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INLD names 42 nominees
A Tribune Special
Rs 5 lakh looted at gunpoint
Teachers to observe ‘black day’ today
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Hostile witnesses will face perjury charge: HC Videograph forest area, Haryana told
Sita Ram’s name missing
Boy’s death: Villagers block road
Cong forms screening panel
Crackdown on Hoarders
Missing girls return home
2 youths shot dead
EC to review poll arrangements
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INLD names 42 nominees
Chandigarh, September 4 Notwithstanding the setback suffered by the party following a “divorce” by the BJP, the INLD has been the first party in the state to not only release its manifesto but also to release the first list of its 42 nominees. The ruling Congress is still to start the selection process of its nominees. Only today the high command has set up a five-member screening committee headed by veteran leader Mohsina Kidwai to scrutinise the applications. Its manifesto committee will hold its first meeting tomorrow. Similarly, the BJP is also to come out with the manifesto and the list of nominees. For the HJC and the BSP, whose marriage proved to be no stable than the one between Chand Mohammad and Fiza, the manifestoes and list of nominees do not seem to be a priority so far. Former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, as announced earlier, will take on senior Congress leader and Finance Minister Birender Singh from Uchana Kalan in Jind district. Haryana INLD president Ashok Arora will contest from his traditional seat of Thanesar, while former Agriculture Minister Jaswinder Singh Sandhu will again try his luck from Pehowa. The other nominees are Hodal: Jagdish Nayar, former minister of state; Badshahpur: Gopichand Gehlot, former deputy speaker; Bhiwani: Dr Vasudev Sharma, former deputy speaker; Jhajjar: Kanta Devi, former minister of state; Bahadurgarh: Nafe Singh Rathi; Meham: Balbir Singh Bali; Ratia: Gyan Chand Odh, sitting MLA; Tohana: Nishan Singh Kamboj; Fatehabad: Swatanter Bala Chaudhary; and Israna: Krishan Panwar, former. MLA. Former BSP MLA Bishan Lal Saini, who had joined the INLD before the 2005 Assembly elections, will contest from Radaur while former Haryana INLD president Sher Singh Badshami will try his luck from the neighbouring newly carved out constituency of Ladwa. Former chairman of the Haryana Tourism Corporation Pardeep Chaudhary will be the INLD nominee from Kalka. The rest of the list is as follows: Yamunanagar: Dilbag Singh, district president, Kisan cell; Gharaunda: Narinder Sangwan; Indri: Dr Ashok Kashyap; Nilokheri: Mamu Ram Gondar; Panipat City: Suresh Kumar Mittal; Ganaur: Krishan Gopal Tyagi; Kharkhauda: Raju Dhanak; Baroda: Dr Kapur Singh Narwal; Gohana: Atul Malik; Badhara: Col Raghubir Singh; Loharu: Dharampal Obra; Tosham: Col Gajraj Singh; Barwala: Sheela Bhayan, state president, women cell; Uklana: Seema Devi; Nalwa: Ranvir Singh Gangwa. Sirsa: Padam Jain; Kalanwali: Charanjeet Singh; Julana: Parminder Singh Dhull; Hathin: Kehar Singh Rawat; Bhuwanikhera: Azad Balmiki; Kalanaur: Nagaram Balmiki; Naraingarh: Ram Singh Kodwa; Guhla Cheeka: Phool Singh Balmiki; Pirthla: Sashibala Tawetia; Narwana: Pirthi Singh; and Garhi Sampla Kiloi: Satish Nandel. |
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PGIMS appointment raises eyebrows
Sunit Dhawan Tribune News Service
Gurgaon, September 4 In an unprecedented move, a staff nurse was directly appointed nursing superintendent, much to the chagrin of the other nurses, many of them much senior to the appointee and more qualified than her. The PGIMS comes under the administrative control of Pt BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, which is the only medical university in the state. Nonetheless, the state authorities also played a key role in sanctioning the aforesaid post. Prior to the appointment, the PGIMS administration proposed a new set of service rules for the nursing staff, following which the said staff nurse was appointed the nursing superintendent. Requesting anonymity, a number of aggrieved nurses maintained that the norms were given the go-by while making the said appointment. “The appointment was made in haste, without even getting the proposed service rules duly notified,” they alleged. According to the norms earlier followed by the PGIMS administration, passing the 10+2 examination and holding a diploma in general nursing along with midwifery training were mandatory for one’s appointment as a staff nurse. After five years’ experience, a staff nurse would become eligible for appointment as a nursing sister. After working as a nursing sister for seven years, one could be considered for the post of matron and the one who had worked as matron for three years could be made nursing superintendent. For direct recruitment, a candidate is required to be an A-grade nurse with midwifery training, registered with the Haryana Nurses Registration Council or holding BSc (Nursing) degree, having studied Hindi up to the matric level and five years’ experience as matron. The upper age limit was 40 years. However, for reasons best known to the authorities concerned, the eligibility criteria were changed prior to the said appointment. As per the new service rules proposed for the nursing staff at the PGIMS, a candidate having a BSc/ post-basic BSc (nursing) degree, registered as an A-grade nurse and midwife with the Haryana Nurses Registration Council, having studied Hindi up to the matric standard and having 20 years’ experience in the profession in a large institution could apply for the post of nursing superintendent. The upper age limit for direct recruits was also increased from 40 to 50 years. A note put at the end of the new eligibility criteria mentions that “merit means appraisal of annual confidential reports with service record and not the academic qualification i.e. BSc (nursing)/BSc (post- basic nursing)/MSc (nursing), etc in promotion cases.”
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Rs 5 lakh looted at gunpoint
Yamunanagar, September 4 In another incident, seven unidentified men barged into a house in Sector-17, HUDA, and decamped with cash and jewellery worth Rs 4 lakh early in the morning. The first incident took place when Vijay Kumar, the cashier with Lakshmi Industry, was on his way to the industrial area after withdrawing Rs 5 lakh from HDFC Bank in the afternoon. According to Vijay, he had kept the amount in the box of his two-wheeler. As he reached near Kanhaiya Chowk, two motorcycle-borne youths stopped him and looted Rs 5 lakh at gunpoint from him, said the police. The two youths managed to escape despite the congested roads after committing the crime. The police has registered a case under Section 394, IPC, against the two unidentified youths. In another case of dacoity, seven unidentified armed men entered the house in HUDA, Sector-17, after breaking the boundary wall at around 3 am. They threatened Abhisek and his family members with dire consequences if they raised an alarm and then got keys of almirah from them at gunpoint. They locked all the family members in a room and then ransacked the house. The robbers decamped with Rs 1 lakh and jewellery worth Rs 3 lakh. The police has registered a case under Section 395, IPC. SP Vikas Arora said four teams were constituted to arrest the accused in the two cases. The teams were headed by DSPs Mukesh Kumar and Krishan Kumar. The SP said any businessman could seek the police protection while withdrawing an amount more than Rs 2 lakh from a bank.
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Teachers to observe ‘black day’ today
Hisar, September 4 This decision was taken at a meeting of the Haryana Universities Ad Hoc Committee which met here today. NS Kaushal, president of the Kurukshetra University Teachers Association (KUTA) and the ad hoc committee, said the teachers had been forced to take such a drastic step as the bureaucracy was bent upon humiliating and
victimising the teaching community by denying it its due. He said teachers would not accept anything less than the UGC pay scales in totality. He demanded that the government issue the notification as per issued by the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development. There was no bar on issuing such a notification even though the Model Code of Conduct was in force in the state as a fresh notification would only mean rectification of the notification already issued. Meanwhile, the varsity teachers continued their strike for the 11th day today. The strike would continue till the demand was met, Kaushal said. On the other hand, non-teaching employees of 120 aided private colleges in the state will also remain on strike tomorrow and on Monday next to press their demand for the implementation of new pay scales w.e.f. January 2006 instead of January 2009 as notified by the state government. These employees had been on strike on September 1 and 2 and had staged a state-level demonstration yesterday in Rohtak after which it was decided to continue the strike. They are scheduled to begin indefinite dharna and chain hunger strike there from September 7. |
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Hostile witnesses will face perjury charge: HC Chandigarh, September 4 The ruling by a Division Bench comes at a time when the prosecution initiated against so many political honchos in this part of the region is falling apart due to resiling of the witnesses. Directing the issuance of show-cause notices for commencement of perjury proceedings to five “hostile” witnesses in a murder case, the Bench of Justice Mehtab Singh Gill and Justice Jitendra Chauhan quoted the Best Bakery case before observing: It is very common nowadays that the witnesses, while supporting the prosecution version at the investigation stage of the case by giving a version there, take a u-turn at the trial by not supporting the version”. The Bench added this was making the case to “fall for the want of evidence”, or was preventing it from culminating to conviction of the accused. “This practice, therefore, has become a menace to the criminal justice system”. The relatable observations came during the appeal filed by Faridabad resident Surinder Singh, sentenced to life for strangulating his wife Sobha. Upholding the conviction, the Bench observed: We are pained to record that a number of prosecution witnesses turned hostile…. Certain material witnesses, namely Yad Ram, Jag Ram, Vijay Pal, Hari Chand and Roshan Lal, did not support the prosecution…. The victim comes from a very poor family and hails from the state of Assam; there was no body to shield her during her lifetime, and after her death there are no mourners or sympathisers in the family of her in-laws. “In this like situation, where the dignity of human life has been violated in a barbaric and cruel manner resulting in the loss of a young life, who destiny had landed in the house of the accused, we are inclined to proceed against them. Consequently, we issue notice to Yad Ram, Jag Ram, Vijay Pal, Hari Chand and Roshan Lal, who tried to save the accused-appellate from legal punishment by resiling from the statement and denying their participation during the course of investigation.” Hence, a show-cause notice is issued to them to explain as to why a complaint not be lodged against them for committing the offence of perjury”. Yad Ram, Roshan Lal and Jag Ram were eyewitnesses, while extra-judicial confession was purported to have been made before Vijay Pal and Hari
Chand.
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Videograph forest area, Haryana told Chandigarh, September 4 The Bench of Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice Surya Kant also asked the state government to lay emphasis on private forestland and to update the information periodically to assess the actual forest cover of the state. The Bench also made the divisional forest officers and the district mining officers responsible for checking illegal mining. They “shall be personally responsible to ensure that no mining activity or any other non-forest activity is allowed to be carried out in the forests land covered under the notification”. Gang-rape case
Punjab today assured the high court that it would protect the life and liberty of a “gang-rape victim”, who had accused MP Sher Singh Gubhaya of shielding the accused, a district panchayat officer. Taking up her application for protection of life and liberty filed through counsel JS Bains, Justice Jora Singh also fixed September 16 as the next date of hearing. The victim had alleged one of the accused, district panchayat officer Harjinder Singh, was “very close” to Gubhaya and as such “fair and proper investigation could not be conducted by Ferozepur SSPand another respondent official as they were directly under his order”. The Tarn Taran-based, 16-and-a-half-year-old, victim had also sought the transfer of the probe to some independent agency or SP-level officer.
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Sita Ram’s name missing
Sirsa, September 4 Sita Ram, who unsuccessfully contested the recent parliamentary elections from the Sirsa parliamentary seat, has not been considered for any of the three reserved Assembly seats falling under his constituency. Although Sita Ram lost to Ashok Tanwar in the last parliamentary elections, he bagged 1,118 more votes than Tanwar in Kalanwali (reserved), 15,054 more votes than the Congress nominee in Narwana (reserved). He lost to the Congress nominee in Ratia (reserved). Sita Ram, whose own constituency - Dabwali - has been reserved during delimitation, was expecting to be nominated from neighbouring Kalanwali (Reserve) Assembly seat this time. However, the party has decided to field a little known figure - Charanjit Singh - from there. From Narwana, the INLD has fielded Pirthi Singh Nambardar, again a little known name, and Ratia (reserved) has gone to Gian Chand Odh, party’s MLA in the dissolved Assembly. Gian Chand had won the seat for the INLD in 2005. Before contesting the last parliamentary elections, Sita Ram contested two Assembly elections from Dabwali (reserved) Assembly seat in 2000 and 2005 and won both. “I was expecting to be nominated from Kalanwali and have definitely been disappointed after not finding my name in the list. However, it is party’s decision and must be in the best interest of all,” Sita Ram said. All other candidates announced by the INLD in Sirsa and Fatehabad districts have been on the expected lines.
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Boy’s death: Villagers block road
Jhajjar, September 4 The protesters were demanding immediate arrest of Dr Sanjay against whom a case was registered by the police on the complaint of kin of the deceased yesterday evening. Besides, the police also booked dozens of villagers on charges of damaging property in a private clinic yesterday, located at Kosli village. According to the villagers, Sajjan Kumar had gone to the health centre for getting his father medical check up done yesterday but Dr Sanjay was not there at that time. Later when Dr Sanjay came to the centre, Sajjan asked the reason behind the delay. Consequently, the doctor allegedly lost his temper and shouted on them. It is alleged that after some time of the incident, Sajjan felt pain in the chest and immediately was taken to civil hospital in Jhajjar from where he was referred to the PGIMS. Later, he reportedly died of cardiac arrest during treatment in the PGIMS. As the news of Sajjan’s death spread in Humayupur village, residents of the village blocked the Matanhel-Kosli road. Besides, dozens of villagers reached Kosli village and also damaged property in a private clinic wherein Dr Sanjay had allegedly been practising privately.
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Cong forms screening panel
New Delhi, September 4 The other members of the committee are Union Minister of Commerce Anand Sharma, party general secretary and in charge of the party affairs in the state Prithviraj Chavan, president of the Haryana Congress Phool Chand Mullana and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Elections to the Haryana Assembly are scheduled for October 13. Just four days ago, Congress president Sonia Gandhi had nominated three additional members to the Haryana Pradesh Election Committee of the party. The committee already had 26 members. The additions were: Avtar Singh Bhadana, MP from Faridabad, Khurshid Ahmed and Suresh Gupta. Sources in the party said the screening committee was needed immediately as ticket aspirants were thronging Haryana Bhawan in Delhi every day.
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113 bags of sugar seized; 2 booked
Tribune News Service
Sirsa, September 4 The police has booked two persons under the Prevention of Black Marketing and Maintenance of Supplies of Essential Commodities Act, 1980, and has started investigation to ascertain the involvement of some others. The Odhan police had received information that bags of sugar had been stocked in a vacant house in Ghukkanwali village. The police intimated the matter to the District Food and Supplies Controller and a team was set up to raid the house. During the raid, the police seized 113 bags of sugar, which, the house owner said, belonged to a shopkeeper of Kalanwali. The police has booked Gurjant Singh and Kesari in this regard. The police said retailers were allowed to store up to 25 bags of sugar and the stock of 113 bags was in violation of the Act.
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Missing girls return home
Sirsa, September 4 The girls, students of class VII, had gone to their school in the morning yesterday, but did not return home. Their schoolbags were found in their classroom. The anxious parents lodged a missing complaint with the local city police station in the evening yesterday and the police launched a frantic search of the two girls, looking into the sensitivity of the case. However, the two girls returned home safely in the afternoon today. Hans Raj, SHO of the city police station, said the girls had escaped from their school and went to the Dera Sacha Sauda on the Begu road. He said an inmate of the dera noticed the two girls roaming there and asked about their parents. Later, he informed the parents and the girls returned home safely. |
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2 youths shot dead
Jhajjar, September 4 Naresh was one of the alleged accused in the murder case of Jaiveer of Aasuda village. Jaiveer was allegedly murdered last month. Old enmity is said to be behind the killings. The incident took place when Naresh along with his friend Praveen was going to Kanauda village on motorcycle. As they reached near Kanauda village, a car intercepted them. Some armed youths came out of the car and reportedly opened fire on Naresh and Praveen. The assailants fled the spot leaving the victims in critical condition. Hearing the gunshots, villagers working in nearby areas rushed to the spot and took both of them to the PGIMS, Rohtak, where the duo reportedly succumbed to their injuries. |
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EC to review poll arrangements
Chandigarh, September 4 As per the revised tour programme, Chief Election Commissioner Navin B Chawla, along with Dr SY Quraishi, Election Commissioner, will meet the recognised national and state political parties at 9 am at the UT Guest House, Chandigarh, on September 5. |
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