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Urban Estate market shooting incident: Sixth accused arrested
SAD, BSP rift: Police on high alert
DAV National Sports for girls
Rights day has no meaning for this 8-yr-old
Rajkumar Raju, a minor boy from Uttar Pradesh, working in the kitchen of Govt Sports School, Jalandhar, on Tuesday. Tribune Photo: Malkiat Singh
Cops yet to lodge FIR in assault case
5 of family booked for fraud Patwaris threaten to stage protest on Dec 19 Missing boys found in Amritsar demand for regularisation Seminar marks Human Rights Day in Kapurthala
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Units found discharging effluents
Jalandhar, December 10 A pipe discharging the effluents into the drain was noticed by environmentalist Baba Balbir Singh Scheechewal, who is also a member of the PPCB, while on a visit to the Leather Complex along with a battery of cameramen this morning. The baba, subsequently, called the board’s senior environment engineer PS Garg to the spot to take stock of the situation so that appropriate action could be taken against the violators. Accompanied by officials of the PPCB, water supply and sewerage board and other related departments, Garg reached the spot and pulled up industrialists and employees of M/s Ramky Infrastructure Limited, a company that has be executing the CEPT on a build and operate basis, besides office-bearers of the Punjab Effluents Treatment Society (PETS). Garg revealed that the units were found bypassing the CETP through big pipes and then discharging the effluents into the drain. The company was also unable to stabilise the CETP even after enhancing its capacity from 5 MLD to 6 MLD. The company was to complete the augmentation of the plant on December 10 as per the contract, but missed the deadline, he claimed. The department has granted four more days to complete the job, he added. The Board has also written to the PSIEC authorities to clarify their status on the dedicated pipe lines laid to connect every leather unit for the proper disposal of their sewage. Meanwhile, Ajay Sharma, director-cum-secretary of the PETS, denied the allegations of bypassing the CETP and discharging effluents into the drain. He said the leather units were discharging their waste after proper treatment in the 5MLD capacity CETP even thought its capacity was being enhanced to 6 MLD
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Urban Estate market shooting incident: Sixth accused arrested
Jalandhar, December 10 The police have nabbed Parshotam Kumar, alias Lali, of Bajrawar village of Chabewal Hoshiarpur, who met key accused Daljit Singh, father-in-law of Bikramvir Singh (who is Karanvir’s brother) in Norway, agreed to his plan of getting Bikramvir killed in India, returned to Punjab in October, met the gangsters, gave them advance money and was with them on November 20, the shootout day. The contract killers had conspired to kill Bikramvir, but had erroneously shot at his younger brother Karanvir in broad daylight. The police have arrested him under Section 307 of the IPC and 25-54-59 of the Arms Act at the Division Number 7 police station. The police have also recovered an Acer laptop, four mobile phones, 11 SIM cards of different telecom companies, black wallet with Norway currency, euros, Rs 4,050 of Indian currency, an ID card of Italy, passport and seven credit cards of various Indian and international banks. Accused’s background
Parshotam Kumar knew prime accused Daljit Singh as both hail from the same village of Hoshiarpur. The former worked as a truck driver in Mumbai from 1985. He was arrested in 1990 when two armed persons had taken lift in his truck near Baroda, but had fled. He remained booked under the TADA Act, was arrested and was released in 1994. For two years, he got busy with cultivation work. He then opened a rubber factory near Chandigarh, which he closed down in 2001. He moved to Italy in 2003. Four years later, he even took away his wife and children and worked as a labourer. He then again resumed driver’s job there. Since Daljit Singh and Jasvir Singh hailed from his village, he went to see them in Norway. He also became friends with Bikramvir Singh, Daljit’s son-in-law. His confession
A month ago, Daljit reportedly called him in Norway and said that Bikramvir Singh was harassing his daughter and even beating her up. Parshotam has said, “I was told that Bikramvir would be moving to India around Diwali and that I, too, should follow him around that time, find people there and get him killed. I was promised a good amount to commit the crime, besides a commitment that he would get him settled in Norway.” Parshotam has reportedly said that he started from there on October 21 and went to Daljit a week before during which he paid him Rs 2 lakh for the job. Reaching his native village, he allegedly contacted Gurmail Singh of Ferozepur, who then further introduced him to Sandeep Singh and other gangsters whom he met at a dhaba in Jalandhar. He paid them Rs 10,000 and took them along to his village. The gangsters went back to Ferozepur after an initial recce and came to Jalandhar three times again, but could not find Bikramvir. On November 19, he alleged that he got a call from Daljit, who pressurised him to get the work done at the earliest, as there were just a few days left for him to return. He then called the contract killers on November 20. He said he, Pawan and Kulwinder Kaka, too, started on his Indica car towards Jalandhar. They met at a dhaba and paid Rs 50,000 to Sandeep. Sandeep and his accomplices went upstairs to Bikramvir’s office and returned, saying he had done his job, but it was actually not so. After this, all accused got scattered. Parshotam said he tried returning to Italy, but could not either from Delhi, Nepal or Mumbai. He was nabbed while he was just planning to consult a lawyer on the matter. |
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SAD, BSP rift: Police on high alert
Jalandhar, December 10 After the arrest, the SAD leaders including district planning committee chairman Gurcharan Singh Channi, former Jalandhar Improvement Trust Chairman Baljeet Singh Neelamahal, Senior Deputy Mayor Kamaljit Bhatia and councillors gave a memorandum to the Police Commissioner Ishwar Singh yesterday. They have been demanding registering of cases against the BSP leaders by name who blocked the traffic on national highway on November 19. Their second demand included the arrest of Rakesh who was involved in an attack on councillor Bittu. They also sought action against MC safai karamcharis who ransacked the office of Bhatia in Jalandhar two months back. Reacting to this, the leaders of safai karamchari unions today held a meeting saying that the SAD leaders wanted to threaten them but they would not come buckle under any pressure as law was the same for all and one. The BSP, on the other hand, is also contemplating holding of a dalit mahapanchayat on December 18 at Jalandhar to protest against police atrocities against the dalits. State president Parkash Singh Jandali who had earlier led the dharna at PAP Chowk for five hours convened a meeting in this regard at Phagwara. Heavy force remained deployed even today as the BSP leaders today gave a representation to the Police Commissioner seeking cancellation of FIR against them for blocking traffic in city on November 19. They termed the lodging of FIR as being politically motivated. DCP Rahul S. said that the police was on complete guard. “We have been taking all necessary measures. We have nominated the BSP leaders in the FIR to which they are now objecting. The protestors had held thousands of people to ransom on November 19 and we will take the matter to logical conclusion”. |
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DAV National Sports for girls
Jalandhar, December 10 Over 700 girls participated in the sports events, including volleyball, handball, basketball,
kho-kho, table tennis, badminton, hockey, swimming, lawn tennis, judo, roller-skating, air rifle pistol, races and gymnastics. Vice-Chancellor of the DAV University Dr R K Kohli gave away the prizes to the winners. Speaking on the occasion, he announced that the DAV University would start courses in sports sciences soon. He said students from across the nation exhibited sportsmanship and have done their respective institutes proud even by participating in the events. Results Swimming (50m freestyle): 1. Anuriti (Punjab Zone), 2. Drishti (Punjab), 3. Palak (Punjab), 4. Niharika
(Pune). 100 m race: Jennifer Nanci (Jharkhand). 200m race: Neelima Khanderao (MP and Chhattisgarh zone). 400m race: Sapna Kumari
(Jharkhand). 800 m race: Nisha Kumari (Jharkhand). 1,500m race: Harpreet Kaur (Punjab and JK zone). 4X100m relay race: Jharkhand zone won the gold medal. Shot put: Utkalika Priyadarshini
(Orissa). Discus throw: 1. Komal Kumari (Bihar). Long jump: 1. Jenifer Nanci
(Jharkhand). High jump: Akshita Patel (Orissa). |
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Rights day has no meaning for this 8-yr-old
JALANDHAR, DECEMBER 10 “I do cutting and chopping and prepare 'chapatis' for players. Sometimes, I also help in washing utensils with the kitchen staff,” said Raju. However, when Jalandhar Tribune called Gaurav, the government contractor, he denied having hired Raju as his employee. “He has just come to the city with his father. When your team
visited the school kitchen, his father had gone to HMV College to deliver food. Raju was just sitting there with his uncle,” said Gaurav. He also
claimed that the state government owned him around Rs 40 lakh as arrears for providing meals to the sponsored players. The District Sports Officer, when contacted, said an enquiry would be conducted into the case. “The contractor is doing a government job and he cannot hire a child labourer in any kind of work. A thorough investigation would be conducted into the case,” said Rakesh Kaushal, district sports officer. However, Gurdip Singh, principal of the school, said he had got nothing to do with the issue, as the mess and the contractor were being taken care of by the District Sports Department. |
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Cops yet to lodge FIR in assault case
Jalandhar, December 10 In his wheel-chair after a suicide attempt in Malaysia to escape from the hands of the kidnappers, Mandeep, his elder brother Gurpreet Singh, his mother and relatives had come from Mohali to Jalandhar to get the complaint lodged on Saturday, but to no avail. SHO Division Number 5 Rajinder Kumar was not there on the day, but the cops had met SI Resham Singh. ACP (West), too, said that the family was yet to meet him. Jalandhar Tribune had carried the sordid saga of the youth on December 8. |
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While the world was busy celebrating International Human Rights Day across the globe, eight-year-old Raju was busy preparing meals for around 150 players in the State Government School of Sports in the city.
He had come to the city a few months ago with his uncle and since then is working along with him in the school kitchen at a meagre monthly salary of Rs 3,000.
