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Fake currency racket accused dies in police custody
Handicapped teacher fights for local posting
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Bajwa meets PM for mini SEZ in Pathankot
Artisan bags national award
Kamaljit receives the national award from Union Minister of State for Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises Dinsha Patel in New Delhi.
Farmers block highway at Harike head works
Gang of vehicle lifters busted
Bodies of youth, girl found from field
Woman killed by in-laws
3 snatch gold jewellery
Speeding truck overturns on jhuggi, kills 4
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Fake currency racket accused dies in police custody
Kapurthala, August 6 The family members of Roor Singh alleged that he died in police custody due to torture. On the other hand, police officials claimed that cardiac arrest might be the reason for his death. He had complained of chest pain around 11 pm on Saturday. He was taken to a hospital at Beas where he died, the police officials added. The district police claimed that Roor Singh alias Makhan of Nurpur Jattan village was arrested with two of his associates, including a woman, on the charge of carrying fake currency notes worth Rs 99,000 from the local bus stand on Saturday. As soon as the news of Roor’s death spread, a large number of villagers blocked the Jalandhar-Amritsar national highway at Dhilwan Bus stand on Sunday afternoon by placing his body in the middle of the road. They demanded the registration of a murder case against Dhilwan SHO Gurmukh Singh. In the meantime, the district police suspended the SHO and shifted him to police lines. When contacted, SSP Ram Singh confirmed the SHO’s suspension and said stern action would be taken if any police official is found guilty after the magisterial inquiry. “As per guidelines by the NHRC and Punjab police rules, NHRC has been informed of the custodial death,” he informed. Contrary to the claims of the district police, Nurpur Jattan village Sarpanch Ravneet Kaur’s husband Harjit Singh alleged that the police had picked up Roor Singh and his relative Kuldip from the village fair on Friday. When he (Harjit), along with some villagers had gone to Dhilwan police station to know the reasons of their arrests, they were told by the SHO to come the next day. Harjit further said he got a phone call from the Dhilwan police station on Saturday evening that Roor had been booked in a fake currency racket. Subsequently, when he along with some villagers went to the police station to give them some eatables, the police did not allow them to meet Roor. Alleging that Roor had been falsely implicated in the fake currency racket case, the protesting villagers said he had been tortured to death in the police lock up. Harjit further said they came to know about his death after they got a call from the SHO on Sunday morning. Bholath DSP Mohinder Singh claimed Roor Singh, along with Kuldip Singh and Jasbir Kaur, had been arrested from the bus stand of Nurpur Lubana village on Saturday when all the accused were waiting for some one to exchange the fake currency notes with. A case under sections 489 A, B, C, 420 and 120 B was registered against them. After their arrest, all the accused were taken to police station Dhilwan, from where Roor was shortly taken to the hospital where he died, the DSP added. Meanwhile, a three-member board of doctors of local civil hospital conducted the post mortem of the body and sent the viscera to Kharar for examination to ascertain the exact cause of his death.
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Handicapped teacher fights for local posting
Jalandhar, September 6 Crippled up to 80 per cent in one leg and 95 per cent in the other, he has been following the same routine for the past nearly three years. Repeated requests to the District Education Officer and even officials of the state department at Chandigarh to seek transfer to a nearby school have failed to yield any response. A postgraduate in mathematics, 27-year-old Dharampal got posted in the school in December 2006. “At that time, I was told to join the school and apply for transfer after three months. I did the same hoping that my plea will be accepted on priority, but to no avail,” he rued. Since then there have been two rounds of rationalisation but Dharampal has been given a raw deal despite the fact that the transfer policy stipulates that the physically challenged people be given top priority. “This time, I myself took the trouble to find out the schools in the periphery where the post was vacant. I found that the school in Basti Bawa Khel was without a mathematics master. I asked for the transfer but was told that the post had just been filled. Then I pointed out that the post in Gakhlan Dhariwal school, 10 km from here, was vacant. I was refused a transfer there on the same plea. Then I got an information that Bhogpur school also had a vacancy. Unfortunately, I have not got a positive reply,” said a disillusioned Dharampal. But the young crusader has decided not to give up. “I have lodged a complaint with the Director-General, School Education, Krishan Kumar. I have also filed an application under the RTI Act raising questions over the non-implementation of the rules laid down in the transfer policy. I have asked as to how all those candidates were given priority over me at the time of rationalisation,” he said. DEO Joginder Dass said he was personally taking interest in the case and had put up his proposal before the government. “I have full sympathies with the guy and am trying to get him posted to Bhogpur,” he said.
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Bajwa meets PM for mini SEZ in Pathankot
Gurdaspur, September 6 Bajwa said in his meeting with Prime Minister he had urged him (PM) that fruit processing units would be beneficial for the fruit growers of Punjab, Himachal Pardesh and Jammu and Kashmir
as they would be able to market their produce at international level and would fetch remunerative prices. Not only this, it
would generate employment opportunities for thousands of youth of the backward region of
Punjab. Bajwa, while talking to mediapersons on Friday night here, said he had also urged the Union Industry Minister (Heavy Industry), Vilas Rao
Desmukh, to set up a unit of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) at Batala by using Rs 40 crore given to the Punjab Government by the Centre Government last year for developing industry-related facilities in the town. He said as that money was still lying unused so it could be used for setting up a unit by BHEL to manufacture turbines needed for hydro-electrical and thermal plants, which were coming up in a large number in North India. He claimed that within 100 days of coming to power, The Congress-led UPA government had sanctioned Shah Pur Kandi barrage project. The project would be fully funded by the Central Government as per the memorandum signed by Capt Amarinder Singh, the then Chief Minister of Punjab, with the Centre Government in 2006. He added that the project would be executed by local engineers. The help of outside agencies would be taken only if the need arose. He said with the completion of the Rs 2,300-crore project, the Punjab would be able to generate 258 MW additional power. Not only this, about 3 lakh hectares of land belonging to the Majha and Doaba regions of Punjab and 50,000 hectares of land of Jammu and Kashmir would get canal water-based irrigation facilities. He said efforts were also on for bringing a medical college in Pathankot in private sector. |
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Artisan bags national award
Hoshiarpur, September 6 He has been designated best artisan and is the only one in the north zone to qualify for the national award. Kamaljit has set an example for the youth of the district by showing them that hard work and perseverance can win laurels. The Union Minister of State for Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises Dinsha Patel in a function at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, conferred the award on him on August 28. “Kamaljit crafted a small hexagonal box for me when he was a small boy. I use it for keeping my treasures but the real value is of the box itself ,” said his mother. He is an educated and trained artisan who wants to carve a niche for himself in the world of skilled craftsman. Rupal Matharu, father of Kamaljit, who is a national awardee himself, said, “I am proud of my son and want him to be the world’s foremost craftsman in wooden inlay.” Wood workers here specialised earlier in inlaying ivory which was popularly known as hathidant but with the elephant tusks becoming rare and several restrictions being imposed to protect against the use of animal material, the industry died out to a large extent. Then with the innovation of plastic inlay work, ivory was more or less replaced by plastic for low costing. The wooden inlay and lacquer workers of Hoshiarpur today look towards the KVIC for support, back-up, capacity building and ultimately progress and development. With the advent of the KVIC-SFURTI programme the artisans have gained a new lease on life. There is no hope for the resurrection of these art forms. The 1,000-artisan strong cluster of wooden inlay and lacquer work at Hoshiarpur is committed to the creation of beautiful artifacts to bring fruit to the efforts put in by the artisans, the KVIC-SFURTI and their implementing agency, The REEDS.
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Farmers block highway at Harike head works
Tarn Taran, September 6 The police had installed nakas in the area at many points restricting farmers from coming to Harike but the farmers succeeded in coming but not without having scuffle with policemen in which the turbans of many farmers fell down and the shirts were torn, claimed Kanwalpreet Singh Pannu state convener of the KSC. According to information, though the police of the district tried to stop the farmers from coming to Harike head works, but the farmers from Kapurthala, Jalandhar and Ferozepur came to the head works in a large number and staged dharna on the road blocking the traffic. Buses and other vehicles were seen parked on the road for miles. Pannu and other farmer leaders while addressing the farmers warned the government against the move to privatise the PSEB and demanded for direct payment to the farmers through cheques on their produce avoiding the commission agents. The leaders also demanded the waiving off all loans of the farmers, giving loans to the farmers at 4 per cent rate in future and canal water for the Khara Majha area, etc. The SSP, Sukhdev Singh Brar, monitored the police arrangements. |
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Gang of vehicle lifters busted
Gurdaspur, September 6 Kulwant Singh, who had been dismissed from the Army for remaining absent from duty for longer periods, used to steal two-wheelers from different parts of the region and latter handing over the vehicles to his accomplice Rajwinder Singh. Rajwinder Singh used to hand over the stolen vehicles to Tarsem Singh and Tarsem Singh used to sell them to the unsuspecting customers. Lok Nath Angra, SSP, said seven vehicles were recovered from Kulwant Singh, six from Tarsem Singh and two from Bhushan, resident of Sujanpur. He added that Kulwant Singh was in habit of stealing the vehicles
and a case was earlier registered against him in one of the police stations of Amritsar district. He said a case in this connection had been registered at Dhariwal police station of the district. |
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Bodies of youth, girl found from field
Nawanshahr, September 6 The police got information about it at 6.30 am today and reached the site. The bodies of the deceased boy and girl were found wrapped in a bed sheet, said SHO Shamsher Singh, adding that the police also recovered a small packing of poisonous tablets and a suicide note written on the back of a piece of pamphlet from the site. The suicide note was written in Punjabi by the girl in which she had also disclosed their identity. The parents of both the deceased were informed and the bodies were
taken to the Civil Hospital, Balachaur, for post-mortem. From preliminary examination, it appears to be a case of suicide. |
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Woman killed by in-laws
Hoshiarpur, September 6 The city police has arrested her husband Gaurav Jain, father-in-law Ashok Jain and brother-in-law Sonu Jain under sections 302 and 34 of the IPC. According to police sources, deceased Sharuti Jain’s father Parmod Jain stated that his daughter was married to Gaurav Jain on May 11, 2006. He gave sufficient dowry for her marriage and used tp provide monetary help to his son-in-law Gaurav Jain off and on. Yesterday, when he telephoned at the residence of his daughter,her in-laws did not allow him to talk with her. At about 1 pm, they told him that Sharuti was not well. When he went to the house of Sharuti in the evening and he was shocked to know about the death of his daughter. He found strangulation marks on her neck and noticed that she was bleeding from her mouth.
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3 snatch gold jewellery
Hoshiarpur, September 6 According to SP (D) Sushil Kumar, Mohinder Singh and his brother Sukhdev Singh of Kala Bakra, along with their wives Kulwant Kaur and Raj Kumari, respectively, were going on two motorcycles to their relative Hari Singh’s house at Argowal village when the incident happened. Both brothers were taken to a hospital from where they were referred to Civil Hospital, Hoshiarpur. According to Dr Gurdev Singh, SMO, Civil Hospital, Hoshiarpur, both brothers were referred to DMC, Ludhiana.
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Speeding truck overturns on jhuggi, kills 4
Hoshiarpur, September 6 According to police sources, the deceased were identified as Sandip Kumar (18), of Krela-Kreli, Monku (30) and Vir Singh (16), both of Tanda, district Shahbad and Naveen (6) of Arupur, Tehsil Bhatola. The bodies of all fourof the migrant labourers
have been sent to the Civil Hospital, Hoshiarpur for postmortem. After the accident, the truck driver fled from
the scene leaving his vehicle there. The Bulhowal police has registered a case. |
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An accused arrested in a fake currency racket, Roor Singh (47), died under mysterious circumstances at the Dhilwan police station on Saturday night.
challenged government schoolteacher to get a local posting. Polio-afflicted mathematics master Dharampal Singh has been forced to daily travel 60 km and change two buses to reach Government School, Bhar Singhpura, 10 km from
Phillaur. Dharampal Singh
Only north zone artisan to be honoured by Dinsha Patel
