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Judicial complexes to be set up: Hooda
Huge cache of liquor seized from
Onion to be sold at lower rates at five stalls
Court dismisses petition relating to Kiran Bedi’s NGO
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Bangladeshi held for looting Army officers
Does JNUSU polls provide clues to future election process on varsity campuses?
Body of Delhi boy found in Loni village
Three Nigerians among four held for cyber cheating
Man held with pornographic CDs
Woman caught for data theft from BPO company
Drunken brawl snuffs out life of security guard
Father-son duo held for murder
Two sent to custody for forging bank guarantee
‘GDA officer helped Moti Goel usurp govt land’
Traffic congestion at Moti Bagh: Rs 80 lakh wasted on fuel annually
Gurgaon to get two more branches of Indian Bank
Lasik technique used to correct myopia
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Judicial complexes to be set up: Hooda
Rewari, October 22 Mr Hooda, who laid the foundation stone for lawyers’ chamber here in the presence of Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Dr Justice D K Jain, said that the complexes at the sub-divisional level will be set up as also the judicial complexes at the remaining four district headquarters of the state. Dr Jain also laid the foundation stone for litigants’ shed and bar room in the judicial complex here. Mrs Justice Nirmala Yadav, a native of Rewari district and two other judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice
S.K. Mittal and Mr Surya Kant were present on the occasion. Also, the government has decided to set up the other logistics and physical infrastructure to ensure smooth functioning of the judicial system throughout the state in 10 years. The project would cost about Rs 165 crore and would be completed with the financial assistance of the Centre. Earlier, Dr Justice Jain inaugurated a Civil Court complex at Kosli, falling in Rewari district. Mr Hooda accompanied him on the occasion. Speaking at a public function there, Dr Justice Jain said that although the executive-administrative set-up in the state was providing good support to ensure smooth functioning of the judicial system in Haryana, he hoped its dosage would be increased. He lauded the Chief Minister for his positive response in this regard. The Chief Justice said that the setting up of the judicial complex at Kosli was
in keeping with the higher court’s aim of taking justice to the doorsteps of the commoner. He advocated harmonious relationship between the Bench and the Bar and urged that both should respect each other’s views. While saying that the ideal of justice is the cornerstone of any civilised society, he hoped that it would be better if disputes were settled between the parties concerned without taking them to the court. According to him, the High Court will send conciliators in the field to effect solution to disputes out of court. The setting up of the judicial complex at Kosli was a long-standing demand of the people in the area. Although Kosli is a sub-divisional headquarters in Rewari district, it falls in Rohtak parliamentary constituency, which had been represented earlier by Mr Hooda. His son Deepender Singh now represents it.
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Huge cache of liquor seized from Sarfabad school
Noida, October 22 The candidate and his supporters are reportedly absconding. This is not all, according to police, the
candidate’s supporters had pelted the police party with stones. According to police version, a police team under Sector-39 police station SO Anil Pratap Singh, and SO Sector-49 police station Pankaj Yadav had gone to Yadu Public School, Sarfabad, for seizing the stored liquor there. Police recovered as many as 2500 liquor bottles from the school toilet. The security guard keeping a watch on the bottles was also taken into custody. The police had loaded the liquor into a police vehicle and in a Tata Sumo No UP-J-9999 parked on the school premises. At this point of time, the candidate along with his supporters barged into the school. They started throwing stones on the cops and were able to free the security guard as well. They then hijacked the liquor-loaded Tata Sumo and fled away. They also tried to smash some liquor bottles. The liquor had been smuggled from Haryana. The seizure of liquor from the school was confirmed by SP City Soumitra Yadav, who said, the liquor had been seized from a private school of a former MP. A case has been registered against the supporters and the candidate for storing liquor and for forcibly freeing the security guard from the custody by assaulting the police party. The SP City said many places were raided to arrest the candidate and his supporters, but they had fled away.
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Onion to be sold at lower rates at five stalls
New Delhi, October 22 The wholesale price of onion, depending on the quality, would be Rs 16 and Rs 20 per kilogram at the outlets in Keshav Puram, Okhla, Azadpur, Kisan Ghat and New Secretariat. The decision to sell onion at these rates were taken at a meeting of agriculture produce marketing committees (APMCs) chaired by Food and Civil Supplies Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan here. Besides these, Mother Diary outlets are selling onion at Rs 20 and Rs 21
per kg. The price of the bulbs has been hovering over Rs 25 per kg in the retail markets for the last few days. Wholesale traders in Delhi, however, expected prices to stablise before Diwali with more arrivals of the commodity from the neighbouring desert state. In 1998, onion prices had shot up to Rs 42 per kg and not even the then BJP government’s efforts to fly in the commodity could save its fall. “Onion prices in Delhi would come down to around Rs 14-15 per kg in the wholesale market before Diwali and would further stablise after the festival,” said Rajinder Sharma, General Secretary of Potato and Onion Marchants Association. Meanwhile, the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) today offered to mobilise its trucks for transporting the now precious bulb at a very short notice. In a letter to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, the AIMTC said it was willing to mobilise its trucks for transporting onion within India or from outside the country at short notice. Gurinder Pal Singh, President of AIMTC, said the offer was being made to “help Delhi Government tide over the price crisis.” “It (price hike) has hit the common man very badly. Most of the labourers living in Delhi take their chapatis with onion because they cannot afford vegetables/pulses,” he said.
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Court dismisses petition relating to Kiran Bedi’s NGO
New Delhi, October 22 Though “not satisfied with the language used by her NGO”, Additional Sessions Judge N K Gupta was convinced that “its intention was only to reconcile
the matter in all possibility without intimidating anyone”. Complainant Paras Khatri, through his counsel B S Rana, had accused Navjyoti, run by Delhi Police Foundation, of threatening him and his family by issuing summons which had unauthorisedly warned them of “any action” if they do not appear before it within a day to respond to charges of cruelty levelled against them by Khatri’s wife. Citing the Family Counselling Centre Guidelines, counsel appearing on behalf of Bedi, Anu Narula said the NGO had the right to issue summons and explore all means to bring about a speedy resolution to matrimonial disputes. Bedi herself contended before the court that the language of the summons is open for interpretation and that no threat was intended. “Our intention is only to do justice and reconcile parties. It was not a threat,” she said. Terming the notice as “illegal and arbitrary”, complainant had earlier argued that the NGO was not competent to issue such “summons” which could only be done by the police or bodies like Crime Against Women Cell. Hearing both sides, the court discharged the petition saying “as per the guidelines the NGO had
the right to carry out independent investigation and if possible request the partner to attend reconciliation
sessions”.
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Bangladeshi held for looting Army officers
New Delhi, October 22 The police said that the accused used to introduced himself as an Army officer and have different identity cards of different battalions. He regularly used the Army combat dress. The police received a tip-off that the accused would come to the Gopi Nath Bazar in South-West district. A trap was laid and the accused was arrested from there. The police said that initially the accused worked as a labourer at the Nizamuddin Railway Station. Later, he purchased an Army dress from the ‘chor bazaar’. He used to travel in trains wearing the dress.
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News Analysis Raghubansh Sinha Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 22 The September polls in Delhi University was proof enough, if one was needed, that youth politics, particularly the election process, has deteriorated to the extent that corrective measures are called for on an urgent basis. However, the truth is that the government is groping for an answer, particularly since there is little indication that the HRD Ministry, Ministry of Youth Affairs, UGC, Association of Indian Universities or other nodal agencies involved in dealing with colleges and university have ever given the problem the focus it deserves so as to check the growing depoliticisation and the simultaneous increase in violence on campuses around the country. Above all, the fact that various “political parties are intrinsically linked with the present deterioration on the university campuses”, the fear is that “an attempt to buy time” and push the “issue under the carpet” might be an easier option for the government, said Professor C. P. Bhambari, a former Dean of the School of Social Sciences and now a Distinguished Professor at JNU. If history is any indication, it would be too much to expect the “political bosses” to suggest surgical methods to cleanse political life, particularly the election process on the campus, added Professor Bhambari. In this scenario what is the way out? Is there a model that can be improved upon or modified to suit local needs on the campuses around the country? A model in practice since the early 1970s at the Jawaharlal Nehru University has successfully involved the student community both in the conduct of the election process and as active participants. The JNUSU election code of conduct, heavily against the use of money and muscle power, is followed both in letter and spirit by the contesting factions. A process has evolved over the years, which encourages students’ participation in the elections by disallowing printed posters and use of vehicles. Canvassing is conducted over cups of tea at the various dhabas that line the campus, and debating platforms are used to demolish the logic of the opponents. To many, the “Left activism” over the years has given a certain character to the election process on the campus, which is associated with tolerance for different shades of opinion—symbolised in the culture of debate and discussion—highlighting national and international issues of social concern and generally making the discourse on the campus intellectually vibrant. In effect, “the election environment on the campus continues to resemble the swinging sixties and the early seventies when student activism was the flavour on university campuses around the world,” said a professor of School of Social Sciences, who was himself an activist on the JNU campus in the late 1970s. Even as the student election commission is empowered with far reaching power to check malpractises, it works on the principle of consensus in its punitive actions because the JNUSU election committee is itself chosen by the student community and represents the collective conscience of the campus. As a result, the authority of the all-student election committee has rarely been challenged, as it has been able to successfully conduct free and fair elections over the years without the interference of the university authorities or the police force. No doubt, a trend towards depoliticisation in the campus has been evident in the last decade with the “Me and Now Generation” making its presence felt, said Ashok Singh, a Ph.D student of American Studies at the School of International Studies. Signs of aberrations in the form of electoral disturbances and violence have surfaced in recent years, but “the election process in JNU has evolved into an island of sanity in a world full of scepticism at the deteriorating standard of democratic process in and around us,” remarked Professor Chintamani Mahapatra of the School of International Studies, who lived on the campus in the early 1980s. Even as the Union Government prepares to get back to the Apex Court on November 7 with its suggestions for the conduct of student union elections in educational institutions across the country, it would be worthwhile for the authorities to take a close look at the ongoing JNU elections process for some clues to overcome a very serious national malady.
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Body of Delhi boy found in Loni village
Ghaziabad, October 22 The body had been found from an ‘arhar’ field near Rajpur village on October 19. On reading the report in newspapers, the parents of the child contacted the Loni police. On seeing the body, they identified it as that of their eight-year-old son, Suraj. His father Harish Chander of Mansorver Garden, New Delhi, said that Suraj was the only brother of three sisters. He had been sent to a nearby shop for getting a tablet for headache on October 18 after he had returned from his school, but he never returned from the market. Police who have not been able to find any clue to his abduction and murder have started the investigation. The boy had been killed by strangulation.
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Three Nigerians among four held for cyber cheating
Noida, October 22 Three Nigerian nationals and a Manipuri were involved in the crime. The racket was known as “419 lottery scam” in international circles and the police hope to unearth a bigger international scam with it. Two Chennai-based residents reported to the Noida police that they had been cheated out of Rs 75,000 which was demanded as processing fee. The victims included an IAF Air Commodore K Lakshmanan and an engineer Sudhir Raina. SSP Piyush Mordia said the Noida police were trying to find out the ramifications of the case by using a software to know from where the mail had originated and printouts of the records of the cell phone of the accused. “We might stumble upon a bigger international racket,” Mr Mordia said. The duo Lakshmanan and Raina had complained to ICICI Bank in Sector-18 Noida after having deposited Rs 50,000 and Rs 25,000 respectively. Once the deposits were made, account holder Thankhanmang (A/c No 003101536539) did not contact them, which raised the suspicion. A complaint was then filed with the police. Subsequently, Thankhanmang from ICICI Bank in Sector-18 and three Nigerians—Alex, Anthony and Marx were nabbed from Dadri.. The police have also recovered cell phones, one laptop, passbook of ICICI Bank, cheque book and E-mail addresses of hundreds of people who had been cheated out of more than Rs 14 lakh by the gang.
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Man held with pornographic CDs
New Delhi, October 22 The police said that an information was received about the accused. Subsequently, a raid was conducted and the accused was arrested from the Lajpat Rai Market where he has stored the CDs in his shop. During interrogation, the police got to know that the real owner of the shop was one Khalid who is still absconding. The accused was working there as an employee.
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Woman caught for data theft from BPO company
New Delhi, October 22 Sarita Rawat, an employee of Cybersys Infotech Ltd (CIL), was held for allegedly helping Harish Parmar, a British national, to secure the data from the company, a police official said today.
Parmar, owner of Leicester-based City Credit Management Limited, had been arrested on Wednesday on charges of stealing data and criminal breach of trust. He had an agreement to bring business exclusively to CIL, but the company alleged that he had diverted some deals to other BPO companies by using stolen information about its European customers. Police had seized Parmar’s laptop computer, allegedly used in the crime, and recovered several of his personal email IDs. The data had been sent to these IDs and may have been forwarded to others, the official said. Police were now trying to trace the entities to whom the data may have been provided. Data theft from Indian BPOs has become a matter of concern after several such cases came to light. A youth working in a Gurgaon BPO had been recently arrested for allegedly selling information about customers of an undercover British reporter. A similar case had taken place in Nagpur.
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Drunken brawl snuffs out life of security guard
Ghaziabad, October 22 Security guard Shyam Singh, originally of Pauri Garhwal, employed in a glass manufacturing factory, had gone to his room in the factory at the end of his duty. Police said some friends often used to come to his house to have drinks. During one such drinking bout that night, the friends had an argument with him. They then tied Shyam Singh with a cloth. His mouth was also tied in the process. He died as a result. The Kavi Nagar police have started investigations after registering a case.
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Father-son duo held for murder
New Delhi, October 22 Pradeep (25) was beaten up and stabbed by Vikas Yadav and his son Vicky in Trilokpuri area last evening. He succumbed to injuries in hospital. Vikas
allegedly had an argument with Pradeep’s elder brother Kale two days
back over some petty issue. Last evening, he and Vicky accousted Kale
near his house and started raining blows on him. When Pradeep came
out on hearing his brother’s cries, the accused attacked him. Kalu
managed to escape with some injuries, the sources said.
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Man held on cow slaughter charge
Meerut, October 22 The SSP said the matter was being further investigated.
— TNS
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Two sent to custody for forging bank guarantee
New Delhi, October 22 Metropolitan Magistrate Digvinay Singh granted two more days police custody for Vijay Kumar Chawla and judicial custody till October 24, for his alleged accomplice Karan Chawla. The two are accused of forging bank guarantees which had been furnished in connection with their contraceptives marketing business under a social welfare programme run by the Government of India. Vijay and Karan Chawla were arrested on October 19 in the Tughlak Road police station area of central Delhi. They have been charged under the Indian Penal Code for the offences of forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy. The Department of Family Welfare has a social marketing programme under which it supplies contraceptives to Social Marketing Organisations
(SMOs) at subsidised rates for sale in the open market. Vijay Kumar Chawla is the Executive Secretary of one such
SMO, Parivar Kalyan Kendra, located in Panchkula, which is supplied with condoms and oral pills by the Department. Vijay Chawla had allegedly sumitted two bank guarantees, on which the stamps, upon verification, were found to have been forged. Investigating officers have also recovered contraceptive goods from the Panchkula godown of the accused.
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‘GDA officer helped Moti Goel usurp govt land’
Ghaziabad, October 22 Revenue Board member T George Joseph and the UP police have confirmed this in a probe. Now the state government has informed the GDA Vice-Chairman of the details and directed him to take necessary action against Assistant Legal officer Rajinder Tyagi. The administration has pointed out that Revenue Board member T. George Joseph had already written to the GDA to take action against Tyagi who had been found involved in this fraud. Rajinder Tyagi’s name had been highlighted in the probe against Moti Goel in connection with hundreds of crores of government and public land usurped by Goel through fraudulent means and with the connivance of the government officials. Rajinder had been suspended for being absent without leave, but Moti Goel got him reinstated by pulling a few strings. SSP Ghaziabad had written a letter to the GDA Vice-Chairman in which he had alluded to Tyagi’s role. The government has now sent a letter to GDA Vice-Chairman D.P. Singh in which Tyagi has been termed as Moti Goel’s friend and supporter. In Dandaheda land scam worth Rs 74 crore, Rajinder Tyagi’s father Ved Prakash Tyagi has also been named along with Moti Goel. At the time of his arrest, Ved Prakash Tyagi had told the police that all fraudulent documents had been prepared by his son Rajinder Tyagi. But the police could not arrest Rajinder Tyagi as the GDA employees had thwarted the police efforts. The government communication had said that Rajinder Tyagi had approached the High Court to ward off his arrest, but the court had dismissed his plea and ordered the CBI to inquire into the matter. Subsequently, Rajinder Tyagi had approached the Supreme Court in the matter which also turned down his plea. The administration’s letter also mentioned that Revenue Board member T George Joseph probing the scam had also written to the GDA Vice-Chairman that Rajinder Tyagi should be suspended for his dubious role in helping Moti Goel.
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Traffic congestion at Moti Bagh:
New Delhi, October 22 “It is estimated that on an average day approximately 420 litres of petrol, 27 litres of diesel and 146 kg of CNG is burnt by the vehicles idling at Moti Bagh intersection”, Traffic Police said in an affidavit filed before a Division Bench of Justice Vijender Jain and Justice R S Sodhi. At the present day prices about Rs 22,000 is spent by road users (vehicles) in terms of wasted idling fuels, the Traffic Police said on the basis of a report prepared by Central Road Research Institute (CRRI). The figure comes to about Rs 65 lakh annually, the report said adding that the fuel spent by left turning and U-turning vehicles taken together the figure would roughly come to Rs 80 lakh. The Court had asked on September 30 ordered DCP Traffic, South Delhi, to have a study conducted about the volume of vehicular traffic at Moti Bagh inter-section to find out if underpasses needed to be built over there.
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Gurgaon to get two more branches of Indian Bank
Gurgaon, October 22 “To convert Indian Bank, which is strong only in southern region, into an all India bank, we have decided to open more branches in the northern part of the country and to start with we will open two more branches in Gurgaon,”
Chakrabarty told reporters. The bank is also considering to provide all financial services including insurance, credit cards, stock market, to its customers under one roof, he said. The bank has only 58 branches in northern region out of the total 1,395 in the country, he
said. — TNS
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Lasik technique used to correct myopia
New Delhi, October 22 For Amit and thousands of other students of his age, who have to take corrective measures for weak eyesight, help is at hand. Lasik laser technique, which is now being increasingly used by doctors, can be used to effectively correct myopia. According to Dr Vivek Pal, a noted refractive surgeon and Phacoemulsification expert, 80 to 90 per cent of students are suffering from myopia because of several factors, including bad eating habits, long hours before a television or computer.
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