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Victims victimised again Muzaffarnagar killings rock Houses Dalai Lama
clarifies Advani was briefed by Lt-Gen Ray Shiv Sena wants Central rule in J&K Hizb militant nabbed with RDX |
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NORTH INDIA IN PARLIAMENT Sex ratio in Punjab alarming 10 hurt in tussle for relief material Delhi cop nabbed for graft
Man, two sons get life term
for murder
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Victims victimised again Bhopal, August 6 Vandana, a young girl affected by the gas leak, was paid a compensation of Rs 25,000 for personal injury. The amount was directed by the claims court to be kept in a fixed deposit till Vandana became a major, which was due in 2003. However, Vandana died recently. When her mother Poonam staked a claim to the amount deposited in Vandana’s name and sought a direction from claims court to this effect, she was asked to first go to a civil court and get the succession
certificate. Ikram Khan and his wife Quresha Bi had reached Bhopal station from Sagar on their way to Ajmer on the night of December 2, 1984, and died in the gas leak. A few days later, their children came to Bhopal and identified them from the photographs kept by the police. The children had been receiving interim relief for which the family of the gas victims was eligible. Now the claims court has denied compensation to the children in the absence of proper documentation such as a post-mortem examination report. The children do not even know how the bodies of their parents were disposed of in the morrow of the gas tragedy. Mr Hassan
Rizvi, an advocate pleading the cases of the gas-affected people feels that the presiding officers of the claims courts are “ruthlessly” rejecting the claims rather than being sympathetic to the affected people after the Supreme Court direction. Mr
B.L. Malaviya, another advocate, has taken to the Madhya Pradesh High Court as many as 141 cases in which the claims courts have rejected “on flimsy grounds” the proofs furnished by the affected people. The Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangathan convener, Mr Abdul
Jabbar, on whose petition the Supreme Court had issued the direction, has categorically accused the presiding officers of the claims courts of working against the March 2 direction of the Supreme Court. He plans to once again knock on the doors of the apex court. |
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Muzaffarnagar killings rock Houses New Delhi, August 6 While heated exchanges between the members in the Lok Sabha led to its adjournment till 2 p.m. in the Rajya Sabha the BJP and the Samajwadi Party members levelled allegations and counter-allegations about each other’s involvement in the incidents. In the Lok Sabha, when Samajwadi Party member Ramji Lal Suman charged the BJP activists with inciting communal frenzy by distributing pamphlets in the town on Saturday, several BJP MPs were up on their feet protesting against the statements and charging the Samajwadi Party workers as being responsible for the clashes. As the charges and counter-charges turned into heated exchanges, the House plunged into a din. Deputy Speaker P.M. Sayeed, who was in the Chair, tried to pacify both sides for about 15 minutes but was not successful. Finally, he adjourned the House till 2 p.m. In the Rajya Sabha, the issue was raised by Mr Ram Gopal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party who alleged that ruling party workers were involved in attacks on some religious places and throwing of provocative
pamphlets, which had resulted in communal tension in western Uttar Pradesh. BJP members objected to the statement accusing the Samajwadi Party of engineering planned violence. The members alleged that those arrested had affiliation with the Samajwadi Party. They said some activists of the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) had been arrested in Kanpur as they were planning to indulge in killings to influence the Uttar Pradesh elections. Mr Suresh Pachauri of the Congress demanded setting up of a Parliamentary Committee that would visit Muzaffarnagar to study the situation and report back to Parliament. He alleged that the same persons were involved in the incidents who had attacked churches in
Orissa. Mr Kalraj Mishra of the BJP said the ISI and the SIMI were involved in the incidents. He said a Muslim organisation, Deendar Anjuman, was involved in similar incidents in other parts of the country sometime back. He said an attempt was being made to communalise the situation in the state. “The entire situation should be seen in that perspective and fought unitedly,” he said. He regretted that the issue was being made a match of allegations and counter-allegations. |
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Jahanabad also tense Lucknow, August 6 |
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Dalai Lama
clarifies New Delhi, August 6 While a spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs Nirupma Rao said a comment from the government on the Dalai Lama’s views would be forthcoming only after the full text of his speech was seen, the Dalai Lama’s office in a statement said a number of “inaccurate and incorrect quotes” attributed to the Dalai Lama had been reported. Meanwhile, it is learnt that the government has asked the Dalai Lama’s office for the full text of his speech in Chennai where he reportedly said India should involve people of Kashmir in a dialogue with Pakistan. |
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Advani was briefed by Lt-Gen Ray New Delhi, August 6 Sources in the government today said Lieutenant-Gen Ray met the Home Minister in the evening apparently after the news of the massacre filtered in. He was in Delhi and briefed the Home Minister on the details he had. He confirmed that he had met the Home Minister and briefed him on the prevailing situation there. Besides, they also discussed various measures the Army was taking in Leh. The two also considered how best to replicate these measures taken in Leh to the other parts of the state. The Commander of the 14 Corps also called on several other central ministers, including Mr. Pramod Mahajan, Ms Maneka Gandhi and the convener of the NDA and former Defence Minister, George Fernandes. The briefing was of particular importance to the government, specially the Home Minister, as not only was the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) set to take stock of the situation in the state but also the killings in Doda sent out wrong signals regarding the security scenario. Lieutenant-Gen Ray who has also been handling Operation Sadbhavna in the state has regularly been briefing the Home Minister. The Army is also expected to give a presentation at the CCS meeting. The Army was expected to be represented by its Director-General of Military Operations, Lieut-Gen G.S. Sihota. According to reports, the CCS could consider among other things the pattern of deployment of the security forces. It may consider their redeployment keeping in mind the increased violence in the state and the failure of the intelligence inputs regarding the movement of the mercenaries. |
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Shiv Sena wants Central rule in J&K New Delhi, August 6 Condemning the massacre of 15 Hindus on Friday night, the demonstrators demanded imposition of President’s rule in the state and handing over of it to the Army. “The killings of Hindus by militants should be stopped at any cost and as the Farooq Abdullah government is not able to stop terrorism in the valley, the Centre should dismiss it,” Sena unit chief Jai Bhagwan Goel said addressing the protesters. “We have already appealed to the President to dismiss the Abdullah government and now we have urged our party chief to demand from the Centre necessary steps to curb the Hindu killings in the valley. “If nothing is done by the Centre, the Shiv Sena should withdraw its support from the government,” he said.
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Hizb militant nabbed with RDX Kanpur, August 6 SSP Arun Kumar told mediapersons here today that a sophisticated frequency control remote device, RDX explosives and a hand grenade were recovered from Gulam Geelani Khan alias Mohammad Gulam Geelani, nabbed by the police from Nayi Basti Gadiana in Chakeri locality here around midnight. He said the recovery was made from Geelani’s house at Nala road in Colonel Ganj locality, which was virtually used as a local base for Hizbul agent for northern region Ali Mohammad alias Nazeer alias Kala Kashmiri. UNI |
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NORTH INDIA IN PARLIAMENT New Delhi, August 6 While there are 48 reported cases in Haryana, there are 87 cases of AIDS in Himachal Pradesh and only two cases in Jammu and Kashmir, the minister informed the House. The total number of voters provided with voters’ identity cards up to June 30 in Himachal Pradesh was 26,57,394 (70.42 per cent), the Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Mr Arun Jaitley, informed the Rajya Sabha. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) had taken up the project of upgradation of the Amritsar airport at an estimated cost of Rs 79.27 crore, the Minister of Civil Aviation, Mr Sharad Yadav, informed the Lok Sabha. A tender had been awarded in April for resurfacing the existing runway, taxi track and extension and construction of the main runway etc amounting to Rs 19.99 crore. The probable date of the completion of work project was May 2003, the minister informed the House. No fast track court had been set up in Punjab as on July 1, although 29 such courts had been earmarked for the state, Mr Arun Jaitley said. No fast track courts had also been set up in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh even though 36 and nine courts, respectively, had been earmarked for the states. In Jammu and Kashmir, 10 courts had been set up of the 12 earmarked for the state, he said. There were 522.9 thousand job-seekers on the register of employment exchanges in Punjab as on March 31 the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Munni Lall said. In Haryana there were 759.5 thousand job-seekers on the live register of the employment exchanges as on March 31. The corresponding figures in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir were 899.2 thousand, and 166.3 thousand, respectively, he said. Himachal Pradesh had the highest urban tele-density in country with 25.81 telephones available per 100 persons in urban areas of the state, the Minister of State for Communications, Mr Tapan Sikdar, said. The rural areas of Himachal Pradesh had a tele-density of 3.51, Punjab of 15.9 in the urban areas while the figure in the rural areas was 2.84. In Haryana, the urban tele-density was 11.74 and rural was 1.59 while the corresponding figures in Jammu and Kashmir were 6.85 and 0.14, respectively, he said. |
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Sex ratio in Punjab alarming New Delhi, August 6 Neelam’s is not an isolated case and is a representative of the fate of many Neelams in the country. India which takes pride on being built on the foundations of a glorious past, is today a medley of contradictions. Contradictions that have sought to defy the laws of nature, of biology, of society and of humanity itself. The contradictions are even more pronounced in cases of our social development, which have been uneven and bouncy to say the least. Female foeticide and infanticide is the most pregnant manifestation of this dangerous phenomenon which is threatening to uproot the very credentials of the Indian society. Latest census report indicate bias in favour of males have relegated the male-female ratio to alarming 1000:933. In other words, for every 1000 male births, there are only 933 females. Ironically, the granary of the country, Punjab has an embarrasingly low ratio — 1000:763 - it is too bad to be true and there must be something seriously wrong. “We will soon land in a situation like China, where women are being kidnapped by men to get married”’ says Ms Reva Nayyar of the National Commission for Women (NCW). “Women are prone to assault, injury and discrimination which begins right at home.Then there are evils like dowry which is a major worry for parents, keeping this in mind parents are often tempted to abort a girl-child” says leading Delhi-based women’s activist Madhu Kishwar. The country’s existing legislative framework has proved to be ineffective in tackling a daunting challenge of such magnitude as there are too many loose-ends. “Existing laws against foeticide are not effective and even if new and strict laws are made, the culprits will escape by paying higher bribes”, alleged Ms Kishwar. What does the law say about foeticide? Section 312 of the IPC permits abortion only if it poses a threat to the mother’s life. “We are trying to empower women, make them
conscious of their rights. Now that we have roped in religious leaders which is epoch making, we are hoping the message to be driven home” says Ms Nayyar adding that women should themselves refrain from sporting a son preference. The Indian Medical Association and the Medical Council of India have taken stringent steps to check this
evil. Doctors found carrying out sex-determination tests will be deregistered. Dr. Anuradha Kapur, Secretary of the IMA said, “ we are not a pressure
group, but we are trying our level best to motivate doctors from carrying out this inhuman practice”. Mr A.R. Nanda, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, believes that teamwork will certainly help in curbing this malpractice. He added that states like Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan where the sex-ratio has taken a plunge should ensure that female education, health and welfare are given priority. |
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10 hurt in tussle for relief material Patna, August 6 In the Karnapura village under the Manjha police station clash took place over a dispute of cutting the Pipra canal embankment. One side, wanted to breach the embankment so that their area is saved from being flooded. The villagers on the other side arrived on the spot and the clash took place in which three persons were injured. The injured have been admitted to the nearby Sadar Hospital. In another incident, seven persons were hurt, three of them critically in a clash that took place where the flood relief materials arrived in Dumaria village. During the distribution of the flood relief, a group of 10 local heavyweights demanded two quintals of ‘chuda’ (flattened rice). The villagers resisted them and in the clash that ensued, seven persons were hurt. |
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Delhi cop nabbed for graft New Delhi, August 6 Anand, who was produced before a designated court here was remanded in judicial custody till August 18, it said. A case was registered against the complainant at the Karol Bagh police station for the non-payment of his dues. The Sub-Inspector who was investigating the case contacted the complainant over telephone and demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh to close the case. The complainant approached the CBI, which laid a trap and nabbed him. |
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Man, two sons get life term
for murder Hanumangarh, August 6 Khem Chand of Naurangdesor and his two sons Manoj and Vinod were accused of killing Sant Ram of the same village. On October 30, 1997, the accused beat up Sant Ram in the village. The following day
Ramkishan, son of Sant Ram, filed a complaint against them. Meanwhile, Sant Ram, who was admitted to a hospital in the town, died. The police then filed a case against Khem Chand and his two sons. On November 24, 1997, the accused were arrested and proceedings began in the local Additional District and Sessions Court. The court found them guilty and awarded life imprisonment to them. |
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