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Land Dispute
Hooda lauds DAV institutions
Gujjar leader shot at
NGOs working with street children to get funding
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Professional Courses
Canal Row
Brig R.K. Singh Gulia, president of the Haryana Ex-Services League, honours a war widow at a function in Kaithal on Sunday.
— Photo by writer
Seminar highlights legal rights of mentally challenged
Infertility rate among couples in North ‘alarming’
Two cops suspended on blackmail charge
BJP leader has a dig at INLD, Cong
Property of drug smuggler seized
Youth’s body recovered
2 get life term for murder
Three killed in accidents
Two die as motorcycle rams into tree
South African held with smack
Smart helmets for traffic cops
Mega health mela from Nov 14
Clean Ambala by December 14: HC
Three held with arms
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Villagers, SGPC members clash
12 hurt; vehicle set ablaze Tribune News Service
Jind, November 4 The district administration has taken control over the disputed land by imposing Section 145 of the CrPC and has deployed a large number of policemen at the place. No arrests had been made till the filing of this report. Two groups clashed near the gurdwara, built in memory of Guru Teg Bahadur, after SGPC members held a meeting on the gurdwara premises. It is reported that the locals gathered outside the spot and protested against occupation of the land by the SGPC. It is stated that the gurdwara had been built on the land owned by the gram panchayat and the panchayat members had been seeking the vacation of the land by the SGPC. The panchayat had been trying to get the occupation of the land after a legal decision recently. According to local authorities, the land, measuring about 7 kanals and 4 marlas, had been under dispute since 1962 as the members of the local village panchayat had been in favour of getting the land vacated. A meeting by the SGPC members enraged the villagers, claimed a local resident. He said one jeep of the SGPC was set ablaze during the violence. Deputy commissioner Yudhvir Singh claimed that three or four persons received minor injuries. He said the situation was under control and the authorities had started a dialogue with both sides to reach to an amicable solution on the issue. Earlier, it was reported that over a hundred persons had been allegedly involved in the clash and all types of crude arms, including swords, lathis and stones, were used. Though the police has denied using any force, it is reported that a mild lathi-charge was used to disperse the mob. A police force has been posted near the gurdwara to check any untoward incident.
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Hooda lauds DAV institutions
Panipat, November 4 Lauding the role of Swami Dayanand in encouraging education for girls, the Chief Minister said Swami Dayanand had dedicated his life in eradicating social evils like untouchability and exploitation of women. He motivated the youth to opt for Vedic education. Hooda said the Arya Samaj had played a key role during the freedom struggle and afterwards. He quoted then Congress president Sita Rammaiya who had said that during the freedom struggle 80 per cent contribution was of the Arya Samaj. He reminded the gathering that Lala Lajpat Rai’s and Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s family was associated with the Arya Samaj. Hooda said by adopting the cherished principles of Swami Dayanand, the state government had set up a women’s university at Khanpur to impart qualitative education to women. With a view to impart quality education, the government had decided to set up Rajiv Gandhi Education City at Kundli for which 2,000 acres had already been acquired, he said, adding that as much as 25 per cent seats would be reserved for the students belonging to the state. Hooda said the education budget had been increased significantly. The Chief Minister announced a sum of Rs 10 lakh for the construction of the stadium from his discretionary fund. Justice R.N. Mittal (retd) said DAV institutions were 125 years old and it had 700 institutions and 80 colleges throughout the country. |
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Gujjar leader shot at
Yamunanagar, November 4 There had been incidents of clash and altercation between the two communities in the past. This time “dalits have attacked” a Gujjar and there was tension in the village. Adequate police force has been deployed to avoid any untoward incident. Samrat, Jagtar and Rinku, three of the nine accused booked for the alleged attack were earlier acquitted of sedation charges by a court on technical grounds. Two persons, Sanjay and Mukesh, associated with the Jagruk Chatra Morcha (JCM), were declared proclaimed offenders by the court in the case. The police had alleged that they were associated with the Maoist movement. It also claimed to having recovered inflammatory literature, videos and sophisticated firearms including a .9 mm pistol with “made in USA” and “for army supply” engraved on it. The cause behind the enmity between Nitu and the group consisting of Rinku, Samrat and Jagtar was said to be an alleged burning of a Dalit youth, Birampal, in an orchard of the village on the night of May 22. The postmortem report revealed that he was first strangulated and then his body was set on fire. Nitu was one of the accused in the case. Rinku, Samrat and Jagtar were members of the Shivalik Jan Sangarsh Manch and were working among Dalits (before they were arrested in April). Yesterday, a group of persons tried to ambush Nitu near a sugarcane fields near Ismalipur village. Three to four rounds were fired on Nitu, who was riding a motor cycle. A bullet hit him in abdomen but Nitu somehow managed to reach village. The police was yet to ascertain the type of weapon used in the attack. Ever since Jagtra, Samrat and Rinku were released from the jail, villagers were apprehending attack on Nitu. They claimed that Rinku and others were seen in the village on Friday and they reported the same to the police but the police did not take any action. The police has booked nine persons, Rinku, Barkha, Praveen, Sanjay, Praveen, Sanju, Chandan, Samrat and Jagtar, under Sections 148, 149 and 307 of the IPC and Sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act. |
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NGOs working with street children to get funding
Chandigarh, November 4 She said these rules aimed at providing grant-in-aid to voluntary organisations so as to enable them render integrated community based non-institutional basic services for the care, protection and development of street children facing destitution, neglect, abuse and exploitation. Programme interventions would be focused on reduction of exploitation and abuse and withdrawal of children engaged in hazardous work. According to the newly drafted rules, children who were destitute and had no family ties whatsoever would be given priority for rehabilitation. For very young children, priority interventions would be to reinstate them in their families and facilitate their participation in the formal primary education. For older children, efforts would be directed at enhancing their productivity skills for adult life. Kartar Devi said voluntary organisations registered under the Society Registration Act, 1860, and which had proven capability of work in the area of child welfare for a period of three years would be eligible for assistance. The other requirements to be eligible included capacity for reaching out to at least 100 street children and it should be recognised, aided or approved by at least one state government or Union Territory administration. |
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Quota sought for ex-servicemen
Tribune News Service
Hisar, November 4 Addressing a news conference here today, a spokesman for the society said at present ex-servicemen and their dependants got reservation to the extent of 1 per cent only if there were no takers for the 3 per cent seats reserved for the disabled. He said the state government should publicly announce the vacant posts reserved for ex-servicemen. He said this information should be displayed on an annual basis at offices of zila sainik boards throughout the state so that eligible candidates could apply for them. Describing unemployment among ex-servicemen as rampant, he said the government should outsource security cover for its various boards and corporations to ex-servicemen instead of private enterprises which exploited former defence services personnel. He described the concept of rank-based pension for widows of soldiers dying in service as unjust and said pension should be equal for widows of all ranks. The spokesperson said the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) had imposed ceilings on the size of plots defence personnel could apply for on the basis of rank. He said this was absurd and every eligible person should be given a choice of seeking a plot of size of his or her liking. The society also demanded equal CSD facilities for all ranks. At present only officers could purchase cars from the CSD.
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Punjab’s charge against water panel ‘motivated’
Yoginder Gupta Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 4 This is the overwhelming impression among senior officers of Haryana’s irrigation department. The CWC has been asked by the Supreme Court to examine the technical aspects of the objections of Punjab and Rajasthan on the Hansi canal, a prestigious project for the Hooda government and give its report before November 12 when the case will again come for hearing in the apex court. One day before the CWC heard the three parties on October 12, Haryana gave two undertakings to the commission in order to take care of the concerns expressed by Punjab and Rajasthan. Financial commissioner and secretary, irrigation, Haryana, R.N. Prashar wrote to the commission that “if anytime in future the CWC asks for construction of a structure on the canal in view of threat of floods in Punjab, we will promptly construct that structure.” Prashar also undertook that the control of the regulator gate, through which Haryana would draw its share in the Bhakra Main Line (BML) at 340 RD would be given to the Bhakra-Beas Management Board (BBMB), which had the sole responsibility to oversee the Bhakra system, so that the share of the other two states was not reduced. Moreover, the design of the Hansi canal was such that no water in it could be drawn if the flow in the BML was reduced below 4,000 cusecs. Making light of the claim of Punjab and Rajasthan that if water was taken from the BML at this point, it would lead to a reduction in the share of water of these states, Prashar said Haryana was already taking 1.62 maf at 390 RD and below. Taking 0.8 maf at 340 RD could not reduce the share of the other states. Moreover, from here, Haryana’s share in the BML water was 85 per cent, while that of Punjab and Rajasthan was 5 per cent and 10 per cent, respectively. While Haryana submitted its case supported by all documents, Punjab and Rajasthan did not bring any documents to the meeting of the CWC, which told them to submit the papers, if any, by October 19 and the reply, if any, was to be filed by October 26. Prashar said it was a figment of imagination to say that someone at the CWC was “leaking” Punjab papers to Haryana. He said Punjab had raised certain issues, to which Haryana was asked to respond. There was no need to forward the response of Haryana to Punjab. He said there was no comparison between the Hansi canal and the Dashmesh canal in Punjab. Haryana was to take water for the Hansi canal from its share in the Bhakra water. On the contrary, Punjab wanted water for the Dashmesh canal through the SYL canal. The SYL canal was being constructed to take Haryana’s share in the river waters to that state. Moreover, the cost of the SYL canal was borne by Haryana. “How can Punjab use the SYL canal for taking water for its own use,” he asked. Earlier, dismissing a bunch of petitions against the Hansi canal, a Punjab and Haryana High Court Bench headed by Chief Justice Vijender Jain observed that “before parting, we, however, feel that it is important to unmask the petitioners who have donned the cloak of public interest to raise such issues which have only laid bare the fangs which do not belong to the innocent face of a farmer but to some one else and the petitioners, especially CWP No. 19676 of 2005, are a result of an ingenious mind with a purpose other than a public purpose.” Haryana officers feel that “the ingenious mind is at work again to delay the Hansi canal.”
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Ex-servicemen’s role lauded
Kaithal, November 4 Gulia said after facing difficult tasks during their service period, thousands of Army personnel had taken up the challenging task of serving the society in various ways. He appreciated the services rendered by members of the HESL by associating themselves with the UHBVN in ending kundi connections mainly in rural areas and motivating the people to get the regular power connections. Besides, their involvement in timely meter reading, bill distributions and cash collections has not only improved the financial health of the power board but has also provided succour to thousands of people, who got these services on their doorsteps. He said earlier people who had to do rounds of offices to get these services facing great inconvenience. He also lauded the role of the HESL in completing the BPL survey in a very systematic way. Capt
G.D. Tewari, district nodal officer HESL, Kaithal, said the ex-servicemen working in the field were performing their jobs diligently and honestly. Earlier, Gulia addressed heads of various village panchayats and called upon them to help in curbing power theft and motivate the people in getting regular connections. He said about 5,200 members of the HESL were working with the DHBVN and 4,400 with the UHBVN. N.K. Jain, SE, UHBVN, Kurukshetra circle, said the ex-servicemen had been functioning in a very disciplined way and had achieved their objects within the given time limits. |
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Seminar highlights legal rights of mentally challenged
Fatehabad, November 4 District and Sessions Judge Lachhman Sharma was the chief guest on the occasion. Chief Judicial Magistrate L.C. Kamboj, who is also the secretary of the DLSA, presided over the function and briefed the audience about the legal aspects relating to the protection of the rights of special children. He made an appeal to help mentally challenged persons and said if any case where protection to such persons was needed came to light, the DLSA should be informed. The seminar highlighted the National Trust for Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Act, 1999, stating that it enabled and empowered persons with disability to live as independently as possible and close to the community to which they belong. Besides the Act, there were several other legislations, which aimed at protecting the rights of persons with mental retardation and mental disability. Ironically, most of those for whom these legislations had been enacted were unaware of these rights. In some cases, even associations working for the welfare of these persons did not have an idea about the legal rights of persons with mental disabilities. Bijender Kumar, principal of Disha, threw light on organisations working for the welfare of special children in Haryana. Among those present on the occasion were C.L. Mehtani, president of the Arya Samaj, Fatehabad, C.P. Ahuja, state president of the Bharat Vikas Parishad, Hira Lal Gupta, president of the Sewa Bharti, Fatehabad.
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Infertility rate among couples in North ‘alarming’
Rewari, November 4 The workshop was inaugurated by Dr Gautam N. Allahabadia, director, Rotunda Centre, Mumbai. Dr Allahabadia and embryologist Dr Anjali addressed it. Expressing concern at the fast increasing infertility among couples, Dr Allahabadia said infertility rate, which stood at only 10 per cent among couples about a decade ago, had gone up to 20 per cent. The situation in North India was all the more alarming. If interference with the natural system and other factors causing infertility and impotency remained uncurbed, the family planning measures like tubectomy and vasectomy for population control would become inessential after 2020, Dr Allahabadia said. Although medical researches had not arrived at any clinching inference regarding the causes of the increasing rate of infertility among couples, it was being primarily attributed to excessive smoking, water-cum-air pollution and excessive use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides in agriculture, he added. Dr Anjali highlighted the progress made on intra-uterine insemination. Dr Ghanshyam Mittal, director of Lalita Memorial Hospital, thanked participating gynaecologists for making the workshop a success.
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Two cops suspended on blackmail charge
Yamunanagar, November 4 DSP (headquarter) Ram Chander suspended ASI Dilbagh and constable Anil Kumar, posted at Farakpur police post. The two allegedly connived with Mangu and Rahul of Azad Nagar, who used to copy X-rated movies. The two cops allegedly used to send Mangu and Rahul to photo studios to get compact discs of blue films copied. While raiding the studios during that time, the cops used to earn between Rs 300 and Rs 500, which the owners used to pay to save themselves. But this time as per their plan when Mangu and Rahul reached Swami Studio located in the Camp area here and asked Amit, owner of the studio, to copy the CDs, he refused. When the two tried to pressurise Amit to copy the CDs, he locked them inside the studio and informed the police. Meanwhile, the two cops, who were standing near the studio, fled from the scene. Mangu and Rahul told the police about their activities and the two cops, after which other studio owners, who were victim of the four, lodged their complaints. |
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52 cases settled at lok adalat
Fatehabad, November 4 Additional District and Sessions Judges J.S. Dahiya and N.P. Dewatt, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-cum-Civil Judge Anita Dahiya, Judicial Magistrate Sudeep Goyal and presiding officer of the permanent and continuous lok adalat Hari Ram resolved litigations by bringing the parties with conflicting claims to negotiation tables. Lok adalats were also organised at sub-divisional courts at Tohana and Ratia in the district yesterday. Judicial Magistrate Bhupinder Nath resolved four civil cases and 11 matters of petty crimes during the Tohana lok adalat. At the Ratia lok adalat Judicial Magistrate Ajay Aggarwal settled 61 cases.
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BJP leader has a dig at INLD, Cong
Bhiwani, November 4 Talking to mediapersons here today, Gautam also accused Bhajan Lal of deceiving the people of the state by calling himself a “Brahmin” in Karnal and a “Mev” in Faridabad. The BJP leader said despite calling himself a well-wisher of the Backward Classes and non-Jats, Bhajan Lal preferred Bishnois in government services and gave one or two tickets to leaders of the Backward Classes leaders during election. Gautam alleged that the Congress had failed in every field. It could not come up to the expectations of the people of the state, he said, adding that senior leaders of the party were not satisfied with the policy of the supreme leaders. The BJP would organise district-level sammelans from November 18 to “expose” the INLD and the Congress, he added. Gautam said two sammelans would be held everyday. A rally would be organised on December 23 while a sammelan would be held in Bhiwani on November 29.
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Property of drug smuggler seized
Kurukshetra, November 4 Confirming this here today, district police chief Amitabh Dhillon said illegal property worth Rs 2.5 crore of a drug smuggler, Kulwinder Singh, and his two sons, Baljinder Singh and Harwinder Singh, all residents of Talhedi village, in the district had been seized. Dhillon said the concerned revenue and vehicle registration departments, bank and director, NDPS, New Delhi, had also been informed in this regard. The drug smugglers and suppliers had left no stone unturned in making the innocent youth of the district drug addict, he alleged. The district police chief has also appealed the people to inform the police regarding the swelling property of drug smugglers and suppliers so that such property could be seized. |
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Youth’s body recovered
Jhajjar, November 4 Illicit relations between the deceased and a woman is suspected as the cause of the incident. According to information, the deceased, Surender, son of Kapoor Singh, had been missing for some days. His uncle Bijender Singh suspected that the family of Sunil, a resident of the same village, might be behind his disappearance. However, when stench started emerging from their house, he informed the police. When the police dug Sunil’s courtyard, the body was found buried in a gunny bag. The body has been sent to the PGIMS at Rohtak for postmortem examination. A case has been registered but all accused are absconding. According to information, Surender’s friend Sunil was arrested two years ago in connection with a dacoity case. After that, Surender visited Sunil’s house frequently. Sunil’s family suspected that he was having illicit relations with Sunil’s wife. Enraged over this, they allegedly killed and buried his body in the courtyard.
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2 get life term for murder
Sonepat, November 4 The Judge also imposed a fine of Rs 7,000 on each of them and in case of default, they will have to further spend 10 months in jail. According to the case details, Ratan Lal was kidnapped and shot dead by some auto-rickshaw-borne miscreants on the Murthal road in the town on July 4, 2002, while he was returning from a shop in Sabji Mandi. His body was recovered by the police on July 5 from the fields. Later, the police arrested the alleged accused and two others - Ravi of Murthal and Sonu of Adarsh Nagar. However, during the hearing of the case, Ravi and Sonu were acquitted by the court. |
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Three killed in accidents
Jind, November 4 Two labourers were run over by an unidentified vehicle near Baroda village last night. The deceased have been identified as Ramphal and Suresh of Baroda village. In another incident, a woman was killed and two others were hurt on the Jind-Kaithal road when they reportedly fell down on the road while getting down from the moving vehicle, in which they had taken a lift, near a speed breaker. While Poonam died, Birmati and Sudesh got injured. The victims, all residents of Kithana village, were on their way to fields to reap paddy crop. A case has been registered in this regard.
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Two die as motorcycle rams into tree
Yamunanagar, November 4 The police said Birender of Khurd village, Manish of Hadoli village, Amardeep of Bahadurpur village and Golu of Kamboj Khurd village were returning home on the bike when the accident took place. Birinder and Manish, both in their early twenties, died while the other two sustained serious injuries. Golu was riding the bike and lost balance near the bridge, resulting in the mishap. |
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South African held with smack
Panipat, November 4 SP Mohinder Singh said today that the foreigner was nabbed from a bus at the local bus stand. He had strapped packets containing the drug to his thigh.
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Smart helmets for traffic cops
Kurukshetra, November 4 District police chief Amitabh Dhillon said the newly-designed helmet would look attractive and smart in comparison to the old heavyweight helmets. It would be 150 gm lighter than the old one and would have holes in it for the convenience of the wearer. The helmet has been designed by a private sports goods manufacturing company at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. For the first time, the traffic police would wear helmets willingly and not under compulsion, he added. |
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Mega health mela from Nov 14
Faridabad, November 4 According to the local chief of the department, Dr Pankaj Vats, the event will be a multispeciality, superspeciality mega mela. Dr Vats said the event
would be the first of its kind in India. Cancer, eye-related problems, diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases, etc, would be treated free of cost. Also, there would be provision for surgeries. The Dussehra ground, the MC auditorium and the Badshahkhan Hospital premises would be converted into one complex for holding the mela. |
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Clean Ambala by December 14: HC
Ambala, November 4 The court also directed the DC to file a detailed affidavit in the matter. The court had, earlier, rejected the photographs of the cleaning work shown by the Ambala administration, after petitioner's counsel N.P.S Kohli presented recent photographs in which dirt and filth was seen at various places in Ambala. The petition was filed by Dr Viresh Shandilya, national president of Anti-terrorist Front of India.
The court adjoined the matter till December 14. — TNS
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Three held with arms
Bhiwani, November 4 It recovered a pistol, lathi and iron rods from their possession and registered a case against them. The police said some cases were likely to be solved during their interrogation. A team comprising CIA inspector Ram Avtar and sub-inspector Rajbir Singh raided a place near Jai Shree village in the district after they noticed a Tata Sumo parked outside that place with headlights switched off. The police arrested Rajneesh of Sahuwas, Ravinder of Rawaldhi village and Sanjay of Mundhal village. |
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Panipat, November 4
