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NEIGHBOURHOOD

Five get life term in Malhi murder case
Tribune News Service

Ropar, June 15
The court of District and Sessions Judge GK Dhir awarded life imprisonment to five persons for the murder of Kesar Singh Malhi, a resident of Simbal Majra village in Nurpur Bedi. The murder took place on April 26, 2008.

The court held accused Bachittar Singh and Lakhvir from Bhauwal, Lakhwinder Singh from Saidpur, Ajwinder Singh and Baljit Singh Beihara guilty of murder and awarded them life imprisonment as well as Rs 5,000 fine.

Those who fail to pay fine will have to serve one year of imprisonment.

Malhi (27) was shot dead when he returning with his three friends after attending a marriage at Anandpur Sahib. All four were on two motorcycles.

Around 11.30 pm when they reached near Sangatpur village, some car-borne youths attacked them.

The assailants fired three shots, killing Malhi on the spot.

The shots were fired from a .12 bore gun. The police had recovered a mobile phone, sharp-edged weapons and a pair of slippers from the crime scene.

On April 29, the police arrested four persons, including Bachittar Singh, Baljeet Singh, Lakhvir Singh and Ajwinder Singh, from the Morinda railway station for the murder. They were planning to leave the state.

Rs 25 lakh grant for villages
Our Correspondent

Dera Bassi, June 15
Banur MLA Jasjit Singh Bunny distributed cheques worth Rs 25 lakh among various panchayats for development works here recently.

Addressing a gathering at Dharamgarh near Lalru, Bunny claimed that the development works would not face any shortage of funds. He issued cheques to Dharamgarh, Ramgarh Roorkie, Jatsana Khurd, Jatsana Kalan, and Lalru.

Water disposal system sought
Our Correspondent

Dera Bassi, June 15
Residents of nearby Bhadurgarh village have been facing inconvenience due to the lack of proper disposal of sewage and rainwater. Blockage of water has been causing foul smell and posing health hazard for village residents.

The residents claimed that they had brought the matter to the notice of the authorities concerned and the village sarpanch but to no avail.

Police to submit report on Agnivesh’s remarks
Tribune News Service

Ambala, June 15
Judicial magistrate Rajnish Kumar Sharma has ordered the police to investigate the matter of the objectionable remarks made by Swami Agnivesh, terming holy Amarnath Yatra a religious stunt, and submit its report in the court by September 13.

Viresh Shandilya, national president of Anti-Terrorist Front of India (ATFI) and general secretary of the World Brahmin Federation, had filed a writ petition under Sections 295 A, 153 A and 153B of the IPC demanding action against Swami Agnivesh for his objectionable comments made on May 18 in Srinagar along with separatist leader Shahid Ali Shah Gelani against the Hindu religion, terming the yatra a religious stunt. The comments had evoked criticism for hurting the sentiments of the Hindus. Rakesh Kumar, secretary, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), also criticised Swami Agnivesh for conspiring to separate Jammu and Kashmir from India and called for his social boycott.

Vishwa Hindu Parishad members also warned the state government against creating hurdles in the ongoing yatra.

Son assaults mother over land dispute
Tribune News Service

Ambala, June 15
Hans Raj, a furniture shop owner, attacked his mother during a minor scuffle over a property near here.

According to sources, Surjit Kaur, wife of Karnail Singh and a resident of Ghel Kalan village, sustained serious injuries when Hans Raj attacked her with a sharp-edged weapon over a land dispute. Surjit Kaur was rushed to the Civil Hospital, Ambala, where her condition is stated to be stable. A case has been registered against Hans Raj with the police.

CRIME

Four arrested for robbery at eunuchs’ dera
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, June 15
In a major breakthrough, the local police today arrested four members of a gang of robbers involved in the Rs 50-lakh robbery at a eunuchs’ dera at Kalka last month. The police is yet to recover the robbed money and jewellery in the case.

The CIA team arrested Jagan, alias Longa, a resident of Pinjore; Mitta, a resident of Mundi Kharar, Mohali; Latta, a resident of Kharar; and Kala, a resident of Kurali; and produced them before a local court, which remanded them in three-day police custody.

The incident dates back to May 4 when over 10 masked robbers, armed with pistols, swords, baseball bats and sticks swooped down on 10 eunuchs along with their dera head inside their dera and robbed them of Rs 50 lakh in cash and jewellery, including 800 gm gold.

The accused had scaled over 8-foot boundary wall of the dera and entered its main room where the eunuchs were asleep.

They had also taken the eunuchs hostage for an hour inside the dera before fleeing with the booty.

The police said the other accused involved in the robbery were at large and were in the possession of the booty.

The robbers had carried out surveillance of the dera and had the knowledge of the absence of security personnel inside the dera, the police added.

3 booked for assault
Tribune News Service

Zirakpur, June 15
The police has booked three persons for assault following a complaint by Manjeet Singh, husband of councillor from ward No. 7 Harpreet Kaur. In his complaint, Manjeet alleged that he was sitting at his home when the accused trespassed on to the house and started assaulting him. The police said the accused have been identified as Tarsem Singh, Parminder Singh, and Guddu. A case has been registered.

Cylinder blast

A major tragedy was averted in Nagla Bazigar Basti in Zirakpur when an LPG cylinder burst in their house on Wednesday morning. Household goods were destroyed in the blast. According to Ramakant, owner of the house, the incident occurred when he was preparing tea and the cylinder burst causing fire. A fire tender from Dera Bassi controlled the fire in half an hour.

Anandi Gulati case: One more arrested
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 15
The police today arrested another accused involved in blackmailing the IAS couple and parents of Anandi Gulati.

The accused has been identified as Vishal, a property dealer from Jalandhar. He was produced in court and was remanded to police custody.

The police said Vishal along with co-accused Simarjot had blackmailed Anandi’a mother Shashi Gulati and told her they would post obscene pictures of Anandi on a social networking site.

However, they were not in possession of any such picture, the police had said. They had demanded Rs 25 lakh from the couple. Simorjot was arrested last week.

SPORTS

Jajbir humbles Fatehdeep
CLTA-AITA Super Series Tennis Tournament
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 15
Jajbir Singh of Punjab defeated top seed Fatehdeep Singh in the boys (U-16) singles category during the ongoing CLTA-AITA Super Series Tennis Tournament for Boys and Girls (U-12 and U-16) being held at the CLTA Complex here.

Jajbir defeated Fatehdeep 6-4, 6-4, whereas Gagan Sharma of Rajasthan defeated second seed Jude Raymond of Andhra Pradesh 6-1and 6-0 in the same category.

In the girls (U-16) category, third seed Rajbir Kaur went down to Renu Sharma of Haryana 7-5, 7-6(5), whereas Kavita Mishra of Punjab defeated fifth seed Shambhavi Dixith of Andhra Pradesh in straight sets 6-1, 6-1.

Quarterfinal round boys singles (U-12): Sumitpal Singh (J&K) defeated Utkarsh Bhardwaj (UTK) 4-0, 4-0; Ankit Rao (HAR) defeated Rohit Kumar (HAR) 4-1, 4-1; Gurjot Singh Sidhu (PB) defeated Yugal Bansal (DLI) 2-4, 5-4(5), 4-1 and Karandeep Singh (PB) defeated P Anuroop Reddy (AP) 4-2, 4-0.

Boys singles (U-16): Jajbir Singh (PB) defeated Fatehdeep Singh (PB) 6-4, 6-4; Hardeep Singh Sandhu (PB) defeated Rahul Singh (DLI) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4;

Allen John Kundan (PB) defeated Ranjeet Singh (CHD) 6-2, 6-3 and

Gagan Sharma (RAJ) defeated Jude Raymond (AP) 6-1, 6-0.

Girls singles (U-12): Pranjala Yadlapalli (AP) defeated Shreya Kalia (HP) 4-0, 4-0; Sruta Kirti Gunuganti (AP) defeated Sharishty Dhanda (HAR) 4-0, 4-0 ; Nandini Sharma (PB) defeated Sathvika Sama (AP) 4-0, 4-0;

Snehal Umesh Mane (MAH) defeated Nidhitra Rajmohan (TN) 4-0, 4-0.

Girls singles (U-16): Vanshika Sawhney (DLI) defeated Riya Bhatia (DLI) 6-2, 6-4; Renu Sharma (HAR) defeated Rajbir Kaur (PB) 7-5, 7-6(5) ;

Pranjala Yadlapalli (AP) defeated Jahnvi Gupta (DLI) 6-3, 6-1 and

Kavita Mishra (PB) defeated Shambhavi Dixith (AP) 6-1, 6-1.

Semifinal results

Boys doubles (U-12): Adil Kalyanpur (KAR) and Sumitpal Singh (J&K) defeated Rishabh Sharda (CHD) and Digvijay Singh Partap (HAR) 7-5, 6-1

Boys doubles (U-16): Fatehdeep Singh (PB) and Jude Raymond (AP) defeated Tejas Kapoor (DLI) and Dheeranush Singh Bhatti (CHD) 6-4, 6-4;

Amit Bzad (HAR) and Ranjeet Singh (CHD) defeated Aman Rawat (DLI) and Deepak Singh (UP) 6-2, 6-2.

40-member wrestling squad selected
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 15
The Chandigarh Wrestling Association (CWA) has selected a 40-member squad that will be participating in the upcoming All-India 30th Junior National Wrestling Championship (Men) and 13th Junior National Championship (Women) to be held at Gymnasium Hall, Jammu University, from June 17 to 19.

According to officials, five international players, including players of national level and inter-university medallists, are included in the squad.

Members: Boys:

Freestyle: A team: Akhlesh (50 kg), Sandeep Tomar (55 kg), Surjit (60 kg), Neeraj (66 kg), Sukhdev (74 kg), Vijay (84 kg), Krishan (96 kg) and Kamajeet (+96 kg).
B team: Amit (50 kg), Deepak (55 kg), Pardeep (60 kg), Jaiveer (66 kg), Shrikant (74 kg), Naresh (84 kg), Sunil (96 kg) and Navneet (+96 kg).

Greco-Roman: Nitin (50 kg), Sachin (55 kg), Ashok/Pardeep (60 kg), Jatin (66 kg), Anmol/Rohit (74 kg), Karan (84 kg), Sandeep (96 kg) and Lakshay (+96 kg).

Girls: Mukesh (44 kg), Anu (48 kg), Kavita (51 kg), Partibha (55 kg), Jyoti (59 kg), Jyoti (63 kg), Meena (67 kg) and Bharti (+87 kg).

Soccer meet for senior players in July
Deepankar Sharda
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 15
It seems that the Chandigarh Football Association (CFA) has finally woke up to the announcement which it made three years ago.

The authorities have finally decided to organise a soccer tournament in July for senior level players.

As there used to be no tournament for senior players, many of them opted to move to other cities.

Earlier, the authorities while releasing the annual calendar for 2008-09, had decided to include a tournament for the city colleges. The prize money for which was Rs 1 lakh. However, this year the authorities are still undecided about the prize money.

According to the annual calendar 2011-12, the senior -league (above 22 years) will be organised in July and August.

The tournament will be held at the football stadium, Sector 17. The team will be charged an entry fee of Rs 500.

On the other hand, the association has planned to introduce another football tournament for financial institutions, corporations and corporate houses.

However, the final decision will be taken after the executive committee meeting of the body. Participating teams will be allowed to include some players from outside in their teams.

The matches will be played on holidays and weekends. The matches will be played in four quarters instead of a lemon break.

Annual calendar for 2011-12

State meet of clubs (senior boys) in July/August.

State meet for boys (U-12) and (U-14) in September/October, whereas boys (U-16) in August/September and boys (U-18) in July/August.

State meet for boys (U-21) in October/November

Football festival for boys (U-10) in October/November.

State meets for girls

State meet for girls (U-13) in October/November, whereas state meet for girls (U-17) in August.x

State meet for girls (U-19) in September and state meet for girls (senior) in October/November.

Harpreet, Sachin help Mohali post 243
Punjab Inter-District Cricket (U- 22) Tournament
Tribune News service

Chandigarh, June 15
After rain led to a delay in the start of match between Mohali and Jalandhar, Harpreet Mandher and Sachin Sohal guided Mohali to build a total of 243 runs on the first day of Punjab Inter-District Cricket (U- 22) Tournament being held at the PCA stadium, Mohali, here.

After electing to bat first, Mohali team lost their first wicket. For the second wicket partnership, Harpreet Mandher (97 off 125 studded with 12 boundaries and two sixes) and Sachin Sohal (31 off 80, including three boundaries) added 128 runs to the team’s total.

Arshdeep Brar (37) and Gunjot Singh (16) remained unbeaten till the end of the play. For Jalandhar, Pargat Singh was the pick of the bowlers for his 2 for 22. Whereas the match between Chandigarh and Patiala was called off by the umpires due to wet pitch at the Sector 16 cricket stadium here.In the second match, Amritsar bowled out Ludhiana in 80 overs during the first innings at Ludhiana cricket stadium today. Ludhiana made a total of 231 runs in the first innings. The hosts failed to overcome the bowling attack of Kamal Passi (5 for 69) and left arm spinner Rahul Kanojia (4 for 38). Gitansh Khera (59) contributed the most to the team’s total.

In reply, Amritsar made 28 for no loss in 12 overs till the close of day’s play.

Scores

Mohali: 243 for 6 in 70 overs ( Harpreet 97, Sachin Sohal 31, Bir Kanwar 29, Arshdeep Brar 37 not out, Gunjot Singh 16 not out, Pargat Singh 2 for 22, Yogesh 1 for 46, Gursewak 1 for 41and Subek Gill 1 for 34).

Ludhiana (first innings): 231 all out in 80.3 overs (Gitansh Khera 59, Sandeep Singh 49, Ravi Kumar 37, Nikhil Chaudhary 22, Kamal Passi 5 for 89 and Rahul Kanojia 4 for 38).

Amritsar: 28 for no loss in 12 overs.