PHC doctor alleges victimisation
Tribune News Service

Faridabad, April 9
The Haryana Civil Medical Service (HCMS) Association has protested strongly against the alleged harassment and victimisation of a doctor posted at Badli village in Jhajjar by the district authorities.

In a statement here today, the president of the association, Dr Ravinder Mathur, said that he had received a complaint from Dr Bir Singh, posted at the Primary Health Centre (PHC) at Badli village in Jhajjar district, in which the doctor had alleged harassment and victimisation by the Deputy Commissioner, during the latter’s visit to the PHC.

Charging the DC of ‘misbehaving’, Dr Bir Singh had said he was ordered to leave immediately the place as he had been relieved from his present posting upon his transfer. The doctor had claimed that he was asked to leave the office without any `relieving order’ from the appropriate authorities.

The association has condemned the reported directions by the authorities to the village sarpanch and panchayat to supervise the attendance register of the PHC and the doctor daily. Alleging harassment, the association has threatened to launch an agitation if the verbal orders, regarding the “interference” of panchayat, were not revoked and no “apology” was tendered by the official to the harassed doctor. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Ashok Khemka, could not be contacted despite several attempts for his version.

SPORTS

SAR Group lift Teri Cricket Cup
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, April 9
SAR Group beat B L Kashyap by five runs in the final of the ninth Teri Cup Cricket Tournament at the Teri Oval, Gurgaon. SAR Group won the toss and opted to bat. They piled up 213 for eight in the stipulated 30 overs with the help of a brilliant century by Rajesh Brown. Brown’s knock of 108 contained eight fours and five sixes to earn him the ‘man of the final’ award.

B L Kashyap, in reply, were all out for 208 in 29.5 overs. Himanshu Das caused the maximum damage with a 3 for 15 haul. Kannav Anand, however, defied the SAR Group bowlers to make a strokeful 89 with nine fours and one six, though his effort fell slightly short of the target. But Kannav was rewarded with the ‘man of the series’ award for his consistent batting performance in the tournament.

S V Raman of NDTV was adjudged the best batsman while the best bowler award went to Mahesh of Teri.

Other award winners were: Narender Singh of SAR Group (best wicket-keeper), Rajinder Krishali of B L Kashyap (best fielder), Rajesh Varshney of NIIT (fastest 50), Lalit Anand of SAR Group (fastest 100) and Canon India Ltd. (most disciplined team). Director of Teri Dr R K Pachauri was the chief guest at the final while captain of the Indian women’s cricket team Anjum Chopra distributed the prizes.

Scores: SAR Group: 213 for 8 wickets in 30 overs (Rajesh Brown 108, 8x4, 5x6; Amit Bansal 25 n o, 3x4; Amresh Pradhan 22; Rajinder Krishali 3 for 25; Naresh Kumar 2 for 36).

B L Kashyap: 208 all out in 29.5 overs (Kannav Anand 89, 9x4, 1x6; Ved Prakash 28, 3x4, 1x6; Naresh Kumar 23, 2x4; Himanshu Das 3 for 15, Lalit Anand 2 for 45, Amit Bansal 1 for 49).

Ramnik Singh, Pavneet emerge fastest
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, April 9
Ramnik Singh of Guru Tegh Bahadur School, Mansarover Garden and Pavneet Kaur of Guru Harkishan Public School emerged the fastest athletes among boys and girls when they won the 100-m races in the Shri Banarsidas Chandiwala Sewa Smarak Trust Society Inter-School Sports Meet, organised in collaboration with the Sports Authority of India (SAI), at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in the Capital.

Ramnik Singh clocked 11.3 secs to win the 100m gold in the boys section while Pavneet Kaur posted a time of 13.8 secs to lift the girls’ gold.

Varinder Yadav of Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Palam posted a time of 4:22.3 secs to annex the boys 1500m title while Sharmila of N P Bansal School, Gole Market clocked 5: 48.2 secs to win the girls 1500m race.

Ramjas School No 2 defeated Cambridge Foundation, Rajouri Garden by 93 runs in a cricket match at the National Stadium.

Krishan Lal of Ramjas School, who took three wickets for five runs and scored 24 runs, was declared the ‘man of the match’.

In another match, Government Senior Secondary School, Vikaspuri defeated St. Marks School, Janakpuri by eight wickets. Ranjeet of Government Senior Secondary School, who snatched five wickets at the cost of just seven runs, was declared the man of the match.

Walkovers were the order of the day in football as Union Academy got walkover from Tagore International Public School while New Greenfield School got walkover from Mahaveer Public School.

In hockey, Government Boys School, Singu Border defeated National Stadium trainees 4-1 and VSA Senior Secondary School, Khera Garhi defeated Hamdard Public School 4-0.

Apurba Pawar of Mother’s International School entered the second round of the table tennis tournament when he beat Piyush Sharma 9-11, 13-11, 11-8 and 13-11. Rohit Manchanda of DAV Public School, Dayanand Vihar also entered the second round beating Sundar S Bisht 11-7, 11-5, 9-11, 11-4.

In badminton, ten first round and 20 second round matches were played at the Indira Gandhi indoor stadium. Karan beat Dattaraya 8-7,4-7,8-7,7-2 in one of the most exciting matches. Many exciting matches were witnessed in the tennis tournament, which got off the mark at the Nehru Stadium courts.

Radhey, Pradeep star in ONGC win
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, April 9
Delhi Ranji Trophy player Radhey Shyam excelled with the bat to score a scintillating unbeaten 70 off 68 balls with nine fours and deadly bowling by left-arm spinner, Haryana Ranji Trophy player Pradeep Jain (3 for 26), helped Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) beat Delhi Administration XI by seven wickets and enter the quarter-final of the 12th All-India Om Nath Sood Memorial Cricket Tournament for the HRS Trophy at the Khalsa College ground in the Capital.

Radhey Shyam was involved in an 118-run partnership with Delhi Ranji Trophy captain Mithun Manhas (54) to give a solid foundation to ONGC’s reply, after they won the toss and put Delhi Administration to bat. Delhi Administration crashed to 152 for 9 in 40 overs while ONGC knocked up the required runs for victory with the loss of just three wickets. They took only 24.3 overs to reach the victory target.

Pradeep Jain accounted for the last three wickets of Delhi Administration as they lost three wickets at the same score of 126.

Earlier, Sundeep Sharma inflicted two deadly blows on Delhi Administration when he accounted for both the openers and the local team struggled at 80 for five at one stage. Radhey Shyam was declared the man of the match.

Scores: Delhi Administration: 152 for 9 in 40 overs (Ombir Singh Thakran 36 n o, Anand Singh 28, Rajinder Bhardwaj 24, Sanjeev Tomar 21, Pradeep Jain 3 for 26, Sandeep Sharma 2 for 19, Sunil Joshi 2 for 26).

ONGC: 153 for 3 in 24.3 overs (Radhey Shyam 70 n o, Mithun Manhas 54, Mukul Koranga 2 for 30). Wednesday’s fixture: State Bank of Patiala vs Youngsters; 8 am.

Madras Club carry the day
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, April 9
Madras Club beat Young Association by 79 runs in an A-I Division match of the DDCA League at the University ground.

Haryana down Delhi in Veterans Cricket
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, April 9
A fine all-round performance by Rakesh Jolly (2 for 33 and 85), devastating bowling by R P Singh (4 for 48) and a dashing knock of 73 by Amarjeet Kay Pee enabled Haryana beat Delhi by three wickets and enter the quarter-final of the fourth National Inter-State Veterans Cricket Championship at the Nahar Singh Stadium, Faridabad.

At Jaipur, Vidharbha beat Rilways on better run rate in the Central Zone match played at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium. Haryana will take on the winners of the match between Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, in the quarter-final at Faridabad on April 11.

Vidharbha will clash against Madhya Pradesh in the pre-quarter-final.

Scores: Delhi: 276 for 7 in 40 overs (Rajiv Vinayak 81, Gursharan Singh 59, K P Bhaskar 52, Bantoo Singh 40, R P Singh 4 for 48, Rakesh Jolly 2 for 33).

Haryana: 277 for 7 in 39.3 overs (Rakesh Jolly 85, Amarjeet Kay Pee 73, Chetan Sharma 42, Pradeep Jain 2 for 35, Vivek Razdan 2 for 48, Shankar Saini 2 for 42).

Sonnet Club sail into Jain Cricket semis: Deadly leg-spin bowling by Chetanya Nanda (4 for 34) and half century knocks by Shikhar Dhawan (69 n o) and Yashpal Singh (57 n o) helped Sonnet Club beat J N Golden by nine wickets and enter the semi-final of the third Sheetal Prasad Jain Memorial Cricket Tournament organised by Subhania Club at the Mohan Meakin ground.

Scores: J N Golden: 152 for 8 in 40 overs (Sant Ram 33, Dipin Thakur 32, Om Prakash 30 n o, Chetanya Nanda 4 for 34). Sonnet Club: 154 for 1 in 30.3 overs (Shikhar Dhawan 69 n o, Yashpal Singh 57 n o).

Special police cell to tackle crime against women
Our Correspondent

Panipat, April 9
Special cells have been constituted in the office of the Superintendent of Police, Panipat to dispose of cases relating to women and economic offences speedily.

According to the SP, Ms Mamta Singh, the Mahila cell will deal with the cases relating to atrocities on women, particularly in dowry cases. She hoped that this step would save the women from frequent visits to the police stations. The staff in Mahila cell would include an Inspector, a woman Assistant Sub-Inspector, woman Havildars and constables.

She further stated that as the investigation of economic offences takes a long time, it was felt necessary to solve these cases speedily and separately, especially since traders find it difficult to spend a lot of their time in the police stations and police chowkis.

The process for constituting these cells had already been completed and they would become operational within next two days, she said.

The step would not only provide relief to the people but also would help in controlling the crimes because after their constitution, the police stations would be left with the works to keep a check on criminals, she added.