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Mystery continues to shroud woman’s death
Legalities over, but still no money to depositors
Complex surgery saves girl’s life
LBP slams Kuwait reports
Three killed in two accidents
Damage control in mill spillover
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Valuables worth Rs 2 lakh burgled
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Mystery continues to shroud woman’s death
Kapurthala, January 28 The police is actually in a fix. The officials are waiting for a complainant who would ask them to investigate the case, while the actual complainant is now dead. According to the police records, the victim, a resident of Sheikhupur village, had first lodged an FIR in August that she had married one Achhar Pal, a resident of the same village, on June 22, 2005 in the absence of their parents and relatives at a gurdwara in Mukerian. But after spending a night with her, her husband ditched her, Pooja had added. She said she was residing with her father and brother. The complaint on threats to her life was lodged on September 23, 2005. After initial investigations, the police closed the case on the basis of a statement made by the victim’s brother, Neeraj, after the cremation of his sister in Bada Pind village near Goraya. He said that Pooja was suffering from stomach ache and fever and she died at a nursing home. The doctor on duty that time countered the claim saying that the patient was brought dead. The body too was cremated the same day without any post mortem. The family of Pooja then left Sheikhupur. The changing stand of the police regarding the mental health of Pooja’s father, Ram Pal Gautam, is also questionable. Though the police officials did not hesitate to accept the affidavit of Ram Pal Gautam in favour of Achhar Pal while holding an inquiry into the first complaint by Pooja, it strangely did not bother to record the father’s statement after his daughter’s death on the pretext that his son had declared him mentally unfit. |
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Legalities over, but still no money to depositors
Jalandhar, January 28 But despite assurances by the government that their claims would be settled, the victims of the Rs 82-crore financial bungling case are yet to smell the money. The depositors range from retired army officers, civil officers to small shopkeepers. “The last resort for us was the court. But where is our money?” Captain M.S. Bajwa (retd), one of the depositors, asked. He has also been
perusing the case on behalf 500 other depositors from the city. He said that the office of the liquidator had taken no action and the investors were being kept in the dark regarding further legal proceedings against the defaulter and the repayment. “The company’s Garha Road branch here and one in Kapurthala had 500 depositors each.” Incan Mutual Benefit Limited, owned by Manjit Singh Aujala, with its head office in Aliganj, Lucknow, had collected Rs 72 crore from the depositors by December 1, 1998 and the amount on maturity worked out to be Rs 82 crore. The money was then siphoned-off to create eight new companies. (Technically distributed as loans to sister concerns). The fraud was exposed and the company became a defaulter. In 1999, it urged the depositors to cooperate and approached the Company Law Board’s Northern Region Bench. The Board, in its suo-motto verdict on August 31, 1999, ordered Incan Mutual Benefit to repay the depositors’ share. But instead of complying with the orders, the company closed down its office. Then the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on January 15, 2003, ordered that the company along with all its sister concerns be liquidated and appointed an official liquidator to sell all their moveable and immovable assets. |
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Complex surgery saves girl’s life
Jalandhar, January 28 The girl hailing from Kapurthala had been suffering from a narrow food pipe and had undergone a surgery before. However, her condition became critical after the last surgery when her food pipe ruptured, said the doctors. The girl was then admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital, where a team of doctors comprising specialist, Dr Rajesh Kumar, surgical gastroenterologist, Dr Kanwal Jit Singh, and anaesthesiologist, Dr Raman Chawala, took care of her. After ten days, when the girl’s condition stablised, the doctors endoscopically began giving her high-protein diet through the intestine. After discussing the complex surgery with the family of the girl, the doctors performed the marathon surgery and created a new food pipe and a stomach from a 50 cm section of the patient’s large intestine. The doctors passed the new pipe via a tunnel through the patient’s chest behind her breastbone in front of her heart and passed it between her two lungs to reach her neck, which was then joined to her mouth. This was done so that the patient could eat normally throughout her life, the
doctors added. The ruptured food pipe, which had become densely adhesive due to the rupture, was not removed as it could have endangered the patient’s life, Dr Kanwal Jit Singh said. The rare and complex reconstructive gastro-surgery made the doctors create five intestinal joints to achieve their aim. |
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LBP slams Kuwait reports
Jalandhar, January 28 In a statement issued here today, the LBP alleged that the tour of some members of the media was organised by the agents and companies running their operations from Kuwait. The LBP spokesperson said that the mediapersons were only made to meet those youths who were established in that country. They did not meet the victims who had allegedly been duped by travel agents and were working like “bonded labourers.” The party asked the government to take remedial measures to save the youths stranded in the foreign countries. |
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Three killed in two accidents
Phagwara, January 28 The driver of the bus, Mohan Singh, and a passenger, Darshan Kumar, sustained minor injuries.
Both the vehicles were badly damaged in the collision. Sadar Police Station SHO Bhupinder Singh today said a case had been registered against the bus driver. In the second incident, a hit and run case, a 27-year-old woman was crushed to death when a truck ran her over on the GT Road near Industrial Area here. A case has been registered in this connection. |
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Damage control in mill spillover
Phagwara, January 28 Mr Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal, the SDM, held two rounds of meetings with all the parties concerned, including officials from the Sewerage Department, Nagar Council and the textile mill. Sources said a sophisticated compressor machine was requisitioned to clear the choked sewerage. Electric hammers were also pressed into service. Two pumps were used for draining the contaminated water. |
Valuables worth Rs 2 lakh burgled
Phagwara, January 28 Two monitors, 13 motherboards,15 DVD Roms,15 CD Roms, 1 Pentium 4, 40 floppy drives, speakers and others items were burgled from VN Computers, Mr Vipin Kumar, owner of the shop, said. Burglars broke open the shutter of the shop and decamped with the valuables. The city
police station SHO Nirmal Singh said a case had been registered in this connection.—OC |
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