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EC’s warning to political parties
INLD flays Hooda’s style of functioning
Gohana incident: 2 more arrested
Balmikis deserted colony due to ‘police terror’
Yadav blames Oppn for Gohana
DGP seeks public help to check crime
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Ex-DGP Malik’s suspension revoked
Haryana in grip of severe power crisis
No power to big units for 7 days
Power shortage hits industries
5 cases of theft in a night
Reader grants bail to accused
Kargil to Kanyakumari safari flagged off
Challenged child reunited with parents
Miscreants set bus on fire
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EC’s warning to political parties
Rohtak, September 6 He was addressing a meeting of representatives of different political parties here to apprise them of the Election Commissioner’s (EC) directions in this regard. Mr Mishra said the EC had deputed an observer for each of the Assembly segments of the Rohtak Lok Sabha constituency. These observers would remain there from September 10 to the end of the election process. He said defacing public property by pasting posters or painting slogans on walls was a criminal offence. Besides, the respective candidates were required to seek written permission from the owners of private buildings where they paste their election posters. The candidates were required to inform the police about holding election meetings which would in no case take place at prohibited places. Prior permission of the SDM concerned would be necessary for all such meetings. For taking out processions the number of vehicles would not exceed three. Any violation of this clause would invite a legal action. No political party would be allowed to burn effigies at public places. Mr Manek Sonawane, Chief Electoral Officer, Haryana was among those officials who attended the meeting. He sought the cooperation of all the political parties in conducting a free and fair poll and assured them suggestions they had submitted would be duly considered by the EC. Later, addressing a meeting of government officers, deputed for the election duty, he directed them to ensure that all parties and candidates campaign within the legal framework. He said it was their duty to ensure a free and fair poll by remaining impartial. Mr Mishra said any lapses would invite stern action. He also reviewed the poll arrangements plan. |
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INLD flays Hooda’s style of functioning
Rewari, September 6 Addressing a meeting of workers here yesterday, he alleged that the Congress was behind the Gohana incident. Substantiating his charge, Mr Chautala asserted that the dispute regarding Baljit Siwach’s murder had been resolved in the panchayat. He said the houses of Dalits in Balmiki Colony at Gohana had been torched by “congressmen”. Seeking an adequate compensation for the hapless victims, Mr Chautala flayed the Hooda government for falsely implicating innocent persons. He said they had been participating in the panchayat at the time of the incident. Taking a dig at the Hooda government for its much-hyped electoral promise of providing a fear and corruption-free governance to the masses, he deplored that the law and order situation had worsened in the state. Crimes like murder and loot had become quite common, he added. Substantiating his allegation, he asserted that the Rohtak district alone, which was the Chief Minister’s domains, had witnessed as many as 171 cases of murder during the past six months. The meeting was also addressed among others by former minister Dr M.L. Ranga and the district INLD chief, Mr Jagdish Yadav. |
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Gohana incident: 2 more arrested
Sonepat, September 6 The arrested persons were identified as Radhey Sham of Lath village, now residing in Vishnu Nagar of Gohana town, and Manoj of Bhainswan Khurd village. With these, the number of arrests made so far in this case has risen to four. The police had earlier arrested Rampal of Nooran Khera village and Rajesh of Chhatehra village. Sources claimed that the police had arrested four persons, including the prime suspect in connection with the alleged murder of Baljeet, a financer of Garhwal village. They are Shiv Lal, Veeru, alias Jatinder, Chhota, alias Hari Dass, and Rakesh, alias Kakoo. Mr Rajinder Singh, Superintendent of Police, told mediapersons here today that a new police post had been established in the Balmiki Basti of Gohana town to instil confidence among the Dalits who are returning to their houses. Meanwhile, the Haryana Roadways has been suffering a loss of about Rs 1.25 lakh every day on account of the suspension of bus service from the Sonepat depot of the Roadways to seven Punjab towns, namely, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Terajat, Pathankot, Katra, Amritsar and Sujanpura, following the Gohana and Phagwara incidents. The Punjab-bound passengers have been facing inconvenience due to the suspension of the bus services. |
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Balmikis deserted colony due to ‘police terror’
Gohana (Sonepat), September 6 A resident of the colony, Vinod Kumar, working as senior assistant with the New India Assurance Company, told The Tribune that several residents of the colony had left their houses and had taken shelter with their relatives in different parts of the state because of the fear of arrest after the murder of Jat financer Baljeet Siwach of Gharwal village near the colony on August 27 allegedly by some Balmikis. Elaborating Vinod Kumar added that the police had picked up main accused Shiv Kumar Kaka’s aged mother Sheela (70) and wife Babli (42) within a few hours of Baljeet’s murder on Saturday with no fault of theirs. As the police had not even spared Kaka’s aged mother and wife, a message spread in the colony that the police might pick anyone in Baljeet’s murder case. Following this, residents of the colony started deserting houses on Sunday morning. Mr Vinod Kumar, whose house was also burnt, added that he also sent his wife and his children to his in-law’s house at Rohtak on Sunday after locking the house. They had never thought that the houses in colony would be burnt, he added. Corroborating his statement, ex councillor Raj Kumar, whose house was also burnt in the attack on the colony, told The Tribune that he and other representatives of the colony had helped the police in getting some of the accused of Baljeet’s murder case arrested. Raj Kumar said that Baljeet’s cousin Ashok had named five persons with several other unknown persons in the FIR. However when the police picked up Kaka’s mother and wife on Saturday, he contacted Kaka on phone and advised him to surrender to the police, he added. At this, he surrendered before the police on Sunday. After his arrest, he reportedly named several residents of the colony for their alleged involvement in the murder. With the spreading of this word and picking up of Kaka’s aged mother and wife, a large number of Dalits started leaving houses due to the fear of arrests, he added. Raj Kumar further said that he had never left his house and remained at his house till the end. He denied that any policeman had asked the Dalits to leave their houses. Another resident of the colony, Dinesh, also said that most of the residents had deserted houses due to fear of arrest and the police had picked up Kaka’s aged mother and wife. However at the same time, he said that the then DSP had also told them to leave their houses in order to avoid violent backlash by Jats. Meanwhile Raj Kumar and Vinod Kumar expressed satisfaction over enhancement of interim relief to Rs One lakh and handing-over the inquiry of both cases to the CBI. However Dinesh said that interim relief should also be provided to those whose houses had been looted. Raj Kumar also expressed satisfaction over the pace of relief and rehabilitation work in the colony. Meanwhile, Baljeet’s `terehavi’ was organised yesterday at his native village Gharwal, 25 km from here. A large number of people including, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s son, brother and several MLAs attended the ‘terehavi’. |
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Yadav blames Oppn for Gohana Chandigarh, September 6 Talking to newsmen at the Chandigarh Press Club here, he said : ‘’Certain forces which were defeated in the last Assembly elections are feeling frustated now and are not able to digest the achievements of the Hooda government. Therefore, they are trying to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere in the state. There was no communalism behind the Gohana incident.’’ He said the government had already ordered a CBI inquiry into the incident and the truth would come out. If any officials were found wanting in their responsibilities, action would be taken against them. The Deputy Commissioner and the Superintendent of Police of Sonepat had already been removed from their posts. Captain Yadav denied that the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, was taking important decisions on various issues, like the Gohana incident, without consulting his Cabinet colleagues. He said the decisions were “collective”. Asked why the incident had invited such an outcry, more than that witnessed when five Dalits were lynched in Dulina a few years ago, Captain Yadav said “There are some elements who want a flare-up for their own vested interests”. He said the image of the Hooda government would not be affected by the Gohana incident. He disagreed that the bureaucracy was ruling the roost in Haryana and said: “They will have to implement the decisions of the government”. On the contentious Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal issue, Captain Yadav said the matter was before the Supreme Court. He said Punjab had closed the door to negotiations by unilaterally scrapping the inter-state river water sharing agreements in July last year.
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DGP seeks public help to check crime
Kaithal, September 6 The DGP who visited this town today and addressed officers and jawans of the Haryana police at mini secretariat while talking to the mediapersons said steps were being taken to improve the functioning of the police in the entire state, including the districts of Haryana and neighbouring Delhi. He further said substantial funds would be provided for this purpose. The DGP said the police patrolling during day and night had been stepped up. He said he was touring various districts of the state to boost the morale of the police. He also sought the public cooperation to check crime in the state. He said inspite of various constraints the police was doing an excellent job. Mr S.S. Deswal, IG, Ambala Range, Mr B.S. Malik, Deputy Commissioner, and Mr Sat Parkash Ranga, SP, were present on the occasion. |
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Ex-DGP Malik’s suspension revoked Chandigarh, September 6 Setting aside the suspension orders of the former DGP, the tribunal comprising Mr L.M. Goyal, and Mr Jasbir S. Dhaliwal, Vice-Chairman and Member (Judicial), respectively, directed the Union Government and the Haryana government to reinstate the applicant into service with immediate effect. After hearing the arguments and going through the record, the tribunal observed that the suspension orders issued on June 15, 2005, did not give any inkling as to whether any decision had been taken by the competent authority to initiate disciplinary proceedings against the applicant under Rule 3(1) of All-India Service (Discipline and Appeals Rules), 1969. The respondents are required to show the grounds which existed on June 14, 2005, and validity of the suspension orders cannot be judged by the actions taken after and the reasons being supplied subsequent to that event. Since the DGP was shifted to OSD Rules, he would not be in a position to embarrass the government by interfering with the disciplinary proceedings. In his plea, Mr Malik stated that he had been suspended at the behest of Mr Randeep Singh Surjewala, a cabinet minister in the Hooda government and Mr Dharam Pal Mailk, a senior Congress leader. He claimed that he had been suspended because his wife, Ms Krishna Malik, who had contested elections from the Sonepat parliamentary seat on an Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) ticket, had harmed the political interests of Mr Surjewala and
Mr Mailk. However, the tribunal observed that it was not going into the allegations of mala fides while deciding the present case for the reason that Mr D.P. Mailk, Mr Surjewala and Mr A.S.Dangi were not pleaded as parties. It has only examined the legality of the suspension order. After the Congress party came to power, he was asked to proceed on leave and then on March 17, 2005, he was posted as OSD (Rules), a post which was not equivalent to the rank of the DGP. The former DGP quoted a previous judgment of the CAT in which the new DGP, Haryana, Mr Nirmal Singh, had been posted as OSD (Rules) by the Bansi Lal government. |
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Haryana in grip of severe power crisis
* All arc/induction furnaces, other industry having over 1 mw load closed for one week. * All industries to remain off for 17 hours a day — from 4 pm to 9 am the next day. * Industries to have two weekly off days. * Milk plants/dairies and cold stores will be allowed 50 per cent load. * Power cuts on urban domestic consumers to be imposed in phases.
Panchkula, September 6 Normal life was thrown out of gear as the region sizzled because of long and unscheduled power cuts, heat and high humidity. The state continued to reel under a power crisis and unscheduled power cuts on industry, urban and domestic consumers, including the on-going power regulations were imposed. The industry is the worst hit, with only two-phase supply being given to the industry for 12 hours since July this year. Industrial associations across the state complain that during the past one week, there have been 36- 40 hour long power cuts on two occasions. Haryana is not getting its share of 48 LUs from Nathpa-Jakhri in Himachal, after generation stopped there yesterday. The generation in Nathpa-Jakhri is not expected to resume for another week, thus the power situation is unlikely to change. Because of the generation having stopped at Nathpa-Jakhri, and at Sanghrauli and Rihand, the outage at the Norther Grid is just 3000 mw. This has also led to a power crisis in Punjab, Delhi and Rajasthan. As against a demand of 860 Lakh Units (LUs) of power, the state is getting a supply of just 768 LUs. Thus there is a shortage of about 95 LUs, which is being met by overdrawing from the Northern Grid, often at penal rates. On an average, Haryana is overdrawing 30-40 LUs of power from the grid. The state has also resorted to buying the high cost energy - liquid fuel (about 16 LUs of power from NTPC, Faridabad, is being bought ). Officials in Power Utilities say that they had made bilateral arrangements with various power trading companies and state electricity boards for purchasing power till August. “By September, the demand usually drops, so we did not make alternate arrangements. But with a large number of tubewell connections being released to agricultural consumers and deficit rainfall, the demand is unusually high in September,” informs a senior official. He says that the state had made arrangements for purchasing power from Tripura, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala through NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam. Other than Andhra Pradesh, which is selling 100 mw of power, the state is getting now power from Tripura and only 8 LUs (of a total of 24 LUs) from Kerala. The state is getting about 120 MW of power through private companies like Reliance Energy and Tata. Officials say that from October onwards, they will get additional 100 mw of power from West Bengal. |
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No power to big units for 7 days
Hisar, September 6 Other units drawing power through industrial feeders will also remain closed from 4 pm to 9 am, while industrial units linked with urban and sub-urban feeders will remain closed from midnight to 8 am daily. To provide the residents relief from unscheduled power cuts, regulatory measures have been taken in the urban areas. In Gurgaon, power supply will be cut from 3.30 to 5 am, in Palwal from 1 to 2.30 am, in Sirsa from 12.45 to 2.15 am, in Bhiwani from 3.30 to 5 am, in Hisar from 12.30 to 2 am and in Narnaul circle from 3.30 to 5 am. Apart from this, power supply will be cut for 40 minutes between 5 am and 7 am in the urban and sub-urban areas. In case of need, power supply will be cut for 4 hours between 9 am and 5 pm. |
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Power shortage hits industries Ambala, September 6 Business establishments and manufacturers have been worst hit by the eratic of power supply. A resident of the Mahesh Nagar area said life had become miserable. He said the government must take, corrective action, in this regard. The Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Superintendent Engineer, Mr MR
Murari, said power cuts would be imposed in urban and semi-urban feeders and the power supply will be available for 16 hours in these feeders. He said power cut would be imposed from 3 to 5 am. Similarly, from 5 to 7 am there will be power cut for 45 minutes while from 12 to 5 pm there will be power cut for four hours. From 9.45 to 11.15 pm, there will be power cut of 30
minutes. Furnances will be closed till September 13 morning. He said the current power problem has cropped up due to the shut down of Nathpa Jhakri project. He said the one megawatt consuming units which have been closed down will be able to consume only 5 per cent of their 12 month average consumption. He said in all industrial feeders, power supply would be stopped from 4 pm to 9 am and only light load would be provided on these feeders. Mr Murari said it had also been decided to shut factories in urban areas and semi-urban areas from 12 pm to 8 am. He said milk plant, dairies and cold storage would be provided 50 per cent of last 12 months’ consumption. |
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5 cases of theft in a night
Sonepat, September 6 According to a report, the thieves entered the house of Mr Ranbir at Rohana village, about 15 km from here, last night and decamped with Rs 16,000, gold ornaments and other valuables worth several thousands of rupees from it. Mr Ranbir has stated that he along with other family members was in asleep on the roof of the house when the thieves entered the house. When the thieves were taking a box containing cash and valuables his wife woke up and raised the alarm. The thieves threw an iron rod on her and escaped. Mr Ranbir has lodged a complaint with the Kharkhauda police in this connection. A group of thieves are reported to have ransacked two houses at Sisana village and one each at Gaurar and Saidpur villages last night. They have decamped with cash, jewellery and other valuables from these houses. |
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Gambusia threat to fish fauna
Chandigarh, September 6 The department has stocked the gambusia in hatcheries in Gurgaon, Faridabad, Panipat, Sonepat, Karnal and Panchkula districts. Once it multiplies, the department will stock it in ponds, tanks and water bodies. This species breeds thrice in a year and at one time gives birth to 20 to 40 fish. Dr Veena Chugh, Director, Health Services (Malaria), says some of the fish stock was procured from the Chandigarh-based Environment Society of India. Native of Texas, the gambusia was introduced in village ponds in 1928 from Italy. The species has been transported to every continent to control the menace of mosquitoes. Its extreme tolerance to low as well as high temperatures and to low dissolved oxygen conditions has favoured its multiplication over a wide range of climatic conditions. Prof M.S. Johal of the Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, says studies show that the exotic carps have an edge over the Indian carps as these can tolerate a wide range of temperature, are omnivorous, voracious in feeding and have a high reproductive potential. He says wherever the gambusia has been introduced, it has gradually eliminated most native species. It feeds on eggs of small fishes. He says the Health Department must explore the possibility of minnows and small-size native perches having similar feeding habits, rather than the exotic species. According to a report prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, “International Introductions of Inland Aquatic Species”, in Egypt, Israel and Papua New Guinea the species has failed to control malaria. Even the Malaria Research Centre of the Indian Council of Medical Research in its report has pointed out that a number of native species are also effective in controlling mosquitoes. The report says: “The danio rerio and the oryzias melastigma shows a high predatory efficacy against the mosquito larvae. A single danio rerio fish can consume 52 larvae per day and the oryzias melastigma can consume 98 larvae per day.” |
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Reader grants bail to accused
Fatehabad, September 6 According to reports, an accused charged with Sections 107 and 151 of the Criminal Procedure Code was produced in the courts of the SDM, Fatehabad by the officials of the Hanspur police post. The SDM, Mr Yogesh Mehta, was out of station at that time and Tehsildar, who also exercises the powers of the Executive Magistrate, was also not present. The Reader of the SDM, instead of asking the police officials to produce the accused at the residence of the Tehsildar, himself granted bail to the accused. When the matter was brought to the notice of the Deputy Commissioner, Mr O.P. Langyan, on Monday, he immediately shifted the Reader from the seat. He has written to the Commissioner, Hisar Division, recommending action against the official. |
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Kargil to Kanyakumari safari flagged off
Ambala, September 6 The team of 11 members comprises five officers, including one lady officer, one battle casualty, one JCO and five other Ranks. Three Tata Sumos and two Tata 207 vehicles will cover the distance of 6000 km in 19 days. The theme of the vehicle safari is `Knowledge is power’, `Awareness about environment’. The team will also honour the Kargil war heroes and their families en route. Brig Gurmeet Singh, DDOS, Kharga Corps, said Ordnance Corps had achieved laurels in the past in different adventure activities, including the scaling of Mount Kamet and Sase Kangri, river rafting and motorcycle rallies. “Our women officers have also excelled in adventure activities which include participation in the Indian Army Everest expedition-2005,” he said.
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Challenged child reunited with parents
Ambala, September 6 Mr Kaushik said that about six months back, eight-year-old Balwan reached village
Ugala. Ram Pal, a resident of village Ugala, looked after the child in his home. Since the child was mentally challenged, he was unable to give any information about his parents or his home. Although Ram Pal already had three children, he decided to look after Balwan. On the advice of villagers, Ram Pal took the child to the Deputy Commissioner and informed him about the incident. The DC, Mr Kaushik, helped the child get admission in a school run by Rotary Club of Ambala and a missing report about the child was shown on a TV channel. In the meantime, an acquaintance informed Balwan’s parents in Tosham that a child matching his description is currently in Ambala. Thereafter, Balwan’s parents met Deputy Commissioner, Ambala, and the family was re-united. |
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Miscreants set bus on fire
Jind, September 6 The bus was going from Narwana to Surjakhera village.
The bus was completely burnt. However, no passenger was hurt.
The youths later fled from the spot.
The Sub-Divisional Magistrate and Deputy Superintendent of Police, Narwana, rushed to the spot to take stock of the situation. The reason for burning the bus could not be ascertained.
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New Director of HVPN Chandigarh, September 6
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Students visit milk plant
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