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Deletion of words: govt gives INLD an issue
Youth Cong leader shot dead
INLD prepares for March 3 rally
Misra panel meets ministers, officers
Impostor gets four years in jail
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Agitation against acquiring land for education city
Aid for marriage of freedom fighters’ daughters
Mystery over deaths of woman, child deepens
1 killed in road mishap
Blood donation camp at college
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Deletion of words: govt gives INLD an issue
Rohtak, February 24 While the official website of the Panipat district continues to depict its name as Tau Devi Lal Thermal Power Station, the plaque commemorating the inauguration of the 7th unit of the station on October 16, 2004 by the President Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam also stays put and will most probably stay there government missives notwithstanding. Official sources said there was no way the plaque could be removed now or in the future as it would further mire the government in unnecessary controversy by involving the Rashtrapati Bhawan too in renaming politics. They said removing the plaque would be immediately noticed by Central intelligence agencies and the news would travel to the Rashtrapati Bhawan instantaneously. They said the government had not taken the proper administrative route to reach this decision. When the plant was renamed, the proposal came from the board of directors of the Haryana Power Generation Corporation. The board did not send any resolution on removing the late INLD leaders name this time. However, the sources admitted that before the late Deputy Prime Minister’s name was prefixed to the PTPS, the directors had been verbally told to forward a resolution to this effect by the then government. Even otherwise, the government decision has only provided the Indian National Lok Dal a political issue on which to take to the streets. The party which had been unable to come out of the state of coma to which it had been driven by the voters, is now going to hold a state level rally on the issue at Panipat itself on March 3. Senior INLD leaders say the rally decision had been taken keeping in view the “good response” to the district level protests organised by the party on this issue last week. They are now expecting that the gathering at the proposed Panipat rally would be “double” the numbers present at its rally at Sampla a few months back. They say the masses had not “appreciated” the decision. Sources in the Congress say the move in this regard was initiated by a young minister who is said to be nursing high ambitions for himself. But before the senior state party leadership realised the political implications of the move, the directive had been issued. |
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Youth Cong leader shot dead
Jhajjar, February 24 The murder is being considered as another fallout of decade-long animosity decade-old rivalry between two groups in Mandothi village. Sources told he was the 21st victim this group animosity which begun with a scuffle between two persons in panchayat poll in 1993. An eyewitness in today’s incident said the youths were waiting near the taxi stand for their victim. As he arrived, two of them shot him from behind and another one fired from front. The assailants, appeared to be in early twenties, threw their country made pistols on the spot and fled towards Nahra Nahri road on foot. He was rushed to a private hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. SP, K.K. Rao told that three persons had been rounded up after a case was filed by one of the deceased relative. Initially, the relatives of the deceased refused to give any statement to the police blaming it of not working towards cooling off the groups to stop bloodshed and let the people live a peaceful life. The villagers who arrived at the civil hospital here where a post mortem of the victim was conducted, maintained that had the police taken timely and appropriate action, the enmity could not have snowballed to such a large extent. They said that the residents were living constant fear of violence as any group could strike any time. Police sources linked the incident with double murder case on February 5 in which two youths were burnt when they were sleeping in their house. None of the eight accused, all residents of Mandothi village, had been arrested. Jai Bhagwan was reported to be sympathetic with one group, though the police denied his direct involvement in the whole bloody episode. He was named as one of the accused in triple murder case occurred in their village during polling for panchayat elections on April 3, last year, though his name was struck off from the FIR after investigation. The rivalry started with the petty scuffle between Hawa Singh and Fateh Singh, supporters of rival nominees for the post of sarpanch in 1993. A month later, the series of revenge killings ensued when one Sartaj Singh of the Fateh Singh camp was shot dead. About two years later, Wazir Singh was killed to settle the scores. Then the killings of Dayaram and Satish were executed. In 1998, Bijender and Sadaram become the victims of the rivalry, which was followed by murder of Sukhbir, who was against Hansraj, sarpanch of the village. Later, Jai Bhagawan of Tandaheri village was also killed. However, sarpanch Hansraj was also gunned down in 2000. Revenge killings picked up with his murder and his supporters shot dead two youths, Satpal and Mahesh in front of the vegetable market in Bahadurgarh in 2001. The opposite camp also bumped off Brajesh, a nephew of Hansraj. Again, one Narender become the target of rival gang. However, the Hansraj group received biggest setback when three of its supporters fell victim to rival’s bullets during the panchayat polls in April last year. The killings rattled this gang and it burnt two sleeping youths earlier this month and struck again by killing Jai Bhagwan for revenge. The village sources told that though he was not involved in the bloodbath, the rival gang targeted him as, they think he could be beneficial to the enemy due to his political links. |
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INLD prepares for March 3 rally
Chandigarh, February 24 The INLD will organise the rally to protest against the removal of Mr Devi Lal’s name from that of the Panipat Thermal Plant. The INLD spokesman, Mr Pradeep Choudhary, said here yesterday that senior party leaders had started touring the state to mobilise people for the rally. |
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Misra panel meets ministers, officers
Chandigarh, February 24 While talking to newsmen Justice Misra said the commission had been constituted by the Union Government to determine the criteria for identification and recommending measures for the welfare of socially and economically backward sections among religious and linguistic minorities. Haryana Health and Social Welfare Minister Kartar Devi, Education Minister Phool Chand Mullana, Chief Secretary Meenaxi Anand Chaudhry and the Secretaries of the departments concerned told the commission that a separate agency, the Mewat Development Board, had been working for the welfare of backward communities in the Mewat region, a Muslim-dominated area. The commission also met representatives of religious and linguistic minorities, the state Wakf Board, academicians and NGOs. Justice Misra said the consensus in the state was that social and economic criteria should be the basis of backwardness for all and no discrimination should be made on the basis of caste, religion, creed and language. He said the Sachhar Committee had been constituted for the identifying the social and economic status of the Muslims only. The member-secretary of the commission, Ms Asha Das, said the report of the commission could be submitted by April-end. Dr Mohinder Singh, a member of the commission; the Director, Higher Education, Haryana, Mr Anil Kumar, and Dr Dalip Singh, Commissioner, Social Welfare, Haryana, were also present. |
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Impostor gets four years in jail
Bhiwani, February 24 Badan Singh, as he was identified, had tried to impress upon a staff nurse, posted at the primary health centre at Pur village in this district, that he was an Enquiry Officer in the Health Department under Central Government. He further told her that since she was late on her duty, she would be treated as absent and a copy of this information would be sent to the government. According to the prosecution, Sajjan Kumar of Buwani Khera lodged a complaint with the then Deputy Superintendent of Police, Samunder Singh, and Sub Divisional Officer Yashender Singh on February 1, 2003 that his sister Darshna was working as a staff nurse with the Health Department. On January 31, 2003, when she went on her duty at about 11 am, Badan Singh and Mahender Singh met her and the former introduced him as an Enquiry Officer with the Centre. Badan Singh then allegedly tried to intimidate her stating that another staff nurse Kamlesh was also absent and she would also be treated in the same manner. “If you want to save yourself, meet him at the residence of Dr Pradeep Kalra in Buwani Khera in the afternoon,” Badan Singh said. When Darshna went there, she was told that he could convert it into casual leave for half a day but only after the payment of Rs 10,000. Darshna had informed Kamlesh also in this connection. Later, the police official constituted a team and gave five notes of Rs 500 each, coated with chemical, to Darshna. As she gave these notes to Badan Singh, the police swooped down on him and recovered the currency notes from his pocket. The police had registered a case under Sections 419, 420, 170 and 7 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 13 of PC Act. The Additional District and Session Judge, Mr Venod Kumar Jain, sentenced the accused Badan Singh to four years rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 11,000 on him. |
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Agitation against acquiring land for education city
Aswarpur (Sonepat), February 24 The farmers with marginal landholdings have threatened to step up their agitation. The farmers said they felt cheated at the hands of the government. Convener of the Bhoomi Adhigrahan Virodhi Sangharsh Samiti (anti-land acquisition struggle council) Rajpal Sevli blamed the government for overlooking the farmers' interest. The state government has proposed to acquire about 2,065 acres in Aswarpur, Bad Khalsa, Sevli, Patla, Jakholi, Khevra and Bada Mailk villages in Sonepat district. Though the state government had announced to pay a price of Rs 12.50 lakh per acre for the land acquisition, the villagers had vowed not to lose their agriculture land. Virender Dahiya said: "No one, including the Chief
Minister, is ready to listen to us. By simply offering a price unsuitable to the marginal farmers, the government cannot acquire the land for the project’’. He said a majority farmers here possessed about an acre and solely dependent upon their fertile land. A delegation of the affected villagers met Hooda at Delhi on February 14 but he did not listen to their grievances. Jaswant, vice-president of the samiti, said the government seemed to dislocate them in an inhuman manner. He said
colonisers were offering them more than Rs 1.34 crore per acre but the government was forcefully acquiring the land at a throwaway price. Due to increase in population, the farmers had built houses in the fields but now the villagers have to vacate it. The villagers cautioned that if the authorities did not listen to them they would start fast unto death and the state agencies would be responsible for it. |
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Aid for marriage of freedom fighters’ daughters
Chandigarh, February 24 Mr Hooda said this assistance would be
admissible even if more than one marriage might be solemnised in a year. The Chairman of the HSSS Samiti, Mr Puran Chand Azad, said the government had decided to ply special buses to facilitate freedom fighters in attending a state-level
conference being organised in Rohtak on February 27 by the samiti in memory of martyr Chander Shekhar Azad. |
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Mystery over deaths of woman, child deepens
Ambala, February 24 The postmortem report of the two bodies has thrown fresh light on the incident. It is now believed that the woman was first murdered and then her body was thrown into the heap of hay, which was set on fire. However, the child who was burnt alive could have been shoved into the burning heap of hay. The bodies of the woman and the child are yet to be identified. The Superintendent of Police Ambala, Mr Rajbir Deswal, said the postmortem report shows that the child may have been thrown into the burning heap of hay while the woman was murdered earlier. Mr Rajbir Deswal said police personnel had carried out a check in more than a dozen villages near Khanpur Rajputana to find out whether any woman and a child were missing. However, no missing report has been received so far. He said they were now considering seeking information from police in Himachal Pradesh. The recovery of burnt bodies of a woman and a child in village Khanpur Rajputana had shocked the villagers. |
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1 killed in road mishap
Sonepat, February 24 According to police sources, the deceased was identified as Dharminder Dahiya of Bad Khalsa village and the injured as his cousin, Somveer. The tractor driver, however, escaped. The police has registered the case against the tractor driver. |
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Blood donation camp at college
Ambala, February 24 College principal Dr Desh Bandhu said the camp was organised by the NSS. He said that blood donation camp was held every year. He said 301 units of blood were collected at the blood donation camp. The Kurukshetra University Registrar, Prof Yudhvir Singh Khyalia, presided over the programme. Prof Khyalia said blood donation was a noble cause and it helped in saving lives. Dr Desh Bandhu donated blood for the 34th time, Professor Sen 54 times, Professor Ishar Singh 53 times and Professor R.K. Puri 34 times. A team of doctors from the PGI collected the blood units. |
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