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PCCTU to observe ‘Protest Week’
Principals’ Association
writes to PU VC
Unidentified body found, murder suspected
Three killed in separate incidents
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What’s making these femmes fatal?
Kapurthala, January 15 As such, the Kapurthala SSP, Mr Rajeev Ahir, said he had ordered reinvestigations into all those unsolved murder cases and the reports of missing persons where the wives of the victims did not “seriously” pursue the cases after lodging their complaints. The SSP said the motive behind the murders pointed to a depletion in social values in the region. “In many cases, the police found that the murder plans were hatched by women wanting to preserve their extra-marital relations.” Days before the arrest of a granthi in Phagwara on charges of killing a youth whose father, he suspected, was having an affair with his wife, the police here cracked the mystery behind the disappearance of a man and his son from Tanda Ram Sahai village in Mukerian and one Rawail Singh from Tandi village in Kapurthala. In the first case, Daljit Singh, the paramour of Paramjeet Kaur, allegedly killed her husband, Gurtaj Singh, and even his father, Mohinder Singh, to make the extra-marital relation hindrance-free, the police said. The officials added that Daljit Singh, the accused in the first case, also extended a helping hand to one Kuldeep Kaur by allegedly killing her husband, Rawail Singh. The woman here was a distant relative of Paramjeet Kaur and she too wanted to get rid of her husband to maintain her alleged illicit relations in the village, the police added. Sometime before this, Dimple, a resident of Jalandhar, was held with two persons on charges of murdering one Gurmit Singh, a resident of Rasoolpur village in Nakodar. The police said all the accused and even the victim were found to be involved in illicit relations. Another interesting aspect of these cases, sources in the police said, was that the victims as well as the male accused were found to be drug addicts. Another aspect, they added, was that the husbands of the accused women habitually remained absent from their homes for long durations. A government official here, Mr Nath Singh Buttar, said that the number of men who had settled abroad from the region was vast. “The long spell of separation between a man and his wife here results in the extra-marital relations. It also becomes a root cause of acrimony between the couple when the man returns home.” The drug menace prevalent in the Doaba region could also be one of the major reasons behind this “femme fatale” phenomenon, Mr Ahir said. “All the three persons whom Daljit Singh allegedly shot, were found to have taken heavy doses of drugs and liquor.” A member of the Drug De-addiction Society here, Mr Naveen, said there was a strong possibility that majority of the drug addicts might have remained unsuccessful in satisfying their wives and led their women turn towards other men. But Mr J.J.S. Arora, President of the Bar Council in Kapurthala, said the search for more comforts was pulling some women into the world of crime. |
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PCCTU to observe ‘Protest Week’
Phagwara, January 15 The PCCTU teachers would observe a ‘Protest Week’ from January 19 to 24. During the agitation, they would resort to “two periods peak-time strike,” and hold dharnas and rallies in the campus, Prof R.S. Brar and Dr Jagwant Singh, president and general secretary of the association, respectively, today told this correspondent. This would be followed by a statewide mass casual leave and “Cease Work Protest Action’ on January 31, the PCCTU leaders said, adding that they would also organise a state-level demonstration and rally at Matka Chowk at Chandigarh the same day. They alleged that even though a budgetary provision of Rs 8.68 crore was made for giving 50 per cent DA from April 2004, yet the DA had not so far been merged. Despite announcement by the Chief Minister on October 10 last year, Pension cum Gratuity issue was still hanging fire. The other poll promises mentioned in the party manifesto had not so far been fulfilled, they alleged. The high-powered committee, constituted by the CM to address problems of the non-government colleges, had only dilly dallied its proceedings by postponing its meetings five times, they alleged.
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Principals’ Association
writes to PU VC
Jalandhar, January 15 Stating this in a press note, Dr Janmit Singh, the association’s general secretary, said the funds for the construction of the hostel were collected from all students of the affiliated colleges. He said he had visited the hostel and found that all bathrooms on all the floors of the hostel were in a bad shape due to water leakage. He said the roofs and the walls were badly affected due to the leakage. The general secretary alleged that the material used for the pipes seemed to be of a substandard quality. He said the association was demanding immediate repair or reconstruction of the damaged part of the hostel so that more damage did not occur. The association has also demanded an inquiry into the matter. |
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Over 2 lakh children given polio drops
Jalandhar/ Phagwara, January 15 According to Dr S.P. Sharma, Civil Surgeon, Jalandhar, 70 per cent of the total 29,5402 children in need of polio drops in the district, were vaccinated. A total of 1,355 booths were set up in the district to administer the drops to the children, Dr Sharma said, adding that over 5,000 health workers and volunteers took part in the programme. Meanwhile, in the Phagwara district, 22,296 children under five years of age were administered polio drops in the Block, according to Dr Yash Mitra, SMO, Civil Hospital here. The local MLA and Chairman, Punjab Agro and Foods Corporation, Joginder Singh Mann, inaugurated the programme. Under the drive, 44 booths were set up in the city and 102 booths in villages. Besides medical teams, NGOs and students of the Guru Nanak Nursing College, Athouli village, took part in the programme. Three mobile teams took care of the floating population of eligible children at the local bus stand and railway station. Children of slums areas, brick kilns, migrants population were also targeted, Dr Mitra said. Tomorrow and the day after, teams of doctors would go door to door to cover the left out cases in the two districts. |
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Unidentified body found, murder suspected
Phagwara, January 15 The police said the body of the youth, aged around 28, bore wound marks inflicted by a sharp-edged weapon , while his belly and chest had marks of burn. It said the killers might had made an abortive attempt to char the body by putting petrol on it in order to destroy evidence. The deceased was wearing a black shirt and blue jeans, the police said. A migrant, collecting dry wood in the area, is said to have spotted the body first. A case of murder has been registered.
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Three killed in separate incidents
Phagwara, January 15 Another person, Kuljit Singh, was killed in a road accident near Maiopatti village. In the third case, twentyfour-year-old Dinesh Parshad was crushed to death by a goods train when he was walking on the tracks near Gobindpura, the police said. The victim, a daily labourer, was a resident of Gobindpura Mohalla. |
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