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IAS officer’s widow drawing pension
‘illegally’
Atop tank, ‘Sholay’ style,
for a truck
MLA jailed for one year
Martyrs remembered
Seminar on Hindi begins
7 held for attempted suicide
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Remand of blast accused extended
Ambala’s exports pegged at Rs 200 cr
Haryana to tie up with Punjab to promote tourism
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IAS officer’s widow drawing pension
‘illegally’
Chandigarh, March 23 The AG’s office acted after the receipt of two complaints on the drawing of family pension by Belu Maheshwari, wife of the late Sharad Kumar Maheshwari, a 1974 batch Haryana cadre officer. S.K. Maheshwari died on November 11, 2003, following which his widow started receiving family pension from December, 2003, onwards. Since the AG’s office has nothing on record regarding Belu Maheshwari’s “remarriage”, it wants the chief secretary to intimate the true position regarding the matter so that the appropriate steps can be taken. It is stated that section 22 of the All-India Services Rule debars a widow from drawing family pension in the case of her remarriage. Belu Maheshwari, it is learnt, has got married to Anil Bansal of Gurgaon. A photocopy of a card given with the complaint in possession of this reporter invites guests to “our farmhouse, 7 Orient farms, Gurgaon for an afternoon of lunch and music”. “Anil and Belu Bansal” extended the invitation. Some of the late Maheshwari’s colleagues from the bureaucracy went all the way to Gurgaon from here to attend the party thrown by the couple at the farmhouse on January 21. It was an anniversary celebration as the marriage had taken place on January 21
last year. One of Belu Maheshwari’s colleagues in the history faculty of Panjab University has also written to the AG, Haryana, regarding the “illegal” drawing of pension by her. |
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Atop tank, ‘Sholay’ style,
for a truck
Yamunanagar, March 23 Repeated requests to Baldev to come down by those gathered around the tank and officials of the police and the district administration fell on deaf ears as he simply refused to budge from his lofty abode unless his truck was brought back. “Or else I will jump to death”, he kept shouting. He was not carrying any eatables, but had a blanket. Police officials took all precautions and used the public address system to talk to him. Baldev had borrowed Rs 1 lakh from a private financer to purchase a truck (for the rest of the amount he had sold his five acres) in September 2001. Talking on his mobile phone from atop the tank, he told this correspondent that about three years ago the financer took away his truck as he failed to pay few instalments (Rs 7,000 per month). However, he claimed to have cleared the dues later, but did not get the truck back. He made numerous complaints to the police, including the DGP, against the financer, but in vain. Disillusioned with the administrative “failure” in helping him get justice, Baldev today devised his own method to attract attention of the authorities for justice. In true filmy style, he climbed the village water tank at around noon. Once atop the tank, he started shouting for justice, threatning to jump. Villagers gathered at the site and the number soon swelled. Later, police officials, headed by DSPs Kamal Deep and Heth Ram, reached the spot. They were stationed at the village when reports last came in. Baldev’s wife and two sons - Sukhwinder and Soni - were also present in the village. Police officials were making efforts to bring the financer to the village. |
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MLA jailed for one year
Rohtak, March 23 The sentence was handed down by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Manisha Batra. The prosecution plea was that the legislator was running several kitties and local resident Suman had lifted one of them. The accused allegedly first delayed the payment on frivolous pleas and later issued a cheque on December 30, 2003, which bounced. The applicant then approached the court for payment and punishment to the accused. |
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Martyrs remembered
Kaithal, March 23 Speaking on the occasion, Verma said: “We should follow the path shown by martyrs who sacrificed their lives so that the coming generations could live with freedom and dignity.” At another function held in the office of MP Naveen
Jindal, parliamentary in charge Siri Parkash Mishra paid floral tributes to the martyrs. |
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Seminar on Hindi begins
Kaithal, March 23 RKSD College principal S.K. Garg said the educational seminars were very important for every educational institution. College governing body chief Subhash Mittal said the management always extended positive cooperation in organising such seminars. Kaushal, while referring to “janvadi chetna” of Bhagat Singh said in the Hindi literature there had been a long tradition of “janvadi svar” and this tradition continued even today . |
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7 held for attempted suicide
Fatehabad, March 23 According to reports, Saudagar Singh and a few others had been illegally occupying 12,000 sq ft of municipal land at Rattia for the past 50 years. The municipal committee had filed a civil suit in a Rattia court, which passed the judgment in favour of the committee on January 29. When duty magistrate Balwan Lamba, appointed by the deputy commissioner along with municipal authorities and the police, went to remove the encroachment Saudagar Singh showed him a stay order issued by the court. The authorities, however, returned after removing the encroachments from 5,000 sq ft area only. Today, when the period of the stay order expired, executive magistrate Balwan Lamba, SHO of Rattia police station Kulwant Singh and municipal secretary Hans Raj, along with their teams, went to remove the encroachments from over 7,000 sq ft. Saudagar Singh and his family had warned that they would commit suicide if the administration tried to forcibly evicts them. When authorities tried to remove the encroachments, Saudagar Singh, his brother Parkash Singh their wives Maya and Chhoti Devi, respectively, and three children bolted the door of the house from inside and set themselves a fire after sprinkling kerosene on their bodies. However, the police acted swiftly and prevented them from committing suicide. All seven members of the family were taken into custody. SDM Yogesh Mehta, when contacted, confirmed that they have been booked under Section 309 of the IPC. The authorities, later, felled the house and handed over the possession of the plot to the municipal authorities.
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Remand of blast accused extended
Karnal, March 23 |
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Ambala’s exports pegged at Rs 200 cr
Ambala, March 23 Exports worth Rs 200 crore are estimated from the district this year. A sum of Rs 115.6 lakh had been disbursed as incentives and concessions among 103 industrial units during 2005-2007, he said. During 2005-2007 112 small-scale industrial units had been set up in the district. Instruments worth Rs 3.48 crore had been manufactured in those units, which had generated employment for 647
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Haryana to tie up with Punjab to promote tourism Panchkula, March 23 Choudhry, who was talking to newsmen here today after her return from Berlin and Spain, said already a beginning in this direction had been made when the Indian Railways marketed the proposed "Palace on Wheels" train from Delhi to Punjab via Panipat, Kurukshetra and Pinjore in Haryana at the international tourism fair, ITB Berlin-2007. She said during her talks with officials of the World Tourism Organisation (WTO), she realised the need for formulating the marketing strategies in collaboration with the private sector to boost tourism in the state. Secretary-general of the WTO Franscisco Frangialli assured them that the projects of Haryana on farm and agri tourism, development of tourist resorts in public-private partnership and formulation and implementation of the appropriate marketing strategies would be considered favourably. He assured all support to Haryana Tourism in the field of branding and marketing. Choudhry, who was accompanied to Berlin by secretary of Haryana Tourism Keshni Anand Arora and managing director of the Haryana Tourism Corporation Satwanti Ahlawat, said ITB Berlin-2007 was attended by 184 countries. It gave a unique exposure to the delegates from Haryana. Special interest was shown by travel tour operators in events like the Surajkund Crafts Mela and heritage tourism at Pinjore and Kurukshetra. |
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