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Sunday,
December 29, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Cops,
villagers hurt in clash Firearms
licence scam unearthed Cong rally
to precede SC deadline on SYL Dispute over development charges remains unresolved Telephone
services remain disrupted |
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spent on road carpeting, construction Kurukshetra, December 28 The Haryana State Marketing Board has spent more than Rs 16.18 crore for premix carpeting and constructing metalled road in the past three years. 
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Cops, villagers hurt in clash Kaithal, December 28 In retaliatory action by the police, 12 villagers, including women, too, suffered injuries. It is learnt that the police lobbed tear gas shells to control the farmers who became violent and used swords and threw petrol bottles and chilled water on members of the police force and even attacked the fire brigade vehicle accompanying the force . The villagers allege the police fired shots. However, the authorities denied any firing. The village was tense after the incident and a heavy police force was posted in the village to keep a watch on the situation. According to information, the police took possession of the land and handed it over to the village panchayat late in the evening on
Friday. The police has registered cases under various sections of the IPC against 24 named and 56 unnamed persons in connection with the violence and attack on the police party ,on a complaint lodged by Mr Mahabir Singh, Executive Magistrate,
Guhla. According to the latest information, the police has arrested four women and five men in connection with the incident. It is learnt that a large chunk of the panchayat land is being cultivated by the villagers and they had been paying Rs 25 per acre as lease money since long. However, the present Sarpanch, Ujagar Singh, asked the cultivators to increase the lease money, but they refused. In 1999, the farmers stopped making any payment and the panchayat filed a case before the SDM,
Guhla. The affected farmers filed an appeal before the Deputy Commissioner, Kaithal, after losing their case before the SDM. There, too, they lost the case, following which the local administration with police help restored the land to village panchayat in September 2001. However, the villagers got a stay order from the high court and again took possession of the disputed land. It is learnt that on October 1, a two-Judge Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court directed the cultivators to deposit Rs 1,500 per acre as lease money and they were given six weeks’ time. The stay orders were also vacated. However the Sarpanch said despite the court directives and notices by the village panchayat, the cultivators failed to deposit the lease money and hence the administration swung into action to restore possession of land to the village panchayat which was allegedly under the illegal possession of the villagers. According to information received here, Sub-Inspector Roop Singh, in charge Siwan police station suffered fractured his arm and a number of other police personnel also suffered injuries. Karamjit Kaur, Daler Singh, Mukhtiar Singh, Jeet Singh, Inder Singh, Baldev Kaur, Jatinder Kaur and some other villagers who sustained injuries were admitted to nearby hospitals. |
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Firearms
licence scam unearthed Gurgaon, December 28 The development assumes significance in the wake of several reports, doing rounds for a couple of years, that Pakistan’s ISI was spreading its wings in the Mewat areas of Gurgaon and Faridabad districts. Also, there are reports to suggest that religious heads and preachers from the Middle East and other Islamic countries and representatives of various fundamentalist organisations active in the country often visit the Mewat areas. The authorities today revealed that in the latest drive launched against the owners of illicit firearms, fake licence holders of arms and illegal
manufacturing of firearms in Gurgaon district, 150 cases of fake firearms licences were found. The disclosure was made by the
authorities at a meeting with the press convened here by the Inspector-General of Police, Gurgaon Range, Mr Charanjeet Singh. The police chief of the Gurgaon district, Mr Kuldeep Singh Sihag, was also present on the occasion. On the directions of the Director-General of Police, Haryana, Mr Mahender Singh Malik, the local police had launched a campaign named “Operation Agni” to zero in on the illegal firearms holder, illegal manufacture of firearms and to re-verify the authenticity of the licences issued. The drive brought out that the addresses specified in the 150 licences issued in the district were fake. The addresses could not be verified. The police has sent all the 150 cases to the office of the Deputy Commissioner, Gurgaon, for necessary action. Some of the licences in question were issued more than a decade back. In response to a specific question, Mr Sihag, did not give a categorical reply on the possible action against the
authorities who issued such licences. Strangely, the licences are renewed from time to time and even during these stages the fake addresses were not verified by the authorities. Gurgaon district was in the news for issuance of firearms licences in violation of proper procedures, a few months ago. A former Deputy Commissioner and a former SDM along with officers from other districts of the state were
under the scanner of the CBI on the alleged issuance of such licences. According to Mr Sihag, possession of 50 illicit arms also came to notice during the Operation Agni. Two factories producing country-made guns were also busted in Ferozepur Jhirka in
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Cong rally to precede SC deadline on SYL Chandigarh, December 28 Talking to the TNS, Mr Yadav said that the deadline fixed by the Supreme Court for the construction of the SYL canal by the Punjab government would expire on January 15 and then it would become responsibility of the Centre to complete the canal. The January 12 rally, being called kishan-mazdoor rally, would urge the centre to take up the work in a war-footing, Mr Yadav said. He said that PCC chief Mr Bhajan Lal, senior Congress leaders, Ms Mohsina Kidwai, Mr Anil Shastri and Ms Girija Vyas as well as local Congress leaders would take part in the rally which would be held at Tularam Park at Rewari. Mr Yadav alleged that the discrimination being faced by southern districts of Haryana in canal water distribution would be also highlighted during the rally. “While eight southern districts get
only 5000 cusec, three districts (Sirsa, Fatehabad and Hisar) get 8000 cusec”, he alleged. Mr Yadav also said that drought relief measures taken by the state government were grossly inadequate and the southern districts were reeling under the problem of fodder shortage. The state government has inflicted another blow to Rewari by having shifted the Regional Sainik School Centre to Jhajjar, he said. |
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Dispute over development charges remains unresolved Ambala, December 28 The councillors were insisting the executive officer that till the arrival of the final decision of the state government in this regard, the plans of the houses should be approved by taking an affidavit from the house-owners on the condition that they would abide by the government decision. The Congress councillor Heera Lal Yadav and BJP councillor Kamal Kishor Jain raised this issue strongly in the meeting. The executive officer told the councillors that he could simply convey their views to the government but he could not take any decision on this issue at his level. Mr Yadav alleged that the council’s administration had been recovering the development charges forcibly. In some cases, the council had been demanding the charges for the second time, he added. Some of the councillors alleged that the house plans of some of the residents, who had even deposited the development charges, were not being approved. Some of the councillors, including Dr Ved Prkash and Neelm Sharma, raised the issue of digging of several roads by private telecommunication companies. They alleged that parts of the roads, which were dug, had not been repaired so far, and this had been causing great difficulties to the people. Suresh Garg and Sudhir Jaiswal also spoke in the meeting. The resolution for setting up the corporation merging Ambala City and Ambala Sadar councils could not be brought in the meeting, while the Director, Haryana Development Department, had asked the duo councils to send their resolutions to the department about the formation of corporation at the earliest. The Ambala City council had already rejected this proposal at its meeting held two days ago. The president of the council did not explain why this resolution was not brought in the meeting.
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Telephone
services remain disrupted Kaithal, December 28 The subscribers complained that they were not getting numbers of their choice. The reply from the computerised exchange was that the lines were out of order. Though no senior officer was available for comments, some junior functionaries said the system was affected due to fog. The ongoing expansion of the main exchange here was also stated to be one of the reasons for the problems faced by the subscribers. |
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spent on road carpeting, construction Kurukshetra, December 28 Giving this information here yesterday the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Abhilaksh Likhi, said about 214-km-long roads had been constructed in the past three years. Mr Likhi said that 23.19 km-long road had been metalled and 102.61 km roads were carpeted. |
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