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December 10, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Dulina guilty may escape major penalty Security beefed up after spurt in crime Haryana BKU leader’s remand extended
Haryana okays policy on jobs on
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HIGH COURT Baba Bhaniara seeks security PCO owner
unhappy
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Dulina guilty may escape major penalty Chandigarh, December 9 Three civil officials — Mr Rajpal Singh, City Magistrate of Jhajjar, who is an HCS officer; Mr Sajjan Pal Singh, Village Development and Panchayat Officer (VDPO), and Mr Shyam Lal, a Naib Tehsildar — were prima facie found guilty by Mr Banswal, Commissioner of Rohtak Division, of not handling the situation properly when tension rose in that area. While disciplinary proceedings against the City Magistrate will be supervised by the Chief Secretary, the Secretary, Development and Panchayat Department, will supervise proceedings against the VDPO and the Secretary, Revenue Department will do the same vis-a-vis the Naib Tehsildar. Knowledgable sources said that to indict the three officials, evidence by villagers would be needed which would be hard to come by and the trio might ultimately escape without any major damage. Among the police officials, the three main accused, according to Mr Banswal’s report, are Mr Narinder Singh, DSP of Jhajjar; Mr Rajinder Singh, SHO of Jhajjar, and Mr Dharam Vir, who was in charge of the Dulina outpost, when the macabre incident occurred. While the Home Department will supervise the proceedings against the DSP, police officers of IG and DIG ranks will carry out the proceedings against Rajinder Singh and Dharam Vir, respectively. However, it is believed that the problem of lack of evidence from villagers will crop up here also and jeopardise the probe against the guilty police personnel. “Mr R.R. Banswal may have managed to get witnesses from villagers while conducting the inquiry. But disciplinary proceedings against the officials were a different ball game and it will be difficult to get evidence from the villagers for this purpose”, sources here said. They added that the erring personnel should have been first put under suspension by the state government as a follow-up action on Mr Banswal’s report. They said cases could also have been filed against the civil and police officials. The report also held the police personnel posted at the Dulina outpost guilty of being casual and allowing the situation to go out of control. The police contingent posted at Dulina numbered about 12 persons including 10 to 11 constables. It was observed in the report that the cops had sufficient time to shift the five persons to a safer place but they were overconfident about defusing the situation. Officials here said that the Superintendent of Police (SP) is authorised to supervise disciplinary action being taken against the constables. Officials also tried to justify the government decision to chargesheet the erring civil and police officials. “The government may chargesheet an employee either for a minor punishment or for a major one. In the case of the former, only an employee’s increments are held up while a major punishment can lead even to dismissal. Since these officials were being chargesheeted for a major penalty, there should not be any suspicion cast on the motive of the state government,” claimed an official here.
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Security beefed up after spurt in crime Hisar, December 9 At least 12 incidents of looting and thefts took place last week. Two motor cycle-borne persons looted Rs 12,000 at gunpoint from a seed centre owner, Mr Laxmi Narayan, at the main bus stand here three days ago. Three similar incidents took place the next day. In the first incident, two motorcyclists snatched Rs 40,000 from Mange Ram, a resident of Niyana village, when he was going to his village on a scooter after withdrawing cash from a bank. In another incident two motorcyclist struck at Rajguru Market and injured a ready made garment shop owner with a sharp-edged weapon. On the same day, Rs 40,000 were stolen from the dickey of a scooter in front of the main branch of the State Bank of India here. In two separate incidents of theft, Rs 2,00,000 was stolen from two rooms of the Aggarsain Bhavan here four days ago. The rooms were booked by a local doctor for the marriage of his daughter. On the same day two motorcyclist snatched a mobile phone from a trader on the local Devi Bhawan Road. Two separate theft incidents were also reported at the local Dogran Mohalla and the Balsamand Chowk area during the last week. A Maruti car was also stolen from the local Red Square Market yesterday. After leaders of the local traders organisation and poetical parties criticised the police and demanded proper security in the main markets of the town, the
police decided to intensify security and keep a close watch on motorcyclist particularly as in most of the criminal activities motorcyclist were involved. |
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Haryana BKU leader’s remand extended Ambala, December 9 He alleged that these leaders had conspired to get him arrested. He was talking to mediapersons after appearing in the court of the Judicial Magistrate (First Class), Mr Jasbir Singh, along with 17 BKU activists who were arrested by the local police on November 25 at Shahjadpur where they had blockade the National Highway in protest against the non-payment of the arrears of the sugarcane growers connected to Naraingarh sugar mill and had also attacked the police personnel. The court extended the judicial remand of Nain and 17 others for next 14 days. An application on behalf of Nain and others were also filed in the court through their counsel Mr Ajay Jain, Mr K.L. Sehgal and Mr Raj Kumar Kashyap. They requested the court to direct the jail authorities to allow relatives and supporters of BKU leaders to meet them in the jail. The magistrate issued a notice to state in this regard for tomorrow. Nain while appearing before the magistrate alleged that the jail authorities were not providing facilities to them according to the jail manual. The President of Ambala unit of the BKU, Mr Gun Prakash, and a senior leader, Mr Fatheh Singh
Fathua, also levelled similar allegations. |
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Haryana okays policy on jobs on Chandigarh, December 9 The policy aims at assisting the family of a deceased regular government employee who dies while in service or who is declared missing for seven years or more. The government has through this policy sought to intervene in a humanitarian and compassionate manner and assist the indigent family of a deceased regular employee during the period in which the family is under financial distress. The scheme provides two options — an ex-gratia appointment on compassionate grounds to a member of the family who was “completely dependent” on the deceased employee and is in extreme financial distress due to the loss of the deceased or ex-gratia compassionate financial assistance to the family of the deceased over and above all other benefits, including an ex-gratia grant due to the family, to be paid at the rate of Rs 2.5 lakh in case of the deceased not opting for ex-gratia employment. The assistance would be a available up to three years from the date of death of the deceased. The scheme would be applicable to those dependents of the deceased government employee whose cases are pending with the government as on the date of coming into force of this scheme. It would also be applicable to a dependent member of the family of a government employee who dies while in service and has served as government department for at least three years and was below the age of 55 years or who is declared missing for seven years or more. A person appointed on ex-gratia grounds would give an undertaking by way of an affidavit that he or she would maintain properly the other members of the family dependent on the deceased government employee and in case it is proved
later that the dependent members were being neglected or not being maintained properly by him or her, then his or her appointment would be terminated forthwith. A condition to this effect would be inserted in the appointment letter to be given to the dependent of the deceased government employee. The benefit of the policy would be admissible to a government employee appointed on a regular basis and not one working on a daily wage or casual or apprentice or work-charged or ad hoc or contractual or on re-employment basis and should have served a government department for at least three years and not have crossed the age of 55 years. The head of the department concerned would be the competent authority to make ex-gratia appointment on posts available within the department in which the deceased was employed. The department concerned would prepare a list of such dependants, which would be valid for a period of three years and appointments would be given strictly according to this list. Ex-gratia appointment would be confined to group ‘C’ and ‘D’ posts only. Status of the deceased employee of the higher qualifications of the applicant would be no criteria for giving ex-gratia appointment. Such appointments would be at least one step lower than that of the post of the deceased employee, except in cases where the deceased employee was working at the lowest level in that category. The monthly income of the family should not exceed Rs 6,000 per month from all sources other than family pension. In case the spouse of the deceased is already in government service, no other member would be eligible for ex-gratia appointment or ex-gratia compassionate financial grant. The married son of the deceased would be eligible only if no other member of the family is eligible for government service and his spouse is not already in government service and unmarried eligible dependent is not willing to join service and gives an affidavit to this effect. The prescribed educational qualifications and the lower or upper age limits would not be relaxed for ex-gratia appointments. Such appointments would be made only on a regular basis and that too only if regular posts meant for that purpose are available. Ex-gratia appointments can be made up to a maximum of 5 per cent of the sanctioned posts falling under the direct recruitment quota in Group ‘C’ and ‘D’ categories, to be determined by the Head of the Department at the beginning of each financial year. The Cabinet, also approved a draft of the Bill known as the Revenue Recovery (Haryana Amendment) Bill, 2002 so as to amend Section 5 of the Revenue Recovery Act, 1890, on the pattern adopted by the UP Government to simplify the procedure to recover the outstanding dues from ex-minister under the Punjab Land Revenue act, 1887. The Cabinet also decided to amend the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, and the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973 to provide that the state Election Commission would consult the state government before announcing the date of elections so that the state government may make available such staff as may be necessary for the discharge of the functions conferred on the Election Commission under the Constitution. It also approved the proposal of the Urban Development Department to sell three acres of land of the Municipal Committee, Kalanwali, to HAFED at a rate of Rs 2 lakh per acre along with development charges at a rate of Rs. 80 per sq yard. Another proposal of the Urban Development Department to sell one kanal 13 marlas of land at Ellenabad in Sirsa district to Mrs Santo Devi at Rs 120 per sq yard along with developmental charges at Rs 80 per sq yard was also approved.
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, December 9 Pronouncing the orders, Mr Justice Kumar also directed the completion of the process within six months. In his petition, the alleged victim’s father Naurata Ram had earlier alleged that his son Rajinder Kumar, arrested by the police on October 6, 1991, in a case registered under Section 292 of the Indian Penal Code, was declared dead the same day. Seeking the registration of a murder case against the alleged culprits, the petitioner had also sought directions for handing over the inquiry to the premier investigating agency. Directions for quashing an order issued by Haryana’s Director-General of Police whereby he had declined to get a murder case registered were also sought. Taking up the case, Mr Justice Kumar had directed the CBI on January 9, 1995, “to register a case and investigate the same with a view to bring the culprits to book”. |
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Baba Bhaniara
seeks security Ambala, December 9 Two months ago in accordance with the direction of the Punjab and Haryana High Court the cases pending against Baba and his followers in various courts in Patiala were transferred to a Ambala court. |
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PCO
owner unhappy Ambala, December 9 Mr Chadha said he was forced to pay a surcharge of Rs 20 even though it was not his fault. He said “Principal General Manager, Telecommunications had stated that the subscribers having bills (due date December 5 ) could be accepted upto December 9 and those with December 9 as expiry date could be accepted till December 13.” He said despite the statement of a senior telecom official, he was forced to pay surcharge. A telecom official said he would look into the matter. |
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