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Youth killed in police encounter
Alleged Suicide by Arhtiya’s Family
Congress betrayed Adampur voters, says Sampat
Violations by illegal industries go unchecked
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Three cops dismissed on graft charge
HSSC Selections
Teaching, non-teaching staff on collision course
Kharkhoda bypass opened
Power nigam schemes extended
Sahitya Akademi awards
Nissing gets MC
Resentment over FIRs against protesters
Doc held on charge of aborting female foetus
Man shot dead
Rs 7 lakh robbed from bank recovered
One held for abducting girl
Wakf board employee held for graft
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Youth killed in police encounter
Hisar, June 19 According to the police, some youths travelling in a jeep did not stop when signalled to do so at a police checkpoint near Sector 9. Cops chased the jeep and on reaching Garanpur, the occupants of the jeep fired at the policemen, who returned fire. The police found the jeep abandoned on the roadside and the body of a youth was found in a pool of blood on the passenger seat adjacent to the driver’s seat. A country-made pistol was also found in the jeep. The deceased has been identified as Mahendra of Karanpura Khurd village. Incidentally, the police has been on a look out for a notorious gangster, Subhash Fauji, for the past few days. He had shot dead Ishwar Singh, a former sarpanch of Mattarsham village, who had been out on bail. Ishwar Singh was sentenced to life for killing six members of his family. Villagers block road in protest
BHIWANI: A large number of villagers blocked the Bhiwani-Tosham road on Thursday in protest against the police, which killed a youth in an encounter near here. DSPs of Bhiwani and Hisar arrived on the spot and started inquiry into the encounter case. A team of the Hisar police chased Mahender when the latter ignored the police naka near here. Mahender Singh was reportedly coming to Bhiwani in his pickup car. Assuming Mahender as a notorious criminal, the police team encountered him near here. He died on the spot. The villagers alleged that the police had killed an innocent person. The police could have saved a life by arresting the deceased, a villager said. Since the Hisar police committed the crime, the local police avoided any query in this regard. |
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Alleged Suicide by Arhtiya’s Family
Kurukshetra, June 19 Mam Chand Singla, a debt-ridden arhtiya from Pehowa in the district, along with his family of nine members, had allegedly driven his car into the Bhakra Canal. The state government was forced to hand over the case to the CBI as the daughter and other family members had disputed the official claim that the Singla family had committed “mass suicide”. Several Vaish and Aggarwal organisations today staged a dharna at mini-secretariat against the official inaction against the delay in probing the incident by the CBI. Taking a dig at various human and women rights organisations, the protesters said all outfits remained a mute spectator. The Haryana Aggarwal Sammelan, Haryana Vaish Mahasammelan, Vaish Jagriti Manch and the Traders' Community Haryana in a jointly convened meeting held here today under the chairmanship of Vishwa Pal Goel, appealed Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to take up the matter with the centre for speedy investigation. The protesters also submitted a memorandum to the Kurukshetra ADC meant to be forwarded to the Haryana Governor. Meanwhile, police sources said since the case had been forwarded to the CBI, it was now up to the central agency to decide on the case. "The overburdened CBI may even decline the request to investigate the case," said a senior cop. However, the sources said other state investigating agencies, including crime branch or a special investigating team (SIT), might start investigations only if the family requested the state government in this regard. The Singla family had allegedly gone missing on March 16 and the relatives alleged that no serious efforts were made by the police to trace them. Agitated over the indifferent attitude of the local police, the family had also alleged that no efforts were put to match the handwriting of the deceased with that of the suicide note and 21 names scribbled on a wall of their house. These were the persons who had allegedly refused to repay their loan to Mam Chand. |
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Congress betrayed Adampur voters, says Sampat
Fatehabad, June 19 Talking to the mediapersons here today, the former minister, who unsuccessfully contested the Adampur byelection on the INLD ticket, said the government had supplied over 6,000 electric poles to villages in Adampur on the promise that they would be provided electricity connections soon. But now, the government was in the process of registering FIRs for the theft of electric poles against farmers in the area, he alleged. Local Congress leader Ranjit Singh, who was the party’s candidate in the recently concluded Adampur byelection, has, however, denied the allegations and said neither he nor any other Congress leader ordered the supply of poles. Referring to the records of communication between a construction company KLG Systel, Gurgaon, and the management of the DHBVN, Hisar, Sampat Singh said the company, which was assigned the contract of segregation of rural and agriculture feeders in the area, had alleged that 1,093 electric poles belonging to the company worth Rs 21.86 lakh had been stolen from Balsamand, Matarshyam, Ladvi, Aryanagar, Kalirawan, Modakhera, Kirmara and Chikanwaas villages. Six of these villages fall under the Adampur constituency while other two fall in the adjoining Bhattu Kalan. Sampat Singh informed now the DHBVN had written to the police to register FIRs against the farmers. Similarly, he said over 900 poles of a Hyderabad-based construction company and 4,000 poles of the DHBVN had also been supplied to the constituency without actually providing power connections. Accusing the Congress of betraying the voters, Sampat Singh alleged that the conduct of the ruling party amounted to the violation of the People's Representation Act. The INLD leader said his party would not allow the authorities to lift poles from farmers, who had been provided with these for power connection nor would the party tolerate registration of cases against innocent farmers. He demanded registration of criminal case against Ranjit
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Violations by illegal industries go unchecked
Panipat, June 19 A large number of industries have been operating from residential areas of the city without even seeking licence from the administration. These industries not only violate the pollution laws but also the labour laws. Investigations carried out by The Tribune revealed that many of these unregistered industries had been injecting polluted waters directly into the ground thus causing in-repairable damage to the underground water leaving it inapt for human consumption. This is done to save money which otherwise could have been spent on installing a water treatment plant. Besides, many industries do not have a regular sewer connection and thus these prefer to dump the wastewater on roads outside their establishments. Yashpal Malik, president of the Industrialists’ Association, asserted that there were at least 600 industrial units in the city that had been operating without any licence. He said it was the regular industries that felt the pinch of the violations being committed by the illegal units. These units also pay less to unsuspecting labourers, who are even made to work extra time so that owners can mint more money at their cost. Women labourers are always paid less. Illegal industries also violate laws related to the location of factories, safety norms, underage workers and care of infants of women labourers. Refuting the charges, senior officials said whenever any such matter was brought to their notice, they initiated appropriate action against such factories. Registered industrialists said either owners of illegal industries were politically well connected or they managed to bribe government officials so that they could continue with their illegal practices unabated. |
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Three cops dismissed on graft charge
Chandigarh, June 19 Director-general police Ranjeev Dalal said they had been dismissed on the charges of corruption. They had tarnished the image of the police and legal action would be taken against them. He said Rattan Singh, who was posted at Jind, had been arrested by the police while Ishwar Singh, who was also posted at Jind, and Risal Singh, who was posted at Mewat, were still absconding. He said efforts were on to nab them as soon as possible. JIND: The Haryana police on Thursday dismissed three police officials, including an assistant sub-inspector, who was posted at Narwana town here, following a sting operation by a private TV channel. The channel had recently aired a story involving two of the three dismissed cops boasting of their “authority” of getting any person trapped into any false case for a certain amount of money as bribe. The district police chief issued the orders of termination of service of both the policemen this noon after getting a case booked against them. While one of the accused has been arrested, the other one is reportedly absconding. The dismissed cops identified as ASI Ishwar Singh and head constable Rattan Singh had reportedly told a TV journalist, who had approached them with a hidden camera, that they were capable of getting any person implicated in any false case, if anyone paid them Rs 2,000. The story was aired by the channel two days back. SP J.S. Lamba said the accused cops had been dismissed from service under Article 311(2) of the service rule. A case had been registered. While the ASI was posted at the city police station in Narwana town, the havildar was attached as a security person with a judicial officer. |
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HSSC Selections
Chandigarh, June 19 The petitioner contended there were serious ambiguities in the question paper. At least eight questions either had all four incorrect answers, or two answers were correct. Seeking directions to the commission to declare and notify marks obtained by each successful candidate in the written test, the petitioner asked for directions to restrain the commission from destroying the records relating to the selection. The petitioner submitted that the commission had conducted the test on January 20 to select 44 naib tehsildars in the Department of Revenue and Disaster Management, which included 28 posts in the general category.
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Teaching, non-teaching staff on collision course
Chandigarh, June 19 After Prof V.K. Aggarwal resigned from the post of registrar on May 26, joint registrar Ramesh Sharma was given additional charge of
the post. Teachers have objected to the appointment, raising a finger at the past of Sharma. Today the Kurukshetra University Non-Teaching Employees Association (KUNTEA) came out in support of Sharma. In a statement issued here today Karan Singh, president of KUNTEA, said his organisation would launch a “non-cooperation movement” if any attempt was made to shift Sharma under the pressure of “anti-university administration forces”. He said such forces were trying to defame the university by making “unwanted” remarks against an able officer of the university. Secretary-general of KUNTEA Madan Gopal Sharma described the objections raised by the Haryana College Teachers Association as indicative of a “sick mentality”. |
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Kharkhoda bypass opened
Sonepat, June 19 The bypass, which comes as a great relief for the people of Kharkhoda town, takes off from Sonepat-Kharkhoda road and crosses
Kharkhoda-Delhi, Kharkhoda- Bahadurgarh and Kharkhoda- Sampla-Jhajjar roads. After strict traffic regulation in Delhi, most of the trucks and other commercial heavy vehicles used to cross Kharkhoda town for their to and fro journeys from Punjab, Chandigarh, Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and other states in the south-west causing great inconvenience to the people of the town. Speaking on the occasion, Capt Yadav said the NCRPB had sanctioned Rs 1,200 crore for infrastructure development in the NCR of Haryana. Besides spending Rs 790 crore on irrigational projects during the current financial year, the government had received Rs 737 crore under PMGYS and Rs 3,000 crore under the Rajiv Gandhi Bridge and Roads Development Programme, he added. He also said out of 37 sanctioned railway over bridges, the construction work had been started on 17 and work on 11 over bridges would be completed by the end of this year. Chief parliamentary secretary Ramesh Kaushik and MLA Sukhbir Farmana also spoke on the occasion. |
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Power nigam schemes extended
Chandigarh, June 19 The schemes are available for domestic, non-domestic, tubewell and industrial consumers. A spokesman here today said the applicants of domestic and non-domestic categories, desirous of getting their load regularised, would not be required to submit a test report up to an extension of 20 kW of load. The extended load shall be regularised by the nigam without charging any penalty. The extended load would be considered as regularised with immediate effect after completion of the official procedure. The applications pending for seeking regularisation of load would also be covered. The procedure of regularisation of unauthorised load had been simplified under which the willing consumers would be required to submit an application and agreement form. |
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Sahitya Akademi awards
Chandigarh, June 19 Director of the akademi C.R. Mudgil said Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda would be the chief guest at the function and education minister Mange Ram Gupta would preside over it. Mudgil said Baba Sheikh Award amounting to Rs 51,000 would be given to Dr G.D. Chaudhary of Sirsa while Saint Taran Singh Vehmi Award amounting to Rs 51,000 would be given to Amrik Singh of Sirsa. He said Lok Gayak Puruskar of Rs 21,000 would be given to Vinod Sehgal of Ambala. Similarly, an amount of Rs 21,000 each for book writing would be given to renowned writers, including Kulwant Chawla, Shahbad, Kabal Singh Virk, Karnal, Dr Narwinder Kaushal, Kurukshetra, Gurdas Singh Palna, Sirsa, Kesra Ram, Hisar, Dr Gurdyal Singh, Ambala, and Jiwan Bakshi, Kurukshetra. The director said for the story writing an award of Rs 3,500 as the first prize would be given to Ikbal Singh and the second prize of Rs 3,000 would be given to Joginder Kaur. The third prize winner would be given Rs 2,500. |
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Nissing gets MC
Karnal, June 19 Official orders in this regard were received at the district headquarters today. It was a long-pending demand of the residents of Nissing, a township having a population of nearly 20,000. Confirming this here today Karnal deputy commissioner B.S. Malik said the state urban local bodies department had issued the relevant notification in this regard. The decision was taken under the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973, he said. Meanwhile, sources said the elections to the newly formed body would be held within the stipulated period of six months. |
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Resentment over FIRs against protesters
Fatehabad, June 19 A meeting of representatives of all communities, NGOs and religious organisations was held at Agarwal Dharamshala here today. The participants while extending their sympathies with the family of Sonu and his four-year-old son Jatin, who were killed in the incident of road collapse near the Ghaggar river, expressed strong resentment against the authorities for implicating innocent persons in criminal cases. The participants decided to organise a mahapanchayat at Ratia tomorrow and for this message have also been sent to villages of the area. The residents alleged that from the very beginning they had demanding registration of a criminal case against the contractor who was responsible for the accident and also action against SDM Yogesh Mehta, who they alleged, was responsible for delay in rescue operations. The residents said in case their demands were not met by tomorrow, they would sit outside the SDM’s office and mourn the deaths of Sonu and Jatin. |
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Doc held on charge of aborting female foetus
Narnaul, June 19 Later, on the complaint of medical superintendent of the local civil hospital, the police arrested the doctor, the woman who underwent abortion and her husband under various provisions of the PNDT and MTP Acts. The doctor and the man were presented before the court today, which remanded them in judicial custody for 14 days. However, the woman who underwent operation could not be produced before the court as she was admitted to a hospital. |
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Man shot dead
Yamunanagar, June 19 The assailants allegedly fired three shots at the victim, Jugal Kishore of Balachaur village. The police has booked three persons in this regard. As per police sources, Jugal Kishore was going towards Buria Chungi in a three-wheeler along with Sher Singh and Deep Chand, residents of the same village. After some time, two more persons boarded the three-wheeler and entered into an altercation with Jugal. Sources said one of the two allegedly fired a shot at Jugal, who jumped off from the vehicle to save his life, but the assailants fired two more shots upon him. He died on the spot. Meanwhile, another person reached the spot on a motorcycle and the two fled with him. The police has booked Meeta, Manga and one more person, all residents of Balachaur village, under Section 302 and 34 of the IPC on the complaint of Kamlesh, brother of the victim. No arrests were made till the time of filing this report. |
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Rs 7 lakh robbed from bank recovered
Chandigarh, June 19 The police recovered Rs 2.60 lakh and a mauser from accused
Devender, Rs 1.84 lakh from Lalit, Rs 2.80 lakh and a country-made pistol from Parveen and Rs 20,000 from
Narender. He said the accused were produced before a court in Sonepat, which sent Devender and Lalit to police remand till June 21 and Narender and Parveen were sent to Sonepat jail. Further investigations are on in the case.
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One held for abducting girl
Rewari, June 19 The information was provided by Gyan Chand, a resident of the Azad Nagar colony of Dharuhera. Simultaneously, the police also recovered the girl from his possession. The girl’s medical examination here confirmed rape following which Section 376 of rape has now been added to the FIR , which was earlier registered on charges of abduction under Sections 363 and 366-A of the IPC on a complaint lodged by the girl’s father. The girl was reportedly kidnapped from Dharuhera on June 10 allegedly by Pradeep Singh, a resident of Punjab, who had been living in a rented accommodation at Azad Nagar in Gyan Chand’s neighbourhood. |
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Wakf board employee held for graft
Panipat, June 19 According to the bureau, Kushid Ahmed, working as rent collector with the Wakf board, was nabbed after he pocketed Rs 2,000 that had been handed over to him by Ashok Kumar. Sources said Kushid had demanded the money to issue him an allotment letter. Ashok approached the Vigilance Bureau, which asked him to strike a deal with the accused. Ashok did the same and when he went to hand over the money to Kushid today, a Vigilance team accompanied him and caught the employee red handed. |
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