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State to improve public-police ratio
Bloody end to Nilokheri
kabaddi match
Postmortem hints at rape, murder of 2 sisters
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High Court
BPL or not, SCs to get plots
BPL List
Gangster, accomplices booked
HC notice to state in fake encounter case
Gita Jayanti samaroh concludes
HCS (judicial) exam results declared
Wanted man gives up
Jeweller shot dead
Lathicharge
Two killed in mishap
Dispute claims life
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State to improve public-police ratio
New Delhi, December 20 Seeking a special financial package at the conference of chief ministers on internal security here today, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that the state government had already submitted a proposal to seek Rs 117 crore to strengthen policing in the NCR districts. He said the enhanced special financial package was required in view of the Commonwealth Games being hosted in Delhi in 2010 for which the infrastructure in the National Capital Region of Haryana would be used extensively. Stressing the need for special financial package, Hooda said that in view of the rapid urbanization and growth of economic activities in the NCR of Haryana, particularly Gurgaon, police arrangements comparable to Delhi were required. He said Gurgaon had emerged as a focal point of IT and software industry and was a soft target. The Chief MInister said the state government was considering the proposal to set up a Special Task Force (STF) to deal with threats of terrorism and Naxalism and serious crimes. Hooda said in view of the recent intelligence inputs suggesting a very high degree of threat to the Dera Sacha Sauda chief, the state government in consultation with the IB authorities has placed him in the Z plus security category since any attempt on his life can lead to widespread law and order problems. He said the proposal of establishing concurrent jurisdiction of a central agency for investigating terrorism cases would have some inherent problems and conflicts. However, he said in cases of inter-state and international linkages, the state government would transfer them to the central agency. He also urged the Central Government to sanction a police university for Haryana. He said that the State Government had planned to improve the police population ratio from 1:433 to 1:300.The state government had also decided to increase the ratio of women in the police force to 10 per cent of the total strength and it was in the process of recruiting 1100 females of various ranks in the police. The Chief Minister said that one of the major achievements of the Congress Government was that the police was not being used for any extraneous purposes and political vendetta. Hooda said that with a view to improve the quality of investigation, law and order had been separated from the investigation. A State Crime Branch has been set up with its units at Divisional and District levels to investigate the sensitive and complicated criminal cases. The State Government had also strengthened the Special Branches. Reorganisation of the State CID was in the offing with a view to improve intelligence gathering mechanism in the State. |
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Bloody end to Nilokheri
kabaddi match
Nilokheri, December 20 According to information, spectators of the Jhamba team invaded the playing pitch and started arguing with the referee, Surinder Kumar. While the referee was busy tackling the crowd, Sher Singh, a resident of Jhamba village, took out a knife and lunged at the referee. Jasbir, while trying to save Surinder, came in between the attacker and Surinder resulting in the knife piercing his heart. He was immediately rushed to the local government hospital where he was declared brought dead. According to eyewitnesses, the police immediately apprehended Sher Singh and his two accomplices, Ishma and Naresh, and took them away in a police vehicle. But, the police let off the trio at the bus stand. This action of the police angered residents of Shamgarh, who blocked the National Highway 1. The protesters deflated tyres of a Haryana Roadways bus and damaged the camera of a police photographer. Later, the blockade was lifted. They also blocked the path of the ambulance, which was taking the body of the deceased to the Civil Hospital in Karnal, demanding the arrest of the accused. Rajesh and Ranjit, eyewitnesses to the incident, said the three accused always created trouble at sports meets and village fairs. |
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Postmortem hints at rape, murder of 2 sisters
Faridabad, December 20 The bodies of the two sisters of Prithla village were found on a railway track on Tuesday. They had gone missing a day before the incident. The three boys and the girl student, who was a friend of the two sisters, have been booked under sections 364, 302, 326 and 201 of the IPC. The police today produced the four in a court and sought their remand for 12 days for interrogation. There were tense moments outside the Ballabgarh police station this morning as a large number of residents from Prithla and nearby areas and relatives of the victims refused to take the bodies. They were angry that the police had failed to trace the head of one of the bodies. The protest continued for about an hour. The chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission and Congress MLA from Palwal, Karan Dalal, reached the spot along with senior police officers to defuse the tension. Prithla falls in the Prithla assembly constituency. However, following an assurance from Dalal, the residents took away the bodies. The report of the postmortem conducted at Rohtak suggests that the victims were raped and murdered. The younger sister was beheaded. The three youths booked are Satpal, Satbir and Chander Pal. The girl student is believed to have egged on the two sisters to take a lift from the three youths, saying that they were from Prithla. Although the police is tightlipped, sources say it has found girl student who has been booked was using three mobile phones.
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Khaanak Mine Dispute
Bhiwani, December 20 The police registered cases under relevant sections against 25 persons and arrested six persons on the charge of clash. According to information, the two groups clashed and later, labourers of Ved Pal group violated the nakas put for royalty and transported stones without royalty. A heavy police force has been deployed in the area. Sources said members of the Devender group had an altercation with Krishan Malik and labourers, who had gone to look after their tractors and working labour at a mine of Pradeep at plot no 9, which is located on the Dadam Road today. During the altercation, the victim informed his brother, Rakesh Malik, and the situation became tenser. As the news spread in markets of Khanak and Tosham, a large number of labourers gathered at naka no. 9 under the leadership of Rakesh Malik and took out a procession. After reaching at the temporary office, Zewra Stone, of Baba Mungipa Mines, the groups pelted stones at each other. The police reached the spot and dispersed the groups but Rakesh Malik and his labourers proceeded towards Kisan Stone situated at naka no 7. They demonstrated there and snatched slip books from employees, who were delivering slips at naka no 4 and 5. Sources said the police in charge talked to Malik and assured the demonstrators of action against the accused.
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High Court
Chandigarh, December 20 This has been stated in a status report filed before a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the anti-encroachment and highway widening case by project director, Sonepat project implementation division, Sanjay Tripathi. The assertion is significant as the traffic situation on the highways, passing through these areas, is expected to improve once the flyovers and an underpass comes into being. Taking up the matter, the Bench comprising Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Mahesh Grover asked project director, National Highway Authority of India (Chandigarh unit), Lt Col K.P. Sharma, to inspect the progress of work at Smalkha, Murthal and Ganaur. He was also asked to pursue, with the army authorities, matter regarding the handing over of land at Zirakpur adjoining Yadvindra Bridge. The case will now come up for further hearing on December 21. Punjab and Haryana High Court has admitted for final disposal a petition filed by Yamunanagar-based Sarswati Sugar Mills. A Division Bench of the High Court comprising Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice Sham Sunder had fixed January 29 as the date for final hearing. In its petition, the mill had sough directions to the state of Haryana for quashing order dated November 20 fixing state advised prices (SAP) for sugarcane for 2007-2008. The petitioner had prayed that directions should be issued to the state for refraining it from discriminating between the cooperative sugar factories under their control and those in the private sector for granting finances and subsidy. It was asserted that state governments like Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh had come out with relief and subsidy package for sugar factories. However, Haryana has given relief to only cooperative sector factories. The petitioner claimed that currently there were no rules or methodology for fixing SAP and the executive was free to exercise power in an unbridled and arbitrary manner.
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BPL or not, SCs to get plots
Chandigarh, December 20 While Hooda’s letter to the commission, sent a couple of days ago, seeks extension of benefits to all deserving cases in the state, Dharambir clarified that plots would be given to all persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes who fulfilled the prescribed norms irrespective of whether their names appeared in the list of families living below the poverty line or not. Clarifying its position on the 100 sq yd plot issue is another attempt of the government to sort out the BPL wrangle it has landed itself into. The CPS held that such plots, as announced by the Chief Minister, would be allotted only to members belonging to the Scheduled Castes and no eligible person would be left out. Giving details, he emphasised that the state government had decided to allot plots to only those who were neither employed in a government job nor had any non-government job with a salary equal to that of a government job. In addition to it, such beneficiaries should not have more than an acre in their possession and should not have taken any plot from the government earlier. Dharambir made it clear that with a view to getting a plot of 100 sq yd, it would not be necessary for the Scheduled Castes to get their names included in the list of BPL families. He said 6.51 lakh persons were living below the poverty line in Haryana. In the neighbouring Punjab, the geographical area of the state was more as compared to that of Haryana and the the number of members belonging to the Scheduled Castes was also high. Despite this, only 2.96 lakh persons have been enlisted as those living below the poverty line. He said Hooda had taken up the issue of BPL families with the central government and the Planning Commission as he felt that the Government of India should not fix the number of BPL families in advance. The number of BPL families should be based on the incidence of poverty in the state. He reiterated the commitment of the state government to include every eligible family in the BPL list. The government in a damage-control mode following the furore over the BPL draft lists. The 100 sq yd plot promised to the landless Dalits and those covered under the BPL at a rally in Jharli in October this year is at the root of all protests.
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BPL List
Rohtak, December 20 The protesters submitted a memorandum addressed to the Governor through the local deputy commissioner in support of their demand. President of the local chapter of the INLD Balwan Suhag and District Bar Association president Ranbir Dhaka were also present. Terming the recently conducted survey of BPL families as faulty and discriminative, the INLD has demanded that the survey list be abandoned and a fresh survey conducted to identify the deserving persons. Earlier, addressing a press conference at the Canal Rest House here, Sampat Singh asserted that the criteria framed for the identification of BPL families were flawed. He maintained that there should be no limitation on the number of BPL families and educational qualification should not go against one’s BPL claim. Rewari: INLD activists, including women, from Rewari, Jatusana, Bawal and other areas of the district held a demonstration at the district secretariat here in protest against “gross irregularities” in the draft BPL lists. Led by former minister Bahadur Singh and district INLD chief Jagdish Yadav, the protesters raised anti-government slogans. Later, they submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner which was addressed to the Governor. FATEHABAD: INLD activists on Thursday held a demonstration against the alleged irregularities in the preparation of BPL draft lists in the state. The activists, led by Ashok Arora, state president of the party, assembled near the local grain market in the morning and marched towards the mini-secretariat raising slogans against the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government. The party also submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner in this regard. KURUKSHETRA: INLD activists, led by MP Ajay Chautala, assembled near the old bus stand here on Thursday and marched in procession to the mini-secretariat where they raised anti-government slogans in protest against the alleged irregularities in the BPL draft lists. Ajay Chautala submitted a memorandum, addressed to the Governor, to deputy commissioner Pankaj Aggarwal demanding cancellation of the BPL lists and a fresh survey. GURGAON: Hundreds of supporters of the INLD on Thursday staged a protest march in Gurgaon against the alleged irregularities in the BPL list and demanded its cancellation. In a memorandum submitted to the Governor through the deputy commissioner, the INLD supporters criticised the government for large-scale irregularities in the process of identification of BPL families to benefit its own people. SONEPAT: Hundreds of office-bearers and activists of the INLD, including women, staged a protest march in the town against the alleged irregularities in the recently published list of the BPL families in the district. Led by district president and former MLA Padam Singh Dahiya, the protesters submitted a memorandum, addressed to the Governor, to deputy commissioner D.P.S. Nagal demanding a fresh survey. BHIWANI: INLD activists on Thursday staged a demonstration against the “discriminatory attitude of the government” in the BPL survey here. INLD senior vice-president Rao Ajit Singh led the demonstration.
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Cong MLA ‘justifies’ child labour
Panipat, December 20 Two MLAs and district officials, including the DC, the SP, the ADC and the SDM, were present on the occasion. Asha Hooda, chairperson of the Bal Kalyan Parishad and wife of the Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, was the chief guest at today's function. Accompanied by other fellow “VIP politicians” and several Congress leaders on the dais, the MLA categorically stated, “Humein Panipat ki industry ko bachana hai” (we have to save the Panipat's industry). Justifying his stance, Shah added that “the process of knotting is finely done by the gentle fingers of children and adult hands do not provide the required quality”. Interrupted by district officials for his embarrassing speech, Shah categorically stated that besides education, these students should also be made to work at school. “These children do not need any vocational training and the kind of work they do at the factories is a form of art and they should be further trained in it,” he stated. The other speakers also did not focus on the gathering of poor students. Both Parsanni Devi and Raj Rani Poonam, Congress MLAs from Naulatha and Assandh, focused their speeches on the family of Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the achievements of the state government. Having a dig at these speakers, Asha Hooda said the students were unable to understand the lengthy speeches. She urged members of the Saakhshar Mahila Samooh to spread the message of education in society religiously. “Instead of looking up for help from the government, we should join hands to eradicate various social evils, including child labour and female foeticide, from society,” she said. On the occasion, the District Red Cross Society presented a blanket, sweater and a health kit comprising toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo and soap to about 3,100 NCLP students. As many as 450 orphans from the district were given a sum of Rs 1,000 each, besides the items. |
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Gangster, accomplices booked
Rewari, December 20 and over a dozen others on charges of armed rioting, attempted extortion, attempted abduction and criminal intimidation following a complaint made by Dr Manju Sanghvi, managing director of Haryana Nursing Home, Kosli. Meanwhile, police protection has been provided to the complainant, her husband Dr Sanjay Sanghvi and other members of the family against an alleged threat of elimination held out by the accused, Ramesh Bithla. Sources said while the police nabbed two of the accused this morning, it was making efforts to apprehend Bithla. The complainant alleged that Bithla along with his accomplices attacked the nursing home on Monday, indulged in sabotage and threatened to eliminate her husband if they failed to pay him a monthly ransom of Rs 50,000 immediately. Bithla allegedly fired several shots from his revolver in the air to intimidate them.
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HC notice to state in fake encounter case
Chandigarh, December 20 The notices were issued on a petition filed against Lok Sabha member-cum-former union minister Jai Prakash and others by Shanti and Murti, mothers of deceased Mukesh and Sandeep of Loharwara village in Bhiwani district. They had sought a CBI probe into the killing that took place on July 21. Registration of cases under Section 302 ,120-B of the IPC and other relevant sections were also sought. Another plea was also made for issuance of direction to the respondents to pay a compensation of Rs 50 lakh each to the petitioners. HCS reversion Disposing of a petition filed by serving officers of the Haryana Civil Service (HCS), executive branch; a Division Bench of the High Court, comprising Justice Jasbir Singh and Justice Jaswant Singh, today asked them to represent their case within 10 days to the state government for a decision. The petitioners, Suresh Kumar and others, were selected to the HCS during the previous regime and were issued notices by the present government subsequently for their reversion. It was argued by the authorities that the posts in HCS were not available as the cadre had been slashed to bring it in line with the administrative requirements. |
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Gita Jayanti samaroh concludes
Kurukshetra, December 20 State health minister Kartar Devi, who was the chief guest on the occasion, paid obeisance and performed pooja. Thousands of people offered diyas on the surface of the holy water of Brahmasarover on the occasion of Mokshada Ekadshi. Later, the minister inaugurated a cultural programme by lighting the traditional lamp at Purushottampura Bagh. Renowned classical dancer Saroja Vaidhyanathan and playback singer Devki Anand presented their best performances. Secretary to Haryana governor Alok Nigam, who is also the member secretary of the Kurukshetra Development Board (KDB), flagged off the ‘Shobha Yatra’ on the concluding day of the five-day Kurukshetra Utsav Gita Jayanti Samaroh from the northern bank of the holy Brahamsarover here today.
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HCS (judicial) exam results declared
Chandigarh, December 20 The results of candidates (with roll numbers against the names) in order of merit are: General category --- Sumit Garg 5984, Prashant Sharma 5855, Amarinder Sharma 5525, Akshdeep Mahajan 5517, Gagandeep Mittal 5627, Hemraj Mittal 5666, Harleen Kaur 5655, Navjeet Budhiraja 5798, Harish Goyal 5650,Surender Kumar 6000, Taranjit Kaur 6016, Rahul Bishnoi 5864, Amit Sharma 5537, Lokesh Gupta 5725, Jitendra Singh 5691, Yogesh Choudhary 6054, Monika Saroha 5771, Hemant Yadav 5665, Chetna Singh 5603, Sunil Jindal 5988, Rohit Watts 5918, Nishant 5820, Amit Saharawat 5536, Man Pal 5734, Nandita Kaushik 5781, Natasha Sharma 5795, Abhishek Phutela 5508 and Narender Singh 5788. The candidates in the SC category are: Jyoti Birbian 5699, Ashok Kumar 5569, Sunil Kumar 5990 and Madhulika 5730. The candidates in the BC category are: Sunil Kumar 5994, Shikha 5962, Lovleen 5728, Mukesh Rao 5776, Tayyab Hussain 6018 and Satish Kumar 5945.
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Wanted man gives up
Sirsa, November 20 He was wanted in four criminal cases, including murder, and was carrying a cash reward of Rs 10,000 on his head. He was remanded in police custody for two days by the court. Sardul Singh was wanted in a case of murder in Ellenabad which took place on May 15, 2000. Besides, he was wanted in a case of robbery registered against him in the Ding police station on May 19, 2005. The police was also looking for him in two other cases, including a case of theft registered on February 19, 2004, and also in a case of attempt to murder lodged against him in the city police station in 1999, said police sources.
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Jeweller shot dead
Jhajjar, December 20 The assailants also looted his bag containing cash and other valuables. According to information, the deceased, Jai Prakash, son of Banwari Lal, was waylaid by some motorcycle-borne youths when he was coming back after closing his shop. The robbers shot him in the chest and then decamped with the bag. The jeweller was rushed to the PGIMS at Rohtak in serious condition where he succumbed to his injuries. The assailants escaped on their bike after committing the crime. SP Shrikant Jadhav went to the town and inspected the spot. The police said a hunt for the robbers had been launched and all possible routes had been sealed. Villagers, however, protested against the incident and raised slogans at the Beri police station. |
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Lathicharge
Karnal, December 20 “It was a pre-planned move of the government with the intention of eliminating me. I want the incident to be fully investigated and the guilty booked,” Kamboj said while addressing mediapersons at his residence here. He said he was also submitting a request under the RTI Act demanding to know the name of the person who actually ordered the lathicharge and names of all police personnel who were present there. |
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Two killed in mishap
Rewari, December 20 The duo used to work at a brick kiln in Khijoori village, 12 km from here. The mishap occurred when they were reportedly trying to cross the highway. The police has registered a case under Sections 279, 304-A of the IPC in this regard. |
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Dispute claims life
Bhiwani, December 20 According to information, two youths were found lying in the village. Villagers immediately rushed them to a hospital. While Tek Chand succumbed to his injuries on his way to the hospital, the other youth, Kailash, was said to be serious. The reason of dispute is still to be ascertained. |
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