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Ropar, May 21
Mamta of Sadavart village refused to marry Ajaib Singh after the latter’s parents demanded dowry at the time of marriage.

Kulwinder Singh, a resident of Sadavart village was marrying off his daughter Mamta to Ajaib from Machhiwara in Ludhiana. The marriage was scheduled for Tuesday night. As the marriage ceremonies were in progress, the groom's family demanded Rs 50,000 cash and 100 gms gold from the bride's family. On hearing this, Mamta and her family annulled the relation.

Later, Ajaib's family sat on a dharna outside the Ropar police station and demanded police intervention into the matter. They demanded that either the marriage ceremony be completed and girl be sent with them or they should be given back the money spent on the ceremonies. It is learnt that Ajaib's mother Peela had demanded dowry. 

Ambala, May 21
A simple task of putting a board stating “government property” on a piece of land turned out to be much more than the local police had anticipated here in Ambala Cantonment today.

The local police which included SHOs of Ambala Cantonment, Mahesh Nagar, Ambala city, Baldev Nagar, along with a force of about 80 and in the presence of the naib tehsildar of Ambala Cantonment, was to put a board stating “government property” on a piece of land which has people residing since 1840, around the time when the cantonment was established.

The administration has been making efforts to get the land vacated from the 200 families which reside their now. The families, which have grown from the initial number of 24, argue that they are based here since 1840 and now the government wants to take back the land.

According to the residents, about 24 families were based on the 90 acres of land in 1840. When the Britishers decided to make a cantonment here, these families were bought in from UP to work as carpenters, labourers etc. They were made to leave their homes and were settled here. However, they have no property rights on the land. Now they state that the government wants land and it is unfair.

High drama was witnessed on the land situated near Hathikhana mandir when the officials tried to put the board on Kuldeep Prakash’s property. People immediately gathered on the spot and objected. Three persons - Rani, Kuldeep Prakash and Rajkumari - even tried to immolate themselves.

People gathered there even manhandled the police personnel present. The police even resorted to do a mild lathicharge. The police had to, however, leave the place after the mob got violent. The agitators later protested against the Congress.

Local politicians who later visited the place assured the residents that they would help them in keeping their land.

Chandigarh, May 21
The AITA Talent Series Tennis Championship at the CLTA Sports Complex, Sector 10, saw its semifinalists, including three local lads Utkarsh Khosla, Sachin Kumar and Dheer Anush Bhatti and Vikash Berwal (Delhi), in the boys’ Under-12 category.

Maintaining his winning spree, unseeded Khosla thrashed CLTA trainee Param Pun 6-2, 6-3 to face Vikas Berwal in semifinal clash. Delhi player Berwal secured place in top-four beating Raghav Talwar 7-5, 6-0 in straight sets.

In under-16 age group, Chandigarh players maintained their dominance as local Samin Bhargava and Pankaj Kumar advanced to the semifinals.

Samin defeated Ayush Mintri of Punjab 7-5, 6-2 while Pankaj Kumar got the better of Gulshan Kumar (Punjab) 7-5, 6-4 in quarterfinal matches.

Other results:

Boys U-12 (quarterfinals): Utkarsh Khosla (Chd) bt Param Pun (Chd) 6-2, 6-3, Vikas Berwal (Delhi) bt Raghav Talwar (Chd) 7-5, 6-0, Sachin Kumar (Chd) bt Dhruva Pal (Dehradun) 6-4, 6-2 Dheer Anush Bhatti (Chd) bt Alex Solanki (Delhi) 6-3, 6-2.

Girls U-12 (quarterfinals): Vaishnavi (Delhi) bt Vibhuti Khullar (Chd) 6-4, 6-2, Charvi Saxena (Chd) bt Jahnvi Gupta (Delhi) 6-4, 6-0, Bhavya Wadhawan (Chd) bt Riya Bhatiya (Delhi) 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, Hassan Abdal Dhanoa (Pb) bt Vineeta Singh (Delhi) 5-7, 6-1, 6-0.

Boys U-16 (quarterfinals): Samin Bhargava (Chd) bt Ayush Mintri (Pb) 7-5, 6-2, Jaspinder Singh (Pb) bt Udai Mann (Chd) 6-2, 6-1, Harry Jindal (Pb) bt Paramveer S. Toor (Chd) 7-5, 7-5, Pankaj Kumar (Chd) bt Gulshan Kumar (Pb) 7-5, 6-4.

Girls U-16 (quarterfinals): Jaspreet Kaur (Pb) bt Priyanka Rawat (Dehradun) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, Ravnoor Kaur (Chd) bt Gundeep Kaur (Pb) 6-2, 6-4, Prabhamrit Kaur (Chd) bt Bhavya Wadhawan (Chd) 6-0, 6-0, Sandeep Saran (Pb) bt Riya Bhatia (Delhi) 6-4, 6-0.

Boys U-12 doubles (final): Vikas Berwal and Rohil Hakim bt Sumit Pal and Dhruv Pal 7-6 (2), 1-6, 10-7.

Boys U-16 doubles (semifinal): Manoj (Chd) and Mandeep Kumar (Chd) bt Aviraj Kamboj (Chd) and Ajay Thakur (Haryana) 6-0, 7-6 (1).

Girls U-16 doubles (quarterfinals): Jaspreet Kaur (PB) and Gundeep Kaur (Pb) bt Vibhutti Khullar (Chd) and Bhavya Wadhawan (Chd) 4-1, 4-1, Ayenaaz Sidhu (Pb) and Rajendra Madhu bt Mumitu Mou and Vineeta Singh (Delhi) 5-4 (5) 4-1, Harkirat Bains (Chd) and Charvi Saxena (Chd) bt Ankita Negi (Delhi) Shalini Jain 5-4 (1), 4-0, Priyanka Rawat and Disha Satish bt Vanshika (Chd) and Nandini Sharma (Chd) 4-0, 5-4 (5).

Girls doubles (semifinals): Ayenaaz Sidhu (Pb) and Rajendra Madhu (Chd) w/o Jaspreet Kaur (Pb) and Gundeep Kaur (Pb), Harpeet Bains (Chd) and Charvi Saxena (Chd) bt Priyanka Rawat (DelhiI) and Disha Satish (Delhi) 6-3, 6-0. 

Chandigarh, May 21
The newly set up Bharti Vij Cricket Academy got a good response as over 300 budding cricketers participated in the trials being held at Saint Soldier International School, Sector 28, here today.

“Out of the total number of the players, we have selected only 60 players. Seats have been restricted as academy ensures quality training”, said Bharti Vij, a former Punjab Ranji player and the chief coach of the academy.

“Despite a number of cricket academies in the city, the tremendous response to the newly set up academy only shows the enormous popularity of the game here.

Now, it’s our responsibility to provide quality training to produce top cricketers”, said Vij.

Chandigarh, May 21
Mukesh of Chandigarh Police will lead the city team in the 62nd National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy to be held in Jammu and Srinagar from May 25 to June 15.

Chandigarh, which has been grouped with Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Sikkim in Cluster I, will take on Bihar on May 26. After that, the team will be pitted against Tamil Nadu on May 28 and against Sikkim on May 30.

The Chandigarh team will leave for Jammu on May 23. The CFA general secretary Rakesh Bakshi has been appointed the match commissioner for trophy.

Other team members: Mukesh Kumar (captain), Pawandeep (NPS), Karnail, Akhil Sharma, Hanish, Sukhdeep, Jaspreet, Pawandeep, Jashanpreet, Gopal Thapa, Ankit Malik, Manpreet, Ajay Bhatt, Sunil Kumar, Rakesh Vohra, Harminder Singh and Puneet Parmar. 

Chandigarh, May 21
As many as 335 players turned up for trials conducted by the Cricket Federation of Punjab at the Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 32, here today.

A total of 42 probable have been shortlisted for coaching camp, starting from May 23 under the supervision of Jai Kapila.

The probable should report to Jai Kapila on May 23 at 3.30 pm at GMSSS-32.

A team will be selected to represent Punjab in the first All-India Under-17 National Federation Cup to be conducted by the Cricket Federation of India from May 28 to 31. Matches will be played in Panchkula and Chandigarh.

Probables selected for camp: Harmanpreet Singh, Parshant Singla, Pardeep Gill, Rohit Kashyap, Harpreet Mander, Manpreet Godana, Jasandeep, Komal Rawat, Charanjeet Singh, Ravinder Singh, Neeraj, Ravi Pandey, Gursahib Singh, Dhruv Talwar, Vikramveer Sharma, Ankit Wadhawan, Sumit Hooda, Balwinder Singh, Ashish Roy, Charanamrit, Sahil Aggarwal, Himashu, Pritpal Singh, Harshdeep Singh, Manpreet Singh, Anirudh Thakur, Harshveer Singh, Ishwar Chauhan, Parminder Nain, Malak Singh, Kunal Visht, Hitest Katoch, Parshant Singla, Vasu Rajoria, Ishan Ali, Pawan Batra, Amanpreet Singh, Abhishek Saini, Ram Chandigarh Yadav, Manpreet Khokhar, Suraj, Sohail Malik, Gaurav Vashisht. 

Chandigarh, May 21
The Desh Prem Azad Cricket Academy will organise an Inter-Academy Under-15 Cricket Tournament for Mount Shivalik Trophy on the St Stephen’s School ground in Sector 45 here from May 26 to June 8.

Players born on or after January 1, 1993, will be eligible to take part in the tournament. Giving this information today, Azad Academy director, Dronacharya D.P. Azad, said eight teams would be selected to compete in the league-cum-knock tournament. The teams will be divided into two pools and two top teams from each pool will qualify for semifinals. Azad said the league matches will be a 35-over each side affair. The semifinals and final will be of 40 overs each side. Each team has to furnish a list of 14 players each and change can be made only with the permission of the organising committee. 

Panchkula, May 21
Dinesh, a resident of Sector 7, attacked a police party, injuring a head constable when they reached a house to help a senior citizen here today.

Head constable Pritama and lady constable Neena deputed with the senior citizen cell of the police, reached house number 853 of Sector 7 when they received a call from the landlady that her husband had got injured after falling at home accidentally. When the police rang the door bell, Dinesh, who lives on the first floor of the house as tenant, came out in the balcony and asked the police party to return which led to heated arguments between them.

Suddenly, Dinesh climbed down from the balcony and taking support of the car shed in the verandah, jumped down and started thrashing the head constable. However, the accused fled the spot before the police party could react to the situation. A case has been registered against Dinesh.