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Chandigarh, September 24
Virtually passing strictures on Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) for making an effort to “pollute the stream of justice by misleading the Court” in a property eviction matter, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on the organisation. The amount is to be spent on safeguarding protected monument “Royal Shahi Samadhan” at Patiala.

Going into the background of the controversy, Acting Chief Justice MM Kumar and Justice Gurdev Singh asserted the ancient monument was declared as a protected monument by Punjab Department of Cultural Affairs, Archeology and Museums, on February 27, 2009. “It was found that the petitioner-appellant has established its office and tower on the protected monument area without any prior sanction and permission of the competent authority….”

The Bench observed that eviction order was issued on August 23 last, but the fact was not brought to the notice of the Court. “The suppression of the order assumes great significance because the petitioner-appellant failed to reveal that the order dated August 23, 2010, stands implemented and they have been deprived of possession. However, they proceeded to institute the writ petition….”

In its detailed order, the Bench observed: “The Writ Courts are the Courts of Equity. The Courts of Equity are required to be kept absolutely clean. There are well known maxims of equity viz., he who seeks equity must do equity and who comes to equity must come to it with clean hands and the misrepresentation before a Court of equity is fatal….

“We find that an effort has been made to pollute the stream of justice by misleading the Court. Accordingly, we hold that the petitioner-appellant is not entitled to any relief…. which even otherwise would not be available to it….

“The cost shall be paid to the Department of Cultural Affairs Archaeology and Museums, Punjab. The amount is required to be spent on protecting and upkeep of the protected monument, namely Royal Shahi Samadhan, situated at Patiala and it would not be utilised for any other purpose. The cost shall be paid within a period of two months failing which appropriate proceedings be undertaken.

Chandigarh, September 24
A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Chandigarh administration to declare at least one area of the city as a no-vehicle zone.

The Bench also directed Punjab and Haryana to identify locations in cities for the same purpose.

The directions came during the resumed hearing of a case initiated after the high court, in larger public interest, took suo motu notice of increasing pollution in the region due to rise in number of vehicles.

The Bench was of the view that some areas should be totally banned for vehicular traffic.

Suggesting Sector 17 as an option for making no-vehicle zone, the Bench said parking of vehicles could be allowed at the corners of the sector and only rickshaws or eco-friendly cabs should be allowed to ply.

The Bench said the restrictions should be enforced for all vehicles. No vehicles, including red beacon or even high court vehicles, should be permitted to ply in such zones.

During the arguments, Chandigarh senior standing counsel Sanjay Kaushal asserted efforts were being made to provide cheaper public transport to reduce traffic on the roads.

By paying a fare of Rs 5 for a general bus and Rs 10 for an air-conditioned bus, people could go to any part of the city. However, the occupancy was just five per cent.

The Bench also directed the authorities to submit the status report in this regard on next hearing, while making it clear that the entire process would only be on trial basis.

The states of Haryana and Punjab also submitted reports on promoting the eco-friendly rickshaws. The reports stated that Haryana had issued directions to all the municipal authorities to propagate these rickshaws. Rickshaw-pullers were being provided with a subsidised loan for buying these eco-friendly rickshaws.

Punjab informed the Bench over 500 such eco cabs were already functional in different districts of the state and the rickshaw-pullers were being encouraged to use these. 

Panchkula, September 24
CBI Special Judge AS Narang today dismissed the anticipatory bail applications of two senior functionaries of the Bar Council of India (BCI), who were booked on the charges of corruption and using unfair means to obtain affiliation for the law college.

The CBI on April 19 booked three persons, including member of the Bar Council of India (BCI) Rajender Singh Rana, assistant trustee of the BCI Daulat Ram Sharma and vice-chairman of a law college in Barwala Moti Lal Jindal.

According to the CBI, Rana and Daulat Ram Sharma had reportedly accepted a bribe of Rs 1.25 lakh from Jindal for conducting the so-called inspections at the college and submitting favourable reports for continuing three-year LLB and five-year BALLB courses.

The CBI team had seized documents regarding fee, enrolment and degrees. The CBI had maintained that the accused had hatched a conspiracy in November, 2010, and Rana and Sharma had accepted Rs 1.25 lakh from Jindal for submitting a favourable report. An FIR was registered under Sections 7, 12, 13 (2), 13 (1) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, at the CBI headquarters at Sector 30 in Chandigarh.

Panchkula, September 24
The Panchkula district court has upheld the two-month imprisonment awarded to a Kalka resident, who had tried to lure a minor with Rs 50 for allowing him to kiss her.

Earlier, a lower court had awarded two-months imprisonment to the accused, Sanjay of Kalka, in 2010. He had filed an appeal against the verdict in the sessions court, which dismissed the appeal and upheld the verdict of the lower court.

The case dated back to April 29, 2005, when the accused passed comments on the girl and said he would give her Rs 50 if she allowed him to kiss her.

When the girl reported the matter to Sanjay’s family, they beat her up. Thereafter, she went home and tried to commit suicide by consuming a disinfectant. The girl’s parents admitted her to the PGI in Chandigarh. A case for committing obscene acts was registered against the accused under Section 294 of the IPC on May 8, 2005.

Chandigarh, September 24
In connection with the death of veteran art and museum expert VN Singh, his family members have now filed a fresh case against accused NRI Baljot Singh Gill seeking Rs 5 crore as compensation. On the application of Singh’s family members, the court has issued notice to the respondents.

It was stated in the application that VN Singh’s death had really caused great loss to the nation, as he was a renowned personality.

On December 9 last year, former principal of Government College of Art-10 and consultant with Le Corbusier Centre VN Singh succumbed to his injuries in GMCH-32. VN Singh, a resident of Sector 7, was admitted to GMCH-32 on November 28, 2010, after Baljot Singh Gill of Sector 8 rammed his speeding car into the two-wheeler of Singh. Singh had slipped into a coma.

The incident had occurred at the road separating Sectors 7 and 8 and the driver of the car managed to escape after abandoning Singh in GMSH-16. The accused was arrested on December 1 last year.

Recently, NRI Baljot Singh Gill had also appeared in the district courts and had made a statement that he would not go abroad without seeking prior permission of the court. Gill had appeared in response to the application moved by the family members of VN Singh in which they had sought directions from the court to the Chandigarh police to impound the passport of the accused.

Chandigarh, September 24
A dismissed home guard volunteer was injured as he was trying to flee after committing a theft in a house in Sector 18 D.

The former volunteer, Dinesh, along with another person barged into 1559 house in Sector 18 D last night. But he was caught and as he tried to flee, he jumped from the first floor and got injured. He sustained a fracture in the leg.

Police is trying to ascertain whether he was involved in theft cases earlier also. Last week too, police have arrested a home guard volunteer in a case of vehicle theft at Sector 36 police station.

Chandigarh, September 24
The police has booked a resident of Delhi in a case of cheating after he sent a forged cheque.

KK Upadhyay, branch head, IDBI Bank, Sector 17, reported to the Police that Ashok Rajpu,t resident of New Delhi, sent a coloured photocopied cheque of around Rs 3 lakh. The complainant alleged that the cheque was received in drop box at IDBI bank branch, Sector 17, for the withdrawal of money in March.

Mohali, September 24
In connection with the registration of a case of trespass, causing hurt and intimidation against the Chief Managing Director (CMD) of the WWICS, Col BS Sandhu, his son Devinder Sandhu and estate manager of WWICS Ranjit Bajaj by the Mohali police, the Punjab Chief Minister has asked the IG Police, Patiala range, to conduct an inquiry into the matter.

The inquiry has been marked on a representation given by Col BS Sandhu, who has claimed that the land in question at Karoran village belonged to the Green Earth 
Society.

The Kharar court has ordered status quo on a civil suit titled Green Earth vs Darshan Singh filed by the society.

He claimed that despite the police being shown the papers, an FIR was registered against them and the police helped Darshan Singh in taking possession of the land on September 23.

Earlier, the police had registered an FIR against COl Sandhu and others after Devinbder Singh moved the Punjab Human Rights Commission against the Mohali police for not registering a case against those who had trespassed into his land. Following which the police had booked the above-mentioned persons. 

Panchkula, September 24
The police has filed a detailed chargesheet against two accused in the Panchkula gangrape case. It has filed the chargesheet under gangrape and kidnapping charges.

The chargesheet was filed against Sahil Puri, a resident of Sector 2, and a mechanical engineering student at a Baddi-based private university, and Marshal Arora of NAC, Mani Majra, a BA student of a private college in Chandigarh.

The Panchkula District and Sessions Judge had also dismissed the regular bail application of Puri recently.

On the complaint of the victim’s family, the Panchkula police on June 28 arrested Sahil Puri and Marshal Arora.

An FIR was lodged under Sections 363 (kidnapping), 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her into marriage) and 376-G (gangrape) against both the accused at the Sector 5 police station.

The victim’s father said the accused were known to his son and often used to visit their house. He said on June 26 he had gone out for some work and on return he found his daughter missing. He said after looking for her for sometime, he informed the police and soon the accused threw her near the gate and fled in a car.

In his complaint to the police, the victim’s father had stated that the accused had taken advantage of their absence from the house and forcibly took the girl with them and made her consume liquor. Later, the accused had raped her inside the car.

Mohali, September 24
In yet another incident of car snatching, Mohan Lal, owner of a Swift Dzire car, was drugged by an unidentified person in front of Fortis Hospital in Phase VIII here yesterday. The miscreant took away the car. Already under the influence of some drug, Mohan Lal could not react when his car was being snatched.

But even a day after the incident, the police has failed to register a case and is trying to give a theft colour to the incident. According to information, the victim had gone to Fortis Hospital to drop a patient’s attendant. While the attendant was inside the hospital premises, an unidentified youth approached Mohan Lal stating that it would take some time for his guest to return, he had sent a soft drink and some snacks. But before Mohan Lal could realise that the soft drink was laced with some drug, he had already consumed it.

Chandigarh, September 24
Mohit - XI knocked out title aspirant India Cements Chennai by five wickets in the semifinal of 18th All India JP Atray Memorial Cricket Tournament for Pearls Trophy played at Sector 16 Cricket Stadium here today.

After winning the toss Mohit XI opted to field and were soon rewarded with the wicket of batsman Dinesh Karthik who was caught by Yashpal Singh in the slips of an intended drive off the bowling of JP Yadav on his individual score of two. India Cements were further rocked back by Yadav when he disposed of R Parsanna for zero. Then a 64-run 3rd wicket stand between Sri Kumar Nair and K Varun Kumar steadied the innings for a while before Varun was snapped by wicket keeper Bisht of the bowling of Avinash for 28. Thereafter Suresh Kumar and Nair put on 58 runs for the 4th wicket before Suresh was castled by Ashish Yadav for 32. India Cements innings could not take off and they kept on losing wickets at regular intervals. Shiv Kumar’s unbeaten 34 off 34 balls saw India Cements go past the 200 mark. They finally folded up for 217 in 49.3 overs. Yadav was the pick of the bowlers as he took 4 wickets for 32 runs and won the Balls man of the match award.

In reply Mohit XI scored 218 for 5 in 45.2 overs. They were helped in their cause by a 98-run partnership for the 3rd wicket between S. Khanolkar and TP Singh. Khanolkar 67, T.P. Singh 51, Faiz Fazal 31, Karan Sharma 29 not out were main contributors to the Mohit XI total. P Amarnath 2 for 53 was main wicket taker for India Cements.

Brief Scores:

India Cements - 217 all out in 49.3 overs (Sree Kumar Nair 71, Shiv Kumar 34 not out, S Suresh Kumar 32, K Varun Mukar 28, JP Yadav 4 for 32 and Avinash Yadav 2 for 48).

Mohit XI - 218 for 5 in 40.2 overs (S Khanolkar 67, T.P. Singh 51, Faiz Fazil 31, Karan Sharma 29 not out, P. Amarnath 2 for 53).

In the 2nd semifinal played at PCA Stadium Mohali PCC edged out Air India last year’s runners up by 18 runs. After winning the toss PCC elected to bat and opened with Ishan Malhotra and Ravi Inder Singh who put on 46-run for opening wicket before Ishan was caught by wicket keeper Chandan Madan off bowling of Pradeep Sanghwan for 24. Ravi 40 and Karan Goel 40 both fell to the guiles of Sachin Rana. Thereafter, Mandeep Singh and Mayank Sidana stitched a 101-run partnership for the 4th wicket before Mandeep was caught by Sangwan of bowling of Siddarth Trivedi for 81. Trivedi struck again as he had Bipul Sharma snapped by Chandan Madan for zero and Chandela accounting for Taruwar Kohli for one. PCC were eventually bowled out for 282 in 49.4 overs with Rahul Sharma playing a small cameo of 27 runs. Pardeep Sangwan 3 for 58, Siddarth Trivedi 2 for 52 and Sachin Rana 2 for 52 were the main successful bowler for Air India.

Replying Air India was soon into dire start as it slumped to 49 for 5 in 9.3 overs. Left arm seamer Barinder Singh doing most of the damage accounted up for top order batsman Hemant Singh 7, Ajit Chandela 13, Chandan Madan 06 and Skipper Shafiq Khan zero. Thereafter a 75-run partnership for the 6th wicket between Deepak Joon and Reetinder Sodhi steadied the Air India innings before Sodhi was stumped by Khera off the bowling of Bipul after a strockful 44. Thereafter Joon in company of Sachin Rana put on 51 runs for the 7th wicket before Joon was castled by Rahul Sharma for a well-made 69. At one stage Air India were 178 for 8 in 35.2 overs then a 9th wicket stand of 72 between Pawan Negi and Pardeep Sangwan turned the match on his head before Negi slashed one from Kohli to be caught for a well made 32. Sangwan ran out of partners as last man Siddarth Trivedi was run out for 5 leaving Air India short by 18 runs from the target. Sangwan remained unbeaten on 46. Air India were all out for 264 in 47.1 over. Barinder Singh was named Balls man of the match for taking four wickets for 35.

Brief scores: PCC 282 all out in 49.4 overs (Ishant Malhotra 24,Ravi Inder Singh 40, Karan Goel 40, Mandeep Singh 81 and Mayank Siddana 42, Siddharth Trivedi 2 for 52, Pardeep Sangwan 3 for 58, Sachin Rana 2 for 51).

Air India - 264 all out in 47.1 overs

Deepak Joon 69, Reetinder Sodhi 44, Pawan Negi 32, Pardeep Sangwan 46 not out

Navdeep Singh 1 for 68, Barinder Singh 4 for 35, Rahul Sharma 2 for 54, Taruwar Kohli 1 for 32 and Bipul Sharma 1 for 51.

Chandigarh, September 24
Gagandeep of Intelenet (Vodafone) won the men’s singles title in the 21st Chandigarh State Carrom Championship that concluded at St. Stephen’s School, Sector 45, here today.

In the final, Gagandeep defeated Mohd. Talib of St. Stephen’s School - 45, in straight games by 17-1, 24-14. Earlier in the semifinal, Gagandeep outclassed Mohd. Shaquib by 25-6, 14-20, 19-17 whereas Talib defeated Mohd. Hassan by 18-09, 25-18.Farheen of St. Stephen’s proved her dominance by clinching the double crown by winning the women’s singles title defeating her rival sister Tuba also of St. Stephen’s by 23-07, 24-13 and in the girls’ junior singles also she again defeated her sister Tuba by 8-10, 19-8, 15-3.

The junior boys’ title was claimed by Mohd. Shaquib who outclassed Mohd. Talib by 0-23, 16-08, 17-4 while sub-junior titles were won by Mohd. Aarish and Tuba yesterday.

Abhinandan, Sushila Prasad and Anup Gupta were declared successful in the State Panel Carrom Umpires’ examination held during the championship.

Chief guest Mr. Roy De Silva, principal, St. Stephen’s School, Togan, gave away the prizes to the winners.

Results (final matches)

Men’s singles: Gagandeep bt Mohd. Talib 17-1, 24-14.

Boys’ junior singles: Mohd. Shaquib bt Mohd. Talib 0-23, 16-8, 17-4.

Boys’ sub-junior singles: Mohd. Aarish bt Ankush Taneja 21-1, 12-1.

Women’s singles: Farheen bt Tuba 23-7, 24-13

Girls’ junior singles: Farheen bt Tuba 8-10, 19-8, 15-3

Girls’ sub-junior singles: Tuba bt Manu Gupta 25-0, 16-6.

Mohali, September 24
Yadavindra Public School won the Champion Trophy Cricket ( Boys U-14) in the Indian Public School Conference Sports Meet, which concluded at the school complex here today. The tournaments were for three categories U-19 boys and U-19 girls in (basketball) and U-14 boys (cricket).

The second position was bagged by Motilal Nehru School of Sports, Rai while Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, got the third position.

The best batsman award was bagged by Madhav Kaushik of Modern School, New Delhi, while the best bowler award went to Armaan Singh of YPS, Mohali. Arbaaz Singh Virk of YPS was declared the most promising player.

In basketball (U-19) boys, Modern School, New Delhi, bagged the Champions Trophy while YPS and Lawrence School Lovedale secured the runnersup trophy and third position, respectively. Satyam of Modern School was the highest scorer of the tournament while Harkirat Singh of YPS was declared the most promising basketball player of the tournament. In the girls section, Modern School bagged the Champions Trophy while The Daly College, Indore, and Motilal Nehru School of Sports secured the runnersup trophy and third position, respectively.

Sarvanta of Motilal Nehru School was the highest scorer of the tournament while Pooja of The Daly College, Indore, was declared the most promising basketball player of the tournament.

Chief Guest Stanley Vinod Kumar, Principal, Yadavindra Public School, Patiala, gave away the trophies to the winning teams. He also declared the Indian Public School Conference Sports Meet closed

Chandigarh, September 24
Shivalik Public School, Mohali, will host the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) North Zone Badminton Championship from September 29 to October 1, on the school premises .

The tournament will be held under boys and girls(U-14, U-16 and U-19) categories. More than 65 schools have so far confirmed their participation in the three-day championship. Meanwhile, Shivalik Public School, Chandigarh, have announced their teams for participating in the competition. Girls(U-16): Muskan Sohi, Ramneet Brar and Ashneet Kaur Brar. Boys Under-19: Rupinder Singh, Kuldeep Singh and Jivtesh Singh Nagi. — TNS

Chandigarh, September 24
Saurabh Kothari (PSPB), one of the favourites lost to Vipin Premi (UP) in a nail biting finish 3-4 on the second day of 6-Red Snooker Nationals held at Chandigarh Club, here today.

Saurabh potted black in the first frame to win 36-34; second frame was again close one where Saurabh won 33-22 at Pink. Down 0-2, in the third thriller keeping cool Premi potted last black to win 31-30. Fourth frame Premi had better control of the balls and equalled by clearing the frame and winning 41-22.

He took the next frame 36-22. In Sixth frame Saurabh had full control of the balls and won by making a break of 38. Final frame was again close. Saurabh got a long Pink, which he missed and gave an easy shot to Premi and lost 3-4. Saurabh will have to win other two matches if he has to qualify.

The 6 Red Snooker Champion Pankaj Advani, playing his first match of tournament almost avoided another upset as when he managed to win against Vijay Nichani in the 7th decider frame 4-3. 

Dera Bassi, September 24
A team of girls, government school Bhankarpur has received third position in baseball competition of the Punjab state school sports competition which were organised at Kotishekhan, district Moga.

Head teacher of school, Kamsesh Kumari, said the team played from the side of district mohali but all girl players belonged to Government School Bhankarpur. School teachers and students celebrated the victory. The games were held for boys and girls in which teams from all districts of state had participated.

Chandigarh, September 24
The city beautiful is really beautiful’, ace cueist Pankaj Adavani said to express his love for the city.

During his second visit to city after 2004, for participating in the ongoing Six -Red National Snooker Championship, Pankaj said the city had changed a lot.

“I was here for the Indo- Pak Billiards Series way back in 2004 but now I see many things have changed. The city roads are more crowded now and the number of vehicles have increased”, said Pankaj.

The former world champion did not forget to mention the places he wanted to visit during his second visit here.

“My friends from Banglore told me to visit a famous baker’s shop in Sector 35, after my match I will surely visit the place to spend some quality time there. I don’t have many friends here so I’ll be able to explore more” said Advani