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Police initiative scores a 100
Kanda Case: Another arrest, but serious charges dropped
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Missing girls return home
Ambala, Kalka rly stations to get facelift: Selja
Lack of education bane of Mewat
French researcher finds love in Basra
Fire destroys wheat crop
Farmer shot dead
Official’s death being probed
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Police initiative scores a 100
Chandigarh, April 11 The promotion test, known as B-1 test in the police jargon, has been controversial for several years. The clearing of the test is a must for speedy promotion from constable to head constable. But by the nineties, the test acquired notoriety as “means of promoting sycophants.” Usually, only those policemen would clear it who had either a “sifarish” or were attached with a senior police officer as his personal staff. This led to discontent among the force. The powers that be discontinued the holding of the test and decided to promote constables on the basis of seniority alone. But this affected the investigation skills of the force as well as led to demoralisation of meritorious constables. Head constables constitute over 75 per cent of the investigating officers of the force. The Code of Criminal Procedure vests power of investigation with the head constables, and not constables. Three years ago, the test was re-introduced while the principle of seniority was also retained for those who failed to clear the test. But there was a major departure from the past. This time the test was “online” to ensure transparency and impartiality. This year, at least 7,000 constables sat for the test at over 30 centres in the past two days. A centre was set up in Jammu too where one unit of the Indian Reserve Battalion is stationed. The test was conducted at Local Area Network-based computer centres. A vast database of over 10,000 multiple choice questions was developed by a core team. The fact that the entire examination process was administered by the police relying exclusively on the efforts of its in-house experts drawn from the ranks of computer-literate constables and head constables, makes this exercise all the more laudable. Dalal claims that the online test has reduced litigation to nil and has restored police department credibility. He says states like Delhi, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh have shown a keen interest in the Haryana initiative. A question paper is randomly generated by the computer for each candidate separately and answers automatically evaluated, instantly displaying individual scores on submission of the test paper. |
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Kanda Case: Another arrest, but serious charges dropped
Sirsa, April 11 The police had arrested Sanjay Saini and Satnam Singh on April 5 and April 7. Both are in judicial custody. In his complaint, Gobind Kanda had named Pardeep Godara, Mahavir Bagri, Leela Dhar Saini, Raja Kaswan, Yogesh Sharma, Suresh Darba and Ram Singh Saini, all INLD activists, and 25 to 30 unidentified persons. He alleged that when he and his minister were in Hisaria Bazar to oversee arrangements for Chief Minister BS Hooda’s visit, the accused, armed with pistols, guns and lathis, launched an attack on their cavalcade, opened a car window and tried to kill them. Kanda also accused Pardeep Godara and Leela Dhar Saini of having fired a shot each from their guns and tearing the Tricolor installed on the minister’s car. The police registered an FIR under Sections 148, 149, 323, 382, 307 and 506 of the IPC, sections 25, 27, 54 and 59 of the Indian Arms Act and Section 2 of the Prevention of Insult to the National Honour Act-1971. However, SHO Hans Raj, who was investigating the matter, dropped the charges of attempt to murder (307) and rioting with deadly weapons (148) of the IPC, Sections 25, 27, 54, 59 of the Indian Arms Act and section 2 of the
Prevention of Insult to the National Honour Act-1971. He was sent to the Police Lines and the investigation handed over to the new SHO, Mauji Ram. The charges under which Takhwinder Singh was arrested today do not include those of serious nature, thereby vindicating Hans Raj’s stand. Hans Raj, the police sources maintained, relied on the video footage of the incident available with the police and the statement of shopkeepers while dropping some charges from the FIR lodged by Gobind Kanda. “The video footage shows
the Tricolor intact on the bonnet of the official car of Gopal Kanda when the minister leaves the place after the incident. “There can be no question of any persons sneaking in with deadly firearms, lathis or firing shots when over 100 cops, including two
officers of the rank of DSP, were on duty and the police had cordoned the area,” said the sources. |
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Missing girls return home
Sirsa, April 11 According to sources in the police, the parents of the two girls had informed the police that they had gone to visit maternal aunt of Sareen in Kalanwali town. Taking a strong note of the irresponsible behaviour shown by the two girls, the management of the school met today under its president Kulwant Rai Jindal and decided to expel them. “The girls as well as their parents have exhibited a very irresponsible attitude in this case. While many of our teachers had been frantically looking for the girls at all important places of the town, they did not consider it necessary to inform us of their return,” alleged Kiran Rathore, Principal of the school, after the meeting. She maintained that the school authorities came to know of the return of the missing girls from the media and then confirmed it from the police. “If the version of the girls’families that they were in Kalanwali at the residence of Sareen’s maternal aunt is to be believed, their irresponsible behavour becomes all the more intolerable,” Rathore added. The Principal maintained that the school authorities would not allow the two girls to remain in the school as this, she said, would set a bad example for other students. Yogita and Sareen, the students of class IX of the school had disappeared from the school under mysterious circumstances on Friday. Advocate Kulwant Rai Jindal, president of the school managing body, had lodged a missing report with the police, late on Friday evening. Parents of the missing girls and the school authorities had traded charges by holding each other responsible for the incident as well as delay in reporting the matter to the police. |
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Ambala, Kalka rly stations to get facelift: Selja
This was stated by Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja in a press conference held at a rest house in Naraingarh recently. She further stated that the Centre would introduce a new scheme “Rajiv Awas Yojna” to provide accommodation to the poor families in the country. Under the scheme, the Centre would extend support to states willing to assign property rights to people living in the slum areas. She said stress was being laid on the infrastructural development of the cities under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewable Mission, besides providing houses to the urban poor under Integrated Housing and Slum Development Schemes. She stressed an all-round development of the entire country was being ensured by the UPA government and the marginalised section was being given priority in the process. She also announced that the National Highway-73 from Yamunanagar to Panchkula via Saha would be four laned. The project had been cleared by the Union Cabinet and the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) would commence work on this project shortly. She said the four-laning when completed would facilitate the flow of traffic.This was the need of the time in view of the increasing volume of traffic on the national highways. Selja further said the accommodation for visitors, both overseas and domestic, expected during the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi would be complete and ready for occupation, a few months prior to the commencement of the gala event. She said the tourism would get incentive during the Commonwealth Games. |
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Education govt’s priority: Gillankhera
Fatehabad, April 11 Speaking at the annual-cum-prize distribution function of Manohar Memorial College of Education, Gillankhera claimed that Rs 6,377 crore had been allocated to education in the state, which, he claimed, was the highest so far. He said that the budgetary provision for education made by the present government was many times more than what was spent by its predecessor. “Girls’ education is the special area of emphasis for the Hooda government and Haryana was the first state in the country to have set up an all-women university after Bhagat Phool Singh at Khanpur Kalan in Sonipat,” the chief parliamentary secretary said. Gillankhera said the state government had revived Chaudhary Devi Lal University at Sirsa, which was left to starve for funds by the previous INLD regime, opened a central university at Pali in Mohindergarh, set up Rajiv Gandhi Education City and established a health university and a technical education university in the state. “The approval of four new medical colleges at Karnal, Khanpur Kalan, Mewat and Faridabad and increasing the number of technical colleges and polytechnics is a clear example of the Hooda government’s vision about education,” he added. Gillankhera gave away prizes to the students, who excelled in the field of education, co-curricular and extra-curricular fields. |
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Lack of education bane of Mewat
Nuh (Mewat), April 11 In a recent news report published in these columns, The Tribune had drawn attention towards the acute scarcity of water in the area, highlighting how the residents of Mewat villages are forced to drink dirty water. Shortage of water and electricity becomes all the more acute during summer, while lack of good education and healthcare are permanent banes that inhibit the progress of the area. More often than not, the local “rulers”, who represent the area in the state assembly or in Parliament, have focused on their own betterment rather than ensuring the well-being of their “subjects”. The local residents have apparently been repeatedly cheated due to their illiteracy and lack of awareness. Fed up with the hollow promises of politicians and callous attitude of the authorities concerned, a considerable number of local residents have taken to various illegal activities like vehicle thefts, bank frauds and fake milk. According to the altruistic and progressive residents of the area, lack of a sound educational network is the major factor which has been holding back the growth and development of Mewat. “The local people refrain from sending their girls to co-educational schools and prefer to marry them off at a young age,” maintains Anirudh Raghuvanshi, an industrialist having a manufacturing unit in the area. Another local resident, Tayyab Hussain, attributes this trend to religious dogmas and adds that the lack of girls’ schools is also to blame. Other locals assert that due to lack of health facilities, they have to take the victims of accidental or other medical emergencies to Delhi or Gurgaon and many a time they perish on the way. Though a medical college has lately been approved for the area, but the local people have no option but to suffer till the time by which it is fully functional. Given the tardy pace of government projects, no immediate end to their plight seems to be there in sight. |
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French researcher finds love in Basra
Hisar, April 11 It so happened that Floria selected Basra village for her research as the least irrigated village. Six months ago she stayed at Pawan’s house for 10 days during which he acted as her interpreter. She was highly impressed by the hospitality extended to her by Pawan and his family. The two decided to marry and Floria went back to France. She had come to India for the marriage accompanied by her parents and around 50 other relatives and friends. She said she planned to settle down in India after the marriage. Pawan is the youngest son of a farmer of Basra village. He has graduated from Guru Jambheshwar University’s Department of Mass Communication and speaks fluent
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Fire destroys wheat crop
Kaithal, April 11 According to reports, the fire which engulfed the vast area also damaged a reaper and a tractor trolley. On seeing the raging fire, hundreds of farmers swung into action and tried tirelessly to douse the fire. The villagers alleged that fire tenders reached very late which aggravated the situation. The fire reportedly broke out in Barout village in the afternoon and later spread to the fields in Rasulpur and Bandrana villages. The strong surface winds added fuel to the fire. About a dozen villagers suffered losses as their crop worth lakhs of rupees was burnt. Such farmers have demanded an adequate compensation from the government. Meanwhile, this fire incident has brought the problem of shortage of staff to the fore. The problem has been hampering the efficient functioning of fire fighting services in the district.
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Farmer shot dead
Sonepat, April 11 According to information, the deceased, Udai, went to his field in the morning andfound that some persons were harvesting the wheat crop. When he objected,, they allegedly beat him up. After getting the information about the incident, Udai’s uncles Jagmender and Ajit also reached the field. During altercation, the trespassers attacked them with sharp-edged weapons, injuring Jagminder and Ajit. One of them shot dead Udai. Before other villagers could reach to help the victims, the armed persons managed to escape on motorcycles and a tractor-trolley. The body of the victim was brought to the civil hospital here for postmortem. On the complaint of Jagmender and Ajit, the police has registered a case against the unidentified persons. |
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Official’s death being probed
Sirsa, April 11 The victim, Bhim Sen Arora, an official of the Election Department in the local DC office, was going to the local Tara Baba Kutiya with his family members for a picnic, when the auto rickshaw in which the family was travelling in, overturned after colliding with a motorcycle near Chaudhary Devi Lal University on the bypass road. Arora sustained injuries and was rushed to the general hospital by his family members. “At 6 pm, when we reached the hospital no doctor was available on duty in the casualty department. A nurse on duty informed us that the doctor, a lady, who was on duty at that time, had not arrived,” alleged a kin of the victim. “Calls were made on the cellphone of the doctor. But she did not respond to any of them,” he alleged. The nurse on duty provided some treatment, but she, allegedly, expressed her inability to manage the emergency in absence of the doctor. In desperation, the victim’s kin took the patient to several private hospitals in the town, but they couldn’t find any doctor to treat him. Dejected, they came back to the hospital, but the doctor had not arrived even then. |
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The Haryana Police is usually in the news for the wrong reasons. Rarely does it get credit for doing something commendable.
Director-General of the Haryana Police RS Dalal is proud of the fact that what the
prestigious IIMs introduced only this year, that too not without hiccups, his force has been doing successfully for the past three
years.
Poor health, power infrastructure stall
progress
Ambala, April 11