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SC quashes contempt charge against Town Planning DG
Murder case: SC cancels ex-INLD MLA’s bail
NGT stays open auction of trees to private contractors
Price rise: BJP protests by keeping onions in lockers
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Paddy stubble burning continues unabated
Paddy stubble on fire at a village in Fatehabad. A Tribune photograph
Tribunal stays open auction of trees
5 booked for raping widow
Sonepat bomb blasts: Tunda gets one-day police remand
Abdul Karim Tunda being produced in a court in Sonepat on Saturday. PTI
Villagers block road over 13-yr-old girl's death
Hawala racket: Police takes laptop into custody
Faridabad all set for CM’s visit today
Asaram's ashrams under surveillance
Tubewell deaths
3 killed in road mishaps
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SC quashes contempt charge against Town Planning DG
New Delhi, October 26 On August 18, 2011, the HC had passed an interim order for maintaining status quo on the allotments relating to the Final Development Plan-2025 for the Gurgaon-Manesar Urban Complex after hearing a PIL filed by Bimal Kumar Dutta and others and another petitioner contending that the plan was in violation of the Zoning Regulations. While the order was in force, Gupta granted licence for setting up the colony resulting in the institution of the contempt case against him. Subsequently, the HC rejected Gupta’s explanation and held that its status quo order should have been understood to have “imposed a comprehensive embargo on issuance of all kinds of licences.” Holding him guilty of committing contempt, the HC passed another order on July 23, 2012, directing him to appear in the court for the hearing to decide the quantum of punishment. Gupta had moved the SC against this order. The SC noted that besides the explanation, Gupta had also tendered an apology to the HC but the court rejected it observing that conditional apology could not be accepted. The SC, however, said any apology by a contemnor should not be rejected merely on the ground of “qualified or conditional so long as it is made bona fide.” Further, the SC also noted that the HC had already vacated the status quo order while dismissing the PIL on October 30, 2012, which had since attained finality. However, “We should not be understood to be saying that all cases of dismissal of the writ petition, by itself, would absolve a contemnor of the charge of commission of contempt,” the Bench clarified. |
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Murder case: SC cancels ex-INLD MLA’s bail
New Delhi, October 26 The HC had granted bail to him on February 11, 2013, in a case relating to the murder of a person in a grain market in Rohtak district on May 6, 2011. Balbir had been denied bail by the Additional Sessions Judge, Rohtak, on March 22, 2012. According to the FIR, Balbir, along with dozens of supporters, had attacked the shop of Sita Ram who had refused to pay a donation of Rs 50,000. In the attack, Sita Ram’s brother-in-law, Vishnu, who was in the shop, was killed and several persons were injured. The assailants had opened fire and used lathis. Appearing for Sita Ram, advocate Rishi Malhotra contended that Sita Ram, in his statement to the police, had clearly said Balbir had opened fire from his revolver. However, the defence argued that the forensic report did not indicate that the victim died due to injuries caused by bullets from a revolver. It was more likely the death was due to firing from a .315 bore rifle carried by one of the assailants, Sombir. The SC noted that according to the allegation “Sombir fired on the instigation, instance and indication of” Balbir. “Moreover, the leading role of Balbir is not incredible only because an injury from a revolver has not been reported as he could have fired there from and missed Vishnu,” the SC explained. |
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NGT stays open auction of trees to private contractors
Chandigarh, October 26 Acting on a petition filed by the Hariyali Welfare Society, a
Gurgaon-based NGO, the NGT stayed the open auction of dead, dry and fallen trees in these ranges. The NGT found that the state government’s decision to issue tender notice dated June 14, 2013, was in apparent conflict with the orders of the Supreme Court and the state’s forest policy. In its order dated October 24, the NGT said according to the orders of the Supreme Court and the state government’s policy, the standing forest extraction should not be executed through a private agency. Earlier, the Forest Department conducted auction of trees to allow private contractors in forest areas apparently in violation of the orders of the Supreme Court and state forest policy. The Supreme Court, in its order dated January 15, 1998, directed that timber extraction in forest areas would be done by the state government agencies only. The order was passed to restrict the private contractors to enter forest areas to control illicit felling of trees. In compliance with the apex court orders, the states and UTs were executing the tree harvesting through state forest development corporations. In Haryana also, some district forest ranges have been allotted to the Haryana Forest Development Corporation. Meanwhile, Vivek Kamboj of
Haryali, said they would also file a contempt of court petition in the Supreme Court. The order
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Price rise: BJP protests by keeping onions in lockers
Karnal, October 26 The protesters, including BJP workers and
shopkeepers, led by state BJP spokesperson Jagmohan Anand, who carried his licensed gun overtly to act as a ‘guard’ for precious onions, marched from his office
to the Bank and asked for depositing onions in lockers. Making a satire on
the government for its failure to check the prices of onions, Anand said “onions have become a precious commodity and keeping them in the house is risky and we feel that
it should be kept in safe custody in bank lockers”. The BJP activists alleged that due to the wrong
policies of the UPA and the state government, the prices of petrol, diesel, LPG, vegetables and
other essential commodities had shot up. Meanwhile, INLD spokesperson and former chairman of Haryana
Public Service Commission (HPSC), Krishna Chand Bangar today alleged that Haryana had become a "crime state" under the Congress rule and development works had come to a standstill. Addressing a meeting
at Anjanthali village for mustering support for the ‘Samman Divas Rally’ on November 1, Bangar ridiculed the claims of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda of Haryana being the number 1
state and said how could it be when people were not getting even the basic facilities like water and power. He said corruption, discrimination in development and jobs and regionalism had become the hallmark of the government during the past nine years. |
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Paddy stubble burning continues unabated
Sirsa/Fatehabad, October 26 The stubble burning is also causing breathing problems to people in the area. It is not only injurious to human health but also harmful for the farmers as several friendly pests that save crops from harmful pests, are burnt in the fire. The Punjab and Haryana High Court had directed the state government to take immediate remedial measures to stop burning of wheat/paddy stubble in the fields. Fatehabad Deputy Director (Agriculture) Anoop Singh said action in such matters was taken by the Pollution Control Department. Nitin Mehta, Sub-Divisional Officer in the Pollution Control Department, said action was taken on the violators from time to time. He, however, admitted that no case had been registered in Sirsa and Fatehabad in this paddy season. |
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Tribunal stays open auction of trees
Chandigarh, October 26 Acting on a petition filed by the Hariyali Welfare Society, a Gurgaon-based NGO, the NGT stayed the open auction of dead, dry and fallen trees in these ranges. It found that the state government’s decision to issue tender notice dated June 14, 2013, was in apparent conflict with the orders of the Supreme Court and the state’s forest policy. In its order dated October 24, the NGT said according to the orders of the SC and the state government’s policy, the standing forest extraction should not be executed through a private agency. Earlier, the Forest Department conducted auction of trees to allow private contractors in forest areas apparently in violation of the orders of the SC and state forest policy. The SC, in its order dated January 15, 1998, directed that timber extraction in forest areas would be done by the state government agencies only. The order was passed to restrict the private contractors from entering forest areas.
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5 booked for raping widow
Jind, October 26 In her complaint, the victim stated that Vijay, Ravi, Vishnu, Nafe and Raja, all residents of the village, had come to her house and started misbehaving with her sister-in-law over some issue on the night of September 12. She alleged that when she intervened, the accused overpowered her and her kin and raped her. She said the accused also threatened her with dire consequences. The victim said she approached the court after she failed to get a case registered at the local police station due alleged influence of the accused. Two booked for abduction, rape
Rohtak: The police has booked two youths for allegedly abducting and raping a 16-year-old schoolgirl. No arrest has been made so far. A police official said the incident took place at Chiri village in the district yesterday. The victim, who missed her school bus in the morning, was waiting for other mode of transport to reach her school, the official said, adding that two youths identified as Anil Kumar and Vijay, who had been running a shop near the bus stop, offered to drop her at the school in a private vehicle. When the girl agreed, the duo took her to a secluded place where one of them raped her. The accused fled after dropping her near her school. A case has been registered in this regard. |
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Sonepat bomb blasts: Tunda gets one-day police remand
Sonepat, October 26 Sonepat Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Balbir Singh said after taking the 70-year-old terrorist under production warrant from the Tihar Jail in Delhi, he was brought here under tight security. The police would investigate his movement, his contacts and other accomplices who provided him support before and after the incidents of bomb blasts, said the DSP, adding he was allegedly involved in twin blasts in Rohtak town on January 22, 1997. The DSP said Tunda, along with his two accomplices-Sakil Ahmed and Mohammad Amir Khan alias Kamran-was involved in two bomb blasts, one outside the Sonepat bus stand and the other in a shop 500m from the bus
stand. Though there was no causality, over 20 people were injured, he said. The DSP said the police succeeded in arresting Sakil Ahmed and Mohammad Amir Khan. However, Karim could not be arrested and was declared most wanted in 1998. |
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Villagers block road over 13-yr-old girl's death
Rewari, October 26 Consequently, Section 302 (murder) has now been added to the FIR that was earlier registered for abduction on a complaint filed by Dhari Lal, father of the deceased girl
Anju. The recovery the girl’s trunk (headless and armless body) on October 24, her severed arms on October 25 and her chopped off head today, from the bushy areas of Khedi village in Mahendergarh district, about 50 km from
Rewari, has sent shock waves among the members of the aggrieved family as well as the other residents of the entire area. The girl, a student of class VII, was allegedly abducted by an unknown person on October 20. Her post-mortem examination was conducted at the
PGIMS, Rohtak. |
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Hawala racket: Police takes laptop into custody
Ambala, October 26 Sources said an alleged hawala racket was operating from the city and the police had also involved the Enforcement Directorate into the investigation. The sources said besides the hawala angle to the case, it had also been found that the racket was being run by some local jewellers, cloth merchants and plywood manufactures of Yamunanagar to evade tax. Meanwhile, the local traders from whom Jitender claimed he had collected Rs 45 lakh, have reportedly denied having given any cash to him. The police said it had detained some persons and they were being questioned to ascertain the source of the looted money.
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Faridabad all set for CM’s visit today
Faridabad, October 26 Mulana urges workers to highlight achievements
President of Haryana Congress Phool Chand Mulana, while addressing his party office-bearers here today, urged them to highlight the achievements of the state government in public and took pot-shots at the opposition parties. Secretary of the AICC and deputy in charge of Haryana Congress, Aasha Kumari also spoke in similar vein.
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districts.
A drive from Rania towards Ellenabad in Sirsa and from Ratia to Jakhal and Tohana in Fatehabad reveal that the ban is being flouted with impunity.
The stubble burning in harvested paddy fields was noticed on the
Sirsa-Fatehabad stretched of the National Highway-10 today, causing a lot
of problem for drivers of the vehicles plying on the route due to a dense smoke emanating from the fields.
Sonepat, October 26
