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Pollution Control Board cracks the whip on MC
Arguments begin in ex-DGP PS Gill’s father’s murder case
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Agitated over daughter’s love marriage, woman commits suicide
Special trainers allege ‘manhandling’
Wheat reduced to ashes after Pak sets ‘Sarkanda’ on fire
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Pollution Control Board cracks the whip on MC
Faridkot, April 16 The PPCB had recently filed a complaint in the court of the chief judicial magistrate (CJM), Faridkot, alleging that the Jaito municipal authorities were not disposing of the sewage as per norms and legal action should be taken against them. After the court of the CJM issued the warrants to arrest the civic body officials, the latter have moved the court for anticipatory bail. The court will hear the plea for anticipatory bail on April 19. The Jaitu civic body started disposing of the sewerage water into the fields adjoining the town where the farmers use it for irrigation purposes. Though the waste water contains significant nutrients for crops that not only reduce the need for chemical fertilizers, but also increase the crop yield, the risk it poses to human health through microbial crop contamination, especially in foods consumed uncooked, are a reality. Parasites and pathogens thrive in faeces, easily infecting those exposed through irrigation or consumption of the farm produce. The seepage of the sewerage water into the soil was further contaminating the groundwater, alleged the PPCB in its complaint against the Jaitu MC. Gurdas Singh, Executive Officer (EO), Jaitu MC, said sewerage water was being supplied to the farmers as there was no other alternative. While the sewerage treatment plant in Jaitu would be installed in 2016 as per the instructions of the Local Bodies Department, the PPCB authorities did not allow the MC to release the sewerage water into the Langeana drain. Some time back, the MC started laying pipes to this storm water drain to release the sewerage waste but the PPCB stopped the MC after some farmers approached the High Court, opposing the disposal of sewage in the storm drain, said the EO. |
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Arguments begin in ex-DGP PS Gill’s father’s murder case
Moga, April 16 The ex-DGP's father was murdered in 1991 and an FIR under sections 302, 307, 120 B, 34 of the IPC; sections 25, 54, 59 of the
Arms Act and sections 5, 6 of the TADA Act was registered against two unknown persons. During the investigations, the names of Gurjit Singh and Chamkaur Singh were included in the list of the accused. Later, Gurjit
was killed in a police encounter while Chamkaur is still missing and is a proclaimed offender as per the court files. The names of Jagdev and his family members — mother Pritam Kaur, brother Hardev Singh, sister Paramjit Kaur and one Gurtej Singh — were
also included in the list of accused on charges of conspiracy. The Supreme Court had already acquitted all the family members of Jagdev from charges of murder. Jagdev claimed that he was not in Moga at the time of murder. He left the country and went to the US and then settled in Canada where he was given the citizenship. He came back to India in January 2009 and surrendered before a local court after coming to know that a criminal case was pending against him. While appearing for the prosecution side, Sukhdev Singh, special public prosecutor and a private lawyer Narinder Kumar argued that the statements of 24 witnesses had been recorded from which it has been established that Jagdev and his family members hatched the conspiracy of murder. On the other hand, defence counsel Ramesh Grover argued that the police submitted the challan against Jagdev on the same set of evidences in May 2009 as produced in the apex court. The apex court had already acquitted all his family members. Even the then additional sessions judge BS Sandhu granted bail to Jagdev after considering the orders of the apex court. Grover argued that after PS Gill became DGP of Punjab on July 1, 2009, two supplementary challans were produced against Jagdev under the influence of power and the police also registered three more cases of fraud and theft against Jagdev to harass him. "My client has already been acquitted in two cases while one case is still pending against him," he stated. Sessions judge Karamjit Singh Kang has fixed April 18 as the next date of hearing on which the arguments would continue in his court. |
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Cops face the stink of garbage thrown outside Moga police station
Moga, April 16 They raised slogans against the local SHO, Jasvarinder Singh, demanding his suspension besides registering of a criminal case under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 against him for allegedly misbehaving with a civic body employee. The employees alleged that the SHO misbehaved with the driver of a tractor-trailer, a civic body employee, while he was passing through the main bazaar of the city. On the other hand, the SHO claimed that there was traffic jam in the main bazaar due to which he himself went there to regulate the flow of vehicles. “I asked the driver of the tractor-trailer to move the vehicle to the other side so that the other vehicles can pass through, but he spoke rudely,” he said. A few hours after the incident, the MC employees held a meeting at the corporation office and then marched towards the police station. The administration also flexed its muscles and deployed at least 200 cops to tackle the situation but the MC employees, realising the gravity of the situation, staged their protest only for a few minutes and dumped the garbage outside the police station before leaving. Senior Superintendent of Police Surjit Singh Grewal along with Additional Deputy Commissioner Amit Kumar and other senior civil and police officials reached the spot and reviewed the situation. A deputation of comprising the SD (H) and the SDM was sent to the MC office to hold meeting with the sulking employees. |
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Agitated over daughter’s love marriage, woman commits suicide
Moga, April 16 The police registered a criminal case under section 306 of the IPC for abetment to suicide but no one had been arrested as investigations were still in progress, SSP Surjit Singh Grewal said. The woman, identified as Sukhdip Kaur, was living with her father-in-law and two children, Gurpreet Singh and Dilpreet Kaur, at Mehron village. Her husband was said to be in Dubai working as a driver. The newly-wed bride had received threats from her mother following which she and her husband went to the Punjab and Haryana High Court for security. The district administration has already provided security to the couple.
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Special trainers allege ‘manhandling’
Barnala, April 16 Earlier, the agitators took out a protest march from the park to the bus stand in support of their demands. District vice-president of the Special Trainer Adhyapak Union, Gurpal Singh, said they had been “beaten up” with lathis by the employees of the private transporters while the police remained a mute spectator. He alleged that the police also “manhandled” the special trainers. DSP, Barnala, Harmeek Singh Deol refuted the allegations.
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Wheat reduced to ashes after Pak sets ‘Sarkanda’ on fire
Fazilka, April 16 BSF commandant Deepak Kandpal said Sarkanda along the flood protection bundh was burnt on the Pak side in the afternoon today near Sadki check-post in the Fazilka sector. Due to the strong breeze, the fire engulfed standing wheat crop worth about Rs 30,000 on one acre of land of a farmer, Jagga Singh. “BSF guards with the help of villagers and fire tenders from Fazilka doused the flames otherwise, it could have damaged more crop," said Kandpal.
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