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Cash, jewellery stolen
Kalka: Cash and jewellery were stolen from a house at Ghatiwala village in
Pinjore. Owner of the house Sher Singh said thieves had decamped with Rs 5 lakh in cash and
jewellery. A case has been registered.
Two injured
Two persons were injured after a truck overturned on the Pinjore-Mallah T-point. According to information, driver of the truck lost control over the vehicle following which it overturned.
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3 unidentified bodies found
Ambala, August 26 The police said strangulation marks were found on the neck of the woman.
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traffic violations
Chandigarh, August 26 Taking up the traffic regulation case, Justice Rajive Bhalla of the High Court has suggested that the Chandigarh administration “may also consider installing cameras with night vision and a flash”. Justice Bhalla also indicated that the court wanted to gauge the efficacy of the closed circuit television cameras and also wanted to know whether more such cameras should be installed in the city. “The respondents are directed to file an affidavit with respect to the number of challans generated by CCTV cameras and whether the Chandigarh administration intends to cover other areas of the city with the CCTV cameras and to establish more such control rooms,” Justice Bhalla asserted. The Bench was also told that the number of traffic challans in the city had gone down, “thereby establishing that the attempts by the Chandigarh Police to educate the general public about the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, are succeeding”. Turning to Haryana, Justice Bhalla asked the Panchkula Superintendent of Police to ensure that traffic rotaries and service lanes in the township were not accessed from the wrong side. The State of Haryana was directed to file an affidavit on “offenders sentenced for driving under the influence of liquor during the past two months”. In his detailed four-page order, Justice Bhalla also took note of the assertion that 85 per cent of the bypass from Pinjore to Parwanoo was complete and was likely to be thrown open to the general public by December. The State of Haryana was also took time from the High Court to file an affidavit on the minimum number of traffic police officials required in Gurgaon and Faridabad. Justice Bhalla had already directed the removal of all encroachments on land beneath the Zirakpur flyover. The case would now come up for hearing on September 26.
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CBI files chargesheet against PEC scam suspects
Chandigarh, August 26 Nishikant had allegedly masterminded the fraud by providing forged identity cards to the 11 students, which showed them as foreign students, in order to secure admission to the college under the Direct Admission of Students Abroad scheme. In its charge sheet the CBI submitted a list of 101 witnesses including parents of the 11 students. Lat year on September 9 the investigation agency had arrested Nishikant, a resident of Hisar, after the fraud was unearthed. The CBI had also filed a case against the 11 students who had secured admission to PEC on the basis of forged Nepalese ID cards. Nishikant had allegedly charged each of them between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 15 lakh for providing the forged ID cards. The students’ admissions were reportedly coordinated and financed by the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal (Karnataka). Of the eleven students, five were girls and six boys all of whom were residents of Punjab and Haryana.
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Simran murder case committed for sessions trial
Panchkula, August 26 Tanmay, the accused in the Simran murder case, had reached Simran’s residence on April 30 in Panchkula, where he found her in the company of three youths whom he did not know, the police said. After they left, Tanmay started questioning the victim about who the youths were, sources said. In a fit of rage, he allegedly attacked her and hit her head against the bathroom wall and subsequently strangulated her, the sources added. Later, he allegedly dumped her body in a vacant plot near Lidhran village on the Jalandhar-Amritsar national highway, the sources said. Tanmay had surrendered before the Panchkula police on the night of May 13. Simran, who belonged to Amritsar, had been living in Sector 15 from 2010. In 2004, she married Karan, but got divorced on April 26 this year. Cops had found Simran's car abandoned in the Sector 16 market, Panchkula, on May 1. They came to know about her Amritsar address from the documents that were found in the car. It was on her father’s complaint that the Panchkula police had lodged a missing person’s complaint at the Sector 15 police post in Panchkula. But after recovering her body, the cops had converted the missing complaint into a murder case and registered a case against her ex-husband Karan Mehra and her close friend, Tanmay under Sections 302 (murder), 364 (kidnapping) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the IPC. But during investigations, the cops had given a clean chit to ex-husband Karan Mehra.
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ATM fraud: Bail plea of accused dismissed
Panchkula, August 26 After a few meetings, Chand gave his debit card to Sharma saying his card had been blocked and requested the former to arrange for a new card. However, instead of destroying the debit card, Sharma managed to reset the card’s PIN (personal identification number). With the new pin number, he withdrew Rs 4.19 lakh from various ATMs of the bank, but a few days later IndusInd Bank officials detected the high volume of transactions and contacted Chand. A surprised Chand said he was not aware of the fraudulent debit transactions from his account. The bank officials then checked ATM withdrawal records and found that on one occasion Rs 29,000 had been withdrawn from one of the bank’s ATMs. After going through CCTV footage, they discovered it was Sharma who had made the withdrawals. Following a complaint filed by IndusInd Bank branch Manager Sandeep Anand, the local police had registered an FIR under Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust) & 420 (forgery) of the Indian Penal Code against Sharma. The police had conducted raids at Sharma’s residence in Ambala, but to no avail.
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Man held on robbery charge
Chandigarh, August 26 The accused robbed Rs 3,000 from Subhash Raj, a Hallo Majra resident. The incident occurred when Subhash was filling fuel in his motorcycle at a petrol pump in Sector 31, when the accused attacked him with a knife and robbed his purse containing Rs 3,000. The police said the victim managed to note down the registration number of the vehicle of the accused, which led the police to the house of Charanjit. A case has been registered at the Sector 31 police station. — TNS
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Five booked in dowry case
Zirakpur, August 26 The accused have been identified as Jatinder Singh, complainant’s husband, Bhupinder Singh, father-in-law, Parkash Kaur, mother-in-law, Surinder Singh Chinda, brother-in-law, and Harvinder Kaur, sister-in-law. In her complaint to the police, Sandeep Kaur said she had tied the knot with Jatinder Singh, a resident of Singhpura, on November 24, 2010. She alleged that her husband and in-laws harassed her for bringing more dowry. She said they assaulted her. Sandeep is undergoing treatment at the Civil Hospital, Dera Bassi. Zirakpur SHO Yogi Raj said a case had been registered against Jatinder Singh and his family members and investigation was on.
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Two held in PSEB textbook scam
Mohali, August 26 SHO of the Phase VIII police station NPS Lehal said both the accused had been sent to police custody. On August 3, the police had registered a case of cheating, forgery and hatching criminal conspiracy against Rakesh Kumar and Suresh Kumar, managers of New Bharat Offset Printers, Noida, and MB Printing Press Noida, and employees of the publication branch of the board, on the basis of a complaint made by the Punjab School Education Board authorities in connection with the Rs 65 lakh textbook printing scam. The complainant in the case is former vice-chairman of the board Ranjit Singh Bajwa. The board has also taken a disciplinary action against three employees in connection with the alleged scam. Action has also been taken against a retired official whose pension has been cut by 10 per cent. In 2008, the board had given the work of printing textbooks to two Noida-based firms. Later, it was found that the books printed by these firms were less than the order placed and receipts were tempered with to show excess supply of books. A four-member committee was set up to probe the matter which had submitted its report to board chairman Dr Dalbir Singh
Dhillon.
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Suspects in gangrape of schoolgirl held
Panchkula, August 26 According to the police, on August 21 the victim, a resident of Arjunnagar in Delhi, accompanied a youth, Rakesh, to Panchkula. The latter had allegedly promised her family he would help her in enrolling in an airhostess course in Chandigarh. On August 22 the two arrived at GH 79, a housing society in Panchkula, where Rakesh allegedly raped the woman. In the evening they left for Shimla along with three others. During their stay in a hotel in Shimla, she was again allegedly raped by the suspects. The victim told the police the suspects had taken Rs 15,000 from two people, Dinesh and Gandhi. After consuming liquor, both had raped her in the hotel room in Shimla. On August 23 she was brought back to Sector 20, Panchkula. According to the police, she insisted on returning home but the suspects, Rakesh, Uttam, Pankaj and Uma Koirala, did not allow her to do so. She began shouting, which drew the attention of neighbours who called up the cops. The police had filed an FIR in the case under sections 363 (kidnapping), 372 (selling minor for prostitution), 373 (buying minor for purposes of prostitution), 376 (rape), 376G (gangrape), 342 (wrongful confinement), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and arrested the suspects.
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Tennis meet
Chandigarh, August 26 Vignaesh N lifted the title after defeating Rohit Kumar 6-0 and 6-2, whereas Fatehdeep Singh defeated Digvijay Singh Naruka 6-4 and 6-0 to win the category. In the finals of the girls’ U-14 event, Karishma Mehta beat Arushi Bhasin by 6-4 and 7-5, while in the girls’ U-18 category, Samrity got the better of Aashima Garg by 6-1 and 6-4. In the final match of the boys’ U-18 doubles category, the duo of Fatehdeep Singh and Bhavtaranpreet Singh overcame Yashvardhan Singh and Jagmeet Singh by 6-1 and 6-4, while in the boys’ U-14 evevt, the duo of Sachit Malhotra and Santbir Singh overcame Rohit Kumar and Addhayan by 4-6, 6-2 (11-9). In the girls’ U-14 category, Nimrat Walia and Sarah Dev defeated Maitry Phukan and Aarushi Kakkar 6-2 and 6-3.
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Players-cum-‘chair umpires’!
Chandigarh, August 26 During the competition, participants were seen supervising all matches, as according to them, they were asked to do so. According to a provided document, there are a total of five teachers comprising of two lectures, two director physical education (DPE) teachers and one physical training instructor (PTI) specialising in the sports in the government schools of the city. According to officials, this appointed staff can supervise the matches, but in reality, the above said presence is not enough to organise a tournament. “We are participating in the tournament, but not in the same category. There is a shortage of officials, so we are supervising the matches and other players also know about the condition, so they do not object to us supervising the matches,” said three players of the U-17 and U-19 categories, while supervising the matches. Interestingly, players participating in the junior category were observing senior category matches and vice-a-versa, however, shifts keep on changing whenever the “appointed” umpire has his own match. “There is only one appointed referee that is supervising the competition, whereas rest of the matches are observed by the players only. I do not know about previous years, but this time the players are supervising the matches,” said a sports teacher of a private school. “The participation of the players is more then expected this year and due to this pressure we are taking help of the players,” said an official. |
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Shishu Niketan beat St Soldier
Chandigarh, August 26 Shishu Niketan defeated rivals 5-4. Earlier in the match, Shishu Niketan scored the first goal in the 40th minute through Ripu, but St Soldier scored an equaliser through Vishwajit. In the tie-breaker, Mohit, Hardeep, Ripu and Baljit converted their penalties for Shishu Niketan, while spot kick of Sameer was foiled by St Soldier goalkeeper Gaurav Ahlawat. For St Soldier, Anuj, Sumit and Rohit converted the spot kick, while Abhijeet Kataria misdirected his penalty. |
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Surjit Academy to face Shivalik school in final
Chandigarh, August 26 Surjit Academy overcame Delhi XI by 7-0. For the winning side, Shamsher Singh contributed three goals, while Gurpeet Singh (senior) scored two goals. Kuwar Singh and Gurpeet Singh contributed one goal each. Surjit Academy will now face Shivalik Public School, Mohali, in the final of the tournament. |
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Neutral umpire for African Olympic Qualifier
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