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Gang of thieves busted, five arrested
Rajpura, March 11 The accused have been identified as Gurcharan Singh Rajvir, Sarabjit Singh, both residents of Patiala, Avtar Singh, alias Lambi, of Rajpura, Gurmeet Singh, alias Mithu, of Tungwali village in Bathinda and Hari Singh of Chola Sahib Village in Amritsar. Police officials investigating the matter said that the main accused, Gurcharan Singh used to wear uniform of a security guard and lift vehicles with the help of other accused. He was arrested during a naka laid on the Rajpura-Sirhind road along with another accused Raj Kumar while two of his accomplices fled. Later on, three others were arrested on the clues provided by the arrested accused. The police said the accused admitted to have committed thefts in various shops and parking areas of Rajpura and adjoining areas during the past few years. They used to steal cars and sell its parts in major towns of Punjab and adjoining states. A case in this connection has been registered by the police and further investigation is on, said the police officials. |
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Three shops gutted; loss estimated at Rs 5 lakh
Ambala, March 11 According to information, a passerby noticed that the smoke was coming out from the drycleaner’s shop. Later smoke was also seen in other two adjoining shops. The owners of the shops were also informed. Three fire brigades were summoned and the fire was brought under control after three hours. Almost all goods of the shops were destroyed in the fire. It was the second incident of fire reported in the dry cleaner shop in the past one year. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained so far. The police said that the possibility of short circuit could not be ruled out, however a shopkeeper alleged that there could be some conspiracy in it. One of the shopkeepers said he had switched off the main switch of the shop before shuttering down the shop last evening, therefore no question of short-circuiting could be possible. The police has registered a case on the complaint of shopkeepers and was investigating the matter. |
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DC suspends 11 lambardars
Ambala, March 11 The Deputy Commissioner said the local Tehsildar inquired into the matter and the action followed on his report. The lambardars were appointed for the help of the district administration but they failed to do their respective duties, Srow added. The Deputy Commissioner in his suspension order also asked the lambardars to clarify their stand within 15 days. The suspended lambardars are - Bhagwan Singh of Dangdehri village, Satpal of Babaheri, Sheeshpal of Rangia, Kulwant Singh of Mirzapur,Amandip of Nasirpur, Gurmit Singh of Lakhnor Sahib, Dharampal of Bhanokheri, Bahadur Singh of Bamba, Angrez Singh and Ujagar Singh of Baknor, Habilas of Lotti and Sadhu Singh of Patti Kalalan villages. |
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CBI should probe doctors’ recruitment scam: Chawla
Ropar, March 11 Health minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla said this while addressing mediapersons today. She was here to preside over a function at an annual prize distribution function NCC wing of Government College, Ropar. “I raised this issue during the Vidhan Sabha proceedings and the Chief Minister asserted of a vigilance inquiry into the episode. Instead of vigilance, the CBI should be handed over this case for investigation,” she said. Talking about the government-run generic drug stores, Chawla said Punjab was leading the nation in running these stores efficiently and serving needy patients. Chawla revealed that very soon these stores would be giving cancer and surgery related medicines too. She said that the Jan Aushadhi Centre being run at Amritsar was leading in Punjab in terms of sale of drugs. Replying to a query, she stated that cancer is another name of death and Punjab needs super speciality hospitals. “Besides this we plan to start mammography in five government-run hospitals in the state. Mobile vans will be introduced to spread cancer awareness as well as provide treatment to the people,”
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Non-teaching staff threaten to boycott exams
Patiala, March 11 Sanjay Gupta, secretary, Non-Teaching Employees Union, said, “We were forced to boycott the practical examination, which was held today, as the authorities had turned a blind eye to our problems. Our demand of implementation of the revised pay scales as per the recommendations of the Fifth Pay Commission has not been heeded.” He said they would intensify the agitation if their demands were not met. He said the Association of Principals of Non-Government Colleges had also written letters to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal and Education Minister Upinderjeet Kaur to apprise them of the problems that the non-teaching employees were facing. They have appealed to the government to fulfil their demands at the earliest. |
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Five youths injured in brawl
Dera Bassi, March 11 The injured youth, Partap Singh, said when he along with his friend Amit were returning to their village from Dera Bassi on their motorcycle, they were attacked by them. He alleged when they were taking the treatment at the hospital, the youths again attacked them. On the other hand, the other youths denied the allegations. The police said a case would be registered after taking the statements of the injured. |
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One booked for rape
Kharar, March 11 The SSP marked an inquiry into the complaint and asked the DSP, (city-I), Raka Ghirra, to investigate and submit a report. A case has been registered on her report. The victim stated that Sukhwinder Singh first raped her repeatedly and then assured her of marriage. A native of Jharkhand, the girl was pursuing diploma course in electronics and communication at a local professional college. She said that on September 29, 2009, one of her friends took her to Gharuan on pretext of a marriage function. There Sukhwinder Singh met her and took her to some secluded place and repeatedly raped her. The accused then assured her of marriage, but later said that he would not marry as they did not belong to the same caste. |
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Two injured in accident
Rajpura, March 11 The accident took place on the Patiala-Rajpura road. Both injured were referred to Patiala in a serious condition. The police said a case in this connection would be registered after recording the statements of the injured and onlookers. |
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3 kids fall unconscious after eating herb
Ambala, March 11 The children - Shiv Om, Jeetu and Nitish were admitted to the Civil Hospital, Ambala City. Their condition was stated to be out of danger. Three other children who also reportedly consumed the same herb were rushed to some private nursing home. According to information, around six children of the Asa Singh Garden locality had gone to the herbal park this morning. After consuming the seeds of the sedative herb, some children became unconscious, other children playing in the park informed their parents. The parents then took them to the local civil hospital. The doctor on duty said the children had complained of giddiness. The children would be discharged from the hospital by evening, hospital sources said. |
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Students of Aryans school shine
Banur, March 11 Jasmeet Kaur stood first in the declamation contest, while Sachin and Nand Kishore stood third in the quiz. Around 10 business schools of Chandigarh, including Chitkara, SVIET, Gurukul, Chanakya and Dr IT
participated in the competition. Chairman of the institute Anshu Kataria congratulated winners on
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Manpreet crowned Miss Fresher
Patiala, March 11 Manpreet Kaur was crowned Miss Fresher, while Sumandeep Kaur and Varinder Kaur were declared first and second runners-up, respectively.
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High Court
Chandigarh, March 11 The assertions came on a petition by city-based advocate Ranjan Lakhanpal. He had stated the train from Pakistan had brought Ateek to India; and soon he was taken into custody. Since the time of his arrest, he had been languishing in a jail, Lakhanpal added. The boy’s plight was brought to Lakhanpal’s notice through Ansar Burney, Pakistan’s leading human rights and civil rights activist. The Bench of Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice Jasbir Singh was also informed he was currently in the Bostal Jail in Hoshiarpur awaiting deportation. The matter will now come up for further hearing on March 30. Beaten by his father for flying kites, the run-away Pakistani boy had landed on a train to spend the night. Sleeping on the berth, little did he realise he would wake up in India the next morning.
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Major Dimple Singla gets bail
Chandigarh, March 11 As her bail application came up for consideration, the AFT directed her to be released after furnishing two sureties of Rs 25,000 each. The Tribunal’s Division Bench, comprising Justice Ghanshyam Parsad and Lt Gen AS Bahia, one of the sureties has to be from a serving or retired officer of the defence forces. The Tribunal also summoned the entire record of the GCM, which convicted Major Dimple. Alleging interference on the part of the then Judge Advocate-General during pre-trial proceedings, Major Dimple claimed in her plea before the Tribunal that she was not given adequate opportunity to defend herself during the GCM. Alleging discrimination, she further claimed some of the defence witnesses were not allowed to be examined by the GCM. In her petition filed before the Tribunal’s Chandigarh Bench, she had also sought suspension of the sentence; and directions for setting aside the entire pre-trial and other proceedings against her.
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Bail pleas dismissed in assault cases
Chandigarh, March 11 They had also threatened the complainant at gun-point. The counsel for the accused argued that Shipkar had been falsely implicated as the alleged weapon was a toy pistol and therefore allegations of threatening were wrong. On the contrary, the counsel for the state opposed the argument on the ground that the other accused was yet to be arrested, recovery of the weapon was yet to be made and investigation was in progress. “A perusal of record reveals that there are serious allegations against the accused as he has caused injuries to the complainant by fist and blow and have taken away his articles like mobile and speaker from the car, etc. under threat. They have been implicated under Section 392 of the IPC that is a serious offence. Without commenting on the merit of the case, it is held that the accused is not entitled to bail at this stage,” the order stated. Meanwhile, the bail application filed by Bakshish Singh, accused of injuring Balwinder Singh in an assault case, was also dismissed by a local court here today. “The accused caused grievous hurt to the injured with dangerous weapon. The injured lost eyesight in one eye. The injury is alleged to be grievous. In such circumstances, keeping in view the entire facts of the present case, without commenting on the merits of the case and keeping in view the serious nature of the allegations, the accused is not entitled to bail,” the order passed by CJM JS Sidhu read. Balwinder Singh had alleged that Bakshish Singh along with a co-accused had caused grievous hurt with dangerous weapon having common intent. The counsel for Bakshish Singh argued that his client had been falsely implicated. Moreover, he had been in custody for a long time and was not required for investigation. Assistant public prosecutor for state opposed the bail application on the ground that Bakshish Singh had committed serious offence. His bail application has already been dismissed by the court of sessions. The case will now come up for hearing on March 25. The accused will remain in judicial custody till then.
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HJC Case
Chandigarh, March 11 The court had given judicial remand to the party activists for their alleged involvement in violence on March 6. The counsel for the members argued that the party had held the rally after taking permission but the police in a biased manner attacked them and damaged vehicles.
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Hawara case adjourned till March 16
Chandigarh, March 11 After getting the information about his presence at Jalandhar bus stand, the police had laid a trap to arrest him. During the operation, Hawara had attacked the police injuring a constable, Pawan. The police had later recovered the pistol used in the crime from his possession. The special court has already ordered capital punishment for Hawara in the Beant Singh assassination case.
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Objectionable text messages to cop
Chandigarh, March 11 Ram Gopal had been receiving text messages on his official mobile phone for some time. The police verified and found the mobile phone registered in the name of a Delhi-based woman. The police was making efforts to trace the woman to find out the motive behind sending messages. Sources further said official phone numbers of other police officers were also being checked to find out if they had also been receiving such messages from the same woman. A police officer added that the SHO had been getting objectionable text messages or blank messages on his mobile. However, no message had been received in the past three days, he added. DSP (East) Jasbir Singh Cheema confirmed that a DDR had been lodged and the matter was under investigation.
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Two injured in road accidents
Chandigarh, March 11 Arrested
The police today arrested a Kajheri resident and recovered two stolen motorcycles from him. The in charge of the Sector 61 police post said a youth, identified as Dharminder of Colony No 5, tried to flee leaving his motorcycle behind early this morning on seeing a police patrolling party. The police chased and nabbed him. He admitted to having stolen a motorcycle from Sector 45 and another from Kajheri last night.
Assaulted
Monu of Sector 25 reported to the police alleging that Dashrath, Monu, Ajay and their accomplices had beaten him up and threatened him near his residence on Wednesday. He was admitted to the Sector 16 Government Multi-Specialty Hospital. In another case, Santosh Kumar of Colony No. 4 reported to the police alleging that Balram, Inderjit, Panna Lal and Bablu, all residents of Colony No. 4, had assaulted him near his residence on Tuesday. He was injured and admitted to the GMCH. The police has arrested the accused.
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Ranjit had fired at Gurmohan Bedi, says Pkl police
Panchkula, March 11 The police opposing the bail application of Bajaj in its reply said Ranjit missed the target. There was every possibility that Bajaj would escape after getting the bail, said the reply. Today, during the hearing on the regular bail application of Bajaj, his counsel completed his arguments before District and Session Judge SP Singh. As the injuries to Bedi were not of a serious nature so there could be no case under section 307 of the IPC, contended Bajaj’s counsel Rajan Malhotra.The judge deferred the hearing for March 13, when prosecution would initiate its arguments. Meanwhile, the district police has managed to recover the pistol from Malkhan, one of the guard of Ranjit from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Interestingly, Bajaj’s counsel Rajan Malhotra had to go through an unusual experience in Panchkula today. Malhotra when he left the court for his home after concluding arguments found that his Honda City car was missing. He was told that his car was towed away by the police as it was not parked at proper place.
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Junior golf camp from March 27
Chandigarh, March 11 To be conducted by EGTF-trained coach Ajay Gujral, the coaching programme will be open to members and non-members of the club. The young trainees will be taught the basics of the game, including posture, stance, alignment, aim, grip, chipping, pitching, bunker shots, putting, safety, etiquette and rules of golf in a systematic manner. To be conducted strictly on the guidelines of the European Golf Teachers Federation, UK, the camp will be a big step forward in the promotion of junior golf in the city. The coaching charges for the programme will be 50 per cent less than the regular coaching charges. Each young trainee will also receive a free-of-cost six-month subscription of Golf Plus magazine worth Rs 600, golf visors worth Rs 400, comprehensive golf manual and an EGTF certificate on completion of this programme. During the programme, the trainees will participate in competitions having prizes worth Rs 15,000 sponsored by Sports and Leisure Worldwide India CEO Anil Dev. Golf Club president BS Gill and honorary secretary Nippy Ghai have been supporting junior golf by conducting such camps and taking the game to schools. More details about the camp can be obtained from Chandigarh Golf Club Academy joint director Ajay Gujral at Chandigarh Golf Club or at 98143 56013. |
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Vandana adjudged best athlete
Chandigarh, March 11 Vin Dosajh, principal of the institute, enlisted the achievements of the college. She said students should have a goal in life and they should work hard to achieve it. Various events like 100m race, 200m race, 400m race, 4 X400m relay race, long jump, high jump and javelin throw were organised. Students also participated in various fun games like balloon filling race, chatti-race, lemon and spoon races, three-legged race, tug-of-war and garland making. The event concluded with a cultural programme. More than 360 students participated in the event. Brief results: Discus throw: Tayira 1, Priyanka 2 and Vandna 3; shot put: Vandana 1, Prabha Sharma 2 and Manjeet 3; javelin throw: Payal Saini 1, Poonam 2 and Jyoti 3; high jump: Manjeet 1, Harkeerat 2 and Sandeep Kaur 3; long jump: Vandana 1, Ritu Sood 2 and Komalpreet 3; three-legged race: Rupinder Kaur and Komalpreet Kaur 1, Komalpreet Kaur and Shweta 2, Vishvjit Brar and Shallu Walia 3; sack race: Vandana 1, Vishvajeet 2 and Laxmi Chamoli 3; 200m race: Ritu Sood 1, Manjeet Kaur 2 and Sarita 3; 100m race: Vandana 1, Ritu 2 and 3; 4X 100 relay race: Vandana, Sushila, Komalpreet and Priyanka 1, Harkirat, Manjit, Janab and Lata 2, Ramandeep, Ritu, Sandeep, Jasvir 3. |
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