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October 10, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Haryana Cabinet to take up casino issue on Oct 16 HFSL credibility in question Police remand for SDO (Telephone) Three key posts lying vacant Khadi board plans to boost marketing |
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varsity gets ‘A’ grade Hisar, October 9 The National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore, an autonomous body of the University Grants Commission has accredited Guru Jambheshwar University here with “A” grade for a period of five years, Dr R. K. Chauhan, Vice-Chancellor, said here today. HIGH COURT UT Sessions Judge
shifted to Gurgaon HCS officer dies
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Haryana Cabinet to take up casino issue on Oct 16 Chandigarh, October 9 They added that it was decided to have a five-member committee comprising the Tourism, Excise and Taxation, Finance, Town and Country Planning and Home secretaries, which would examine and approve the licences of private operators interested in running casinos in Haryana. There would also be an appellate authority, with the Chief Secretary, the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister and a legal expert nominated by the state government as its members, to listen to an aggrieved party not satisfied with the decision of the licensing authority. The state would be considered open for setting up casinos, provided the licencing authority was satisfied with the credentials and the technical competence of the interested parties. However, licences for casinos would be given only at a particular time of the year and not throughout the year. The Chief Minister also held a meeting with the Finance Secretary today, in which the tax structure of casinos, formulated by the Excise and Taxation Department, was believed to have been examined. On September 28, the HSIDC and Vista Star Leisure Limited of the UK had signed an MoU for setting up a hotel project, including a casino, in the state. The sources said that the MoU was signed by Mr Harbaksh Singh on behalf of the HSIDC and Mr Manjit Sandhu, a representative of the London-based company. The sources added that the project would entail an investment of Rs 200 crore and would consist of 100 rooms and suites, a swimming pool, a health club and a casino. A major problem likely to crop up before the state government for having a casino in Haryana set up by a foreign company was a stricture by the Union Government debarring foreign direct investment in gambling-related activities. State government officials, said the stricture could be circumvented by the foreign investor by floating an Indian subsidiary. |
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HFSL credibility in question Chandigarh, October 9 The CFSL has given an opinion diametrically opposed to that of the HFSL on a document. The matter was referred to the CFSL by the DGP, Mr M.S. Malik, following the report of a DIG, Mr R.C. Jowel, on a representation made by a Karnal-based journalist, Mr Rishi Pal Arya. Mr Arya had claimed in his representation made in 2000 that the HFSL had wrongly concluded that it was he who had signed a property document purported to have been signed by him in 1993, giving his land on lease to one Sewa Singh. Earlier, the HFSL had opined that Mr Arya’s specimen signatures had tallied with those on the disputed document. The Home Secretary, Mr B.D. Dhalia, had ordered an inquiry, which was conducted by Mr Jowel, who recommended disciplinary action against the document expert of the HFSL for “giving a misleading report knowingly”. However, no action was taken on the report of the DIG till the matter was highlighted by The Tribune on July 8, 2001. The CFSL has communicated to the DSP, Crime, Haryana, that the specimen signatures of Mr Arya did not tally with the signatures on the disputed document. Though the report was submitted a few months ago, no action has been taken either against the expert of the HFSL, who has lowered the credibility of the institution on the reports of which great reliance is placed by the courts in deciding the fate of innocents or criminals, or against the persons who have been accused by Mr Arya of having committed a fraud. Perhaps the police wants to protect two of their own men, the expert and a police Inspector who was responsible for preparing the disputed document. When The Tribune had contacted the Director of the HFSL, Dr Bajinder Singh in 2001 for his comments, he had tried to defend his subordinates by saying that the report of his staff would largely depend upon the nature of specimens sent to the laboratory by the investigating officers. About this particular case, he had stated that if a well-known expert declared that the signatures of Mr Arya did not tally with the disputed signatures, only then can any action be taken against the HFSL expert. Since an expert of the CFSL has now proved the HFSL expert wrong, will some action follow to restore the credibility of the HFSL, Dr Bajinder Singh? |
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Police remand for SDO (Telephone) Ambala, October 9 Central Bureau of Investigation counsel Daljit Singh Chawla prayed that the accused be remanded in police custody for 14 days to unearth the involvement of telecom employees in the case. CBI Inspector Amarjeet Singh was present. The CBI in an application stated that a free STD/ISD call racket of some unidentified officials of the Telecom Department of Rohtak and some private persons, created a false STD level 66 in the E-10-B exchange of Rohtak and made free STD/ISD calls by prefixing level 66 from Bahadurgarh and Rohtak in March, 1999. The free calls could not be metered in the exchange at Rohtak and
Bahadurgarh. Two lines were taken and on both these numbers, they utilised conference facilities to put through STD and ISD calls and thereby caused a huge loss to the department, the application states. The application pointed out that during investigation it was revealed that in December, 1998, a racket by private persons, Raish Ahmed, Mohd
Talib, Abulesh Sheikh, T.A. Hanifa and Mangesh Kumar, came to Rohtak and took a house on rent. The accused thereafter installed telephones in the house and in another house in Rohtak in the names of various householders. Similarly, they took a house on rent at Bahadurgarh and got installed phone numbers in the name of Meena Bhatia and in some fictitious names by paying Rs 10,000 as security per telephone at Bahadurgarh and Rs 15,000 per telephone at Rohtak. The accused with the help of
Mathur, SDO Telephone, Haus Khas exchange. Delhi, and Krishan
Gopal, alias Doctor, a scientist in nuclear medicine, Army Hospital, Delhi, and in connivance with unidentified official of the Telephone Exchange, Rohtak, got opened an illegal
ISD/STD level “66” in the E-10-B exchange, Rohtak and made free
ISD/STD calls and conferencing through the phones by prefixing illegally opened code “66” due to which the said calls could not be metered in the exchange and no charge could be detected by the department. During investigation, it has been established that FIRs (156 and 157/2001) have been registered at Maha Nagar police station, Lucknow, in which accused petitioner S.S. Mathur was actively involved and was a leading member of a racket making free ISD/STD calls in Lucknow. During investigation Mathur could not be arrested for interrogation. The application submits that the accused-applicant is a kingpin of the racket in which free
ISD/STD calls were made due to which the BSNL suffered a huge loss. |
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Three key posts lying vacant Chandigarh, October 9 The post of Managing Director of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN), for instance, has been lying vacant for more than two weeks now as Mr Tarun Bajaj has left for the UK on a one-year sabbatical. The UHBVN looks after the distribution of electricity in a large number of districts and without an Managing Director to supervise its work, the efficiency of the organisation is likely to suffer. Sources here said that the Managing Director of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam had been meanwhile asked to look after the UHBVN. Similarly, the post of Managing Director of the Haryana Financial Corporation has also been lying vacant for about two weeks now Mr P. K. Gupta went abroad for one year. The HFC, which offers loans to entrepreneurs, is crucial for broadening the industrial base of the state and the state government’s delay in filling the post has raised a number of eyebrows. The post of Managing Director of Hafed has been also lying vacant for more than a week following Mr Krishna Mohan’s posting as the Director and Special Secretary, Public Relations Department Official sources said a number of officers were already holding additional charges and the state government may not like to burden more officers with additional responsibilities. |
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Khadi board plans to boost marketing Chandigarh, October 9 Asked whether incorporating objectives such as earning profit and strategies like aggressive marketing in the Khadi and Village Industries Board were indications of the changing times, official sources said funds made available by the government for running the organisation were less than adequate. "There is a gap of about Rs 1 crore annually between the funds received by the board and the amount it requires to pay the salaries of employees and other expenditure", said a source here. He said the handling of the consignments of central PSUs alone was expected to bring in enough income for the board to cover 75 per cent of the deficit. Officials said earlier it was the Haryana Small Industries and Export Corporation which had handled consignments sent to entrepreneurs by PSUs such as the Hindustan Zinc, Hindustan Copper, the MMTC, etc. Since the HSIEC was liquidated, the Khadi Board took up the work in an attempt to make it self sufficient. Officials said they received the consignments sent by the PSUs at their depots in Hisar, Faridabad and Chandigarh and then handed over the consignment to the entrepreneur who had made the order. Loading and unloading the consignments and its safety and security till these were actually handed over to the one who has placed the order are looked after by the board. For handling the consignments, they receive around Rs 250 per tonne from a firm. Besides, the board is trying to monopolise the government purchase of various products which are manufactured by the units assisted by it. The range of products which can be supplied by the board include furniture made of steel as well as wood, cloths (for making curtain, upholstery, etc) and detergent powder. A meeting of the Board of Directors, held here recently, reportedly endorsed the guidelines drawn up for officials at the district level about how to go about marketing the products which can be supplied by the Khadi Board. |
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Guru Jambheshwar
varsity gets ‘A’ grade Hisar, October 9 He said a high-level peer team under the chairmanship of Dr B. S.
Rajput, Vice-Chancellor, Kumaun University, visited the university between May 16 and May 18 and inspected various facilities available on the campus. The team recommended “A” grade to the university for having better facilities, technical courses, laboratories with latest equipments and wide ranging extra curricular activities. The UGC had recently made it mandatory for all institutions to seek NAAC accreditation. The grants released by the UGC in the 10th Plan period would depend on the grading of the institution concerned. Dr Chauhan added that the Haryana Government had allowed GJU to conduct the state level eligibility test
(SLET) for lecturership in the state and had recommended the same to the UGC. He further said that the university was running 26 regular and 15 distance mode courses. The UGC had approved three departments namely Communication Management & Technology, Environmental Science & Engineering and Management for Special Assistance Programme (SAP) for the 10th Plan. The amount received under this programme would be utilised for upgrading laboratories, research facilities and other infrastructure. The Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries had sanctioned a special grant of Rs 1 crore to the Department of Food Technology of the university. Dr Chauhan said as many as 46 major and minor research projects were in progress in the university and 20 such projects had already been completed. The university had started B.Tech Biomedical Engineering, B.Sc. Physiotherapy, Master of Insurance of Business and M. Pharma courses. It planned to launch
M.Sc. Biomedical Sciences and BDS courses from the next academic session. |
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, October 9 In his petition, taken up by the Bench, comprising Mr Justice V.K. Bali and Mr Justice Satish Kumar Mittal, the petitioner had also sought directions for quashing a show cause notice issued to him before resumption. Going into the background of the case, the petitioner had contended that he was implicated in several criminal cases under the influence of Chief Minister O.P. Chautala. He had added that soon after this a show cause notice for resumption was issued without conveying decision on his application for the change of the plot’s use. The court had stayed dispossession on June 27 last year. |
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UT Sessions Judge
shifted to Gurgaon Chandigarh, October 9 According to an order issued by acting Chief Justice Mr G.S. Singhvi and Judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Gurgaon’s District and Sessions Judge Arvind Kumar has been posted to Hisar. As per the orders, “All officers should relinquish the charge of their present stations of postings forthwith and assume charge at their new stations of postings as soon as possible thereafter”. |
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HCS officer dies Chandigarh, October 9 Mr Sharma (46) is survived by his wife and two sons. His cremation will take place at his native village, Pegan (Jind) in the forenoon tomorrow. |
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