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Maruti suspends 16 more, sacks 12 technician trainees
HC turns down Swami Agnivesh’s plea for quashing FIR
3 schoolkids drown
Chief Secy, Mathur in contempt loop
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HONOUR KILLINGS
Brahmins seek quota on economic basis
Father sells infant
Child’s death: JE suspended
Facts twisted in statement: Dalal
LAND ALLOTMENT TO DEVI LAL TRUST
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Maruti suspends 16 more, sacks 12 technician trainees
Manesar/Gurgaon, August 30 Production at the plant had come to a halt yesterday due to the workers’ refusal to sign good-conduct bonds mandated by the company to enter the plant. Today, the operations relied mostly on the factory’s supervisors, apart from 36 employees who have signed the good-conduct bond. The Manesar plant has nearly 290 supervisors. Around 50 diploma engineers from the company’s Gurgaon plant were also deputed there. The operations, mostly focused in the high-automation areas of the plant, began in the areas like weld-shop, press-shop and paint-shop this afternoon. In order to tide over the crisis, the management plans to hire alternative workers on a contract basis to resume production at the Manesar plant. According to official sources, nearly 200 trained and experienced workers have already been identified and they are expected to join on contract in the next two or three days. On the other hand, the tug-of-war between the company management and workers, including the suspension of employees, continued today. While 10 employees had been suspended and five dismissed yesterday on charges of sabotaging the production and deliberately causing quality problems in vehicles manufactured at the Manesar plant, 16 more workers at the plant were suspended today. The services of 12 technician trainees have also been terminated on the same grounds. Meanwhile, 11 more workers signed the good-conduct bond today, taking the total number of workers who have signed the bond to 36. These workers were deployed in the plant for operations that began this afternoon The management reiterated that the good-conduct bond only sought an assurance that workers would not resort to go-slow, sabotage production or indulge in activities which would hamper normal production at the plant.
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HC turns down Swami Agnivesh’s plea for quashing FIR
Turning down the Swami’s plea for quashing the FIR registered against him, Justice LN Mittal asserted: “Counsel for the petitioner vehemently contended that the averments made in the FIR do not constitute any offence. The contention, prima facie, cannot be accepted. “Averments made in the FIR regarding utterances attributed to the petitioner do prima facie make out a case under Section 295-A, IPC, because such utterances certainly hurt the religious feelings of Hindus, who undertake the holy Amarnath yatra”. Justice Mittal also took note of another contention raised by counsel for the petitioner on the absence of evidence on record to show the utterances were indeed made by the Swami. Justice Mittal asserted: “On the basis of this contention, the FIR cannot be quashed because it would depend on the evidence that is to be collected during investigation. If no evidence regarding the alleged utterance of the petitioner is collected, it would be a different matter. But on the basis of the averments made in the FIR, it cannot be said that no case for proceeding against the petitioner is made out for any offence”. Making it clear that the observations made by the High Court should not weigh on the trial court, Justice Mittal added: “I do not find sufficient ground for quashing the FIR at the threshold. The petition is accordingly dismissed”. The Swami was accused of terming the yatra as a fraud in the name of religion.
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3 schoolkids drown
Sonepat, August 30 According to sources, the children went to the village pond to take a bath in the evening. When they did not return home till late in the evening, their family members and other villagers started searching for them. Their clothes were found lying outside the pond. The villagers later recovered the victims’ bodies from the pond. The victims were taken to the Civil Hospital, Gohana, where they were declared brought dead.
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Chief Secy, Mathur in contempt loop
Chandigarh, August 30 The directions came on a petition filed by Ashok Gautam. Acting on his plea, a direction was issued to the Chief Secretary to look into the allegations against an IPS officer. Justice Permod Kohli observed it appears that an SHO has been asked to look into the complaint against an IPS officer. “This demonstrates a sorry state of affairs… The matter was never placed before the Chief Secretary. It seems to have been dealt with by Superintendent-II (Home), who referred the same to DGP, Haryana, and it further went down the line up to the level of an SHO.
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HONOUR KILLINGS
Chandigarh, August 30 dealing with such type of cases. In such cases where the witnesses of honour killing become hostile, a heavy duty is cast on the Court to closely scrutinise the evidence in order to reach the truth. It is the duty of the Court to separate the grain from the chaff”. Upholding the life imprisonment sentence handed down to two Jind residents in a honour killing case, the high court also made it clear that the duo could have been facing the gallows, but for the failure of the State to file an appeal. “In the facts and circumstances of the case, it can be a rarest of rare case and the life sentence awarded to both the accused can be debatable. But, since no appeal has been filed either by the State or by the complainant for enhancement of the sentence, we also affirm the life sentence awarded to the appellants by the trial Court, the Bench of Justice Satish Kumar Mittal and Justice AN Jindal ruled. The Bench asserted: “The ghost of honour killing has again swallowed three innocent teenagers - Bodhi, alias Vinod, Suman and Budha, alias Satish. For their “brutal murder”, Suman’s father Jita Ram and Budha’s first cousin, Sanjay, were tried and sentenced by the Jind Sessions Judge. According to the prosecution, Budha’s father, Sita Ram, belonging to the Backward Class community, residing in Khera Khema Wati village, was on January 24, 2003, told by a neighbour that his son and Bodhi had enticed away Suman and her family was searching for her. The next day, Sita Ram was told that his son Budha, Bodhi and Suman had been murdered and their bodies were lying in the street right in front of Jita Ram’s house. The Bench added: “Recently, there has been a spate of honour killings in this part of the country. Haryana is one of the worst hit as far as honour killing is concerned. Such killings result from the perception that the defence of honour justifies killing a person whose behaviour dishonours their own clan or family…. It should be made clear that there is no escape for those who take justice into their own hands.
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Brahmins seek quota on economic basis
Chandigarh, August 30 A delegation led by patron of the samiti Umesh Sharma met Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and later met the Backward Classes Commission chairman to put forth their demand. “We urged the Chief Minister to constitute a commission to look into reservation demands on the basis of economic status of an individual instead of caste,” Sharma said. Maintaining that Jats were a “very well-off” community which hardly needed reservation, he alleged that the Congress government was playing politics by setting up a Backward Classes Commission to consider inclusion requests put in by various castes. “We are opposed to any other caste should be allowed to eat into the share of reservation for the Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes because they need it. However, we are unable to understand why the government is so keen on giving reservation to Jats,” the patron said, adding that nearly 60 per cent cases from among the Brahmins were economically weak and deserved reservation. Sharma stated that the samiti would organize a rally to mobilise support for their cause and urge other communities to join in the fight for reservation on the basis of economic status.
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Father sells infant
Fatehabad, August 30 The incident came to light only when the baby’s mother created a scene in the hospital today and demanded back her daughter from the nurse. The woman, Manna Devi, was sitting outside the Surgical Package Room, where the staff nurse is on duty and the woman has refused to allow the nurse to move out till her 21-day-old daughter was handed over to her. “When I came to the hospital for a routine check-up a few months back, a gynaecologist conducted an ultrasonography test on me and offered to take my child for some issueless couple. However, I refused. Now, my husband, Ravi, stealthily brought the baby to the hospital and sold it for money in connivance with a staff nurse,” alleged Manna Devi, while talking to mediapersons in the hospital. She alleged that she came to know of this fact from her son, but now the nurse has been trying to make lame excuses. The woman alleged that she had met the senior medical officer as well as the Civil Surgeon, but she has not yet got any justice. The woman has also approached the police with a complaint. The Civil Surgeon, Dr Suraj Bhan Kamboj, maintained that he had not received any complaint in this regard. He, however, said that the matter had come to his notice and he had inquired into the facts from the Staff Nurse concerned. |
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Child’s death: JE suspended
Sirsa, August 30 Amit Garg, class X student of the local GRG School, had died of electrocution on August 24 when he was wading through a waterlogged road. Local local residents had alleged that the child died due to gross negligence of DHBVN officials, who failed to disconnect power supply to the area despite repeated calls made to them. The police had booked an SDO, a JE and an operator under section 304-A, IPC, for causing death due to negligence. The DHBVN had suspended the JE though the departmental inquiry in the case was inconclusive. |
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Facts twisted in statement: Dalal
Chandigarh, August 30 He maintained there was absolutely no truth in the contents of the said news item published in The Tribune on August 29 “Ex-minister Dalal blames Congress for Chautala’s woes”. He vehemently denied the said contents which, he said, were published with mala fide intentions to poison and prejudice the mind of public and trial at large. — TNS
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LAND ALLOTMENT TO DEVI LAL TRUST Chandigarh, August 30 Addressing a press conference here today, the Secretary-General of the INLD, Ajay Singh Chautala, said the Congress government was trying to nail down the INLD without any evidence and witnesses, fearing “loss of face” in the forthcoming byelection of the Hisar parliamentary seat. Chautala maintained that contrary to the Congress claims and the House committee constituted to look into panchayat land gifted to the Chautala-run trusts in a number of villages, at most places the local organisations had only opened an institution in the name of former Deputy Prime Minister Chuadhary Devi Lal. “We have nothing to do with such organisations. They just wanted to name their trust after our grandfather and none of our family members are, in any way, involved in the running of these trusts and societies,” he said. Clarifying on the girls’ college in Sirsa, opened in the name of his grandmother Harki Devi, he said that people of the area got together to form a society and named it after her. “We have no connection whatsoever with the college or its running,” he emphasised.
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Though most of nearly 2,500 workers at the Manesar plant of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) stayed away from work and remained firm on their decision not to sign the good-conduct bonds.
Chandigarh, August 30