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CM shifts gear, turns to Gohana with report
card
Poll around corner, Hooda on announcement spree:
Bishnoi
HJC supremo Kuldeep Bishnoi addresses people from his Vijay Rath at Pirthala village in Fatehabad on Friday. A Tribune photograph |
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30% gross enrolment ratio our target: CM
Cantt board serves notice on
Railways
Substandard wheat seed
supply
Man, wife get life term for murder
Man murdered over Rs 2,000
Chain removed from Ambala victim’s leg
Vikram comes out of the court with his mother after the removal of the chain in Ambala on Friday.
Photo by writer
Deputy Jailor booked on corruption charge
Netball association members, players booked for cheating
Two arrested on rape charge
Man axes wife to death
Woman duped of Rs 2.5 crore, one held
Two women die of dengue at Sonepat village
Three booked for seeking dowry Man held with poppy husk Two more arrested in triple murder case Villager duped of Rs 4 lakh Banda Bahadur award for VC One more held in minor rape case
Ex-MLA’s son killed in road mishap
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CM shifts gear, turns to Gohana with report
card
Chandigarh, October 18 "I will lay before the people the report card on the performance of my government since 2005. Then it is up to the people to judge my work," Hooda told The Tribune here today. Gohana was suggested as a location for the rally as it was almost equidistant from all parts of the state, but that was not the only reason why Hooda decided to go ahead with this venue. After taking over as the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee president in 1997, Hooda had held his first rally here. He wants a repeat of that successful rally. That is not all. When the British Government increased tax on farmers beyond reasonable limits in the 1920s, Gohana was chosen by Hooda's grandfather Chaudhary Matu Ram, the then district Congress president, as the venue of a 'virat' kisan rally for farmers of Punjab which was addressed by then veteran leaders like Dr Satyapal. Hooda's grandfather also held a public meeting at Gohana in 1921, which was a major success. Besides highlighting the achievements of his government, Hooda proposed to present before the people a road map for the development of the state and at the same time, make some major announcements for the welfare of the people. Hooda said he would share his vision with the people and let them decide if they wanted a repeat of the government that had come out unscathed with no major scandal or choose someone else who believed in 'self-interest more than the interest of the state (hinting at alleged corrupt practices of non-Congress governments). "I have told the MLA 'khushi khushi aao aur udtey vapas jao' (come happily and go back jumping), hinting at some major pre-poll bonanza for the people," he said. The Chief Minister is expected to highlight major achievements of his government like the construction of 2 lakh rural and 1.5 lakh urban houses for the poor during his term. According to him, these were more than all the houses built by the Housing Board from 1996 (when Haryana came into being) to 2005 (when he formed the government). He would also highlight achievements on the development front and in agriculture, education and the service industry etc. During Hooda's term, the state had completed four thermal projects (two in Jhajjar and one each in Yamunanagar and Hisar), a women's university at Murthal, 32 road overbridges (compared to 16 from 1966 to 2005) and industrial model townships at Rohtak, Faridabad and Mewat. He would also highlight the completion of the Gurgaon Metro and the Faridabad and Bahadurgarh Metro at the advanced stage, Hooda indicated. |
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Poll around corner, Hooda on announcement spree:
Bishnoi
Samain (Fatehabad),
October 18 Bishnoi alleged that Hooda promised employment to 1 lakh youth at the time of setting up of
special economic zones (SEZs), but not a single youth got a job. “He (Hooda) promised you that hundreds of crores will be invested in
these SEZs, but not a brick has so far been laid,” Bishnoi added. The HJC supremo alleged that the Chief Minister made a plethora of
promises during byelections for Hisar parliamentary and Ratia Assembly constituencies. After addressing people at Samain, Nangli, Pirthala, Parta and Saniana, the yatra arrived at Bhuna in Fatehabad Assembly segment. Addressing people at Bhuna, Bishnoi said during his campaign he had been observing a strong wave in favour of the HJC-BJP alliance in the state. The HJC supremo promised an equitable development of the entire state if voted to power and would create more job opportunities for the youths. He also promised to double the old-age-pension as well as pension for widows. Leader of HJC legislative party Renuka Bishnoi, former MP Dharampal Malik, former Rajya Sabha member Ramji Lal, former parliamentary secretary Dura Ram and senior BJP leader Subhash Barala were with Bishnoi in his Vijay
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30% gross enrolment ratio our target: CM
Chandigarh, October 18 He was addressing the inaugural session of the national conference on “A New Era of Industrial Development in Northern India – Role of Private Sector Educational Institutions”, organised by the Educational Promotion Society of India
(EPSI) in collaboration with the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry here today. At present, the GER of Haryana was 20.13 per cent, which translated to about 12.7 lakh students, Hooda said. In order to achieve the target of 30 per cent GER, eight lakh more students needed to be enrolled, he added. Dishing out comparative figures, Hooda said there were 161 technical education institutions in the state in 2004-05, with an annual intake of about 28,445 students. But now, the number of such institutions was 662, with a total intake of about 1.5 lakh students, he said. “In order to augment the state’s prowess in education, we have provided an outlay of about Rs 15,000 crore to the sector in the 12th Five-Year Plan,” Hooda said. Haryana had taken the lead in providing educational infrastructure to enable the students to get quality education, he said. The state had 242 colleges compared to 67 in Himachal Pradesh and 231 in Punjab, he said. Tthe number of professional colleges in the state was 662 compared to 11 in Himachal Pradesh and 229 in Punjab, he said. There were 32 universities in Haryana compared to seven in Himachal Pradesh and 15 in Punjab, he added. In his welcome address, EPSI treasurer Prashant Bhalla said there were 150 self-financing engineering colleges in Haryana and 14 private self-financing universities. Throwing light on the
EPSI, he said it was established in 2005 and had been running educational institutions with the objective of promoting and expanding education. Alternate EPSI president H Chaturvedi said Rajiv Gandhi Education City being developed in Sonepat would be the biggest educational hub of the country. EPSI president and VIT University founder G Viswanathan also spoke on the occasion. |
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Cantt board serves notice on
Railways
Ambala, October 18 MS Bittu, an elected member of the board, said the board used to charge an annual free for the piece of land in possession of the railways. “However, for the past seven years, the railways has stopped paying the money which accumulated to over Rs 10 crore,” he said. Bittu said the defence administration had also failed to pay the service charge for the past many years. He said they had written a letter to the Defence Ministry to seek its intervention for recovering the pending dues. He said if the railways failed to pay the dues, then they would file a petition in the court. Sources said the railways had paid the service charge up to 2006, but stopped abruptly after that. Despite sending several reminders, the railways did not pay the pending amount. Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Anil Kumar Kathpal said he was not aware of the details of the matter. On the legal notice, the DRM said the railways would consult legal experts and decide accordingly.
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CBI registers preliminary enquiry into Khemka's complaint
Syed Ali Ahmed Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 18 The PE was registered against unidentified officials of the HSDC, NAFED and the NCCF, CBI sources said. Khemka was posted as Managing Director of the HSDC between July 18, 2012, and March 4, 2013. Sources said the substandard wheat seed supplied to the HSDC incurred a loss of Rs 5 crore to the state exchequer. The then market rate of the seed was between Rs 1,400 and Rs 1,600 per quintal, but NAFED and the NCCF had supplied the seed to the HSDC at Rs 2,050 per quintal. The sources said the HSDC had sold the seed to farmers at the subsidised rate of Rs 1,600 per quintal. The state got the subsidised amount from the Rashtriya Kisan Vikas Yojna. The sources also said the seed was not certified. It was fungicide seed that was certified later that had also caused the loss of Rs 67.14 lakh to the exchequer. It was alleged that the HSDC wanted to purchase nearly 10,000 tonnes of wheat seed from private suppliers in case cooperative agencies NCCF and NAFED did not have enough stock with them. Despite the non-availability of seed, both cooperative agencies allegedly offered to supply the seeds, after which HSDC did not approach private suppliers. These societies allegedly sourced untreated wheat seed from middlemen who had got it from private companies and supplied it to the HSDC.
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Man, wife get life term for murder
Fatehabad, October 18 Ram Singh Jakhar (40), a property dealer, was stabbed on April 8, 2011. His brother Dara Singh had alleged that the victim had lent some money to Sunita and had gone to her house to demand it. He alleged that she, along with her husband and two youths, attacked him with knives, injuring him critically. The victim tried to rush back to his home on his motorcycle in the injured condition, but fell on the ground after covering some distance. Onlookers informed the police, who shifted the victim to the General Hospital, where he died. The police found bloodstains on the road from Sunita’s house till the place, where the victim fell from his motorcycle. Holding the four accused guilty of the crime, the Additional District and Sessions Judge yesterday sentenced them to imprisonment for life and a fine of Rs 20,000 each. |
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Man murdered over Rs 2,000
Faridabad, October 18 The critically injured victim was rushed to the BK Hospital here. He was referred to the Safdurjung Hospital in New Delhi, but succumbed to his injuries on the way. The victim had borrowed Rs 2,000 from the accused, whose sister was married to a Gothda Mohtabad resident. The victim's family said he had returned
the money. Victim's brother Suraj Pal said Raghuraj went to Chander's house on Wednesday and demanded the money. When told that it had been returned, Raghuraj had an altercation with Chander and his wife, Suraj Pal added. Raghuraj went to the house again last evening and both left for an undisclosed destination. Chander's family was told a couple of hours later that he was lying injured near Panchayat Bhawan in the village. The police arrested Raghuraj and booked him for murder and under the SC/ST Act. It was on the lookout for two other men who consumed liquor with the victim and the accused. |
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Chain removed from Ambala victim’s leg
Ambala, October 18 Vikram’s left leg had been in “fetters” for the past four days. His counsel Jaspal Singh asked the court to direct the police to remove the chain. After the court orders, the police removed the chain. The counsel said neither the district administration nor the police had taken note of Vikram’s left leg being in chain. He said he would ask the state government to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to his client for the agony caused to him. Talking to
mediapersons, Vikram said he was very happy that his chain was removed. “Now, I feel that I am not in illegal police custody,” he said. His mother said she hoped the police personnel responsible for her son’s condition would not be spared. |
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Deputy Jailor booked on corruption charge
Kaithal, October 18 The IGP then directed AIG (Jails) Jagjit Singh to conduct an inquiry. During investigations, the complaint revealed that he came in contact with Rajpal, a resident of Narwana, who told him to pay Rs 1 lakh to Deputy Jailor Bimla Devi to get all facilities in the jail. Rakesh allegedly paid the money in July this year. The inquiry officer found some circumstantial evidence in the complaint and recommended registration of a criminal case against Bimla Devi and
Rajpal. Deputy Superintendent of Police Ravinder Kumar Tomar said matter was under investigation. |
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Netball association members, players booked for cheating
Sonepat, October 18 In his complaint, Kaushik stated that in the 30th Senior National Netball Championship, which was organised at Motilal Nehru School of Sports,
Rai, last year, Chandigarh team fielded Ritender in place of authorised player Amit Malhotra in the
matches. Kaushik said after the championship, he received a complaint from some players of Chandigarh regarding fielding of the unauthorised player in place of the authorised one. During inquiry of the documents, it was found that Ritender played as Amit Malhotra in the championship. The SHO of the Rai police said police teams had been constituted to arrest the accused. |
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Two arrested on rape charge
Rohtak, October 18 She had shifted to her maternal aunt’s residence at Fatehpuri Colony from
Bhiwani, where she stayed till her husband’s death. Her maternal aunt Poonam (35), whose husband died two years ago, had been residing with her live-in partner Dharmal for the last over a year. The victim reported that Dharmal raped her at least thrice before Poonam and Dharmal forced her into prostitution with Rohtash of Jind district. The police got conducted the medical examination of the victim. Poonam and Rohtash were arrested while Dharmal was absconding. The police said Dharmal would be arrested soon. In another incident, the police arrested and booked Satpal of Kansala village in the district on the charge of attempting to outrage the modesty of a 13-year-old at her house on September 29. |
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Man axes wife to death
Sirsa, October 18 Soon after the dispute, Leela went out of the house, but returned after sometime with his uncles Sunder and Mahinder. After an exchange of words, Leela allegedly hit his wife with an axe. The victim’s 14-year-old daughter Navjot fell on her mother in an effort to save her and in the process, she too was injured. Leela was so angry that he pushed his daughter aside and continued hitting his wife till she died. Leela, Sunder and Mahinder escaped after committing the crime. A case was registered against Leela, Sunder and Mahinder on the complaint of Navjot. The body was shifted to the General Hospital for post-mortem. The victim had left behind three children - an 11-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old son besides
Navjot. |
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Woman duped of Rs 2.5 crore, one held
Kurukshetra, October 18 In her complaint to the Thanesar police, Narender Kaur had alleged that
Prem Pal, Sunil Kumar, a resident of Kurukshetra, Sunita, a daughter of Prem Pal, and Ramesh Kumar, a resident of New Model Town here, had purchased a plot from her and gave her a cheque of Rs 2.5 crore as a token money in April last. Later, on the pretext of purchasing agricultural land at Ishargarh village, they took back the cheque and handed over its photocopy to her. However, neither they purchased the land in
her name nor returned the money. After his arrest, he was produced in a court, which sent him to one-day police remand. During interrogation, he told the police that after getting back the cheque from the complainant, he had burnt it. He was produced in court, which remanded him in judicial custody. |
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Two women die of dengue at Sonepat village
Sonepat, October 18 Village sarpanch alleged that there were a large number of fever cases in the village and despite several pleas, the health authorities had not taken any precautionary measure. He demanded immediate spray of anti-mosquito pesticide in the village. Civil Surgeon, Sonepat, Dr Suresh Chander said a complaint regarding dengue deaths at Jharonthi village had been received and teams had been sent to carry out immediate fogging in the village. “The teams will carry out door-to-door survey and will take blood samples of the patients to examine the kind of fever and treatment,” he added. |
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Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda will present his report card for two consecutive terms in office before the people at Gohana on November 10. Picking Gohana in Sonepat for both emotional and logistic reasons, Hooda wants to make the rally one of the biggest in the recent history of the state. The show will not have any Central leader as the star attraction and will be a heart-to-heart exchange between Hooda and the people.
Haryana Janhit Congress supremo Kuldeep Bishnoi today charged Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda with being on announcement spree in view of the coming parliamentary and Assembly elections.
The court of Judicial Magistrate Ist Class
(JMIC) Mohit Aggarwal today recorded the statement of Vikram, who was kept in illegal confinement at a police post a few days ago.
He was an eyewitness to the death of another man, Ram Kumar, whose body was found on the railway tracks here. The court also recorded the statements of Vikram’s mother Maya Devi and his brother
Manoj.
