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Postal Department’s negligence is student’s nightmare
Bonded labourers rescued from industrial unit
Admn gets over 85 acres freed from encroachers
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2 cops injured as tear gas kit goes off
Blind murder solved
Thieves decamp with cash, gold
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Postal Department’s negligence is student’s nightmare
Jalandhar, June 19 She said her brother, who stayed at Mussourie, procured a form for her on May 29 and dispatched it the same day. Jyoti said she received the form on June 1 and sent it back to Mussourie the next day tagging copies of her testimonials via speed post, but the dispatch did not reach there. “We kept inquiring about it at the post office and even the General Post Office here but no one was able to locate it. The staff enquired about the same from their Mysore office since the two places sound similar, but to no avail,” they said. “As we kept running from pillar to post, the last date for submission of the form passed on June 15. Surprisingly, on June 18 we received the packet at our place, which had been dispatched back to us from New York. We wondered how it reached the USA when we had marked the address of Mussourie and paid just Rs 34 for the service,” said Jyoti’s mother Monika David. Monika said she was worried about the career of her daughter. “In case, the institute does not accept a late form, Jyoti may be deprived of the free seat. Since the cost of a nursing course and other expenses in the CMC, Ludhiana, and other institutes is over Rs 1 lakh, it may come up as a huge burden for me,” she said. She showed the packet that indicated a return stamp from the USA that read that the city, state and zip code did not match. Gurdeep Singh, Manager, Speed Post, GPO, said it was perhaps because of an incomplete address on the packet that the error occurred. “The sender had told me earlier that she had written UK on the packet, by which she meant Uttarakhand rather than United Kingdom. But when we saw the packet, it had US written on it,” he said. Jyoti argued that US had not been written by her but by the US postal staff. “Had we written US, do you think the staff would have levied only Rs 34? Or else, it should have at least reflected in the address given on the receipt?” she questioned. |
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Bonded labourers rescued from industrial unit
Kapurthala, June 19 Acting on a complaint, jointly filed by the Pendu Mazdoor Union, the Kirti Kisan Union and the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, Deputy Commissioner Raj Kamal Chaudhary ordered Tehsildar Manjit Singh to conduct a raid on the suspected unit. Armed with a heavy police force, the Tehsildar raided the premises of the industrial unit and rescued Jaswinder Singh of Tarn Taran, Hardev Singh of Tejpura village in Kapurthala and Tarsem Singh of Randhawa village. All the three belonged to financially weaker families. He said the trio was employed by the owner of a cardboard manufacturing unit located at Dham village, near Dhilwan, after paying them a certain amount in advance over two years ago. The owner allegedly neither paid them anything after their employment nor let them go to their homes. Receiving information about it, the unions joined hands and came to the rescue of the labourers. The police has started investigating the case. — TNS
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Admn gets over 85 acres freed from encroachers
Mukerian, June 19 The land was got vacated from certain influential persons from Gurdaspur district who had been illegally occupying this chunk of the land for the past 24 years. Armed with high security, a joint six-hour operation was conducted by teams of the enforcement wings of the forest department and the administration under the leadership SDM of Rahul Gupta. Divisional Forest Officer Satnam Singh, Dasuya, and the area DSP were present on the spot. Besides, 200 cops, members of the enforcement teams, 10 tractor-trailers and earthmovers were pressed into service amid tension in the village. Though the alleged encroachers had assembled with arms to counter the enforcement teams, the operation was completed without any resistance. Talking to The Tribune, Rahul Gupta revealed that the encroachers had raised nearly 15 hutments on the disputed land in the past 24 years and had cultivated sugarcane over 35 acre. The rest land was also under cultivation. The officials of the department had been raising the issue at the meeting with the Deputy Commissioner for the past two dacades, he added. The encroachments were finally removed and the forest land worth Rs 15 crore was taken under its possession again when the Hoshiapur Deputy Commissioner Megh Raj took personal interest just after taking over a couple of days ago, he claimed.
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2 cops injured as tear gas kit goes off
Jalandhar, June 19 While participating in the demonstration, constable Narinder Kumar sustained serious injuries in his eye and havildar Manjit Singh on his thigh. Narinder Kumar was rushed to a local private hospital. He was later referred to the PGI, Chandigarh, by the ophthalmologists of the hospital. Manjit Singh was admitted to the local Civil Hospital and is said to be stable. The training session was being led by ASP Inderbir Singh. Talking to The Tribune, the ASP claimed that the accident occurred when 35 policemen were participating in a morning session of the training. “Narinder Kumar will undergo an operation at the PGI as certain splinters have pierced his eye-ball,” said Inderbir Singh, who is accompanying the injured at the PGI. He, however, claimed that Narinder Kumar was otherwise out of danger. According to eyewitnesses, there was smoke all round as the shell exploded. A visit to the spot revealed that five tear gas shells, two live and three hollow, were lying on the ground unattended. Unaware of the damage which could be done by the explosives, children of certain SPOs, residing in hutments at a corner of the ground, were playing with the shells. Enquiries from the spot revealed that children often play with shells which cops throw there after the training.
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Blind murder solved
Hoshiarpur, June 19 SP (D) Sushil Kumar said Mehto was arrested at Singriwala bypass when he was trying to flee. During interrogation, Sanjay confessed that on June 10, 2009, he went to the house of Dharminder Chobe Sharma who hailed from Sraiea Kothi under Madhuwania (Bihar) police station and presently residing at Rahimpur, and raped his wife Rupali. When Rupali identified him, he strangulated her to death and fled. A case under section 302 of the IPC has been registered. |
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Thieves decamp with cash, gold
Batala, June 19 The family returned this morning and found that the almirahs in the house had been broken open. They stole articles worth Rs 1 lakh, one gold chain, one gold ring and two gold earrings causing a loss of Rs 2 lakh, asserted Masih. In another case, some persons broke open the locks of a karyana merchant’s shop this morning outside Pahari Gate. Shop owner Sushil Kumar said he had material worth Rs 15,000 and cash worth Rs 800 in the shop. —
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Jalandhar, June 19
Jyoti David (21), a resident of Sansarpur village here, said she wanted to take admission in Duncan Hospital in Bihar for which the Himalayan Inland Mission, a Christian organisation based at Mussourie, was to sponsor her for a free seat.