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Recruitment Scam
Separate SGPC
Dera chief cancels UP visit
Four bodies found from sarovars
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Villagers beat up liquor contractor
High Court
Varsity extends admission date
Chief secy gets award
Cong leader to join HJC
2 labourers asphyxiated
Drug pedlar gets 10-yr jail
Power theft detected
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Recruitment Scam
Chandigarh, August 2 The accused had been booked for substituting the names of selected taxation inspectors with those who had not even appeared for the examination. The quantum of sentence will be pronounced on August 6. The accused were booked after an inquiry was conducted by the CBI on the directions of the Supreme Court in 1991. The inquiry was marked on the complaint of the candidates who had appeared for the selection test but failed to make it to the list of successful candidates. According to the prosecution, the complainant had appeared for the post of taxation inspector in the Haryana Subordinate Services Selection Board in 1989. The complainants filed a writ in the Supreme Court stating that the board had substituted their names with other candidates whose names were not even mentioned in the list. Thereafter, an inquiry was marked. The charges were framed against the accused on May 28, 1999. The accused were booked for fabrication of record, cheating, use of fabricated record and for indulging in corruption. The convicted board members included Bachan Ram, Samay Singh Kamboj, Devi Dayal, Rao Inderpal and Sukhdev Singh. |
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Separate SGPC
Ambala, August 2 Sikh leaders of Yamunnagar, including Manmohan Singh, Sant Prakash Singh, Sukhdev Singh, Amar Singh, Baljeet Singh, Jasbir Singh, Upkar Singh, Awtar Singh and Jaswinder Singh, sat on dharna today. The Sikh leaders raised slogans against the Congress and alleged that the government had been delaying their demand under pressure from Akali leaders. Awtar Singh Khalsa, convener of the agitation, said during the last assembly elections, the Congress had promised the Sikh community of the state that a separate SGPC would be constituted and their demand was also included in the election manifesto by the party. He said a committee under the chairmanship of senior minister Harmohinder Singh Chatha was constituted to decide the modalities of the proposed SGPC. He said Chatha had disclosed a number of times that the report of the committee had been finalised and would be soon submitted to government, but the report had not been put forward so far. He said that if their demand was not met, the Sikh community would express its annoyance on the streets. Meanwhile, neither Mullana nor any other Congress leader came here to meet the Sikh leaders sitting on relay fast for the past 23 days. |
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Dera chief cancels UP visit
Sirsa, August 2 The dera chief has been addressing his monthly religious discourse on the first Sunday of every month. Now, his followers from that area have been advised to come to the dera headquarters in Sirsa for the discourse and “naam daan” ceremony tomorrow. Sources revealed that the authorities in Uttar Pradesh had denied permission to the dera chief to organise his discourse there, although dera sources have categorically denied it. Pawan Insan, a spokesperson for the dera, said the dera chief was suffering from low back pain and had been advised against travelling by his doctors. He said on some earlier occasions also, the dera chief had cancelled his Barnawa visits during the rainy season. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh will also address a religious discourse for his followers based in Punjab on the second Sunday of every month. These discourses will be held at the dera headquarters in Sirsa. The first such discourse will be held on August 10. This will be the first discourse for the dera’s Punjab followers ever since the dera got into a controversy with Sikh organisations over the dress issue last year. Pawan Insan confirmed that the dera chief would start religious discourses for his Punjab followers from August 10. He said the dera chief would deliver these discourses in Punjabi and not in usual Hindi and these would be delivered on the second Sunday of every month. Meanwhile, K.V. Singh, officer on special duty in the Chief Minister’s office, today visited the family of Harminder Singh, who was killed in the Dera-Sikh clash in Dabwali on July 18 and assured the family of justice. Singh also met local residents at the Annapoorna temple in Dabwali town, where victims of Dabwali riots narrated their tale of woe to him. Residents alleged that first their shops and residences had been burnt by the mob and now the police was hounding their male members. They alleged that the police had been harassing female members of their families and raids were being conducted at odd hours. K.V. Singh assured that a probe would be conducted into the incidents and the guilty would be brought to book. |
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Four bodies found from sarovars
Kurukshetra, August 2 Meanwhile, six old men, attired as ascetics, died in the solar eclipse mela yesterday while one woman died of cardiac arrest. The sadhus died a natural death, the police said. Of the four bodies taken out of the ponds, three have been identified by the families, who had lodged missing complaints with the local police after the holy dip. However, one body of about 25-year-old man with “JM” tattooed on his hand was yet to be identified, the police said. Two bodies spotted floating in the Brahmsarovar this afternoon were fished out by the divers of the Kurukshetra Development Board. They were later identified as those of Tarun (23) of Karnal and Rati Ram (50) of Alladdinpur in Uttar Pradesh. Later, two bodies were also taken out of the Sannihit Sarovar. One of the deceased was identified as of Kartar Singh (18) of Singhpura in Punjab. — UNI
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Power Shortage
Sirsa, August 2 The police has arrested a BJP worker, Manbir
Kasnia, for causing hurt to a public servant, assault and extortion under sections 332, 353 and 386 of the
IPC. A large number of BJP workers, led by Mahavir Prasad, a member of the national executive of the party, today organised a protest against power and water scarcity in Nathusari Chopta town. The BJP workers locked up the 33 kV substation there and blocked traffic on the Chopta-Bhadra road. Addressing the protesters, BJP leaders Rohtash
Jangra, Shish Pal Kamboj, Jaswinder Pal Pinki, Vinod Yadav and Manbir Kasnia termed the Congress government a “total failure”, stating that it had failed to provide basic amenities to the residents. Executive engineer I.D.
Mehta, who reached the site to pacify the agitators, was manhandled by some party workers. Later, the police reached there and arrested BJP worker Manbir Kasnia on a complaint of
Mehta. |
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Villagers beat up liquor contractor
Fatehabad, August 2 The villagers refused to allow the police to come near the liquor shop. The villagers were protesting against the opening of the liquor shop again after it was closed by villagers over the beating up of two villagers by the contractor’s men. The villagers later set the contractor free after the police assured them that the accused would be arrested soon and the liquor shop shifted outside the village. The villagers alleged that Ram Dhari and Hans Raj of their village were beaten up and injured by men of liquor contractor Daljit Singh on June 28. The villagers alleged that though the police registered a case, it did not arrest the accused. The villagers forced the contractor to close his shop and leave the village. However, yesterday the contractor sold his shop to some other contractor, who tried to open the liquor shop again yesterday. |
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High Court
Chandigarh, August 2 The notices have also been issued to the state home secretary, the police chief and the selection committee chairman. The petition has been filed by a candidate, Sonepat-based Kadam Singh. He has stated at least in case of two candidates, proximity to powerful politicians was a matter of public knowledge. Probe sought against Faridabad MC In a public interest litigation, social activist from Faridabad Krishan Lal Gera has sought the intervention of the high court to order a probe by an independent agency into the functioning of the municipal corporation, Faridabad. The probe is demanded particularly with regard to its failure to remove or demolish unauthorised construction of residential houses and shops that continue to exist in the new industrial township (NIT) area there. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Mahesh Grover have now issued notice for November 12 to the Haryana government, the municipal commissioner, Faridabad, among others.
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Varsity extends admission date
Sirsa, August 2 Stating this here today, K.C. Bhardwaj, vice- chancellor, said several job-oriented courses would be started from this academic session. Bhardwaj said on a demand of students, the last date for receipt of applications for admission to MPhil in 11 subjects, LLM, MTech, computer sciences, regular and part time, and postgraduate diploma in journalism and mass communication had been extended till August 18. He maintained that the date had been extended in view of the fact that the results of postgraduate classes were yet to be announced. |
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Chief secy gets award
New Delhi, August 2 Dharam Vir is an IAS officer of the 1973 batch. Before taking over as chief secretary of the Haryana government, he has held various important posts. The award was also presented to secretary, corporate affairs, Anurag Goel, secretary, industrial policy and promotion, Ajay Shankar, secretary, literacy, A.K. Rath and secretary, urban employment and poverty alleviation, H.S. Anand. |
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Cong leader to join HJC
Yamunanagar, August 2 However, he had contested elections as independent candidate and got the second position. Addressing a press conference along with the spokesman for the Haryana Janhit Congress, Satpal Kaushik, Deep Chand said he along with associates would join the Haryana Janhit Congress on August 20. |
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2 labourers asphyxiated
Rohtak, August 2 Mohan, a resident of nearby Samayan village, and Shyam, a migrant labourer, were engaged by a contractor to clean some sewage pipes of the public health department. Mohan and Shyam were engaged in desilting a 17-foot deep sewage pipeline. Both were asphyxiated to death inside. The contractor also tried to locate the missing labourers but he reportedly came out on feeling suffocated. Later, both bodies were extricated. |
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Drug pedlar gets 10-yr jail
Fatehabad, August 2 The Fatehabad police had recovered six bags of poppy husk from a car on May 29, 1999, near Rozanwali village in this district. The police had arrested Joginder Singh in this connection and had booked him under the NDPS Act. The court found the accused guilty of the crime and sentenced him today. |
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Power theft detected
Fatehabad, August 2 According to reports, seven teams of the vigilance wing, led by executive engineer R.P. Bansal, today checked several power connections in Basti Bhiwan, Shiv Chowk, Lajpat Nagar and Ashok Nagar. |
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