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Commuters inconvenienced as strike enters second day
Hisar, May 5
Thousands of passengers bore the brunt of the strike by Haryana Roadways employees here today, with none of the 196 buses of the local depot plying for the second consecutive day.

‘CBI raids on Chautalas: Cong settling political scores’
Panipat, May 5
Senior INLD leader and former Haryana Speaker, Satbir Singh Kadiyan has blamed the Congress government for implicating former Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala and his family.

Cong leader jailed for cheating
Kurukshetra, May 5
The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Rajender Goyal, last evening sentenced the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) vice-president, Mr R.D. Goyal, to one year in imprisonment and fined Rs 5,000. In addition, he ordered the accused to pay Rs 6 lakh to the complainant.

Hisar sizzles at 46.8 °C
Chandigarh, May 5
Hisar experienced the hottest day of the season with the mercury soaring to 46.8 °C as heat wave swept across the plains in Punjab and Haryana today.

18 hurt in group clash
Sonepat, May 5
As many as 18 persons of Thana Khurd village under Kharkhoda police station were injured, 10 of them seriously, when they were allegedly attacked by another group late last evening.

Two booked for burning youth to death
Rewari, May 5
In pursuance of the dying declaration of Pradeep (25), an employee of Bhawani Hotel of Dharuhera, the police has booked two suspects, Ravi Jain, proprietor of Ravinder Automobiles, Dharuhera, and Prakash, a crane facility supplier of Dharuhera, on the charge of burning Pradeep to death at Dharuhera recently.


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Police inaction alleged in Imam’s murder case
Yamunanagar, May 5
The row over the alleged murder of Imam Mahmood Hassan in the mosque of Kalawar village here refuses to die down.

Cong worker stabbed to death
Yamunanagar, May 5
In a fit of rage, a member of the Zila Parishad allegedly stabbed a Congress worker, Jasbir, to death and injured another person near Bilaspur Anaj Mandi here this evening. The accused was beaten up by a mob and handed over to the police.

Thieves decamp with computer parts
Ambala, May 5
Thieves decamped with expensive parts of computers from Darshan Academy School, Ambala Cantt, last night. The incident took place after security guard on duty was drugged. Parts from eight computers were missing.

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Commuters inconvenienced as strike enters second day
Tribune Reporters

Hisar, May 5
Thousands of passengers bore the brunt of the strike by Haryana Roadways employees here today, with none of the 196 buses of the local depot plying for the second consecutive day.

A Volvo bus left for Chandigarh amidst tight security.

A large number of local residents and commuters were inconvenienced and many of them were forced to travel in private commercial vehicles, operators of which had yet another field day.

Efforts were on to defuse the situation, but no breakthrough was achieved.

CITU national secretary and Rajya Sabha member Tapan Sen visited the employees who were injured in the lathi charge yesterday.

He said the issue would be raised in Parliament.

He demanded that the plying of Volvo buses be stopped and the agreement in this regard be examined.

He said 23,000 roadways employees were on strike.

Members of various unions continued their protest at the local bus stand and the atmosphere was tense.

Depot General Manager Bhal Singh Bishnoi said efforts were on to convince employees to resume service.

The police booked 22 employees who were protesting against the plying of Volvo buses yesterday.

Three of them were undergoing treatment at the local Civil Hospital and 19 others were sent to judicial custody for 14 days.

Bhiwani MP Kuldeep Bishnoi demanded action against those responsible for the lathi charge.

Jhajjar: With the strike by Haryana Roadways employees entering the second day, hundreds of commuters had a harrowing time reaching their destinations on Friday.

All bus services remained suspended for the second day.

Members of the Haryana Roadways Workers Union, led by its district president Virender Dhankar, observed a complete strike and raised anti-government slogans.

Chandigarh: The strike by employees of Haryana Roadways has only partially affected the services of the Transport Department in the state, claimed an official release issued here on Friday. Six depots, Chandigarh, Ambala, Sonepat, Jind, Rewari and Narnaul, had normal operations, the release said and added that the Panipat, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jhajjar, Yamunanagar and Gurgaon depots were affected by the strike.

The state exchequer had suffered a loss of Rs 1.5 crore since the beginning of the strike, the release said and added that even the West Bengal government had started Volvo buses under the franchise scheme. The release asked why the same unions, which were protesting against running of the Volvo buses in Haryana, were silent about West Bengal.

He said over 50,000 passengers had already travelled by the Volvo service on the Chandigarh-Delhi route. The effort is to extend the services to the interior of the state and cover the districts such as Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar, Rohtak and Jhajjar.

While the unions had no objection to the running of the service on the GT Road, why they were objecting to the extension of this service to the interiors of Haryana, the release said.

REWARI: The “chakka jam” agitation by employees of Haryana Roadways continued for the second day here today.

The protesting employees staged demonstration and dharna and raised slogans against the Transport Minister as well as the state government.

Meanwhile, justifying the agitation, the employees’ unions of the Excise and Taxation Department, the Rewari unit of the DHBVN and the Public Health Department here extended their support to them today.

Mr Vinod Yadav, president of the Haryana Roadways Workers Union said the strike would continue until the arrested employees were released, cases against them withdrawn unconditionally and the plying of Volvo buses was stopped permanently.

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‘CBI raids on Chautalas: Cong settling political scores’
Tribune News Service

Panipat, May 5
Senior INLD leader and former Haryana Speaker, Satbir Singh Kadiyan has blamed the Congress government for implicating former Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala and his family. He demanded a case against the top Congress leaders who compiled a “fabricated” charge sheet against top leaders of the INLD.

This noon, Mr Kadiyan rubbished media reports that the CBI raided residence of an INLD supporter at Panipat on Thursday. He charged the Congress party leadership with settling political scores with Chautalas.

Mr Kadiyan termed CBI raids as a deep-rooted conspiracy to malign Chautalas. He said the Hooda government at the behest of the Centre was implicating the former CM and his family in fabricated cases.

Criticising the role of the CBI, he said the agency was playing into the hands of the Congress. On the CBI’s claim about the seizure of records of the property worth over Rs 1400 crore, he said the figures were exaggerated.

Questioning the valuation of the property, he said prices had multiplied over the years when the Chautala and his family purchased the property. He said the party would launch a statewide agitation after a meeting to be held at Sirsa.

The ex-Speaker said Mr Chautala would be back from the USA within two months after recovery from operation.

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Cong leader jailed for cheating
Our Correspondent

Kurukshetra, May 5
The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Rajender Goyal, last evening sentenced the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) vice-president, Mr R.D. Goyal, to one year in imprisonment and fined Rs 5,000. In addition, he ordered the accused to pay Rs 6 lakh to the complainant.

While giving time to the accused for filing his appeal in upper court, the magistrate freed him on bail.

According to the case history, a grain market commission agent, Mr Ajay Kumar, in a complaint filed in the CJM’s court, had informed that he had been dealing in money transactions with Mr R.D. Goyal for quite some time. Mr R.D. Goyal owned him Rs 7, 18, 540. Mr R.D. Goyal gave him a cheque for Rs 50,000 on June 29, 1995, and another cheque for Rs 4 lakh the next day. Again, he gave a cheque for Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 1 lakh in cash to him on July 10, 1995.

However, when Mr Ajay Kumar deposited the cheque for Rs 4 lakh in the Union Bank of India, it bounced. He informed Mr R.D. Goyal on July 13, 2005, about the dishonouring of cheque but the latter did not respond. Similarly, he dispatched a legal notice to Mr R.D. Goyal on July 27, 2005, but again did not get any reply. Ultimately, he filed a case on August 24, 2006, in court.

After hearing the case, the Magistrate sentenced Mr R.D. Goyal for one year in imprisonment and fined Rs 5,000.

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Hisar sizzles at 46.8 °C

Chandigarh, May 5
Hisar experienced the hottest day of the season with the mercury soaring to 46.8 °C as heat wave swept across the plains in Punjab and Haryana today.

The maximum temperature stayed two to six degrees above normal in the region, making people reel under hot weather conditions.

The current heat wave has already claimed the life of one person in the region.

People, reeling under blistering heat wave at Hisar, faced power cuts and shortage of water, adding to their problems. The mercury also kept its upward movement at Ambala, recording 41.4 °C, while the temperature settled at 39.8 °C, two degrees above normal, at Karnal.

In Punjab, Amritsar was the hottest place with the mercury touching 43.2 °C, six degrees above normal, while Ludhiana showed 42.6 °C and Patiala 42.8 °C, four degrees above normal.

Parts of Himachal Pradesh also reported rise in temperature. — UNI

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18 hurt in group clash
Our Correspondent

Sonepat, May 5
As many as 18 persons of Thana Khurd village under Kharkhoda police station were injured, 10 of them seriously, when they were allegedly attacked by another group late last evening. The seriously injured have been referred to PGIMS, Rohtak, and the police has registered a case.

The incident was the result of an ongoing dispute over the possession of a disputed piece of common agricultural land.

The incident reportedly took place when about two dozen persons were returning to the village after meeting the SP, Mr Yogender Nehra, last evening.

On receiving information, the DSP along with a police party reached the village.

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Two booked for burning youth to death
Our Correspondent

Rewari, May 5
In pursuance of the dying declaration of Pradeep (25), an employee of Bhawani Hotel of Dharuhera, the police has booked two suspects, Ravi Jain, proprietor of Ravinder Automobiles, Dharuhera, and Prakash, a crane facility supplier of Dharuhera, on the charge of burning Pradeep to death at Dharuhera recently.

A case under Section 302 of the IPC has been registered against the two suspects.

Pradeep, who had entered the labourers’ hutments near the hotel on March 27 night, was spotted by some labourers. They raised the alarm, following which a crowd gathered there. Pradeep was caught and petrol was sprinkled on his genitals and was then set on fire.

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Police inaction alleged in Imam’s murder case

Yamunanagar, May 5
The row over the alleged murder of Imam Mahmood Hassan in the mosque of Kalawar village here refuses to die down.

Various Hindu organisations and the BJP today alleged that the police was not taking action in the complaint against some members of the minority community who had attacked members of their community two days before the alleged murder took place.

Some persons, including some of the murder accused, had allegedly been attacked by members of the minority community on Saturday. The police had booked seven persons for killing Imam Hassan on Monday night and arrested six of the accused. Today, a meeting of the members of the two communities and efforts were on to resolve the controversy. — TNS

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Cong worker stabbed to death
Tribune News Service

Yamunanagar, May 5
In a fit of rage, a member of the Zila Parishad allegedly stabbed a Congress worker, Jasbir, to death and injured another person near Bilaspur Anaj Mandi here this evening. The accused was beaten up by a mob and handed over to the police.

As per police sources, the accused, Karan Singh, who is Zila Parishad member from Bilaspur block, here, has been arrested and the police was in the process of registering an FIR when the reports last came in. The condition of the injured, Mahinder, who is admitted to the Civil Hospital here, was said to be stable.

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Thieves decamp with computer parts
Tribune News Service

Ambala, May 5
Thieves decamped with expensive parts of computers from Darshan Academy School, Ambala Cantt, last night. The incident took place after security guard on duty was drugged. Parts from eight computers were missing.

The security guard said yesterday evening, a youth came on a motor cycle and enquired about the guard on night duty. The youth asked for a glass of water. Since the water was not cold, the youth said he was going to get a cold drink from a nearby shop. The youth bought cold drink and a snacks packet.

Thereafter, the youth poured cold drink into two glasses and offered him the packet of snacks. After drinking the cold drink, the youth left. A little later, the security guard began to feel giddy and he fell unconscious. The guard regained consciousness at the Civil Hospital, Ambala Cantt.

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Meenaxi Choudhry

Chandigarh, May 5
The Haryana Government today appointed Ms Meenaxi Anand Choudhry Information Commissioner in the State Information Commission.

The terms and conditions of service of the Information Commissioner will be notified in due course, an official press release issued here said.

Ms Choudhry had retired as the state's Chief Secretary on April 30. — TNS

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