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Industry told to check its waste
Dera Bassi, February 21 This ash was causing inconvenience to commuters and residents of nearby villages. This problem was reported by The Tribune in its columns few days back. Residents had alleged that industrial units, particularly some paper mills, were dumping harmful ash on the Dera Bassi-Barwala road near Saidpura village. XEN, Pollution Control Board, RK Rattra said the action was taken after the issue came to his notice through the report carried in The Tribune. He said the industrial units were told to check the waste immediately. Following the orders, the industrialists got this ash covered with sand and other material. Some industrial units had started the process of finding suitable space for dumping ash within the premises of their factories. The residents of nearby villages had now finally heaved a sigh of relief.
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Admn reviews preparations
Patiala, February 21 Patiala would hold matches in the disciplines of boxing, weightlifting and wrestling. Patiala Deputy Commissioner Dipinder Singh headed the meeting and issued necessary instructions to officals for the smooth conduct of the games. — TNS |
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Schoolkid abduction kingpin arrested
Ambala, February 21 SP, Ambala, Shashank Anand said the CIA staff of the Ambala police had also recovered a pistol at the instance Parminder. The police had also recovered Parminder’s hair, which he had got cut after the kidnapping incident. Shashank said the Inspector of the crime branch, Kulbhushan, had managed to nab Parminder, the main accused in this case, with the help of his team. He said Parminder had long hair and was sporting the look of a Sikh when the child was kidnapped and later he got his hair cut. On February 11, the Ambala police had rescued an eight-year-old student, who was kidnapped when he was returning to his home from Army School, Ambala Cantt. The kidnappers demanded Rs 80 lakh ransom from the child’s parents. The police had initially arrested one of the kidnappers while another manage to flee from the spot. Police sources said after the kidnapping, Vansh’s grandfather Narinder Kumar received a ransom call from a Naraingarh PCO. In the meantime, a police party reached the spot within few minutes, from where the kidnappers had proceeded towards Raipur Rani. At the Dera Bassi-Barwala road the police tried to stop their car. However, the vehicle dodged the police party. The police party was also fired upon by the accused. After some chase the cops managed to stop the kidnappers’ vehicle. The kidnappers again fired upon the cops who had to counter fire in defence. While one of the accused got shot in his leg, the other was successful in escaping. The nabbed youth was identified as Gurpreet Singh, a resident of Tashimbly village of Mohali district.
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3 killed as truck collides with auto
Ambala, February 21 The deceased have been identified as Balkar Singh, Ram Prasad and Ami Chand. One of the injured Babudeen has been referred to the PGI, Chandigarh, in a critical condition. The driver of the mini-truck also sustained injuries and was admitted to the civil hospital. According to information, the auto was on its way from Panchkula to Ambala City when the mishap took place. Two of the occupants of the auto died on the spot while the third succumbed to his injuries at the Ambala City Civil Hospital. The deceased were cooks and were hired for a wedding function at Raiwali near Panchkula. The bodies have been handed over to relatives after post-mortem. Youth snatch gold chain
Panchkula: Two motorcycle-borne youths snatched a gold chain from a woman at Sector 12-A here this afternoon. On the complaint of victim Bimla Goel, a resident of Sector 12-A, the police has registered a case against the unknown youths. According to sources, Bimla was walking past a house in the same sector when one of the youths, riding a black Pulsar, snatched her chain and fled. No clue of snatchers was achieved so far, said the police. 27 cases of liquor seized
The police has seized a Maruti car carrying the Indian made foreign liquor worth over Rs 30,000 early this morning. After getting a tip off, a police team laid a naka near the Ghaggar bridge and ordered the Maruti car (CH-01P-1055) driver to stop. Though the driver escaped from the spot, taking advantage of the darkness, the police found 27 cases (324 bottles) of illicit liquor loaded in the car. A case was registered and the police was on the lookout for the car driver. 27-year-old found dead
Dera Bassi: An unidentified youth was found from the industrial focal point, here today. The body was kept for identification in the Civil Hospital, Dera Bassi, for 72 hours. The person appeared to be 28-year-old and could not be identified till the filing of the report. The police had registered a case under Section 174 of the IPC. The police said the cause of the death would be ascertained after receiving the postmortem report. There was no injury mark found on the body, the police added. Woman killed in accident
A woman was killed in a road accident near here today and her husband was seriously injured. The woman was identified as Nachattar Kaur, a resident of Dera Bassi. Her husband Gurdeep Singh was admitted in GMCH-32, Chandigarh. According to information, the accident took place when an Indica car hit the motorcycle ridden by the couple near Dera Bassi on the national highway this morning. The car driver was absconding. The police had registered a case against unidentified car driver under Section 279, 304-A and 337 of the IPC. |
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Milk plants raided in Ambala
Ambala, February 21 The senior sanitary inspector of the Health Department, Rishi Raj Gautam, said the department had launched a campaign to check the unhygienic milk products being manufactured in some milk plants. He said the department had received a complaint against Samriti Products. He said expired ghee was found in the plant, which was destroyed by the team. He said the team had collected the samples of milk, milk powder and ghee from the plant, which would be sent to the state laboratory for examination. He said the employees engaged in the plant were not wearing proper gloves and aprons prescribed by the department. Meanwhile, the owner of the Samriti Products, Rajender Goel, said he was manufacturing milk products for Reliance company and his milk plant was one of the best in the state. He said all prescribed norms were adopted in the plant while preparing milk products. He denied that expired ghee was recovered from his plant. Later the health department team raided at Vita milk plant at Ambala City. According to information, the team also collected the samples of milk, ghee and cheese from the plant. The health department said the employees deputed in the milk filling section were not wearing proper gloves and aprons. One of the officers of Vita milk plant said no prescribed norms were violated in the plant. He said gloves and aprons would be provided to the employees soon.
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National Litigation Policy:
Centre falters again
Chandigarh, February 21 Already criticised for implementing the policy only on papers, the Centre has received another rap on its knuckles, this time for filing a frivolous appeal by ignoring the much-hyped policy. A cost of Rs 10,000 has also been imposed; and is to be deposited with the member-secretary of the Mediation and Conciliation Centre, Punjab and Haryana High Court. The rap came on the appeal filed by the Union of India and other appellants against Sewa Rani in a pension matter. The Bench of Justice MM Kumar and Justice TPS Mann observed: “The appeal is directed against the judgment dated September 7, 2010, rendered by the Single Judge holding that the petitioner-respondent-Sewa Rani is entitled to family pension on account of death of her son, who died in harness”.
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Quarkcity engineer’s murder case
Mohali, February 21 He argued that due to darkness at the time of the incident, the prosecution eyewitnesses did not see the assailant. Regarding the weapon purportedly used by the assailants in the murder, the defence counsel said it was planted by the police. As per the statement given by Jagdeep Singh, owner of the weapon, the police had visited his house in Amritsar on December 7, 2005, and the weapon was handed over to the police on December 8, 2005. However, the police has shown recovery of the weapon near Dara Studio. Additional District and Sessions Judge, Mohali, today fixed February 23 as the next date for the defence counsel to conclude his argument. In the murder case the prosecution has stated that Himmat Singh Brandy, the alleged paramour of the victim’s wife Neki Nalwa, killed the engineer.
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Fresh warrants issued against suspects
Tribune News Service
Panchkula, February 21 While accepting the plea of the NIA officials, special NIA Judge Ritu Garg again issued fresh non-bailable warrants against the three Samjhauta blasts case suspects. The NIA court has issued the non-bailable warrants against the three suspects for the third time. Earlier the court had issued warrants on January 21 and February 7 for the arrest of the three suspects. However, the investigating agency had failed to nab the suspects on both the occasions. A cash reward of Rs 10 lakh each had been announced by the NIA for information leading to the arrest of the two main suspects Dange and Kalsangra. The NIA has also announced a cash reward of Rs 2 lakh for information about the third suspect Ashwini Chauhan.
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Teachers’ Recruitment Scam
Chandigarh, February 21 Returning the record, the Bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Augustine George Masih also asked senior advocate-cum-Punjab’s former Advocate-General Rajinder Singh Cheema to act as amicus curiae or a friend of the court to assist the Bench in the matter. Cheema was asked to submit his report in four weeks after going through the judicial and the police record. Before parting with the case, the Bench also fixed March 23 as the next date of hearing in the case. The alleged scam had come to the fore in 2009. Demanding a CBI probe into the scam, Public Interest litigation (PIL) was, earlier, filed by Karamjit Singh. His counsel Ranjivan Singh had, earlier, submitted that Director Public Instructions (DPI) Samwartak Singh was let off by the Chandigarh Police. He had also claimed the scam to be of “huge magnitude”. The UT standing counsel Sanjay Kaushal, on the other hand, has been claiming that the petition is a non-PIL, “lacks” public interest element. Karamjit was an unsuccessful candidate and had, earlier, approached the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT). But the petition was dismissed by the Tribunal, Kaushal had told the court. Explaining the phone calls between Samwartak Singh and the two accused presently facing trial, Kaushal had asserted the DPI had told the police he had received calls from the accused for some tourism activities.
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2 booked for kidnapping woman
Chandigarh, February 21 The police said the woman was known to the accused and had come to Chandigarh to appear in an interview. The woman contacted her husband Parbhakaran on January 2 but he lost contact with her after that, her husband alleged. The police said Parbhakaran had lodged a complaint with the Mumbai police and after it was found that the accused were residents of Chandigarh, the Mumbai police referred the case to the UT police. The police said the accused have been identified and would be arrested soon. A case under Sections 363 and 34 of the IPC has been registered at the police station-17.
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Woman run over by truck
Chandigarh, February 21 The mishap took pace when Meena and her husband, Ashok Kumar, were returning to their residence in Kharar. The police said a rashly driven truck (HP-11-8861) hit the motorcycle from rear following which Meena fell on the road. Her head was crushed under the front wheel of the truck. Her husband fell at some distance. The police rushed the couple to the PGI where Meena was declared brought dead. The police has arrested driver of the truck Pawan Kumar, a resident of Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, and has booked him for causing death due to negligence under Section 304-A of the IPC. He was later released on bail. Meena is survived by her husband and two minor children.
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2-year-old run over by tractor
Mohali, February 21 The incident took place when the child was playing along with his grandfather, Harnek Singh, a resident of Maujpur, in the veranda of his house. Suddenly, the child ran on the road and a speeding tractor, driven by Simran Singh, a resident of Maujpur, ran over him. He was rushed to the Mohali Civil Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. The driver of the tractor managed to flee. The body of the child has been handed over to the family after post-mortem. The investigating officer said a case has been registered against Simran Singh.
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It’s game on for cable operators
Chandigarh, February 21 Interestingly, cable subscribers in the city were able to watch matches on the second and third day of the championship, despite the fact that no signals were flashed to the cable operators from the broadcasters of CWC. The Tribune team, while watching the matches of CWC, saw the name of a leading dth company on the bottom of the telecast matches being shown by local cable operators. According to sources, all cable operators will be attending a meeting on Monday with a team of broadcasters to solve the issues. “We are not aware of the steps taken by the broadcasting channel, it’s only through The Tribune we came to know about the matter. Both of us broadcasters and operators are together from the past 20 years and nothing like this ever happened before, as it is affecting directly our business and also viewers want this issue to be resolved soon,” said a cable operator. When asked whether the matches are telecast on the cable through a leading dth service he said: “I am unaware about this, but will not like to do unethical business,” the cable operator added. On the other hand, according to one of the members of broadcasting team, there will be no such meeting as the decision has been taken by the team to not provide signals to local operators till the fiscal get over. “We have not given them the signals and we are not aware of the matches being telecast in the city, if there is any live telecast of the match, it’s a direct case of piracy,” member of the broadcasting team added. Customer base We have about 80 per cent people in the city with us and being the host nation, everyone wants to watch all the matches Right to broadcast We are issuing a nationwide press note in which we have the permission from the Delhi High Court, which proves that we have all the rights to broadcast the matches The press note states that “The Delhi High Court ordered in favour of the ESPN Software India Pvt Ltd (ESIPL), in its suit for permanent injunction filed against cable operators across the country against unauthorised broadcast of the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup, restraining all cable operators from unauthorised showing of the tournament through their cable networks” Minting money “I bought a new dth connection to watch the World Cup matches, but now I came to know that cable subscribers can also watch the matches, I feel that such a situation is just a gimmick to earn more money which is directly affecting the viewers,” said Nimish Sharma, a cricket lover.
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Despite cricket fever, kabaddi draws crowd
Chandigarh, February 21 Being a cricket driven country one can see the English game all around in the environment, but at Sector 17 the atmosphere was a bit “Desi”. People in huge number adored catching live action of the desi game kabaddi at the venue of 1st Kabaddi Cup being organised by the Raiders Youth Club (RYC), a group of Panjab University students. “This initiative taken by us in order to give messages to the youth of the area to leave bad habits of taking drugs and motivating them to concentrate on good health like the raiders in the tournament,” said one of the organisers of the event. People were seen enjoying the raids by the raiders into the defense team area. Huge crowd gathered including the lasses who had come there to shop, but just couldn’t resist watching the game. A girl in her mid 20s while watching the match said: “It’s the first time I am watching this game, I was going to Sector 17 market suddenly a roar came to my ears and I couldn’t stop myself to witness this and from the past two hours I am here catching all the action,” said Kritika Sharma from Hoshiarpur. Interestingly The Tribune team also spotted two NRIs enjoying the game. Both Ankur Agnihotri and Sumit Bharagava from Australia and the US said: “It’s been years that we have seen this game, people in Canada often organise kabaddi tournaments, but not in our area. We love to watch this game,” the NRI duo added. People of all ages were seen watching the match and even giving some amount and prizes to the raiders. Bheema International Club, Ropar, won the 1st Kabaddi Cup, whereas Sant Ishwar Singh Club finished as runners-up of the tournament and bagged Rs 1 lakh and Rs 75,000 cash awards. Pardeep of Rolu Majra was declared as the best raider.
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Punjab rout Haryana by
5 wickets
Chandigarh, February 21 Batting first, Haryana scored 185 for nine in allotted 40 overs. Opener Gourav Gambir (117) scored a brilliant century studded with four boundaries, Suraj (28) and Jatinder (15) were the main contributors. Navdeep Singh took three for 30 in his eight over spell. In reply, Punjab achieved the target in 36.3 overs. Arun Tuli (53) scored a brilliant half-century. Manoj Rajan (30) and Amit Kakria (44) were the main contributors from the winning team. Rakesh Sethi (23) remained unbeaten. After a century Gourav took three for 40, but failed to take the team to the victory. Former cricketer Dinesh Mongia gave away prizes to the winners and runners-up of the tournament. — TNS |
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Sale of tickets begins
Chandigarh, February 21 Contrary to the expectations, the outlets selling tickets witnessed a good turnout of people. According to Pardhan Singh, senior manager, Central Bank of India, which is one of the outlets for selling tickets, “On the first day of the sale we have sold about 88 tickets, including 30 tickets of Rs100, 50 tickets of Rs 50 and eight tickets of Rs 500,” Pardhan added. Another senior manager of an outlet in sector 32 MK Aggarwal giving the same response said “ We have sold about 20 tickets of Rs 50, 40 tickets of Rs 100, six tickets of Rs 500 and expecting more good response in future” said Senior Manager. Tickets were also sold at a good response at the PCA and Panchkula outlets whereas tickets worth Rs 1,500 are yet to be sold at a good scale. “It’s the best time to buy tickets in the beginning, so I came to the Sector-32 outlet right after my college,” said Shreen, a college student.
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Anupinder emerges overall champ
Chandigarh, February 21 More than 80 members of the legal fraternity, including judges and lawyers, from Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh participated. The Chandigarh team clinched the team championship trophy winning the match-play against Delhi logging 20 points. The Delhi team fell far behind with just 10 points. Anupinder, city lawyer, fired birdies on the second and eighth, but lost five strokes to be three over par 39 at the turn. Anupinder played a flawless back nine studded with two birdies to finish at two under 34. His one under 73 card was the best-ever score by a golfer in this tournament. In the 0-9 handicap category, Arjun Sood from Shimla won with a gross score of 80, while Birinder Singh Gill, who is also president of the Chandigarh Golf Club, was the nett winner with a score of 77. In the 10-15 handicap category, Ankush Das of Shimla won the best gross carding a 79, while the nett winner in the same category was KK Singla from Bhatinda who scored 66. The 16-20 handicap category saw SS Toor of Chandigarh win the gross prize with a score of 82 with MPS Mann, also from Chandigarh, winning the nett prize in the same category scoring 68. In the Judges' category, Justice Vikramjit Sen from Delhi High Court was the winner (85) with Justice MMS Bedi from Punjab and Haryana High Court finishing runner-up at 98. Justice GS Sistani from Delhi High Court finished second runners-up. Neelu Chopra won in the women category (102).
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Harleen first in U-14 high jump
Mohali, February 21 In the U-10 boys’ category in broad jump, Shahbaz Hero (Aitchison House) secured the first position, followed by Jasnoor Singh (Ranjit House) and Amoldeep (Tagore House) securing second and third position, respectively. Similarly, in the broad jump U-12 girls’ category, Rishu Taneja (Nalagarh House), Muskan (Ranjit House) and Jasleen K Gill (Ranjit House) secured first, second and third position, respectively. In the high jump U-14 girls’ event, Harleen Deol (Patiala House), Sukhman K Dhanoa (Tagore House) and Ravneet Kahlon (Tagore House) secured the first, second and third position, respectively. Other Results: Shot put (U-17) boys: 1st Jaiveer-Patiala House; 2nd Gurinder-Tagore House; 3rd Aman Sobti-Nalagarh House. Discus throw (U-17) girls: 1st Gurmehar Dhindsa-Aitchison House; 2nd Nausheen Kaur-Aitchison House; 3rd Tarini Ravjeet- Aitchison House. Javelin throw (U-14) boys: 1st Abhimanyu Sheokand Ranjit House; 2nd Gurkaran Singh- Patiala House; 3rd Armaan Singh- Tagore House. 800m (U-14) boys: 1st Ekrabdeep Ghai- Patiala House; 2nd Naehap Sharma- Tagore House; 3rd Abhimanyu Singh- Ranjit House. Broad jump (U-19) girls: 1st Anya Gupta- Tagore House; 2nd Ada Gupta- Tagore House; 3rd Harshini Madan- Ranjit House.
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