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December 1, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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PPSC SCAM EC to
provide ‘special facility’ to riot-hit SC order on Ayodhya trial a ‘setback’ 100 children die of mysterious disease Court
notice to DCP in Shivani case Mufti to
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Speaker reserves verdict on rebels Head Granthi jailed
Justice
Agarwala dead
GND
varsity wins youth fest trophy 3 of family
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PPSC SCAM New Delhi, November 30 The panel comprising the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Mr Justice A.R. Lakshmanan, the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, Mr Subhashan Reddy, and Mr Justice Sachidanand Jha of the Patna High Court is learnt to be discussing the findings of the lengthy and extensive cross-examination they had undertaken yesterday of the witnesses and the indicted judges. The indicted judges, Mr Justice Amarbir Singh Gill, Mr Justice Mehtab Singh Gill and Mr Justice M L Singhal, were questioned separately by the panel here. It is learnt that they were not allowed to meet one another or the witnesses before, during or after the cross-examination which went on till late in the evening. Earlier, a one-member committee comprising Mr Justice S. Rajendra Babu was set up by the then CJI Mr Justice B.N. Kirpal. It is learnt that the new panel was formed following suggestions by the Justice Babu Committee which recommended a thorough probe into the allegations against the judges. Mr Justice Amarbir Singh Gill, Mr Justice Mehtab Singh Gill and Mr Justice M.L. Singhal were indicted in a report submitted by the then Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Arun Bahadur Saharya. The panel yesterday questioned the witnesses, including the two “touts” of former PPSC chief R.S. Sidhu - Jagman Singh and Randhir Singh Gill, alias Dheera, a Markfed officer. Punjab Advocate-General Harbhagwan Singh who is presently in Delhi, was instructed by the court to ensure that the witnesses appeared before the panel. Mr Harbhagwan Singh was also instructed to deliver the documents pertaining to the solved question papers of Ms Amol Gill, daughter of Justice Amarbir Singh Gill. Ms Gill had topped her batch in the PCS (Judicial) examinations. “I have delivered the papers before the commencement of the proceedings yesterday as had been instructed to me”, the Advocate-General of Punjab told The Tribune. The high-level committee is learnt to have first questioned Jagman Singh, Randhir Singh Gill and former SP (Intelligence) and presently SP (Law and Order) S.S. Mand separately. The judges were then called in for cross-examination. SP (Vigilance Bureau) and investigating officer of the PPSC case Jaskaran Singh is also learnt to have deposed before the panel. The witnesses returned to Punjab late last night. |
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EC to provide ‘special facility’ to riot-hit New Delhi, November 30 A press note issued by the EC said here today that barring Jamnagar and Dangs special polling stations would be set up for these electorate at the District Collectorate for all Assembly constituencies falling within that district. One special polling station would be set up in each of the 23 district headquarters for all Assembly constituencies falling within that district for the displaced voters, the EC said in an order issued today. A decision to this effect was taken by the full EC at a meeting yesterday, EC sources said. They said still many persons had not returned to their original places and the EC was yet to complete their number. Initially nearly four lakh voters were reported displaced in the wake of communal violence in Gujarat. Of these, 1.76 lakh had registered themselves for the polling purpose and in the remaining, many of them had shifted in normal course on grounds like marriage, transferable jobs and employment. The EC had directed a special revision of electoral rolls in all districts except Jamnagar and Dangs by house-to-house verification of electorate during September-October this year. The names of the displaced voters, who could not be traced, were provisionally retained in the electoral rolls with the entries ‘HDS’ (House Destroyed, Shifted) or ‘S’ (Shifted) marked against them. By its order today, the EC has now allowed all those electorate against whose names ‘HDS’ or ‘S’ were marked, and who have not yet returned to their original place of residence, to vote at the special polling stations. However, this facility would not be available to those electorate who had shifted for normal reasons. All electorate who desire to avail this facility to vote at the special polling stations must intimate this the District Election Officer-cum-Collector latest by December 7. Such intimation would have to be given by them in the prescribed form ‘M’. |
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SC order on Ayodhya trial a ‘setback’
New Delhi, November 30 Reacting to the Supreme Court directive in the case to be tried “de novo” by a Special Court of a lower level at Rae Bareily, he said yesterday’s order was a “major set-back that will virtually throw down the drain the fruits of judicial process over 10 years of legal labour.” “This setback not only threw back the case to square one but makes it much more difficult to array the evidence afresh. The BMMCC is of the view that the imperatives of justice are not served by the order of the Supreme Court,” he said. He pointed out that the case under FIR No 198/92 had made considerable progress despite the road blocks created by the accused and their sympathetic governments as they stood indicted by a CBI court, Lucknow, and the issue had been framed and subsequently upheld by the high court. The technical defect pointed out by the high court and the notification could have been remedied, he said. But instead of ordering the state government to revise the notification, the Supreme Court order “in effect protects the senior leaders of the Sangh Parivar, including Mr L.K. Advani, Mr M.M. Joshi, MrAshok Singhal, Mr V.H. Dalmia, Acharya Giriraj Kishore, Ms Uma Bharti, Mr Vinay Katiyar and Sadhvi Ritambhara from the clutches of the law as the order neither protects the proceedings of the case in Lucknow nor instructs the Special Court, Rae Bareily, to act with due dispatch,” he said. However, Mr Shahabuddin urged the CBI to expeditiously initiate the proceedings against the accused before the Rae Bareily Special Court. “The BMMCC also hopes that since the accused claim to be innocent and are in public life, they should cooperate with the prosecution and not take advantage of the technicalities to hinder or stonewall the trial,” he added.
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100 children
die of mysterious disease
Saharanpur, November 30 The hospital has confirmed only 43 deaths due to the disease between October 12 to November 29. The hospital’s Deputy Director, Medicine and Health, Dr
R.K. Goyal, said five children suffering from the disease had also died in the Khekhra area of Baghpat in Meerut division and one child had died in Parikshatgarh in Meerut. Talking to UNI today, the Medical Superintendent, Dr V.P. Bhatnagar, blamed the senior
paediatrician, Dr Gopal Swaroop, and the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Ghanshyam Singh, for the deaths and said he was not informed about the occurrence of the mysterious disease. But now a separate ward, with 12 beds, has been set up for the patients offering from this disease, he said. Meanwhile, Dr Swaroop said a team of doctors from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi, had reached Saharanpur to help tackle the problem. The team had collected blood samples from the affected children and had sent them to New Delhi for tests, he added.
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Court notice to DCP
in Shivani case New Delhi, November 30 Perusing Sharma’s application that Crime Branch sleuths under orders of the DCP were continuing “illegal, intimidating and harassing” tactics, Metropolitan Magistrate J. P. Narain asked Mr Upadhyay to appear in court on December 11. Sharma, whose name figures as the main accused in the murder of Indian Express journalist Shivani Bhatnagar alleged that the DCP was still sending personnel to the house of his daughter and sister-in-law and keeping a tab on their movements. On a separate submission by counsel for accused Pradeep Sharma, the court directed the police to supply him with copies of photographs of the scene of crime. Meanwhile, the Magistrate also extended the judicial remand of R.K. Sharma and the other accused - Pradeep Sharma, Sri Bhagwan Sharma, Satya Prakash, Ved Prakash Sharma, Ved alias Kalu, till December 11, after they were produced in court today on expiry of their judicial
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Mufti to hold talks with PM today New Delhi, November 30 This is his first-ever visit to the Capital after becoming the Chief Minister of the insurgency-ridden state. During his stay here, he will call on Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani and Congress President Sonia Gandhi and brief them of the latest political and security situation in the state. The Chief Minister is hosting an Iftar party on Monday.
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Speaker
reserves verdict on rebels
Lucknow, November 30 The case of BSP rebel Jai Prakash Yadav will come up later in the day. The Speaker first heard arguments from the rebels’ side on the maintainability of the case. Former BJP MP Satyapal Jain, a senior counsel of the Supreme Court, represented the BJP while Mr Nageshwar Rao (also from SC), Mr
I.B. Singh and Mr J.N. Mathur argued on behalf of the BJP rebels. Mr Rao, at the outset, claimed if the BJP considered the dissidents’ activities as anti-party, it could take disciplinary action against them, including expulsion or suspension, but seeking disqualification was not necessary as they had not deserted the party. He argued that the petition, therefore, was not maintainable. The counsel also argued that the petitioner had neither provided the dissidents with video cassettes of news channels where they had reportedly made anti-party remarks nor an affidavit was filed. “The petitioner was trying to make the petition maintainable as we go along,” he observed. The rebels, meanwhile, were provided with video cassettes in the presence of the Speakers while their lawyers were arguing the case.
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Head Granthi jailed
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Rise in AIDS cases worries Shatrughan Patna, November 30 Addressing the 18th conference of the Bihar Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society here, he said with nearly four million AIDS patients, India stood second to South Africa in the list of nations where AIDS had taken an epidemic form. Referring to World AIDS Day to be celebrated tomorrow, Mr Sinha urged the people to reaffirm their pledge to prevent further spread of the disease.
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Justice
Agarwala dead Noida, November 30 Justice Agarwala (71), was in good health according to his family members. He was quite active as a member of the Cauvery River Water Dispute Tribunal with which he was associated from its very inception. Justice Agarwala, who had spent his early years in Allahabad, had started as an advocate in 1954 and was elevated to the Bench as a Judge of the Allahabad High Court in 1977. In 1992, he was made Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and was appointed a member of the Cauvery River Water Dispute Tribunal in 1990. Justice Agarwala had complained of uneasiness around 3.30 a.m. on November 26 and was rushed to Max Care Centre in Sector 19. Justice Agarwala is survived by his wife and two daughters. |
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GND varsity wins youth fest trophy Allahabad, November 30 Patiala’s Punjabi University stood second followed by host Allahabad University. Altogether 750 students from 25 universities of six states — Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh — and Chandigarh participated in 22 competitions of the festival.
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3 of family
paraded naked
Jaipur, November 30 Kishore Singh, his wife and mother were dragged out of their house, beaten up and paraded naked in Anjankheda village on Thursday, allegedly by their neighbour, Chain Singh, and others, the police said. The police has arrested the neighbour and seven members of his family, including two women, after an FIR was registered by the village head, Bhairu Singh Khator, and a Zila Parishad member, Roop Singh Ranawat, yesterday. The family faced Chain Singh’s ire because his daughter had allegedly eloped with Kishore’s nephew a few days ago, the police said. Additional Superintendent of Police Kripa Shankar Gaur and Deputy Superintendent of Police Naresh Kumar visited the village yesterday.
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