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EDUCATION

CBSE PMT roll numbers despatched
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, May 9
The admit cards for all-India pre-medical/pre-dental entrance examination, 2001, which is being held on May 13, have been despatched to all the candidates, informed the Controller of Examination, Central Board of Secondary Education, Mr Pavnesh Kumar.

The information is also available on http://www.cbseindia.org, http://shikshanic.nicin/cbsepmt and http://www.education.nic.in.

In case the candidates do not receive their admit cards by May 9, they are required to contact the Deputy Secretary, All-India Pre-Medical/Dental Examination, Central Board of Secondary Education, Indraprastha Estate, New Delhi.

However, duplicate admit cards to those candidates who fail to receive admit card till May 9, will be issued at the Regional Office, Central Board of Secondary Education, Sector 32, Chandigarh, on Saturday, May 12.

KVS update from today
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, May 9
The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan will organise an in-service course for primary teachers at the Sector 29 Kendriya Vidyalaya from tomorrow.

Ms Sudesh Prakash, the course director, said that a number of primary teachers from various schools of the Chandigarh area would participate in the course.

The course aims at updating the teachers’ knowledge with the latest trends in primary education, the revision of the various curricular and the strengthening of the process of the execution of the newly introduced concepts.

The course will be inaugurated by Ms Manju Lata Saxena, Assistant Commissioner of KVS, Chandigarh region at 9 am.

COURTS

HIGH COURT
AG directed to file appeal
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 9
In the Sirsa hooch tragedy case, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed Haryana’s Advocate-General to file an appeal against the acquittal of eight accused by the trial court.

Pronouncing the orders in the open court, the Bench, comprising Mr Justice H.S. Bedi and Mr Justice A.S. Garg, also issued notice to the acquitted accused for July 18.

The accused in the case were booked by the Haryana Police for murder, attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy under Sections 302, 307 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code in December, 1980, after 44 persons died in Sirsa district and another 68 lost their vision permanently following the consumption of spurious liquor.

According to the prosecution, the liquor was prepared and marketed by the accused. The prosecution had added that the chemical examiner’s report had confirmed the presence of methanol — a poisonous substance — in the liquor.

The accused, when confronted with the incriminating evidence against them, had denied the allegations. Claiming to be innocent, they had asked for a trial.

After hearing the arguments in the case, Sirsa’s Additional District and Sessions Judge had sentenced two accused to life imprisonment while acquitting the rest.

Land-grabbing case

The High Court on Wednesday directed Jalandhar’s Deputy Commissioner to be personally present in the court if reply on action taken by the authorities on the SDM’s report in a land grabbing case was not filed by May 31.

Issuing the directions, Mr Justice R.S. Mongia and Mr Justice K.C. Gupta of the High Court also directed the Deputy Advocate General, appearing for the state of Punjab, to “seek instructions from the DC as to what action has been taken on the report dated December 31, 1998, pertaining to alleged grabbing of property”.

The SDM, in his report, had stated that a clerk in the DC’s office had prepared false documents pertaining to disputed property in Kishanpura Mohalla in Jalandhar.

In his petition, Bal Krishan Saini of Jalandhar had earlier sought action on the SDM’s report. He had alleged that the DC was sitting on the matter as the accused was working as a clerk in his office.

DISTRICT COURTS
15-year RI for Nigerian
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, May 9
Cyril Archibong, a resident of Nigeria, was sentenced to 15-year rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 1 lakh by the UT Additional Sessions Judge in a case under the NDPS Act.

It was alleged that the city police had arrested the accused from Mani Majra and seized 2.75 kg of smack from his possession. The case against the accused was registered under Section 21 of the NDPS Act in 1999.

Rape case: A resident of Amritsar, Lal Babu, was sentenced to seven-year rigorous imprisonment by the UT Additional Sessions Judge in a rape case. The case against the accused was registered under Sections 363, 366 and 376 of the IPC in 1998.

It was alleged that the accused had kidnapped a minor girl from her uncle's house in Sector 37. Then the accused had taken the girl to three different places and raped her a number of times. The police had recovered the girl from Uttar Pardesh along with the accused on May 9, 1998. The accused was also fined Rs 5,000.

Dowry case: Kuljit Singh, a resident of Patiala, was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the UT Judicial Magistrate in a case of dowry. The complainant, Ms Jasbir Kaur, had filed a complaint against Kuljit Singh, Manmohan Singh and Amrit Kaur, all residents of Patiala, under Sections 406, 498-A and 120 of the IPC on August 18, 1994.

The complaint states that the complainant was married to the accused, Kuljit Singh. Her father spent about Rs 4.5 lakh by way of giving various articles. At the time of ceremony also her parents gave Rs 21,000 to her father-in-law, Mohan Singh, and mother-in-law, Amrit Kaur.

It was alleged that the complainant was harassed, abused and tortured by all the accused for bringing insufficient dowry and not to fulfill their illegal demands made from time to time.

The Magistrate observed that the prosecution had failed to prove beyond doubt that the accused, Mohan Singh and Amrit Kaur, had ever demanded any dowry from the complainant, and caused any cruelty against her or misappropriate any dowry articles. So they were acquitted of all charges. Kuljit Singh was held guilty under Section 406 of the IPC and convicted.

Kuljit Singh was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 1000. In case of default he has to undergo imprisonment for 15 more days.

Adjourned: The District and Sessions Judge today adjourned the murder case of former Kharar member of Parliament Bachiter Singh for June 8. The statements of the four accused, Jugraj Singh and others, were recorded.

The case against Jugraj and others was registered under Sections 302, 120-B and 34 of the IPC on December 4, 1996.

Cancellation of meat tender challenged
Our Legal Correspondent

Chandigarh, May 9
The cancellation of tender for supply of buffalo meat to the Chhatbir Zoo was challenged yesterday in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The tender was reportedly allotted to the petitioner, Mr Mohammad Asif Naushad, on March 30, 2001. It was later cancelled vide letter dated April 24, 2001 by the respondent.

A Division Bench comprising Mr Justice J.L. Gupta and Mr Justice N.K. Sood issued notice of motion for May 16, 2001 to the respondents — the State of Punjab and Mr H.S. Gujral, Chief Wild Life Warden of the Chhatbir Zoo, who allegedly cancelled the tender.

It was contended by the petitioner that the tender for the meat had been cancelled by an incompetent authority in the absence of Dr Vinod Sharma, the Director of the Zoo, when he was out of India and that no notice or reason has been given for cancellation of the tender.