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Wife, kids kill ex-BSF
officer over retirement money
Harassed by in-laws, two women end life
Now, PIMS Director can address patients’ complaints
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Kalia, Mayor at loggerheads
3 held for stealing transformers
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Wife, kids kill ex-BSF
officer over retirement money
Batala, June 18 Giving details, SSP Gurdeep Singh said Raghubir Singh of Rour Khehra village on got Rs 15 lakh on his retirement from the BSF recently. He kept the money in the bank. His wife Balwinder Kaur, son Major Singh and daughter Ranjit Kaur demanded the money from him but he refused to part with the same. On the night of June 8, there was some altercation between Raghubir Singh and his family after which Balwinder Kaur and Ranjit Kaur caught hold of Raghubir Singh. Then Major Singh thrashed his father with a wooden rod to death. The next morning, they hurriedly cremated the body to conceal and destroy the evidence. However, the police got the information after which it registered a case under Sections 302, 201 and 34 of the IPC against the trio. All the accused are absconding. SHO Pritam Sethi is investigating the matter.
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Harassed by in-laws, two women end life
Batala, June 18 Phagwara: Amandeep Kaur, mother of two kids, committed suicide by consuming poison at her parents’ house in Nangal Colony here on Thursday night. Deceased’s father Paul Singh alleged that Amandeep was being tortured by her Delhi-based husband Kamal Kant and his family members for dowry. He said though his daughter had been residing with them for the last few months, her in-laws went on torturing her on phone. A suicide note was also found from the deceased in which she held her in-laws responsible for her death. The police has registered a case against her in-laws, including her husband. |
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Now, PIMS Director can address patients’ complaints
Jalandhar, June 18 The decision to this effect was recently taken at the meeting of the steering committee, the body responsible to supervise the functioning of PIMS. Till the recent decision, the job was performed by the Chief Secretary, the senior-most bureaucrat of the state. Sources revealed that the development had come as a big relief to the patients as in most of the cases, the patients were not in a position to convey their complaints to the Chief Secretary, whose office is based in Chandigarh. “The Director, PIMS, whose office is located on the premises of PIMS, is easily accessible to the complainants. Moreover, he is well versed with the day-to-day affairs of PIMS and is coordinating with the management from the day one,” said a senior official concerned. Dr A.S. Padda, Director, PIMS, confirmed the development and said all the measures would be taken to ensure the implementation of rules and regulations. “Besides other issues, we would ensure that the management would provide the services at the rates of the PGI, Chandigarh, come what may,” he added. However, insiders revealed that the change would not benefit much to the patients. “The office of the Director, PIMS, is located at an obscure corner of the PIMS complex and a few hundred metres away from the main building. Will the patient prefer to walk around 150-200 metres to lodge his complaint?” a PIMS employee said. Sources revealed that initially five rooms in the main building were kept reserved for the Director, PIMS, office. However, the decision to shift the government staff to the main building was held by the steering committee. With the decision the office of the Director, PIMS, could not directly oversee the functioning of PIMS, added sources. |
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Kalia, Mayor at loggerheads
Dharmendra Joshi/TNS
Jalandhar, June 18 A day after the Municipal Corporation House rejected the projects, including energy efficient street lighting and installation of electronic display advertising boards, Kalia claimed that these projects were his brainchild, thought in the public interest during his recent tenure as Local Bodies Minister. Kalia said had this energy efficient street lighting project been implemented, Punjab could have saved Rs 16 crore. Providing data, he said, “Currently all urban local bodies spend Rs 53 crore on energy bill and Rs 17 crore on the operations and maintenance charges every year. Over Rs 16 crore would have been saved annually if the project would have been implemented in all the 137 towns of six clusters --- Bathinda, Patiala, Ferozepur, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Amritsar.” During his maiden talk with a select group of mediapersons after his removal from the Cabinet, Kalia said as much as Rs 3.58 crore would have been saved in Jalandhar cluster alone with the implementation of this project. On repeated queries, he said these projects were being rejecting only for the sake of rejection. Mayor Rakesh Rathour said the projects had been rejected by the MC House on the basis of a report submitted by Streetlight Committee chairman Shiv Dayal Chugh. He said Chugh had raised objections regarding the project.
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3 held for stealing transformers
Nakodar, June 18 During interrogation they told the police that they had stolen more than 300 transformers in the last two years and after extracting copper, they used to sold it to junk dealers. Bootlegger arrested
The Excise Police today arrested a bootlegger and seized nine bottles of illicit liquor from him. Head constable, Excise Police, Avtar Singh said their team found Harjinder Singh selling illicit liquor at Allewal village in Shahkot. The team arrested Harjinder Singh and seized the liquor. A case under Sections 61, 1 and 14 was registered against Harjinder Singh. |
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