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Sarpanch’s daughter shot during dacoity
Reaching out: Border villages see hope in BSF personnel
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Pungrain, Punsup do away with arhtiyas
Badal taking credit for central schemes: Khaira
Breach in CM’s security: 4 cops suspended
Army weaponry on display
Tributes paid to Gurdeep Bhullar
Fire in wholesale grocery shop
Traffic week
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Sarpanch’s daughter shot during dacoity
Gurdaspur, January 7 The dacoits, who entered the house after scaling its outer wall, killed Reetu when she resisted the attempts of the dacoits to loot valuables of her maternal aunt and held out a threat to them that her father, who was sarpanch of the village, would not spare them. Police sources said the dacoits used a 9 mm pistol in the crime. This kind of weapon was being used by the Army, paramilitary forces and the Punjab police. The empty cartridge was recovered by a police team headed by SP (D) Balbir Singh Khaira. Khaira, when contacted, said Reetu was in the house of her maternal aunt Neelam Rani. Surinder Singh, husband of Neelam, was away to work. The dacoits entered the house at around 9.30 pm by scaling the outer wall. First, they took money from Neelam Rani and then started demanding other valuables, including jewellery. When Reetu resisted their attempt, she was slapped and then fired at by one of the dacoits. The bullet hit her on the left side of the chest and she died on the spot. A case in this connection has been registered under section 460 of the IPC at Dinanagar police station. |
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Reaching out: Border villages see hope in BSF personnel
Bharial (Gurdaspur), January 7 Blatant ignorance by the successive governments and their elected representatives, coupled with natural disasters taking place almost every year, have made life a curse for
the residents. But today was a turning point in their monotonous and unpleasant life as a team of BSF officers, including inspector-general (Punjab zone) Himmat Singh, and Gurdaspur zone DIG S.S. Sandhu, reached to them and held a free medical check-up camp with the help of the Lions Club (Diamond) in the village near the zero line of the Indo-Pak border. These officials not only listened to the problems of the villagers who were yet to see the face of development, but also promised arrangements to hold a special camp in the area to train youths so that they could get themselves recruited in the BSF. Himmat Singh, while talking to The Tribune, said the residents of the border areas had been living by braving all kinds of odds. He added that the BSF had been taking care of them by providing them medical care in situations of emergency. The main problems raised by villagers were connected with the bad health of the children due to malnutrition, low literacy rate due to absence of schools in every village, unsafe building of the only middle school, shortage of teachers in the school, crop damage by wild pigs and erosion of fertile land by the gushing water of seasonal rivulets during the rainy season. A large number of problems being faced by the residents were solved by the IG, BSF, on the spot. Romesh Mahajan, project director, Red Cross De-addiction Centre, said about 350 patients were examined and given
medicines free of cost at the camp. He added that about 65 persons, who were hooked to drugs, were
also given treatment to de-addict them. |
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Maoist arrest: Leftists allege human rights’ violation
Jalandhar, January 7 Pendu Mazdoor Union leader Tarsem Peter, while talking to The Tribune, alleged that the district police had picked up Anupam of Jharkhand and Saathi from the latter’s house located at Mehsampur village falling under Phillaur police station on December 19 in the presence of several villagers. Both of them were kept in illegal custody till January 5. After that, Anupam was formally shown arrested on January 6, he said, adding that the police should make it clear why it had kept both of them in illegal custody for 17 days. If they had committed any crime, the FIR should have been registered on the day of their arrest on December 19, he said, adding that the illegal detention continued despite the fact that the matter was brought to the notice of the SSP on January 1. Seeking deputy commissioner Ajit Singh Pannu’s intervention in the matter, Peter said action should be taken against the policemen responsible for their illegal detention. Meanwhile, the outfits held a protest rally at Desh Bhagat Yadgaar Hall today. Leaders of different organisations, including the Lok Morcha, the Pendu Mazdoor Union, the Inkalabi Kendra Punjab and the Lok Sangram Manch Punjab, addressed the gathering. Later, they proceeded to the district administrative complex (DAC) where they handed over a memorandum to the GA to DC demanding the DC’s intervention in the matter. In the meantime, the district police issued a press note today claiming that Anupam was a Naxalite and had been operating for nearly two decades. On verifying his antecedents from Jharkhand, it was found that 25 cases of murder, dacoity, possession of explosives, etc. had been registered against him in Jharkhand, the press note added. |
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Pungrain, Punsup do away with arhtiyas
Jalandhar, January 7 But a little glitch in the process was that the cheques for the paddy bonus of some of the farmers had the names of their mandis mentioned instead of their villages. District food and supplies controller (DFSC) Rajat Oberoi claimed the number of such incorrect cheques was not more than 3 per cent and banks were honouring these cheques. At the same time, he said if any farmer faced difficulty in getting the cheque honoured, he might contact his (Rajat’s) office and the cheque would be rectified. Oberoi said the cheques were directly being issued to the farmers instead of commission agents this time since the final purchaser Food Corporation of India (FCI) asked for the bonus record and did not consider the certificates provided by commission agents as authentic proof. The two Punjab agencies
Pungrain and Punsup issued cheques directly to farmers, whereas the other three agencies - Markfed, Punjab Agro and Punjab State Warehousing Corporation - still adopted the earlier system
of issuing bonus cheques to commission agents. The number of commission agents was very low as compared to those of the farmers. Whereas the database of the former had already been prepared, that of the latter was prepared for the first time. This was the reason why some clerical mistakes had occurred and some wrong cheques were issued, he added. The DFSC further said he had talked to several banks and they were also helping farmers to open their zero-balance accounts so that they would not face any problems in withdrawing even the entire payments from their accounts. |
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Badal taking credit for central schemes: Khaira
Jalandhar, January 7 Terming the publication of photos of the Chief Minister and food and supplies minister on the cheques being handed to the farmers for the bonus announced by the Centre on paddy as “unethical and hypocritical” Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira said this proved that the Chief Minister would do anything to garner votes in the forthcoming parliamentary poll. “As we are all aware that the state government had procured approximately 131 lakh metric tonnes of paddy in the state and with Rs 50 per quintal as bonus, the Centre has paid approximately Rs 650 crore to the farmers,” he said. Although the money had been paid by the UPA, but to mislead the farmers and to derive political mileage out of the statewide exercise, Badal had got his photograph along with that of Kairon displayed on the cheques, he added. “On one hand, the Chief Minister never misses an opportunity to criticise the Centre, while on the other he is trying to take credit for something that has been done by the UPA regime. “Similarly, the CM has also taken credit for a road being built by funds from the Pradhan Mantri Grahmin Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) in his constituency. The Kartarpur-Bholath road was recently inaugurated by Badal on December 31 but this road has been widened and strengthened under the PMGSY at a cost of Rs 3.5 crore. Ironically, the foundation stones attribute the development to the ruling party,” he pointed out. “I have sent pictures of the foundation stones and photocopies of the cheques to the Prime Minister to show him how the state government was misleading the people,” he added. Even otherwise, the state was depending on various central schemes like Jawahar Lal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission, NREGA, Jawahar Lal Rural Health Mission, etc, but the state government was portraying all these schemes to be their own ventures for political gains, he said. |
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Breach in CM’s security: 4 cops suspended
Jalandhar, January 7 According to information received here, a youth reached at the bhog of Nurmahal SAD MLA Gurdip Singh Bhullar with a revolver. Badal was also present there at that time. When the police came to know about the matter, it reportedly detained the person in question for inquiry. Meanwhile, veteran SAD leader Kuldip Singh Wadala told The Tribune that the youth belonged to Cheema Khurd village and was a SAD supporter. He said his reaching there with a revolver was a mere coincidence. The revolver is reportedly a licensed one.
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Army weaponry on display
Pathankot, January 7 Speaking on the occasion, the GOC said the exhibition was organised as part of “Know your Army” campaign to generate awareness among the people of Gurdaspur, Kathua and Kangra districts and surrounding areas of Pathankot. He said the exhibition, besides showcasing the technology and weapons, was also aimed at motivating the youth to join the Army. Modern weapons and equipment of the Army, including machine guns, rocket launchers, artillery guns, battle tanks, missile launchers, anti-aircraft guns, radars, surveillance devices and various types of engineering vehicles are on display. An Army dog show was also held on
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Tributes paid to Gurdeep Bhullar
Jalandhar, January 7 Describing the death as a personal loss not only for him but also for the entire constituency, the CM recalled the sacrifices made by the Bhullar family for the past three generations. The family has participated in all morchas and agitations of the party as loyal soldiers and had earned the gratitude of the people of the area, he added. The family was instrumental in getting the problems of the people redressed through personal intervention, he said. As a mark of respect to the departed soul, a special sangat darshan would be held at Nurmahal on January 24-25 where cheques for various developmental works would be distributed to panchayats. Others present on the occasion
included SAD chief Sukhbir Badal, Lok Sabha deputy speaker C.S. Atwal, S.S. Dhindsa, B.S. Majithia, J.S. Sekhon, leaders of the ruling alliance and senior civil servants. |
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Fire in wholesale grocery shop
Phagwara, January 7 According to the information, the fire broke out at Hans Raj Kalucha’s grocery shop at about 11.30 pm. The watchman noticed the fire and informed the shop owner. While two fire engines were pressed into service from Phagwara itself, some fire engines were also called from Jalandhar. It took more than four hours to put out
the fire. While the exact cause of fire could not be known, shot circuit was understood as cause of its breaking out. Material worth several lakhs was damaged in the fire, the owner claimed. |
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Traffic week
Jalandhar, January 7 On the occasion, IG (zonal) Sanjeev Kalra, SP (city-I) Surinder Kumar Kalia and other officials were present. Head constable Shamsher Singh of the education wing of the traffic police spoke at length on the need to properly implement traffic rules.
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