EDUCATION

Students fail to get results
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, May 30
Scores of students, who came from far flung areas to confirm their Class XII results conducted by the Haryana School Education Board, had to return disappointed, when they found the office of the District Education Officer (DEO) in Sector 7, locked, here today.

The results were declared by the board today.

Government offices were closed due to a holiday in the state on account of the birth anniversary of Indian emperor Maharana Pratap. Even though the students of government schools were left in a lurch, the management of certain private schools in the city, managed to arrange their results.

A large number of students assembled outside the DEO office this morning faced disappointment.

COURTS

Non-bailable warrants in corruption case
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 30
The CBI Special Judge today issued non-bailable warrants against two co- accused in a case of corruption involving two employees of the Department of Telecom. The co-accused had failed to appear during the trial of the case which was registered by the CBI.

In 2003, two employees of the department, Jaspal Kaur and Surinder Singh, were booked by the CBI in a case of tampering with the telephone bills of an STD booth, which was being run by Pritbha Jaiswal and Raj Kumar Jaiswal. Both accused failed to appear in the court today.

Flesh trade: 8 remanded

Panchkula, May 30
The Judicial Magistrate (First Class), Ms Shashi Bala Chauhan, has remanded eight persons, including three members of a Sector 20-based family, to police custody for three days.

The family, Ramesh Watts, his wife Sanjana and his daughter, were arrested along with three girls, a Chandigarh-based property dealer and a resident of Abohar from a flat on the fifth floor of Jalvayu Vihar, a housing society, in Sector 20 on charges of flesh trade.

According to the police, the Watts had hired the flat from its owner through the secretary of the society.

The functioning of the society management has also come under scanner following unearthing of the flesh trade racket. TNS

65 cases settled at Lok Adalat
Tribune News Service