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Wednesday,
May 21, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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INLD leader’s house
attacked, Three corpns may have common administration HIGH COURT Insurance
cover for pilgrims mooted Planetarium
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Water shortage in Kalka areas Lavleen Garg tops in
commerce stream
10-year RI for 3 in dowry death case Students declare war on congress grass
Pistols
seized
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INLD leader’s house
attacked, son hurt Sirsa, May 20 According to the information received here today, at least six armed persons entered the house of Mr Jindal last night. They started abusing and pushing around the women of the house and attacked the only male members, Mukesh, son of Mr Jindal, present in the house. Mukesh could not sustain the blows and fell unconscious. The assailants ransacked the house but fled when the women in the house cried for help. Mukesh was taken to the local Community Health Centre from where he was referred to the district civil hospital. People gathered outside the local police station and demanded arrest of the culprits.
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Three corpns may have common administration Chandigarh, May 20 “It will not be exactly a merger of the three corporations. The idea is to have a common administrative setup for the corporations and have one Managing Director and one Chairperson for all three of them”, the sources said. While the Scheduled Caste Finance and Development Corporation and the Backward Classes Kalyan Nigam already have the same Managing Director, Mr M. Kithan, the Managing Director of the Women Development Corporation is Ms Dheera Khandelwal. Mr Amar Singh Dhanday, an MLA of the ruling INLD, is chairperson of the Scheduled Caste Finance and Development Corporation while Mr Ramesh Khatak, also a ruling party MLA, is Chairperson of the Haryana Backward Classes Kalyan Nigam. Ms Vimla Sangwan, sister-in-law of Haryana Finance Minister, Sampat Singh, is Chairperson of the Women Development Corporation. Two of the three offices will cease to exist once the proposal materialises. The sources said the move aimed at cutting down expenditure on having three Chairpersons and more than one Managing Directors for these corporations. “Since these corporations are aimed at uplifting socially marginalised groups, it is being felt that it will be better if these are put under a single administrative setup”, the sources said. Employees of these corporations at the district level could also be re-deployed as a result of the proposed arrangement. This would particularly benefit the Backward Classes Kalyan Nigam which had a skeletal staff in most districts. Under the proposed arrangement, there would be one Financial Commissioner for these corporations against the two now. While the Financial Commissioner of the Women and Child Development Department looks after the Women Development Corporation, the two other corporations are vested in the Financial Commissioner of the Social Justice and Empowerment Department. It has been proposed to put all three corporations under the Financial Commissioner, Social Justice and Empowerment Department. |
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, May 20 In her petition, Ms Bhatia had earlier contended that the high court, while disposing of her petition on May 2, had directed the state of Haryana and other respondents to decide her appeal against the suspension orders within four weeks. As the election was scheduled to be held before the expiry of the period, she should be allowed to cast her vote, the petitioner had submitted. Going into the background of the case, the petitioner had submitted that she was placed under suspension in May last year due to political reasons following which she had filed a writ petition. Her petition was disposed of after counsel for the respondents had asserted that Ms Bhatia should file a statutory appeal under the Municipal Corporation Act. In another petition filed subsequently, the councillor had asserted that three months had passed since her earlier petition was disposed of by the high court, yet her appeal had not been decided. Acting on the appeal, the high court had granted four months time. Ruchika case
A revision petition filed in Ruchika molestation case, seeking directions for cross-examining the witness produced by Haryana's former Director General of Police, S.P.S. Rathore, during an inquiry in the matter, was dismissed by Mr Justice K.C. Gupta of the high court. In her petition, Madhu Parkash — mother of Ruchika's friend — had challenged an order passed by Special Judicial Magistrate for Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cases, whereby she was denied the opportunity of cross-examination. Giving details, the petitioner had contended that Haryana's former Director-General of Police had filed an application claiming that Ms Parkash was using forged documents for seeking his prosecution. Denying the allegations in her reply, Ms Parkash had claimed that she had the right to cross examine the witnesses produced by Rathore during the inquiry. After hearing the arguments, the Special Judge had dismissed Ms Parkash's plea. Ruchika had committed suicide on December 29, 1993, almost three years after Rathore was accused of molesting her on August 12, 1990. Rathore had claimed that it was nowhere mentioned in the charge sheet that he was in any manner responsible for Ruchika's death. His counsel had contended that Ruchika, in her statement recorded during an inquiry, had not disclosed her intention of committing suicide on account of alleged humiliation she was subjected to on account of the alleged act.
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Insurance
cover for pilgrims mooted Kurukshetra, May 20 Mela Administrator, Dr N.S. Bangar stated this today that the insurance scheme had been initiated for the safety of pilgrims during the solar eclipse. As many as 10 lakh pilgrims are expected to visit here, he added. Dr Bangar said that every pilgrim would be insured for Rs 50,000 while total liability would be Rs 50 lakh during the solar eclipse and time limit for the insurance would be 72 hours beginning from midnight of May 30 to midnight of June 1. He apprised that the risk area under the scheme would be covered within radius of 7 km from Brahm Sarovar to Jyotisar and Pipli, 5 km each from here and the insurance would be covered for accident, food poisoning and drowning. The Administrator said that tender for the same had been invited up to May 21 at 10 a.m. Tender applications can be sent to Administrator and SDM (Civil), Thanesar. The tenders will be opened at 3 p.m. on May 21 and the Deputy Commissioner Kurukshetra had been empowered to cancel the tenders without assigning any reason, he added. |
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Planetarium
in memory of Kalpana Kurukshetra, May 20 Stating this here today, Deputy Commissioner, Abhilaksh Likhi said Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala would preside over the function. He said the planetarium would be constructed at a cost of about Rs 7 crore over four acres of land in the vicinity of
Jyotisar. The Deputy Commissioner said the light-and-sound programme had been prepared and conceived by the Indian Tourism Development Corporation at a cost of Rs 1.25 crore. He said the programme would not only attract local people but also pilgrims from all over the country and abroad. He said efforts were being made to bring the city on the international tourism map and a number of steps had been initiated in the district including establishing of the All-India Hotel Management and Catering Institute and a park based on Mahabharata battle. The festival, Mahabharata Utsav-Gita Jayanti, was also organised for the first time in the history of this holy city.
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Abandoned
kids reunited with mother Ambala, May 20 Reshma has told the police that her husband, Lala, had taken away the children yesterday. She stated that Lala did not inform her where he was taking the children. Her husband arrived home late last night and in the morning, he told her that he had left the children at Ambala. In the meantime, a businessman in whose company Reshma works in Mohali, informed her about the newspaper report. Thereafter, she came to Ambala take back her children. A police official said last night, they got in touch with their counterparts in Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh. “We have been informed that a relative of the children has already left from Hardoi for Ambala,” he said. The children told their mother that they were looked after by the local people. Ruby told her mother that Rakesh, who had fever, was given medicine and they were also given food.
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Water shortage in Kalka areas Kalka, May 20 Besides this, water supply is quite irregular and erratic. As there is no fixed timings of water supply, they fear that if they missed the supply once, they will have to wait for another 24 hours. A resident of main bazar said the water pressure was very low. President of Azad Colony and Bangala Colony R.K. Vaid alleged that the water supply in their colonies was insufficient, therefore, residents were forced to bring water from the nearby Railway Station. Residents of Bangala Basti had also held a demonstration in front of the office of Public Health Department a few days ago to protest against the water shortage. Ms Mohini Nanda, Municipal Commissioner Ward No 13, alleged that his ward was being discriminated against in the matter of supply of drinking water. She said the area near Krishna Mandir, Central Gurdwara and Friends Colony were badly hit. During the last summer, she had arranged the supply of water through water tankers, at her own cost for the residents. She said the situation was expected to be worse this year, and this year too, she would have to make arrangements for water tankers at her own cost.
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Lavleen
Garg tops in
commerce stream Ambala, May 20 Aakriti Bali scored 91.75 per cent with 96 per cent and 95 per cent in English and economics respectively. Sameer Chopra scored 90.50 per cent with 96 per cent in economics.
Abhinav Khurana scored 88.50 per cent, Mohit Goel scored 87.50 per cent and Jaihesh Galani scored 86.75 per cent marks. Out of 29 students, three have scored more than 90 per cent marks, 14 have scored between 80 per cent and 89.9 per cent and 12 between 70 to 79.9 per cent. In ISC non-medical stream, Manik Sharma and Neha Sood scored 83.50 per cent marks followed by Siddharth Bansal with 83 per cent
marks. Varun Sharma scored 82 per cent in the ISC medical stream with 92 per cent in biology. Six students scored above 80 per cent marks. In the ICSE, science stream, Anshul Singla scored 91.80 per cent marks. Simerjeet Khurana scored 89.60 per cent and Ekta Verma scored 88.60 per cent marks. Rajat Goel scored 86.20 per cent marks and Pallavi Pathak scored 85.60 per cent marks. In the ICSE, commerce stream, Surabha Sharma, scored 84.20 per cent marks, Vaibhav Kumar scored 83 per cent, Megha Kalra scored 82.40 per cent, Ashish Uppal scored 82 per cent, Mohit Bhado 80.60 per cent and Saurabh and Salil Jain 80.40 per cent.
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10-year RI for 3 in dowry death case Ambala, May 20 On a complaint of Naresh Kumar, the uncle of
Shalu, a case under Sections 304B and 34, IPC, was registered against Vikas, husband of the deceased, her mother-in-law, Raj Rani (60), and her brother-in-law Nukesh Kumar (24). According to an FIR, Shalu was rushed to the local Civil Hospital in Ambala City where she died on the same day. The uncle of Shalu had alleged that she was being harassed by her in-laws for bringing insufficient dowry. The judge in his order said each accused would have to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 10 years. The period of the judicial custody of the accused would come into effect from the period of sentence awarded to each accused in the Shalu death case.
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Students declare war on congress grass Yamunanagar, May 20 Later, they assembled at Dasehra Ground and uprooted the weed. Mr Bhardwaj, on the occasion, said the weed posed a serious threat to human beings as well as animal life. He emphasised uprooting and eradication of the weed should be carried out for at least for five years to achieve the desired results. One plant produced 25,000 seeds and 624 million pollen grain, he said. OC
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Lashkar
commander’s effigy burnt Ambala, May 20 The president of the Anti-Terrorist Front of India, Dr Veeresh Shandilya, strongly condemned the killing and demanded that the government must take stern action to check the cross-border terrorism. Slogans were raised by the front activists against Pakistan. The activists carried placards demanding that terrorism must be brought to an end. Mr Kulwant Singh Manakpur, Dr Pradeep Kaushik, Mr Ashok, Mr Mohan Lal Ghel, Mr Joginder and Mr Sanjiv were present on the occasion.
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Pistols
seized
Ambala, May 20 In another incident, the police arrested Rajinder, a resident of a village close to Ambala Cantonment and seized a country-made pistol from him. Separate cases have been registered under the Arms Act. Man
electrocuted: One person was electrocuted at Barara village last
evening when he came in contact with an electric wire hanging from a
pole. The deceased, Gurcharan, was going on his scooter when he got entangled in the wire. He sustained injuries on the neck. He, however, managed to reach his house, where he died after a short while. Booked
for killing father: The Naraingarh police has registered a case
against a man for allegedly killing his father due to some family
dispute. According to the police, Kedar Nath was found murdered at
his residence today morning. The younger son of the deceased,
Rajinder, blamed his brother, Raj Kumar, for it. He said when he came
to the house, he found his father was lying in a pool of blood and Raj
Kumar was standing there carrying a stick in his hand. On the
complaint of Rajinder, the police has registered a case against Raj
Kumar.
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Ayurvedic
doctor booked Chandigarh, May 20 A team led by Dr
N.K. Sharma, Civil Surgeon, Yamunanagar, inspected the clinic and seized documentary evidence to this effect, the press note said, adding that Dr Jerath had also admitted to “the facts” in a written statement.
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Impersonation
case: bail for girl Kurukshetra, May 20 |
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4 hurt in gas cylinders
blast Ambala, May 20 |
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