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Jalandhar, May 14 The Commission has also called a report from the District Magistrate, Amritsar, in this regard. The union had alleged in its complaint that when the family refused to work as bonded labourers, they were brutally beaten up after being locked up in their house. After examining the allegations made in the complaint, the Commission decided that a prima facie case was made out of the complaint and a case be proceeded under Section 12 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993. Under Section 17 of the Act, the Commission has called for a complaint under Section 17 (i) of the Act. It has also called for a report from the District Magistrate to be submitted before July 19, when the case will come up again for further consideration. The copy of the order has been sent to the Principal Secretary, Home, and the District Magistrate for information and immediate compliance. In its complaint to the Commission, the Pendu Mazdoor Union had highlighted several other cases of forced bonded labour leading to exploitation of Dalit families. In one such case, it is alleged that a resident of Bath village, Ravail Singh (60), who worked as a bonded labourer, was paid below the minimum wages prescribed by the government. In the first week of April this year, when he went to attend a wedding in the family, his employer beat him up inside his house in front of his relatives for not coming to work. When Ravail Singh refused to return to work, his employer demolished his house and even took the debris of the building with him. Ravail left his home yet the police kept raiding his family, including his wife and three minor sons, to present him before his employer, the complaint mentioned. The second case highlighted by the Union is that of one Dalip Singh, who worked in Mohan Bhandarian village as a bonded labourer. The complaint alleges that when he refused to work as a bonded labourer, his employer registered a false complaint against him with the police and after preparing false papers, took possession of his house rendering the family homeless. Similarly in Kala Afghana village of Gurdaspur district, the son of one Shaheeda Masih, Bittu Masih, was forced into bonded labour for a loan allegedly taken by the his grandfather after the death of Shaeeda Masih, the complaint mentioned. Bittu Masih worked as a bonded labourer for years to repay the Rs 10,000 he had taken as advance from his employer for the marriage of his brother. After he failed to repay the loan, his employer allegedly manipulated his arrest. He was let off after he gave a written agreement to pay his employer Rs 32,000. The employer forcibly locked out his house, rendering
the family homeless, the complaint further mentioned. In the next complaint, one
Gurnam Masih of Katle village in Ajnala, had to work as a bonded labourer in Pandori
village to pay back a loan of Rs 10,000 his father had to take to cure him from a
snakebite when he was a
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Police on modernisation spree Phagwara, May 14 For instance, the police force has added over 400 vehicles to its fleet which includes 55 Gypsies, 104 Bolero Campers, 54 Tata Sumo Victa, 19 Bolero DI, 10 Mahindra Invaders and 125 Enfield Motorcycles. Also in the list is a Vajra for riot control and one Jammer for VVIP car. With this, the old police vehicles till 1992 have been replaced. Sources in the police headquarters revealed that the Punjab government had not only released its share of funds for the modernisation of the police force but also diverted the funds it received for the purpose from the Centre. And since the funds could not be sent for the specified purpose and utilisation certificate could not be furnished, the Centre had scaled down the modernisation plan. And last fiscal, the Centre only released Rs 20.81 crore, which was 75 per cent of the modernisation plan of Rs 64 crore. However, the state government not only contributed Rs 10.40 crore but also an gave an additional amount of Rs 30 crore, which was the backlog of the previous years. Thus, the police department now has over Rs 61.37 crore at its disposal. However, the Centre released only Rs 5 crore in cash and decided to spend the remaining Rs 16 crore directly, given the state’s track record of diversion of funds. A major chunk of the direct spending is on housing, purchase of Gypsies, computerisation of police stations and buying equipments for updating forensic investigations. IG (Provisioning) Sanjiv Gupta said it would smoothen the functioning of the department in all aspects in the days to come, as all vehicles of SHOs, additional SPs and field officers had been replaced and there would be sufficient money for maintenance. “This will improve the efficiency of the force in all departments,” the IG added. Now sufficient funds are available for scientific investigations and community policing also. Besides, the state government is committed to release a backlog of Rs 23 crore in the next fiscal. Almost double the funds in the vicinity of Rs 90 crore this financial year are sure to make a difference in the working of the police.
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Man
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(Kapurthala), May 14 According to the police, Surjan Singh killed his wife by hitting her head with a brick. Earlier, the police rounded up the accused on the complaint of the victim’s father. According to the Kapurthala SSP, Mr Rajiv Ahir, the accused and his wife met with an accident on the night of May 11 near their village while returning home. Both got injured in the accident. The SSP claimed that Surjan Singh who was suspecting that his wife had illicit relations availed this opportunity to kill her. After the murder, the accused informed the police that they were hit by a vehicle resulting in the death of his wife. The police sent the body for postmortem. In the meantime, the father of deceased, suspecting foul play, met the SSP urging him to investigate the death of his daughter. He alleged that Manjit Kaur was murdered by her husband, as their relations were strained. The relatives of deceased told the police that the victim was married to Surjan Singh five years back and had two children. It was Surjan Singh’s second marriage, as he reportedly had no issue from his first marriage. The SSP said the police was already apprehensive of the claims of Surjan Singh because of the nature of injury on his wife’s head. He was rounded up. After interrogations, he confessed that he had killed his wife because he suspected that she was involved in illicit relations. The police has registered a case under Section 302 of the IPC.
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Phagwara, May 14 According to the police, the truck was on its way to Jalandhar from Ludhiana. When it reached the octroi post near the Chakhakim village, the driver, in a bid to overtake a tempo, hit the vehicle from behind, injuring over 12 passengers travelling in both the vehicles. Five of the seriously injured were taken to the local Civil Hospital while others were discharged after the first aid. The police have impounded the truck. — TNS
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Jalandhar, May 14 Dr Gupta would be visiting the Centre for Cellular and Mol-ecular Biology , Hyderabad for a period of two months. He was recently awarded a research project on “Role of TGF beta in End Stage Renal Disease” by the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. — TNS
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