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WHITE-COLLAR
CRIME-III
Insurance
frauds on the rise
Chandigarh, June 14
It is not only banking and other
financial institutions which are facing increased cases of fraud and
bunglings, insurance companies, too, are not far behind.
‘Police
shielding murder accused’
Amritsar, June 14
The two eyewitnesses of the
daylight killing of Akali leader Gurdial Singh and five others have
alleged that they have been receiving threatening telephone calls from
the accused, who are absconding.
War
hysteria gets satirical drubbing
Jalandhar, June 14
Long-standing tension between
India and Pakistan may be subsiding, but the prolonged war rhetorics,
claims and counter-claims by premiers of the two countries and the
repeated talk of “Aar paar ki ladai” by Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee have been aptly satirised by a well-known Punjabi comedian
pair.
Langah’s
house searched
 Chandigarh,
June 14
Armed with search warrants,
sleuths of the Punjab Vigilance Bureau searched the Sector-44 house of
former PWD minister in Akali government Sucha Singh Langah, here
today. The bureau also searched the house of Mrs Varinder Kaur in
Sector 45. There has been no information on what the sleuths found
from Langah’s house but they would produce the report of the search
before the Judicial Magistrate Kharar tomorrow.
The Sector 45 house of a “close” associate of former Akali minister Sucha Singh Langah in Chandigarh sealed by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau after its search on Friday.
— A Tribune photograph
Race
hots up for top jobs
Patiala, June 14
With the Municipal Corporation
elections out of the way, local Congress leaders have again started
lobbying for the spoils of power, including Chairmanships of the
Improvement Trust as well as those of boards and corporations.
PDA
to revive Patiala’s lost glory
Patiala, June 14
Multicrore investment in the
development of a multi-use mini-township to be used both for
industrial and residential purposes, restoration of heritage
monuments, formation of an integrated traffic plan and revival of
traditional arts and crafts of Patiala will be the main thrust of the
recently revived Patiala Development Authority (PDA).
No
safety masks for MC staff
Jalandhar, June 14
Even as the municipal corporation
authorities has assured help to the bereaved families of those who
were choked to death inside a manhole by inhaling toxic gases
yesterday, questions are being raised over the functioning of the
civic body which had failed to provide special masks to its employees,
resulting in the death of six employees during the past six years.
Court
stays arrest of Akali MP
Ferozepore, June 14
The local District and Sessions
Judge, Mr M.M.S. Bedi, has stayed the arrest of Member of Parliament
Zora Singh Mann, his brother Jagnandan Singh and two sons Vardev Singh
and Nardev Singh who were booked by the Jalalabad police under
Sections 188, 379, 323, 324, 148, 149 and 506 of the IPC on charges of
assault and theft.
Power
engineers’ plea to PM
Ropar, June 14
The All-India Power Engineers
Federation has urged the Prime Minister to save the power sector as
the power situation has been rapidly deteriorating due to the
“failure” of the so-called reforms in the power sector throughout
the country.
Power
concession only on paper
Amritsar, June 14
Despite 18 years having passed
since a resolution was passed about concessional electricity to
Durgiana Temple, the civic body has failed to provide it to the temple
complex.
Four
towers of high voltage line collapse
Chandigarh, June 14
Following a storm in the Morinda
area this afternoon, four towers of high-voltage transmission line of
(220 KV) collapsed near Gobindgarh, according to reports received
here. Informed sources said that circuit numbers III and IV had been
adversely affected.
Harassment
case: PSHRC seeks details
Amritsar, June 14
The alleged case of sexual
harassment at the local Lakshmi Narain Ayurvedic College has taken a
new turn, with the Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) and
the Punjab Women Commission seeking details of the case.
Traders
observe bandh after ST raid
Bathinda, June 14
A number of shopkeepers here
while raising slogans against the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt
Amarinder Singh and Chairman, High-Powered Finance Committee, Punjab,
Mr Surinder Singla, downed their shutters to observe a partial bandh
after the business premises of Mr Jeewan Goyal, former President, City
Beopar Mandal, was raided by a team of Sale Tax officials from Patiala
accompanied by a heavy police force, in connection with the unearthing
of an alleged sale tax evasion.
Assault
case false: SAD MP
Jalalabad, June 14
Mr Zora Singh Maan, SAD MP from
Ferozepore, has denied the charges of assault in a case registered
against him. Addressing a press conference here today, he termed the
charges as politically motivated as he was not present at the site
where the scuffle took place.
Mystery
shrouds woman’s death in Golden Temple
Amritsar, June 14
Mystery shrouds the death of
Piari (45) on the premises of the Golden Temple on June 10. The woman
was reportedly cremated by the temple authorities.
Show-cause
notices to tempo, truck unions
Kapurthala, June 14
The District Magistrate, Mr
Rakesh K. Verma, taking cognizance of the alleged highhandedness of
tempo and truck unions, has issued show-cause notices asking them why
they should not be asked to execute bonds for maintaining peace in the
city. He passed these directions under the Criminal Procedure Code,
1973.
Guru
Arjan Dev’s martyrdom day observed
Tarn Taran, June 14
The martyrdom day of Guru Arjan
Dev was observed on Friday with religious zeal. Chhabeels were
organised at several places in which devotees belonging to Hindu and
Sikh communities participated.
Former
minister Som Dutt cremated
Sangrur, June 14
Former Punjab state Minister
Pandit Som Dutt, who died yesterday following a brain haemorrhage, was
cremated with full state honours here this afternoon.
Misuse
of serais denied
Amritsar, June 14
Mr Harbeant Singh, Secretary,
SGPC, has refuted the complaints of Mr Puran Singh Josh, regarding the
misuse of Golden Temple serais.
Fort
controversy: DCC writes to high command
Bathinda, June 14
Even as Mr Bhagat Singh Dhaliwal,
President, DCC, Bathinda, said the issue of alleged threat by one of
the functionaries of the district unit to officials of the
Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) had been brought to the notice of
Ms Lakhwinder Kaur Garcha, OSD to the Chief Minister of Punjab, Mr
Kewal Krishan Aggarwal, General Secretary, DCC, whose name figured in
news items appeared in various dailies today, while denying any such
incidents, alleged that some vested interests had been trying to
malign him and create a friction in the DCC.
Construction
around fort stopped
Bathinda, June 14
Unauthorised structures have come
up around the Gobind Fort here. The structures have been coming up
very close to 120-feet-high walls and a wide moat around the fort. The
area around it up to 200 metre has been declared as prohibited and
regulated area.
FCI
saddle with Rs 30 cr loss
Jalalabad, June 14
About 1500 consignments of
par-boiled rice of khariff crop 2001-2002 worth Rs 30 crore have
been downgraded, which was stored in unscientific godowns due to
paucity of storage space with FCI at this center.
Man
done to death by wife, children
Gurdaspur, June 14
The mystery shrouding the
disappearance of Dalbir Singh, a resident of Kot Dhanjal under
Kahnuwan police station, from his house on May 25 was solved yesterday
when his wife, Gurmeet Kaur, confessed to having murdered him on the
same day with the help of her daughter and son.
Five
tourists crushed to death
Jalandhar, June 14
Five women were killed while
three others were seriously injured when a Maruti car, in its attempt
to overtake a truck, crushed them to death near Paragpur village on GT
Road this evening.
Husband
booked in dowry death case
Fazilka, June 14
Mystery shrouds death of a
married woman in the border village of Churiwala Chisti, about 10 km
here.
Employee
murdered
Bathinda, June 14
Resham Lal (37), a resident of
Bibiwala village, 4 km from here, was murdered last night while he was
irrigating a field.
PCCTU
to observe black day on June 25
Chandigarh, June 14
The Punjab and Chandigarh College
Teachers Union (PCCTU) has decided to observe a black day on June 25
in Guru Nanak Dev University and on July 1 in Panjab University and
Punjabi University against the negative policy of the Punjab
Government on the private college pension issue.
GND
University LLB interview
Amritsar, June 14
The interview for LL.B (FYIC),
Gurdaspur, has been postponed to July 5. The interview will be held on
the regional campus, Gurdaspur, while tests for the NRI category will
be held on July 6 on the Guru Nanak Dev University campus here.
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