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Wednesday,
September 25, 2002,
Chandigarh, India  
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Parties
out to woo masses Beant Singh’s kin, two foreigners looted Death in
custody: residents hold demonstration Dowry
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Chandigarh, September 24 The 89th birth anniversary of former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal will be celebrated tomorrow in a big way. Besides a public rally at Jind, the Haryana Government has arranged a series of functions to mark the birthday of Mr Devi Lal.
Brig
R. D. Sharma, Deputy Director-General Recruiting, Haryana, Himachal
Pradesh and Chandigarh, talks to mediapersons in Ambala on Tuesday.
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Parties out to woo masses Faridabad, September 24 Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, who is also the chief of the ruling Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), surprised everyone by his reported statement at Rewari recently that the state government would provide employment to all workers of the INLD in the state as a token of their work and devotion. While opposition parties and their leaders have started criticising of this announcement by describing it as unconstitutional and a political gimmick, the statement is also seen as a measure to ensure maximum participation of INLD activists, their families and persons supporting it in a rally to be organised at Jind tomorrow on the occasion of the late Devi Lal’s birth anniversary. Former Chief Minister and the Haryana Vikas Party (HVP) supremo Bansi Lal has also been making new promises at public meetings addressed by him and his son, Mr Surender Singh. His promises include providing unemployment allowance to every educated unemployed youth in Haryana. Besides criticising the Chautala government, the HVP leaders have also promised to undo several decisions or works taken up by the present government, which they claim are “anti-people”. Activists of the HVP are propagating that Mr Bansi Lal and his party in getting an encouraging response and it needs no alliance for the elections. The Congress, which is battling factionalism, has also started its political activities across the state since another former Chief Minister, Mr Bhajan Lal, took over as the President of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC). Mr Bhajan Lal and his supporters, who are projecting him as the next Chief Minister in case the Congress comes to power, have also started doling out promises. These include a government job to one member of each family in Haryana and the reinstatement of state government employees retrenched in the past three years or so. The spokesman for the HPCC, Mr Krishan Murti Hooda, says that the Congress is on the path to regaining power in the state as a majority of the party workers had been infused with new confidence after Mr Bhajan Lal took over as the party chief. About the recent statement of Mr Om Prakash Chautala that every policeman who dies or loses his life fighting anti-social elements would be accorded the status of a martyr, with financial help of Rs 5 lakh to his kin as ex gratia, the spokesman said, it was ridiculous to make such an announcement as Mr Chautala had withdrawn the assistance of Rs 10 lakh to families of defence personnel who lost their lives fighting terrorists. He said Haryana had lost over 2,000 of its sons in anti-terrorism operations and fighting enemies across the country, but families of only a handful of them had been given jobs or other avenues of employment. He also alleged that the state government had shown discrimination in providing jobs to the widows of martyrs in recent years. Meanwhile, state BJP leaders, feeling cheated by the INLD’s rule in Haryana, have also announced to launch a new programme, “chalo gaon ki ore”, aimed at strengthening the party’s rural base in the state. According to BJP leaders, under the campaign the masses would be informed about the schemes and programmes launched by the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre and the tactics adopted by the state government for taking the credit for these schemes. |
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Beant Singh’s kin, two foreigners looted Panipat, September 24 According to police sources, Ms Jaswinder Kaur, a niece of Beant Singh and an FIR based in the UK, along with her two friends, one of them a resident of the UK and the other a South African were on their way to the Indira Gandhi International, New Delhi, when the incident took place. They had come to visit Mr Devinder Singh, brother of Ms Jaswinder Kaur, at Sector 18, Chandigarh. As their Ambassador car crossed Karnal the assailants started following them in a Maruti car and overtook them near Kaund village. Sensing trouble, Meharban locked the car from outside and tried to dodge the assailants. However, the assailants managed to stop the car and enter it after breaking the window panes. Cash, including foreign currency, and jewellery worth, several lakhs, was looted. They also took away a mobile phone. The driver grappled with them but he was attacked with sharpedged weapons. Before fleeing they shot him in the back. He had been admitted to Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, today. Although bleeding profusely Meharban drove the car for about 5 km to a roadside “dhaba” and from here the police was informed. Senior police officials, including SP Mamta Singh, reached the spot. The Gharaunda police Karnal district, registered the case as the area came under its jurisdiction. A vehicle was arranged for the victims by the police and they were dropped at the airport in New Delhi to enable to them to catch the flight. |
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Death in custody: residents hold demonstration Kurukshetra, September 24 Irked residents, including relatives of the deceased carried the body in a procession. The traffic jam was lifted after an assurance was given to them by the district authorities, including the City Magistrate, Ms Hema Sharma, District Development and Panchayat Officer, Mr Amrit Lal Bathia and the Pehowa Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr Charanjeet Singh. They said the post-mortem examination of the body would be conducted by a panel of doctors and a case would be registered against the guilty police employees, including officers, and they would be punished according to the law. According to information, Sudhaari, a son of a beggar, was called at the local Krishna police post for interrogation in an eve teasing case registered against him by a woman. But, on the intervention of a Chakarvarti Mohalla resident, a settlement was reached between Sudhaari and the complainant, Munni Bal. Consequently, Sudhaari was released by the police late at night on September 14. It is being alleged that the police used third degree methods and released him against the payment of some money. However, the district police crime branch picked up Sudhaari from his residence next day again and allegedly thrashed him using third degree methods. Consequently, Sudhaari succumbed to his injuries this morning. Soon after his death, scares of people who converged at Gandhi Nagar, visited the offices as well as the residences of the Deputy Commissioner and the district police chief, yet none of them was available and they returned disappointed. Later they decided to take the body in a procession. Meanwhile, representatives of various social and political parties who joined the dharna have condemned the incident. They included BJP Youth Wing district unit president and former municipal councillor of Gandhi Nagar, Mr Krishan Bedi, municipal council’s former Chairman, Mr Subhash Sudha, Rashtriya Garib Dal, state president, Dr Sutender Gaur, HVP leader, Mr Prithvi Singh Turk, BJP district media in charge, Mr Fateh Chand Gandhi and municipal councillor, Mr Manu Jain. |
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Dowry claims another life Chandigarh, September 24 He invited the wrath of the panchayat by daring to go against its dictate of not pursuing a criminal case against the in-laws of his daughter, Kavita, who was allegedly murdered by them for bringing insufficient dowry. In March, 1996, Kehar Singh married Kavita to Krishan Kumar Malik of Nidana village. He gave dowry as per his capacity, but which, it seems, was below the expectations of Kavita’s in-laws. Their demands for more dowry started immediately after the marriage. Mr Surinder Kumar, who works in the BSF and is a son of Mr Kehar Singh, has alleged in the FIR lodged with the Julana police station that Kavita’s in-laws were demanding a motor cycle, refrigerator, colour TV, besides cash. He claims that Rs 11,000 were paid to Kavita’s husband, Krishan, on his first visit to their house. But this only added to his avarice. When Jagminder, another brother of Kavita, took customary gifts, known as “pilia” in the local parlance, to Kavita’s house after she gave birth to a son in 1998, her in-laws taunted him for bringing “poor-quality” goods. They renewed their demand for a colour TV, a motor cycle and a refrigerator. To buy peace for Kavita, her brothers ultimately paid Rs 50,000 to her husband in 2000. But their hopes of a trouble-free life for Kavita were belied. The in-laws allegedly continued to ill-treat her. Another Rs 50,000 was paid to the in-laws of Kavita in March, 2002. On both occasions, Surinder withdrew the money from his provident fund. But Krishan, his mother, Kapoori; his father, Rajmal; and his younger brother, Joginder, continued to harass Kavita. On August 20 last, when Surinder had come home on leave, Kavita rang him up around 8-30 a.m. She was crying. She told Surinder that her husband and his family were again harassing her to bring more money. Surinder assured her that he would visit her in-laws in a couple of days after arranging the money. Two hours later, an annonymous caller from Nidana village rang up Surinder’s father that Kavita had severe pain in her stomach and she had been admitted to the Jind civil hospital. When Kehar Singh, a heart patient, went to the hospital, he found that his daughter was no more. A large number of supporters of Krishan Kumar had gathered in the hospital. They coerced Kehar Singh into signing certain blank papers. When Surinder and Jagminder visited Nidana village, they learnt that Kavita was murdered by her in-laws. They lodged a complaint with the Julana police. But the FIR was lodged on September 13 on the intervention of Mr Manjit Singh Ahlawat, SP, Jind. However, the police is yet to arrest any of the suspects. Meanwhile, supporters of Krishan Kumar, who is in the Army, convened a panchayat of 12 neighbouring villages. Kehar Singh was also called there. He was told to withdraw the complaint. When he did not agree, a “fatwa” was issued, declaring Kehar Singh and his family as “outcaste”. Jagminder, who is employed in the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, here, says Haryana is fast returning to medieval times when the dictates the panchayats, having no legal sanctity, are overriding the rule of the law. |
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, September 24 Issuing the directions, the Bench, comprising Acting Chief Justice Mr G.S. Singhvi and Ms Justice Kiran Anand Lall, also fixed September 29 as the next date of hearing in the case. Mr Dalal, in his petition, had earlier alleged that the selections made by the Commission were not fair and as such were liable to be quashed. Going into the background of the case, the MLA had submitted that the HPSC, in January 1999, had issued an advertisement for filling 14 posts of HCS (Executive) and 53 of allied services. The written examinations, he had added, were held in December 2000 and continued till January of the next year. Subsequently, reports appeared in the newspapers regarding nepotism and other factors playing a role in the selections, he had added.
Anticipatory bail Mr Justice K.S. Garewal of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday confirmed the anticipatory bail granted to Sirsa's City Magistrate Deveshwar Singh in an alleged cheating case. Claiming to have been implicated in the case, the petitioner had earlier submitted that Sirsa's Deputy Commissioner started harassing him and a frivolous case was registered following his inability to pay the bill for expenses incurred during the Prime Minister's visit. Giving details, he had stated that a bill of Rs 22,175 was presented to him after the PM's visit on September 25 last year. The same was forwarded to the DC as he had verbally directed him to make the arrangements. It was, however, returned to the petitioner, counsel had added.
Effluent samples The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Haryana Pollution Control Board to collect samples of the effluent being discharged from a Kurali-based paper mill. In a ruling, a Division Bench of the High Court, comprising Acting Chief Justice Mr G.S. Singhvi and Ms Kiran Anand Lall, also directed Haryana's senior Deputy Advocate-General to get in touch with the Chairman or the Secretary of the Pollution Control Board and ask them to depute two environmental engineers to collect the samples from the exit points of the effluent treatment plant. The Judges added that the samples should be collected after conducting surprise checks on five different dates spread over 10 days while the mill was operational. They further added that the samples so collected should be tested in the Board laboratory and the reports should be filed in the Court. In their detailed orders, the Judges observed: ‘‘Punjab and Haryana state counsel should also get in touch with the authorities of the agricultural universities of the two states to find out whether facilities were available in their laboratories for testing the produce, including vegetables and fruits, grown over the land where industrial effluent were discharged. They may also find out whether such facilities were available elsewhere in the country.’’ The case will now come up for further hearing on October 29. |
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Devi Lal’s birth anniversary today Chandigarh, September 24 Before reaching Jind, Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala will participate in a prayer meeting to be held at the samadhi of Mr Devi Lal in Delhi. Later Mr Chautala will lay the foundation stone of the Jan Nayak Cultural Heritage Centre at Manesar. He will also lay the foundation stone of a Japanese hotel-cum-restaurant in Gurgaon. |
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Army recruitments fair: officer
Ambala, September 24 Talking to mediapersons here today, Brig Sharma said the Army selects only the best and the fittest among the candidates. He cautioned the guardians and candidates against touts and emphasised that it was only capabilities and merit that would ensure their selection. He said under the new recruitment system, there was strong anti-tout measures which includes holding the selection tests in front of the public. “There is a large turnout of candidates for the recruitment rallies and the best are selected,” he said. Brig Sharma said in the recruitment
rally, first the documents were checked followed by physical tests. After physical measurement and medical examination, written test of the candidates was conducted on an all-India basis on the last Sunday of the month. “Those who are in the merit list are recruited,” he said.  |
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