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BJP workers cane-charged
Daylight robbery stumps police
Punjab cops raid Gurgaon ‘ashram’
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Thermal unit shut for 15 days
New industrial policy in April
8 killed in accidents
Balaji temple’s replica to come up in Kurukshetra
KU students stage dharna
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BJP workers cane-charged
Chandigarh, February 25 At least three workers sustained injuries in the cane-charge which came after the police trained water-canons at the protesters to dispers them. Later, workers led by the state BJP's legislature group Anil Vij courted arrested at the venue of the protest. Subsequently, the police arrested other senior leaders, including president Krishan Pal Gurjar, former MP Rattan Lal Kataria, Capt Abhimanyu, Ram Bilas Sharma, Rajiv Jain and Gian Chand Gupta. They were produced before a duty magistrate. Despite heavy police deployment and barricades around Panchayat Bhawan, Sector 18, the venue chosen to begin the protest march, BJP workers began arriving in large numbers early in the morning. Trouble arose when the workers tried to scale the barricade to cross over. At this, the police swung into action and tried to push the workers off the barricades. Realising the “enthusiasm” of the workers would be hard to contain, the police directed water canons at the activists trying to scale the barricade. This was followed by a cane-charge on the protesters. A few workers were injured. All hell broke loose as workers scurried for cover and ran helter-skelter to save themselves from the police baton. Later, workers along with Anil Vij courted arrest at the venue. State BJP chief and MLA Krishan Pal Gujjar said the police action was "unprovoked". He said the police had used force against his workers holding a peaceful demonstration. “The BJP workers were not breaking the law in wanting to submit a memorandum to the Governor against the spiralling price rise. This cane-charge on our workers was uncalled for.” When senior leaders led by Gurjar were with the Governor to submit a memorandum, BJP workers were being lathi-charged in Sector 18. On getting reports of the lathi-charge and that the workers had courted arrest, the delegation at Raj Bhavan reached the Sector 26 police station. “The delegation comprising senior leaders decided to go to the police station to inquire about the welfare of the workers and Anil Vij. However, on reaching the police station, we were told that we, too, were under arrest and that a case would be made out against us. “It seems strange that we should be arrested for something we were not party to, especially since we were not on the scene at that time. “We were at Raj Bhawan. By illegally detaining us, the police is only showing its high-handedness. This is grave injustice,” Gurjar added.
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Daylight robbery stumps police
Jind, February 25 The police has booked a case, but no arrest has been made. The incident took place at 1.30 pm when Amandeep Kaur, wife of Gurdev Singh, was inside her house with her daughter Asmit. Two youths entered the house on the sly and overpowered the woman. They tied up the woman and her daughter with a rope and stuffed cloth in their mouths. “They hit my child when she began to cry,” said the victim in her complaint. She told the police that the youths rummaged through the safe and cupboards. They lay their hands on gold ornaments weighing about 170 gm, Rs 20,000 in cash and other valuables. The crime was discovered when a neighbour reached the house a few minutes after the crime. He found the house bolted from outside. He untied the victims and informed the police and the victim’s husband. The police was clueless on the whereabouts of the criminals till the filing of the report.
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Punjab cops raid Gurgaon ‘ashram’
Gurgaon, February 25 In a complaint with the police, Roopinder Singh of Ludhiana had alleged that one Baba Jaspal Singh USA Waale had misled his daughters, who went missing from their hostel recently. He blamed the “guru” for their disappearance.DCP Gurgaon (West) Pat Ram said the policemen from Ludhiana had sought help for the operation. The local police sent a team led by ACP Surender Singh with them. The joint police party was first not allowed inside the “ashram” premises. After much persuasion and partly by force, the police personnel managed to get in. However, neither the missing girls, nor the “guru” were found there. The police team seized some clothes and other articles and questioned Gurwinder Kaur and Manpreet who were at the “ashram”. SI Niranjan Singh from Ludhiana said the clothes seized from the ashram would be shown to the family of the missing girls to ascertain if these belonged to them.
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Thermal unit shut for 15 days
Yamunanagar, February 25 The state has been facing a shortage of 100 lakh units as Unit II is said to be shut down for at least 15 days due to the excessive collection of ash in the electro static precipitators. Sources revealed that power consumption in the state had increased up to around 900 lakh units and there was a shortage of 100 lakh units every day in the state. This is the second unit of a major thermal plant that has been shut down in the state as the Unit III of the super thermal plant, Panipat, has been shut down since December 29 due to turbine alignment problems. However, officials of the Yamunanagar thermal plant claimed that the Unit-I of the plant had been closed for the annual maintenance for 15 days. Besides, both the major thermal plants of the state, including Yamunanagar and super thermal plant in Panipat, have been facing an acute shortage of coal and come under super critical category. Only a day’s coal stock is left with the Yamunanagar thermal plant while the super thermal plant at Panipat has been left with four days of coal stock.
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New industrial policy in April
Gurgaon, February 25 This was stated by the Haryana Chief Secretary, Urvashi Gulati, here today. She was in Gurgaon to preside over the 30th Annual General Meeting of the Gurgaon Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI). Lauding the role of industrialists in the progress of the state, the Chief Secretary said apart from contributing to the economic progress, they also generated employment avenues. She also released a telephone directory of the GCCI. Earlier, GCCI president Mohit Malik and founder president PK Jain briefed the meeting about the activities of the GCCI and pointed out that exports from Haryana had crossed Rs 30,000 crore during 2008-09. They demanded that the system of e-governance be effectively implemented in the state. Haryana Financial Commissioner-cum-Principal Secretary (Power Utilities) Madhusudan Prasad maintained that the power availability in the state would be doubled by 2012. The Managing Director of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN), Anurag Aggarwal, disclosed that the nigam had obtained a loan from World Bank and was going to take up a massive renovation-cum-infrastructure augmentation drive. He asserted that online electricity billing would be launched by the end of next month. A call centre for electricity-related enquiries would also be set up in Gurgaon, he added. The Director of Town and Country Planning, TC Gupta, revealed that the time limit of three months for granting CLU for setting up industrial units was being reduced to two months and a proposal in this regard would come up in the Assembly session. Labour Commissioner Surina Rajan told the meeting that in future, no surprise inspections would be conducted in the industrial units and only organised inspections would be held. She said the government planned to constitute a tripartite, including employer, workmen and a government representative, for solving labour disputes. Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary (Industries) YS Malik observed that the HSIIDC should not be allowed monopoly and entrepreneurs should come forward for creating industrial infrastructure. He said the state government proposed to launch group housing for industrial workers and industrialists should apply for plots for their workers.
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8 killed in accidents
Fatehabad, February 25 Six persons, including a father-son duo, died on the spot while six others were seriously injured. According to kin of the victims, a marriage party from Nagpur village had gone to Kaithal on Wednesday morning for the marriage of Raj Pal. The deceased have been identified as Lachhman Dass (48), his son Prem (24), Gulab Chand (25) from Kaithal, Viru Ram (20) from Delhi, Rajender (30) from Ganda village and Jagdish (30) of Madh village in the district.
Tribune News Service Rohtak, February 25 The injured have been admitted to hospital.The mishap took place near Ridhana village on the border with Jind district. The bus belonging to a private cooperative society collided head on with a truck at 7.30 am. Poor visibility may have caused the main collision, said police sources. Mewa Devi, wife of Balwan Singh of Ridhana, and Tek Ram of Nahara village were killed on the spot. The injured were hospitalised.The police has registered a case in this regard.
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Balaji temple’s replica to come up in Kurukshetra
Hyderabad, February 25 The TTD, an autonomous body managing the affairs of the country’s richest temple, has drawn up plans to construct a grand shrine at Kurukshetra, the historic town associated with the Mahabharata war. “The architectural design will be similar to the Tirumala temple,” Naidu said after holding a meeting with Haryana Chief Minister Bhupiunder Singh Hooda. The TTD Board, including its executive officer IYR Krishna Rao and adviser A Sankara Reddy, briefed Hooda about the project and assured him that it would be completed in three years. Tirumala, the abode of Lord Venkateswara, attracts an average of 50,000 pilgrims every day from all over the country and abroad and the figure crosses the one lakh mark on special occasions like “Brahmotsavam.” Nestled among the picturesque string of seven hills, it is the richest temple in the country with annual revenues of over Rs 1,300 crore.
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KU students stage dharna
Kurukshetra, February 25 The students submitted a memorandum on their demands to Prof Raghuvendra Tanwar, Registrar. Their main demands are declaring March 23, the Martyrdom Day of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, as public holiday, computer education free of cost, end to the semester system, regularising the services of able and experienced teachers in colleges and departments and restoring student union elections. SOSD state secretary Kavita Vidrohi said the organisation would intensify its agitation if its demands were not met. Prof Tanwar gave an assurance to the students that some of the demands like adequate bus service on local routes for students, scholarship to Backward Classes students in the university college, on-campus bus service for girl students would be met. He said the demand on getting AICTE approval for MRLM, MFC, MMT, MIB courses run by the commerce department would also be fulfilled. The organisation has now decided to launch a signature campaign in support of their demand for declaring public holiday on March 23.
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police today cane-charged BJP workers and leaders who had gathered here to protest against price rise and submit a memorandum to Governor Jagannath
Pahadia.
