Chandigarh, May 22
The Regional Deputy Director of the government’s Song and Drama Division, Ms Madhu Dalela, who was arrested by the Vigilance department for allegedly demanding and accepting illegal gratification for releasing payments to artists was today granted bail by a local court.
Ms Dalela, who was heading the division’s North Western Region based in Chandigarh, and had been posted here about one-and-a-half years ago, had been arrested by the Vigilance Department on May 18. A team of Vigilance Department officials, headed by Inspector Gurdial Singh, had accompanied the complainant to the accused’s Sector-32 residence in the morning. It was alleged that following a complaint by Raghvendra Tiwari, who runs Pryasshalla Kala Manch in Kullu in Himachal Pradesh, the Vigilance Department laid a trap and caught her red-handed. Marked currency notes used for the purpose were also recovered from her possession.
ACCUSED SURRENDERS: A city resident, Atul, booked by the city police in a case of rape, today surrendered in the court of the UT Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr C.L. Mohal, and was remanded in judicial custody for a day. The accused was sent to the Juvenile Home as he was below eighteen years. It was alleged that the accused had raped a girl of Janta Colony in connivance with Santro, a resident of same colony.
As per the prosecution, the co-accused in the case, Santro, had assured the victim that if she could get the jewellery and other valuable items from her house, she would arrange her marriage with the accused. Thereafter the victim bought some valuable items and ran away along with the accused and co-accused on May 16. Later the accused, Atul, raped the girl in a house in Sector 25. The police had registered a case under Sections 366, 366-A and 376 of the IPC.
RIAR’S CASE ADJOURNED: A local court today adjourned the defamation case filed against, the President of Shiromani Akali Dal, Local Unit, Gurpartap Singh Riar, till August 5 to. The complainant, Mrs Harjinder Kaur, a former Mayor, had filed a case before the court on November 19, 1999 under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code. The complainant had alleged that Gurpartap Singh Riar, defamed her by alleging that she had illicit relations with senior Akali leaders and a former Congress minister.
REMAND EXTENDED: The main accused in the Sector 23 murder case, Ashish Arora, was yesterday further remanded to judicial custody by a local court. It was alleged that the main accused, Ashish Arora, along with his brother, Sanjay and a friend, Saleem Mohammad, had allegedly murdered, Joginder Singh. Yesterday, a local court had initiated a process for declaring, Saleem Mohamad, a proclaimed offender by issuing a proclamation against him in the case.
PLEA DISMISSED: A local court yesterday dismissed a revision plea moved by the accused for supply of all documents submitted before the court in the 16-year-old murder case of Allah Singh’s 24-years-old son, Inderjit Singh, and adjourned it for May 28. It was alleged that the deceased, Inderjit, had been murdered by the accused, Hardev Singh and his son on July 7, 1985, in Sector 34-D.
Earlier, the then UT Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Sant Parkash, had dismissed the report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation for the cancellation of the FIR registered for murder charges against the accused Hardev Singh and others. While accepting the protest complaint filed by Mr Allah Singh, against the CBI report, the Magistrate observed that the CBI report was not based on facts.
The magistrate had examined 11 witnesses including CBI officials, police officials, Director of Forensic Science Laboratory and the doctor who had conducted post-mortem of the body. The case was later handed over to an SP in the CBI, Mr Kirtti Chandra Kanungo (now DIG, CBI North East Region Guwahati) had also investigated the case again. He had also examined more than 100 witnesses examined by the previous investigating officers. He had concluded that death of Inderjit Singh was a case of homicide and not a case of suicide.
