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Kalanaur Firing
INLD serves ultimatum
MLA Vij sits on fast with farmers
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Two charred to death in road mishap
Illegal constructions near roads to invite action
Protest against cops’ failure to arrest guilty
Jats plan sankalp yatra from May 30
Rs 53.49 lakh given under marriage scheme
Spat costs youth life
Man kills friend over money
State to keep an eye on property dealers
Dead lizard found in mid-day meal
Rain dips power demand; 5 units shut
FIR against Naveen Jindal quashed
Road rage claims life
Gamblers held
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Kalanaur Firing
Rohtak, May 23 The accused include a former MLA from Meham, Balbir Singh, alias Bali Pehalwan, who hails from Mokhra village. Traffic was disrupted for over over two hours and the road blockade was lifted after the intervention of senior officials. The sarpanch of Basana village, Sita Ram Rathi, who is the complainant in the murder case, alleged that the police was taking the matter lightly as a former MLA was involved in the firing incident. He said the former MLA was adopting pressure tactics to evade arrest, leading to severe resentment among the family members of the victim who was killed in the firing. The former MLA has been “holed up” in his native Mokhra village for the past 18 days and is evading arrest. Supporters of the former MLA have charged the police with framing him in a false murder case. The police is avoiding to visit the village for “fear”of a violent clash as the supporters of Bali Pehalwan are armed and have dared the police to arrest him, said a police official. He added that nine persons had already surrendered and the police was waiting for the former MLA to surrender. Supporters of the victim have alleged that the police has failed to arrest the former MLA despite having information about his presence in Mokhra village. The sarpanch said, “It is shocking that the accused is being protected by his supporters in violation of the law of the land and the authorities are acting like a mute spectator.” Bali was allegedly among the assailants who opened fire on the sarpanch and his relative Vishnu, who died in the firing. SSP Satish Balan said the police had asked the former MLA to join investigation. He said efforts were on to arrest the accused. Meanwhile, the situation continues to remain tense in Mokhra village where the residents providing protection to the former MLA have refused to budge.
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Double Murder
Sirsa, May 23 Bimla Devi, a sexagenarian and her 12-year-old granddaughter Mehak were murdered in their house on May 5. Abhey Singh Chautala, INLD MLA from Ellenabad, said he had served an ultimatum on Satinder Kumar Gupta, SP, to arrest the killers within seven days or face the consequences. “To cover up its failure, the police picked up Bhim Sen and Anand Kumar, two nephews of Bimla Devi for questioning and tortured them to confess to the crime,” he alleged. The SP, however, refuted Chautala’s allegations, maintaining the nephews of Bimla Devi were not tortured but merely quizzed in his presence. Meanwhile, the relay dharna by Ellenabad residents continued for the fifth day today. |
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Land Acquisition
Ambala, May 23 He was sitting on fast in front of the civil secretariat here today along with the farmers, who have been opposing the acquisition of their fertile land. He said the land being acquired for the IMT was most fertile and moreover it was against the Congress policy. He said farmers would continue their indefinite fast till the government cancelled the land acquisition. Vij said two days ago the Ambala City MLA Venod Sharma had submitted the signatures of 1 lakh persons in support of IMT to the Chief Minister at a rally organised at Ambala City. He alleged that most of the signatures were of non-farmers. He said in fact the land mafia wanted to grab the fertile land of farmers. As many as nine farmers, including five women, sat on dharna along with Anil Vij to protest against the land acquisition. The farmers demanded that Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act imposed on their land should be withdrawn immediately.
Villagers dismantle signboards
Sonepat, May 23 Nearly 300 villagers, including women, assembled outside the village near the GT Road and raised slogans against the government. They then marched on the GT Road to dismantle the signboards erected in the fields of the MLA. Om Singh and Virender, who were among the protersters, told mediapersons that they had been opposing the acquisition of their land since 2006 and the Chief Minister had assured a delegation of the farmers on March 2, 2006, that their land would not be acquired. However, the government continued its process of acquisition despite similar assurances in 2007, 2008 and 2009, they alleged. They said farmers had so far not accepted the compensation in lieu of 282 acres, which had been acquired. They made it clear that they would oppose the acquisition of their land at all costs. |
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Two charred to death in road mishap
Jhajjar, May 23 The deceased have been identified as truck driver Shishpal of Gajhrodha and cleaner Badri Prashad of Pratap Garh in Uttar Pradesh. The other truck driver managed to flee from the spot after the incident. The incident took place in the wee hours when the one of the trucks, loaded with inflammable raw material, was on its way to Haridwar from Mumbai. As it reached Silani village, the other truck, laden with wooden material and coming from the opposite direction, collided head-on with it. Consequently, a fire broke out which engulfed both trucks within minutes. The fire also partially damaged an Indica car parked near the spot. Several villagers, on hearing the sound of accident, rushed to the spot and informed the police and the fire brigade about the incident. Fire engines were pressed into service but failed to control the blaze. Later, more fire engines were called from Bahadurgarh and Rohtak. It took over three hours to extinguish the devastating fire, but by then the driver and the cleaner had been charred to death. Jhajjar SP Sourabh Singh said officials of the company engaged with the truck carrying the inflammable raw material visited the spot in the morning and identified the driver and the cleaner as Shish Pal and Badri Prashad, respectively. “A case of rash and negligent driving has been registered against the truck driver, who is absconding since after incident,” said the SP. |
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Illegal constructions near roads to invite action
Kaithal, May 23 He said this after presiding over a district-level meeting of the committee constituted in pursuance of the Punjab and Haryana High Court orders. The DC said the government had taken a decision to regularise constructions made before January 3, 2009, in case the violators paid fee at Rs 500 per sq m in case of construction on the national highway and Rs 300 per sq m for construction on other schedule roads. As many as 1,679 constructions have been identified as illegal in a survey conducted in the district. Despite issuance of notices, only 311 owners of such properties applied for regularisation out of which only 62 were regularised on payment of specified fee. The DC said the committee comprising the SP, DTP, area SDM and the XEN PWD today took a decision to serve a final notice to owners of such properties. An action plan had also been formulated to take action against illegal constructions made on these roads after January 3, 2009.
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Sweety Case
Kurukshetra, May 23 The protesters raised anti-government slogans and demanded the immediate arrest of the accused. They also gave a call for Kurukshetra bandh on May 25. The organisations which took part in the protest included the Nagrik Suraksha Aivam Nyaya Samiti, the Indian National Lok Dal, the Haryana Janhit Congress, the Bharatiya Kisan Union, the Vishav Karma Dhiman Samaj, the HUDA Shopkeepers Association, the Janvadi Lekhak Sangh, the Jan Sangharsh Manch, Dr BR Ambedkar Chhatra Kalyan Manch and the Bahujan Sandesh Party (Kanshi Ram). Meanwhile, the IGP, Ambala Range, KK Sandhu, who met police officers here regarding the Sweety murder case, told mediapersons that 10 teams had been constituted and sent to various places, including Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. Sandhu announced that the reward money for giving information to the police in this regard had been raised from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh.
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Job Quota
Hisar, May 23 Hawa Singh Sangwan, president of the Haryana unit of the samiti, said here today that the yatra would conclude at Mayyar village, near here, on September 13. If the government agreed to the demand by then, the yatra would culminate in the form of a victory rally at Mayyar and if not then the samiti would resume its agitation on that day. Sangwan made this announcement after a meeting of samiti leaders here at the Jat Dharamshala. He said the samiti would also mobilise Muslim Jats of Jammu and Kashmir and Jat Sikhs of Punjab. Besides, members of the community from seven states where their numerical strength was substantial would be mobilised for the agitation. He criticised the promotion given to Subhash Yadav, who was the SP at Hisar when the Jats clashed with the police at Mayyar last year, resulting in the death of one member of the community. He said the samiti leaders had met the Union Home Minister in this regard and registered its protest against the promotion. Sangwan said the government had not yet given land to raise a memorial to the Jat youth who had died in police firing at Mayyar. The cases registered against Jats after the Mayyar violence had also not been withdrawn. No compensation had been paid to those injured in the violence.
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Rs 53.49 lakh given under marriage scheme
Yamunanagar, May 23 Sangwan said Rs 80.53 lakh out of the total amount had been approved for 322 beneficiaries and bank drafts of Rs 53.49 lakh were distributed amongst the beneficiaries. District Welfare Officer RS Kadiyan was also present on the occasion. According to sources, the scheme had benefited over 14,000 persons in a year. The Deputy Commissioner said under the scheme, a sum of Rs 31,000 was given to the Scheduled Castes living under the below poverty line and widows of all sections of society. A sum of Rs 15,000 was given to other BPL families for marriages of their daughters. He said Rs 51,000 was given to the inter-caste marriage beneficiaries by the District Welfare Office. The state government was all set to raise socio-economic status of the Scheduled Castes and a number of initiatives were being taken in this regard. The government has also implemented the Mahatma Gandhi Anusuchit Jati Gram Utthan and Malin Basti Vikas Yojna to provide better living conditions to the Scheduled Castes.
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Spat costs youth life
Sirsa, May 23 The victim, Premjit Singh, a student at an institute in Talwandi Sabo(Punjab), had come home and was taking a cold drink with his brother, Harpreet Singh, at a shop near the bus stand around 9 pm last night when four or five youths attacked him with knives. When Harpreet tried to save his brother, he too was assaulted with sharp edged weapons. The assailants escaped after assaulting the two brothers. The victims were rushed to the local Government Hospital where Premjit succumbed to his injuries. The police said the assailants had an altercation with the victim during a cricket match a few days back. — TNS |
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Man kills friend over money
Karnal, May 23 Sohan Lal had started demanding his money back from Mahinder Singh. The police said as Mahinder Singh was reluctant to pay back the money, he hatched a conspiracy to kill Sohan. Last night, he went to Sohan’s house and asked him to accompany him to a nearby place. As they reached Dardh village, Mahinder stopped the motorcycle and attacked Sohan with a knife. He slit his throat and fled from the spot. Som Nath, sarpanch of the village, rushed Sohan Lal to the Civil Hospital at the district headquarters, where doctors declared him brought dead. Som Nath told the police that when he had spotted Sohan he was alive and before breathing his last, Sohan told him that he hwas attacked by Mahinder. A case has been registered. — TNS |
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State to keep an eye on property dealers
Chandigarh, May 23 An individual had to pay a licence fee of Rs 25,000 while the organisation, company or society had to pay a fee of Rs 50,000 for obtaining property dealer’s licence. Gulati said the licence of the licensee shall stand automatically cancelled on bankruptcy or insolvency or lunacy or unsoundness of mind. The property dealer shall display at all times the signage board bearing the registered licence number in the office. Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner PC Meena said 903 property dealers had so far been registered with the district administration, which perhaps was the highest in the state. He said the district administration had started a survey for identifying the property dealers operating without obtaining a valid licence in the district. In the conference, matters like unauthorised structures on government land in the name of religious sites, computerisation of land records, disposal of court cases pending in courts of administrative and revenue officers, preparation of disaster management plan and precautionary measures taken for flood control.
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Dead lizard found in mid-day meal
Faridabad, May 23 The lizard was spotted in one of the containers of pudding. The headmaster immediately brought the matter to the notice of the village sarpanch who took it up with the district authorities, including the DDPO,Faridabad. Residents of the village led by the sarpanch seized all containers of meals that ISKCON was to supply to other schools in about 12 villages. Faridabad DDPO Devender Singh Surjewala said that an inquiry had been initiated into the matter.
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Rain dips power demand; 5 units shut
Panipat, May 23 The corporation placed four units of the Panipat thermal power plant and one unit of the Yamunanagar thermal power plant out of operation as the power demand nosedived from 1,050 lakh units a day to 698 units. The four units at the Panipat thermal power plant - number 1, 4, 6 and 8 - were producing 680 MW of power while unit number 2 at Yamunanagar was contributing 300 MW of power to the state’s generation kitty. Before the sudden change in the weather, the state was overdrawing power from the northern grid on a daily basis to meet the demand. Sources in the corporation said after shutting the five units, the state was producing 1,450 MW today. |
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Defacement of Property
Chandigarh, May 23 Acting on the directions of the Election Commission, the Kurukshetra police had registered the FIR against Jindal for allegedly defacing public property. The case was registered on the complaint of the Assistant Returning Officer, Kurukshetra. Jindal was accused of putting up an unauthorised hoarding on Pipli-Shahbad highway. The MP has all along been claiming that the case is “false”. Jindal has been claiming that they had not committed the offence mentioned in the FIR, as the owner of the site had given his written consent for putting up the hoarding on the top of his house.
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Yamunanagar, May 23 In another incident, Chaman Lal (50), a dairy owner of Darwa Dairy Complex, was attacked by four persons at his residence following a minor altercation last night. He died on the spot. The police has registered a case against four persons in this connection. — TNS
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