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Cong to launch stir against corruption Round-up Harpreet case: CBI visits
Phagwara Bibi’s secretary transferred Punjab to be TB-free
BJP state poll
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Foreign goods: Manch plans drive 2001 to be observed
as development year Jacob’s first visit
to Sangrur
Isolation spells doom for trauma victims: expert Sculptors create sheer ‘music’ Dr Shan back from N.America HC: prosecute girl for misleading court DC pulls up
officers Promises made by Badal unkept Bathinda selected for
blindness survey ETO association holds election Labourer killed in roof collapse 2 killed as car
hits train
Fraudulent deal lands 3 in cops’ net Addicts take to
stealing, 3 held Headless body of woman found ASI caught while
taking bribe Man murders
room-mate
PTU’s non-formal education unit Parents assault MD of dental college
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Cong to launch stir against corruption BATHINDA, Dec 18 — The Congress has decided to launch an agitation in the state against “rampant corruption” in government departments shortly. Mr Jagroop Singh Gill, Organising Secretary, PPCC, while talking to mediapersons here today said corrupt practices of ruling politicians had been exposed by the Supreme Court and the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He said if the Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, believed in morality, he should resign and seek a fresh mandate. He pointed out that the Punjab and Haryana High Court had exposed the bunglings of the Punjab Government in the recruitment of employees in municipal councils and the Supreme Court had exposed its misdeeds in the V.K. Khanna case. Besides, some MLAs and ministers had also charged their colleagues with corruption. He said two BJP MLAs had alleged that a minister had been indulging in corrupt practices while the Irrigation Minister, Mr Janmeja Singh Sekhon, had said on record that a fraud worth Rs 40 crore had been committed in the department. Mr Gill said during the agitation, Congress workers would press the authorities concerned to order a CBI probe into these bunglings so that the corruption prevailing among a section of the ruling politicians could be exposed and legal action taken against them. He said the Congress would highlight the court verdicts during the agitation so that people could know that Mr Badal who came into power on the promise that he would eradicate corruption, was himself protecting the corrupt officials and politicians. |
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Round-up PATHANKOT: Nearly all political parties, social organisations and clubs have supported the demand for the grant of district status to Pathankot. An agitation in this regard entered its third month in December. Earlier, the Bar Association had been making the demand on its own. Mr Ashok Soodan, a member of the association, said senior leaders of the state had given an assurance in this connection to the association. Residents say Pathankot is densely populated and also has a cantonment. Moreover, it is a gateway to Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, increasing its importance. They think that if it had been merged with Himachal Pradesh at the time of reorganisation in 1966, it would have been enjoying the status of a district now. *** Residents of Ucha Thada and localities in the area of the Ranjit Sagar Dam project have demanded the setting up of mortuaries in hospitals there. . They say since field work at the site of the dam involves risk, accidental deaths occur.The bodies then have to be taken to the Pathankot Civil Hospital for a postmortem. This consumes a lot of time and causes inconvenience to those concerned. Mr Rajinder Gupta, a Congress leader,who backs the demand, said more than 15,000 workers were engaged in field work at the dam site. Besides, more than 50 villages were attached with Shahpur
Kandi. *** Government Senior Secondary School, Madhopur, near here, is awaiting the appointment of the Principal without whom studies and other activities are being adversely affected.The institution, according to residents, has been functioning without any Principal for more than two and a half years. The funds available with the institution total around Rs 4.80
lakh.However, the condition of the building is poor. Cracks have developed in most of the classrooms and roofs leak. Doors and windowpanes in various classrooms are missing. *** The Punjab Pensioners Welfare Association has urged the state government to double the medical allowance for pensioners. Mr B.N. Sharma, president of the Gurdaspur unit of the association, said at a meeting of pensioners that they were facing difficulties in the matter of release of their pensions at the office of the Assistant Treasury Officer, Pathankot. On many occasions pensioners were compelled to return empty handed from the ATO’s office without getting their DA arrears. The period of seven days fixed by the ATO (from the 16th to the 22nd of every month) for this purpose was not enough. The association said one eligible dependent son or daughter of each pensioner should be given a government job. Besides, it demanded a 5 per cent increment in the pension. |
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Harpreet case: CBI visits
Phagwara PHAGWARA, Dec 18 — CBI sleuths again visited this town in connection with the ongoing probe in the controversial death of Harpreet Kaur, daughter of Bibi Jagir Kaur, former SGPC President. The team again visited the palatial “Jasdil Mansion” owned by Ms Dalwinder Kaur Dhesi, a confidante of Bibi Jagir Kaur. She is presently in judicial lock-up, along with her brother-in-law Paramjit Singhraipur and helpers Satyadevi, Sanjiv Kumar and Harwinder Singh. When this correspondent visited the mansion today, its inmates were tight-lipped about the issue. The pregnant Harpreet had stayed here before her death on April 21. The team also visited the Nigahan mohalla to question Ms Raksha, mother of Harwinder, but the house was locked. The team had earlier raided the place but could not find anything. It, however, spoke to neighbours and collected minute details during what is said to be, the final stage of its probe. The CBI had seen the record of a police station at Begowal and visited the cremation ground again. |
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Bibi’s secretary
transferred AMRITSAR, Dec 18 — After the proverbial “change of guard” in the mini-parliament of Sikhs, a number of transfers have followed the “ouster” of Bibi Jagir Kaur from the presidentship of the SGPC. According to sources, Mr Harjit Singh, personal secretary to Bibi Jagir Kaur, has been transferred as assistant secretary of the Dharam Prachar Committee replacing Mr Mahinder Singh who has been given the rank of assistant secretary, flying squad. Similarly, the additional secretary of the SGPC trusts, Mr Dalmegh Singh, has been transferred to Section 87 and Mr Harbeant Singh to Section 85 as additional secretaries. The trusts will now be under the charge of Dr Gurbachan Singh Bachan, secretary, and Mr Dyal Singh, additional secretary. It is learnt that some crucial transfers are likely to be effected in the SGPC executive meeting slated for December 21. |
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Punjab to be TB-free AMRITSAR, Dec 18 — The Punjab Government has launched a special comprehensive programme throughout the state to make Punjab tuberculosis free. The Union Health Minister, Dr C.P. Thakur, will formally inaugurate this campaign from the historic city on January 18 next year. Addressing a meeting of the district-level Anti-Tuberculosis Society, Senior Medical Officers, other Health Department officials and various social and non-government voluntary organisations, Dr Baldev Raj Chawla, Punjab Health Minister, said the state government was committed to making Punjab a TB-free state. He exhorted the department officials to ensure the active involvement of the NGOs for the eradication of TB from the state. Dr Chawla said as per the latest survey the state had three lakh TB patients and the number was increasing by 40,000 every year, adding that unfortunate 30 persons die of TB daily in the state. In order to achieve the target and make the state TB-free, a district-level committee headed by the Deputy Commissioner and consisting of NGOs’ representatives had been constituted in every district. Dr Chawla said the state government had directly approached the pharmaceutical companies manufacturing TB medicines. These companies had agreed to provide medicines on no-profit-no-loss basis to the NGOs approaching them for the adoption of TB patients. Dr Chawla hoped that like polio Punjab would be absolutely free from TB soon. Not a single case of polio had been identified in the state during the first and second phase of pulse polio immunisation campaign. The Health Minister exhorted various voluntary organisations to come forward in a big way for the cause of humanity and work shoulder to shoulder with the government machinery for the eradication of this dreaded disease. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Narinderjit Singh, said there were about 4,098 patients in the rural areas of the district. He sought cooperation from the panches, sarpanches and opinion leaders in the rural and urban belts for the eradication of TB. He instructed the health authorities to make survey and identify the TB patients and then assess whether they could afford expenses so that the voluntary organisations could step in for the monitoring and medical help. He also suggested setting up medical care booths at the bus stand and railway station to check the migrant labourers. The Civil Surgeon, Dr Rajinder Singh, disclosed as many as 8,519 TB patients had been identified in the district and efforts were on for their care with the help of voluntary organisations. Dr (Mrs) Vandana Joshi, representative of the World Health Organisation in the north zone, said WHO had adopted Patiala for the pilot project for TB eradication. WHO will take care of the TB patients. During the second phase, Amritsar, Ropar, Sangrur, Bathinda and Hoshiarpur districts will be taken up by WHO to make these zones absolutely TB-free. |
BJP state poll
panel formed CHANDIGARH, Dec 18 — Mr Brij Lal Rinwa, president of the Punjab unit of the BJP, has constituted an 11-member state election committee. The committee members are Mr Brij Lal Rinwa; Mr Balramji Dass Tandon (Local Bodies Minister); Mr Lajpat Rai (MP); Mr Madan Mohan Mittal (Food and Supplies Minister); D Baldev Raj Chawla (Health and Family Welfare Minister); Dr Balbir Chand Kapila (vice-president, Punjab BJP); Ms Gurcharan Kaur (Vice-President, Punjab BJP);Mr Avinash Jaiswal (general secretary,Punjab BJP); Mr Shakti sharma (general secretary, Punjab BJP); Mr Narottam Dev Ratti (general secretary, Punjab BJP); and Mr Vinod sharma (secretary, Punjab BJP). |
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‘Govt failed on all fronts’ PATIALA, Dec 18 — The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Vice-President, Sant Ram Singla, today claimed that the Congress party had won more than 70 per cent of the seats in the recently held municipal elections in the state . Claiming this to be a barometer of the performance of the PPCC Chief, Capt Amarinder Singh, and the state of the ruling Akali Dal, the Congress leader claimed instead of understanding the reality, the state Chief Minister’s son, Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal, was making childish remarks that Capt Amarinder Singh would be helpful to his party in the forthcoming assembly polls . Mr Singla said presently the economy was in shambles, corruption was rampant and there was a total break down in the law and order
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Foreign goods: Manch plans drive FEROZEPORE, Dec 18 — In a major embarrassment for the BJP-led government at the Centre, the Swadeshi Jagran Manch, an offshoot of the RSS, has vowed to block the entry of foreign goods at three Indian ports as a mark of protest against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) deal. Disclosing this to mediapersons, a member of the steering committee of the manch, Mr Varinder Singh, said other RSS offshoots like the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh has also agreed to support the move that was aimed at opposing the deal enabling the liberal import of 1,429 items. Mr Varinder Singh, who was here to mobilise support for the move, said the dates and venues for the protests were yet to be finalised, but warned that the participants would destroy the foreign goods landing on Indian soil. Describing the WTO deal as a “death-knell” for the domestic market, he observed that the import of cheaper and quality items would squeeze out Indian farmers and small industries, who were unable to compete with multinational companies. Asked whether the move of the manch would embarrass its own government in Delhi, Mr Varinder Singh said the manch was targeting the policy of liberalisation and not the BJP. He added that the BJP alone was not responsible for striking the WTO deal, as the previous Congress and Third Front governments had pursued the policy of liberalisation. He cautioned that the WTO regime would widen a gulf between the rich and the poor nations. Accusing the successive Central Governments of phasing out subsidies to the domestic farmers under pressure from multinationals, he demanded that to ensure parity between the developed and developing economies, the Centre should reconsider its decision on farm subsidies. He demanded that heavy dumping duty be imposed on foreign items in the larger interests of the domestic industry. Accusing certain NGOs of being the “agents” of multinationals, he charged them of engineering closure of Indian industries in the name of child labour. Cautioning the authorities against their activities, he alleged that these NGOs were being paid heavily by the multinationals to whip up the child labour compaign to eclipse the scope of export of Indian products. On being pointed out that certain manch leaders were selling “videshi” items through their own grocery shops in the city, he said this could be on account of economic and individual compulsions, but added that efforts should be made by all to activate the “swadeshi” movement. |
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2001 to be observed
as development year PHILLAUR, Dec 18 — Former Union Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal while addressing a “shradhanjali samaroh” on the occasion of the 18th death anniversary of Shaheed Sohan Singh Bhullar, father of Akali MLA Gurdip Singh Bhullar, at Mao Sahib village in Phillaur subdivision yesterday said political parties, including the Congress, were busy criticising the state government but hardly ever talked about the development which had taken place in the state. He alleged that previous state governments gifted poverty to the people instead of undertaking constructive development works in the state. He claimed the SAD-BJP government did a lot of many development works in a short period of three and a half years which previous governments could not do in a long period of 50 years. Mr Badal claimed that a Rs 500 crore dam project and construction work for the Amritsar international airport would be completed in the next one and a half years. A sum of Rs 120 crore would be spent on this. Mr Ajit Singh Koharr, Sainik Welfare Minister, Punjab, said the year 2001 would be observed as development year and Rs 1 crore will be spent in each assembly constituency for development works next year.
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Jacob’s first visit
to Sangrur BARDWAL, (Dhuri), Dec 18 — Lieut-Gen JFR Jacob (retd), Governor of Punjab, today gave a clarion call to improve the literacy rate, particularly among girls in the state. He said this on his first visit to this district. Addressing a gathering at the annual prize distribution function of Guru Teg Bahadur Public School here, he gave away prizes to students. The Governor said the rural population should be acquainted with the management of this school and the adjoining Desh Bhagat College had planned to set up an information & technology (IT) centre in the college at a cost of Rs 1 crore. He expressed hope that this centre would prove helpful for students in rural areas. He also announced a grant of Rs 6 lakh for these institutions. Mr Anirudh Tiwari, Deputy Commissioner, Sangrur, lauded the role of the school and the college for imparting quality education to children in rural areas. Lieut Gen Jacob also laid the foundation stone of the IT centre at Desh Bhagat College. The Governor also launched the website of the school. Sant Mahinder Singh of this area presented a siropa and a sword to the Governor. Earlier in the morning, the Governor was given a guard of honour at the Sangrur PWD rest house. He also visited Sangrur Banasar Bagh. |
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Isolation spells doom for trauma victims: expert PATIALA, Dec 18 — Isolation spells doom for patients of trauma and the best way of recovery for them is by sharing with them the traumatic experience in order to unburden them. This is the advice of noted medical psychologist, Dr Christina Campbell who teaches in John F Kennedy University in the USA. Dr Campbell is on a 10-day visit to India during the course of which she has given demonstrations of choreographies created by her to help in fighting trauma. Dr Campbell, while talking to TNS, said she had integrated her treatment of trauma by using dancing arts and their intrinsic rhythm for healing. She said during her experiences, it was revealed that the choreographies created by her helped people to come to grips with their inner fears as well as open up to the problems being faced by them. She said besides this she was using the eye movement test to deal with trauma victims during the course of which they were asked to share their traumatic experiences. She said efforts were also made by her to get patients involved in community activities as this gave them support to tackle their insecurities. She said trauma victims were also encouraged to unburden themselves in sessions with other people who had also suffered trauma during some point of time in regular sessions. She said to understand the effects of trauma one had to study the person, his culture and the effects of nature. She said the problem was more acute in the developed world where there was no support group within the community to act as a natural therapist. Dr Campbell, who is also doing research on the Roma gypsies, will also work on the theme of their origin in India before spreading to the West during her stay in India.
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Sculptors create sheer ‘music’ PATIALA It has been two days since the workshop started here, in which 17 sculptors from various places, including Jammu, Calcutta, Rajasthan and Bhopal are participating, but forms have already started emerging from the marble. The sculptors have been invited for a special purpose for the workshop. The works created by them during the course of the workshop will be exhibited at the Kalagram project of the NZCC at Chandigarh. Programme Officer Yashwinder Sharma said that keeping in view the fact that the works would be exhibited at a park in the Kalagram complex and would be open to the general public, the sculptors had been requested to make figurative or semi-realistic images. However, it seems it is difficult to control the creative urge of any artist and in this case also, while most sculptors have gone in for semi-realistic images, there are also those who want to sculpt according to fancy and are going into making images which delve into the theme of time and space. Tarak Garai from Calcutta is a sculptor in a hurry. He has already given final shape to his bust of a female form with stress on Indian characteristics. Garai has gone in for heavy Indian motifs to lend character to his sculpture going in for exaggerated eyes, heavy lips, prominent nose and a delicate nose jewel. Tarak, who is a product of the Shanti Niketan School and has been sculpting for more than 30 years, is comfortable with realistic work. He said as the focus of the workshop was on realistic sculpture, he had taken to the subject immediately. He felt there was too much Western influence in the work of present day Indian artists. He blamed the Art Schools for this, saying students were not been taught to sculpt realistically, due to which they could not even attempt abstract sculpture properly. “Without doing realistic work, how can you do abstract?”, he interrogated. Among the other artists Amrik Singh Namdhari, a sculptor from Jammu, who is a lathe worker by profession, took to sculpting after coming under the tutelage of Prof V.R. Khajuria, Head of the Department of Sculpture, College of Arts, Jammu. Amrik works mainly on the Ek Omkar and Om themes, making three dimensional images of the two motifs. Another Khajuria disciple is A.C. Sagar of Patiala, who is the spirit behind the workshop which will continue for a fortnight. Mr Sagar is working on his favourite theme — a semi-realistic work of a woman playing a musical instrument. Sagar, who is a painting teacher by profession, says he took to sculpture to give a ‘feeling’ to his art and had worked on diverse themes ranging from nature to womanhood. Another artist from Jammu, Opinder Sharma, wants to sculpt something which will delve into the time and space theme. Pankaj Gehlot, from Jaipur, wants to express the decay of nature as well as its resurgence. Avtar Singh of Amrtisar, one of the oldest sculptors attending the workshop, wants to arrive at an understanding of the universe through his works. |
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Dr Shan
back from N.America CHANDIGARH, Dec 18 — Dr Harnam Singh Shan, former Chairman, Guru Nanak chair and Head of the departments of Punjabi studies and Sikh studies at Panjab University, Chandigarh, is back home from his latest four-month academic tour of North America. It started with his participation in the 36th International Congress of Asian and North African studies in Montreal, Canada, wherein he presented two papers. While one dealt with the creation of the Khalsa at Anandpur in 1699 under the caption, “An epic making event of World History” and the other with the most popular tragic love legends of the East and the West.” It ended with a series of lectures in New York and a seminar in Atlanta on the socio-religio-cultural problems of the Punjabis settled abroad. The most wonderful and useful means of communication which Prof Shan noticed and benefited during this, his eighth tour of the USA since 1966, was the availability there, rather all over, of his favourite newspaper, The Tribune on the Internet. He considers it to be a boon for Punjabis spread all over the World because it keeps them abreast with day to day activities, aspirations and happenings in their motherland — the land of five rivers. For them, it serves as an amazing electronic bridge — for keeping them linked up not only with home but also with one another in foreign lands. |
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HC: prosecute girl for misleading court CHANDIGARH, Dec 18 — Mr Justice Surinder Singh Nijjar of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today ordered the police of Rampura Phool police station in Bathinda district to prosecute Ms Neelam and her parents under Section 182 for misleading the high court. Ms Neelam had reported to the police that on May 29, 2000, she was abducted by Sham Lal and Mukhtiar Singh with alleged connivance of one Asha Rani. The trio took her to Muktsar where she was raped after Asha Ram left her in a closed door. Medical examination of Ms Neelam had confirmed that rape had taken place. Interestingly, a few days after the rape incident, accused Sham Lal was granted bail by the District and Sessions Judge, Bathinda. Mukhtiar Singh moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court pleading that if the co-accused Sham Lal had been granted bail in the case, he should also be granted bail. Last week Mr Justice Nijjar while came to know that an accused had been granted bail in the rape of a minor, the Judge took a suo motu notice and issued notice to Sham Lal to show cause as to why bail granted to him by the Sessions Judge Bathinda should not be cancelled. Today while appearing in the court with his counsel, Sham Lal told the court that he had already been absolved of the charges by the Sessions Court of Bathinda and under what charges he should file any reply about his bail cancellation. Mr Justice Nijjar after finding that Ms Neelam has misled the court and wasted its time, ordered the police to prosecute her and her parents. |
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DC pulls
up officers PATIALA, Dec 18 — The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Jasbir Singh
Bir, pulled up senior officials of the district administration for not attending meetings of the District development committee. The Deputy Commissioner, while presiding over a meeting of the district development committee held at the Red Cross Bhavan here today, said senior officers of all departments should be present at the meetings of the committee otherwise strict action would be initiated against them and that their seniors would be informed accordingly. Mr
Bir, while coming down heavily on officers of the district administration said veterinary doctors and other veterinary department officers should be present at such meetings to
coordinate day to day affairs, particularly of the people living in rural areas. Mr Bir took note of the various development activities pertaining to the district and added that all development works should be completed in time failing which action would be taken against erring officials. |
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Promises made by Badal unkept ROPAR, Dec 18 — The Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, had announced a fund of Rs 1.80 crore for the stone pitching of the kutcha bundh on the Siswan river near here, but no money has been released till date. The fund was announced by Mr Badal on July 19, when the breach in the bundh inundated nine villages and rendered about 10,000 homeless. Though there was no loss of life, the agricultural land was rendered useless for at least two or three seasons. The Chief Minister announced to release Rs 1.80 crore for the stone pitching of the bundh from Chauta Khurd onwards on the right bank of the river. He had also announced Rs 20 lakh for filling the 600 feet breach in the bundh. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr G.S. Grewal, said he had already sent reminders for the release of the funds, to the authorities concerned. The funds are likely to be released soon, he added. |
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Bathinda selected for
blindness survey BATHINDA, Dec 18 — The Centre has selected Bathinda district for the National Survey on Blindness, 2000-2001. Official sources said under the programme, a team from the PGI, Chandigarh, would carry out the survey regarding the assessment of prevalence and causes of blindness. The sources added that Bathinda was one of the 13 districts which had been selected for the survey in the country. |
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ETO association holds election AMRITSAR, Dec 18 — A meeting of the general house of the Excise and Taxation Officers Association Punjab was held which was attended by over 200 officers. Mr Jaskaran Singh Brar was elected president, Mr Sucha Singh Cheema senior vice-president and Mr Parshotam Singh Randhawa general secretary of the association. Mr Lal Singh, Mr Pritam Singh Sidhu and Mr Lajpal Singh Jakhar were elected vice-presidents which Mr Harinder Singh was elected secretary and Mr Inderpreet Singh Bhawra treasurer. |
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Labourer killed in roof collapse KHAMANO, Dec 18 — One migrant labour was killed on the spot and five others injured when the roof of newly built three shops collapsed here today. Two other labourers were seriously injured. They were rushed to the PGI, Chandigarh. Some other workers were feared to be under the debris. Mr Agnihotri, DSP and Mr Satinder Singh, Tehsildar, were supervising the rescue operations.
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2 killed as car
hits train GURDASPUR, Dec 18 (UNI) — Two youths travelling in a white Maruti car were killed on the spot when it was dragged for nearly 700 metres by the Muri Express at an unmanned railway crossing near Bariar village this evening, the police said. While the identity of the youths — a Sikh and a clean-shaven — could not be ascertained immediately, they were travelling in a car which had a registration plate read PB-06 B-6389, the police added. The train, coming from Pathankot, was bound for Amritsar when the accident occurred at around 6.10 p.m. |
Fraudulent deal lands 3 in cops’ net GURDASPUR, Dec 18 — The police has arrested three persons for grabbing land measuring 18 kanal 14 marlas at Babehali village, 5 km from here. According to Mr Varinder Kumar, SSP, the police today arrested the accused, who have been identified as Jaspal Singh, son of Santokh Singh, and Santokh Singh, son of Sohan Singh, both residents of Babehali, and Harjinder Singh, resident of Dharowali, at present residing at Jalandhar. Mr Varinder Kumar said the accused had forged the registration deed showing that the piece of land had been purchased by them by paying Rs 2.45 lakh. In fact, the widow to whom the land belonged had neither sold the land nor received any money in lieu of “sale” of the land. Dawinder Kaur, owner of the land, reported to the police that her husband who owned the land died about a year ago. She has a son aged 19 years and a daughter aged 14 years. After the death of her husband, the SSP said, the widow occasionally visited Babehali village. Her husband Joginder Singh had become blind and used to stay with the accused. The accused connived to get the land transferred in the name of Jaspal Singh with whom the husband of the widow used to live. The SSP said that an inquiry was conducted by the DSP (Detective) who verified the complaint and found the accused guilty of having fraudulently transferred the piece of land in the name of Jaspal Singh. A case under Sections 420, 120-E and 34 of the IPC was registered at the Gurdaspur Sadar police station against the accused on Saturday.
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Addicts take to
stealing, 3 held BATHINDA, Dec 18 — The district police has arrested three teenagers who have been committing thefts in various parts of the city for the past one year to generate money to buy intoxicants and to organise dance parties. About nine months ago, the Muktsar police had arrested one person identified as Jagtar Singh of Mahuana village for killing seven head of cattle. He had later sold off their hide and bones for buying his daily dose of drugs. Last year, volunteers of the local Sahara Jan Sewa Organisation, rescued three-and-half-year-old Ravi who was sold off for just Rs 500 by his father Atma Singh, to a buyer of the same district. Police sources said that the three teenagers arrested by the district police were members of a gang who were buying drugs from the money they were earning by selling off the stolen goods. So far they had committed three robberies in the city. Dr Jatinder Kumar Jain, SSP, said the three teenagers had been identified as Sohan Singh, alias Sonu, Deepak Kumar and Babbal. Two members of the gang were yet to be arrested. These accused were between the age group of 15 to 16. He added that the accused had organised a dance party at a local hotel with the money earned from the sale of stolen jewellary and other valuables. About 40 teenagers participated in the dance party which was organised to celebrate the birthday of one member of the gang. All the accused consumed liquor at the dance party. He said that after the completion of legal action against the three accused, they would be sent to Borstal jail, Faridkot. |
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Headless body of woman found AMRITSAR, Dec 18 (UNI) — The police today found the headless body of a woman near Pandori Ran Singh village of Tarn Taran police district. A police report here said the severed head was also recovered by the police. A case under Section 302 of the IPC has been registered at the Chabal police station. |
ASI caught while
taking bribe PHAGWARA, Dec 18 — A vigilance team headed by the S.P., Ms Gurpreet Deo, today caught ASI Tirath Singh red-handed while he was allegedly accepting bribe of Rs 20,000 from Sukhdev Singh of the nearby Banoki village. Posted at the local sadar police station, the ASI was trying to implicate Sukhdev Singh in a false case due to village politics. The ASI demanded Rs 50,000 from Sukhdev Singh in return for not harassing and implicating him. However, the deal was settled for Rs 20,000. Sukhdev Singh informed the Vigilance Department which laid a trap and nabbed the ASI while accepting graft in the form of 40 notes of Rs 500
denomination.
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Man
murders
room-mate JALANDHAR, Dec 18 — Som Bahadur (35), a resident of Rajput Nagar, was allegedly murdered by his room-mate Ravi Bhadur at his residence here today. According to the police, Maya Wati, wife of the suspect, had illicit relations with Som Bahadur, which led to the incident. Som Bahadur was attacked with an iron rod. He was rushed to the Civil Hospital where he was declared brought dead. |
PTU’s non-formal education unit JALANDHAR, Dec 18 — The Punjab Technical University (PTU) has decided to establish a division of non-formal education to cater to the rising demand of technical human resources and to gain the maximum out of the information and communication technology boom. Prof H.S. Gurm, Vice-Chancellor, told this correspondent that the university wanted to take the latest technical know-how at the doorstep of entrepreneurs of the state to face the competition of the global market. “We have decided to collaborate with private institutions in order to provide low cost quality education. This will certainly benefit the university, students and the industry in the long run,” Professor Gurm said. The Vice-Chancellor said an advisory committee had been constituted to design various programmes according to the current needs of the industry. The committee was also supposed to prepare a blue print for the new division. |
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Parents assault MD of dental college MANSA, Dec 18 — Mr Naginder Singh Harika, Managing Director of the Khalsa Dental College and Hospital for Women, Nangal Kalan, in this district was beaten up badly yesterday by some parents of the students of this college. A representative of a firm who supplied the building material to the Managing Director for another college at Talwandi in Bathinda district without disclosing his name said he was there to get the payment from the MD when some parents and students beat him up. The eyewitness said certain girl students of the college called their parents on the telephone intimating them that the MD had arrived in the college. The parents arrived on the college premises and met the MD. The students alleged the MD asked them to accompany politicians and officials. If they did not accept the proposal they would be harassed by the college officials including the MD. Previously on November 26 there was a meeting of the parents association on the college premises in which the MD of this college while addressing the meeting promised to get the approval for the college before December 8 from the Dental Council of India. A parent on condition of anonymity said the MD of this college coerced students of this college to accompany top officials and politicians. Nothing has been done in spite of registration of an FIR November 4, 1999, at the sadar police station in Mansa against the MD under Sections 420, and 165 and 467 of the IPC on the complaint of Mr Suresh Kumar Sharma, IAS officer from Jammu, and Mr Rajesh Sharma, IAS officer from Delhi. The college came into existence in 1995 and had admitted 60 students for the first professional year. The college after being approved by the Punjab Government was affiliated to Punjabi University at Patiala. The state government admitted students of this college through the PMT conducted in 1998-99. It may be mentioned that the prospectus of the college lured the students by advertising that the college was recognised by the Dental Council of India. Among the students of this college are a relative of the Vice-Chancellor of the university and other top government officials. It may be mentioned here that the college is running without the approval of the Dental Council of India from 1995. The universities, previously Punjabi University, Patiala, and now Baba Farid University are conducting the examinations but have withheld the degrees even after the completion of the course.
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