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Girl raped, thrown out of car on Dabwali road
Heroin worth Rs 30 crore seized
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Tapping talent
Mid-Day meals
Pulse polio: 52 per cent target met on Day 1
Convention criticises Centre’s economic policies
Talwandi Sabo resident held with one kg opium
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Girl raped, thrown out of car on Dabwali road
Bathinda, January 20 The girl, whose identity was not disclosed by the police, was allegedly raped and manhandled after being administered drugs. The girl is learnt to have told the police that the occupants of the car forced her to sit with them in the vehicle near the sector-43 bus stand in Chandigarh on Friday evening. The police, however, was not clear over the place from where the girl was kidnapped. The girl was taken to the Civil Hospital, Bathinda, by Rohtash, a resident of Rajasthan. Rohtash, along with a friend of his, was trailing a white Maruti Swift car on Dabwali road today in the evening at around 5.45 pm when they spotted the girl being thrown out of the car. The youths were on their way to Sanghria in Rajasthan to attend a marriage. "The Swift car moving ahead of us slowed down and something was thrown out of it. We failed to note down the registration number of the car as we were looking at what was thrown out of the car," Rohtash said. He said they spotted the girl only when they came closer. The girl was in an unconscious state and was offered help by some passersby. "As soon as the girl become conscious, we realized that she needed medical attention at the earliest," the youths said. The two youths added that though they were around 25 kilometers away from Bathinda and were getting late for the marriage, they decided to take the girl to the Civil Hospital in view of her condition. The doctors at the Civil Hospital, Bathinda, said the girl was in a semi-conscious state. The girl is learnt to have done a course in nursing from Gidderbaha and had gone for an interview at a private hospital at Mohali but was allegedly kidnapped by a middle-aged man who was later accompanied by more men. The girl is learnt to have told the police that her tormentors made a video of hers after administering her injections and drugs. Senior police functionaries including the SP (City), SP (Detective), DSP City, SHO, Canal Colony, CID and intelligence officials also reached the Civil Hospital. The girl's family was informed in Landeke village of Moga district. Police said the girl has two young brothers and an elder sister. The family members also had a word over the phone with the youths who brought her to the hospital. SP (City) Dharampal said the statements of the girl were being recorded and a case would be registered in this regard. Further action would be initiated after taking the version of the girl's family members who were on their way to Bathinda from Moga. Meanwhile, Pali Mashana, one of the volunteers of the NGO Sangat Sahara, said young boys and girls are seen moving in cars and two-wheelers at odd hours on Dabwali road. "The police should increase patrolling on this stretch so that such incidents are reduced," Pali Mashana said. Meanwhile, SSP Ravcharan Brar said a case was being registered at Raman police station and teams have been formed to investigate the case further. Fact file
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Heroin worth Rs 30 crore seized
Bathinda, January 20 Making the announcement at a press conference here, Inspector General (IG), Counter-intelligence, Dr Jatinder Jain said the accused were arrested under a special operations launched against the smuggling of drugs. The accused, identified as Malkit Singh, has been booked under sections 21, 61, 85 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act at the Mamdot police station in Ferozepur district. Police said the accused is an international heroin smuggler involved in the trade for the past many years. During the investigations, the accused revealed that he is in touch with a Pakistani smuggler Shera. He told police that 20 packets of heroin worth Rs 100 crores were smuggled from Pakistan through Ferozepur on December 17.
The accused said he gave a tip-off to the police about the smuggled drug and got six packets seized by the police with the arrest of Gurjant Singh Janti and Jarnail Singh of Machhiwara. The IG said Malkit got the two persons arrested with the aim of grabbing the rest of the packets worth crores. Police said Malkit Singh admitted to bringing six consignments from Pakistan including one consignment of fake currency worth Rs 54,000. The accused also admitted to using a Pakistani SIM card in his mobile phone to communicate with his counterparts across the border. AIG, Counter-intelligence, Ajay Maluja said Malkit was earlier arrested with 15 kg poppy husk and a case was registered against him at the Fazilka city police station. Maluja said the policemen involved in arresting Malkit Singh and recovering the huge quantity of heroin would be awarded commendation certificates and a cash prize. Maluja said the heroin was supposed to be smuggled to other countries through India, raising concern over the drug route.
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After theatre, city lad ready for silver screen debut with Punjabi film
Megha Mann Tribune News Service
Bathinda, January 20 Having studied at Silver Oaks School, Sukhman is now a first year student of BBA (Bachelor in Business Administration) at Gurgaon. He took a three-week sabbatical from college to complete the movie that was shot over a period of 37 days. Scheduled to release in the first week of February, the movie has been extensively shot in Ferozepur and Moga. The director of the movie is the doyen of Punjabi theatre and a celebrated writer, Pali Bhupinder Singh. "Since the director Pali Bhupinder as well as producers Naresh Kakkar and JR Kakkar belong to Moga, the movie has been extensively shot in schools and hospitals of this city," said Sukhman, while talking to TNS. Sukhman has been associated with theatre artist Tony Batish and has acted in his play "Diwan Todar Mal". To try his luck in Punjabi movies, he appeared for the audition of "Stupid 7" held in the industrial area at Mohali and was selected. While only one of the seven protagonists is 22-years-old, the remaining five are a year younger to him. "We have a vibrant and young star cast with which the young audience will connect directly," he said. In the movie, Sukhman performs the role of a rich couple's son who is bereft of parental love due to their busy lifestyle. Though he is saved from landing in wrong company, his loveless life hurts him deeply. In the movie, his father owns a construction company while his mother remains pre-occupied with socializing and beauty parlour. Consequently, both the parents are not at home and he is left alone. Negligence on the part of the parents costs the boy Savvy dear and he is unable to complete his studies. Even the most expensive toys fail to entice him. At a young age, he starts riding costly motorcycles and cars, but happiness eludes him. The movie will be premiered at DT Mall, Chandigarh, on January 31 Fact file
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Cooks protest govt’s move to contract out scheme
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, January 20 The state president of the Front, Rajinder Kaur Lopo, and the district president Sinder Kaur Sibia convened a meeting at Gurdwara Haji Rattan. Later, workers took out a protest march till the office of the Deputy Commissioner raising slogans against the state government. They said by handing over the mid-day meal scheme to contractors, the government would end up making things difficult for the poor people. "Contractors are bound to make profit out of the food provided to poor children, which should not happen," they said. The protesters alleged that a committee had been formed under the chief secretary, Punjab, to take decisions about mid-day meals, but Education Minister Sikandar Singh Maluka had arbitrarily introduced the contract system in the scheme. They added that in the financial year 2011-12, a total Rs 226.68 crore were collected under the scheme, which included contributions of the state and Central governments. However, only Rs 162.28 crore could be spent while the rest amount remained unutilised. Notably, the scheme faced closure in many schools due to lack of funds. The leaders demanded that cooks be paid an arrear of Rs 3 crore which was pending with the government. They also demanded that the salary of cooks be increased as per the labour laws and that the decision to give contract out the scheme be withdrawn soon. Fact file
Under the banner of the Democratic Mid Day Meal Cook Front, mid-day meal workers held a meeting at Gurdwara Haji Rattan and later took out a march to protest against the state government for handing over the cooking of mid-day meals to contractors. The protesters marched their way to the office of the Deputy Commissioner while raising slogans against the state government on the way. |
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Pulse polio: 52 per cent target met on Day 1
Bathinda, January 20
WHO pulse polio state coordinator Dr Mehtab Singh accompanied the Deputy Commissioner. Besides, the District Immunization Officer Dr Rakesh Goyal, school programme officer Dr Kundan Kumar Pal, District TB Control Officer Dr Ashok Monga, media officer Usha Singla and others were also present. At the Goodwill Society, Paras Ram Nagar, the deputy general manager of the State Bank of Patiala (SBoP), SP Shrimali, inaugurated the pulse polio drive while at the urban health care centre, Beant Nagar, Civil Surgeon Dr Ajay Sahni administered polio to a child to begin the campaign. Civil Surgeon Dr Ajay Sahni said 723 booths had been set up and 47 transit teams would work for administering the vaccine to children. These include 24 transit teams for the bus stand area and 14 for the area around railway station. Nine teams will be stationed at various roundabouts in the city. 31 mobile teams have been formed to administer polio drops to children in and around marriage palaces, brick kilns, hutments etc. The transit and mobile teams will cover remaining children in the next two days. |
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Convention criticises Centre’s economic policies
Bathinda, January 20 The key speaker at the convention was Mangat Ram who stressed upon the need to tighten the noose around the tax evaders and take steps to improve the plight of the commoners. He said the intentions of the government could be gauged from the fact that in the name of privatisation and liberalisation, it is increasing the inflation which is directly affecting the common man. In such an atmosphere, only a few businessmen in the country are flourishing while the gap between the haves and the have-nots is increasing. The speakers at the convention said state governments too are implementing similar policies that are affecting the people across the country. They said the actual benefits accruing from the government policies are not availed of by the common man but the wrong policies actually affect them. Basic facilities like health, education, employment, drinking water and sanitation are still out of the reach of the common man. The speakers said the essential and basic facilities kept dwindling since 1991 in the country and the pressure of paying taxes is on the rise. The figure of more than 2 lakh farmers committing suicide is quite alarming and the government needs to look into the matter seriously. The leaders said a massive rally would be organised in this regard on February 12 and they would support a strike by the trade unions to help raise the voice of the people against the inequality.
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Talwandi Sabo resident held with one kg opium
Bathinda, January 20 Shop burgled
Material worth nearly Rs 1.59 lakh was stolen from a shop in Kothe Amarpura village. In a complaint to the police, Rajesh Kumar of Parasram Nagar said the locks of his shop were found broken. The miscreants decamped with readymade clothes lying in the shop. A case under Sections 457 and 380 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered against unidentified persons at the Thermal police station. Ear-rings snatched
Two youths snatched gold ear-rings worth nearly Rs 15,000 from a woman at the Rose Garden in Bathinda. Krishna Rani, a resident of Green Avenue, in her complaint to the police stated that she had gone for a stroll at the Rose Garden where two persons, between 30 and 35 years of age, gagged her and snatched the ornaments. A case under Sections 356 and 34 of the IPC has been registered against two unidentified persons at the Thermal police station. |
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