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Husband booked for killing wife
Tribune News Service

Kalka, September 15
The continuous landslide on the Kalka hill behind Kali Mata Temple has endangered the lives of more than 100 families of Ward No. 4, New Bala Ji Nagar.

Terrified over the situation, residents of the ward has written applications signed by over 80 persons to Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police, Panchkula, and have urged to make appropriate safety arrangements.

Sachin Kumar, resident of the same ward, said due to landslides since last couple of months, the situation has become worst. He alleged that landslides have occurred due to the digging work carried out on the hill by Sucha Singh, resident of Majra Mehtab village.

Hundreds of trees were cut down with out the permission of the forest department, Haryana. He also alleged that residents tried to stop Sucha Singh, but he didn’t bother.

A visit by the Tribune to take a stoke of the situation, reveals that due to landslides and hill slip a huge portion of the hill has slipped into the river and has covered over 75 per cent portion of the river affecting the smooth flow of water.

This might lead to flood like situation due to the over flow. The over flow of river towards the residential houses might damage over 500 houses near the river.

The residents told The Tribune that the local and district administration should take a serious note of the problem, as two years ago the over flow of river had washed away more than four houses of the same locality.

The river is in a dire need of huge retaining walls on both the sides, urged the residents.

Kharar, September 15
Radhey Shyam, a rickshaw-puller, has alleged that the police was not acting in the case of his wife and son missing for the past three years.

Radhe Shyam said three years ago his wife was working as a sweeper at a departmental store in Mundi Kharar. On February 19, 2006, Vijay Kumar, a resident of Sabzi Mandi Mohali, who worked at the same departmental store, eloped with his wife.

“When I came home in the evening on February 19, 2006, I came to know that my wife was missing. She took away our five-year-old son and Rs 30,000,” he said.

Radhe Shyam said he tried to search his wife but in vain. On November 6, 2006, Haryana police came to Mundi Kharar and asked him to accompany them to Naraingarh area in Haryana.

“The police showed me the bodies of my wife and my child,” he said. The police then took one Madhu into custody who told the police that two more persons were involved in killing the woman and her child.

Radhe Shyam said he had been running from pillar to post to take action in this regard. “I have even written to the Chief Minister and Chief Justice Punjab and Haryana High Court. My repeated pleas are falling on deaf ears,” he said.

Fatehgarh Sahib, September 15
Lawyers at Fatehgarh Sahib today continued their strike against increase in court fee by state government.

District Bar Association president advocate Amardeep Singh Dharni said entire working of courts got affected today, as no lawyer initiated any work in the courts here.

He expressed sympathy with those who failed to get their work done in courts in view of strike and said lawyers had protested against the fee hike which was going to affect common man and the strike was in the interest of people only.

Sudden increase in court fee would create a big hole in pockets of those who want to get justice in the courts. “If government failed to withdraw notification in this regard then lawyers will have to chalk out a plan to intensify their stir after a meeting in this regard at state level,” he added.

Members of the District Bar Association advocate Narinder Sharma said the government on one hand announced free legal aid but on the other announced increase in court fee. Secretary of the association advocate Bir Devinder Singh, advocate Karan Wadhera, advocate Sumit Gupta, advocate Swapandeep Singh, advocate Klwant Singh Khera and others were present.

Chandigarh, September 15
The Punjab and Haryana High Court is all set to bring about another “white revolution”, this time by preventing the flooding of markets with synthetic milk. The six commandments issued by a Division Bench for the purpose include launching of special sample-collection drives, preparation of watertight cases against milk adulterators and increasing the number of laboratories in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.

The Bench of Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia has directed: “The Director, Health Services, shall, from time to time, call upon the district health authorities — the civil surgeons — to report regarding collection of samples of milk and milk-items; and shall also review follow-up initiated by the district health authorities.”

“The Director, Health Services, shall also take into consideration the rate of conviction achieved qua the persons, who have been put to trial for various offences under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, and if necessary, shall take all remedial measures, so that the guilty are not acquitted for any lapse on the part of the prosecuting agency, or its failure to observe necessary technicalities.”

“The state health authorities shall also re-determine the target to be assigned to the district health authority and government food inspectors more realistically, as the existing target noticed by us is inadequate to meet the demand of alarming ground realities.”

The fourth commandment to the district health authorities is to “launch a special drive/campaign for collection of samples under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, from time to time. This campaign be carried out at random with an element of surprise”.

The Bench also said: “The collection of samples shall be effected from both organised and non-organised suppliers and vendors; and the state governments may also take adequate action to increase the number of food laboratories in order to meet the need of increased number of samples taken by the field staff.”

Speaking for the Bench, Justice Ahluwalia asserted: “We do hope that the authorities concerned will not fail in the duty assigned to them under the provisions of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, and they will be able to meet the requirements of the time.”

Panchkula, September 15
A local court today dismissed regular bail plea of Varinder Sofat, cousin of Dr Sumit Sofat, in the alleged Rs 33 lakh robbery and an attempt to murder at Morni on July 20 here.

The police had arrested Varinder on August 23 from Mohali accusing him of conspiring with Dr Sofat to conduct robbery incident and killing driver Nelson at Morni in an effort to frame a Ludhiana resident in the criminal case.

Pleading before the court Varinder had stated that he had no hand in the crime and he only met Dr Sumit in Chandigarh.

It was on July 19 when on the complaint of Dr Sumit Sofat, a criminal case against Ramesh Pashan, his sons Abhinav and Vinayak and their driver Ranjeet of Ludhiana and two other attackers was registered by the police.

It was alleged that Sofat was attacked by them at Morni and his driver Nelson was injured in firing by the accused and Rs 33 lakh lying in Sofat’s car was robbed.

The police, however, started suspecting the statement of Sofat when he started avoiding the police following Pashan’s family denying their involvement in the case and that they were busy in a family function at Ludhiana. The court has already issued non-bailable warrants against Dr Sofat.

Chandigarh, September 15
The special crime investigation cell of the Chandigarh police arrested two persons for vehicle thefts and recovered five motor cycles from their possession, here today.

The police said Gurpreet of Patiala and Nitin of Kaithal, both students of civil aviation, were involved in vehicle theft for the past two months and had been living at a rented accommodation in Sector 20.

Acting on a tip-off, ASI Sohan Lal, set up a roadblock on the road separating Sectors 34 and 35 yesterday and arrested the two.

The police said the accused were riding a stolen Bajaj Pulsar motor cycle using a fake registration number (PB 11 AB 1221) in spite of genuine number (CH 03 B 0531).

Satbir Singh, DSP, special crime investigation cell, said: “Both were produced in a local court, which has sent remanded in one-day police custody.”

He added that four more motor cycles - Bajaj Caliber (CH 03 F 2038), Splendor (CH 03 X 3789), LML Freedom (PB 70 A 4252) and Bajaj Discover (CH 03 W 8235) - had been recovered.

Mohali, September 15
SSP Mohali has marked an inquiry into a complaint of a Sohana woman Krishna Sood being cheated by her in-laws.

In the complaint filed by an NGO on behalf of the woman, it was stated that the victim was beaten up and was deprived of her rights by her husband, Jagmeet Kumar.

The woman had been complaining about her in-laws but no action had been taken. She got no relief despite intervention of the Istri Sabha and the village panchayat, said HS Dhindsa, general secretary of the NGO.

The SSP marked an inquiry to the DSP Swarandeep Singh. The DSP said the final report would be given only after the statement of the victim’s husband was recorded.

Zirakpur, September 15
A six-year-old student was allegedly beaten up by a primary school attendant last night at Nagla village near Zirakpur.

Even the victim’s mother was brutally beaten up by the same attendant, when she approached school authorities with her complaint.

Following the mother’s complaint, the police have registered a case against the attendant Shakuntala, wife of panch Satpal, Nagla village, and two other members of the school committee- Poonam and Ravi.

Later, under political pressure, the police also registered a counter case on the complaint of Shakuntla.

The investigating officer stated that the statements of both the groups had been recorded and further investigations are on. More than two persons were injured in the clash, he added.

Victim’s mother, Suman in her statement with the police, said her daughter was studying in a primary school at Nagla village. She alleged that Shakuntala, who was cooking midday meal in the school, had slapped her daughter. After which she went to the school to enquire and even she was thrashed by the accused.

Des Raj, Suman’s husband alleged that they had complained to the higher authorities several times to remove Shakuntala but nothing was done.

Meanwhile, the police have also booked Suman, Arjun Ram and Kailsho Rani on the complaint of Shakuntla.

Chandigarh, September 15
The UT education department is going to conduct the trials for the 55th National School Games 2009-10 from September 22 at various schools here.

Player must come in proper kit along with their school I-cards duly signed by the head of the institution and the player can give trials in the same age group in which he/she has participated in the inter-school tournament.

Name of the discipline, venue and age group are as follows:

Volleyball- Sports Complex-7, U-19 boys and girls, September 22 at 9 am; Football- GMSSS-37, U-14 girls’, September 22 at 9 am; Baseball- GMSSS-44, U-17 boys and girls, September 22 at 9 am; Football- GMSSS-37, U-17 and 19 girls, September 30 to October 5; Hockey- Sports Complex-42, U-14, 17 and 19 boys on September 30.

Hockey: GMSSS-37, U-14, 17 and 19 girls, October 6 to 8; Basketball- Sports Complex-7, U-14, 17 and 19 boys and girls, September 30 to October 8; Dodgeball, GMSSS-20, U-19 boys and girls’ September 30 to October 8; Roller skating, artistic skating and roller hockey will be held at Skating Rink-10, U-11,14,17 and 19 for boys and girls, U-19 boys only September 30 to October 8; Softball- GMSSS-44, U-14, 17 and 19 boys and girls, September 30 to October 8; Cricket- Stepping Stones-37, U-19 girls, September 30. 

Chandigarh, September 15
SGGS College, Sector 26, thrashed Government College for Girls, Sector 11, by 14-13 during the Panjab University Inter-College Softball (women) Championship held on the university campus here today.

Meanwhile, GN Girls College, Ludhiana, beat Khalsa College (women), Ludhiana, by 11-5. In another match played between Ramgarhia Girls College, Ludhiana, and PU Campus, Ramgarhia players thrashed PU by 7-4.

In a match between GN Khalsa College, Ludhiana, and DD College, Ludhiana, GN Khalsa players won the match by 10-0.

Chandigarh, September 15
The sixth edition of the Molly Carver League-cum-Knockout Cricket Tournament for High Schools, jointly organised by Desh Prem Azad Cricket Academy and St Stephen’s School will begin on September 25 on St Stephen’s grounds at Sector 45 here.

According to Dronacharya DP Azad, the league matches will be of 45 overs and the semifinals and final will be of 50 overs.

Eight participating teams will be divided into two pools and two top teams from each group will qualify for the semifinals.

Two newly appointed selectors of Punjab would be honoured at the final match. Selectors, who will be felicitated for junior international are Monish Aggarwal and Arun Sharma.

Participating teams are: Defending Champions, Guru Nanak Public School, Sector 36, St Stephen’s School-45, Stepping Stone, DAV Senior Secondary School-8, DAV Model-15, Satluj Public School, Panchkula, Government Senior Secondary School-35 and St Anne’s-32.