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Employer booked Jupinderjit Singh Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, June 3 The delayed action came only after agitated relatives of the victim, Shammi (11), pressed for police action, braving threats. The SSP, Gautam Cheema, ordered the registration of the case when the victim’s family met him at Khanna late last evening. They alleged that the police was trying to cover up the case and even manhandled them when they went to lodge a complaint. Defending the delayed action, the SSP said initially both parties were keen on a compromise. "I ordered the registration of the case when the relatives briefed me. Circumstantial evidence pointed finger at the employers due to which a case was registered," he said. Officials at the Machiwara police station, however, ignored the circumstantial evidence for some reason, alleged Bablu Kumar and Phekan Saini, brother and father, respectively, of the boy. The trouble began on Sunday evening when the accused, Hardeep Singh, called the boy’s family, saying that he was ill. Bablu said when they reached the house, they were shocked to see Shammi dead and his body hanging from a grill on the roof. They were told that he had committed suicide. "We did not accept it as Shammi had no reason to end his life," Bablu said. They went to the police, but were cold-shouldered and even manhandled. For an entire day, the body was kept in the open, they alleged. The police took it to the civil hospital at Samrala this morning for postmortem examination. No one has been arrested so far even though the FIR was registered last night. The SSP said arrests would be made after complete investigations. The boy had been working in the house for the past three years.
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DSP summoned
Rajneesh Lakhanpal
Ludhiana, June 3 Passing the order, the judge said prima facie it seemed that the accused prepared a false record to save a person from legal punishment. The court also summoned Anil Chadha of Railway Colony, Sherpur Kalan, Ludhiana. The accused have been summoned under Sections 218, 167, 506 and 120-B of the IPC. The orders were passed on a complaint by Aman Sharma of Railway Colony a few days ago, the certified copy of which was made available today. The complainant had also arrayed Waryam Singh, former SHO of the Focal Point, but the court observed that from the perusal of the evidence, prima facie no offence was committed by him. So, the court did not summon him. The complainant had alleged that on August 30, 2005, Anil Chadha had blocked a road and caused nuisance. She made a telephonic call to the Focal Point police station. After some hours, SI Mukesh Kumar visited the spot, but took no action, rather he threatened her. She moved a written complaint to the DC the next day and the matter was referred to the SSP. It was alleged that the accused made a false calendar under Sections 107 and 151. Finding it to be false, she was discharged by the SDM. The complainant was arrested in two criminal cases. The case would come up for hearing on June 6.
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Long-haul trains running late
Our Correspondent
Ludhiana, June 3 Several trains on the Jammu-Mumbai and Amritsar-Mumbai section and many others passing through Rajasthan, which were suspended initially, had now been restored but due to diversion of route, these were running late by hours. Trains especially those coming from Mumbai were running behind schedule, as these had to cover more distance on diverted routes due to blockade of tracks at many places throughout the strife-hit state. According to railway officials, Golden Temple Express — running between Amritsar and Mumbai — had been resumed but the down-up train from Mumbai arrived here late by seven hours this morning. Similarly, 2925 Bandra-Amritsar Pashchim Express was late by five hours and 2471 Mumbai-Jammu Super Fast Express was behind schedule by 14 hours. AC Special from Jammu to Mumbai has been cancelled till further notice. Railway sources said the disruption in rail traffic was expected to continue till the agitation in Rajasthan was on.
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This season, all roads lead to Srinagar
Ludhiana, June 3 Travel agents say almost all hotels in Srinagar are full to capacity and no bookings are available till end of June. Rajiv of Resorts Travel Services says he has got bookings of over 200 persons to Srinagar in June alone. Residents, having no dearth of money, are ready to spend anything to get bookings. “We are offering a variety of packages to our customers. Staying in a four-star hotel in Srinagar costs around Rs 5,000 a day and people are willing to pay. We are providing both air and road travel options to visitors,” says Rajiv. On if residents are worried over the security of visitors to the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Rajiv says: “No, they just casually ask if there is any threat to visitors. There is no hesitation at all.” Another travel agent, Rupjit Saggar of Saggarsons Tours and Travels, says in the next two days, over 25 city residents will travel to Srinagar. “The package for three nights and four days starts between Rs 35,000 and Rs 40,000. We are surprised to get so many enquiries for Srinagar. Most packages include visit to Pehalgam, Gulmarg, Sonmarg, Khilnmarg, etc,” said Rupjit adding that apart from Srinagar, residents prefer to go to Europe, Hong Kong and Bali (overseas destinations). Vikram, an industrialist, says it has been his dream to go to Kashmir (Srinagar). This time, he has been able to convince his family that the valley is a safe for tourists and that the threat has receded. “We have opted for a seven-day package, starting from mid-June. I have only seen Srinagar in magazines and movies. I am looking forward to seeing Kashmir with my own eyes,” he says.
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118 underweight gas cylinders seized
Ludhiana, June 3 Sources said no discrepancies were found in the cylinders in the godown. However, 118 cylinders at the delivery centre were found underweight by 1.5 kg to 2.5 kg. The company has sought a reply from the agency and in case of failure to give a satisfactory reply, the agency may be penalised.
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Man kills himself in hotel room
Ludhiana, June 3 Amarjit Singh, an electrician, was found dead by room attendants this morning. His father fell unconscious at the sight of the body when the police called him there. Police sources said Amarjit had married nine months ago. "There was domestic disharmony in the house due to which he remained upset most of the time," SHO Nirmal Singh said. The police would register a case following the statement of his wife and parents.
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Chahal case adjourned
Ludhiana, June 3 The presence of the accused was marked by another court. The case was fixed for the pronouncement of orders on the application filed by one of the accused, Kartar Singh Garewal, today. In his application, he had sought permission to place on record certain copies of judgements passed in his favour. On the last hearing, the court had heard the arguments of the applicant and the public prosecutor. All accused were present during the court proceedings.
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Diesel shortfall continues to hurt consumers
Ludhiana, June 3 Petroleum dealers demanded control measures by authorities for things to improve. “I had to go to at least five filling stations and most of them said they had run out of diesel. I managed to get only half the fuel that I needed for my car,” rued Kulwinder Singh, a resident. Petroleum dealers said the situation could have normalised had it not been for poor supplies by two oil companies. Due to excess demand, dealers faced problems getting their normal supply and over 70 per cent petrol stations ran dry even today. “Only one company is giving supplies to its dealers and the scarcity has been caused due to this. It may take around a week for things to normalise,” said Ludhiana Petroleum Dealers Association president Ashok Sachdeva. Petroleum dealers asserted that authorities should take control measures like rationing in order to normalise the situation. “We cannot ration on our own as authorities are taking a serious view of it. However, even now there are a lot of people who want to get fuel filled in drums et al for hoarding. Authorities need to come forward and issue directions on quantities to be supplied to various categories of customers, otherwise the situation will take long to get back to normal.” The district food and supplies controller (DFSC) today conducted investigations in towns and villages around the city, including Khanna and Jagraon. “Things were relatively normal in the periphery. In the city, too, the situation is better than it was yesterday and we are hopeful that things would be normal soon,” said Ajvir Singh Sarao, DFSC (west).
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Dharna outside sub-registrar’s office
Ludhiana, June 3 The visitors were waiting for the sub-registrars, who had gone for lunch, but did not return. After waiting for two hours, the visitors decided to stage a dharna at 4 pm. Within 15 minutes, the sub-registrars returned and resumed work following which the agitators lifted the dharna. People said the registrars worked till 1 pm and left stating that they would be back. But they did not come back. This led to a chaos in the office.
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4 marriages solemnised Mandi Ahmedgarh, June 3 Former SAD minister Jagdish Singh Garcha was the chief guest. Besides arranging a party for the parents of brides, grooms and their guests, the organisers presented gifts to the newly wed couples. The gifts included jewellery, clothes, furniture and cooking gas cylinders. President of Shri Ram Mandir Bimal Kumar Sharma, president of the Journalists Association Ravinder Puri and panch Charanjit Kaur were among others who blessed the couples.
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Bus routes approved for notification Ludhiana, June 3 The second route would be Ferozepore road octroi post to Rajguru Nagar, Barewal Road Chowk, Aggar Nagar, milk plant, canal bridge, PAU gate Nos. 1 and 2, circuit house, Arti Cinema Chowk, Bhaibala Chowk, new courts, Bharat Nagar Chowk and bus stand. The third route includes Gill Road octroi post to engineering college, canal bridge, ITI, Janta Nagar Chowk, MC office Zone-C, Gill Chowk, Atam Nagar Chowk and bus stand.
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Alcoholic kills wife
Ludhiana, June 3 The accused ran away after killing his wife Shaukeen Kaur in
front of their three minor sons and a daughter. According to the police, the accused was absconding. Relatives of the woman staged a protest outside the Tajpur police post demanding arrest of
the accused.
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Car Theft Khanna, June 3 The police had earlier arrested four persons — Sukhdeep Singh, alias Deepa, Sanjay, alias Kunda, Joginder Kumar and Ramandeep Singh, all residents of Khanna — and recovered two stolen cars from their possession. The gang had recently started stealing cars from the town and Chandigarh area. They had stolen two Maruti cars from various locations of Khanna a few months ago. The police had set up a checkpoint on the Amloh road yesterday and signalled a car to pull over but the driver tried to dodge the police by putting the car in reverse. However, the police intercepted the car and arrested its two occupants. The accused were produced in the court. Later, two more persons were arrested and a stolen Maruti car was recovered from their possession. During interrogation, they revealed the name of their fifth accomplice. He was arrested by the police today. Police officials investigating the case said the accused used to put a fake registration plate on stolen vehicles and sold parts of the vehicles to junk dealers of the town. The accused had been involved in numerous cases of car theft. A case has been registered at the Sadar police station in this connection.
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PAU faculty gets tips on teaching
Ludhiana, June 3 The course was inaugurated by PAU VC Dr Manjit Singh Kang. “Excellence is to do an ordinary thing in an extraordinary way,” he said. He added that the participating faculty members should learn tips from the course and apply them in their daily teaching. Dr Freeman gave an overview of the Centre of Excellence in learning and teaching where he is serving as an assistant director. He elaborated that the centre had facilities of both classroom teaching as well as distance learning. He touched various teaching methods, which were both teacher and learner-centred. “Learners must be involved actively in the process of knowledge acquisition,” highlighted Dr Freeman adding that learning was a community activity. In his discourse, the instructor delved upon principles of good teaching practices for under-graduate and higher education, based on Arthur Chickering and Zelda
Gamson.
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Institute draws flak for using sheep’s heart
Ludhiana, June 3 A preserved sheep heart was dissected in the classroom to educate the students about various internal structures of a human heart. This is the first time that such an initiative was taken by any educational institution in city. Honorary wildlife warden Sandeep Jain has raised an objection on the use of animal organs for experiments. The CBSE had already issued strict guidelines prohibiting schools from using animal and animal organs for experimental purposes. While talking to The Tribune, Jain said, “What is the use of conducting a demonstration, using a sheep heart and that too for the students of Class X.” The demonstration was given by the instructor Ajay Walia, an M.Phil in Biochemistry, who said, “Since a sheep’s heart is very similar to a human heart in its structure and function, we decided to conduct a dissection on it so that the students can understand internal structures of heart and relate them to their functions. He further added that to equip the students for future, the centre decided to conduct activities during the coming days to make the science study interesting for the students. The instructor further added that normally when students read about heart’s structure and functions in their books, they are unable to get a clear picture about shape, size and other aspects of this vital organ.
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Students get lessons in calligraphy
Ludhiana, June 3 Born and brought up in Bihar, the artist went on to do his specialisation in calligraphy at Dar-Ul-Ulum University, Deobandh (UP) and Ghalib Academy in Delhi. He was bestowed with President’s Award in Year 1984 and State Award in 2006. Not just restricting his art to a specific language, the artist has a left a mark in English, Gurmukhi, Malyali, Kannad, Urdu, Hindi and Tibetan languages also. Anis Siddiqui’s uniqueness lies in his colourful display of letters, which was initially criticised by professionals world over but was gradually accepted even by his critics. “Why should words be deprived of expression as no expression is complete without colours,” pronounced the artist. A true patriot at heart, Siddiqui while making a reference to one of his overseas visits said, “I had gifted beautiful Pinscriptions to nationals of 35 countries in a convention in Iran, undersigned as Anees Indian.” “I used computer in 1984 for the first time when a large number of people didn’t even know about it but here I am as innovative as ever in my art,” he asserted further. When asked about an interesting observation in his classrooms, Anis disclosed that majority of his pupil have a habit to emphasise on the first letter of their names and I start their lessons on a note of emphasising the first letters of other people's names.
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From Schools Ludhiana, June 3 Students presented a show of yoga and pranayam exercises as well as solo dances and a dance medley wherein students danced to the tunes of popular numbers.
Laughter challenge and a skit highlighting the importance of values in life were the added attractions. Students thanked the authorities for providing a wonderful opportunity to learn quality character building, discipline, emotional integrity, leadership, secular outlook, the values and ideals of selfless service to make them useful citizens in the coming years. Speaking on the occasion, principal of the school, Paramjit Kaur exhorted the students to exert maximum efforts to develop themselves into organised and disciplined human beings. Dr Prem Kumar was appreciative of the sincere efforts of the school for arranging such camps for the holistic growth of its students.
Greeting cards, various types of paintings and other exhibits of art and craft made by the students during the camp were also displayed in an attractive manner. Workshop A 10-day long summer workshop commenced today with great enthusiasm in Bhartlya Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Udham Singh Nagar and B.V.M Shishu Vatika, Cemetery Road, with workshops in dance, art and craft. The first day began with ‘yog’ and ‘meditation’ for teachers and students. Around 50 students participated in dance and music. Craft, painting and personality development workshops attracted many students. The main attractions were ‘english speaking’ and ‘calligraphy workshops’ to improve handwriting. Summer camp A 10-day summer camp was organised at Sat Paul Mittal School, concluded here today.
The Satyans undertook various activities like western dance, western music, sculpture and art and craft. The sports activities included swimming, table tennis, football, basketball and skating.
The camp came to a close with a spectacular dance and band performance by the students. The children also showcased their creativity by exhibiting the various items created in art and craft and clay modelling class. The creations were absolutely astounding and left everyone spellbound.
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Fruit, vegetable preservation course
under way
Ludhiana, June 3 Inaugurating the course, PAU additional director of communication Dr Jagtar Singh Dhiman said fruits and vegetables being replete with water were prone to spoilage at room temperature. He added that through processing these perishables could be kept for longer period. He suggested the participants to interact with the experts to know the practical aspects of processing and preservation. Dr Dhiman asked some enthusiast participants to take on to processing and preservation of fruits and vegetables into pickles, jams, chutneys, squashes, jellies etc for commerce. He advised them to share the tips for this important activity with their family members so that it was put to a useful purpose. Giving details about the five-day training programme, head of the department Dr H.P.S. Nagi said the course would have lectures and practical exercises on various topics such as preparing mango pickles, chutneys, guava jelly, almond
sharbat, juice, etc. He added that the participants would be shown the laboratories and processing units. Dr Pushpinder Singh
Ranote, coordinator of the training course, said the participants would be provided opportunities to prepare the products themselves so that they really learn the art of processing and preservation
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Course
on water resource economics at PAU Ludhiana, June 3 Dr P.S. Minhas, director of research, who was instrumental in guiding the faculty about the project "Water harvesting for ground water recharge" under the US India Agriculture Knowledge Initiative (AKI) emphasised on shifting of rice-wheat cropping system to low water requiring crops like maize, groundnut and vegetables in order to sustain the present agriculture production level. Dr
S.K. Mann, dean, postgraduate studies, appreciated the initiative taken
by the department of soil and water engineering in arranging this course
which will be attended by the students of master’s degree programme of
PAU and will also be studied on line by students and faculty of GB Pant
University.
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PU Results Ludhiana, June 3 "I wanted to be on the top for all three years. By grace of god and with blessings of my parents and teachers, I have been able to achieve this goal," said Priyanka. Telling about her future goal, she said her aim was to become a computer lecturer. At present, she is working hard to get admission in MSc IT. She further added that hard-work and serious studies were the mantra of her success. Not believing in tuitions, she said that the teachers in college took thorough pains to make all the concepts clear to students. "The classroom studies were more than sufficient. If we had any problem, the college teachers would solve it in a very sympathetic manner," said Priyanka. Priyanka's father Narinder Gupta said he never interfered in his daughter's studies. "I always told her that she has to do everything on her own. We provided guidance whenever she needed but we never tried to intervene too much," he said.
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600 cadets attend NCC camp Ludhiana, June 3 Chief guest R.K. Aulakh, principal GCW, opened the camp. The commanding officer, 3 Punjab girls Battalion, Col S.S. Deol in his opening address thanked the principal of Government College for Women for providing accommodation for the camp. Girl cadets from 18 institutions of 3 Punjab Girls Battalion are participating. Col Deol, camp commandant, briefed about the various activities planned for the camp.
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Positive outlook key to tackling heart diseases: Doctor Ludhiana, June 3 These observations were made by Dr G.S. Wander, chief cardiologist and coordinator, Hero DMC Heart Institute (HDHI), while delivering a lecture on prevention of cardiac diseases organised by the Bharat Vikas Parishad at Rishi Nagar here on Monday as part of its health awareness campaign to promote message of healthy lifestyle. He said: “While some risk factors, like our genetic and metabolic disposition, are beyond our control, other factors are a matter of choice, which include lifestyle, diet and the way we decide to deal with our day-to-day stress. It has been medically proven that a positive and accommodating outlook will not only give us inner peace but also a fitter physical body. When we think and act positively, feel-good hormones such as serotonins and endorphins are released in our body. And the right lifestyle is where it all starts.” Elaborating on dietary part, Dr Wander said: “One should choose veggies, fruits, dried beans, legumes and avoid processed or canned foods. Vegetarian food is best suited for Indians and if one cannot do without non-vegetarian preparations, red meat should be avoided. Fast food has little nutritional value and is high in substances that cause hypertension and diabetes — both of which are known causes of heart disease. Healthy diet coupled with a regular exercise schedule goes a long way in preventing and even reversing cardiac ailments. Aerobic exercises like brisk walking, jogging, cycling and swimming do a world of good to not only our heart, but also give us a feeling of well-being by relieving our stress.” Members of the parishad led by patron and state convener M.L. Anand, president Kamla Jain and secretary Ramesh Sharma expressed their gratitude to Dr Wander for his lecture and also felicitated him on being nominated for the prestigious BC Roy Award by the President of India.
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