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| Friday, April 21, 2000, Chandigarh, India  
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DGP
summoned in traffic rules case Fund-starved MDU limps An ‘ailing’ Civil
Hospital
Dyeing units hinder Yamuna Action
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Ambala industrialist gets
prestigious award Gurgaon roads test drivers’
nerves Hooda’s plea to Governor on
unfair means Air Force recruitments on April 27 Appointment letters’ proforma
to be amended Encroachment drive launched MDU summer vacation schedule
revised Haryana medical teachers’
body chief GJU adopts cyclone-hit village HAU strike enters third day 6-year-old raped, murdered 2 of marriage party die in
accident Cop injured in shootout Three killed in accident Prisoners injured in scuffle Women block traffic B. Com (final) paper postponed Prisoners on parole flee
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DGP summoned in traffic
rules case CHANDIGARH, April 20 — Directing Haryana’s Director-General of Police, the Finance Secretary and the Home Secretary to be present in the court with all record, on May 8 in the traffic regulation and pollution control case, Mr Justice Swatanter Kumar of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today observed that the officials present today were "more on a picnic" rather than having come to assist the court. Mr Justice Kumar also asked the local commissioner appointed by the court and members of a committee, consisting of two nominees from Punjab and Haryana, to visit major cities in both states, besides Chandigarh, before submitting a data based report regarding the violations of the directions on the use of red lights and black films, plying of over 15-year-old cars, wearing of helmets, painting of zebra crossings and removal of advertisement hoardings. Pronouncing the orders, Mr Justice Kumar observed that the direction asking the DGP and other officers to be present was necessary as "this was in utter violation of all directions in most districts in the state of Haryana". The officials present in the court too, Mr Justice Kumar added, were not aware of the steps taken by the authorities for complying with the orders. Mr Justice Kumar added that the state of Haryana had earlier undertaken to create a traffic cadre or direct the constables from existing force to control traffic but mere paper work had been undertaken. In his detailed order, Mr Justice Kumar observed: "It is clear from the bare reading of the report (filed by the local commissioner) that all the directions contained in the judgement are being violated with total disregard and disrespect to the orders of the court. It is a matter of regret that despite the stay having been declined even by the highest court of the land, the state governments and the Chandigarh Administration are not taking the matter seriously and are not implementing the directions which even require no financial burden on the states". "However, before issuing notice to show cause why action against the officers concerned of Punjab and Haryana as well as Chandigarh Administration be not taken under the provisions of the Contempt of Court Act, I would consider it appropriate still to direct the commissioner and the members of the committee to visit the particular spots in two major cities of each state as well as Chandigarh", he added. The High Court, in an
order on July 9 last year, had made helmets compulsory
for both men and women riders as well as those on the
pillion. The use of black films had also been banned. It
had also directed the introduction of one way traffic in
Sector 24 and 17 and the commercial sectors in the City
within 15 days. |
Fund-starved MDU limps ROHTAK, April 20 — The problems of the fund-starved Maharshi Dayanand University have been further compounded following the failure of the state government in releasing the grant-in-aid for the quarter ending March 31 last. The university is dependent on the grants-in-aid from the state government for meeting out its expenses, including the salary of its teaching and non-teaching employees. The non-payment of the grants-in-aid amounting Rs 1.75 crore has added to the woes of the university which needs at least Rs 2 crore every month to pay wages of its employees. While the grants-in-aid quarter ending March 31 appears to have lapsed, the university expects that the government would release the grants-in-aid for the current quarter without delay to enable it to pay the salary to the teaching and non-teaching employees for the current month. The university had to raise loan of Rs 1.50 crore from the Punjab and Sind Bank in April last year at the rate of 15 per cent interest to pay salary to its employees as the government had not released the grant. The loan amount, however has since been repaid. The finances of the university are in a mess, if the audit report of the university is to be believed. The audit report was approved by the executive council on March 21 and the university court on March 31 last. The cash book of the university has not been reconciled with the bank from November 1983 to March 1997. When The Tribune raised this issue, the then Vice-Chancellor ordered reconciliation of the cash book from April 1997 onwards by taking opening balance as the balance of the university. The reconciliation of accounts on the above basis have no sanctity as there was every possibility of non-detection of embezzlement and mis-appropriation committed in the university accounts. "In the absence of reconciliation and due to discrepancies in the cash book, there is likelihood of concealment of losses due to wrong debt entries in the bank account and missing of university credits", the joint director (Audit) pointed out. Interestingly several lakhs of rupees were outstanding as temporary advance against the names of many university employees for the past many years but the authorities did not initiate any measures to get the amount adjusted. Many lakhs of rupees advanced to an employee in 1989-90 on wards were reportedly adjusted in 1999 with the help of ‘duplicate’ voucher and receipts. During the 1988-89 academic session, the university enrolled 30154 candidates in B.Ed (CC) and the fees recoverable from the candidates should have been Rs 6,67,91,110. But as per the cash book only Rs 6,08,90,836 were received. Where has the balance amount of Rs 59,00,273.50 paise gone is still a mystery. Though the joint director, audit, recommended a thorough investigation in 1989-90, no action has been taken till date. Similarly responsibility for the loss of lakhs of rupees on account of interest caused to the university in 1989-90 due to non-issue of receipts in time and non-sending drafts in time to the bank on account of B.Ed (CC) fee, has not been fixed as yet. Further no action was taken as yet to recover balance amount of Rs 61,85,532.50 paise either short realised or lying un-accounted for in the shape of bank drafts, the audit report said. The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) offered to transfer 390.30 acres of land to the Maharshi Dayanand University in 1980-81 for Rs 98,76,331.59 paise. Out of 390.30 acres, the university took possession of 379.79 acres of land. Later on decision was taken to purchase only 125 acres and the university deposited Rs 32.50 lakh. Again the proposal was changed and the university demanded refund of Rs 32.50 lakh. Thereafter, the executive council decided to purchase land costing Rs 1,18,430.10 only. But the responsibility for the loss of the balance amount was still not fixed. The annual report of the university has revealed that many students either leave the studies in between or change their subjects after taking admissions in different departments. Against an intake of 60 students in MA (P) in Economics Department the student strength in MA (Final) was only 17. The annual budget of the department has, in the meantime, has been increased to Rs 31.54 lakh as against Rs 18.28 lakh last year. Similarly, the department of Defence and Strategic Studies, which has an annual budget of Rs 11.13 lakh, has only three students in the final year as against the intake of 11 students. The Music Department with an annual budget of Rs 17.33 lakh has seven students in the final against intake of 10 in MA (P). Interestingly, the music classes are also available in the local I.C. College for Women here. The rural development, carved out of the economics department to favour some teachers by the then Vice Chancellor, has five students in the final as against the intake of 11. Its annual budget has risen to Rs 14.35 lakh as against Rs 5.37 lakh last year. The department of fine Arts, which is available in the local I.C. College for Women also, has a strength of seven students whereas the annual budget has almost been doubled as compared to the last year. The university, said a
senior member of the teaching faculty, should review the
functioning of the various departments and should not run
courses which were available in the colleges locally.
This will help the university in saving lakh of rupees,
he says. |
Dyeing units hinder Yamuna
Action Plan PANIPAT, April 20 — The twin Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) constructed under the Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) here for treating the domestic sewage of the township to check pollution in river Yamuna are not operating up to optimum capacity following the failure of local bodies such as Municipal Committee, Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) and Public Health Department to link a large number of sewers of the township with the trunk sewer system of the STPs. The Zone-I of the STP situated at the Jattal road has been constructed to cater to those areas of the township which fall on the western side of the Ambala-Delhi GT Road comprising a population of 60,000 with an estimated sewer flow of 10 million litres per day( MLD). The Zone-II STP constructed at Sewah will take care of the old city area and HUDA sectors located on the eastern side of the GT Road comprising a population of 1.65 lakh people with an estimated sewerage flow of 35 MLD. A 14-kilometre-long trunk sewer was built for the Zone-II STP and a 3 km-long trunk sewer for the Zone- I which will have to be connected with the small sewer lines and drains of the township. Sources say that owing to lackadaisical attitude of the local bodies many pockets of the old city area, the whole of Sectors 11 and 12 of the HUDA, Narain Singh Park area etc have yet to be linked with the trunk sewer system. "Since the old city area does not have proper sewerage, the Municipal Committee will have to take initiative to connect the drains to the trunk sewer system. Similarly, we are urging the HUDA authorities to go in for early completion of connecting the Sectors with the trunk system,’’ said an official of the Yamuna Action Plan. A major problem confronting the township is that of disposal of water coming from large number of big and small dyeing units. Since there is no effective means to dispose of this water containing hazardous chemicals, the dyeing units most often discharge these into open drains or drill the earth inside their premises to discharge the chemical waste. The YAP officials say that the sewage treatment plants have been set up to treat only the domestic sewage and the responsibility of treating the industrial waste lies with industrial units. They say that the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) is taking appropriate steps to check discharge of untreated waste water in the Yamuna river. However, the efforts of the Pollution Control Board, to ensure discharge of only treated water from dyeing units have come a cropper. The decay of Hali lake near the industrial area stands as a living example of this. The lake has become a dumping ground for the disposal of dyeing water in the absence of stringent measures. Says a YAP official:
"We cannot take the dyeing effluents for treatment
at the sewage treatment plants as they are designed only
to treat domestic sewage. But in the larger interest we
can connect these drains carrying dyeing water with our
trunk system if these units treat the dyeing water to the
level prescribed by us." |
Ambala industrialist gets
prestigious award AMBALA, April 20 — A national policy and commitment for the promotion of meteorological infrastructure is required, said industrialist Dr Anil Jain, who was conferred the prestigious 14th Lal C. Verman Award by the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers of India. In an interview to The Tribune, Dr Jain, who is the President of Vaiseshika Electron Devices, said that the award was conferred on him at the Space Application Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Ahmedabad, by the Governor of Gujarat, Mr S. S. Bhandari. The Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr R. Chidambaram, was also present on the occasion. The Lal C Verman award was awarded to Dr Jain for his "outstanding contributions in the area of Standardisation, Quality Control and Reliability in electronics and telecommunication engineering during the last ten years." Dr Jain pointed out this is for the first time that the award has been given to a person from industry. "Earlier, it has been conferred on scientists and engineers working in the national research and defence laboratories of India," he said. Dr Anil Jain, who did his Ph.D. from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, said that he delivered the 14th Lal C Verman Award lecture on "Imperatives of metrology and standardisation for global trade." "Metrology and standardisation are two integral determinants of quality in the international trade. India has a sound infrastructure of metrology laboratories. Most of these laboratories are established by the Government of India and are accredited with the National Accreditation Board of Laboratories," Dr Jain said. He said, "There is an urgent need that India should be a signatory to the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation and the calibration certificates from Indian metrology laboratories should be recognised internationally through the mechanism of Mutual Recognition Agreements. A national policy and commitment for the promotion of meteorological infrastructure is required. New metrology laboratories should be encouraged in the private sector," Dr Jain added. Dr Jain stated that appropriate fiscal incentives and institutional support are required for private entrepreneurs to establish metrology institutes with state-of-the-art test and calibration equipment. "Further, a planned effort is required to maintain and upgrade the existing test and calibration equipment in government-funded laboratories," he said. "Corporatisation of government metrology laboratories will improve their productivity, make them more efficient and ensure optimum utilisation of existing facilities. The emergence of ISO 9000, QS 9000 and ISO 14000 standards have brought tremendous pressure on metrology laboratories for calibration and testing. The multi-lateral government agreements and global trade will depend upon the quality of metrology institutes in India," Dr Jain's lecture states. Dr Jain said Vaiseshika Electron Devices in Ambala Cantonment was awarded an ISO 9002 accreditation for manufacturing calibration standards in 1998 by the Dutch Council for Accreditation, Utrecht, Netherlands. Vaiseshika Electron
Devices has been manufacturing electronics calibration
standards for the last 25 years as import substitutes and
are being critically used in the MiG and Jaguar aircraft
of the Indian Air Force. "Recently, the calibration
standards from Vaiseshika have been approved in the
prestigious Light Combat Aircraft of Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore. The firm has been
exporting part of its production to South East Asian,
African, European and American countries," he said. |
Gurgaon roads test drivers’
nerves GURGAON, April 20 — Local residents have often demanded and demonstrated for better roads and civic amenities. However, not much has been done by the administration in redressing these problems on a long-term basis. A majority of roads need repair. In the absence of proper drainage system, many of the roads are perennially damaged and almost unpliable. The Khandsa road has been lying incomplete for a long time with crushed stones spread across the surface. The New Railway road, which is in the heart of the town and carries heavy traffic, has been lying unfinished for the past several years. The administration has proclaimed time and again that the road would be re-done and carpeted. However, nothing has been done in this regard. The sorry state of these roads is a serious traffic hazard. The issue has also been raised at the District grievances committee meetings several times by public representatives. Executive Engineer (PWD) K.K. Mittal said paucity of funds was the main cause for withholding of the construction work on the New Railway road. He explained that this particular stretch from the post office to the railway station was to be completed under a scheme of the National Capital Region (NCR). He said even those contractors who had already completed work on the road earlier still have to be paid by the department. He said that the state government has now taken up the matter with the Central government, and until the issue of funds was sorted out, the work could not be taken up further. He informed that under
the NCR scheme, first 5 km of the Gurgaon-Pataudi road
would be widened from 18 feet to 22 feet, and a stretch
of 250 metres at Godawli village would be made concrete
at a cost of Rs 20 lakh. He said a 125-kilometre length
of rural roads would be improved by way of carpeting in
the next few months under a World Bank loan scheme. |
An ‘ailing’ Civil
Hospital YAMUNANAGAR: The local Civil Hospital lacks basic facilities resulting in inconvenience to poor and needy patients. With the change of the government, the people look forward to an improvement in the facilities. Even after 11 years of its existence, the Civil hospital is in a pitiable condition due to apathy on the part of various governments. The hospital is located in an old building with facilities for only 50 beds as compared to 200 to 300 beds in other district hospitals. The boundary wall of the hospital has given way at several places. A small room serves as a canteen for patients. There is no facility worth the name for relatives of patients. Though there is a large campus, no new building has been constructed despite repeated assurances by previous governments. Most of the doctors are living in rented accommodation in the town due to the non- availability of accommodation on the campus. This leads to delay in providing medical services in emergencies. There is a sanctioned strength of one Senior Medical Officer and eight medical officers only. There is no ENT surgeon and pathologist. There is little space for doctors to examine the patients. Three to four doctors are made to sit in each OPD. A small, old portable ultrasound machine is insufficient to cater to the needs of the whole district. There are few instruments for eye and bone surgery. Emergency services are no better. There is no generator in x-ray, ultrasound, laboratory and dental departments. Patients have to wait for several hours during power cuts. Accidents and poisoning cases can’t be treated efficiently during night in the case of power failure. As a result nursing homes are flourishing in the town. With the advent of the Om Parkash Chautala Government there is some improvement in the functioning of the hospital. Congress grass and bushes have been cleared. Wards, toilets and verandahs are relatively cleaner. Emergencies medicines are being provided to the patients. X-ray, ultrasound, ECG and dental units are working properly. But it still needs a lot of improvement. Equipment and medicines should be provided on a par with other district hospitals to cater to emergencies effectively and give succour to the poor and the needy. The government should upgrade the hospital to 200 beds in due course of time. Jagadhri, known as a
centre of metal wares, has only a 30-bed hospital even
though it was supposed to be a 50-bedded one. It may be
added that there is a shortage of ENT, skin and
orthopaedic specialists. The Jagadhri civil hospital also
caters to the needs of three blocks — Mustafabad,
Sadhaura and Bilaspur. |
Hooda’s plea to Governor on
unfair means CHANDIGARH, April 20 — Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, MLA, President of the Haryana Pradesh Congress (I) Committee, has drawn the attention of the Governor of Haryana towards the malpractices in the conduct of examinations of Kurukshetra University and urged him to get the matter investigated by a judge of the high court. While writing a letter to the Governor in this regard, Mr Hooda referred to a news item (which first appeared in The Tribune) that unfair help was being allegedly provided to Mr Vikram Singh, alias Vicky, son of Prof Hoshiar Singh, officiating Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, during examinations. Mr Hooda wrote that the
university had neither denied the allegations against the
VC nor made it clear whether the candidate, a murder
convict, was provided with a separate seat in the
examination centre or he was appearing along with other
candidates. |
Air Force recruitments on
April 27 AMBALA, April 20 — The Indian Air Force will conduct a recruitment rally at the district Gymnasium Hall at Gurdaspur on April 27 and 28 for the selection of airmen in the non-technical trades. it was stated in a press note issued by the 1 Airmen Selection Centre today. According to the press note, the candidates who have passed matriculation or equivalent examination with at least 45 per cent marks in aggregate and at least pass marks in English, will be eligible to appear in these tests, provided they were born between October 1, 1981, and October 1, 1984. The eligible candidates who have passed matriculation examination from Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Roopnagar, Kapurthala, Nawanshahr and Chandigarh. The press note said the candidate who would fulfill these domicile requirements would only be allowed to appear in the tests. The result will be
declared on the spot and successful candidates will
undergo medical examination. The details can also be
found out from the offices of the District Sainik Welfare
Officers of the above districts. |
Appointment letters’ proforma
to be amended CHANDIGARH, April 20 — To check ineligible persons from fraudulently taking benefits reserved for members of the Scheduled Castes and backward classes, the Haryana Government has decided to amend the proforma of the appointment letters. The government has issued directions that all appointment letters of the candidates belonging to the two categories should specifically mention that the appointment is provisional, subject to the verification of the caste certificate. If the certificate is found to be false, the services will be terminated without assigning any reason and without prejudice to such further action as may be taken under the Indian Penal Code for furnishing a false certificate. It has also directed the
heads of departments that the non-inclusion of the above
condition shall be treated as a serious lapse and the
necessary disciplinary action will be taken against the
defaulting officers. |
Encroachment drive launched ROHTAK, April 20 — The district administration has launched to remove illegal constructions and encroachments done in some parts of the town. Authorities took the help of a bulldozer to remove the illegal construction done by the shopkeepers in the main bazar of the city known as Quilla Road. Although some of the shopkeepers and traders tried to put up some resistance but the administration was able to clear the encroachments in two days. Earlier, the authorities cleared the rehris and stalls put up by some persons with the connivance of the shopkeepers. As a result the width of the main road had been reduced by 10 to 20 feet. Moreover, the cemented construction done by the shopkeepers in front of their shops had reduced the parking space of the two wheelers. The authorities concerned it is learnt had given notice in advance to the shopkeepers either to remove the illegal construction themselves or face demolition. The administration started demolition work on Monday. Similarly, the authorities demolished several jhuggis brought up illegally on the land of a school on the Bhiwani road. The jhuggi dwellers took at a procession and submitted a memorandum to the authorities concerned. According to district administration sources, the drive will continue and encroachment of the public properties or space will not be allowed. Some of the social and
citizen welfare organisations have welcomed the drive,
and have also demanded action against those encroaching
residential areas and colonies. |
MDU summer vacation schedule
revised ROHTAK, April 20 — Maharshi Dayanand University has revised the schedule of summer vacations for the colleges of education (B.Ed. colleges) affiliated to it. These colleges now will remain closed for vacation from May 1 to June 30 in place of April 23 to June 20. Meanwhile, the
vice-chancellor of the university exercising powers under
Sections 9-A(5) of the MDU Act has appointed Dr A.S.
Dalal and Dr Jaiveer Dhankar, lecturers in Law Department
and History Department as wardens of boys hostel No III
and I, respectively, in place of Dr Preet Singh and Dr
Sudhir Bansal on part-time basis, in addition to their
own duties. |
Haryana medical teachers’
body chief ROHTAK, April 20 — Dr D.R. Gaur of the Social and Preventive Medicine (SPM) Department and Dr Suresh Kumar Dhattarwal of the Forensic Science Department of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) Rohtak, have been elected President and General Secretary, respectively, of the Haryana State Medical Teachers Association (HSMTA). Dr R.K. Yadav of the Radiology Department has been made new vice-president of the association while Dr (Mrs) Shashi Bala has been elected joint secretary for one-year term. Dr R.S. Dahiya, Dr R.C. Siwach, Dr R.K. Karwasra, Dr H.L. Khatri and Dr M.S. Punia have been elected members of the executive committee. The general body meeting
of the association has resolved that it would continue
its struggle to get non-practising allowance (NPA), which
is 25 per cent of the basic pay and academic conveyance
allowance for the medical teachers in the state. |
GJU adopts cyclone-hit
village HISAR, April 20 — The Department of Media Studies in Guru Jambeshwar University has adopted Lundiriguda, a cyclone-hit village in Behrampur district of Orissa. A team of teachers and students led by the Dean Media Studies Prof B.K. Kuthiala visited the village recently study the problems of the cyclone-hit people there. The students had also collected about Rs 30,000 for the victims. Lundiriguda village, 18 km from Behrampur, is predominantly a tribal village. It has no link with the outside world. The villagers have not even heard about the radio. The village was inaccessible till the cyclone hit. Only recently a road link was established with the money donated by the local MP. According to Dr PK Jena, lecturer, Media Studies, a multi-purpose community centre would be constructed in the village. Initially it would be provided with a radio set. Mr Jena said, the villagers still lived a primitive life. They still carried bows any arrows. The only educated person was the village sarpanch, who had studied up to eighth standard. The villagers were unaware about the outside world. So much so none of them knew who is country’s Prime Minister. Prof Kuthiala said, when the village sarpanch was asked who was the Prime Minister he said, "after Rajiv Gandhi died, Sanjay Gandhi became the Prime Minister". Dr Kuthiala said, the department would develop communication channels for the cyclone-hit village so that outside world could know about their plight. Moreover, by providing them with radio and television they would know what was happening in the world. The students would be visiting the village from time to time. They would also start an adult education programme in the village. Aditi, a student, said was surprising to see a village just about 18 km from Behrampur, the commercial capital of Orissa, so backward. The students also organised a seminar in the village and had thorough interaction with the villagers for several days. They tried to learn. Mr M.R. Patra, whether teachers of the department, said the students showed a keen interest in helping the cyclone victims. Another student Satpal said, he was pained to see the miserable life the people were living there. Prof Kuthiala said, the
idea was to provide information with inputs to the needy
people. He said, the community centre would be
constructed by the voluntary labour offered by the
villagers. The department would meet other material
costs. The students and teachers from the department
would be frequently visiting the village to monitor the
progress of the welfare work, Prof Kuthiala added. |
HAU strike enters third day HISAR, April 20 — Students of Haryana Agricultural University (HAU) today locked the main gate of College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences of about two hours in support of their demands and against the indifferent attitude of the university administration. The students also continued their strike for the third day today. They were also opposing the decision for the transfer of four departments to other college of the university. They took out a procession and raised slogans in support of their demands. Two former presidents of
the HAU Students Union, Mr Bijender Sharma and Mr
Rajinder Sharma and several other student leaders said in
a joint statement here today that the authorities were
not taking their demands seriously which compelled them
to start agitation. |
6-year-old raped, murdered ROHTAK, April 20 — A case has been registered in connection with the abduction, rape and murder of a six-year-old girl yesterday at Titoli village. According to police sources, Rewa Singh, father of the victim found her daughter, Pooja missing from her bed when he went to her bed to enquire whether she wanted to drink water. He called his nephew from the neighbourhood and started searching for the girl. The girl’s body was found lying in an open pit of a plot in the village after about half-an-hour. The body bore some injuries. The victim’s mother
was not in the house as she had gone to her parental
village. |
2 of marriage party die in
accident HISAR, April 20 — Two members of a marriage party were killed and two others injured seriously when a car in which they were travelling collided with a truck standing on the roadside, near Dhangar village, about 40 km from here on the Hisar-Sirsa highway early this morning. According to information, the marriage party was returning to Hisar from Sirsa when the collision took place killing two persons on the spot. The incident reportedly occurred at about 2 a.m. The deceased have been
identified as Pawan Bindal, a resident of Jain Gali and
Ashok Kumar, driver of the car, a resident of Rishi
Nagar. The injured Ashwani and Naveen have been admitted
to a private hospital here. |
Cop injured in shootout SIRSA, April 20 — One policeman was injured in a shoot-out yesterday night in Darbi village of this district. According to information received here today, Mr Ding Krishan Kumar, ASI, was injured when a team led by him went to Darbi village on a complaint lodged by Najer Singh and his wife Kamla and knocked at the door of Raj Singh, a relative of Nazer Singh who fired from within. A dispute over a piece of land is stated to be cause of tiff between Nazer and Raj Singh. The police has registered a case against Raj Singh and three women under Sections 307, 332, 353, 186, and 34 IPC, and Sections 25, 27, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act. Raj Singh’s mother
and wife have been arrested, while Raj Singh and another
woman are still at large. |
Three killed in accident FARIDABAD, April 20 — Three women, going on pilgrimage were killed and more than twelve injured when a truck, in which they were travelling overturned near Dhatir village, about 35 km from here, today. The injured persons have been admitted to the hospital. A case under Sections
279 and 304-A has been registered against the driver. |
Prisoners injured in scuffle AMBALA, April 20 — Five prisoners lodged in Ambala Central Jail were injured, two of them seriously, in a scuffle on the jail premises past evening. According to the police report, the dispute began among some undertrials and convicts over a minor issue. Some undertrials have been lodged in the jail presently. A prisoners, Bajir Singh, sustained serious injuries on his head and he was shifted to the PGI in Chandigarh immediately. Rajesh and Jasmer were admitted to the local Civil Hospital. Kuldip and Rajesh Kumar were discharged from the hospital after they had received the first aid. On the complaint of
Jasmer, the local police has registered a case against
the six other prisoners involved in the scuffle. |
Women block traffic FARIDABAD, April 20 — A large number of women, some of them even 70 to 80 years old blocked all vehicular traffic near the Municipal Corporation office and the B K Hospital Chowk in protest against the failure of MC to supply water in Sector 3 (NIT) and some parts of Sector 1 and 2 and Jawahar and Dabua colonies. They accused the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Parkash Chautala, for his failure to get Faridabad developed. They submitted a
memorandum to the Commissioner, and a local MLA and urged
for the restoration of water supply. |
B. Com (final) paper
postponed ROHTAK, April 20 — A paper of B.Com (final) examination being conducted by Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) has been postponed due to some administrative reasons. The paper, "Indian
Economics Development and Policy" (Code No 973)
scheduled to be held on April 21 will now be held on
April 30 (Sunday) from 9 to 12 noon at all centres. |
Prisoners on parole flee ROHTAK, April 20 — Two inmates of the district jail, who had been released on parole failed to report back to prison authorities here. According to a source, the accused identified as Dhanraj, a resident of Sundana village, and Janak, a resident of Bahu Jamalpur village were released on parole in February. They were to report back on April 18, but failed to do so. The police has registered a case in this regard. Meanwhile, in another
incident a minor girl aged about 15 years was abducted
allegedly by two youths of Sunderpur village in the
district. The accused have been identified as Kadoora and
Jasbir. A case under Sections 363, and 366 of the IPC has
been registered against them. |
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