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Youth shot at, injured
Our Correspondent

Ambala, December 27
A youth of Babial village, near Ambala Cantt, was shot at by some persons today morning.

The victim, Jaspal, was rushed to the local civil hospital and was later referred to the PGI, Chandigarh.

Jaspal owns a piece of land in Babial village reportedly, and there is a dispute going on over its ownership. When Jaspal was going in the field today morning, someone shot at him and consequently, he sustained serious bullet injuries.

A case has been registered under Section 307 against two persons in this regard.

Fatehgarh Sahib, December 27
A large number of Nihangs from the Budha Dal today performed gatka, horse shows and took out a march in the memory of young Sahibzadas of Guru Gobind Singh.

The Nihangs along with their children displayed riding skills on horses and enthralled the crowds with their fighting skills.

Nihangs, in thousands, took out a march from gurdwara Sri Viwangarh Sahib to gurdwara Jyoti Swarup.

Many of them adorned their turbans. Besides the Budha Dal, Rakba Dal, Baba Santokh Singh Chamkaur Sahib Wale and other Nihangs also participated in the march.

Chandigarh, December 27
Justice Nirmal Yadav of the Punjab and Haryana High Court will continue not to hold the court in the New Year.

The roster of duties, scheduled to come into force from January 6 next year, clearly says Justice Yadav is not holding the court. She had recused herself from judicial work soon after the surfacing of her name in the “cash-at-judge’s-doorstep case”.

The three-judge committee, looking into the matter, had given its findings that the cash, allegedly meant for her, but erroneously delivered at the house of another judge with similar name, was not bribe money. The committee had stated it was, as such, a case of judicial impropriety.

Ever since the submission of the report by the committee to the Chief Justice of India, speculation on her fate was rife at the Bar. The fact that she is not holding the court even after the report’s submission suggests Justice Nirmal Yadav still has to clear her stand on the issue.

Available information suggest the inference of judicial impropriety was drawn after the committee associated in its inquiry everyone directly, or even indirectly, connected to the matter.

The committee had also taken the assistance of the other judge at whose house the cash was wrongly delivered. Her statement in the capacity of a complainant was recorded by the committee.

In the inquiry, the committee had taken note of the fact that the bag containing currency notes was opened by the judge’s peon inside the house on her instructions.

At the time of the incident, a section of media had wrongly reported that the bag was opened by the security guard. The fact that his role was limited only to calling the police at the behest of the judge is quite evident now. His presence in the inquiry was not even felt necessary by the committee.

A salient feature of the new roster is that Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur has asked the high court judges to take up on priority basis the “cases relating to senior citizens, cases in which proceedings before the lower courts have been stayed and remand cases from the Supreme Court”.

Mohali, December 27
Rajesh Gupta, a Chandigarh-based businessman, today said the Mohali police was going slow on the investigations into the fraud allegedly involving a Dubai-based couple, Veer Vikram Singh and his wife Neena Singh.

Gupta has accused the couple, who were his business partners in plant manufacturing scaffolding material, of cheating him to the tune of Rs 7.5 crore. DSP (city-II), Mohali, Swarandeep Singh is investigating the matter.

SSP, Mohali, JS Aulakh said unless a clear-cut case of cheating was not made out, no case could be registered.

Few days ago, the couple had been picked up from Delhi airport and were brought today to Mohali in connection with a case of alleged cheating lodged by Gupta. The Mohali police had issued a lookout notice for the couple. On the basis of the notice, the immigration officials at the airport detained the couple. The couple, after being questioned, was let off and given time till January 2 to give their side of the story.

Addressing a press conference, Gupta said due to fraud, the joint company had to payback lakhs of rupees to financial institutions. He said he had sent material worth Rs 7.5 crore to Dubai between April and November last year. His partner’s husband, Veer Vikram Singh, who was in Dubai, had received the material for despatch to the parties. But the money never reached to Gupta. Back home, Gupta had to payback the bank loans and other liabilities taken to run the business.

Chandigarh, December 27
Baldeep Singh of Madhya Pradesh beat Prashant of Delhi 4-3 in the boys singles final on the third day of the 4th Junior National Soft tennis Championship at St. Peter School, here today. Earlier, in the match played for the third place, Arpan Gujrat surprised Vegnesh T. Nadu 4-2. While the boys’ doubles final was a one-sided affair, in which Baldeep Singh and Amit (MP) gave no chance to their rivals Gauran and Anil (Maharashtra) and dominated the match to trounce them 4-0.

In the girls’ doubles final, Sutta and Divyanga of Delhi gave a tough fight to their rivals Prakriti and Nidhi, but the last phase changed the scenario as the latter beat them 4-3.

Other results:

Boys doubles semifinal:

Baldeep and Amit (MP) beat Vegnesh and Sibi (T. Nadu) 4-1

Gaurav and Amit (Maharashtra) beat Mukesh and Varun (T. Nadu)4-0

3rd Place: Sibi and Vignesh beat Mukesh and Varun (T. Nadu) 4-0

Girls doubles semifinal:

Prakriti and Nidhi (Delhi) beat Sania and Anshu (Rajasthan) 4-1

Sutta and Divyanga (Delhi) beat Roshani and Jyoti (Chattisgarh) 4-1

Final:Prakriti and Nidhi (Delhi) beat Sutta and Divyanga (Delhi)4-3

3rd Place:Sania and Anshu beat Roshni and Jyoti (Chatisgarh) 4-3 

Chandigarh, December 27
The top seed, Abhijeet Singh of CLTA, was eliminated by unseeded Andrew Pardeep of the Total Tennis Academy in the boys under-14 semifinals in the ongoing YMCA Total Tennis Championship.

The second seed, Santbir Singh also of CLTA, has been defeated by Utkarsh Khosla, who is also from the same academy.

In the boys under-10 category, second seed Karandeep Singh of Ludhiana was beaten by unseeded Nihit Rawal of the Total Tennis Academy in straight sets by 4-1, 4-2 in 45 minutes.

Results:

Boys u-10 quarterfinals:

Param Pun bt Adish Bansal 6-0

Rishabh Sharda bt Madhav Coinoria 6-1

Nihit Rawal bt Parmeet Singh 6-0

Karandeep Singh bt Samarth Bhardwaj 6-1

Boys u-10 semifinals:

Param Pun beat Rishabh Sharda 4-0, 4-1

Nihit Rawal beat Karandeep Singh 4-1, 4-2

Boys u-12 quarterfinals:

Param Pun bt Diviansh Pandey 8-5

Utkarsh Khosla bt Nihit Rawal 8-4

Santbir Singh bt Rahul Seth 8-6

Abhijeet Singh bt Jaskirat Singh 8-0

Boys u-12 semifinals:

Param Pun beat Utkarsh Khosla 3-5, 4-1, 5-4(4)

Abhijeet Singh bt Santbir Singh 4-1, 4-2

Boys u-14 semifinals:

Andrew Pardeep bt Abhijeet Singh 4-2, 4-2

Utkarsh Khosla bt Santbir Singh 

Chandigarh, December 27
As many as 32 women powerlifters participated in the 8th Senior Women Chandigarh Powerlifting Championship, which was organised by the Chandigarh Powerlifting Association at Weightlifting Coaching Centre, here on Friday.

Government College for Girls, Sector 42, won the overall team championship by obtaining 84 points, Guru Gobind Singh College for Women secured the second place by getting 24 points and the coaching centre secured the third position by obtaining 20 points.

Baljinder Kaur of GCG-42 stood first in 75 kg category by lifting a weight of 202.5 kg and Harpreet Kaur of the same college bagged the second position by lifting 192.5 kg weight.

In 75 kg and above category, Priya Mittal of the coaching centre got the first position and Rubeena of the same coaching centre stood third by lifting 205 kg and 177.5 kg, respectively. 

Chandigarh, December 27
Continuing their wining streak, hosts Guru Nanak Public School (GNPS) Cricket Academy, Sector 36, edged past Shree Shree Academy in the second match of the GNPS-CCA Gold Cup by 133 runs, here today.

The GNPS’s decision to bat first was supported by Mayank Munjhal (61 no) and Harpreet (58 no), who helped the team to post a total of 260 for 4 in 50 overs. Vaibhav (41) and last match’s top scorer, Pankaj (33), too, chipped in. For SS Academy, only Harshit performed well with 2/27.

The Shree Shree Academy found the total high and the team got bundled out on 127 in 28 overs. For GNPS, Shitij, Akshay, and Ishan got 2 wickets, each.