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Seven of a family booked on charges of extortion, fraud
Chaos as Congress workers intercept MC officials
Customers rue BSNL’s failure to deliver bills on time
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Childbirth services in satellite hospitals still born
People must adopt a heart-friendly lifestyle: expert
From Colleges
Laparoscopic surgery to treat hernia discussed
Drug abuse fuelling crime
NAAC team visits Khalsa College
Lifestyle change leading to epilepsy
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Seven of a family booked on charges of extortion, fraud
Amritsar, September 17 The accused were identified as Amrik Singh, a resident of Cheema Khurd Shukar Chak, his wife Paramjit Kaur, daughter Amandeep Kaur, two sons Dharminder Singh and Jaspinder and two of his relatives Sukhbir Singh and an unidentified uncle of Nathupura village. They used to work as fake travel agents and send youth illegally to France, Neelam, a government teacher, came in contact with the ‘accused’ family when she went to their house during Census duty. They promised to send her elder son, Sumit Kumar (who was unemployed), to France where their son Jaspinder Singh was already living. They promised her to provide him a job and get him a permanent residency in that country. They took about Rs 2 lakh from her. She made the payment through an account payee cheque. However, the family later expressed its inability to send Sumit to France as his passport the refusal stamp from UK. When the complainant demanded her money back, they proposed to send her younger son Amit to France. She said Jaspinder also called and assured her that he would provide permanent residency in that country. She alleged that she gave them the passport of Amit Kumar, besides Rs 2.30 lakh, as demanded. They provided her son a visa of Turkey and promised that their accomplices there (in Turkey) would take care of Amit, besides taking him to Italy and then to France. After getting the visa, they took Rs 6.95 lakh from her besides another cheque of Rs 25,000 at the New Delhi Airport. While giving tickets, Amandeep Kaur, Parmajit Kaur and Dharminder Singh again took Rs 2 lakh in return for the 3000 Euro being given to Amit. Sumit, the brother of the victim, talking to this correspondent said a few days later they received a call from Amit that the accused had shaved his head and locked him in an underground barrack and snatched his gold karah, chain and ring. He was also subjected to to physical torture and unnatural activities after being stripped off his clothes. “Amit was calling after borrowing a mobile phone from another person who was also confined along with him,” he said. The very next day we went to the accused and asked them to bring Amit back. When we did not believe their repeated false promises, they threatened to kill Amit and demanded Rs 5 lakh more for his return,” added Sumit Kumar. They also threatened to lodge a fake case of counterfeit currency or opium against us, if we approached the police, he alleged. “All the money which we have already given to them and we have no other way but to mortgage our house for gathering money,” said Sumit. Sarabjit Singh, SHO Rambagh police station said a case under Section 386 (extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt), 420 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code has been registered in this regard and further investigations are in progress.
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Chaos as Congress workers intercept MC officials
Amritsar, September 17 Congress delegate Navdeep Goldy alleged that the AMC men were sparing the hoardings of the ruling SAD leaders. “We do honour the HC directions. But then there should not be any pick-and-choose policy. The AMC men were damaging and removing only those hoardings which belonged to our party,” he said.
“They had even damaged those paid hoardings of ours which were affixed on private properties”, he added. After a verbal dual between Goldy and the AMC officials, lasting for about two hours, the AMC men gave up and suspended their decision of removing any hoarding in the area. Refuting all charges, Sukhdev Singh, the AMC Advertisement in charge said that they had removed the hoardings irrespective of the political party it belonged to. “It was a baseless altercation, picked up by Congress leaders. We showed them the already removed hoardings belonging to the ruling party too in our truck but they could not understand and ultimately, we had to surrender and come back wasting our day,” he said.
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Customers rue BSNL’s failure to deliver bills on time
Amritsar, September 17 Many customers are content with the BSNL’s gesture of permitting them to deposit the amount in easy monthly instalments, while a number of them were switching over to other companies. A BSNL customer, Pardeep Sharma from Majitha road, said about a fortnight ago he received the bill of his telephone connection at his house after six months. He said his entire family was shocked to find the bill amounting to Rs 4,500. “When I approached the BSNL office the staff posted there told me tersely that I should have come to pay the bill at the office if I had not received the same”, he recalled. He mentioned that he had been a BSNL customer for the past over a decade and he had been paying the dues after receiving the bill delivered at his house. “All of a sudden I was told to pay the bill on my own”, he rued. As a reaction to this, he got the BSNL connection cut. “In the highly competitive telecommunications market, the government-run BSNL is facing a tough competition from private players. In such a scenario, it cannot afford to lower its guard”, said a fuming Pardeep. Another BSNL customer, Vipan Kumar of Katra Parja area, situated inside the walled city said he received the bill of over Rs 3,400 after a gap of three months about two weeks ago. He said two days later after paying the dues he received another bill containing the paid amount as well. He said he had both the landline as well as broadband connections at his house. DGM, BSNL, Kuleshwar Rai said his office had not received any complaint of this nature. He said earlier there was some problem in preparing the bills as technology was being upgraded to Call Detail Recording (CDR), under which the bill contained entire call details. He said the new system has now been completely implemented and he no longer expected further delay in delivery of bills.
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Childbirth services in satellite hospitals still born
Amritsar, September 17 Bhai Dharam Singh Satellite Hospital, Ranjit Avenue, is the only one with a facility to conduct a caesarean section for child birth. The other four, namely, Bhai Daya Singh Satellite Hospital, Mustafabad, Bhai Mohkam Singh Satellite Hospital, Saketri Bagh, Bhai Himmat Singh Satellite Hospital, Kale Ghanupur, Bhai Sahib Singh Satellite Hospital, Fatehpur, are competent to help in normal deliveries only. The Gynaecology Department at the local civil hospital performed 524 deliveries in the past one month, while the one at Guru Nanak Dev Hospital helped in 222 deliveries. The basic purpose of satellite hospitals is to provide child birth services at a place near to the expecting mother’s home seems defeated when many of them prefer to visit the civil hospital or any other government hospital. The satellite hospitals strategically located on periphery of the city to save people from the hassle of entering the crowded city during an emergency, can effectively reduce the rush in medical institutions in city. During a visit to the Bhai Sahib Singh Satellite Hospital, Fatehpur, it was revealed that very few patients had come for child birth services. The lids of the sewerage holes were found missing. Apart from assisting in childbirth, these satellites hospitals have also been administered the duty of providing OPD services and DOTS for tuberculosis patients. When contacted, Civil Surgeon, Dr Avtar Singh Jarewal said, “There are plans to upgrade these satellites hospitals to cut the rush in the city hospitals. In the first phase, the satellite hospitals at Kale Ghanupur and Saketri Bagh would be upgraded”. He added that the remaining three hospitals would be upgraded in the second phase. “The equipment would be supplied to the two hospitals. The satellite hospitals at present are assisting in normal child deliveries. Introduction of caesarean section would further help in curtailing the rush to hospitals in the city,” he added. Additional facilities Apart from assisting in childbirth, these satellites hospitals have also been administered the duty of providing OPD services and DOTS for patients of diseases such as tuberculosis.
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People must adopt a heart-friendly lifestyle: expert
Amritsar, September 17 As per the World Health Organisation (WHO) reports, about 50 per cent of the patients suffering from heart ailments and cardiac arrests in the world by 2015 would be from the Indian subcontinent and a majority of them would be from India. This was revealed by Dr Adarsh Kumar, Professor and Head, Department of Cardiology, Government Medical College here who presided over the Congress that concluded recently. Explaining the “Prevention to Intervention” approach, he said this means placing more emphasis on educating the people about modifying life style, dietary habits, regular exercise and controlling obesity which are responsible for heart diseases. The focus should also be on providing better treatment for facilities like angioplasties, stenting and bypass surgery. “The main concept of the convention was to lay stress on exhorting participants to encourage people to take preventive measures before treatment and intervention,” he said. He said a number of heart ailments have been increasing in India at an alarming pace. He said, in 1960 India contributed only 1 per cent of cardiac diseases cases in the world which dangerously increased to 11 per cent by the year 2002 and now it is pegged at 13 per cent of the total patients globally. The disease now affects people from the lower strata of society as well. He said the incidence of cardiovascular deaths have increased in women over the past decade as coronary artery disease behaves differently in women and there is a gender bias in patient care patterns. Talking to this reporter he said all most all cardiac diseases can be prevented by controlling dietary habits, exercising, lifestyle modification and avoiding stress. He said that the major cause of bad cholesterol and heart diseases are consumption of trans-fatty acids. These acids which are mainly found in fatty eatables, oily and junk foods, cakes, cookies, fast food etc. are very detrimental to one’s health. “Recognising this fact, European countries such as Denmark have passed a legislation to imprint or label the amount of trans-fatty acids in the food which is legally permissible under 1 per cent,” said Dr Adarsh. It has been Imperative for the companies involved in cooked foods and eatables to include the proportion of trans-fats in addition to other fat content during labelling the amount of trans-fatty acids present in the food otherwise they were liable to be penalised. Dr Adarsh claimed that Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing has assured that the Government of India would pass the necessary regulations to curb the use of trans-fatty acids in food industry as was being done in many countries.
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From Colleges ERP Gurus, a US-based company, selected 37 students in a campus placement at Shiv Shankar Institute of Engineering and Technology (SSIET) held on Friday. According to the Principal of the college Prof Ishtiaque Ahmed, 130 students had appeared in the campus placement drive. He said the selected students would undertake a two-month intrenship training at the company.
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Laparoscopic surgery to treat hernia discussed
Amritsar, September 17 Addressing the surgeons, Dr Bhatia said laparoscopic surgery is more comfortable than open surgery. The number of days a patient has to stay in the hospital after the operation have been reduced with the new technique, he added. “The technique does not hinder the patient’s movement to the extent the open surgery effects,” said Bhatia. During a question-answer session, Bhatia responded to various queries put in by the local doctors. More than 50 doctors from Amritsar and Jalandhar region participated in the seminar. Dr Bhatia is the chairman of the Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at Sir Gangaram Hospital. Dr Harmohinder Singh Nagpal of Hartej Hospital informed, “It is the first time that a live surgery seminar has been organised in the city.”
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Drug abuse fuelling crime
Amritsar, September 17 Four members of an auto-rickshaw gang, recently nabbed by the police, were drug addicts. They commit such crimes to make easy money to buy drugs. The police officials say the city youths were more hooked to smack which was spreading its tentacles in the rural areas besides other intoxicants like opium. Smack costs between Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 which is easily available in areas which are notorious for drug peddling. — TNS
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NAAC team visits Khalsa College
Amritsar, September 17
During the visit they interacted with the members of various faculties enquiring about their research work, research papers, publications and their plans for future development. The team had an interaction with the students so as to learn about their views regarding infrastructural and academic facilities. Another highlight of the visit was the parents and alumni interaction. The cultural programme arranged by the students enthralled the guests with folk songs, folk dances Gidda and Bhangra. Concluding the visit Chairperson Dr Reddy showered praise on the marvellous, unique historical structure and architectural grandeur of the Institution. He appreciated the role of Agriculture Students Farm Centre and other extension services along with the cultural and sports achievements of the college. Dr Deo Subhash Atmaram shared his observations with the audience and Dr. Jairaj, Member Coordinator, expressed his gratitude for the hospitality and warmth shown by the members of the Institution.
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Lifestyle change leading to epilepsy
Amritsar, September 17 Dr Uppal said among the issues discussed in the congress included, understanding your patient, having better communication with him or her and finding a particular drug with Epilepsy Semiology of the patient. The other very important issue discussed was of patients whose seizures are difficult to control or remain uncontrolled, he added. He said the experience has helped him review the medical techniques followed in the region. He said many children are falling prey to unhealthier lifestyle which has increased the risk of epilepsy among them. Watching television for longer hours and sleep deprivation were the main causes, he shared.
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The local Rambagh police have booked seven members of a family, including two women and an NRI youth, on charges of defrauding and extorting about Rs 20 lakh from a widow Neelam
Kumari.
Amritsar, September 17
