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EDUCATION

Plan to modify PU students’ council office
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 22
Modifications in the office of the Panjab University Campus Students Council will feature on the proposed list of expenditures of students’ amalgamated funds in the forthcoming session. A proposal in this regard comes up for deliberations at a meeting of a special committee of the university, sources said here yesterday. There is a proposal of Rs 50,000 to be spent on this alone.

The university plans to spend Rs 1.35 lakh on renovation and furniture of the office of the Dean Student Welfare and the accompanying committee room. To tide over the current problem of roof leakage at Student Centre, the university plans to earmark Rs 1.50 lakh.

Evergreen kids offer Id prayers
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 22
The air was resounding with sweet voices of the tiny tots of Evergreen Preparatory Academy in 34-C wishing and embracing each other in celebration of Id-ul-Zuha. Cutting across religious beliefs the tiny tots said prayers for harmony and peace in the country at a function held on school campus today.

The Evergreeners were attired in ethnic outfits wearing kurta pyjama, sherwani and topies while the girls looked dazzling in bright gota chunnis.

Special “seviaans” were made, which they enjoyed sharing and eating.

Mrs Kuljit Suri, the Principal, and the staff prayed for a bright future of the Evergreeners.

COURTS

HIGH COURT
Court can ‘review’ judgement
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 22
The Punjab and Haryana High Court, in a significant judgement, today ruled that a court can alter or review its own judgement to correct a clerical or arithmetical error.

Delivering the verdict on a petition filed by the state of Haryana for cancelling the anticipatory bail to two accused in a murder case — Mahant Chand Nath Yogi and Raj Singh — Mr Justice K.C. Gupta of the High Court ruled: “The court is not competent to alter or review its own judgement, or final order disposing of a case, except to correct a clerical or arithmetical error”.

Giving details, Mr Justice Gupta clarified: “A clerical error is a mistake in writing or typing and arithmetical error is a mistake of calculating occasioned by an accidental slip or omission by the court. It is an error apparent on the face of the record and never intended to be said by the court”.

In his detailed order, the judge observed that in the present case Rewari’s Additional Sessions Judge had granted anticipatory bail to the two accused for six weeks on April 9, 2001, which was confirmed on June 5, 2001. On July 18, 2001, the state moved an application for the cancellation of bail and the same was ordered on December 21. The order set aside was, however, mentioned as April 9, 2001, instead of June 5, 2001. Subsequently the High Court on December 28 directed the respondents not to arrest the petitioners in pursuance of the orders dated June 5, 2001.

The judge added: “My clear intention was to cancel the order dated June 5, 2001, vide which the anticipatory bail to the respondents was confirmed. There was no point in mentioning that the order dated April 9, 2001, is set aside because this order had already become infructuous after the expiry of six weeks on May 20, 2001, before the filing of the application by the state for the cancellation of bail.... Since the order dated June 5 last year by the Additional Sessions Judge is set aside, the order dated December 28 last year passed by this court ceased to exist”.

Plea on house tax

On a petition filed by 38 Rewari residents claiming that the house tax in the state of Haryana was “highly excessive”, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice of motion to the respondents for July 24.

In their petition, taken up by the Bench, comprising Mr Justice Jawahar Lal Gupta and Mr Justice N.K. Sud, Rameshwar Dayal and other had also sought the quashing of an amendment in the Haryana Municipal Act substituting and amending the definition of annual value contained in Section 2 (1) of the Haryana Municipal Act. They had also sought directions for striking down Rule 2-A of the Haryana Municipal (tax on building and land) (first amendment) rules of 2001. They had added that the municipalities had issued notices for the imposition of house tax which was “highly excessive”. In fact there was an increase of 100 per cent.

Land deal case: ex-HCS officer gets bail
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, February 22
Former HCS officer Kulbir Singh Gill allegedly involved in Mauli Jagran land deal case was today granted bail by a local court. The accused was granted bail on the furnishing a bond of Rs 25, 000 with two sureties each.

Kulbir Singh was arrested by the UT Vigilance Department along with an employee of the UT Estate Office, Jasbir Kaur on November 23. Ms Jasbir Kaur had already been granted bail by the local court on December 11. Kulbir Singh was earlier posted as Joint Secretary, State Transport Authority, Haryana, and Jasbir Kaur as ledger clerk in the Estate Office.

CULTURE

Art of friendship
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 22
The space of Art Folio in Sector 9 must sure be rejoicing today. Lending beauty to walls of the gallery are signatures by two artists, who have attempted a dialogue through art, which is more of an installation. ‘Karol Bagh to Tascott’ is a celebration of a two-year-long association of Delhi’s Kanchan Chander and Australia’s Helen Geier.

The works reflect faith of the partners in each other’s endeavours and concepts. While Kanchan has traced her moorings by lifting sequins, wood stock and kinaris from Karol Bagh in Delhi where she was born, Helen has contributed motifs typical to her land of belonging. The cumulative effect of works that put together the geometric nature of grid (as conceived by Helen) with Kanchan’s torsos is blissful. The works on paper and cloth come across as bridges of peace between two alien lands which have suddenly found home in common projects of art.

The show will can be viewed between 11 am and 7 pm.

Peek into erotica
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 22
What Dr Alka Pande illustrated during her lecture at Government Museum, Sector 10 auditorium, yesterday served to underline this basic tendency of life, which fulfills itself through various means, art being one of the most celebrated of all.

“Indian erotica: from creation to recreation,” as the name suggests, dealt with the altering perspectives of erotica in the Indian vis-a-vis Western contexts. Dr Pande lent some focus to the vast field by talking about Shiva as the destroyer of Kama. The interesting point she made was about how erotica expressed the social realities of the times in which it was produced. The talk featured the Kamsutra.

She also reflected upon how the aesthetic sensuality related to erotica was relegated to the backseat with the coming up of contemporary art practices. She also illustrated the works by contemporary artists Bhupen Khakkar, Manu Parikh, Ranbir Kalika, Nalini Malani and Sonia Khurana and demonstrated a certain similarity they bore to erotica produced in the ancient system of art.

GAP bridged

THREADS of unity run across all works now showing at Alliance Francaise art gallery in Sector 36. From one form of traditional Indian art to another and yet another, these works celebrate the sprit of craftsmanship.

For Ghislaine Aarsse Prins, who likes to be called GAP, it was natural to call the show ‘A route through India: from small to large format’. Visually-delightful, the works revel both in technique and meaning. There are various forms adding to the beauty of the ensemble. The show presents an opportunity to view oil sand collage on linen, oil jute on linen, paintings, drawings, lithography, etching tapestry and carpet weaving. The exhibition was inaugurated by Dr B.N. Goswamy.