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MC Sharma’s family refuses Amar Singh’s cheque
6-month-old undergoes
liver transplant
Lid off land scam; tehsildar
to face action
‘Matribandana’ held at C.R. Park
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Officer investigating blasts gets court notice
12 officials arrested for graft
Vehicular underpass at Shanti Path soon
BMW Case- II
BSP opens election office
Teachers to meet HRD minister soon
DTF decries new pay scales for teachers
‘Company of saints instils noble values’
Criminal carrying Rs 50,000 reward held
Cash, jewellery looted from
five houses
Gunshot fired at wife,
hits daughter
Bus knocks down two, one killed
Blueline crushes youth
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MC Sharma’s family refuses Amar Singh’s cheque
New Delhi, October 6 Sharma was killed in an encounter with terrorists on September 19 in the Jamia Nagar area of South Delhi. The family and friends of Sharma today held a demonstration outside the official residence of Amar Singh on Lodhi road. About hundreds of protestors, who had gathered there, demanded an apology for his remarks and shouted slogan against Singh calling him “friend of terrorists”. The Samajwadi Party leader had announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh for the family of the deceased inspector soon after his death and in fact had given a cheque of Rs 1 lakh to Sharma’s widow. However, after Amar Singh’s remark yesterday, the family has decided to return the cheque, which they had not yet encashed. “We are deeply hurt by his remarks on the encounter. If he thinks it was fake, then why did he announce help of Rs 1 million for us after my son died in the shootout,” Narottam Sharma, father of the slain cop, said at his Dwarka house in South West Delhi. “My son was very much with the special cell and was not transferred to any other department of the Delhi police as claimed by Amar Singh. One should refrain from doing politics over the issue,” Narottam Sharma said. Amar Singh had raised doubts about the police version of the September 19 shootout on his visit to Jamia Nagar last Saturday and reiterated the same during a public meeting in Sharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) yesterday. “Inspector Sharma had been transferred from the special cell of the Delhi police only few days before the so-called encounter. Why was he sent when his transfer was already decided?” Singh had said. However, the Delhi police has rubbished the charges by Amar Singh. “Inspector M.C. Sharma was very much a part of the special cell and was leading the operation against the terrorists in L-18, Jamia Nagar in his capacity as the inspector of the cell. He was an asset to the special cell and there were no such thing as he being transferred out of it,” clarified Rajan Bhagat, PRO, Delhi police. Along with inspector Sharma, two terrorists were also killed while one was arrested during the exchange of fire on September 19. |
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6-month-old undergoes
liver transplant
New Delhi, October 6 According to Hospital sources, Sivojit was born with a fatal liver condition known as biliary atresia. KASAI operation was performed to join his liver to the intestines at the age of six months at Kolkata. However, post surgery his condition deteriorated and he became very sick with rising bilirubin and continuing convulsions. Sivojit was then referred to Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, which has a very successful liver transplant program. His operation was risky, as his bilirubin level was very high and his blood vessels very tiny because of his age. The doctors at Apollo were in dilemma, but as time was running out for Sivojit, Dr Subhash Gupta, sr. consultant, liver transplant, here decided to carry out transplantation. Both the parents were ready to donate part of their liver for the operation. On testing, father was found to be more suitable. “He is now doing well and hopefully can look forward to lead a normal life in the future,” the doctors said. |
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Lid off land scam; tehsildar
to face action
Gurgaon, October 6 As per the enquiry report submitted by the ADC in the monthly meeting of the grievances committee, tehsildar RK Garg wrongly sanctioned mutations of land measuring 2107 kanal and 7 marla in village Siwadi of the district. Accusing Garg of exercising powers out of his revenue circle, the report, a copy of which is with The Tribune, mentioned that the said land was declared surplus by the Special Collector Surplus, Gurgaon vide orders dated April 11, 1961. It was mutated in favour of the state of Haryana on June 11, 1982 vide mutation number 654 and 655. As a result, the ownership of the land was transferred from Sheela Devi, widow of Ram Dass, and Munesh Kumar and others in favour of the state of Haryana. This land was further allotted to the eligible persons under the provisions of law and several allotments were made from the year 1982 onwards. Several mutations were sanctioned in 1982, 1983 and so on. Thus by virtue of this allotment, the ownership of the land was transferred in favour of the allottees. The report held that the original owner of the land Madan Gopal, son of Balakram, and others filed a civil suit in Gurgaon court on April 19, 1985 in which the state of Haryana was made party and no other person including the allottees were made defendants. The suit was decreed by the civil court on September 8, 1989. No appeal was preferred by the state of Haryana. However, some allottees filed separate suits in the civil court which were dismissed. Later, an execution petition was filed in 2008 and the respondent state of Haryana was issued notice for May 12, 2008 and SDO Civil Gurgaon filed reply in which objections were raised stating that the petitioners in the execution petition were not the decree holders. It was also objected that in the decree under execution, the mutation no. 654 and 655 were not set aside and no order was passed by the civil court against the allottees who had become owners even before the filing of the suit in which the decree was passed and the decree was hopelessly time-barred. The execution petition was still pending in the Gurgaon civil court. As per an interesting development in 2006-07, a total of 1494 kanal 4 marla out of this land was sold by the decree holders by way of registered sale deeds. The then naib tehsildar Farrukhnagar did not verify the ownership before registering these sale deeds. However, no mutation was sanctioned at that time. Garg sanctioned the mutations where as the area fell in the revenue circle of naib tehsildar and these were sanctioned without hearing the interested parties whose ownership has been taken away. The mutations have been sanctioned on the basis of decree which was more than 19 years old and the execution of the decree on the basis of which mutation has been sanctioned was pending in civil court. |
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‘Matribandana’ held at C.R. Park
New Delhi, October 6 Besides her remarkable melodious voice on “Agamani” songs based on her own compositions, the bandana is an assortment of intellectual confluence of richness with Sanskrit chants, narrations, alaap on Malkaush and Darabari Kanada and “Rabindra-Natyam”, the dance originally created by Rabindranath Tagore. Most interestingly, the presentation achieved a new scale when the substance of scripts was replicated on the screen by a projector for visual impact with a view to manifesting the sublime display of divine power with the enormity of Devi Durga. According to Rini, the enactment of this “Matribandana” creates an ambiance where one can feel the presence of divine mother. Among the audience, Guru Valmiki Banerjee, the famous promulgator of “Rabindra-Natyam”, said that the thought process and presentation was “unique” in its composition with an enthralling performance of Rini and her team. According to a spectator, “The performance and presentation of Rini is already well chronicled and has created a new dimension in the field of Agamani.” The Durga Puja celebrations this year are being held under strict security with armed Delhi policemen and CCTV cameras installed at vantage pints at the pandals keeping a vigil in the backdrop of terrorist strikes in the Capital and other parts of the country. The patrolling and vigil by the Delhi police is being supplemented by private security guards hired specially for the purpose by the organisers of various Durga Pujas in the Capital. The two main pujas are held in CR Park in South Delhi and in Kali Bari in Central Delhi. Entrance to the pandals is strictly through the door frame metal detectors installed there. |
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Officer investigating blasts gets court notice
New Delhi, October 6 Additional chief metropolitan magistrate P.K. Jain issued notice to assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Sanjeev Yadav, the investigative officer in the bomb blast case. ACP Yadav has been asked to file his reply by October 10.
Nisar filed his application through his counsel Vikas Padora. “Nisar’s fundamental rights were violated by the police after his arrest, as till date no information has been given to his parents about his arrest and the grounds of arrest,” Padora had pleaded before the court. Nisar was arrested on September 20 by the special cell of the Delhi police from Jamia Nagar in connection with the blast in Gaffar market in Karol Bagh. Padora had earlier moved an application seeking permission to meet Nisar but it could not be heard as ACP Yadav was out of city in connection with the investigation. |
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12 officials arrested for graft
New Delhi, October 6 ACB sleuths jumped into action after Shiv Kumar Tiwari, who sells eatery items and flowers in Connaught Place, complained last month that many officials of the NDMC, labour department and police collect bribes on a monthly basis from him as “protection money”. “If I refuse to pay the protection money to them, they harass me by confiscating goods. They took money from me by threatening to frame me in a false case of fraud, adultery or any such thing,” Tiwari said. “I earn Rs 45,000-50,000 a month but also end up paying most of it to these corrupt officials. I had complained to higher authorities before approaching the ACB,” he added. Additional commissioner of police (ACB) N.Dilip Kumar said the matter was taken up seeing the seriousness of the complaint and investigations were launched. “Tiwari told us that such collections are being made from all shopkeepers in that area either directly or through agents. Two such agents were Chandeshwar Prasad Yadav and his brother Shakal Prasad Yadav, both paan shop owners,” Kumar said. The monthly collection from each shop owner varied between Rs 500 and Rs 30,000. The official said money was collected from hundreds of shops. “We recorded the linkages between some of these officials and the roles of the paan shop owners. Similarly, video recordings of shopkeepers were also made that showed the illegal system prevailing in that area,” Kumar said. “After finding enough evidence against the corrupt officials, we arrested 12 officials and both the Yadav brothers for corruption and extortion,” he added. Two people, including a Delhi police constable, were absconding. — IANS |
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Vehicular underpass at Shanti Path soon
New Delhi, October 6 After laying the foundation stone, Dikshit said that there was a necessity of such underpass on this road where there is a fast moving traffic throughout the day. Earlier, Ashok Ahuja said that this underpass would be beneficial for all. It was a long-awaited demand which has been fulfilled today. The underpass will be a symmetric tunnel with vehicular carriageway and pedestrian path separated by railing. The tunnel is 3.1 to 3.5 m high and 8 m wide. It will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 3.73 crore. The footover bridge to be constructed at Africa Avenue will have a sheltered staircase with facility of escalator also. The shelter so designed has provision for panels for display of advertisements. It will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 5.24 crore. |
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BMW Case- II
New Delhi, October 6 Metropolitan magistrate Ajay Goel rejected the bail plea on the grounds that the investigation in the case is in crucial stage and if let out at this time, it could hamper the investigation. Utsav is presently in police custody. He surrendered before Delhi police on September 27, after his anticipatory bail was rejected by the Delhi High Court. |
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BSP opens election office
New Delhi, October 6 The office, which will facilitate workers in their campaigns, was opened by Prem Chand, head of the BSP unit in North East Delhi. A large number of BSP workers and local leaders like were present at the opening of the office—TNS. |
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Teachers to meet HRD minister soon
New Delhi, October 6 Discontented reactions have been coming in since the announcement. Dr Rashmi Bhardwaj, chairperson of the Teacher Cell as well as chairperson of the Indian National Teacher Congress (INTEC) alongside Dr R.S.Dahiya, member of the Academic Council University of Delhi, have expressed their concern with regard to the report of Pay Review Committee submitted by Prof. G.K. Chadha to U.G.C. They say that, “we feel that there are a number of anomalies especially regarding pay scales of assistant professor (Senior Scale) and assistant professor (Selection Grade)/associate professor.” Dr Bhardwaj says, “Teachers have been denied the third promotion in colleges in the form of professorship/professor’s grade as consistently demanded by us for the past 20 years. There is a lot of discontentment among teachers as the teaching profession has been downgraded. Further, the two-tier annual increment in pay band (15600-39100) will lead to a lot of nepotism and favoritism by the authorities.” Teachers are demanding that a uniform annual increment of 4% be given to all the teachers. A delegation of teachers under the leadership of Dr Rashmi Bhardwaj is all set to meet the HRD minister shortly to apprise him of the anomalies in the teachers’ pay structure. Meanwhile, the Delhi University Principals’ Association has taken note of the recommendations submitted by the Pay Review Committee and expressed their concern to the chairman, University Grants Commission on a number of points which the association considers imperative for a better future of the teaching community. The association had asked for sr. principal’s scale for those principals who have already completed 8 – 10 years of service. Currently, the Pay Review Committee has recommended sr. professorship in universities but has remained silent on the issue of sr. principal. The committee has also recommended sabbatical leave for college teachers but has not mentioned “principals” categorically. The association has also demanded that the revision of principal’s pay scales should be based on the existing pay scales as per Vth Pay Commission rather than on a new criterion of under-graduate and postgraduate colleges. |
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DTF decries new pay scales for teachers
New Delhi, October 6 In a statement issued here, the DTF said that it was shocking that the PRC had chosen to overlook both the recommendations made by the UGC during the last pay revision and the rationale behind those recommendations. The UGC had recommended 25% higher entry pay for teachers in comparison to the Group A services (Rs 10,000/- against Rs 8,000) and three promotions for all teachers “with PhD or without and appointed in colleges or in university departments” so that teachers could have parity with Group A services in terms of career earnings. The much-touted higher entry pay recommended by the PRC is only 5% more (a grade pay of Rs 6,600 compared to Rs 5,400 in the pay band 15600-39100.) This higher entry soon gets wiped out with slower and fewer promotions. The reader’s (associate professor’s) pay has been downgraded and has been placed in PB3 while the equivalent grade for Group A figures in PB4. The college teachers have been explicitly downgraded by denying them promotion till professor’s grade making college teaching very unattractive despite the rhetoric of knowledge society, the statement said. The insistence on PhD as the eligibility condition for the watered down third promotion excludes a large number and makes mockery of the admission by the PRC that teaching and institutional building are important roles for college teachers. Even for those who are PhD, the promotion scheme is designed to deny promotion to most among them, it said. The statement said that the DTF demands that the UGC review the report and make recommendations which respect its own considered opinion on the matter. The reader’s grade must be placed in PB4 and all those who have completed six years in the grade as on 1.1.2006 should be fixed at the senior associate professor grade. The third promotion should be open for all teachers. Failing to do so would be doing disservice to the cause of education. “It is unfortunate that the PRC has fallen prey to the government policy of downgrading the teaching profession in public-funded institutions of higher learning to facilitate expansion of for-profit sector in the field of higher education. The UPA government after all refused to restore service conditions that the NDA government had initially agreed to and subsequently reneged,” the statement claimed. It is time the UGC asserted its autonomy and its responsibility towards maintaining standards by recommending to the government pay scales and service conditions that would attract talent to the teaching profession so that quality education could be provided to a larger number of aspirants in a country where only 7% of the people in the relevant age group is able to access higher education, concluded the statement.
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‘Company of saints instils noble values’
New Delhi, October 6 This was observed here on Sunday by Baba Hardev Singh Ji Maharaj, head of the Sant Nirankari Mission, while addressing a huge gathering of the Mission’s devotees. They came from all over Delhi and its adjoining areas. Baba Ji said that saints teach us the values which once adopted make life purposeful. It is here that we learn that selfless service unto others is the most important mode of expression for one’s devotion to God. Saints also inspire us to remember God as the supreme doer of everything. This keeps devotees away from the vices like ego. Baba Ji said that the saints teach us to keep our language sweet. They tell us that we love the bird cuckoo because of its sweet voice. On the other hand, we turn away the crow simply because we do not like its voice. Otherwise, neither the cuckoo gives nor the crow steals anything. Similarly, saints tell us to be good and do good unto others. They teach us contentment. That is why devotees do not complain under any circumstances. They remain firm in their faith in God. As Lord Christ says there is no comparison between a house built on a rock and on the sand. Baba ji said devotees are generous by nature. They receive divine knowledge in the company of saints and spread it among others.
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Criminal carrying Rs 50,000 reward held
New Delhi, October 6 According to HGS Dhaliwal, DCP (South), he was arrested on the basis of the information collected by police team from his criminal accomplices in Mumbai, Madhya Pradesh and Dehradun. During interrogation, Ravinder disclosed that most of his associates have died in shootouts. They all had been involved in crimes like bank dacoities and robberies in various parts of the capital. He revealed that he had received bullet injuries twice —one bullet had pierced his neck and caused serious injuries while the other was still lodged in his body. Dhaliwal revealed that Ravinder had been living in Dehradun under a fake name ‘J.K. Narula’. His two children studied in good schools, and after studying computer engineering, are working in reputed companies. His wife runs a beauty parlour in Dehradun. |
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Cash, jewellery looted from
five houses
Greater Noida, October 6 One resident was hit with a brick on the head when he tried to resist the loot. The victims have lodged written complaints in Greater Noida police station. In Badholi village, bandits intruded into the house of Kalu Chauhan. When Kalu resisted their attempt, he was hit with a brick on his head and seriously injured. After that the intruders looted four other houses one after the other. From Subhey Singh’s house, they decamped with jewellery worth Rs 1.50 lakh and Rs 30,000 in cash. Subhey Singh runs a cable network business in Noida. From a contractor’s house in the village, the bandits looted Rs 9,000 in cash and two mobile phones. In Sher Singh’s house, they snatched jewellery worth Rs 50,000 and Rs 5,000 in cash. Next was Sunder Pandit’s house from where the robbers took away jewellery valued at Rs 1 lakh, one cell phone and Rs. 32,000 in cash. Since jewellery in Sunder Pandit’s house was kept in a box, the robbers took away the jewellery box with them. The robbers had come in a large vehicle. Village Pradhan Shiv Raj said the robbers had gone from the rooftop of one house to the adjoining houses. Significantly, farmers in Badholi village had recently picked up their land compensation from government. It appears this was known to the intruding outlaws. Greater Noida police reached the village on Sunday morning to inspect the looted houses. |
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Gunshot fired at wife,
hits daughter
Ghaziabad, October 6 The incident took place at Galind village in Mussori on Sunday night. The child was rushed to Delhi Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital where she is fighting for her life. Girl’s mother has lodged an FIR with Mussori police naming her husband for the mishap. The man absconded after the shooting. According to Mussori police, the incident took place at 8 p.m. on Sunday in Galind village where Subhash lived with his wife Sundri and one and half-year-old daughter. Subash suspected his wife Sundri to be of loose character and the couple often used to quarrel on this issue. Recently his wife had left him due to daily bickering and the couple stayed separately. But later a compromise was reached between them and Sundri returned to Subash. According to police, on Sunday again Subash had passed some remarks on Sundri’s character after which the two had an argument. Sundri also chastised Subash who flew into a rage and fired a shot from his revolver on her, but the gunshot hit the child in Sundri’s lap. She was rushed to the SGTB hospital where she is dangling between life and death. |
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Bus knocks down two, one killed
Noida, October 6 The bus driver fled after the accident. The police has seized the bus. The dead man was identified, as Madan Singh of New Kondli, Delhi, while the injured is Bhure Singh, his companion. Singh has been referred to Safdarjung Hospital. The police said that the two, along with one other companion, had gone near stadium to relieve themselves. They were walking towards Jhandpura when the UP Roadway bus plying on route Sahibabad to Noida knocked down the two. |
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Blueline crushes youth
New Delhi, October 6 According to the statements given by eyewitnesses to the police, Aslam had jumped from the moving bus. He lost his balance and came under the rear tyres of the bus. He died on the spot. The bus was plying on route no.335. |
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