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Jat-Dalit Clash Chandigarh in Punjab: Badal to approach PM
Crime File
Rs 3.75 cr for Batala road
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Govt wants fixed time for paddy sowing
Four booked for dowry torture
Deny voting right to migrants in Pb: Dal Khalsa
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Jat-Dalit Clash
Talhan (Jalandhar), November 1 The clash took place when a police team raided the house of one of the five Jats, Ginni, wanted in an attack on a Dalit on October 21. The police team, consisting two head constables, had taken some Dalits with them to show them the houses of the accused to arrest them. When the police team tried to arrest an accused, Ginni, he told the police that he had already got bail but the police team allegedly asked him to come to the police station and show the order of the court to their seniors, but the accused refused to do so. In the meantime, some more Dalits reached there and both Jats and Dalits started pelting each other with stones. The Jats detained one of the Following the clash, a large number of police personnel, including SP (city II) Sarabjit Singh, DSP (II) Rajjit Singh and Sadar SHO Tarsem Singh reached the spot and rescued the detainee from the clutches of the Jats. Talking to The Tribune, Tarsem Singh claimed that the situation was tense but under control. He said while no person was arrested in this regard, the police was going to register cross cases against both groups. While an FIR under sections 342, 148 and 149 of the IPC was being registered against some Jats, another FIR under sections 452 and 323 would be filed against some Dalits, he added. To a query, he said five drunken Jat youths had allegedly attacked and injured a Dalit youth after some dispute on Dasehra on October 21. An FIR was registered against the five accused, including Ginni, Sabi and Gopi, under sections 308, 323, 148, 149 of the IPC in this regard. |
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Chandigarh in Punjab: Badal to approach PM
Jalandhar, November 1 The CM stated this while talking to mediapersons on the sidelines of the Punjab Day celebrations at Lyallpur Khalsa College here. He showed his reluctance to take up the matter legally. “The case will come up for hearing before the same bench and I am not for it,” he cited the reason. Badal seemed non-committal on most of the issues like enhancement of DA to 6 per cent, introduction of the Punjab State Electricity Board reforms and forming a media policy. The CM seemed to be reverting on most of the stands he had shown before coming in to power. Answering most of the questions, he said he was discussing the issues
with lawyers. Asked about his commitment in bringing about a media policy in his poll manifesto, he replied, “Anything mentioned in the poll manifesto is to be implemented in five years and not in just six months. Still your demand will be on our
priority list.” During the function, charged-up college students did not let the leaders continue with their speeches for long as they kept hooting. As Badal stepped up on the stage, he told the students, “Don’t worry. I have decided that I am not going to bore you with any long speech. I am here for two minutes to wish you on
the day.” He announced a grant of Rs 10 lakh for the college and Rs 10 lakh for the Punjab Jagriti Manch, which jointly organised the event with the college. He requested the organisers to first let the Pakistani artistes present a qawwali and came back
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Crime File
Phagwara, November 1 DSP H.P.S. Khakh told mediapersons here tonight that the hotel manager, an NRI and three young boys of the town were also arrested. The DSP said the hotel management had been warned several times not to indulge in immoral activities, but the hotel management did not pay heed to the advice. Chain snatched Hoshiarpur: Two unidentified motorcycle-borne youths snatched a gold chain weighing two-and-a-half Tola from Leela Jaswal, resident of SDM Chowk, here on Thursday this afternoon. Leela Jaswal was returning to her house on a rickshaw when the incident took place. |
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Rs 3.75 cr for Batala road
Batala, November 1 Repair work on around 16 km of the road would be done within a short span of time, he added. Besides, Rs 20 lakh would also be paid to the Indian Railways to allow the crossing of sewer pipes under the level crossing on the Batala-Gurdaspur road. He passed the instructions to the PWD and the municipal authorities to check misuse of roads and road berms which caused inundation of rain and sewer water leading to dilapidation of roads. — OC |
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Govt wants fixed time for paddy sowing
Hoshiarpur, November 1 This was disclosed by minister for agriculture, Punjab, Sucha Singh Langah while talking to media persons at Hariana town, 15 Km. from here this evening. Sucha Singh Langah justified the aforesaid decision and said the above said decision had been taken keeping in view the interests of the farmers of
the state. If the state government did not prepare such a programme, then the lands of the state farmers would become infertile due to lack of water in the coming years. The minister said the state government has been providing a subsidy of 100 per cent to those persons who were interested in constructing water-tanks for the storage of rain water. Besides, the state government was also providing a help of Rs 10 lakh to store water in ponds. Replying to a question, Sucha Singh Langah said the state government had stored one lakh tonne more fertilizers for the wheat crop as compared with the previous Congress government. “The state government has made arrangements of 3.52 lakh tonne seed of wheat crop as compared with 80000 tonne seed last year,” he added. It was the policy of the state government to change the quality of seed of the wheat crop in the coming years so that more quantity and quality of wheat could be produced, he said. Later, the minister presided over the third day session of the four-day Panjab University Zonal Youth and Heritage Festival being held at GGDSD College, Hariana today. He announced a grant of Rs one lakh for the development of the college. |
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Four booked for dowry torture
Hoshiarpur, November 1 According to police sources, Sarabjit Kaur, daughter of Narinder Pal Singh of Sotla said she was married to Kulwinder Singh of Bhadarpur, Tanda about six years ago. After the marriage Kulwinder Singh went abroad. She alleged that her mother-in-law Surjit Kaur tortured her for dowry. Her husband also telephonically instructed her to bring a car and cash from her parents. A case has been registered against Kulwinder Singh and Surjit Kaur under sections 406 and 420 of the IPC. In another case, Talwara police registered a case under sections 323, 506, 34 and 498 A of the IPC on Wednesday night against Rajnish Kumar and his father Harbans Lal, both of sector 3, Talwara. Mamta Sharma alleged that her husband Rajnish Kumar and father-in-law Harbans Lal used to maltreat her for dowry. They were allegedly demanding a car from her parents. On the night of October 27, 2007, they mercilessly beat her and threw her out of the house. —
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Deny voting right to migrants in Pb: Dal Khalsa
Nawanshahr, November 1 Speaking on the second day of the Punjab jagao march, party leader Harcharnjit Singh Dhami said, “Dal Khalsa perceives that an Assam-like foreigners’ issue is going to emerge in Punjab soon. All the political parties, pursuing narrow political ends are oblivious to the social, cultural, religious and political damage done to Punjab by their unmindful support to the migrant population.” Terming the economic need for migrant labour as hogwash, he said it was not an economic issue, but a political one. Posing a direct question to the established political parties, the leaders asked, “What is the need to facilitate the making of ration cards and voters’ identity cards of the migratory population? Why can’t landlords and industrialists employ the unemployed Punjabis?” Criticising the election commission, Dal Khalsa president Satnam Singh said, “There are more than 10 lakh voters in Punjab who are voting from more than one place.”
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