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Kalka-Pinjore bypass to boost real estate activity
Hemant Kumar

Kalka, September 3
Resentment prevails among the electricity consumers in Kalka and its vicinity over the imposing of additional security deposit of meters installed in the rural and urban areas. They alleged that the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) department had put an extra financial burden on them.

Satish Bhatt, a municipal councillor of Kalka, Naresh Kumar, Suresh Kumar and Anil Goel alleged that the department had already issued notices to them to deposit the security of meters installed in their houses two times of an average of one month of their bills in one instalment. Naresh said a sum of Rs 3,019 has been added to their electricity bill, which is an additional burden on them imposed by the UHBVN. They further said the state government had not issued any prior notification and directive to collect the security.

They also said the notice did not mention the details already submitted by the consumers. They added that since last couple of months they had been facing unscheduled power cuts for more than 12 hours on daily basis. According to the Consumer Act, minimum charges related to service provided should be removed from the bills. This issue was also put forth in the recent open darbar of the superintendent engineer of the UHBVN at Kalka.

The official sources of the UHBVN, Kalka revealed that following the circular of the nigam dated 7/7/06, we have to collect the security deposit. The consumers lamented that it was an irony that the department was implementing the circular of 2006 in 2008. They said the circular had a provision of collecting the security in 24 instalments in 48 months, whereas the department was collecting the money in one instalment. They added that they had made up their mind to move the court to pursue this case.

Rajpura, September 3
Panic gripped residents of Dalima Vihar after a suspected dengue case was reported from here today. Municipal council officials and safai karamcharis besides a team of doctors visited the area and took samples of 80 slides and also found five cases of mild fever.

"The residents brought to our notice that a 55-year-old woman, Pushpa Dhingra, was suffering from dengue. However, no official confirmation has been received," said senior medical officer Dr Bhupinder Singh.

He revealed that various cases of fever were being reported at the civil hospital for the past many days. “We had asked the MC officials to launch a cleanliness drive,” he said.

The residents revealed that Pushpa Dhingra was suffering from fever for the past two days. She was first rushed to a private hospital in Rajpura from where she was told to get some medical tests done in Patiala.

She was vomiting profusely and had high fever a few days back. Now, she was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Chandigarh.

The MC officials said fogging and sprays had been done in the area and residents had been told to clean their surrounding areas.

Meanwhile, a large number of residents from New Friends Colony near the flyover alleged that they had been drinking impure water for the past several days. The residents alleged that some people of their locality fell ill after consuming the dirty water and their complaint was redressed by the authorities concerned after many days. 

Bassi Pathana, September 3
A delegation of Bassi Pathana residents led by former minister R.S. Cheema and president of the municipal council Kulbhushan Malhotra 
submitted a memorandum regarding the pitiable 
condition of the town to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.

They demanded immediate grant of Rs 2 crore for the town and urged to set up eco-friendly units in the area so that more avenues of employment could be generated. They mentioned that the condition of the town, which used to be a princely state during the British regime, had become pitiable. It was the only town where the population had been decreasing regularly as the people were migrating to other towns in search of employment, they added.

The memorandum also stated that the youngsters of the town were falling prey to drugs due to lack of work. There was no sewer system and water supply. The connection of the streetlights had been disconnected for not clearing the bills and the tubewell was lying in disuse for a want of power connection. The municipal council was under the debt of Rs 1 crore and had no sources of income to carry out any development work.

The Chief Minister assured the delegation that its demands would be considered sympathetically and the funds would be released.

Similarly, Hindu organisations also submitted a memorandum to minister for local bodies Manoranjan Kalia to demand for permanent executive officer and sectional officer for the council and to release a grant of Rs 2.5 lakh for Ram Park. He also assured to do the needful.

Bassi Pathana, September 3
A delegation of officers led by assistant superintendent of posts today visited the town to persuade the residents not to organise the dharna, which they have planned for tomorrow, in front of the post office. The delegation assured them that the construction work of the new post office building would be started soon.

As soon as the team reached the post office, hundreds of residents led by council president Kulbhushan Malhotra and Manoj Banda gheraoed it. The residents declared that the planned dharna would be postponed only if the delegates made an announcement regarding the construction of the new building publicly.

While talking to The Tribune, the delegates said the new post office building had been approved for the town by the directorate during the 11th five-year plan and the formalities for the start of construction work were being completed. They said the case was pending with the finance committee at Delhi and as soon as the meeting would be held, it would be cleared.

Meanwhile, the proposed dharna has been postponed after the assurance by the delegation. The condition of the local post office is pitiable. It is being run from small rented rooms and has no facility for the customers and staff.

Man held with 930 gram cocaine
Tribune News Service

Kharar, September 3
SHO Kharar, Dalbir Singh, and his team seized 930 grams of cocaine from a Rajasthan resident  here today.

On receiving secret information, police put up naka on Kharar-Landran road, near village Sante Majra. Lekh Raj, a resident of village Pakhwari Jurera, district Bharatpur was arrested and his belongings were  also searched.

Police recovered 930 grams of cocaine from his bag. He has been arrested and booked under sections 22-61-85 of the NDPS Act.

Chandigarh, September 3
The admissions to Panjab University’s MBA course in the university business school have come under the Punjab and Haryana High Court scanner.

In a petition taken up by a High Court Bench, comprising Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, candidate Devanshi Sharma has stated the instructions published in the “Handbook of information and rules for admissions in 2008” were not being complied with while considering the grant of admissions to sports category candidates.

Describing herself as a “korfball player”, Sharma sought directions to the PU, university business school, dean university instructions and sports director to follow the instructions while granting admissions under the sports quota in the MBA course.

The petitioner said she had appeared in the entrance examination for admission to the MBA course on November 18, 2007, and scored 71.25 percentile in the written examination.

But instead of short-listing first 64 candidates in accordance with the the rules, and the results of CAT-2007, the list of all candidates appearing in the examinations was forwarded to Panjab University’s sports director.

Subsequently, the list of 26 candidates was shown under the sports category.

The act of sending the names of all candidates, she claimed, was in violation of rules and contrary to the information provided in the prospectus. Seeking directions to the respondents against declaring the results, Sharma in an application placed along with the petition, argued that the university and others had given preference to those scoring less in CAT, but with sports gradation and ranking shown to be higher than hers.

As the matter came up for hearing before the Bench this morning, time for filing reply in the matter was sought by the respondents.

Chandigarh, September 3
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has indicted two officers from an Army transport company, including a colonel commanding the unit, and three civilian contractors for alleged irregularities in hiring vehicles for military use.

Investigations by the CBI have revealed that the Army authorities passed false and highly inflated bills submitted by the private firms, causing a loss of lakhs of rupees to the state. A chargesheet relating to the case was filed in the court of the Special CBI Judge at Ambala a few days ago.

The chargesheet states that in order to show undue favour to some Ambala-based firms, Headquarters 2 Corps started placing orders for supplying transport vehicles with these firms on the pretext that vehicles having different specifications than those mentioned in the contract agreement, already executed with a Chandigarh-based firm, were required.

Ad hoc boards were constituted by 2 corps for fixation of rates for additional vehicles, as a result of which vehicles were hired at the rate of Rs 119 per kilometre instead of Rs 60 as stipulated by the Western Command.

CBI investigations have revealed that registration numbers of vehicles mentioned in the bills were fake. For instance, several buses hired by an air defence regiment, through the 946 Transport Company, for transporting troops had false and fabricated car diaries (log books).

Some of the registration numbers mentioned in the bill for the hired buses and trucks belonged to Maruti cars and scooters, while the record of some of the registrations numbers could not be traced by the transport authorities.

The car diaries were duly initialed by regimental representatives and de-hiring certificates were issued by offices of the Army transport company for bills to be paid by the government.

The chargesheet states that during the course of investigation, various discrepancies in respect of other transport bills were also found in the 946 Transport Company.

The irregularities have also been brought to the notice of the joint secretary and chief vigilance office, in the ministry of defence, for initiating departmental action against erring Army personnel and for banning the transporters involved.

Chandigarh, September 3
The CBI Special Court today allowed the opening of locks of the two houses of Ravinder Singh Bhasin in the case of delivery of Rs 15 lakh at judge’s house.

The court stated: “It is not advisable to hand over the key of the house to Ravinder’s counsel. The seals of the locks should be opened in the presence of four independent witnesses, out of whom one shall be to the rank of deputy commissioner of the concerned zone. Also, one Class I officer of the CBI should be present when the seals of the two houses are opened.”

The court specified that a written request of opening the seals should be given to the CBI office in Delhi. The CBI would then fix the date and time for the same as early as possible, but not later than 24 hours.

The court held: “The entire process of opening the seals and entry of the owner of the house shall be video-graphed so as to depict the condition of the house and the articles here to avoid future complications.”

Ravinder, who is still untraceable, owns two houses in Delhi - one in Rajinder Nagar and the other in Patel Nagar.

Meanwhile, former law officer Sanjeev Bansal, accused in the case, today moved bail application in the Special CBI Court. The bail application has been adjourned to September 6.

In the bail application it was stated: “The entire case depends upon the documentary evidence. Therefore, there is no possibility of tampering of documents that has been taken into the possession of the police. The most pivotal point in the present case is that the petitioner has been arrested in this case on the basis of suspicion alone.

Moreover, the statement of co-accused cannot be read against the petitioner, unless the confession is recorded in the presence of the Magistrate. It is hit by the Section 24 and 25 of the Evidence Act.”

The petitioner further assured that the prosecution evidence would not be tampered. It was further claimed that Bansal was ready to abide by any such condition to be imposed by this court in the event of grant of bail to him.

The CBI sought judicial custody for Bansal and Rajiv Gupta. The application seeking judicial custody stated: “The investigation is in progress. Both the accused are influential and may tamper with the evidence if released on bail. Both the accused may be sent to 14-day judicial custody.”

However, Bansal and his supporters took a sigh of relief today after the court remanded him and his accomplice Rajiv Gupta, to judicial custody.

Chandigarh, September 3
Raising questions on the inquiry conducted by an officer of director health services (DHS), the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has directed the DHS and the anti-malaria office to reinstate Dharam Pal Verma, a sanitary supervisor of the malaria wing.

Verma was indicted by the health department for absenting from work and using unparliamentary language on April 3, 1993.

The inquiry officer of the case had held Verma guilty of the charges, resulting in his termination from service.

CAT, headed by Shyama Dogra and Tarsem Lal, observed: “The order passed by the disciplinary authority shows that the various points raised by the applicant have not been considered and brushed aside in a light-hearted manner, stating that the applicant has raised some legal issue and some procedural lacunae besides raising some other issues, which are not relevant, factually incorrect and are not legally tenable. The delinquent officer has deliberately tried to hoodwink and mislead the disciplinary authority by concealment and distortion of material facts and representation made by him is without any merit. The representation made by him is without any merit. The applicant has thus been punished. This shows that there is no application of mind on part of the disciplinary authority.”

After receiving the orders of termination from service, Verma appealed against the order on September 22, 2005 stating that he had been punished without being given the opportunity to defend himself.

He stated that the municipal corporation (MC) was not competent to terminate his services, as he was under suspension at the time of his final relocation from the malaria wing of the health department. He added that as the permanent transfer order to the MC had been struck down, the order passed by then MC commissioner on February 2, 1996 was illegal and void.

Pronouncing the orders, the tribunal held: “It is seen that there has been a substantial delay and the authorities have conducted an inquiry in total disregard to the rules.”

CAT held that the applicant would be entitled to 50 per cent of the back wages for a period from the date of dismissal, which was converted into compulsory retirement to date of reinstatement. The period of suspension till the date of reinstatement would treated as duty for all purposes such as grant of annual increments and seniority, it added.

Chandigarh, September 3
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has directed Citibank, Sector 9, to pay Rs 10,000 in compensation to a Mohali resident for not clearing dues against credit card despite payment of the outstanding amount.

The petitioner, Brig P.K. Mangal, stated that the bank had issued credit card in his name in 2000.

He claimed that no payments were pending against the credit card. In 2005, the petitioner had paid Rs 1,213 to Citibank, however, the bank again raised debit for Rs 1,213 in its statement. The petitioner confirmed the debiting of the said cheque from his bankers.

The complainant paid the amount of Rs 1,213 again to the bank on April 1, 2005.

The complainant had requested the bank to refund the dues in the next statement. He averred that he had paid Rs 6,000 to the bank, yet the bank statement issued on November 21, 2005 showed a debit for Rs 6,000. The credit card of the petitioner stopped working. When enquired, the bank replied that as he had not deposited the outstanding amount, they were constrained to withdraw all facilities on the card held by the complainant.

The bank replied that it gave upfront credit for cheques issued by its customers as soon as they received the cheques from its customers. It stated that the balance was not cleared by the petitioner, thus the services to the card were withdrawn.

The forum directed the bank to remove the outstanding balance amount shown as overdue and payable by the complainant against the credit card.

Mohali, September 3
Haryana DSP and an ex-serviceman arrested by the police in connection with a drug racket were remanded in the judicial custody by a court here today.

According to information, the police had produced Haryana DSP Gurdrashan Singh Sodhi and Dara Singh, a resident of Phase III B-2, in the court requesting the judicial magistrate to extend the police remand of the two accused. But their lawyers objected to the request and suggested that both be sent in judicial custody as the police had kept them in its custody for the past five days. Extending the police remand would amount to harassment of the two suspects, they added.

The police had arrested the two on August 29. While Dara Singh was arrested at a checkpoint on the Sohana-Landran road with 1.23 kg of cocaine, Sodhi was arrested later the same evening. It was alleged that the seized cocaine was supplied to Dara Singh by Sodhi. 

Chandigarh, September 3
Indian Football Association (IFA) found an easy opponent in Delhi Soccer Association (DSA) as they registered a facile win over the latter by 12-1 in a group-D match today during the ongoing 6th Administrator's Challenge Cup All-India Football Tournament for Under-17 at the Sector 42 football ground. The tournament is being organised by the Chandigarh sports department.

Playing their first match, IFA XI displayed their skills as they forced DSA to fight with their backs to the wall. The trio of Hemanta Topo (6th, 18th, 34th minutes) Deepankar Sarkar (28th, 39th, 66th) and Muzzafar Ali (15th, 20th, 75th) repeatedly pierced their rivals’ defence to rain goals. Sila Ditta (71st), Diplad Bera (79th) and Ajharu Deen Molan (89th) contributed one goal each.

The face-saving goal for DSA was netted by Manhar Gopal in the 63rd minute. Bhupinder of DSA was warned for deliberately handling the ball in the 68th minute.

In another one-sided match, Mahilpur Football Academy handed out an 11-0 drubbing to Chhattisgarh Football Academy at the Sector 17 football stadium here today. Iqbal Singh (3), Rajbir Singh Junior (3), Deepak (3), Rajbir Singh Senior (1) and Sagar Satija (1) were the scorers for the winning team.

Zaved Khan of Chhattisgarh was shown red card for dangerous play in the 80th minute. Taha Hussain (49th minute) and Irfan Changal (30th) were given yellow cards for their unsporting behaviuor.

Meanwhile, S.K. Rehan’s last goal helped Rohit Football Academy of Orissa snatch a point from Madhya Pradesh Football Association as they played a one-all draw in their group-A match. The first half produced no goal.

On crossing over, Madhya Pradesh forged ahead in the 75th minute when Prati Kanojia's 22-yard powerful drive hit the second bar. Rohit Football Academy hit back and neutralised the lead in the 88the minute through Rehan.

In another match,Tamil Nadu Football Academy tasted their first triumph after defeating Steadfast Sports Academy of Mumbai by 3-0.

Bihar Football Association got the better of Cantonment Board Senior Secondary School by 5-2 in a group-B match. Suman Kumar pumped in four goals, including a hat-trick. His goals came in the 3rd, 44th, 56th and 87th minutes. Mohd Aftab Alam made one goal in the 59th minute.

For Cantonment Board Senior Secondary School, Jalandhar, Navdeep Singh (16th) and Gurjit Singh (81st) reduced the margin.

Bihar's Karamvir Kumar (14th), Chandan Kumar (29th) and Aftab Alam (77th) were cautioned for rough play. Harjinder Singh of Cantonment Board was shown yellow card in the 63rd minute for rough tackling.

Chandigarh, September 3
Ajeetesh Sandhu of Chandigarh fired a four under par 67 to occupy the tied third slot at the midway stage of the PGTI Players Championship on the par 71 greens of the Poona Golf Club in Pune today.

Ajeetesh, who turned pro barely a year back, was joined by another Chandigarh golfer, Uttam Singh Mundy, in the joint third place. The two are barely two strokes behind the leader, C. Muniyappa, who leads the field at the end of round two with an overall score of eight under 134.

Mundy also had a good three under par 68 round today for a two-day aggregate of six under par 136.

Mohd. Siddikur Rehman is in the second place, one stroke adrift of Muniyappa.

The cut was declared at six over 148. Fifty professionals and one amateur made the cut. Four more amateurs in the field will join these fifty-one golfers for the last two rounds on Thursday and Friday.

Ajeetesh Sandhu (69, 67), Himmat Singh Rai (66, 70) and Uttam Singh Mundy (68, 68) are all tied third at six under 136.

Chandigarh big hitter Gurbaaz Mann’s one under 70 placed him sixth at five under 137. Mann had returned 67 in the first round.

Gaganjeet Bhullar (73, 66) shot the best round of the day. The Kapurthala lad’s second round score of five under 66 moved his total to three under 139 and helped him finish round two in eighth place. Bhullar’s round featured an eagle on the seventh, birdies on the first, second, ninth, 11th, 17th and bogeys on the third and eighth. He chipped-in for an eagle on the seventh.

Rahul Ganapathy (69, 72) is currently tied 10th as his total stands at one under 141. Vijay Kumar (71, 70) had an identical total at the halfway stage and joined Ganapathy in tied 10th.

Mukesh Kumar carded a 72 for the second successive day to take his total to two over 144. Mukesh is placed tied 23rd at the end of round two.

Harmeet Kahlon (72, 73) of Chandigarh totalled three over 143 for the first two rounds. He is placed tied 30th at the moment.

Harendra Gupta, also from Chandigarh, is tied 42nd at five over 147. He followed up his first round 72 with a four over 75 on Wednesday.

Chandigarh, September 3
SGGS College, Sector 26, won the Panjab University Inter-college Kayaking (men) Championship for the session 2008-09 with 39 points on the PU campus today.

In K-I-200m, Sitinder Kumar of PU bagged the first position while Naveen of SGGS College and Manoj of DAV College clinched the second and third positions, respectively.

Davinder and Shinderpal of SGGS College stood first in K-II-200m. In K-IV-200m, Mangal, Naveen, Jagjit and Shinderpal of SGGS clinched the first position.

In K-I-500m, Davinder Singh of SGGS College got the first position while in K-II-500m, Davinder and Naveen bagged the first position.

Sitender, Kanav, Bittu and Vikram of PU lifted the first position in the K-IV-500m.

In K-I-1000m, Pawan Kumar of GN College, Narangwal stood first. Naveen, Shinderpal, Jagjit and Mangal of SGGS bagged the first position in K-IV-1000m.

Chandigarh, September 3
“Catch ’em young” is the mantra the Chandigarh Football Academy (CFA) believes in. Unlike other academies, they select students in the age group of 9-10 years and nurture them further for under-14 and 17 matches.

However, the CFA has been facing a serious dearth of players of this age group lately.

The CFA was formed in 2000 by former Punjab Governor and UT Administrator Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd).

In a span of eight years, the CFA has produced over 16 players who have donned the national colours and represented some of the top clubs in the country like the Tata Football Academy (TFA) and the JCT.

With the likes of Harjinder Singh and Tejinder Singh (both former national captains), and Gurpreet Singh as coaches of the academy, the CFA has grown in stature.

“I feel excited while learning dribbling and overlapping from my coach Harjinder,” says Harcharan, an under-14 player of the CFA, who idolises David Beckham.

Pardeep, who hails from Jammu, says: “Our coach guides us very well and we are provided with quality training at the academy. I want to be a national player in future.”

Harjinder said when the CFA went on a lookout for talent scouts recently they found very few students interested in football.

“We have to take average players to complete the team by relaxing the set standards,” he added.

He said owing to the glamour in cricket, everybody was heading that way but they were all wasting their talent. “How many players can be national-level cricketers?” he said.

Terming cricket an individual game, he said one was individually involved in cricket, whether it concerned batting, bowling or fielding. However, in football one had to snatch the ball from the opponent, which required power and good physique.

There are many opportunities in football but people are not aware of them.

Players who play for the TFA, the JCT and other high-profile clubs earn around Rs 30,000 a month apart from other incentives.

Chandigarh, September 3
Chandigarh District was saved by heavy shower after lunch when it was precariously placed at 125 for 7 chasing Zone-B’s total of 187 during Punjab State Inter District Senior Tournament for Katoch Shield held here today at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium.

The two teams split points each getting one. Overnight 41 for 2, Chandigarh lost their opener Viswas Bhalla who was done in by medium pacer Jatinder who had him caught by Anand at extra cover without addition to his overnight score of 15.

The Chandigarh team lost wickets at regular intervals except for a brief partnership of 40 runs for the 5th wicket between Simrat Bawa (23) and Anil Sihag (22). Gaurav Gambhir who had got 5 wickets yesterday with his off-spinners chipped in with a quick fire (21). Off-spinner Krishan 2/18 of 13 overs and medium pacer Jatinder 3/25 were the pick of the bowlers for zone b.

In the 2nd match played at Mohali, Amritsar won 1st innings lead of 16 runs and garnered two points. The match was called off due to rain. Resuming at 111 for 6 of 39 overs, Mohali lost wickets at regular intervals and finally folded up for 185 in 59.5 overs. Gony remained unbeaten on 38 off 35 balls. For Amritsar, Tarun Sharma 4 for 49, Mayank Sharma 3 for 37 and Bharat Loomba 3 for 44 were the wreckers in chief. Amritsar in the 2nd essay were 26 for no loss in 6 overs before the match was called off due to rain.

In the 3rd match played at Patiala, Patiala got 2 points against Zone - A on 1st innings lead. Resuming at 63 for 3 in 18 overs and with the help of Gajinder Singh (81), Patiala were at the end of the day 323 in 92.4 overs and all out.

In the 4th match played at Jalandhar, Jalandhar resuming at the overnight score of 49 for 1 and were bowled out for 208 in 90.1 overs thus conceding 41 lead to Ludhiana who got 2 points for the 1st innings lead. Jalandhar innings revolved round Satpal (93), who held the innings together. 

Chandigarh, September 3
The tricity seems to have become the latest target of organised inter-state gangs. The busting of two such gangs with arms and ammunition by the Chandigarh police within a span of 15 days is a pointer to the increasing crime in the area.

The local police recently nabbed three members of a gang, namely Sham Mandal, alias Mangal, Sarabjit Kumar and Sanjiv, from the ‘jungle’ area near Gau Shala, Sector 45, while conspiring to commit a dacoity in the city. The two other members - Manoj Kumar and Kuldeep - managed to dodge the police under the cover of darkness.

The police recovered one pistol, two revolvers and 12 cartridges from their possession.

“The miscreants were planning to loot a petrol station,” said sub-inspector Rajdeep Singh, in charge of the Sector 45police post.

“Mangal has been involved in illegal activities in the area for the past eight or nine years. Now he has organised a gang,” said the sub-inspector while maintaining that the police hoped to solve many crime cases with the arrest of the members.

Earlier, on August 24, the Operation Cell had busted an inter-state gang with the arrest of six members. The gang was involved in bank dacoity, robberies and vehicle thefts. The police recovered two country-made pistols, a revolver, around nine cartridges and many stolen luxury cars.

“Undoubtedly, the presence of armed gangs in the city is an alarming trend. I think this is just the beginning of organised crime. So there is need to nip it in the bud with extra efforts before it goes out of control in the coming years. Already there is an alarming rise in the snatchings and vehicle theft incidents,” said Major DP Singh, retired principal of Government College, Sector 46.

SSP SS Srivastava said the police was concerned about the development. “The busting of two such gangs in a span of 15 days is a testimony of the success of the police. Definitely, the crime scene is changing with the manifold growth in the population of the city and big inflow of migrants. But the police is prepared to deal with any situation”, the SSP said.

Chandigarh, September 3
Close on the heels of five incidents of thefts yesterday, thieves struck again in a Sector 38-A residence and looted Rs 12,000 cash and valuable articles, including three pairs of gold earrings, two gold rings, camera, passport, two artificial sets, two silver coins and other documents from the house.

The thieves gave shape to the nefarious activity during the daytime in just 20 minutes and that too, in the presence of old-aged parents of the complainant.

According to sources, parents of Vipin Malhotra, the complainant, were present in the house while his wife went away for a while when someone struck at the house between 12.15 pm and 12.35 pm.

Meanwhile, the police has registered a case under Sections 454, 380 of IPC at Sector 39 police station here. This was the sixth theft incident since yesterday and the police is yet to make any breakthrough.

Mohali, September 3
The police has booked a Phase III B-1 resident Surinder Singh in a dowry death case.

According to the police, Sukhwinder Kaur, a resident of Bhagrana village, got married to Surinder Singh in October 2007. Soon after her marriage, Sukhwinder’s in-laws started harassing her. She died on November 18, 2007. Her in-laws claimed that Sukhwinder had consumed some poisonous substance.

The police initiated proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPc and an inquiry was conducted by the SP. However, deceased’s brother Balwinder Singh suspected that her sister had been poisoned by her in-laws.