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Tension grips Sansarpur after attempt at sacrilege
Sarabjit’s counsel writes to Lahore high court |
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NIT ragging death case adjourned till September 14
Kohar hits back, suggests Dahyia stick to medicine
Deputy Election Commissioner reviews poll arrangements
More women take to self-termination of pregnancy
Three killed in mishap
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Tension grips Sansarpur after attempt at sacrilege
Jalandhar, September 7 Ricky Bains, a member of the management body of the religious place, revealed that Vijay, a resident of the village, noticed smoke billowing out of the cash room, following which he raised an alert. Scores of villagers assembled at the spot and swung into action to extinguish the blaze. A team of forensic experts and a dog squad was pressed into service by the police authorities. The dog squad failed to sniff traces as the public gathering had destroyed all the clues. The district administration has deployed an additional police force in the village to avoid any untoward incident. The ADCP Gagan Ajit Singh was not available for comments, while the ACP, D.S. Dhillon said that the investigation has been initiated and the accused will not be spared.
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Sarabjit’s counsel writes to Lahore high court
Amritsar, September 7 In a petition filed against the Secretary, Home Department, and Superintendent (Jail) in Pakistan, Sheikh revealed that Sarabjit Singh, who was lodged in a Pakistan jail in connection with a bomb blast case, due to his prolonged confinement had developed heart disease, high blood pressure, eating disorder, joint pain, migraine, insomnia and high cholesterol in addition to depression, stress and tension. He alleged that repeated requests to the Secretary, Home Department, and the jail authorities evinced little response from them. Sheikh, who is also president of the Pak-India Peace Initiatives, urged the high court for providing urgent medical checkup and treatment to Sarabjit. He also requested the court to allow the counsel to teach Sarabjit yoga during every meeting to get him out of depression and stress, besides improving his physical and mental health. He urged the court to take notice of the highly objectionable comments of Inspector General (Prison) against him and Sarabjit Singh, which may affect the ties between the two neighbouring nations. The Inspector General (Prison) had allegedly termed Sarabjit as Pakistan’s enemy. The next date of hearing of the case is slated for tomorrow. |
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NIT ragging death case adjourned till September 14
Jalandhar, September 7 The case was fixed for arguments for today in the court of the Additional
Sessions Judge Sandeep Kumar Singla. Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Kumar Singla adjourned the case again for arguments for the next Wednesday. A criminal case was registered against several students of Dr BR
Ambedkar National Institute of Technologyon the charge of instigating Amit to commit suicide in October 2005. |
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Kohar hits back, suggests Dahyia stick to medicine
Nakodar September 7 “Dahyia is a doctor by profession, I personally suggest that nhe should pay heed to his practice rather than giving cheap statements in the press,”said Kohar, while talking to The Tribune. He said if a person did two jobs at one time, he would definitely land in trouble and lack of medical knowledge might land his patients in trouble. Kohar said, Dahyia was new to politics and he didn’t even know the alphabet of politics and he was giving such a big statements, it was really ridiculous. When questioned about the media reports which stated that the minister had played a major role in the recruitments and transfers of tehsildar and naib-Tehsildar and money exchange hands in the process, he categorically denied all charges and said, it was upto the state government to appoint the abovementioned officials and he had no authority for the same. He lamented, “Who is Dahyia to ask me to resign on moral grounds as Industries Minister Manoranjan Kalia did”. While addressing the gathering at village Bahmnia in Shahkot, along with the candidate of SGPC elections, he lashed out at Captain Amarinder Singh for his deliberate endeavours to scuttle and postpone the SGPC elections, he said, “The SGPC elections are concerned with the management of Sikh religion and its sentiments, as the SAD has been managing its affairs for a long time, so the Congress and agents of the Congress have not right invade its management”. |
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Deputy Election Commissioner reviews poll arrangements
Amritsar, September 7 Addressing the meeting, Prakash said that such meetings are aimed to make the poll process smoother at the district level. The meeting was also attended by Punjab Chief Electoral Officer Kusumjeet Kaur Sidhu. Prakash took stock of the work regarding the revision of voters list and directed the officials to personally monitor the process and not to leave it for the lower-rung officials. He also directed the officials to keep a tab on distribution of photo-identity cards to the voters on a weekly basis and make sure that they reach the electorate on time. He also asked the officials to do ‘facility mapping’ of the polling stations formed after the rationalization process. The facility mapping aims at providing details on availability of facilities, like power and water, at the polling stations. The Deputy Election Commissioner also stressed on improving the process of making the published voters list available to the electorate. He said that voters lists should be provided to the representatives of political parties and should be displayed at the places specified by authorities.Gram Sabhas in rural areas should also have voters list. He also asked the Punjab CEO to make the voters list available online, if possible, so that the voters can check the same sitting at their homes. He also asked the officials to make sure that they don’t strike off anybody’s name from the voters list on their own, adding that this should be done after the concerned person himself fills up a form (Form No. 7). He also gave a suggestion regarding setting up an NRI Facilitation Desk to help the NRIs cast their vote. Maintaining law and order during election was also disscussed at the meeting and the Deputy Election Commissioner directed the officials to make necessary arrangements to ensure the same in view of the incidents in the past. Special CEO Usha R. Sharma, Jalandhar Division Commissioner Anurag Verma, IG Police GS Sahota, DIG Ram Singh, Police Commissioner RP Mittal and Deputy Commissioner Rajat Aggarwal also attended the meeting. |
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More women take to self-termination of pregnancy
Jalandhar, september 7 On the flip side, the shocking fact is that the number of cases, coming to the clinics with incomplete pregnancy and medical emergencies resulting due to over dose of such hormones containing pills, is rapidly rising. The alarming revelation was made by some city-based gynaecologists, when asked about the frequency of use of pregnancy termination pills by the young girls and middle-aged women. “The pills are easily available at each chemist shop. Everybody knows that such pills can abort the foetus. But only a handful of them are aware of the fact that such pills could be used only up to a certain time limit, depending upon the maturity of foetus”, said Dr Kamal Gupta, patron, Jalandhar Chapter of Federation of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians of India (FOGSI). In over 90 per cent cases, women, especially young girls, take the pills even after 10-12 weeks of pregnancy and in most of the cases results are nearly fatal, she added. “As nearly all such cases report to the clinics in critical condition with heavy blood loss and hypovolemic shock, if rendered untreated, death is inevitable in all such cases”, added Dr Gupta. The city’s gynaecologists claimed that the womenfolk, has been pushed at the brink of a physiological hormonal threat, as doctors’ demand to put ban on “without prescription sale” of such pills went unheeded for the last few years. “Since the introduction of the pills in the market, the doctors have been demanding that the drugs should be put under the scheduled X category of the Drug and Cosmetics Act,” says a doctor.
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Three killed in mishap
Amritsar, September 7 The car (PB-09-6498) was going from Amritsar to Dhariwal when the incident took place near Talwandi Ghumman village, falling under the Jaintipur police station of the Amritsar rural police district. Those killed were identified as Balwinder Singh, Sukhchain Singh and his father Raghubir Singh, all residents of Bal village, located near Dhariwal in Gurdaspur. According to information, Sukhchain Singh died on the spot, while the other two succumbed to their injuries on way to a private hospital in Amritsar. The Kathunangal police has booked the driver of the tractor-trailer, who has been absconding. |
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The Election Commission has set the ball rolling for making preparations for the forthcoming Assembly polls in the state. Deputy Election Commissioner Jai P. Prakash today reviewed the election-related arrangements in three
districts-Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Kapurthala.
