Resident cheated of Rs 1.30 lakh
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Dec 25 — A case has been registered against a city resident for cheating a Panchkula resident of Rs 1.30 lakh on the pretext of sending him abroad.

According to police sources, Surinder Singh, the complainant, alleged that Shalinder and Heera Nadan, Directors of Asia Africa and Raja Export, had promised to send him abroad and the money was collected from him. But, they neither arranged to send him nor returned the money.

A case under Sections 420 and 120-B, IPC, has been registered at the Central police station.

Pedestrian hit, dies: An unknown pedestrian, who was hit by an unknown vehicle near the Sector 27-28 roundabout succumbed to injuries at the Sector 16 General Hospital. A case under Sections 279 and 304-A, IPC, has been registered at the Industrial Area police station.

Held for assault: The police has arrested an Indira Colony resident for allegedly assaulting a Mani Majra resident.

Ram Mehar Singh reported that Lucky assaulted and caused grievous injuries to him. A case under Section 307, IPC, has been registered.

Chekov’s adaptation of The Proposal well received
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Dec 25 — A Hindi adaptation of Anton Chekov’s one-act play the Proposal came up for a decent presentation at the Punjab Kala Bhavan, Sector 16, here today.

Sewak Nayyar’s translation ably managed to retain the true spirit of the boisterous script.The human spirit of self-assertion in addition to seeking universal approval of all personal actions figured as an important idea in the script.The stage visual is a journey into societal pyschology.

A young farmer Lomov visits his middle-aged neighbour seeking the hand of his daughter.The father leaves his daughter and the proposer to talk and arrive at a decision sitting alone.The dialouge starts with Lomov’s journey of words designed to end at a proposal.It gets struck in a dispute over possession of land.The father joins the case argument, in defence of his daughter who represented the family.

Lomov leaves the house only to be recalled by the girl after she comes to know the purpose of Lomov’s visit. Everything is finalised before another row breaks over the quality of dogs with each claiming superiority of their possesion.

The stage is a simple one which appeals to the audience at the surface level.The back had steps to lead out of the stage.The dressing was rather simple.

The comedy was well received despite remarks about possible areas of improvement in presentation .The difference in loud expression and the corresponding response could have looked better with sustainability of the tones.

The play was translated and directed by Sewak Nayyar.The artists were Sunil Chitkara as the father, Sanjeev Gupta as Lomov, who is the proposer, and Chandrika and Marrie .

Naveen, Sanjeev lead in chess round
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Dec 25 — Naveen Jain and Sanjeev Biswas were leading here today with 5.5 points at the end of the sixth round in the 11th Chandigarh Chess championship, being held at Sports Complex, Sector 42.

The results at the end of the sixth round were: 5.5 pts — Naveen Jain and Sanjeev Biswas. Four pts — A.N. Dey, Nitin, Ashwani Kumar and Ashok Atwal 3.5 pts — Abhinandan Vohra and Aneel Raina. 3pts — Madhusheel Arora, Karma Angdui, Rohit Chodha and Vipnesh Bhardwaj. 2.5 pts — Swapan Kumar 2 pts — Chetan Vikas, Naveen Bansal, Shweta, Ravneet Kaur and Gurbrinder Singh.

School sport day: Blue Bird School, Sector 16, Chandigarh, held its annual sports day on Friday evening, where students took part in various events. These included tricycle race, three-legged race, besides other races.

Mr CL Sethi, Chief General Manager, State Bank of India, presided over the function and the bank management daonated school uniforms to needy students. The results are: Tricycle race: Shivam 1, Mangham 2 Sachit 3. Yankey doodle race: Amit 1, Raghav 2, Aanchal 3. Turtle Race: Manish 1, Aditya 2, Gaurav 3. Monkey cap and glove race: Anmol 1, Moven 2, Aanchal 3. Lemon race: Tanvi 1, Mandeep 2 Sakshi 3. Pack your bag race: Sahil 1, Kusahil 2, Anmol 3. Sack race: Richa 1, Ishita 2, Pratibha 3. Three-legged race: Sonam/Sahil 1, Jaspreet/Anmol 2, Rohit/Nancy 3. Dress up your bride race: Himanshi/ Rahul 1, Preeti/ Vivek 2, Harvdeep/ Abhishek 3.

Football championship: Ram Bilas of Sanjay Public School, Sector 44, will lead Chandigarh in the Chandigarh State Sub Junior Football team in the 22nd National Sub-Junior Football championship for Justice Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy to be held at Midnapore (West Bengal) from December 28.

Other members of the team are: Amandeep, Sunil Rawat, Munish Pathania, Chetan Thakur, Vinay Chandel and Davinderjit Singh (all Sanjay Public School); Ramanjit Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Harpreet Singh, Gagandeep and Jaspal Singh (all Shivalik Public School-41); Jatinder (Govt Model Sr Sec School-16); Gopal Thapa & Jatinder Pal Singh (SD Public-32); Rahul (Govt Sr Sec School-15); Pardeep (Govt High School-37); Chetan Sharma (Govt Model Sr Sec School-19) and Ankit Mali (Manav Mangal School-21). Chandigarh will play its first match on December 28.

Other teams in this group are: Gujarat, Punjab, Orissa, Mizoram. Mr B.L. Ganguly and Mr D.S. Rawat will accopany the team as coach and manager, respectively.