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First phase of panchayat elections today Polling staff carry EVMs and other material for the elections in Bhiwani on Saturday. Photo: Manoj Dhaka
Security arrangements in place
Man shot at
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Mirchpur: Jats seek CBI probe
PIL on doctor’s selection dismissed
Youth stabs girlfriend to death
The accused, Maninder, in police custody in Karnal
on Saturday. Tribune photo: Ravi Kumar
Garima, the cloned buffalo, turns 1 today
2 cops booked for barbarism
3 prisoners held for jail inmate’s murder
Khap panchayat hails CM’s remarks
Drive against same-gotra marriages
Storm claims life
Youth held for raping 70-yr-old
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First phase of panchayat elections today
Chandigarh, June 5 But both parties are leaving no stone unturned to ensure the victory of the candidates supported by them as these elections will ensure their hold on the rural areas. The second phase will be held on June 12. INLD president Om Prakash Chautala has accused the ruling Congress of violating the Model Code of Conduct and misusing official machinery to ensure victory of its candidates. He also claimed that the state election commissioner was finding himself helpless to put a check on the violations of the code by the ruling party. However, Congress spokesman VP Vidrohi described the INLD allegations as false. He said the INLD had been demoralised after the defeat of its candidates in urban civic bodies poll. Criticising the INLD for not having spared even the Election Commissioner in its “vilification campaign”, Vidrohi said when the INLD allegations were baseless, how the commissioner could act against the Congress. He said it had been a habit of the INLD to level such allegations in all elections. Meanwhile, election commissioner Dharam Vir said here today that 40.36 per cent panchs, 3.37 per cent sarpanchs and 1.4 per cent members of the panchayat samitis had already been elected unopposed. Besides, 100 gram panchayats had also been elected unanimously, which worked out to be 2.52 per cent of the aggregate. He said the highest number of 18 gram panchayats had been elected unanimously in Kaithal district while 15 each in Kurukshetra and Ambala, 13 in Fatehabad, eight in Mewat, seven in Jind, six in Sirsa, five in Faridabad, four each in Bhiwani and Jhajjar, three in Sonepat and one each in Mahendergarh and Palwal had been elected unanimously.
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Security arrangements in place
Sirsa, June 5 He said duty magistrates and supervisory officers had also been appointed for the smooth polling. He said 3.32 lakh persons would exercise their right to vote in the four administrative blocks of the district tomorrow. The authorities have identified 69 polling booths of 22 villages as sensitive and 172 polling booths of 42 villages as hypersensitive. Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC have been promulgated within the radius of 200 m from the polling booths. The polling will begin at 7 am and continue till 4 pm. Meanwhile, SP Satinder Kumar Gupta said as many as 2,500 police personnel had been deployed for tomorrow’s elections. He said in all 43 patrol parties would move around the district during the polling and 15 road barriers had been set up to check vehicles for preventing the entry of anti-social elements in the area. Gupta said the police was fully prepared for the peaceful conduct of the elections.
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Sonepat: In an incident suspected to be related to the coming panchayat elections, Rajesh, serving the Haryana police at Karnal and resident of Bhainswal Kalan village, was injured seriously after two motorcycle-borne miscreants fired on him when he was standing at the bus stop in his village on Saturday.
He was taken to a private hospital in Gohana where doctors referred him to the PGIMS, Rohtak. Doctors at the PGIMS had removed the bullet and he was reported to be out of danger. The police has registered a case against the unidentified miscreants, who fled the spot after committing the crime. The incident is being linked to the coming panchayat elections as Rajesh’s father, Sultan Singh, is contesting the election for the post of sarpanch in the village.
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Mirchpur: Jats seek CBI probe
Hisar, June 5 These residents have barred the entry of outsiders to the village by putting up barricades manned by groups of about 20 villagers, including women. Leaders of the community told visiting newspersons today that they wanted complete peace and brotherhood in the village but they were angry over “the onesided action” by the government against members of their community. They said the clash took place between two communities but cases had been registered only against members of their community. They added that they had nothing against any other community but their fight was against the government. Only a CBI probe could bring out the truth, they added. Maintaining that they had full faith in the impartiality of the CBI, they said if the CBI found evidence against members of their community, they would hand over the culprits to the police themselves. The community has summoned a meeting of the mahapanchayat at Narnaund on Monday to discuss the future course of action. Representatives of communities have been invited to the meeting. |
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PIL on doctor’s selection dismissed
Chandigarh, June 5 The Division Bench of Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice Jasbir Singh also indicated that PIL could not be used for digging up faults in the selection process. Referring to the case in hand, the Bench asserted: “Essential dispute arising in the present writ petition appears to be a service matter, for which no PIL petition lies.” Refusing to entertain the petition filed by Swami Sarva
Nand, the Bench added: “The petitioner’s plea that deserving doctors have been left out, cannot be entertained at the behest of the petitioner because if some eligible doctors have been left out, such doctors are educated and resourceful enough to file their own
petition(s)”. The Bench also quoted a Supreme Court judgment in Dr Duryodhan Sahu and others versus Jitendra Kumar Mishra and others to say, “There is no doubt that a private citizen or a stranger having no existing right to any post and not intrinsically concerned with any service matter is not entitled to approach the Tribunal. “If PIL petitions at the instance of strangers are allowed to be entertained by the Tribunal, the very object of speedy disposal of service matters will get defeated.” The development is significant as similar petitions filed in public interest challenging appointments of doctors are pending before the high court. Taking up the petition against the state and other respondents, the Bench observed: “When asked about the locus standi of the petitioner, counsel for the petitioner said in the PIL jurisdiction, the question of locus standi was not relevant. He also submitted that deserving doctors had been left out while selecting a respondent in an illegal manner. “In our view, the question of locus standi is a primary question which is required to be addressed before the PIL petition is entertained. The petitioner has to establish his credentials before a PIL petition can be entertained. “It is a well-settled law that the court, before admitting a
PIL, has to be satisfied about credentials of the applicant….” Before parting with the orders, the Bench added: “We also asked the petitioner whether as a public-spirited citizen, he has espoused any other cause. The counsel for the petitioner was unable to answer this question at this juncture”. |
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Youth stabs girlfriend to death
Karnal, June 5 Hailing from Balhera village of Una district in Himachal, Renu was a student of BSc (IInd year) at MCM College, Chandigarh, and had come to Karnal for training at NDRI. She was staying in Model Town as a paying guest. Maninder, who had reached here from Chandigarh on his motorcycle today, took Renu for a date and allegedly killed her. The body had been sent for a postmortem and the report was awaited. After committing the crime, Maninder tried to flee but was nabbed by the people strolling around the lake and handed over to the police. A team from Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), Madhuban, and DSP Surinder Bhoria reached the spot and a murder case under Section 302 of the IPC was registered against him. Bhoria said investigations were in progress. Maninder, a resident of Sector 30, Chandigarh, said he was a mechanical engineer and Renu and her brother were his tenants. He had an affair with Renu and had also given her a mobile phone. However, for the past few days she had been talking to someone else on the phone. “I got the details of her phone calls and wanted her to confess. I had made up my mind that I will not say anything to her if she made the confession. However, she was evasive and I could not bear her lies,” he said.
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Garima, the cloned buffalo, turns 1 today
Karnal, June 5 The cloned buffalo was kept under close supervision and its growth was monitored on a daily basis. Garima, who weighed 43 kg at the time of birth, added 800 gm weight everyday and was 300 kg on the eve of her first birthday. She was keeping good health and will be ready for breeding in the next few months once its weight increases to 350 kg, Dr Shiv Prasad, cattle yard in charge, said. Garima was the biggest success story in the history of dairy research and keeping in view the importance of buffalo cloning, the ICAR sanctioned a Rs 7 crore project under the National Agriculture Innovation Programme and the NDRI fully utilised the assistance for intensive research on Garima. AK Srivastav, Director, NDRI, said during the past year haematology, blood parameters, behaviour, weight and physiological changes in Garima were closely monitored and vital inputs for further research were available. The birth of Garima was path breaking as it was developed by using indigenously evolved advanced, simple and less expensive “hand-guided cloning technique” and not by the conventional cloning technology. It was after over 20 years of intensive research that the first cloned buffalo was born on February 2009 but the calf survived only for six days. The second clone expected by May end in 2009 aborted prematurely but scientists were not upset and finally Garima was born on June 6 last year. “However, the answer to the million dollar question whether we can ever relish Garima’s milk will be available in the next three to four months,” officials said.
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2 cops booked for barbarism
Fatehabad, June 5 Criminal cases under Sections 323, 330, 342 and 34 of the IPC have been registered against Assistant Sub-Inspector Bhal Singh, in charge of the police post, Mohinder Singh, a head constable posted there, and two members of Ninder Singh’s in-laws’ family Harnam Singh and Lachhman Singh. Ninder Singh (20) had alleged in his complaint that the cops picked him from his Ram Nagar (Ratia) residence on June 2 and beat him up mercilessly in the Nagpur police post. He had also alleged that the cops injected petrol into his private parts with a plastic syringe used for veterinary purposes. The cops, allegedly, dumped him outside his house when his condition deteriorated. He was later rushed to the community health centre, Ratia, from where he was shifted to the general hospital, Fatehabad. The victim said he had a marital dispute and his in-laws, who lived in Tamaspura village, used their influence to pressurise him. SP JS Lamba had suspended the two cops immediately after the incident came to his notice. Confirming the registration of the FIR against the policemen, Lamba said the allegations of injecting petrol into the private parts of the youth has not been corroborated in the medical examination of the youth. |
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3 prisoners held for jail inmate’s murder
Karnal, June 5 SHO Gorakh Pal Rana said the three jail inmates, two of whom were undergoing imprisonment in a murder case, hatched a conspiracy to kill Pratap Singh and hit his head against the floor after strangulating him. The accused confessed to the crime and disclosed that Pratap Singh had helped the police in seizing “sulfa” from them and the crime was attributed to personal enmity, he added. Initially, the cause of the death could not be ascertained but the post-mortem report clearly said it was a murder by strangulation. The police registered a case of murder under Sections 302 and 34 of the IPC against some persons on the complaint of the jail superintendent on May 28. Pratap Singh, undergoing 10-year sentence for rape, was found dead near a jail wall on the May 27 morning. Pratap Singh, who got two-and-a-half-year remission in sentence had almost completed the jail term and was to be released after two months. |
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Khap panchayat hails CM’s remarks
Jind, June 5 Expressing concern over the growing incidents of violation of the Gotra and village norms in marriages in the rural parts of the state, Mewa Singh Chhatar and Kuldeep Singh Dhanda, two leaders of the Khap Panchayat, said here today that the statement of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, opposing the marriage within the same Gotra, was a positive development but claimed that this should get reflected in an action and this was possible only when the state government passed a Bill to demand the change in the Hindu Marriage Act which, they said, had been against the social norms and traditions of Haryana. Citing the cases of the Bills brought by the state governments of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry regarding such demand, they said it was the right of the people of Haryana to seek such a move and change in the Act and it was very much according to the Constitution. Hooda had said at a function here that he was opposed to marriages within the same Gotra. He had also described the Khap Panchayats as social bodies but had advised these to work under the law.
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Drive against same-gotra marriages
Yamunanagar, June 5 Coordinator of the khap panchayat Mangat Ram Malik said the meeting was called to discuss the gotra row and they decided that like-minded people should join hands to press their demand regarding framing of law to stop same-gotra marriages. If law was framed, honour killings would be stopped, he added. |
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Storm claims life
Yamunanagar, June 5 Gurinder (31) of Bhatia Nagar was killed when a tree fell on him due to the strong winds while he was riding a motorcycle near the Bhagat Singh park. Power supply remained disrupted to many areas, mostly rural, during the night due to the bad weather. |
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Youth held for raping 70-yr-old
Rewari, June 5 He was today produced in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate RK Jain, who remanded him in judicial
custody. Sources said the woman had gone to a deserted field to answer nature’s call when she was accosted by the accused and allegedly raped. The woman, concealed the matter fearing social stigma, but later made it known to her family members who filed a complaint yesterday following which the police, which registered a case and arrested
Dinesh. |
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The state will go for the first phase of the fourth elections to the panchayati raj institutions (PRI) tomorrow amid allegations and counter-allegations by two main contenders, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and the Congress.
Karnal, June 5
