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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 6
The Chandigarh Police has indicted a local businessman, Manjit Singh, on charges of raping his minor maidservant and filed a chargesheet in the case in the district courts today.

On the investigations into the case, sources in the crime branch of the city police said the victim was medically examined to confirm whether she was raped as also to ascertain her precise age.

“It was established that the victim’s hymen was fractured, though the report also indicated she was not regularly engaging in sex. However, the victim had alleged she was repeatedly raped in Mumbai by the suspect and one of his relatives”, the sources added.

The ossification test of the victim suggested her age was between 14 to 16 years. The victim’s age was also debated at the initial stage of the case and the test was conducted to leave nothing to doubt.

Besides, the police had obtained the victim’s statement in the case recorded under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, in which she had reportedly alleged she was raped by both the suspect and his relative, Gursharan Singh alias Pappu, a businessman in Mumbai.

The victim had further claimed that the suspect made videos of her in which she was asked to accuse her parents of harassing her. She claimed Arora had shown the videos to her on his laptop and on a mobile phone. The investigators had sent the laptop as well as the cellphone to the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory (CFSL) in Sector 36 to retrieve the incriminating videos, which the suspect is thought to have deleted. The CFSL report is awaited.

Meanwhile, the police has not been able to track down the other suspect, Gursharan, during the past three months. The cops had obtained his nonbailable warrants from the district courts.

The police had arrested Arora on January 8 from his Sector 49 home here after registering a case a day after the victim’s mother reported the matter to the cops. It was alleged in the complaint that Arora had employed the girl as a maidservant in 2008 promising her parents to pay Rs 3,000 per month. Later he offered to pay Rs 5,000 per month for moving the girl to Mumbai, to which the parents reportedly agreed.

The complainant reported to the police that on her insistence Arora agreed to bring her back to the city last December. It was then that the girl disclosed she was raped by Arora at his Sector 34 home and also in Mumbai by him and his relative.

Arora has a factory in Parwanoo where he manufactures ‘chapatti’ making machines. He is still in judicial remand.

Inspector Charanjit Singh, in charge of the crime branch, said investigations into the case had been completed at this stage and the police would include the reports in subsequent charge sheets during the trial.

Chandigarh, April 6
The CBI court of Special Judge Darshan Singh today held sub-inspector Ved Prakash guilty in a graft case. The quantum of sentence will be pronounced tomorrow.

The CBI sleuths had arrested the sub-inspector, in charge of the Sector-61 police post, following a trap laid by them following a complaint by Sector-52 resident Harpal, alias Raju, on June 22, 2007.

Ved Prakash was arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 for “saving” Harpal from a case pertaining to drug-peddling. Harpal then contacted the CBI, which laid the trap.

Harpal, who is allegedly a drug-peddler, had told CBI officials that Ved Prakash had threatened against slapping a case on him and sought Rs 30,000 to spare him.

The CBI officials also seized packets of smack from Ved Prakash’s office drawer.

He has been booked under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Narcotics Act.

Mohali, April 6
A local court today recorded the statements of two of the five witnesses in a disproportionate assets case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, his son Sukhbir Singh Badal, and wife Surinder Kaur.

Surinder Mitra, who has prepared the estimate on the Orbit Resort and is a witness in the case, said it was a temporary estimate and the final one had not been prepared.

Earlier, he had been produced as a witness but the court had asked to examine him.

Similarly, another witness, Balwinder Singh Sandhu, who had earlier stated that Badal used to send black money outside and get it back as white, also retracted his statement. He claimed that he was abroad and had not given any statement. The FIR against the Badals was registered on the insistence of former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh after which the Congress had alleged that the Badals had amassed wealth worth over Rs 3,000 crore, which was disproportionate to their known sources of income.

The other accused in the case Narotam Singh Dhillon, Harbans Lal, Nirabjit Singh, Pavitar Pal Singh, Darshan Singh, Sukhminder Singh and Jagnandan Singh.

Panchkula, April 6
In a murder case dating back to 2008, a local court here today awarded life imprisonment to 13 accused.

Sagar, Sandeep, Amit, Krishan, Praveen, Sandeep, Bajrang, Shrinivas, Rohtas, Kanwar, Mohinder, Sunil and Rakesh have been awarded life term in the murder of a truck driver Karam Singh. Praveen Mangla, another accused, has ben awarded three-year imprisonment while the court acquitted remaining six accused who had purchased goods of the truck.

NK Goel, Deputy District Attorney, who had conducted evidences, said the gang trapped a canter loaded with medicines, submersible pumps and welding cylinders on the Mouli- Handesra road near here. The accused were travelling in a Hyundai Accent and a Tavera.

The accused had introduced themselves to the truck driver, Kamal Singh, as officials from the excise department on August 6, 2008, and as soon as the driver and Amarjit, alias Chotu, a 16-year-old boy, accompanying him as cleaner, got down they were overpowered and were taken to Rohtak. The accused kept both of them in hotels on sedatives.

Later, they took them to Rudraprayag, probably with an intention to kill them and dispose of their bodies. The accused threw the driver in the Alaknanda river after giving him an injection of sedative and tied the cleaner in a sack, strangulating him and presuming he was dead.

However, the cleaner got himself free after gaining consciousness and informed the Uttarakhand police, which sent a letter regarding the incident to the Chandigarh police.

The Chandigarh police, finding the spot of the incident at Panchkula, informed the local police, which arrested seven members of the gang, identified as Sagar Chauhan, Sandip Dahiya, Amit Gudha, Krishan Kumar, Bajrang, Bhola and Praveen on September 4.

While Chauhan belongs to Uttar Pradesh, others are residents of Rohtak district. Another accused, Om Parkash Saini, a notorious gangster, who was also arrested in the case, was later acquitted. 

Mohali, April 6
Mohali grapplers claimed the freestyle as well as Greco-Roman style titles in the Punjab State Junior Wrestling Championship at the Gulzar Wrestling Akhara in Zirakpur here.

The Mohali wrestlers bagged four gold and one bronze medals in the freestyle competition to win the team championship with 22 points, Jalandhar finished as the runner-up with 18 points.

In the Greco-Roman style, Mohali clinched four gold, one silver and three bronze medals for the team title, trailing the Faridkot wrestlers at the second spot with 24 points.

Tarn Taran emerged winners in the girls’ freestyle team championship by securing 25 points. Moga got 18 points for the runner-up trophy.

Chief guest Kartar Singh, secretary of Wrestling Federation of India, distributed prizes among the winners.

Results

Freestyle: 50 kg: 1 Budh Singh (Faridkot), 2 Kamal (Kapurthala), 3 Baljeet Singh (Firozepur) and Rohit (Mohali).

55 kg: 1 Sonu Budhwar (Mohali), 2 Parvinder (Kapurthala), 3 Amrik Singh (Faridkot) and Nardeep (Gurdaspur).

60 kg: 1 Mukesh (Mohali), 2 Amrik (Gurdaspur), 3 Ravinder (Faridkot) and Shahil (Amritsar).

66 kg: 1 Satish (Jalandhar), 2 Vishal (Ludhiana), 3 Gurpreet (Mohali) and Hanshraj (Gurdaspur).

74 kg: 1 Pardeep (Mohali), 2 Yuvraj (Amritsar), 3 Gurlal (Kapurthala) and Raman Kumar (Gurdaspur).

84 kg: 1 Prabhpal (Mohali), 2 Vikram (Faridkot), 3 Bijendra (Amritsar) and Harinder (Tarn Taran).

96 kg: 1 Gurpal (Jalandhar), 2 Mandeep (Kapurthala), 3 Baljeet (Patiala) and Lakhbir (Ludhiana).

120 kg: 1 Ramandeep (Mohali), 2 Harjinder (Jalandhar), 3 Amandeep (Faridkot) and Lovepreet (Amritsar).

Team championship: 1 Mohali 22 pts, 2 Jalandhar 18 pts.

Greco-Roman style: 50 kg: 1 Manohar (Faridkot), 2 Anil (Gurdaspur), 3 Manjeet (Mohali) and Jatin (Kapurthala).

55 kg: 1 Santosh Yadav (Mohali), 2 Parvinder (Kapurthala), 3 Amrik (Faridkot) and Nardeep (Gurdaspur).

60 kg: 1 Mukesh (Mohali), 2 Amritpal (Gurdaspur), 3 Ravinder (Faridkot) and Shahil (Amritsar).

66 kg: 1 Sukhchain (Faridkot), 2 Deepak (Mohali), 3 Sukhraj (Gurdaspur) and Sukhpreet (Hoshiarpur).

74 kg: 1 Sunil (Faridkot), 2 Karan Sharma (Amritsar), 3 Bali (Jalandhar) and Ajaydeep (Mohali).

84 kg: 1 Harpreet (Faridkot), 2 Rajan Sharma (Amritsar), 3 Arshdeep (Muktsar) and Prabhpal (Mohali).

96 kg: 1 Hardeep (Mohali), 2 Manher (Jalandhar), 3 Simranpal (Kapurthala) and Rajesh (Tarn Taran).

120 kg: 1 Shivnarain (Mohali), 2 Slvinder (Ludhiana), 3 Gurvinder (Kapurthala) and Lakhvinder (Faridkot).

Team championship: 1 Mohali 26 pts, 2 Faridkot 24 pts.

Girls (freestyle): 40 kg: 1 Arvinder Kaur (Moga), 2 Amarjit Kaur (Faridkot), 3 Chandani (Gurdaspur) and Gursimran (Amritsar).

48 kg: 1 Preeti (Gurdaspur), 2 Harvinder (Tarn Taran), 3 Balbir Kaur (Moga) and Shivani (Amritsar).

51 kg: 1 Paramjeet Kaur (Moga), 2 Kamaljeet (Tarn Taran), 3 Bant Kaur (Faridkot) and Kuldeep Kaur (Gursarpur).

55 kg: 1 Sukhjit Kaur (Tarn Taran), 2 Poonam (Jalandhar), 3 Manpreet (Amritsar) and Rajbir Kaur (Moga).

59 kg: 1 Sukhjinder (Faridkot), 2 Virpal (Tarn Taran), 3 Gursaran Kaur (Gurdaspur) and Rama Devi (Amritsar).

63 kg: 1 Navjot (Tarn Taran), 2 Kamaljeet (Moga), 3 Shivani (Amritsar) and Rani (Gurdaspur).

69 kg: 1 Ramanjot (Tarn Taran), 2 Mandeep (Faridkot), 3 Rajesh Kaur (Amritsar) and Rajni (Gurdsapur).

72 kg: 1 Sukhpal (Tarn Taran), 2 Jaspreet (Moga), 3 Raj Bala (Amritsar) and Ravneet Bala (Faridkot).

Team championship: 1 Tarn Taran: 25 points, 2 Moga 18 points. 

Chandigarh, April 6
It’s a dream come true for Aadil Bedi. A Class IV student of Vivek High School nine-year-old golfer is among the two Indians, who have been selected to play in the Callaway Junior World Golf Championship to be held in San Diego, California, USA, in July.

He will be among eight junior golfers from Asia, who will be rubbing shoulders with the cream of world junior golf from 65 countries.

Golfers below the age of 17 will be participating in the junior world event in six age-group categories.

Aadil will tee off, along with 29 other golfers in the 9-10 age-category.

Last year Aadil had qualified for the US Kids World Cup, but he did not participate in the same as he felt he still had a lot to improve.

Initially, it was cold drinks and chips that drove this four-year-old to accompany his father to the CGA Golf Range. On one such visit he started hitting the ball with a small club. That was the beginning. He took to the game like a duck takes to water, says his father Harinder Singh Bedi.

He took to serious golf and started participaitng on the Indian Golf Union (IGU) junior circuit at the age of six. Within a year he was ninth on the IGU junior merit list. He climbed up to sixth spot the following year. He occupied the top slot in the Albatross U-7 merit list in 2008.

This nine-year-old has shaped into a budding golfer under coach Jesse Grewal.

Coke and chips are things of the past for this promising golfer, who already has a dietician in Dr Satbir Singh and a physical instructor in Sukhwinder Singh.

Harinder Bedi feels that playing in the competitive international arena will be a new experience for his son in terms of exposure and psychological build-up.

CGA president CSR Reddy expressed his happiness over this development and said: “The Chandigarh Golf Association is committed to help this young golfer as far as training and equipment are concerned.”

Asked about his studies and golf and how he manages the two, Aado replies: "Golf is papa's field and study is mom's arena. On days I practice golf, I do just homework. On other days I do revision work as well.”

Aadil has already played in more than 30 golf courses and maintains a profile in his diary. Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods are his favourite golfers.

Chandigarh, April 6
The Chandigarh Premier League Cash Prize Cricket Tournament will be held from April 11. Each innings will be of 15 overs, having three power-plays of five overs each.

In the first power-play, only two fielders will be allowed outside the 30-yard circle. In the second power-play, three fielders will be allowed, while in the final power-play, four fielders will be allowed to field outside the 30-yard circle.

In all, eight teams will take part in the tournament.

Each team will play a total of seven league matches in the league stage and the top four teams will qualify for the knock-out stage.

The tournament carries a cash prize of Rs 11,000 for the winners and Rs 5,100 for the runners-up. The entry fee for each team will be Rs 10,000.

The entries would close on April 8.

Chandigarh, April 6
Former Indian cricketer Dinesh Mongia would groom local talent in the cricket arena. For the purpose, the Chandigarh Administration has associated the city-based cricketer with the Chandigarh Sports Council, said sources.

Now onwards, the all-rounder will impart cricketing skills to the budding cricketers of the state-run Chandigarh Cricket Academy at the Sector-16 Cricket Stadium.

Mongia, who had don Indian cap in 57 ODIs, had joined the rebel Indian Cricket League bandwagon in 2007.

He was also a member of the World Cup squad in 2003.