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Bias prompts undertrial drama
NIT offers new Masters courses
Four colonisers booked
SHO suspended as
suspect escapes
Poppy husk seized
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Parking blues haunt drivers at city bus terminus
Varinder Singh Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, June 20
The over-zealous and over-enthusiastic commandos adopt a contradictory approach with auto-rickshaws drivers. Rules are different for them as commandos allow them to drive freely inside the ISBT and park their vehicles almost wherever they desire. Punjab Police commandos were posted at the bus terminus in the wake of two bomb blasts during the past two months. Interestingly, the cops reportedly failed to nab a chain-snatcher, who escaped in front of the gun-totting cops after committing the crime last week. Stiff-faced cops signal private vehicles, including, cars and scooters, to keep a distance from the entrance. Since the lone parking lot is situated inside the bus stand premises, refusal of entry leaves the drivers with no option but to park their vehicles on the main road, resulting in chaos. Drivers are caught in a no-win situation. They are rebuked by commandos if they try to enter the parking lot and face wrath of traffic constables if they leave their vehicles on the main road. Passengers fail to understand is the logic of beefing up security by deputing commandos at the entry and exit points. “If anyone wants to play foul and take some explosive material, he or she can do this by entering the ISBT with the help of auto-rickshaws, mini-buses and buses. So, what is the logic behind barring entry of private vehicles is beyond my comprehension,” says a passenger. When contacted, Mr Ishwar Singh, SSP, assured that problems faced by passengers on account of security would be solved at the earliest. “We will do the needful and the basic purpose and concept of police deployment is to ensure peace of mind for the people. We are in the process of streamlining the process,” he said. The woes of passengers and other visitors are not only limited to entry of private vehicles into the parking lot. Presence of knee deep potholes and accumulation of dirty water and slush further add to the problem. Though, politicians of the city and officials concerned have continued to give assurances that the poor state of sanitation at the ISBT would be improved, but, nothing has changed for past 10 years.
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Bias prompts undertrial drama
Phagwara, June 20 Some undertrials, bound in handcuffs, were being taken from the Phagwara sub-jail on foot to the local bus stand to for shifting them to a jail in Kapurthala. On the way, one of the undertrials, Ravinder Kumar, reportedly saw another undertrial about to board a Tata Sumo without any handcuffs. The scene blew his top and he started protesting. Ravinder Singh said he had only been involved in a group clash and was being paraded in bazaars in full public view with handcuffs. He alleged that the police was meting out a favourable treatment to Manvir Singh, shifting him to another jail free of any handcuffs and that too in a private vehicle. The ‘favoured’ undertrial had been arrested under the NDPS Act. Soon the other undertrials reportedly started showing resistance. Matters seemed to going out of hand and the policeman took all the undertrials back to the sub-jail. Eyewitnesses claimed that the police later also handcuffed Manvir Singh in presence of the protesting undertrials. The police officials concerned could not be contacted for comments.
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NIT offers new Masters courses
Jalandhar, June 20 Twenty students each will be annually inducted in both the M. Sc. programmes. The NIT would also have six M. Sc. courses in chemical engineering, computer science and engineering, control and instrumentation engineering, electronics and communication engineering, manufacturing technology and mechanical engineering with 18 seats each, Dr Moin Uddin, the NIT Director, said. In the sponsored category, professionals working in institutes or industry, with at least two years of experience, would be considered for admission, he added.
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Four colonisers booked
Kapurthala, June 20 According to police sources, the colonisers against whom an FIR under relevant sections of the PUDA Act was filed at Sultanpur Lodhi police station are Mohinder Kaur, Avtar Singh, Desh Raj and Harnam Singh. The accused are reportedly absconding. The police sources said the colonisers from Sultanpur Lodhi had been booked on the complaint of Mr Vikas Garg, PUDA’s Additional Chief Administrator in Jalandhar. In his letter to the Kapurthala SSP, Mr Rajiv Ahir, Mr Garg had alleged that the colonisers had flouted rules while selling several plots after cutting a colony at Sadhuwala village. The FIR was lodged by the Sultanpur Lodhi SHO. The colony was reportedly cut without taking the required permission from PUDA, as a result of which it had to bear loss of lakhs of rupees. Further, the colonisers deceived the plot owners promising them basic facilities like laying of sewerage pipes, construction of roads, street lights and parks in the colony. Nothing was done in this regard. Sources claimed that PUDA had sent several notices to the colonisers but they reportedly did not bother. Sources said a number of such illegal colonies still exist in Sultanpur Lodhi and other parts of the Kapurthala district.
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SHO suspended as
suspect escapes
Kapurthala, June 20 According to information, Ranjit Singh Rana, a suspect arrested in a theft case, escaped from the custody of the Bholath police yesterday night. The accused, hailing from Bajaj village, was taken into custody in connection with the theft of Rs 90,000 at a powerhouse in Bholath some days back. Yesterday night, the police reportedly took him to his village in search of another suspect in the case. But Rana escaped from police custody near Bhainsa village on the pretext of answering nature’s call. Taking serious note of the incident, Kapurthala SSP Rajiv Ahir suspended the SHO with immediate effect.
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Poppy husk seized
Jalandhar, June 20 |
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