught fire which exploded in a moment. Both were killed on the spot. According to an eyewitness the bodies were charred badly and were found on the other side of the road, 22 feet away from the shop. SHO Dev Dutt Sharma reached the spot and started the rescue operation. The explosion caused panic in the market. The bodies were sent to the Civil Hospital for postmortem.