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Another clash erupts in jail
6 injured in attack over land dispute, 32 booked
Farmers’ blockade in Beas leaves city passengers stranded at bus stand
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Rising crime fails to wake up residents
Strike hits services at GND hospital
Dilapidated children’s park gets support of industrialists
A Polish touch
Polio threat: Central team visits Lopoke, check post
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Another clash erupts in jail
Amritsar, December 6 However, the jail superintendent, Rashpal Singh, said the gangs were involved in a verbal dual and situation was brought under control by the staff headed by DSP Balkar Singh Bhullar. Sources said members of Likhari gang, headed by Ankur Likhari, and Sanjiv Baba-led Cobra Gang indulged in a fierce tussle which left four persons injured. They were given treatment in the jail premises only. It is pertinent to mention here that Sanjiv Baba was earlier a member of Likhari gang. Both Ankur and Baba were being taken to the district court for hearing in a murder case of Raju Chikna, member of Jagtar Boxer gang outside the court premises in January 2010. However, in the jail, Baba created his own gang - Cobra gang - by involving several 'unscrupulous' inmates lodged in the jail. Ankur Likhari did not like this and it became a bone of contention between the two, it was learnt. "When they reached the lobby of the jail premises, the two were involved in a physical dual. They attacked each other with bricks lying in the area," said sources. The staff which was waiting outside the jail lobby was immediately called inside and situation was brought under control, added the sources. The jail superintendent said both were involved in verbal dual only and not in any physical assault on each other. Both the accused were later taken to the court for hearing and brought back to the jail. On November 7, an inmate was brutally assaulted by 10 other inmates over a petty issue. The victim, Nishan Singh, was stabbed in the face with sharp-edged weapon. Later, it was discovered that the spoons and other utensils which had been sharpened to give the shape of knife-like weapon, were used by the assaulters. It had taken 20 minutes for the jail authorities to reach the site of the incident. Nishan Singh was admitted to the surgical ward of Guru Nanak Dev Hospital and underwent treatment for head injury and deep cuts on his face.
Last clash
Gang war
* Members of the Likhari gang and the Cobra gang had a tussle inside the jail
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6 injured in attack over land dispute, 32 booked
Amritsar, December 6 The accused, armed with pistols, guns and sharp-edged weapons, fired and attacked indiscriminately at a family in the Sultanwind village. Six persons were seriously injured in the assault, who were later rushed to nearby hospital. A case under Sections 307, 452, 324, 427, 148 and 149 of the IPC and Sections 25, 27, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act and Section 3(10) of the SC/ST Act has been registered. Those booked included Bhupinder Singh, Hardev Singh, Rawel Singh, Kashmir Singh, Sonu Mahal, Mangu and Sukhwinder Singh and 25 other unidentified persons. All are resident of Sultanwind. Joga Singh, a resident of Patti Baba Jeewan Singh, said he and his wife, Rajbir Kaur, and son, Harpreet Singh, were at their home when the accused arrived on two motorcycles and a tractor trolley. He said accused were armed with .12 bore rifles, swords, sickles, axes and sticks. He alleged they used foul language against their caste and fired at them. They ransacked the whole house and fled when people started gathering. He said the accused were planing to grab the land belonging to Baba Kosena and started digging it recently. Joga Singh and his family opposed the action. The police authorities said the accused were at large since the registration of case.
Fact file
* Bhupinder Singh, Hardev Singh, Rawel Singh, Kashmir Singh, Sonu Mahal, Mangu and Sukhwinder Singh and 25 others attacked a family of Joga Singh in Sultanwind village *
The accused tried to grab land belonging to Baba Kosena
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Farmers’ blockade in Beas leaves city passengers stranded at bus stand
Amritsar, December 6 Due to non-plying of buses, hundreds of passengers (for Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Delhi and many other places) were stranded at the bus stand for several hours. Buses coming from that direction were diverted to another route to cross Beas. Harpinder Singh, a passenger, said, "I am waiting for the bus for the last one hour. Nobody knows for sure when the bus will come." Joginder Pal Kumar, another passenger, said, "People are taking diversions towards Tarn Taran so as to avoid getting in trouble at Beas." He said people must think twice before disrupting traffic and thus causing inconvenience to public. He said blocking traffic to hold a protest has become very common these days. Most of the passengers preferred to use rail service to get to their destinations. Sukhjinder Singh from Attari said, "As there is no blockade on the rail route, boarding a train is lot more convenient." He said the people are unnecessarily harassed by the agitating farmers. Because of the delay in arrival of the buses from other destinations to Amritsar, their departure from here too was delayed. Most of bus counters for destinations falling on this route remained empty for most of the day. Satish Kumar, a bus driver, said, "Normally the counters are never empty as buses for these destinations leave after every few minutes. Today passengers have to wait for hours before they got a bus." He said on usual days, a bus can reach Beas in 45-50 minutes but because of the blockade, it is taking around two or more hours to cover the same journey.
Commuting trouble
* Due to non-plying of buses, hundreds of passengers (bound for Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Delhi and many other places) were struck at the bus stand for several hours. *
Many passengers opted for trains to reach their destinations
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Investigating officer removed from case
Slow pace of probe acted against Inspector Vavinder Kumar PK Jaiswar Tribune News Service
Amritsar, December 6 Harjit Singh Brar, SP (D), Amritsar rural police district, will also see into the role of previous investigating officer and inspector Vavinder Kumar. The police had unearthed misappropriation of food grains in public distribution system (PDS) in the mid of last month and had arrested two persons, including a ration depot holder, in this connection. The Special Narcotics Cell of the border range has seized around 50 bags of wheat meant for government ration depots in Gurdaspur that were being brought to Amritsar to be sold in the open market. Ram Singh, Deputy Inspector General of Police, confirmed the development saying the inquiry has now been shifted to an SP-rank officer following numerous complaints received against the previous investigating officer. "I received a number of complaints regarding the slow and tardy pace of investigation and that it was not being carried out 'properly' as it should be. Due to this, I shifted the inquiry to Harjit Singh Brar, SP (D) Amritsar rural police district," said the DIG. He said Brar would also probe into the role of previous investigating officer whether he was working as per law or not. He said as per the complaints received by him, Vavinder Kumar failed to properly record statements and documents regarding the case. It is pertinent to mention here that Pardeep Singh, a resident of Ajmalpur and a ration depot holder, was held by the Anti-Narcotics Cell when he was going to supply more than two dozens of wheat bags procured from ration depot holders at Gurdaspur to flour mills located at Fatehgarh Churian road here. He was intercepted near Bal Kallan village at a naka. Later, during the investigations, one Gaurav of Devi Nagar at Fatehgarh Churian road was nabbed and another haul of wheat bags of PDS were recovered. A case under Sections 420, 406 and 411 of the IPC had been registered at Kamboh police station in this connection.
Probe on
* Harjit Singh Brar, SP (D), Amritsar rural police district, is the new investigating officer |
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Rising crime fails to wake up residents
Amritsar, December 6 Last year, the city police has to initiate action against the house owners and registered cases against them for violation of the order issued by the Police Commissioner. As many as 48 cases were registered during the drive on a single day against the house owners who failed to inform the police before hiring a servant or keeping a tenant in their residential complexes. Later, they were released on bail. The police authorities at various police stations revealed that only a few number of servants or tenants were registered during the previous year. On an average, only one or two servants were registered at the police station for a month and sometimes not even that. Police Commissioner RP Mittal using his magisterial powers issued directions under Section 144 of the CrPC and asked the residents to submit photographs, permanent residential proofs and other relevant details of tenants and domestic help to the nearest police station. He pointed out that that the past experiences suggested that criminals, in the garb of domestic help, had taken advantage of the lacunae in the system and had gone untraceable after committing the crime. "This creates law and order problem in the city while the police has to face the criticism at the hand of same people, who care a little to the directions issued by the police," said Deputy Commissioner of Police Sat Pal
Joshi. "The police face a lot of problem in tracing culprits after they escape after committing crime. Had the employers gave antecedents of their servants or tenants to the police, we could have managed to nab them after knowing their whereabouts," said an SHO of a police station. People want to keep domestic help but hardly care to get their antecedents submitted with the police due to baseless fear of police harassment. "Though we have employed a domestic help, but we don't know that we need to submit their credentials to the police. Hardly any resident in the area has done so," said Veena, a resident of Chheharta area. Joshi urged the residents to submit the details of their tenants and domestic help registered with the police station concerned. If the residents failed to do so, we have to launch a drive in this direction and take action against defaulters.
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Strike hits services at GND hospital
Amritsar, December 6 Due to the strike, the patients’ wards at the hospital is nearly empty. The medical ward at the hospital had only two patients. The other beds in the ward were unoccupied. Even at surgery ward, only six patients were admitted. The same wards, where newly admitted patients find it hard to get a bed for themselves because of the large flow of patients, are presently waiting for patients. The insiders at the hospital said at present around 150 patients are admitted in the hospital, which has a capacity to house more than 950 patients. Narinder Buttar, vice-president, nurses’ association, said, “There is nobody in the wards to attend to the patients. In the absence of employees, the hospital is not admitting many of the patients.” Buttar said even patients themselves are not keen on coming to a hospital where the staff is not on duty. She added that services for the public are getting affected because of the government not considering the employees demands. She said patients are forced to get medical services from private hospitals. “The patients are at a loss as they have to pay heavy sums of money at private hospitals. The GND hospital too is losing revenue,” she said. A patient Ram Sharan said, “Poor patients are not getting the required medical services.” He added that the government must find a solution to the problem. When contacted Medical Superintendent Dr Karnail Singh admitted that the number of patients at the hospitals has gone down because of the strike by the employees. However, he said he is not sure about the exact number of patients admitted to the hospital as the nurses who conduct daily census of the patients are on strike. He said that he is not getting the daily census reports these days. Dr Singh said, “The patients have stopped coming to the hospital on their own as they are aware of the employees strike.”
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Dilapidated children’s park gets support of industrialists
Amritsar, December 6 Rickety and broken swings, seesaw and other installations pose danger to children playing in the park. Kamal Dalmia, secretary general, Focal Point Industries Association, said what to talk of creating new infrastructure, the authorities were not able to maintain the available facilities. He said, "We don't want to crib and criticise the government and authorities. Leading business families of the city are ready to contribute by themselves to install fine quality swings and other facilities at the park in Ram Bagh." He said the park has been lying unused and without proper infrastructure since many years. And in the absence of any alternative place, children of the area have nowhere to go. He said there was one privately run amusement park but it falls on a side of the city and parents have to shell out good amount as fee to gain entry. Hence, extra financial burden and distance deter parents to visit the park daily. He elaborated that the industrialists would fund the entire cost of installation of sophisticated equipments in the park. He added that rest of the job for maintaining the children's park and the decision of levying entry fee would depend on the Amritsar Municipal Corporation (AMC). AMC Commissioner Dharam Pal Gupta said he would send teams to take stock of the prevailing situation in both children's parks in Ram Bagh and Gole Bagh and would take required steps to stem the anomaly, if any. He said the corporation was receptive to all novel ideas for installing equipments in the park and would extend full cooperation and support.
What They say?
"The industrialists will fund the entire cost of installation of sophisticated equipment in the
park."—
"The MC will extend full support to anybody willing to set up equipment in the
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A Polish touch
Amritsar, December 6 They were treated with Punjabi food. The students of the school presented a cultural programme. They also took Polish students to Golden Temple, Jallianwala Bagh and Wagah border. School principal Rajni Kalra appreciated the efforts of the visitng team. — TNS
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Polio threat: Central team visits Lopoke, check post
Amritsar, December 6 The team headed by ministry’s joint secretary Anuradha Gupta, reviewed the ongoing National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and the immunisation programs. Talking to the media, Anuradha Gupta said there is a constant threat of virus importation from Pakistan. “The last polio case is India was reported from Howrah in Best Bengal on January 13 this year. So far it is been the longest polio free duration,” she said adding that because of the reports of polio outbreak in Pakistan, a polio booth has been set up at Attari. She said in the past two months polio drops has been administered to around 300 children coming from across the border. However, she said as the rail and road routes from Pakistan has already been covered, administering the drops at airports is not viable because of the heavy rush of passengers.
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Amritsar, December 6
Amritsar, December 6
On November 7, an inmate was brutally assaulted by 10 other inmates over a petty issue. The victim, Nishan Singh (in picture), was stabbed in the face with sharp-edged weapon. Later, it was discovered that the spoons and other utensils which had been sharpened to give the shape of knife-like weapon, were used by the assaulters. It had taken 20 minutes for the jail authorities to reach the site of the incident. 
However, the order as of now has fallen on deaf ears as residents continued to adopt negligent approach despite an alarming rise in criminal activities in the holy city.