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Abducted girls found at Pipli bus stand
Tribune News Service

Dera Bassi, August 28
Two minor girls, who were allegedly abducted from Dera Bassi on Thursday, were found at the Pipli bus stand in Haryana this morning.

One of the victims, while narrating the incident to the police, said she had gone to her friend’s house on Thursday afternoon to take a book, after which they decided to go to another friend’s house.

In the meantime, she said while they were on their way to the friend’s house, two unknown women put handkerchiefs with some intoxicant on their faces, following which they got unconscious.

After gaining consciousness, they found themselves in a bus at the Pipli bus-stand. They narrated their tale to the passengers, who informed the Pipli police. The police informed the Dera Bassi police, which managed to bring the girls back from Pipli. Both girls are studying in class VIII.

Fatehgarh Sahib, August 28
At least 58 samples out of the 205 milk samples taken by the dairy department recently have failed test. Water content in the failed samples has been found to be between 20 per cent and 50 per cent.

The fat content found in 60 percent of these samples was a mere 3 to 4 per cent.

According to a dairy owner in Sirhind, impure milk having 20 to 50 per cent water content was often sold at Rs 9 or 10 per litre but a large number of milkmen were selling it at Rs 20 or 22 per litre.

Though the dairy department claims to have been taking regular milk samples, the practice of mixing water with milk has been going on unabated.

Dairy department officials said only 25 per cent of the samples were found to be acceptable and nearly 25 per cent of these had failed during the seven days of random sampling in Sirhind and Fatehgarh Sahib areas.

Milkfed officials said if minimum fat content in milk was 5.1 and thickness 8.8 then the price of milk should not exceed Rs 15 per litre.

The dairy department officials said the report of samples had been forwarded to the Deputy Commissioner.

The officials said they only had the authority to seize adulterated milk and could not initiate action against those who mixed water with milk.

They claimed that packaged milk, with fat content printed on the packets by companies, was a more viable option these days as compared to the milk purchased from other sources.

Ropar, August 28
The Ropar police has arrested Manish Kumar, a resident of Chandigarh, for seeking dowry and subjecting his wife Gitika of Preet Colony, Ropar, to cruelty and demanding dowry.

The police has arrested the accused after registering a case under Sections 498-A and 406 of the IPC against him at the Ropar city police station on the complaint of Gitika. Manish was produced in a local court that remanded him to the police custody till tomorrow. Gitika, who is presently living with her parents at Ropar, told the police that she got married to Manish one year ago.

She alleged that Manish, who was an NRI and was residing in Sector 50-B, Chandigarh, along with his family members used to beat her up for dowry.

She alleged that he was demanding Rs 10 lakh from her on the pretext of settling down.

Kalka, August 28
Resentment prevailed among patients, as the Community Health Centre, Kalka, is facing shortage of ayurvedic medicines since one year.

The patients alleged that they were not being provided with the medicines these days. Only a few medicines were being given to them.

The officials in the health centre said the department was not supplying ayurvedic medicines since June.

They further said there was an average of 50 to 60 OPD daily, which had to go empty handed after the diagnose. Higher authorities had been repeatedly informed about the scarcity of the medicines in the hospital but the health centre was not being provided with the ayurvedic medicines by the department, sources added.

Patiala, August 28
Each and everyone has a certain talent but not many are blessed with multiple qualities. Prof Shavinder Singh is a blend of intelligence and power. Prof Singh is working as the head of the English department at NM Government College, Mansa, and is also the officiating principal of the college.

He has recently won a silver medal in the 100-kg weight category for India in the Asian Powerlifting Championship (bench press) that was held at Chandigarh from August 19 to 21. He had earlier won a bronze medal in the national powerlifting championship that was held from January 6 to 10 in 2009 at Patiala and a gold medal in the Punjab State Powerlifting Championship that was held at Sangrur on December 27 and 28, 2008.

It is generally seen that sportspersons do not take up the teaching line and, especially, heading a language department is totally different, but Prof Shavinder Singh is of different view.

He said he totally agreed that it was difficult to balance studies and sports, but he had always wanted to make up a career in education. Moreover, he was fond of playing games from a young age and representing the country was like a dream for me, he added.

“I had to struggle really hard for making it so far in both fields, but I never gave up. I was good at studies since beginning and my parents wanted me to take up studies, he added.

Ambala, August 28
Members of the Sarafa Association, Ambala City, with their president Gayan Chand Aggarwal met Deputy Commissioner Samir Pal Saro on Wednesday regarding the robbery incident in a jewellery shop at Ambala City on Monday.

The association submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner, which stated that the robbery incident had panicked the traders in the city. The traders in the memorandum stated that some of the jewellers in old parts of the city had planned to shift to new cloth market but the incident had discouraged them.

The association said there were several showrooms of wholesale cloth in new wholesale cloth market. The cloth merchants were also worried after the incident.

They demanded proper security arrangements in the prominent trading centres of the city.

Chandigarh, August 28
The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge RS Attri today convicted Sukhpal Singh, a resident of Halo Majra, for raping a minor girl of Maloya. The 16-year-old girl was lured by the accused on the pretext of marrying her.

On July 27, 2008, he took her to his place and promised that he would marry her. There he raped her for three days.

The girl’s parents lodged a complaint with the police and after three days, the police recovered the girl from his place on July 30.

The court will pronounce the quantum of sentence tomorrow.

Chandigarh, August 28
The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge and Special Judge (Vigilance) Raj Rahul Garg today dismissed the bail plea of Punjab and Haryana High Court lawyer GS Sawhney, allegedly involved in the NRI property fraud case.

Tara Singh, an NRI, had approached the police stating that his shop-cum-flat in Sector 20 had been sold to his tenant in February.

Vigilance officials held that Singh had hired the services of the UK-based lawyer for getting his father’s property transferred in his name.

Tara Singh also gave a GPA to Harnek Singh, clerk of GS Sawhney, for getting the property transferred in his name.

However, Sawhney, Harnek and others allegedly forged the GPA and sold the property.

Later a case of cheating was registered by the vigilance bureau, which is investigating the role of assistant registrar and assistant estate officer in the case.

Chandigarh, August 28
A local court today framed charges against the two accused for allegedly murdering a watchman posted at the Leisure Valley, Sector 10, here on March 16.

The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Raj Rahul Garg framed the charges against the two accused, identified as Karnail Singh and Sukhjinder Singh, under Sections 460, 302, 394 and 397 of the IPC.

Gum Bhadur, a watchman posted at the Leisure Valley, was found murdered in his room on March 16.

The accused, Karnail Singh of Kapurthala, was arrested from Dera Bassi on April 11 after he was traced using the victim’s mobile phone, which was put on surveillance.

He had put his SIM card in the victim’s phone and was tracked down the moment he used it.

Karnail, in his forties, admitted during interrogation that he along with his friend Sukhjinder Singh befriended Bahadur in December last year. There was a function in the Valley during December 20, 21 and 22, where they both were hired by a private security agency.

They lived in the Valley and got acquainted with Bahadur. They came to know that he had about four months of salary with him. They continued to visit him.

On March 11, Karnail was in dire need of money and he decided to take it from Bahadur. On March 15, the accused and his accomplice met at Sector 30 and had drinks before going to Bahadur’s place.

They strangled the victim with a cloth and later slit his throat. They took away cash, mobile phone, a TV set, a DVD player, a gas stove and an LPG cylinder.

Chandigarh, August 28
In an incident of theft, nine cellphones were reportedly stolen from a shop in Ram Darbar on Wednesday night.

Bhupinder Kumar, a resident of Sector 32-C, alleged that someone had stolen nine cellphones from his shop in Ram Darbar, Phase II, on the fateful night of August 26.

After calling off his duty at a call centre, he came home and again left to return the motorcycle of his friend. He is survived by his father, mother and a sister. His father, Badhur Singh, works in the PTL. — TNS

Chandigarh, August 28
On the third day of the PCA Emerging Players Tournament for Umesh Kumar Trophy, Punjab Green with an overnight score of 213 for 4, were all out for 329 in 13.1 overs and took a slender lead with 27 runs on the first innings.

Punjab Yellow bowlers met with an early success in the morning when Bharat Loomba ended Sumit Sharma’s long vigil at the crease by clean bowling him at 37. Sumit had added 4 runs to his overnight score.

The fifth wicket partnership between Hitesh Anand and Sumit yielded 86 runs. Hitesh and Mohit Mohindra (17) played in a partnership of 47 runs. Mohindra was run out by Rajwinder Gollu.

Hitesh scored 111 off 186 balls studded with 14 boundaries and a six. He held the yellow innings together for his team to take a lead of 27 runs on the first innings.

For the Greens, Bharat Loomba bowled his heart out and returned with impressive figures of 27.1-5-76-6 and was supported by off-spinner Gaurav Gambhir, who scalped 2 for 68.

Punjab Yellow started their second essay on a dismal note. They lost their opener Gurkirat Mann for 7 with the total of 18. Other opener Sarul Kanwar was next to go for 10 with the total of 22. There after Perry Goel (28) and Robin Singh (35) got together to repair the damage and were involved in a third wicket stand of 52 runs before Robin Singh was snapped by wicket keeper Anand of the bowling of Varun Khanna for 35 off 50.

Perry was the fourth batsman, who fell at the total of 101, while attempting to clear the field off the bowling of Varun Khanna but succeeded in giving Pankaj Dharmani an easy catch in the deep. Harmanjeet Bajwa (19) and Amit Prashar (21) were in the middle, when the stumps were drawn for the day with Punjab yellow total of 139 for 4.

In the second match played at the PCA Stadium, Mohali, Punjab Red resuming at 24 for 2 went on to score 125 without any further loss at lunch.

The overnight pair of Taruwar Kohli and Mayank Sidana stitched 101 runs unbeaten partnership for the third wicket with both scoring 48 runs each. Sharp showers during lunch, which continued till tea break, prevented any further play. 

Patiala, August 28
Punjab State Junior Badminton Championship commenced today at Mahrani Club. DC Deepinder Singh inaugurated the meet and welcomed players and coaches, who had come from various parts of Punjab to participate in the three-day tournament.

While addressing players, the DC said it was important for a player to be dedicated and sincere.

Players should be ready to face every challenge that comes their way, he added.

Vinod Vatrana, secretary of the Patiala Badminton Association, said 16 teams were participating in the competition. Former national champion Kultej Singh, Kuldeep Singh Bains, DC income tax, Yashwant Singh, Santokh Singh and Prof Balvir Singh were present on the occasion.

Results:

Singles category: Anand Tiwari (Ludhiana) bt Harpreet Singh (Moga) by 21-4, 21-6; Akshay Verma (Nawanshahr) bt Balwinder Singh (Amritsar) by 22-20, 21-18; Kamaldeep (Sangrur) bt Guraftab (Ludhiana) by 21-5, 21-4; Karan (Amritsar) bt Karan Mahajan (Gurdaspur) by 21-19, 16-21 and 21-13; Sharma (Patiala) bt Mitesh Jain (Ludhiana) by 21-4, 21-13; Puneetinder Singh (Ludhiana) bt Ghanshyam (Ropar) by 21-12, 21-15; Manjinder Singh (Patiala) bt Harkirat Singh by 22-20, 21-16; Akash Mahajan (Ludhiana) bt Ankush Dhaliwal by 21-13, 21-16; Samash Goyal (Patiala) bt Gulshan (Amritsar) by 16-21, 21-15, 21-17; Sumit Sharma (Gurdaspur) bt Bhavya (Ludhiana) by 21-12, 21-12 and Sandeep (Gurdaspur) bt Rajkumar (Ropar) by 20-22, 22-20, 21-16.

Chandigarh, August 28
Manav Mangal High School, Sector 21, clinched the under-17 girls’ title in the UT Inter-School Table Tennis Tournament at DAV Public School, Sector 8, here today.

Manav Mangal bagged the title by thrashing DAV Public School, Sector 8, by 3-1.

Kalyani of Manav Mangal tilted the benefit in favour of her school by her aggressive performance and won two games for her school. First Semifinal was played between DAV-8 and Sacred Heart-26. DAV-8 won the match by 3-0.

The second semifinal was played between Manav Mangal High School-21 and GMSSS-56. Manav Mangal High School-21 won the match by 3-0. The third semifinal was played between Sacred Heart-26 and GMSSS-56. Sacred Heart-26 won the third position (3-0).

Chandigarh, August 28
The All-India Cricket Federation has invited 34 cricketers for a two-day coaching camp, which will begin tomorrow for participation in the Indo-Nepal Friendship Cricket Cup to be played at Pokhra (Nepal) from September 2 to 7.

The team will leave for Nepal on August 31.

The selected players have been advised to report at Shivalik Public School, Sector 41, at 2 pm.

Those invited to the camp are Prashant Dubey, D Manoj, Harmanpreet Singh, Gurvinder Singh, Paramjeet Singh, Avish Kamboj, Devender Singh, Krishna Anand, Ankit Sood, Deepanshu, Surinder, Rattan Lal Dhundhara, Anurag Kumar, Dhiraj Kumar Singh, Ankush Goel, Shubham Sood, Rahul Kumar, Hitesh Aggarwal, Vikas Bhandari, Dhruv Sharma, Mohit Bhardwaj, Amit Gautam, Ashish Kumar, Kuldeep, Mohit Garg, Rahul Kumar, Jasmeet Singh, Suryanshu Chadda, Shubham Mahajan, Gaurav Dhamanda, Prashant Kumar, Ram Kishan, Surinder Ruhil and Narendar Singh.

Chandigarh, August 28
Surjit Hockey Academy, Jalandhar, defeated MRS Academy, Amritsar, by 6-1 during the 8th SN Vohra Hockey Memorial Sub-Junior (U-14) Hockey Tournament here today.

Surjit players kept pressure on MRS Academy from the beginning and Harpreet Singh scored the first goal of the match in the 14th minute. Rajat Singh hit two goals in the 15th and 17th minute of the game. Meanwhile, Harjeet Singh scored another goal in their favour.

However, MRS players made hard attempts to score and got success in the 38th minute with one goal.

Again, for the Surjit Academy, Lovepreet scored the ultimate goal of the match.

In the second match played between Malwa Khalsa School, Ludhiana, and BUSH Academy, Tarn Taran, BUSH players won the match (2-0).

Harinderpal of BUSH Academy scored first field goal in the 54th minute and Jugraj Singh scored another field goal in the 56th minute.

The final match of the tournament will be played between BUSH Academy and Surjit Hockey Academy tomorrow.