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Unfurling of Black Flag
Corporal Punishment |
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State told to pay Rs 50,000 to widow
2 students suspended on ragging charge
Acquisition: Farmers start indefinite dharna
Ticketless, student jumps off bus, dies
Hooda to unveil Rajiv’s statue
Tau’s Statue Row
Girl run over by school bus, dies
Jind village celebrates birth of 5 girls
31 junior librarians promoted
KALKA Labourer
found dead: The Pinjore police has recovered the body of a labourer from Garida village of Pinjore block. Satish Kumar, a cousin of the deceased, has identified the body as of Ram Kumar of Muzzafarpur district, Uttar Pradesh, who had come here recently in search of some work. Police said the deceased had left the house on Tuesday night in an inebriated condition and did not return home till Wednesday morning. The body was sent to CHC, Kalka, for the autopsy. The team of forensic experts also visited the spot. 3 arrested for theft: The Pinjore police claimed to have arrested three youths in context with the theft of a motorcycle. The police party during patrolling on Tuesday night nabbed Rajesh of Toran village, Rakesh of Bhawana, Pinjore, and Bijender Singh of Subhash Nagar, Power House, while they were strolling near Yadavindra Gardens, Pinjore. The trio were produced in the court on Wednesday, which sent them to police custody till August 22. Kargil martyr remembered: A programme in memory of Flying Officer Gursimrat Singh Dhindsa, who had laid his life in Kargil war, was organised on Wednesday in Government Senior Secondary School, Pinjore. Gurcharan Singh Dhindsa and Preetpal Kaur, father and mother of the martyr, were present during the programme as chief guests. The school students paid homage by rendering heart touching solo and group songs. DEO, Panchkula, while speaking on the occasion, recalled the martyrs of India and urged the students to follow their path. A blood donation camp was also organised at the school in memory of the martyr. Awarded: Munni Devi, principal of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Kalka, was honoured for her distinguished service in education at sub-division level during the Independence Day celebrations. SDM, Kalka, Yogesh Kumar awarded her with a certificate. The local administration also awarded Garvit Batra, a student of Sophia School, for his achievement at a national-level competition.
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Unfurling of Black Flag
Bhiwani, August 18 Addressing a meeting in the village today, he said residents of Rohnat village had participated in the 1857 revolution and had laid down their lives for the freedom of the country. He said the villagers had unfurled the black flag in protest against the apathetic attitude of the government towards the families of martyrs. “The police has registered cases against those whose families had laid down their lives for the sake of freedom of the country,” Maan added. He demanded that the police station in charge and the Superintendent of Police be transferred. He also demanded an apology from them. The police had registered cases against 28 persons, including two former sarpanches and a numberdar.
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Corporal Punishment
Sirsa, August 18 A case of assault, criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy under Sections 323, 506 and 34 of the IPC has been registered against the vice-principal and the music teacher of AV International School, Bishambar Dass and Mahesh, respectively. The music teacher allegedly slapped Sagar (15) when he expressed his inability to appear in a class test due to indisposition yesterday. When he went to the vice-principal with a complaint against the music teacher, he too, according to the complaint lodged by Sagar’s father Raj Kumar, beat him up. Sagar was shifted to the local general hospital, where the doctors issued a medico-legal report of injuries sustained by him. A case had been registered in the Sadar police station against the two teachers and Sub-Inspector Kamlesh was investigating the matter, said a police spokesperson. Meanwhile, an emergency meeting of the managing committee of the school was held today to take a stock of the situation. Principal of the school Neetu Madan said she was not in the school, when the alleged incident occurred. “However, after speaking to other teachers and students, we have reached the conclusion that the issue has been blown out of proportion by the boy’s parents,” said the principal. Madan said corporal punishment of any kind was totally banned in her school. She added that the teachers had merely scolded Sagar after he was trying to disturb other students in the class. She alleged that the complainant had been trying to settle some scores with the school management due to an old issue. |
State told to pay Rs 50,000 to widow
Chandigarh, August 18 Justice Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia also granted the state the liberty to recover the amount from official responsible for passing the order whereby petitioner Surinder Kaur was dispossessed. Surinder Kaur had sought the setting aside of the February 1 order passed by the assistant registrar on the ground that it was passed in her absence. The petitioner had purchased a house in Chanderlok Cooperative House Building Society Ltd, Gurgaon. Her counsel contended that one Raja Ram, who used to dabble in the property affairs, intended to usurp her property, as she was an aged widow. He approached the assistant registrar, who in the absence of the petitioner passed the impugned order. Justice Ahluwalia asserted: “It is stated in pursuance of the impugned order, Raja Ram accompanied by few others forcibly entered into the house of the petitioner and threw all household articles out of her house, took possession of the house and dragged her out of the house.” Virtually passing strictures, Justice Ahluwalia said: “The act of assistant registrar, who passed the impugned order, is indefensible. It is expected that any authority, before passing of any adverse order against anyone, should have associated the petitioner, heard her and then passed the order. “Furthermore, a perusal of the impugned order reveals no reason as to why the petitioner was dispossessed. The impugned order stipulated no time frame for the petitioner to hand over the possession. Even if the order of dispossession was to be passed, the petitioner ought to have been afforded sufficient time to make an alternative arrangement. The assistant registrar acted as he was running his own fiefdom…. “For the past five months, an aged widow is on the roads without any shelter or roof on her head. Denial of the same amounts to violation of her fundamental rights to live with dignity. Thus, she ought to be compensated. Therefore, this court hereby awards a compensation of Rs 50,000 in favour of the petitioner… The order is hereby set aside and the assistant registrar is directed to decide the matter afresh by affording effective opportunity of hearing to the petitioner and to pass a speaking order within a month…” |
2 students suspended on ragging charge
Sirsa, August 18 The complaint, which said the student was allegedly harassed and beaten up by a senior and another student in the name of ragging, was routed to the institute through the anti-ragging cell of the University Grants Commission (UGC). A friend of the victim, who came to Sirsa to meet him, sent an email to the UGC on August 10, after learning about his plight. “We have acted swiftly after receiving the complaint and suspended two students - Parveen, a final-year student and Ajay, a batch mate of the victim,” said Principal Sudhir Gilhotra. He said though polytechnics did not come under the ambit of the UGC, he took action looking into the seriousness of the allegations. He said a committee had been constituted under Ashok Narang, in charge of the discipline committee of the polytechnic, to look into the allegations.
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Acquisition: Farmers start indefinite dharna
Fatehabad, August 18 The Haryana government had recently issued a notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act for the acquisition of over 1,300 acres of this village for the proposed plant. The farmers, who had given a memorandum to district revenue officer Om Parkash Verma on the issue yesterday, met under the banner of the Kisan Sangharsh Samiti constituted by them today and marched towards the mini-secretariat. Samiti president Hans Raj Siwach and secretary Om Parkash Nain, who addressed the agitating farmers, asked them whether they wanted to sit on dharna on daytime only or for round the clock. After the farmers unanimously resolved to sit continuously on dharna till the notice of acquisition was withdrawn, tents were erected outside the mini secretariat. The farmers placed a “panchayati hookah” in the middle and started their dharna. Puffing hookah at the dharna site, the farmers maintained that a majority of them were dependent on their lands to eke out a living for their families and their families would starve if the government acquired their land. Meanwhile, the INLD and the Haryana Janhit Congress extended their support to the agitation of Gorakhpur farmers. INLD leaders Balwan Singh Daulatpuria, Kuljeet Singh Kuleria and Surender Lega and HJC leaders Nihal Singh Matana and Dr Jitender Chaudhary today met the farmers at the dharna site and expressed their respective party’s support to their struggle. |
Ticketless, student jumps off bus, dies
Fatehabad, August 18 The boy identified as Dinesh was a student of BSc (I) in a Hisar college and had taken a bus from Dhabi Khurd village this morning. When the bus reached near Chopta crossing near Bhattu, some students sitting on the front seats raised the alarm that the flying squad of the roadways had arrived. Dinesh, who, according to reports, had not purchased a ticket jumped from the bus to evade checking. He fell on the road and got crushed under the rear tyre of the bus. He succumbed to his injuries, while being shifted to Fatehabad for treatment. |
Hooda to unveil Rajiv’s statue
Faridabad, August 18 The main organiser of the programme and Mayor of Municipal Corporation, Faridabad (MCF), Ashok Arora, said the statue would be installed at the Rose Garden here. According to him, Punjabis of the area will felicitate the Chief Minister for officially according Punjabi the official second language status in the state. The public meeting will be organised under the auspices of the “Frontier Community”, which consists of groups of people and their decedents, who had migrated to this part in India during the partition. |
Tau’s Statue Row
Karnal, August 18 Led by Ajay Chautala, the INLD supporters demanded that the floor around the statue be restored immediately as it was disrespect to a person, who had not only contributed to the country’s freedom struggle, but had also played an important role in the development of Haryana. Chautala said the move had hurt their sentiments and the government should immediately take corrective measures. Later, senior officials of the district administration, including the Deputy Commissioner, met the supporters and assured them that the floor around the statue would be restored soon. The company undertaking the work of the six-laning of the NH-1 had demolished the floor to widen the highway. |
Girl run over by school bus, dies
Faridabad, August 18 The victim, Shabnam (6), a UKG student, reportedly got down from the bus before the main gate of her colony while returning home after the school was over in the afternoon. According to eyewitnesses, the driver drove rashly from the spot, resulting in the mishap. There were other children near the area when the mishap took place. Shabnam became the victim as she lost balance on the road while trying to get out of the way of the bus. She was crushed under the rear wheels of the bus. The news of the incident spread like wild fire. People, along with the parents of the child, gathered on the spot and threw stones on the bus, damaging its windowpanes. According to Jitesh Kumar of the Suraj Kund police, a criminal case has been registered against the driver and conductor of the bus. Both of them have been arrested. Mehboob Aalam, father of the victim, who was inconsolable, said action must be taken against the authorities of the school as they had left the child at the mercy of the driver and the conductor. The usual practice, according to him, was that a schoolteacher or a member of the staff accompanied the students in school buses till the last student got down. |
Jind village celebrates birth of 5 girls
Jind, August 18 The wife of Deputy Commissioner AS Yadav attended the ceremony. The function was organised with the help of the district unit of the Red Cross Society, which was informed of the birth of five female babies in Buana village. While the mothers and families were initially reluctant to hold a ceremony of this kind, some volunteers and family members motivated them to go ahead with the function normally held at the birth of boys. “Many couples take the services of ultrasound centres and abortion centres to know the sex of the child and to get the pregnancy aborted in case it is a girl,” said a volunteer associated with the health services. Kala Yadav, wife of the DC, who gave an incentive of Rs 1,100 and a box of sweets to all mothers of newly born babies, asked residents to take up the issues of social importance and work towards eradicating social evils, including liquor, gambling and drug addiction. |
31 junior librarians promoted
Sirsa, August 18 According to orders issued yesterday by Dheera Khandelwal, Higher Education Commissioner, the promotion has been made on a temporary basis in the pay scale of Rs 15,600-39,100 (pay band 3) plus a grade pay of Rs 6,000 with immediate effect. The promotions were long overdue and successive governments had been keeping the matter in abeyance due to lack of numerical strength of librarians. In the 88 libraries of the state, 64 posts of senior librarian and almost an equal number of posts of junior librarian had been lying vacant as no recruitment or promotion had taken place during the past more than two decades. While the senior librarians enjoy a pay scale equivalent to that of college lecturers, the junior librarians were paid lowly, almost on a par with clerks. Yesterday’s orders have come as a relief for the junior librarians who were eligible for promotion since long and the delay had been causing a lot of heartburn among them. |
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