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Separate SGPC
Makkar dares Congress
4 Olympians to be made DSPs
Dengue Outbreak
Youth beaten to death
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Chhatterpati for transfer of trial against dera chief
JE, lineman held on bribe charge
Juvenile to serve water as punishment for murder
Extra police force to tackle terrorism
350 booked for setting bus afire
Students damage school property
Sirsa deputy commissioner V.Umashankar goes around a photo exhibition at Sirsa on Friday on the devastating effects of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A Tribune photograph
Woman, son get life term for murder
4 held for damaging dera followers’ property
Drug pedlar gets 10-yr RI
Pakistani bomber gets life term
Trader found murdered
1 dies as cylinder explodes
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Ad hoc gurdwara panel opposes Badal’s meeting in Karnal
Tribune Reporters
Yamunanagar, August 22 The committed said Badal, who did not enjoy the support of Sikhs in the state, would bring SAD supporters from Punjab that might lead to disturbance and create law and order problem. A large number of Sikhs of the state had already submitted affidavits to the committee demanding a separate gurdwara body, senior vice-president of the Haryana SGPC (ad hoc) Joga Singh said after holding a meeting with other members of the committee here today. “We have appealed to the Haryana government not to allow Badal to hold a Sikh congregation. Badal fumed at the fact that the Haryana government had decided to bring an act for the formation of a separate Haryana SGPC in the coming assembly session, which will begin from September 1,” he added. He said it was the constitutional right of the Sikhs of Haryana to have a separate body to look into the affairs of the gurdwaras of the state. KAITHAL: Sikhs spearheading the movement for a separate gurdwara management body for Haryana will not rest till a separate Sikh gurdwara committee is constituted in the state. This was stated by Avtar Singh Chakku, a member of the SGPC (ad hoc), Haryana, and Sarjit Singh, president of the local Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, while talking to mediapersons here on Thursday. They said the Haryana government should fulfill its promise made to Haryana Sikhs during the last Assembly elections that a separate SGPC would be constituted for the state. They asked if there could be a separate body for Delhi why not for Haryana. Sikh leaders said it was strange that SAD leaders - Parkash Singh Badal and others - had been opposing the formation of a separate SGPC for Haryana due to political reasons as they had been misusing the SGPC to achieve their political objects over the years. He said many SAD leaders had claimed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was not in favour of a separate gurdwara body for Haryana. He further said such statements were a bundle of lies as SAD leaders never supported Manmohan Singh during the last vote of confidence in Lok Sabha and Akalis stood by the BJP when Manmohan Singh’s government was in political crisis.
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Makkar dares Congress
Karnal, August 22 Makkar, who was here to flag off a “jagriti yatra” from Dera Kar Sewa and to hold meetings with religious heads of different organisations in connection with the August 30 rally, said the Sikhs knew how to protect their rights. He claimed that Sikhs across the globe had faith in the SGPC and it was only a few in the state who were demanding a separate body as they had some vested interests. The SGPC chief accused Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda of “engineering” the idea of a separate body to manage the seven gurdwaras in the state that were at present run by the SGPC. Makkar had even met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and requested him not to allow any such move. The SGPC chief said as per the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925, the gurdwaras in Haryana fell under the jurisdiction of the SGPC and it was the prerogative of the committee to run their affairs. Denying allegations of a stepmotherly treatment being meted out to Sikhs of Haryana, Makkar said the SGPC had been making huge budgetary provisions every year to develop gurdwaras in the state. The SGPC was even coming up with Rs a 150 crore medical education institution at Shahbad, but the Congress government in the state was deliberately creating hurdles in its way by not approving building plans for the project. He said the August 30 rally would show that Sikhs in the state were with the SGPC. Meanwhile, Jagdish Singh Jhinda said the formation of a separate SGPC was the religious and legal right of the Sikhs in the state.
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4 Olympians to be made DSPs
Chandigarh, August 22 This was announced by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today. He said besides a boxing academy, the government would also set up a wrestling academy at an appropriate place in the state to promote the sport. Hooda also announced a cash reward of Rs 50 lakh to Vijender Kumar, a boxer hailing from Haryana, for winning a bronze medal in the Olympics. He also announced a reward of Rs 25 lakh to the boxing coach of Haryana Jagdish. He also announced cash awards of Rs 25 lakh each for boxers Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar and wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt who reached the quarterfinals at the Beijing Olympics. He hoped that as a result of the incentives being given by the government to the players, they would win more medals in the next Commonwealth Games and bring laurels to the state and the country. Hooda said the performance of the players of Haryana at the Beijing Olympics had proved that there was no dearth of talent in rural areas of the state. The government was already constructing over 150 stadia in rural areas to help the youth improve their performance in the games of their choice. HJC announces cash rewards
Meanwhile, Haryana Janhit Congress supremo Kuldip Bishnoi has also announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh for Vijender, Rs 1 lakh each for Akhil and Jitender and Rs 2 lakh for coach Jagdish. In a statement issued here today, Bishnoi said these rewards would be given on December 2, the foundation day of his party. |
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Health dept told to speed up preventive measures
Arun Sharma Tribune News Service
Panchkula, August 22 In fact, dengue has virtually gripped the state as a large number of cases have been reported from different districts leading by Gurgaon, where 232 suspected case have been reported. Till now, at least 150 case of dengue have been confirmed in Gurgaon only. The health authorities were concerned over the fact that the disease had been spreading very fast as 152 out of 183 confirmed cases were reported within the past three weeks only. Suspected cases have been reported from Bhiwani, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Hisar Jhajjar, Panipat, Rohtak, Sonepat and Yamunanagar districts. Another factor of concern for the authorities was that the disease has been spreading out to newer areas where no case was reported in the past. Fatehabad is second to Gurgaon in the number of reported cases. A total of 89 suspected cases were reported from Fatehabad till yesterday. NVDBP director G.P.S. Dhillon in a communiqué to the state health authorities while asking for concentrating on Gurgaon, Sonepat and Faridabad has said to keep a check on accumulating and stagnating water at construction sites in these areas. The director while issuing guidelines said private builders should be asked to keep a check on stagnating water in sites being developed by them. Besides, preventive measures being implemented by the state government should also be speeded up, said the director. Though no case had been reported from Faridabad, the authorities were taking no chance, as major outbreak was reported in the district in 1997. The Haryana director-general, Health, Dr Avinash Sharma, said while special wards had been set up for dengue patients in Gurgaon, Fatehabad, and Faridabad. The authorities concerned in the districts had already been directed to conduct fogging and spray operation in the affected areas.
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Youth beaten to death
Jind, August 22 The relatives of the girl assaulted the duo after they ignored their protest over such a meeting before marriage. While Annu escaped unhurt, Shanty was allegedly beaten up so hard that he succumbed to his injuries on the spot. The police has arrested three of the accused after registering a case against five youths hailing from the girl’s
family. Annu (24), a local resident working as a commission agent in the local grain market, had recently got engaged to a girl. Annu took Shanty to his fiancée’s house after the latter urged Annu to take him along. The girl’s family, who did not like the approach made by the boy and his friend, asked them to go back. However, the boys remained adamant on meeting the girl. This enraged the kin of the girl, who allegedly threatened them with dire consequences. Later, cousins of the girl came out with sticks and started chasing the duo after abusing them. While the girl’s fiancée was able to escape from the spot, his friend Shanty, who had tried to hide in a shop, was caught by the youths, who then allegedly beat him up. He died on the spot. The police has registered a case against five persons - Sonu, Goga,
Dody, Anil and Rajiv, all kin of the girl. Three of the accused have been arrested by the police. Meanwhile, the Railway police recovered the body of an unidentified person from the railway track near Bishanpura station here last night. Sources said he was run over by a train last night. |
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Chhatterpati for transfer of trial against dera chief
Chandigarh, August 22 Anshul has also urged the CBI director to move court to cancel the bail granted to the dera chief. He released copies of letters written by him to the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court as well as the CBI director to mediapersons here today. In his letter to the Chief Justice, Anshul pointed out that it was he who had moved the High Court in 2003 seeking the transfer of investigation into his father’s murder to the CBI on the grounds that the Haryana government was trying to shield the main conspirator. The court had allowed his petition. He said the state government had urged the High Court to transfer the cases against the dera chief from Ambala to Sirsa on the grounds of public inconvenience and security threat to the dera head. Anshul said the state government should have taken into confidence the CBI and the complainants before making this request to the High Court. Urging the Chief Justice to turn down the government’s plea, he said the court should hear all parties before taking any decision. In his letter to the CBI director, Anshul regretted that the CBI failed to challenge the bail granted to the dera chief despite knowing that a fair and free trial was not expected as long as the the dera head was not put behind the bars. He urged the CBI to take necessary legal steps for seeking the transfer of the trial against the dera chief and others to a state other than Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, which had a large concentration of followers of the dera.
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JE, lineman held on bribe charge
Bahadurgarh (Jhajjar), August 22 Narender Singh, a resident of Sector 6, had gone to the UHBVN’s local office to get an electricity fault removed. JE Sham Lal allegedly demanded Rs 5,000 as bribe for doing the job. Narender agreed to pay Rs 2,000. Narender made a complaint against Sham Lal in the Bahadurgarh Vigilance Bureau office. The vigilance office constituted a team to investigate the matter. The team yesterday conducted a raid at the power nigam office and caught Sham Lal red-handed while accepting the bribe from Narender. The police has registered a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act against the JE and arrested him. Meanwhile, the police has arrested two youths - Rajesh, a resident of Puth Khurd village, and Rajesh of Bawana village - in connection with the attack on Barahi village’s sarpanch, Pawan Chhillar, on August 2. The police has claimed that the duo had confessed to their crime. JIND: A lineman of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) was caught red-handed by a team of the Vigilance Bureau while taking a bribe of Rs 3,000 from a resident of Singhana village on Thursday. The accused identified as Mahender Singh had allegedly demanded the money from Rajender Singh for adjusting the extra load of power in the latter’s domestic connection and not lodging a complaint against him for power theft. The accused has been arrested and a case of corruption registered against him. The powdered currency notes were recovered as soon as the lineman accepted the money. |
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Juvenile to serve water as punishment for murder
Sonepat, August 22 The juvenile, a resident of Idgah Colony, Gohana, took the minor to an under-construction house near the colony and attempted to rape her on March 21, 1998. However, when she raised the alarm, the accused, who was carrying a knife, stabbed the girl to death. The girl’s father lodged a complaint on March 24 about the alleged abduction of her daughter and the police succeeded in recovering the body of the girl from the spot of the incident on the same day. On basis of investigation, the police arrested the juvenile and recovered the knife used in the crime from his possession. The accused confessed that he murdered the girl. The CJM also directed the secretary of the District Red Cross Society to submit monthly reports about the youth. Secretary of the society Subhash Vashist said Ruchi was a school for mentally retarded children and there were 50 students at present. |
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Extra police force to tackle terrorism
Jhajjar, August 22 The state authorities have prepared a list of police officials, who will be assigned specified areas with a view to tightening the noose on terrorists. Deputy superintendent of police to fourth-class employees will be included under this special plan. According to sources in the police department, the state police had got a tip-off that the NCR was on the target of terrorist outfits after Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Surat. Though intelligence agencies had persistently been keeping a close eye on terrorist movements, the state authorities were of the view that if adequate police force was deployed in highly-sensitive areas, extra pressure could be mounted on terrorist outfits. |
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350 booked for setting bus afire
Kurukshetra, August 22 A police spokesman here today said the bus driver, Harjinder Singh, had also been arrested for negligent and rash driving leading to the death of Ismailabad-based trader Ved Prakash yesterday near DAV College, Pehowa, about 30 km from here. Angered over the death, a mob dragged and beat up the bus driver and put the bus on fire. They also damaged a fire tender and did not allow firemen to extinguish the bus, which was reduced to ashes. The criminal case has been registered against 350 persons for destroying the government and private property, assault on government employees and hindering government officials from performing their duties, the spokesman said.
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Students damage school property
Hisar, August 22 The students started damaging office equipment, windowpanes and flowerpots after the school prayer ended this morning, Later, they marched in procession to the mini-secretariat. They met deputy commissioner O.P. Sheoran and demanded the removal of the principal. The students alleged that the principal had slapped Kiran yesterday as she had refused to act as a gatekeeper, saying that she was a teacher and not a gatekeeper. Sheoran told the students that additional deputy commissioner Ashima Brar have been asked to conduct a probe into the matter. |
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Exhibition on Hiroshima, Nagasaki attacks
Sirsa, August 22 The exhibition was organised under the aegis of the Deshbhakt Yaadgar Lok Kendra. Deputy commissioner V. Umashankar inaugurated the exhibition. Baldev Bakshi, organiser of the exhibition, said 1.40 lakh persons were killed when a bomb was dropped in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, while 80,000 more persons were killed when a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. A large number of prominent persons of the town and schoolchildren visited the exhibition. |
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Woman, son get life term for murder
Sirsa, August 22 The accused, Jaswant Singh, had a dispute with his father Anokh Singh over the distribution of the property. Anokh Singh’s wife Amarjit Kaur, who was fed up with the drinking habits of her husband, sided with her son Jaswant Singh in the matter. On May 9, 2007, when Anokh Singh reached home in an inebriated condition, Jaswant Singh had an altercation with him.
In the fight, Jaswant and his mother Amarjit Kaur strangled Anokh Singh to death. |
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4 held for damaging dera followers’ property
Sirsa, August 22 Those arrested have been identified as Gurpreet, Sukhpreet, Raju, and Gurvinder. Gurpreet and Sukhpreet are brothers and run a sawmill while Raju, a resident of Guniana Mandi, worked at their sawmill. The accused allegedly burnt houses and shops of dera followers after Harminder Singh’s death during an altercation over naam charcha. Earlier, the police had arrested Kuldeep Singh and Jagtar Singh, both dera followers for Harminder Singh’s death. Ram Gopal, another dera follower, who was arrested for the death earlier, was released yesterday after being found innocent.
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Drug pedlar gets 10-yr RI
Kaithal, August 22 The convict was also sentenced to a five-year term and fined Rs 5,000 for firing at a police party. In May 2005, on a tip-off that poppy husk was being smuggled from Rajasthan to the Cheeka area, the police stopped a vehicle coming from the Kaithal side near Kangthli village. As the vehicle stopped, the driver, Munshi of Mohiwal, Subhash of Sollumazra and smuggler Pala Ram of Hans Behar village in Jind district , jumped out of the vehicle and Pala Ram fired at the police party, headed by Sultan Singh, in charge of the Siwan police station. A huge quantity of poppy husk was found concealed in the vehicle. The accused were arrested and put on trial. After hearing arguments of the prosecution and the defence, the court convicted Pala Ram and sentenced him. |
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Pakistani bomber gets life term
Panipat, August 22 The court held Mohammad Hussain, son of Nazir Hussain and resident of Jardana in Pakistan, guilty of the crime and sentenced him to life imprisonment. At present, the accused is lodged in Tihar Jail in Delhi. The court stated that in 1997 Mohammad Hussain had planted a bomb in a Haryana transport bus that was stationed at the Panipat bus stand and was en route to Lohara village in the district. In the consequent blast, a 10-year-old boy was killed. The convict was sentenced under sections 302 and 307 of the IPC. He was awarded life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 25,000 was also imposed on him. |
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Trader found murdered
Fatehabad, August 22 His body was found lying on the roadside. The victim used to run a grocery shop in the village. The police said a villager, Harpal, allegedly killed him over a money dispute. |
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1 dies as cylinder explodes
Sirsa, August 22 Balbir of Mangala village and Raju of Khussar village were working in the denting, painting and welding workshop, when the welding gas cylinder exploded. Balbir Singh died on the spot. |
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