NIA student files FIR against director for cheating
Dehradun January 28
Nishant Parashar, a student of the National Institute of Aeronautics, cantonment, has filed an FIR against the Director of the institute, Jitender Kumar, for cheating him of Rs 18,70,000.

Dehradun, January 28
An uncommon practice has started at Doon Hospital by internship students of the BAMS course, who are writing prescription slips without the supervision of doctors.

During the internship, final year MBBS and BAMS students attend OPDs to learn finer points about diagnosis under the guidance of doctors, but today a senior doctor found a prescription slip written by a BAMS intern and stamped by Dr NS Bisht, physician, Doon Hospital.

Different medicines were prescribed to the patient to be procured under the local purchase and were detected by Dr Alok Teotia, senior physician and one of the sanctioning authorities for the local purchase.

It is believed that the doctor, who had a long queue of patients at his door, entrusted some of the patients to the intern who went about examining patients and writing prescriptions.

The BAMS doctors are not authorised to prescribe allopathic medicines even after they complete their course. But such incidents keep happening at Doon Hospital where rules and procedures are given a go by in the name of patient rush.

“Commonly, the BAMS interns should not be allowed to undergo internship at the allopathic hospitals but this practice has been going on at Doon Hospital,” said a senior doctor.

It is a common sight to see BAMS interns performing duties at the OPDs in the absence of doctors, who may have gone out for some errands and on returning they come and sign the prescription slip. At times, the doctors leave the task of explaining the drugs prescribed for the patient to them, especially during overcrowding. “The practice is not good for the patients,” said Dr KC Pant, senior physician.

The BAMS doctors are not authorised to prescribe allopathic medicines even after they complete their course. But such incidents keep happening at Doon Hospital, where rules and procedures are given a go by in the name of patient rush.

Dehradun, January 28
Chairman of Revenue Council Subhash Kumar held a meeting today with Additional District Magistrate (ADM), Administration, DM, Finance and Revenue, all Subdivisional Magistrates (SDMs) and Tehsildars. He directed them to dispose of all the pending revenue-related matters on a priority basis.

While inspecting the revenue cases, he directed all the magistrates to provide him a list of all old revenue cases by February 1, which had been pending for the past 15 to 20 years.

Kumar said February onwards all the SDMs would gather information about the illegally occupied land and barren land in their area. This information would be passed on by the tehsildar to the SDM, the SDM to the DM and the DM to him every month. He directed SDMs and tehsildars to read out the

Khatauni (property) documents in gram sabhas. He said they must also review the availability of electricity, roads, water, health, foodgrains etc and the ongoing government schemes in every village.

He directed them to dispose of the pending matters swiftly and transfer some of the cases from those courts which were inundated with larger number of cases. 

Dehradun January 28
Nishant Parashar, a student of the National Institute of Aeronautics, cantonment, has filed an FIR against the Director of the institute, Jitender Kumar, for cheating him of Rs 18,70,000. Parashar said the institute in it's prospectus promised students training of 220 flying hours in The Philipines for six months and 8 months of study in the institute, and a guaranteed job at the end of the course. But after a lapse of four years, he could complete only 100 hours training and could not apply for a pilot's licence as he had not completed the mandatory 200 flying hours. The institute where he was sent in The Philipines was also later sealed for being unauthorised.

Parashar, who was staying there to complete training, was denied extension of visa and basic facilities such as accommodation and food. He was left with no option but to return home.

Parashar, eldest son of a government school teacher, had dreamt of being a pilot and took admission in the institute in year 2008 after completing class XII. He completed 50 hours' of flying but had to come back to India due to some complication in his visa, which took up one year. He could return The Philipines only after paying a second instalment to the institute, which provided him with flying sessions of 50 hours. He said the director of The Philipines flying institute run by Anand Patel took the third instalment, hiding the fact that the institute was closed down by the authorities for being unauthorised. He came back to India

after waiting for six months in The Philipines for the opening of the school, while facing problems of accommodation and food, which was promised by the institute in the prospectus. Kumar kept fooling him about the resumption of his flying classes. Tired of waiting, he filed a case against him. He said most of the students went via Anand, who was settled in The Philipines and, hence, could not file case against him. He rues that he wasted four precious years and money and got nothing in return. 

Haridwar, January 28
The Haridwar police arrested a person involved in a major theft during the ongoing Kumbh mela at Prayag in Allahabad from the railway station here today.

Vikas Sirohi, a resident of Kasbha Nukkad village in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, was found moving suspiciously at the railway station and was arrested. Vikas during questioning confessed to his involvement in the theft of Rs 1.20 lakh during the Kumbh mela.

SP, City, Kiran Lal Shah said the accused had committed the theft at Juna Akhada, Sector-4 temporary camp, at Prayag in Allahabad during the mela. He also stole three euros and two dollars during his stay at the akhada camp in the Sangam Kumbh mela area. Vikas also told his interrogators that he distributed some part of the booty among beggars at Har-ki-Pauri, the fact that was corroborated by beggars.

ASP Ajay Singh told The Tribune that the akhada camp office-bearers and the Prayag Kumbh mela police cell had confirmed the theft incident. “A complaint has been lodged at the Prayag Kumbh mela police cell and we are awaiting the confirmation of the details of the theft case,” said Ajay.

Mussoorie, January 28
Residents of Mussoorie are living in fear following the order of the Centre to the state government to determine an eco-sensitive zone in 2 to 10 km area around the Benog Hill Sanctuary.

A delegation led by MLA, Mussoorie, Ganesh Joshi met Principal Secretary, Forest and Environment, S Ramaswamy today and demanded that the process to demarcate the area around the Benog Hill Sanctuary as an eco-sensitive zone be stopped as it would affect the livelihood of the people of this tourist town and villages around it.

Joshi registered his objection to the way the Forest Department had carried out the exercise without consulting them or the stakeholders of the area in question. He said as the Benog Hill Sanctuary was located in the municipal area of Mussoorie, local councillors and representatives of the stakeholders should have been included in the four-member committee formed to decide on the issue.

Joshi said if the eco-sensitive zone clause was applied to the area around the sanctuary, villages in the Jaunpur, Raipur and Sahaspur blocks would also come under its ambit. This would affect development activities and employment opportunities.

Ramaswamy assured the delegation that the concerns of the people of the town would be considered sympathetically while determining the eco-sensitive zone around the sanctuary. He added some relaxation would be given to heavily populated areas falling under the eco-sensitive zone. He also directed the SDO, Forest, DP Baloni, to carry out a field inspection of the area and submit the report to him immediately.

Former Mussoorie MLA Jot Singh Gunsola, BJP Musosorie unit president Roop Singh Kathait, former MC president Manmohan Singh Mall, Sandeep Sahni, Anil Dabral and others were present on the occasion. 

Mussoorie, January 28
Residents of Butcher Khana have been forced to live a miserable life, which is affecting their health due to the overflowing sewage in their area, thanks to the apathy of the concerned department for the past several months in Mussoorie.

The residents of the area rued the fact that despite several complaints, the sewage lines had not been repaired in Butcher Khana as yet. They also said that the sewage pipelines lay between the boundary of Landour Cantt Board and Mussoorie Municipal Council, and due to this the officials shift the blame on each other, resulting in no repair work here.

Shah Bano, the local resident, opined that the sewage lines, which are in dilapidated condition, were choked after every 15 days, due to which the site was filled with filth and human excreta, jeopardising their health in the process. Many residents had become ill and were suffering from diarrhoea and other related diseases. The stench emanating from the overflowing sewage system had become unbearable, added Shah Bano.

Many residents also lamented the fact that the officials were paying lip service to the problem that could turn into a major epidemic if the sewage system was not repaired soon.

The Garhwal Jal Sansthan Assistant Engineer, GP Gairola, said that the problem will be solved in a day or two as the necessary directions had been given to the subordinate officials. The residents have warned the officials that if the sewage pipeline was not repaired soon, they will "teach a lesson through the ballot paper in the forthcoming Municipal Council elections."

Dehradun, January 28
Director General of Police (DGP) Satyavrat Bansal inaugurated a two-day workshop on, "Qualitative improvement in police investigation", in the auditorium of the Intelligence office here today. Ninety inspectors and sub-inspectors from across the state are attending the workshop.

Addressing the gathering, DGP Bansal said: “After examining many case documents, it was found that the basic principles of investigation were not followed, which benefited the accused in courts. Besides, several judges, too, brought up this issue before me.”

He said in the workshop, police personnel would be provided detailed information on how to conduct the investigation, evidence collection, the observance of Acts etc.

He said a data bank of all inspectors and sub-inspectors would be created to evaluate the quality of their investigation and find out the impact of the workshop on them. He said the job of policemen was not confined to the investigation but also to advocate cases efficiently in the courts.

He said 50 sub-inspectors would be included in the workshop, where they would be informed about the analysis of the works of the investigators, so that they could also guide their juniors in this regard.

Sub-inspector Hakim Rai (retd) said police personal would be informed about the challenges arising during the investigations, the principles of investigation, the scientific ways of the collection of evidences, interrogation of the accused, opposition of remand, the CrPC and other police regulations. He said a good investigation helped in punishing the accused and checking the crime.

Additional Director General (Police Intelligence/Security) Anil K. Raturi, IG (Law and Order) Ram Singh Meena, IG (PAC) Deepam Seth, DIG (Dehradun range) Sanjay Gunjiyal, SP (Security) Pushpak Jyoti and SP (Law and Order) Vimmi Sachdeva were also present.

Dehradun, January 28
Dhruv Pal, Raghav Negi, Dhruv Sabharwal and Kunal Goel of Uttarakhand have entered the next round of the All-Indian Talent Series Tennis Tournament that started at Shanti Tennis Academy here today.

The following are the results of the matches played today.

Boys' (singles) U-14: Danish Ahmed (Delhi ) beat Aryaman Shukla (Uttarakhand) 9-1, Pranjay Kukreti (Delhi) beat Manjot Singh (Uttarakhand) 9-0, Rudra Kapur (UP) beat Devansh Rautela (Uttarakhand) 9-0, Sahanshu Sharma (Chandigarh ) beat Vatsal Chauhan (UP) 9-1, Sagar Sahrawat (Delhi) beat Archit Uniyal (Uttarakhand ) 9-1, Kushal Goel beat Tarush Bagai ( Delhi) 9-5, Tushar Aggarwal (Haryana) beat Karan Negi (Uttarakhand) 9-0, Sanket Tomar beat (Delhi) Aryan Pant (Uttarakhand) 9-0, Saurab Kalkal (Delhi) beat Anmol Singh Arora (Delhi) 9-3, Shrutmohan Nagreta (Punjab) beat Uday Goel (Haryana) 9-0, Sarthak Sharma (Delhi) beat Ajaya Akhilanand (Maharashtra) 9-4, Chaitanya Dev Chauhan (UP) beat Saurab Parashar (Chandigarh) 9-4, Abhimanyu Rojara (Haryana) beat Akash Joshi (Uttarakhand) 9-3, Raghav Negi (Uttarakhand ) beat Reki Krishnan (Delhi) 9-0 and Mayank Arya (Delhi) beat Shivank Bhatnagar (Delhi) 9-1.

Boys' (singles) U-16: Dhruvpal (Uttarakhand ) beat Jayant (UP) 9-0, Suyash Gupta (Delhi) beat Anmol Singh Arora (Delhi) 9-4, Sagar Sahratwat (Delhi) beat Ayush Goel (Delhi) 9-3, Manav (Delhi) beat Saurab Parashar (Chandigarh) 9-2, Pritvi Khanna (Delhi) beat Ajaya Akhilanand (Maharashtra) 9-0, Raghav Negi (Uttarakhand) beat Nerak Krishnan (Delhi) 9-3, Sahil Yadav (Delhi) beat Rudra Kapur (UP) 9-4, Dhruv Sabharwal (Uttarakhand) beat Atishay Jain (Uttarakhand ) 9-4, Krishan Rajput (UP) beat Shashank Khati (Uttarakhand) 9-4, Saurab Kalkal (Delhi) beat Sanket Tomar (Delhi) 9-3, Shivank Bhatnagar (Delhi) beat Dron Walia (Uttarakhand ) 9-7, Mayank Arya (Delhi) beat Navjot Singh (Haryana) 9-3, Danish Ahmed (Delhi) beat Jagdeep Singh Bajwa (Punjab) 9-7, Suhanshu Sharma (Chandigarh) beat Avivar Naithani (Uttarakhand ) 9-3 and Rahul Verma (Chandigarh) beat Ramanjot Dhindsa 9-8.