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Rohtak cops uncover major DVD racket
Safai karamcharis to get more
Youth Congress to take govt schemes to rural poor
Haryana Youth Congress president Chiranjeev Rao at a press conference in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Also seen in the picture is Haryana Youth Congress in charge Usha Naidu. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan |
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Owners of stone crushers to hold dharnas on Oct 25
Ginners’ records under scrutiny
Jat leader alleges turnaround,
quits quota samiti
ASI, banker get jail for graft
Fire in polythene factory
A worker tries to douse the fire that broke out in a factory in Faridabad on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Sayeed Ahmed
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Rohtak cops uncover major DVD racket
Panipat, October 20 The team also recovered eight DVD writers, 2,000 blank DVDs and seven DVDs of original movies. The local police was not informed about the raids. The team constituted by the IG of Rohtak Range V Kamaraj, arrested five persons, while one managed to escape. The arrested were identified as Joginder Singh of New RK Puram, the kingpin of the racket, Kacha camp resident Rajinder Bangali, Sondpur resident Sewa Ram, Shri Bagwan of Jatal Road and Ashwini of Geeta Colony. Mahinder Singh also from Jatal Road area managed to give the slip. The team descended on a CD shop on the Railway Road and recovered 7,100 pirated DVDs. The owner of the shop, Ashwini, was immediately placed under arrest. The team then proceeded to Jatal Road where it raided the house of Mahinder Singh and recovered six DVD writers and a huge number of pirated DVDs. They then arrived at a house in Model Town where they arrested Joginder Singh, Rajinder Bangali, Sewa Ram and Shri Bagwan. There the police recovered two more DVD writers and a large number of pirated DVDs. The police then raided a shop in Kacha Camp areas where it arrested Rajinder Singh. Sources say of late Panipat has emerged as the main centre for the production and distribution of pirated DVDs. Pirated DVDs from here are being sent to Punjab, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh besides being circulated within the state. Unconfirmed reports suggested that Joginder Singh, running the racket, was related to a senior government functionary and a restired Sessions Judge. A local MLA was reportedly approached by the offenders who wanted him to impress upon the Chief Minister, during the Balmiki rally here today, not to allow the police raid without permission from senior functionaries of the district police and the civil administration. A source said the racket had been going on since long. He said boxes containing pirated DVDs were sent to Punjab through tourism buses, to HP through roadways buses and areas within the state through private buses. The bus drivers would charge Rs 20 to Rs 50 per box, depending on the distance. The source also said printed paper with the names of movies written on the inside cover of the DVDs were procured from Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan. The makeshift shops selling pirated DVDs at several places in the city disappeared following the raids. No senior police official from the district was available for comment.
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Safai karamcharis to get more
Panipat, October 20 The hike would benefit 1,1700 such workers. Hooda, addressing an impressive gathering on the occasion of Maharishi Valmiki’s birth anniversary, said the government had been working for the welfare of the downtrodden and its commitment to uplifting all sections of society was unshaken. In reply to one of the demands of the Balmikis, the Chief Minister announced that the remuneration of safai karamcharis would be disbursed through banks rather than sarpanches. Referring to the demand for reservation, he said that matter was pending with the Supreme Court and Haryana’s stand was in ‘their favour’. Hooda said the state government would be spending Rs 191 crore this year for social, educational and economic uplift of SCs and BCs in the state. The government would expend Rs 500 crore on providing scholarship to 18 lakh students.The CM said that to check the dropout rate among poor students, the government had been giving a monthly stipend of Rs 150 and Rs 100 to SC girls and boys, respectively. Besides, SC girls pursuing higher education were being given scholarship ranging from Rs 5000 to Rs14,000 per year. The government had provided 100 square yard plots to more than 3.5 lakh people living below the poverty line. The government had introduced training programmes for unemployed youth. Besides, Rs 31,000 was being given to solemnise the marriage of SC girls under Indira Gandhi Priyadarshni Shagun Yojana. Today’s rally was organised by Chief Parliamentary Secretary Jaiveer Balmiki. The HPCC president, Phool Chand Mullana, working president Kuldeep Sharma, MP from Karnal Arvind Sharma, Education and Health Minister Geeta Bhukkal, MLAs Shakuntala Khatak and Balbir Pal Shah and other senior leaders participated. |
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Youth Congress to take govt schemes to rural poor
Chandigarh, October 20 Addressing his maiden press conference at the Press Club here today, Haryana’s Youth Congress president Chiranjeev Rao, accompanied by IYC national general secretary and Haryana in charge, Usha Naidu, said the initiative was being rolled out on the directions of AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi and would culminate on November 20. “Our members will go to all 6,200 panchayats and efforts will be made to publicise all schemes drafted for the rural poor so that they can benefit from these. Also, through this programme we intend to identify their problems, compile these and present them to the government for redressal,” he said. The Youth Congress president said the Haryana Youth Congress would provide identity cards to its five lakh primary members and office-bearers for the first time. Congratulating the sportspersons from the state for their achievements in Commonwealth Games, he said the credit for the players having done so well went to the innovative sports policy of the
government. To a question, he said they would take up the issue of students’ elections in universities and colleges. General Secretary, YC, Virender Rathore, said the government would be urged to provide a bonus of Rs 300 per quintato farmers whose paddy had been damaged in floods. |
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Owners of stone crushers to hold dharnas on Oct 25
Chandigarh, October 20 To lodge their protest against the board’s order to seal their crushers, they will organise dharnas in eight districts of the state on October 25. They will also submit a memorandum to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda through the respective Deputy Commissioners, seeking his intervention. This was decided at a meeting of the newly formed Haryana State Stone Crusher and Washing Plants Owners Association in Dadri today. President of the association Satpal Deswal said while a token protest would be organised on October 25, a meeting of all its members would be held in Hisar on October 28 to decide the future strategy. Maintaining that 1,000 notices were sent out by the Pollution Control Board to stone crusher owners announcing the sealing of their crushers in Panchkula, Yamunanagar, Bhiwani, Gurgaon, Fatehabad, Mahendragarh and Mewat districts, he said they would not take it lying down. “Our crushers fulfill all conditions of the December 1997 notification of the board. We have the clearance of the board and the Forest Department also. How can the board officials wake up suddenly and term our units as ‘illegal’? They are acting in the garb of a court order, which is not remotely connected to us. The order pertains to mining in the state which is already banned,” Deswal said. While the board has begun to seal crushers in Tosham and Charkhi Dadri after the 15-day notice period expired, the stone crushers maintain that the action is illegal as their stance was upheld by the Pollution Control Board Appellate Tribunal. With mining already closed in the state and prices of construction material rising on account of short supply, the stone crusher owners have decided to disrupt supplies arriving from other states if the government does not consider their demands favourably. “We are already reeling under the ban on mining and getting stones for crushing from other states while a few others are barely breaking even by selling the stock available to them. With the board selling our crushers, where do we go? A lot of investment has gone into setting up of stone crushers, some of which are functioning for the past 10 years. How will we recover our investment? The government too has already suffered a revenue loss of Rs 200 crore coming from mining, stone crushers and raw material, which was coming into the state,” Deswal rued.
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Ginners’ records under scrutiny
Sirsa, October 20 The team checked the records of a ginning mill at Ellenabad town today. According to sources, several irregularities have been found in the records of the mill. Yesterday, the team checked the records of five millers at Sirsa, Kalawali and Dabwali and imposed a fine of Rs 6.50 lakh for evasion of market fee and the HRDF. Zonal Marketing Enforcement Officer SK Goyal, who is leading the team, said the team would stay here till the end of this month to check evasion of market fee and the HRDF. Sirsa is the biggest producer of cotton in the state and more than 40 per cent of the state’s cotton crop is grown in the district alone. There were complaints that nearly half of the cotton procured from the farmers was being milled and sold without valid bills thereby duping the government of market fee and HRDF, which are 2 per cent each as per the value. Meanwhile, following increase in the arrival, the price of cotton crop has dipped marginally in the Sirsa market. The crop was purchased for about Rs 4,100 per quintal today. Last week, it was purchased for Rs 4,400 per quintal. However, the price is still much higher than the prices last year.
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Jat leader alleges turnaround,
quits quota samiti
Bhiwani, October 20 In a press note issued here today, Shaukeen, disillusioned with the “turnabout” by some samiti leaders, said, “The Jat agitation had lost its true colour and in the present circumstances, it is not possible for me to hold
the post.” Shaukeen alleged national president of the samiti Yashpal Malik had betrayed Jats in the name of the reservation
agitation. He alleged that Malik, despite the killing of a youth, Sunil Sheoran, in police firing during the agitation at Mayyar village on September 9, managed a secret compromise with the Haryana government the very next day and announced to end the stir without consulting the samiti. Hawa Singh Sangwan of the samiti said Shaukeen had been expelled from the samiti on September 14 for his anti-samiti statements. |
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ASI, banker get jail for graft
Hisar, October 20 The ASI, Ram Bhaj, took a bribe from a dhaba owner. According to the prosecution, the dhaba owner had purchased an LPG cylinder on the black market. The ASI threatened to book him and demanded Rs 2,000 and a cylinder from the dhaba owner, which the latter gave him. However, the ASI demanded another Rs 2,000 and an additional cylinder, which the dhaba owner promised to give him a week later. The dhaba owner approached the Vigilance Bureau which then caught the cop while accepting the bribe. The judge sentenced him to jail for two years. In another case, a bank official, Bhagi Ram, was sentenced to jail for two years for taking a bribe of Rs 10,000 for sanctioning a loan.
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Fire in polythene factory
Faridabad, October 20 The cause of the fire in Split India Company Ltd, located along the Delhi-Mathura National Highway, was said to be a short circuit. There was no casualty as no worker was present there when the incident took place. According to the owner of the firm, Satish Sareen, the exact loss of property is yet to be assessed. The unit produces polythene products. A large quantity of the finished product was stored in three godowns of the unit. Fire broke out in one of these and soon spread to other areas, engulging all godowns. Senior police officials reached the spot. However, no case has been registered so far. |
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CHANDIGARH: The state government has decided to extend the last cut off date for admissions up to October 25, 2010, in all AICTE-approved government or government aided or self-financing institutions or university departments offering diploma, BE, BTech, BArch, BPharmacy, BHMCT, MBA and MCA courses. The institutes shall ensure that the stipulated teaching hours schedule is compensated by engaging extra classes. — TNS
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The Haryana Youth Congress will shortly launch an innovative programme “Chalo Panchayat Ke Dwar” in the state beginning November 1 to take government schemes to the people and reach out to rural Haryana.
Faridabad, October 20
