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Khap asks boy’s family to leave village within
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Panchayats warned
STF cops involved in robbery?
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MINE BLOWING - VII
Model Act soon: Selja
Minor sent to Nari Niketan
Shooting Incident
Withdraw surcharge on VAT: Beopar Mandal
Teachers lathicharged
2,000 litres of kerosene seized
Girl dies as house catches fire
Check illegal mining, officials told
Tytler opens corporate meet
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Khap asks boy’s family to leave village within week
Bhiwani, March 14 INLD leader Boby Faugat presided over the panchayat held at Swami Dayal temple in Charkhi Dadri, 30 km from here. Earlier, when residents of Samaspur came to know about the marriage, they had convened a panchayat and socially boycotted Randhir Singh, father of Sribhagwan, and ordered him to leave villages under the Faugat Khap panchayat by March 2. A panchayat of five villages was again held at Samaspur village before March 2. Besides repeating its verdict, they asked the couple to take divorce. When the couple did not take the divorce, the panchayat socially boycotted the family, following which Randhir Singh sought the police help. A police force was deployed at the house of Randhir Singh, but angry villagers threw stones at the house and damaged the standing crops in the fields. A panchayat of 19 villages of the Faugat Khap and Dadri was held on March 7. It was presided over by former Chief Minister Hukam Singh. The panchayat ordered for the couple’s divorce within a week. Two members of the panchayat went to Delhi to complete the divorce formalities along with the family members of the couple. In the wake of pressure from the khap, Sri Bhagwan got ready for divorce, but Anita desisted the decision. Meanwhile, the high court too took a stern step and asked the state government to file its reply on the diktats being pronounced by the khap panchayats, following which Hukam Singh refused to convene the panchayat. Hukam Singh did not attend the panchayat today and INLD leader Bobby Faugat was nominated to preside over today’s
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Panchayats warned
Rohtak, March 14 The Deputy Commissioner and the SSP visited Bahu Akbarpur, Bhali and Pehrawar villages and interacted with the people who were associated with the khap panchayats. They cautioned the villagers that the district administration would not hesitate from taking legal action against those panchayats that would issue atrocious and anti-society decisions in future. Sources said the officials told the khap panchayats should not take unilateral decisions that directly or indirectly affected society. The panchayats and the gram panchayats should unitedly work to eradicate social evils like female foeticide. |
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STF cops involved in robbery?
Panipat, March 14 The matter came to light when owner of a jewelry shop, where the robbery attempt was made, identified the cop as the main culprit involved in the crime from the CCTV footage. Some unidentified persons, armed with weapons, had descended on the office of share broker Rajat Aggarwal on March 11 and demanded Rs 10 lakh from him. The persons identified themselves as the officer of the crime branch. Though, the share broker had initially refused to pay any money, but after being threatened he paid them the amount. The same day the accused went to Malhotra jewellers, where they again demanded Rs 10 lakh. The owner of the shop, BK Malhotra, agreed to pay Rs 1 lakh and asked the persons to collect the money later. Two persons went to his place in the evening, but he told them that he had called police, following which they ran away. The city police has registered a case under Sections 395 and 397 of the IPC. Three days after the incident, Malhotra identified one of the persons in the CCTV footage, who was constable Jagbir Singh working in the SFT. Following the revelations, district police chief Rajinder Singh constituted seven teams to crack the case, which were also dispatched to arrest the accused. According to sources, the other accused were also members of the STF. No arrests could be confirmed till the filing of this report. Meanwhile, Rohtak range IG V Kamaraj said he had asked the district police to submit a report in this connection and directed them to take an appropriate action. The matter was also brought to the notice of Haryana Minister of State for Home and Sports Gopal Kanda, who has asked the DGP to submit a report in the regard. |
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MINE BLOWING - VII
Chandigarh, March 14 Moreover, under the “one area one lessee” principle of the Central Government, a lessee of major minerals also gets the lease to mine minor minerals. New political bosses find it difficult to dislodge such lessees in order to accommodate their own men. Second, the royalty on the major minerals is fixed by the Centre, which the states do not find lucrative enough. When silica, a major mineral, was being taken out in Faridabad, the state had told the miners not to bill more than 3 per cent of their production as silica, the rest should be shown as ordinary sand, a minor mineral. The royalty on silica was Rs 13 per tonne as against Rs 60 per tonne for ordinary sand. Even the Indian Bureau of Mines had noted this restriction in its report. Incidentally, Faridabad has 60 per cent of the country’s reserves of silica, which is used in the glass industry and to make computer and mobile chips. Urging the Supreme Court to cancel all leases of major minerals in Faridabad and Gurgaon districts, Secretary, Mining, Haryana, Yudhvir Singh Malik, said in his affidavit that it was always beneficial to obtain a major mineral lease and then apply for the lease of minor minerals. Financially, a major mineral lessee, with the lease rights of associated minor minerals would immediately drive a minor mineral lessee out of business as the latter were now being granted through open auctions. He went on to claim that this was precisely the reason why minor mineral lessees were keen to retain their leases under the deemed provisions of the Mines and Minerals Development Act, 1957. The contention of the lessees is that their lease rights cannot be terminated without following the procedure laid down under Section 4-A of the 1957 Act. Malik admits in his affidavit that of the 600 hectares which the state government wanted to be the mining zone in Faridabad district, 400 hectares were leased out for major minerals. Perhaps for the first time the government is making a long-term mining plan for the entire state. The plan envisages dividing the state into several mining zones and allowing mining in about 15 per cent of the mining areas at any given time. The challenge is to take care of sustainable development in consonance with environment concerns till the long-term mining plan is implemented. A senior officer of an engineering department rues that for the past three years the mining controversy has been erupting just before the start of the best season to maintain roads.
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A novel way to celebrate marriages
Sirsa, March 14 Sona Devi and Randeep Singh Mahiya of the village had fixed the marriage of their daughter Santosh on March 10 and their two sons - Sanjay and Anil - tied the nuptial knot on
March 11. To celebrate the occasion in a fitting manner, Sanjay thought of doing something for the humanity. “I suggested my parents to organise a blood donation camp, where our family members could donate blood and they agreed readily to my plan,” said Sanjay. The camp was organised on March 9, a day before Santosh’s marriage, where Sanjay, his parents Sona Devi and Randeep Singh and eight other members of the family donated blood. “Anil could not donate despite his strong will, because he was found underweight,” said Sanjay. He said he got inspired for blood donation when his cousin fell seriously ill due to low hemoglobin some time ago and his friends joined him to save her by donating their blood. “Today, she is married and leading a happy life, thanks to the blood donors,” Sanjay said, adding that since then, he has donated blood several times. He said he had been the president of the Vivekanand Club of the village for the past four years and had so far organised two blood donation camps in the village, in which 36 and 16 units of blood, respectively, were collected. |
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Model Act soon: Selja
Ambala, March 14 “I am satisfied with the Railway Budget announced by the Union Railway Minister recently,” Selja said and added that the Ambala railway station would be upgraded and developed into an international-level railway station. She said Kalka railway station would also be given a facelift and would have a hospital soon. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act initiated by the Centre has not done fairly well in some districts due to laxity on the part of village panchayats and the bureaucracy. However, Ambala district in the state has exhibited satisfactory results and was awarded one among 24 districts in 18 states in the country, she stated. She said the Centre was going to initiate Model Act very soon, which would be implemented through state governments and the Act would save consumers from anti-social elements and would end corruption prevailing in different sectors. Regarding upcoming Commonwealth Games, she said the government is fully prepared to welcome visitors and added that a training programme for taxi drivers would be organised in the Union Capital in view of the upcoming games. Regarding rising prices of essential commodities, Selja said all chief ministers in the country have been advised to take strict measures to check price rise in their states and to introduce welfare schemes for the below poverty line families. |
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Minor sent to Nari Niketan
Sirsa, March 14 The minor girl, an orphan, is HIV+ and had allegedly eloped last month with a youth, who too is HIV+. The girl’s father, who worked as a driver, had died of AIDS and her mother too had died of the same disease. The police had booked both parents of the boy, his sister and brother-in-law for abduction under Section 363 and 366 of the IPC on the complaint of the girl’s kin on February 19. The boy and the girl came back and filed a petition in the local SDM court on March 4 seeking protection on the basis of their marriage certificate and orders from the Punjab and Haryana High Court. However, before the couple could get any relief, the police “recovered” the “missing girl” and produced her before a local court. In her statement recorded before the court, the girl said she had gone with the boy on her own and had married him and did not want to be examined medically. She also refused to be sent with her kin and was hence sent to Nari Niketan. |
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Shooting Incident
Sirsa, March 14 Although, the police is still tightlipped about the case, sources revealed that she is the same girl, who came to the local general hospital to leave the injured Krishan Kumar and then disappeared. The police, according to the sources, zeroed in on the girl on a clue given by a bystander in the hospital, who said the girl was a student of the polytechnic. The police reached the polytechnic today with the person who had seen the girl in the hospital yesterday, and he, reportedly, identified her from the photograph attached on her admission documents. Yashpal Berwal, Principal of the polytechnic, said the girl was a hostler, but had not come to her hostel room since March 6. A police spokesman said that investigation was in progress and the case would be cracked soon. The sources said the youth, Krishan Kumar, who was shot at, was recuperating in a Hisar hospital. His kin had claimed that he worked as private guard in Tara Baba Kutiya, owned by Haryana minister Gopal Kanda’s family, but Kanda’s younger brother Gobind Kanda had denied the claim. |
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Withdraw surcharge on VAT: Beopar Mandal
Karnal, March 14 Garg said the proposal to impose General Sale Tax (GST) at uniform rates in the country had been deferred and would be implemented from 2011-12 and urged the government to hold consultations with the Beopar Mandal before implementing the
decision. He said the wider implication of the GST should be studied in detail, to know its impact on the trading community, people and the state. He also urged the Centre to give incentives for setting up small-scale units in the state on the pattern of Industrial Package given to neighbouring states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. He said the Beopar Mandal would meet
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and other officers concerned on the issue of withdrawal of surcharge on VAT and hoped that the government would see logic in their demand. |
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Yoga camp for jail inmates ends
Sirsa, March 14 “The camp began everyday at 6.15 am and continued till 7.30 am during which the inmates performed yoga with complete dedication,” said Amit Bhadu, Deputy Superintendent of the District Jail, Sirsa. This will help prisoners keep fit and healthy. Ashwani Dhanpat, a murder convict, said an hour of yoga provided him relaxation and he was feeling better after he started yoga classes. “We often organise camps for the welfare of inmates. Literacy classes are also organised for illiterate prisoners,” said Jail Superintendent JS
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Teachers lathicharged
Rohtak, March 14 Over 150 computer teachers, including several women, had gathered in the town to organise a protest march. As soon as they started proceeding towards the Chief Minister’s residence to register their protest after a meeting, the police stopped them near the Civil Lines road. The teachers claimed that they had been engaged on a contract basis in 2007, but now there was a move to terminate their services. They said they had come to seek the Chief Minister’s intervention in the matter. However, the police allegedly used abusive language against some women teachers, which resulted in a clash. The police allegedly resorted to a lathicharge to disperse the protesters. Later, nine teachers were arrested and cases registered against them under Sections 147, 149 and 283 of the
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2,000 litres of kerosene seized
Jind, March 14 According to the police, the Canter was on its way from Rajound to Jind when the police got a tip-off that kerosene was being illegally transported in it. The driver and the two other occupants of the truck could not produce proper documents. Sources said the accused used to get kerosene from oil tankers of various companies in an illegal
manner and supplied it to shopkeepers and commercial users at higher rates. Those booked have been identified as Jajwinder, Surender and
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Girl dies as house catches fire
Jhajjar, March 14 The incident came to light when villagers noticed smog coming out from Rajbir’s house. When they entered the house, they found that Rajbir, his wife Munni Devi and their two daughters - Sanju and Rinki - had received burn injuries. They immediately informed the police and rushed them to the Civil Hospital, from where all injured were referred to the PGIMS. Later, Sanju succumbed to her injuries. SSP Sourabh Singh said a team of forensic experts had collected samples of burnt articles to ascertain the cause of the fire.
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Check illegal mining, officials told
Sonepat, March 14 Directing them to videograph mining activities during inspection, the DC asked them to impound JCB machines being used in illegal mining. Residents of Jajal village complained to the DC that anti-social elements from Uttar Pradesh entered the area at night and indulged in thefts. The DC assured them that security arrangements would be beefed up in the area. |
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Tytler opens corporate meet
Gurgaon, March 14 “Parichay-2010” was inaugurated by Jagdish Tytler, former Union minister and All-India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary; P. Dwarkanath, director, Group Human Capital, Max India; Christine Mukherjee, director, Austrian Embassy; Vijay Agarwal, Director (Finance), Coca-Cola India; and Sumit K Lal, Business and Strategy Adviser, ECCO Asia Pacific Ltd. The event was attended by management experts and representatives of various corporate as well as academic institutions.
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