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14-yr-old girl gang raped, 3 booked
Maternal uncle, wife held for rape of 18-year-old
Rs 6.25 lakh house tax collected, six properties sealed
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Border Security Force’s de-addiction campaign starts getting response
Amritsar, October 25 The de-addiction campaign launched by the Border Security Force (BSF) seems to have started getting response as a number of residents from border villages have started approaching the security force asking the authorities for help in getting their wards quit addiction.
MC workers continue agitation
GMC staff stage protest, block road
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Lifestyle expo kicks off
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14-yr-old girl gang raped, 3 booked
Amritsar, October 25 The victim, a Class IX student, who is also learning martial art, stated to the police that on October 21 at about 6 am when she was going to her school located in Sultanwind village for her karate class the three youths intercepted her near the Sultanwind Canal and forcibly bundled her into a car and took her to unknown residential building where they raped her one by one. Interestingly, the Sultanwind police chowki is located just a few metres away from the spot. One of the youths, identified as Goldy, a resident
of Khalsa Nagar, was known to her. The police has registered a case under Sections 376-G, 363, 366, 342 and 34 of the IPC, while no arrest has been made so far. The family members of the victim have termed the instance as an act of revenge. They alleged that the accused were earlier involved in molesting their elder daughter, who is now married. The family had lodged a criminal complaint against the accused to the police at that time in this regard. Paramdeep Kaur, investigating officer, said as per the complaint of the girl, the accused covered her face before taking her to the unknown residential complex. She said after committing the crime the accused threw her in front of the school while threatening to eliminate her family if she told anyone about the incident. “The investigations so far has revealed that one of the accused, identified as Goldy, was known to the girl. He used to live in the East Gobind Nagar area, where the family of the victim resides,” said Paramdeep Kaur. When asked why the family registered a case after a gap of three days, she said the girl was in a shock and had not told the family earlier. She said the medical examination of the girl was conducted by a medical board of doctors, who the confirmed the rape. She said raids were being conducted to nab the accused, who had
been absconding since the incident.
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Maternal uncle, wife held for rape of 18-year-old
Amritsar, October 25 The victim (18) in her complaint to the police alleged that her maternal uncle Jaswant Singh came to the residence of her paternal aunt Harjinder Kaur and requested her to send her to their home. She said Jaswant Singh told her aunt that his wife Jaspinder Kaur would be alone in the house as he was going to sleep at the residence of his brother Kulwant Singh, who had gone to his in-laws in Batala. She said her aunt sent her with them. She alleged that when they reached their home, instead of Jaspinder Kaur, Jaswant Singh stayed at home, while his wife went to the house of Kulwant Singh, which was located just a few metres away. She alleged that in the midnight she felt that someone was trying to physically abuse her. She immediately woke up and was astonished to see Jaswant Singh, who was drunk, trying to make physical advances towards her. She alleged that when she tried to resist his advances, he threatened to kill her and raped her. She said on her return to the house of her paternal aunt she narrated the whole instance to her aunt. Harjit Singh, SHO, Jhander police station, said the victim was an orphan and used to live with her paternal aunt. He said both the accused had been taken into custody while further investigations were under progress.
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Rs 6.25 lakh house tax collected, six properties sealed
Amritsar, October 25 Superintendent Shushant Bhatia said Rs 6.25 lakh were recovered today. Two courier companies were sealed as Rs 1.25 lakh house tax was pending against them. Two offices of property dealers were sealed as they owed around Rs 78,000 as house tax, he said.
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Border Security Force’s de-addiction campaign starts getting response
Amritsar, October 25
Today the BSF organised a massive de-addiction programme at Government Senior Secondary School, Attari, in which people from all walks of life, including officials of various government departments, schools, NGOs and theatre groups, besides different panchayats participated. Gulzar Singh Ranike, Cabinet minister, and Ajay Tomar, IG, BSF, Punjab Frontier, were the chief guests on the occasion. The campaign was launched by the BSF in August this year from border village of Hardo Rattan with an aim to create a second line of defence by motivating people residing in the border villages to stand against the rampant drug abuse by joining hands with the security force. MF Farooqui, DIG, BSF, Amritsar sector, said a number of inhabitants of the border villages had approached them seeking help in getting their wards leave drugs. "The process has started and people are believing us and that is what is important," said the DIG. "Today, we have invited officials of Punjab National Bank, Animal Husbandry Department and dairy farming to educate people about the self-employment schemes, which could help them in choosing occupation of their interest," said Farooqui, while adding that this would help in generating employment opportunity for the rural youth and thus reducing drug addiction. Ajay Tomar, IG, assured all possible help from the security force to people in eradicating the drug abuse. Gulzar Singh Ranike said the government would also extend all help to the BSF in their cause against drug trafficking and drug abuse.
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MC workers continue agitation
Amritsar, October 25 Those who sat on hunger strike from 9 am to 5 pm included Ravinder Kumar, Ram Chander, Kuljit Gill, Sucha Singh and Vikram Singh. Sanjay Khosla, convener of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Zila Action Committee told that the MC authorities must spell out a clear deadline within which their demands, including payment of arrears and allowances, should be made. Besides, appointments on compassionate ground are also pending. “The talks with the MC Commissioner yesterday did not yield any results and we had to walk out of the meeting. After that there was no communication and we resorted to continue our agitation strike which would be intensified from Monday onwards,” he said. Narinder Kumar, general secretary of Amritsar Nagar Nigam Workers Union, said around 700 workers deputed under DC rates or Mohalla Sudhar Committees have not got their salaries and other allowances like mobile and dearness allowance for the past five months. “Similarly, it was verbal promise for granting the uniform allowances for Class IV workers and jobs on compassionate grounds. We want that all pending dues should be paid up before Diwali. If need, we would not hesitate to sit on fast unto death,” he said.
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GMC staff stage protest, block road
Amritsar, October 25 They raised slogans against the Punjab Government demanding regularisation of their jobs. The contractual employees, including nurses and paramedical staff had gone on indefinite strike in favour of their demands. Due to this medical services at the GNDH suffered badly. People driving down the Majitha road also had to face great inconvenience due to the protest lodged by the contractual staff. The traffic remained suspended for around an hour which was later diverted from other link roads to avoid traffic congestion. It is pertinent to mention here that around 50 per cent of the nurses are working on contractual basis. They are paid Rs 7,500 per month while they had to work for the same hours for which the regular staff nurses work, said Raj Bedi Anand, president of the Nursing Association. Later, the agitators burned an effigy of the Punjab Government and threatened to intensify their agitation if the state government continued indifferent attitude towards their genuine demands.
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Book released
Associate Professor Dr Vinay Kapoor Mehra of Law Department at Guru Nanak Dev University has written a book titled ‘Perspectives on personal Laws: Status of Women’. Written in English the book highlights the discriminatory laws concerning women in all religions, including Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jews and others. She highlighted various aspects of their life, including, marriage, divorce, division of property, custody of their children and others in her book. She has given valuable tips and solutions to provide adequate legal remedies to end the discriminatory trends for women. A member of the university syndicate Dr Vinay’s book was released by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. Zonal co-curricular competitions
Three-day Zonal level co-curricular competitions organised at Government Senior Secondary School concluded here on Friday. These competitions were organised by Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) with the aim to build and stir up the creative talents of students. Hundreds of students from various districts of Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Kapurthala, Tarn Taran, Hoshiarpur and Pathankot participated in the competitions to demonstrate their talents in the fields of declamation, poetry recital, general knowledge and in Punjabi folk dance ‘Gidha’. Industrial training fest
Punjab Technical University (PTU) organised ‘PTU Industrial Training Fest III’ at its affiliated Amritsar College of Engineering and Technology, on Friday. More than 2,000 students from all over Punjab participated in this mega event. The selected students will undergo training for one semester in the respective organisations. Navdeepak Sandhu, placement officer PTU, said eleven organisations Tevatron Technologies Noida, CMC Limited Noida, Stellar Edge Solutions Chandigarh, Paras Infocom Chandigarh, Eureka Electro Soft Solutions Mohali, Kochar Infotech Amritsar, Arcadian Technocrats Private Limited Chandigarh, Softtrix Web Solutions Mohali, Pingaksho Technologies Inc Mohali, Think Next Technologies Mohali and SLR Infotech Private Limited Chandigarh evaluated the students for more than 700 openings. The selected students will either be paid stipend upto Rs 5,000 or will be provided free of cost training. — TNS
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Amritsar, October 25
“We come here at least three times a year and each time we get good sales. The cultural taste of the holy city is same as that back home so it is a good market for us,” says Mohammed Azam, who has brought a collection of suits in chiffons and georgettes. The range of bright designer wear starts at Rs 1,000 and above. The festivities have made sure that the Diwali shopping options don’t fade out with a wide variety onyx and wooden furniture, antique clocks, and décor pieces in crystal and glass are quite impressive. Since, Diwali is a time to buy home appliances and consumer items, big brands like Samsung, LG and other electronic houses have put their best products on display. The other highlights had stalls from Thailand with their dry flowers and designer jewellery pieces in Boho-chic and sterling silver, antique watches, lamps, etc. Ibadat, a school for special children has put up a display of hand crafted Diwali gift items like candles, designer diyas, etc. —
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n its drive against the tax defaulters, the House Tax Department today sealed six properties located at Ranjit Avenue and Fatehgarh Churian road areas.
Three SCOs in the D- Block area and one in A Block of the Ranjit Avenue and two on the Fatehgarh Churian road were sealed.
