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Suspended HPS officer booked for attempt to murder
Haryana’S shame
INLD for session on proposed tax on farmers
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Kiran pulls up erring officials
Surjewala lays stone of new wing at ITI
Karnal protests attack on Sarabjit in Pak
Three held for looting Rs 3 lakh from trader
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Suspended HPS officer booked for attempt to murder
Bhiwani, April 27 Sheoran, who earlier served as ASP in Hisar, is under suspension in some other case at present. The latest case has been registered on the complaint of Ramesh Singh, a resident of Kheri Bura village of Bhiwani. The police said the suspended HPS officer had come to an ashram outside the village to meet Sureshanand, whom he reverend. The police sources said Sureshanand complained about the conduct of some village youths to Sheoran and alleged that they harassed him unnecessarily. Agitated at it, Sheoran is alleged to have gone to the village and after daring the youths to come out, opened two fires from his pistol in the air and one towards villagers. No one was, however, hurt in the incident. The HPS officer is alleged to have left the village after warning villagers. Irate villagers met senior officers of the police today and complained about the conduct of the officer, upon which the police booked him and six to seven others for attempt to murder and under the provisions of the Arms Act. Ashok Kumar Sheoran, who was earlier the head of the now disbanded special task force, was booked for extortion from the Panipat-based jeweller and share broker in March 2010. However, he was acquitted of the charges in November 2012 and presently, he was awaiting revocation of his suspension. |
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Haryana’S shame
Gurgaon, April 27 The women alleged that instead of heading towards Sohna, the three male occupants of the car, all in their 40s, turned the car towards Taudu and raped them on the way. After allegedly raping the two women, the car-borne men abandoned them in a lonely area and fled. The women reached Sohna police station this afternoon and lodged a complaint of rape. The police took them for a medical examination and further action was on till the time of filing this report. Meanwhile, members of the women's wing of the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) staged a demonstration in front of the Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner’s residence in protest against the rising cases of rapes and other crimes against women in the district. Led by Kusum Sharma, state president of the wing, they raised slogans against the state authorities. |
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INLD for session on proposed tax on farmers
Chandigarh, April 27 Incidentally, the INLD is politically very close to the Shiromani Akali Dal, which was the first to raise this issue. Taking a cue from the Punjab government’s decision to convene a special session of the Assembly on the matter, senior leader and Ellenabad MLA Abhay Singh Chautala along with state party president Ashok Arora today demanded that the Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led government should call a Vidhan Sabha session and unanimously pass a two-line resolution opposing the proposed wealth tax on farmers. “The Chief Minister has always claimed to be pro-farmer but has chosen to stay silent on this matter even though it will ruin the farmers. In adjoining Punjab, even the Congress Members of Parliament from the state have expressed reservations about the tax while the government in Haryana seems unconcerned,” Abhay said. The INLD leaders said the Congress-led government at the Centre was going to pass an amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha according to which the agricultural land adjoining the municipalities, municipal corporations and cantonment board would be declared as an urban land and proposes to impose 1 per cent of collector’s rate as annual wealth tax. “There are 53 municipalities, nine municipal corporations and 24 councils and two cantonment boards in Haryana. So where the limit of one municipality ends, the other begins for the purpose of this tax. Accordingly, around 85 per cent of agriculture land will come under this tax and farmers have to bear a loss of Rs 30,000 to 1 lakh per acre per annum," Abhay said. Arora maintained that subsidy on agricultural inputs had already been done away with by the Congress government. “Farmers are already suffering because the subsidy on fertilisers, diesel and seeds had already been withdrawn. With this tax, the government will force the farmers to sell their land and ruin them completely. In Haryana, the government is already guilty of releasing land to private builders after issuing Section 4 and Section 6 notices. If this tax is imposed, the farmers will be forced to sell their land to the builders,” the INLD leaders said. If their demand for a special session of the Assembly was not accepted, the INLD workers and leaders would launch a protest by educating the farmers in villages of the “injustice” meted out to them under the Congress rule. The party has decided to fight the MC elections on the party symbol. |
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Kiran pulls up erring officials
Bhiwani, April 27 Though the Bhiwani MP, who heads the meetings of DVMCs in the district, kept a low profile, Kiran took officials found lackadaisical in their approach to task. An official of the Public Works Department (buildings and roads) invited the wrath of the minister for not caring to repair Bhiwani roads in the past one year. She directed the officials to submit a list of potholed roads so that she could take up the matter of Budget for this project with Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. An official of the Irrigation Department was pulled up for giving evasive replies on the work on the Lohani drain. She told him to submit a report on the work within one month. The minister also showed her displeasure with an official of the Education Department for not printing the name of MP Shruti Choudhry on the inauguration stones of new rooms being constructed under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in villages falling under her Bhiwani-Mohindergarh constituency. Addressing the meeting, Shruti Choudhry said works worth Rs 14 crore had been completed from the MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) in the past four years. She said nearly 80 per cent of her MPLAD had already been utilised in development works in her constituency. She said under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, a solid waste management plant was being set up at Behl as a pilot project. |
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Surjewala lays stone of new wing at ITI
Kaithal, April 27 The minister also dedicated to the students a newly constructed women’s wing, which had been constructed for Rs 86 lakh and another. Speaking on the occasion, Surjewala said despite reservation in admission for the SC students in the ITI here, the students could not get admission in the desired trades. He said with the new wing coming up, students would be exposed to a number of trades. He also announced that Rs 4.50 crore will be spent on setting up latest machinery. Principal of the ITI Bhupinder Singh thanked the minister for making efforts in upgrading the institute. The minister honoured 32 staff members of the institute for their good performance. The minister was also the chief guest at a function in Hindu Girls’ Senior Secondary School on the Ambala road. He announced a grant of Rs 10 lakh for the construction of a hall on the premises. |
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Karnal protests attack on Sarabjit in Pak
Karnal, April 27 The protesters rued that the Pakistani authorities did not take any steps to ensure Sarabjit's safety in spite of a letter written by the Indian Government, cautioning that there was a threat to his life. “It is a deep-rooted conspiracy to eliminate Sarabjit Singh who was wrongly detained in the Pakistan jail and Pakistan government is a party to it,” chairman of the National Integrated Forum of Artists and Activists (NIFAA) Preetpal Singh Pannu said. urged the Indian government to build international pressure on Pakistan to shift Sarabjit to India for treatment and asserted he was innocent and the Pakistan government was conspiring to kill him. Sarabjit's condition is critical and he has been admitted to Jinnah Hospital. |
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Three held for looting Rs 3 lakh from trader
Kurukshetra, April 27 Ramesh and Vikki are residents of Baisi village of Rohtak and Balwan is from Kharak Jattan village. Arya said Pawan Kumar, a resident of Barnala in Punjab, alleged that some persons, one of them wearing police uniform, reached the new grain market here in a Bolero and fled away after looting Rs 3 lakh from his possession. |
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