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Roadways employee murdered
Former DTO penalised Rs 25,000
Deflated tyres, loose nuts take air out of Mai Bhago Scheme
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The perfect 11
Reports on samples do a vanishing act
Pharmacists hold protest outside CS office
Gold chain snatched
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Roadways employee murdered
Jalandhar, November 11 The murder came to light when some girl students reached his place for getting their monthly bus passes signed from him. As one of the girls opened the door of his residence, she was shocked to see the body on the cot with blood splattered around. The girls informed his neighbours. Resham Singh, a neighbour of Pritam Singh, said the police was informed immediately. Neighbours claimed that Pritam reached home last evening in an inebriated state. Sources in the police revealed that a motorcycle, a mobile phone and the wallet of the deceased were also found missing. Hailing from Damoli village near Bhogpur, the victim had been residing in official accommodation alone after the death of his wife in 1999. His son is settled in Australia while his daughter is in Canada. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) Rajinder Kumar Sharma said there were stab marks on his neck and the assailants had used a kitchen knife to commit the crime. The police has also found a bottle of whisky, two glasses and a kitchen knife from his residence. The police also pressed a dog squad and a team of forensic experts into service. The body has been sent to the Civil Hospital for post-mortem. A case under Section 302 of the IPC has been registered against unidentified assailants at the New Baradari police station. The son and the daughter of the victim have been informed. The police apprehend that the assailant had drinks with Pritam before slitting his throat. Hunt was on to nab the assailants, the police said. |
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Former DTO penalised Rs 25,000
Jalandhar, November 11 The copy of the order released today mentions that the amount has to be paid by the official as her personal liability. State Information Commissioner Kulbir Singh has even asked the office of the DTO to pay the compensation amount before the next hearing scheduled for December 16. In his application, Harpreet Singh had said that he had sought the information from the official on August 27, 2010. The question was, “On the basis of which documents the registration certificate was issued by this office to the registered owner of vehicle number PB-08-BC-3388 namely Rajiv Pal Verma, resident of Nehru Garden Colony, Jalandhar.” Since the desired document was not supplied, a complaint was filed before the commission on June 13, 2011, and a notice was issued to for August 12, 2011. In the hearing, the complainant had said that no information had been supplied to him and therefore the PIO was directed to show cause. “In the hearing on September 23, the official neither provided the information nor filed any affidavit in response to the order showing cause. Babita Kler was the DTO-cum-PIO Jalandhar at the time the information was sought,” the order copy reads. It further mentions: “Jatinder Singh, clerk, appeared on behalf of the PIO and stated that he was not aware of the facts of the case and wanted another date. It shows that the PIO is not taking RTI Act seriously. Inspite of three hearings, the information has not been provided to the complainant. She has not even bothered to file reply to the show cause for delay in providing the information sent through registered post. In the above circumstances, there is sufficient basis for the commission to prima facie presume that the information has deliberately not been given to the complainant. “I award a sum of Rs 2,000 to the complainant under Section 19(8)(b) of the Act as compensation,” the order reads. |
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Deflated tyres, loose nuts take air out of Mai Bhago Scheme
Jalandhar, November 11 While they had plans to ride the bicycles home and show their new proud possession to their parents and friends, the cycles were retained by the school authorities as they were not found in a good condition. Nuts and bolts of paddles, springs of stands and valves of the tyres were either not intact or too loosely fit. The girls got themselves photographed with bicycles presented by former Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia in the presence of district education officer (elementary) Surjit Singh, deputy district science supervisor Rajan Handa and principal Kamaljot Kaur. During the function, Kalia reportedly noticed the school staff bringing cycles with flat tyres with much difficulty. He was infuriated to see that nuts and bolts of many cycles were not in place. Kalia immediately called up Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti and asked him to ensure that the cycles are refitted properly before passing them on to the students. He even asked the principal to coordinate with the DC and report the matter to him in writing. Soon, the bicycles were shifted to the judo hall in the school to be assembled well again by the fitters of Atlas company. When contacted, the school principal said: “I have been told that workers of the company will visit the school and re-assemble the cycles. All cycles parts have been procured from Ludhiana. They are being re-assembled at the government school in Nehru Garden. Around 990 bicycles are yet to be distributed. “How will the students take bicycles home?” asked a schoolteacher. When contacted, Deputy Commissioner said: “As soon as the matter was reported, I called up the owner of the company. He came to me and showed copies of receipts of delivered bicycles. He around 2,500 cycles were delivered here and there was no objection from the staff who received the cycles here. He, however, agreed to replace defective parts and re-assemble the cycles.” |
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The perfect 11
Jalandhar, November 11 An employee at a car bazaar in Jalandhar, Bachan Singh, the father, said, “We had never thought the natural birth of our girls would be marked with such a delighting coincidence.” As there was no demand involved in this special delivery, it makes the timing all the more unique. While the babies were due for a couple of weeks later, doctors told the family to go for the delivery today since Varinder’s (the mother) blood pressure had been rising constantly. “And since she was not in a position to undergo the strain of child birth, doctors told us to go for a caesarean,” Singh added. Born at the Vardaan Centre, the lucky twins are being nursed at the nursery of the Doaba Hospital until the time that they and their mother are healthy enough to go home. As the relatives come and sit by the mother, they marvel at the precious little ones and wonder what special dreams their destiny might hold. “Their timing is such that the relatives and visitors have all been saying the girls are going to be special and blessed. I just thank God for the wellbeing of my family and for making my girls special,” she said. Till then the 11/11/11 11.11 (shall we say?) babies serve as a constant means of amusement to incubator-peeking curious visitors and even hospital staff members who have been coming in to steal glances at these little epitomes of the once-in-a-hundred-years phenomenon.
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Reports on samples do a vanishing act
Jalandhar, November 11 As far as the Diwali samples are concerned, in October as many 37 samples were taken by the health authorities, but there is still no report on any of the samples. In another case of missing samples, following the jaundice outbreak four samples taken by the health officials in the area had tested positive, following which the MC authorities sent four of their own for testing, but the reports on none of them have arrived. Incidentally, in both the cases, officials have been issuing contradicting statements on the matter. The water samples taken from Baba Budha Ji Nagar during a jaundice outbreak by the Health Department were announced to have failed by department officials, contradictory to MC’s claims that the water in the area was clean. When the MC again took four samples, MC Commisioner BS Dhaliwal on November 1 said the reports on the samples were awaited from Chandigarh. A day later an MC official claimed that it would take a week for the reports on the samples to come. Till today, the reports have not arrived. MC Commissioner BS Dhaliwal, when contacted today, said the reports on the four samples would arrive by tomorrow. While Civil Surgeon HK Singla, when contacted, told The Tribune that the reports on some of the samples (37 in all) of sweets taken on Diwali had already arrived and there was nothing wrong with them. The rest, he said, were yet to arrive. The DHO, RL Bassan, however, speaking on the issue, said, “The reports on none of the samples have arrived yet. We will get them soon.” City residents believe that the only answer to the delay in the arrival of these reports is that the authorities want issues to die down and people to forget about the controversies. The reports, in the meanwhile, continue biting dust in the government record stores, never to be opened. |
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Pharmacists hold protest outside CS office
Jalandhar, November 11 Members of the Punjab State Pharmacists’ Association today held a rally outside the office of the Civil Surgeon to protest against the arrest of their colleagues during a dharna at Chandigarh a few days ago. President of the association Hukam Chand Thareja condemned the move of the Chandigarh Police of arresting the employees staging a peaceful dharna and keeping them in police custody till late in the night - on November 9. There are 150 pharmacists in the district. The association members said they are sore over the government’s attitude. Once they were getting pay grades better than the staff nurses, but now staff nurses pay grades are much better than them, said Union members. They said while the post of deputy director pharmacy has been implemented in Haryana five years ago and in Uttar Pradesh 32 years ago, Punjab still awaits the change. Talking about the shortage of posts in Jalandhar, they said there are a total of 150 posts across the district, but the Jalandhar Civil Hospital has only 10 sanctioned posts of pharmacists (and one pharmacist on deputation, making a total of 11). Out of these, four are chief pharmacists and the majority of the work is done by the rest seven, which causes them to be overworked, they said. “Despite this immense workload, we are put into jails when we protest for our rights. Is it fair?” they questioned. The demands in support of which they have been protesting, include - increase in their grade pay, change of the name of a pharmacist’s post to pharmacy officer, demand for posts of senior pharmacy officer, chief pharmacy officer and district pharmacy officer, putting a stop to contract system and more posts in the district. The next protest rally of the union will be held in the constituency of Harsimrat Kaur Badal in Bathinda on November 16. |
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A Punjab Roadways employee was found murdered in his official accommodation at Chhoti Baradari this morning.
Jalandhar, November 11
