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8 injured in group clash, 11 booked 
Our Correspondent

Kalka, July 5
A recklessly driven car today claimed life of a 55-year-old man. According to information available, the incident took place at around 8am in Madhanwala village of Pinjore Block.

A recklessly driven Santro car no-DL-1 CH-9384 rammed into a bakery shop on the Pinjore-Nalagarh highway and crushed Nisar Ahmed (55) to death. He was sitting in the bakery shop. He died on the spot. The deceased was a resident of Molly Jagran , Chandigarh. The driver of the car fled after committing the crime.

Chandigarh, July 5
Parking blues in the Punjab and Haryana High Court are a thing of the past — at least for the time being. Putting to halt the inconvenience caused to lawyers, litigants and visitors to the court, the city’s second multi-level parking became operational here today. The only other operational multi-level parking is in the PGIMER.

For lawyers back in motion after a month-long summer vacations, it came as a pleasant surprise. So used to alternating the foot between the brake and the accelerator, they found themselves cruising towards the corridors of justice.

For a change, the bottlenecks caused due to haphazardly parked vehicles were absent. Also missing was the rude whistle of traffic policemen trying to guide the cars through the maze of vehicles.

To make the matter all the more agreeable, they were not compelled to leave behind their cars half a kilometer short on a vast tract of land turned barren for facilitating the parking of vehicles.

The parking was scheduled to be ready in March. But, it was better late than never.

Acting on the long-pending demand of the High Court Bar Association, the UT administration had decided to construct the three-storey building, including basement, at an estimated cost of Rs 7.35 crore.

Located near the advocate-general offices of Punjab and Haryana, the parking can accommodate over 700 cars at any given time. The process was set in motion in May, 2009.

However, the delay in its construction eventually led to the filing of a contempt petition by city lawyer-cum-human rights activist Ranjan Lakhanpal.

The petition was filed just over two months after the High Court had asked the UT administration to expedite the process of setting up the multi-level parking.

Alleging non-compliance of the High Court directive, Lakhanpal had earlier asserted that the authorities concerned had failed to solve the parking problem in the area. Lakhanpal added that it had become impossible to move the car out, even in case of a medical emergency.

He had also asked the Bench to ensure the deployment of adequate traffic police personnel in the parking lot.

Justice Hemant Gupta had issued a notice to the UT Home Secretary and the Senior Superintendent of Police on the petition.

Justice Gupta also took note of an affidavit filed by the UT administration saying that the contract for the second phase of the multi-level parking was handed over to Hans Raj Kohli and Company on June 15, 2010, with time limit up to December 15, 2010. However, it was extended to March 31, 2011.

Mohali, July 5
A former student of SD College, Jatinder Pal Singh (20), was injured after being attacked by a group of armed students of the college in the Phase-VII market here late this evening.

The victim along with his friend Maninder Singh was going towards Phase VII when Amarjit Singh Gill, a PUSU leader, called up Jatinder Pal Singh on his mobile and asked him to meet him in the Phase-VII market.

The moment Jatinder alighted from his car at the market, Amarjit along with Goldy, Raju and some other students of the college attacked him with swords.

The assailants also reportedly fired gunshots in the air, a fact not being confirmed by the police.

DSP City-I Raka Gera said the injured student had been admitted to the Civil Hospital, Phase VI, and his condition was stated to be stable.

A case was being registered against the suspects.

The police was conducting raids to arrest the suspects as the registration number of one of the vehicles used by the assailants had been jotted down by a shopkeeper.

The shopkeepers lamented that peace in the market had been disturbed on several occasions with college students engaging in bloody duels in the past.

Panchkula, July 5
Prem Pal (27), a resident of New Indira Colony, who was missing since yesterday morning was found dead near the railway underpass in the Mansa Devi Complex area here this afternoon.

Ganga Bishun, father of the deceased, said that they had been searching for Prem Pal since yesterday morning as he had neither come home nor did he turn up at the Sector 6 General hospital, where his (deceased’s) wife Kusamawati had delivered a baby at 4 am today. He said he received a call in the afternoon from his second son Ramesh that Prem was found dead near the railway underpass. Bishun alleged that Dharam Pal, also a resident of Indira Colony, had murdered his son as both had a verbal dual about eight months ago. He alleged Dharam, a drug addict, had been threatening to eliminate his son for the past about five to six months. He alleged that Dharam also used to follow his son at late night hours whenever his son went out of the house for some work.

A team of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) team also arrived at the site and took samples of the articles near the deceased’s body. The police took the body into custody and sent it for post-mortem examination.

RC Rathi, Deputy Superintendent of Police (crime), said it was premature to say anything on this and the main cause of the death would be known only after they received the post -mortem report.

Panchkula, July 5
The Panchkula police arrested two persons for beating two home guard jawans when the latter stopped them from entering the Mansa Devi Temple from the VVIP gate on Tuesday afternoon.

The accused have been identified as Manohar Kumar and Vijay, both residents of Sector 56, Chandigarh.

According to the police, homeguard jawan Sandeep Kumar and Anurag Sharma were deputed on the VVIP gate entry of Mansa Devi Temple. On Tuesday afternoon Manohar and Vijay came there in their car and parked it near the VVIP entrance.

When both tried to make their entry through the VVIP entrance, Sandeep Kumar stopped them and asked for the VVIP card. The accused threatened him of dire consequences. But despite the threat, Sandeep did not allow them to enter the temple and the accused brought out a baseball bat from their car and began beating Sandeep. 

Panchkula, July 5
Depressed over the denial by parents to join a school trip to Manali on June 26, Prateek Kumar, a student of Class X, possibly led him to commit suicide.

The family of the deceased has also ruled out any possibility of anyone pushing him to committing suicide and has even requested the police for not carrying out any investigations in the case.

However, friends and teachers from his school said that Prateek’s father had denied him permission to go on the trip to Manali, as he was very strict with him and wanted his son to excel in studies.

Prateek’s mother refuted the same as baseless and added that they had not put any pressure on their children and had very cordial relations with them.

Dharamvir Singh, SHO, Sector 20 police station, said that it was confirmed in the postmortem report that the boy was killed as he had received serious head injuries. He said that during investigation it had come to light that Prateek had gone to the sixth floor of the society building along with his younger brother Divanshu just before his school bus was to come at 7 am. On reaching the sixth floo,r Prateek had told him that he could jump down from there, but he restrained him to do so. Prateek later sent Divanshu back to the house on the first floor through lift saying that he would be coming via stairs. Singh said when mother Rajni searched for Prateek she saw him lying in a pool of blood on the ground floor. He was rushed to the Alchemist Hospital in Sector 21, where he was declared brought dead.

Chandigarh, July 5
Fatehdeep Singh of DAV Public School, Sector 15, defeated Aman Rawat of Delhi in the boy’s (u-16) category of the ongoing CLTA-AITA National Series Tennis Tournament for Boys and Girls (U-14 and U-16) at the CLTA complex, here today.

The local lad defeated Aman 6-3, 6-1, whereas another local player Ranjeet Singh defeated Sultan Singh Atwal 6-4, 6-2. Sachin Kumar defeated Kamal Kishore Maderna 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 while Pranav Suri defeated Shashank Sharma 7-6(0), 6-0 in the same category.

Results: Boys (u-14): Sachin Kumar (Chandigarh) b Karandeep Singh (Punjab) 6-2, 6-1; Yuvraj Singh Raghuvanshi (Madhya Pradesh) b Rishabh Sharda (Chandigarh) 6-2, 6-2; Udayan Bhakar (Punjab) b Sumit Pal Singh (J&K) 6-3, 6-3; Dheeranush Singh Bhatti (Chandigarh) b Mayuk Rawat (Uttarakhand) 6-3, 6-1; Nikhil Passi (Maharashtra) b Yugal Bansal (Delhi) 6-2, 6-1; V Jeevan (Delhi) b Mayank Yadav (Delhi) 6-3, 6-4; Alex Solanki (Delhi) b Sahil Bhutwala (Gujarat) 6-1, 6-4; Indra Patwardhan (Maharashtra) b Danish Siddiqui (Gujarat) 7-5, 6-3; Dhir Gala (Maharashtra) b Siddharth Basnet (Assam) 6-2, 6-1; Dhruv Pal (Uttarakhand) b Waiga Arya (Haryana) 6-0, 6-2; Raswant Ravi (Tamil Nadu) b Chinmay Chauhan (Uttar Pradesh) 7-5, 6-4; BR Nishkep (Karnataka) b Mritunjay Badola (Uttarakhand) 6-0, 6-0; BS Rahul (Karnataka) b Akhil Kanagaraj (Tamil Nadu) 6-0, 6-4; Shrey Gupta (Haryana) b Vikrant Dahiya (Delhi) 6-3, 6-2; Param Pun (Chandigarh) b Gaurang Mehta (Delhi) 7-5, 6-2.

Boys (u-16): Pranav Malhotra (Delhi) b V Jeevan (Tamil Nadu) 6-3, 6-4; Jajbir Singh (Punjab) b Raswant Ravi (Tamil Nadu) 6-0, 6-1; Jude Raymond (Andhra Pradesh) b Rohan Punj (Delhi) 6-0, 6-2; Allen Johnson Kundan (Punjab) b BR Nikshep (Karnataka) 6-4, 6-2; SD Prajawal Dev (Karnataka) b Dheeranush Singh Bhatti (Chandigarh) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1; Rahul Singh (Delhi) b Nipun Bajaj (Tamil Nadu) 6-1, 6-0; Hardeep Singh Sandhu (Punjab) b BS Rahul (Karnataka) 6-0, 6-0; Gagan Sharma (Rajasthan) b Samyukth Balaji (Tamil Nadu) 6-1, 6-1; Indra Patwardhan (Maharashtra) b Richie Agarwal (WB) 7-5, 6-3; IB Akshay (Tamil Nadu) b Rahul R Manoah (Tamil Nadu) 6-3, 6-2; Pranav Suri (Chandigarh) b Shashank Sharma (Chandigarh) 7-6(0), 6-0; Vishu Prasad (Delhi) b Rahul Seth (Chandigarh) 6-1, 6-3; Shashank Nautiyal (Delhi) b Sumit Pal Singh (J&K) 6-1, 6-4.

Girls (u-14): Prinkle Singh (J&K) b Neelanchal Gupta (Chandigarh) 6-1, 6-4; Nandini Gupta (Andhra Pradesh) b Oshin Raja (Haryana) 6-1, 6-2; Aastha Babasaheb Dargude (Maharashtra) b Saumya Saxena (Chandigarh) 6-0, 6-1.

Girls (u-16): A Shameema (Tamil Nadu) b Nikita (Chandigarh) 6-1, 6-1; Snehal Umesh Mane (Maharashtra) b R Abinikka (Tamil Nadu) 6-3, 7-5 (5); Saranya Nagpal (Andhra Pradesh) b Diksha Aggarwal (Delhi) 6-0, 6-2; Tanushree Palani Vele (Tamil Nadu) b Salim Saleema (Tamil Nadu) 6-3, 6-1; Avika Sagwal (Punjab) b Anukriti Chaudhary (Delhi) 2-6, 6-1, 6-1; Ruivi Shah (Gujarat) b Dimpy Khirwar (Punjab) 6-2, 7-5; Samriti (Delhi) b Shivani Manchanda (Delhi) 6-3, 6-3; Kavya Bharat (Tamil Nadu) b Nada Kamal (Maharashtra) 6-0, 6-0; Nandini Sharma (Punjab) b Nikita Bishnoi (Chandigarh) 6-3, 6-3; Anupreet Bedi (Delhi) b Ayna Arora (Chandigarh) 6-2, 7-5; Charvi Saxena (Chandigarh) b Shreya Kalia (HP) 6-2, 6-1; Pooja Mourya (Punjab) b Simran Wadhwa (Delhi) 6-4, 6-4; Karishma Mehta (Chandigarh) b T Shreya Shree (Tamil Nadu) 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; Jaya Bhandari (Delhi) b Gayatri Kumariah (Chandigarh) 6-1, 6-4; Sruta Kirti Gunuganti (Andhra Pradesh) b Isha Budwal (Madhya Pradesh) 7-5, 6-0.

Chandigarh, July 5
Players might sweat it out to win a competition on-field, but off-field it’s their parents, who support them, to ensure their ‘win’.

This scenario is common these days at the CLTA complex, where parents can be seen accompanying their wards. They stay with their kids till the end of the game.

Apart from rooting for their kids, parents make sure that they get a rest during intervals.

“We have come here to support our daughter. She has been performing well in the event,” said a parent, who has come from Andhra Pradesh.

On the other hand, players, too, feel that the presence of their parents gives them a boost to win an event. “Besides being a moral support, they always guide me. Their presence and appreciation gave me the confidence to overcome my opponent today,” said a player, who won a match in court II.

Chandigarh, July 5
Divya Sharma defeated veteran player Anil Sharma to lift the title in the 25th Haryana State Senior Billiards Championship here today.

In the best-of-three frames of 100 points, Divya hit a break of 49 points in the first frame. Anil Sharma made a break of 33 points after keeping white and red ball inside the baulk-line.

Anil, after hitting a break of 36 points, took lead of 20 points against his opponent but Divya came back to hit a break of 42 to claim the frame.

Anil hit an unfinished break of 46 points to win the second frame. However, Divya came back strongly in the third frame and won it 100-77. 

Chandigarh, July 5
The Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) has announced its annual sports calendar.

The announcement was made during the executive committee meeting held here today.

It was decided that matches for ML Markan(U-16) Trophy would be of three-days and all matches would be played on the league basis.

The matches for Dhruv Pandove Trophy (U-19) will be of two days for the league stage, whereas the semifinals and the finals of the tournament will be of four days. In the inter-district (U-22) tournament, the league matches will be of two days, whereas semifinals and the final will be played for four days.

Shield group matches will be of two days instead of one day and top competition in the elite group will be played as a three-day qualifier for U-16 and four days for U-19 and U-22. Secretary MP Pandove said, “Daljit Singh has been appointed director of the State Cricket Academy, PCA Stadium, Mohali, and camps for various age groups will be held under his supervision,” said Pandove.