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Dally to continue as MC chief
Councillors fail to show requisite majority
Tribune News Service

Dera Bassi, December 9
Eight municipal councillors today failed to show their requisite majority of 10 councillors to pass no-confidence motion against Dera Bassi MC president Manjeet Kaur Dally in a MC meeting held today.

Dally will continue on the post of the MC president. A meeting of the councillors was called up by the executive officer on Wednesday.

According to the MC officials, the opponent councilors had not required 10 votes out of a total of 13 councilors. The voting was conducted at the meeting and Dera Bassi SDM was appointed as the Election Officer.

Five councilors raised their hands in favour of the MC president while the opponents had only 8 councillors.

They stated that the councillors had failed to show strength of 10. However, both parties missed the vote of MLA Banur Jasjit Singh Bunny, who remained absent during the meeting.

Earlier in June this year, eight municipal councillors had submitted a no-confidence motion against Dally. In Dera Bassi, there are total of 13 wards, the SAD candidates had won from 7wards, the BJP Candidates from 2, and the Congress from 1 while 3 independent candidates from rest of the 3 wards.

MC President Manjit Kaur Dally claimed that she would carry the developments projects for the Dera Bassi town on a priority basis.

Kalka, December 9
One person died and four others injured in a road accident, which took place today on the Kalka - Paploha road.

According to the available information, the incident took place at around 10am on the steep-long stretch of the kalka-Paploha road, when truck no- HR-38-G-8086 loaded with scrap rammed into an auto rikshaw no-HR-68-976. The eyewitnesses said that after hitting the auto-rikshaw, the recklessly driven truck rammed into a Bolero Jeep no- HP-12B-3781.

Subsequently the truck and the jeep rolled down in to the deep gorge. As a result, five persons, including a girl, sustained multiple injuries. They were rushed to the civil hospital at Kalka by the residents of the near by village.

The doctors referred two unidentified men who were seriously injured to PGI, Chadigarh, Out of which one succumbed to injuries at the PGI . The injured were identified as Rahul, Balwinder and Jyoti of Tipra village adjacent to Kalka. The Kalka police on the complaint of Jitender Kumar, auto rikshaw driver, has registered a case under Sections 279,337,304-A and 427 of the IPC.

Kharar, December 9
A man was found dead under mysterious circumstances. At around 4.30 pm, three persons reached the civil hospital at Kharar with a patient. On seeing the patient, the doctors declared him brought dead.

Even before the doctors could act, all three persons fled away from the scene. One of them had identified himself as Ajay, resident of Badala road, and deceased’s name as Dalbir Singh from Badala village.

The doctors informed the police. Meanwhile, one Daryai Lal, a resident of Badala road, reached the hospital and claimed that his son had died. When he saw the body he told police that it was not his son Ajay, but his son’s friend Dalbir.

He told the police that on Tuesday night, Dalbir and Ajay had alcohol after which they slept.

When Dalbir did not wake up today, he was brought to the civil hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.

Till filing of the report, the police was investigating the matter.

Ropar, December 9
As many as 34 students of IET Bhaddal have been placed in different companies through campus placement drives on Bhaddal campus.

Dr JS Kanwar, head, training and placement, IET Bhaddal, claimed that in two placement drives completed today on Bhaddal campus, 25 students of BTech had been selected by Next Gen Ventury, eight students by Embex Technologies and one student by Altruist Technologies.

Students of Btech, CSE, ECE, IT, EEE, EIE and ME participated in the placement drive. As many as 60 students were shortlisted after written test and group discussion and 34 students made it to the final list of companies.

Dera Bassi, December 9
The annual day, “Lamhe-2009”, of Sri Sukhmani Group of Colleges, Dera Bassi, concluded with shabad kirtan on college premises here yesterday.

During the week-long celebrations, a performance by Hans Raj Hans and Gurpreet Ghuggi regaled audience.

Prof Avtar Singh, chairman, Sri Sukhmani Group, and director Kanwaljit Kaur informed that the students from each college of Sri Sukhmani Group organised a fete where the students put up various stalls of food items, flowers requests, games, fast food, coffee stall, Chinese food, request chocolate stall, Indian food, Punjabi food and songs.

The students from Sukhmani International School presented a play and those from the engineering stream gave a group dance performance.

The students from International Polytechnic for Women showcased their creations and designs at the fashion show.

Poster-making contest A poster-making competition on global warming was organised by the Women Welfare Association, Mohali, at Olden Bells Public School, Sector 77, Mohali.

Dr GK Nanda, president of association, advised the children to take pledge to fight against the global warming and also help the needy persons. Around 300 children participated in the poster making competition.

The children enthusiastically participated in the competition and the winners were awarded prizes.

Patiala, December 9
The 47th Annual Athletics Meet of Punjabi University got underway at the Raja Bhalendra Singh Stadium, Sports Complex, here today.

The meet is being organised by the department of sports under the chairmanship Dr Raj Kumar Sharma, director, sports department.

Nearly 350 players from about 55 colleges are participating in the meet.

Deputy Registrar of Punjabi University Jagtar Singh and KP Singh, former president, Bar Council, Patiala, graced the occasion as chief guests.

Results:

Women: 5,000m: Harpreet Kaur (National College, Bhikhi) 1, Kamalpreet (National College, Bhikhi) 2 and Mandeep Kaur (BZSFS College, Morinda) 3.

Shot put: Rupinder Kaur (MCPE, Bathinda) 1, Baljeet Kaur (SUS, Sunam) 2 and Beant Kaur (ACPE, Mastuana) 3.

High jump: Ranbir Kaur (PGSGCPE, Patiala) 1, Harmeet Kaur (SKRCPE, Bhagoo Majra) 2 and Bimla (PGSGCPE, Patiala) 3. Hammer throw: Roopneet Kaur (Malwa College, Bathinda) 1, Sandeep Kaur (SUS College, Sunam) 2 and Amanpreet Kaur (SKRCPE, Bhagoo Majra) 3.

Men: 800m: Ravideep Singh (DBC, Dhuri) 1, Bhupinder Singh (Government Mohindra College, Patiala) 2 and Jasmail Singh (Desh Bhagat College, Dhuri) 3.

5,000m: Harpreet Singh (ACPE, Mastuana Sahib) 1, Sukhpreet Singh (Malwa College, Bathinda) 2 and Parveen Kumar (Desh Bhagat College, Dhuri) 3.

Triple jump: Ravinder Singh (National College, Bhukhi) 1, Sarbdeep Singh (SUS College, Sunam) 2 and Jagminder Singh (Desh Bhagat College, Dhuri) 3. 100m: Mewa Singh (NCPE, Bhikhi) 1, Manpreet Singh (NCPE, Bhikhi) 2 and Gurpinder Singh (Punjabi University, Patiala) 3.

Chandigarh, December 9
Bharti Sehdev will have to wait for the DNA report before being sure of having the full-time custody of the baby.

As the rent-a-womb case came up for hearing before Justice Ajay Tewari of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Bharti and others agreed to go in for DNA test to resolve the controversy.

Her one-year-old son is allegedly in custody of Parminder Singh Oberoi, the man Bharti had agreed to rent her womb to for bearing his test tube baby.

Bharti has all along been alleging that that her son is not a test tube baby but born from lawful wedlock with her husband. As such, Oberoi has no right over his custody.

Bharti, through counsel Nitin Thatai and others, has now agreed that the Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Sector 36, Chandigarh, will conduct the DNA test by taking her, the child and Oberoi’s samples.

Taking into consideration the agreement, Justice Tewari observed: “In case it is found that Oberoi is the father of the child, the petitioner will hand over the custody of the child to him and will give up all claims on the child and will get a civil suit, as also a petition filed before the Punjab Human Rights Commission, dismissed as withdrawn, and cooperate with Oberoi to have the present FIR quashed.

“However, if it is found that Oberoi is not the father of the child, he will immediately hand over the custody of the child to the petitioner and will withdraw all claims over the child….

“It has also been agreed that till the period the DNA test reports are received, the petitioner will stay with her child at a flat in Zirakpur, which is a functional flat owned by Oberoi. During the stay in the flat, the petitioner would be accompanied by her mother. The husband of the petitioner or Oberoi or indeed any other person would not have any access to the child. The child would not be taken out from the premises except for any medical emergency”.

Justice Tewari also directed round-the-clock presence of a woman police constable before adjourning the case “sine die”.

Mohali, December 9
The police has solved the case involving the death of a five-year-old child, who was sexually abused and later thrown into a brick kiln, within 24 hours with the arrest of a migrant labourer.

SSP Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said at a press conference here today that the police had arrested Mehandi Hassan (20), who hailed from Sahonani village in Uttar Pradesh. On questioning the suspect, he had admitted to having committed the crime. He said that Rahul was playing with other children in the evening near the brick kiln located close to Nabha Sahib village. When other children went to their homes, the suspect, who later sexually abused the child, allegedly took Rahul away. The mouth of the child was gagged when the crime was committed. There were injury marks on his body. In order to destroy the evidence, the suspect had allegedly thrown the child into the brick kiln, he added. The father of the child, Naru Ram, who worked at the brick kiln, told the police that when the child did not return home he kept searching for him but later found his partly burnt body in the brick kiln.

The SSP said that the police had swung into action soon after receiving a complaint in this regard. A case under Sections 377, 302, and 201 of the IPC was registered. Teams were formed and stationed at the Lakshmi Brick Kiln and the cops carefully monitored the activities of about 200 persons for about 15 hours. Many of them were questioned and their jhuggis searched.

The police was finally able to nab the suspect, who then admitted to have committed the crime.

A post-mortem examination of the body was conducted at the Civil Hospital here by a board of doctors but the exact cause of death had not been stated so far.

Chandigarh, December 9
The police has arrested a Dhanas resident for allegedly indulging in gambling.

The police arrested Surjit Kumar of Milk Colony, Dhanas, near Valmiki Mandir, Sector 12, last night while allegedly indulging in gambling. The police recovered Rs 1,160 from him.

Panchkula, December 9
Excellent batting performance by Gaurav Singh (87) helped St Stephens’s School, Sector 45, win the Satluj Under-17 Winter Champions Trophy at Satluj School, Sector 4, here today.

Team A of Satluj Public School (SPS) failed to achieve the target of 201and lost the final by just two runs with three wickets in hand.

Batting first, St Stephen’s were all out for 201 runs in their stipulated 30 overs. Gaurav Singh was supported by his teammate Talwinder Singh, who scored 49 runs. For the SPS team, Harpreet Singh (3 for 47), Manav Vohra (2 for 34) and Ankush Dhariwal (2 for 35) were the main wicket takers.

In reply, SPS scored 199 runs by losing only seven wickets in their stipulated 30 overs. Even though Manav Vohra (41), Chahat Gandhi (41) and Ashok (41) steadied the innings of their team, St Stephens’s bowlers did not allow other batsmen to score. Rishu Chopra (2 for 34), Anmol (2 for 41) and Abhilash (2 for 42) were the main wicket takers for the St Stephen’s team.

Gaurav Singh of St Stephen’s was declared man of the match and best player of the tournament, while Talwinder Singh of St Stephen’s and Manav Vohra were declared best batsmen and best bowlers of the tournament, respectively. Gaurav Tandon (SPS) was declared best wicket keeper, while Abilash Sharma of St Stephen’s won the best all-rounder award.

Brief scores:

St Stephen’s School (Sector 450: 201 all out in 30 overs. (Gaurav Singh 87, Talwinder Singh 49, Harpreet Singh 3/47, Manav Vohra 2/34 and Ankush Dhariwal 2/35).

Satluj Public School: 199 for 7 in 30 overs. (Manav Vohra 41, Chahat Gandhi 41, Ashok 41, Rishu Chopra 2/34, Anmol 2/41 and Abhilash 2/42).

Chandigarh, December 9
Saaniya Sharma fired two birdies carding the best back nine for the second consecutive day to share the lead with Bangalore’s hot favourite Sharmila Nicollet at 159 on the pen-ultimate day of the the Women's Professional Golf Tour third leg on the par-72 greens of the Chandigarh Golf Club here today.

The local lady professional, who underwent surgery last year and had to miss out in most of the tournaments, is all set to regain the form, she showed in the ninth leg of the tournament last year. And her brilliant rallies in the back nine in these two days is enough evidence of the power she packs in her golf kitty.

Saaniya came very near to a hole-in-one on the 13th, when she executed a brilliant tee shot. She managed a birdie on that and sank another birdie three holes later. But this brilliant one under 35 back nine came after a miserable seven over 43 at the turn, in which she double-bogeyed on the third and fifth.

Overnight leader Nalini Singh Siwach fought to maintain her lead right through to the 16th hole. But then she conceded a bogey and a double bogey in the last two holes to finish third at 160.

With an overnight sky in the evening and the met department expecting a drizzle tomorrow, the final is expected to be a challenging day with the top three players within a margin of just one stroke.

According to president of the Women's Golf Association of India Champika Syal, the WGAI and GRAVVA are sponsoring the six-leg tour, which carries a total prize money of Rs 10 lakh with a breakup of Rs 1.68 lakh for each leg.

Scores (after second round): 159 Saaniya Sharma (81-78) and Sharmila Nicollet (80-79); 160 Nalini Singh Siwach (79-81); 164 Nikki Ponappa (81-83); 170 Preetinder Kaur (85-85); 173 Pallavi Jain (86-87) and 174 Nalini Singh.

Panchkula, December 9
Little Flower Convent School, Sector 14, defeated Delhi Public School, Pinjore, in the league match of first Bhavan's Cup Under-12 Tournament being played at Bhawan Vidyalaya School here today.

Fine all-round performance by Varun Kapila, who was adjudged man of the match for his 51 runs and three wickets for 23, enabled Little Flower to down DPS, Pinjore, by 48 runs.

After winning the toss, Little Flower elected to bat first. Their openers played sensibly and gave an excellent start to there team. Duo Varun Kapila (51) and Chinmaya Walia (40) played shots all over the ground and did not allow any bowler of DPS to settle down. Varun in particular punished every ball bowled outside off stump. After completing the half-century, he threw his wicket to Loveelish (3 for 40) on the other hand Chaitnaya fell short of 10 runs before getting out to Harsh (1 for 32). Later, Saagar Sachdeva (25) and Ronit (20) played quick knocks and Little Flower managed to make 153 in allotted 20 overs.

Chasing the target, DPS openers started on a decent note and both openers Amit chiller (36) and Nikunj (31) gave a desired start to team. It looked both will stay till last, but clever bowling by Varun Kapila (3 for 23) helped Little Flower, as he took wickets of both the batsmen. He was helped by Chinmaya Walia (2 for 20). Though Harkamal 25 tried to take his team to victory, regular fall of wickets shattered his ideas. The team was all out for 105 in 16.3 overs. Shubham Garg (2 for 18) was another bowler for Little Flower team.

Brief scores:

Little Flower: 153 for 4 in 20 overs (Varun Kapila 51, Chaitnaya Walia 40, Saagar Sachdeva 25, Loveelish 3/ 40 and Harsh 1/32);

Delhi Public School (Pinjore): 105 all out in 16.3 overs (Amit Chiller 36, Nikunj 31, Harkamal 25, Varun Kapila 3/23, Chinmaya Walia 2/20 and Shubham Garg 2/180. Team B of Bhawan Vidyalaya will take on St Xavier’s tomorrow.

Chandigarh, December 9
In order to encourage more players to participate in athletics games, Raghubir Singh (55), who has participated in masters’ games in Malaysia and Sydney, trains young boys and girls.

Raghubir said, “There is a lot of talent in our country and need of the hour is to explore this talent by providing proper training to budding players, who can win medals in the Asian and olympic games.”

He said he trained young players at a park in Sector 36 and helped people reduce weight up to 40 kg through physical exercises without charging any fee.

Born in Pitho village, Bathinda, Raghubir has now settled in Chandigarh, Raghubir said he aimed at winning a gold medal in 400-m race during the Malaysian International Open.

Raghubir has also won a silver medal in 400m during the 23rd Malaysian International Open Masters Athletics Championship at Stadium Perak Ipoh recently.

He has won a bronze medal in medley relay open at the same venue. He was declared the best athlete in the masters’ games organised by the Gobindgarh Walker Club in Mandi Gobindgarh on November 22.

He said senior officials of the Punjab Mandi Board had been constantly encouraging him and granting him special leave to participate in the world athletics events. However, he rued the government’s apathy towards the masters’ games due to which he had to bear all expenses to participate in the event.

Chandigarh, December 9
The municipal corporation, Chandigarh, has taken up an initiative to promote games and sports and has decided to hold a marathon on December 20 for various age groups.

The arts, culture and sports committee of the corporation under the chairmanship of Dr Neelam Malik said this in a meeting here today.

Brig KS Chandipuri, chief coordinator of the event, and office-bearer of the Athletics Association said no entry fee would be charged. The participants would be given T-shirts and refreshment. Residents and students of tri-city are eligible to participate in the run.

According to sources, entries would be accepted from December 16 to 19 in the Sports Complex, Sector 7, Chandigarh.

A special 800 mtrs race for men and 400 mtrs race for women councillors, officers and employees of the municipal corporation would also be held in the athletics track of the Sports Complex.