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NEIGHBOURHOOD

Elderly man run over by car
Parmod Mehta

Dera Bassi, October 1
An elderly man died as he was run over by a car near Pandwala village on the Mubarikpur Sundran road this morning.

The deceased was identified as 62-year-old Ram Milan from Sant Kabir Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh. He was killed on the spot.

The driver drove away from the spot. The body was sent for post-mortem examination. The police registered a case in this connection.

One crushed to death

One person was crushed to death under the wheels of a train near Dappar village around 12 noon on Saturday. Government Railway Police personnel reached the spot.

The body was sent to the Civil Hospital here for post-mortem examination. The deceased was identified as 42-year-old Amarjit Singh of Mianpur village.

The police said he was crossing the tracks when the incident took place. Proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC were initiated.

Man succumbs to injuries

An assistant lineman with the electricity department, who met with an accident near Bhagwanpur on the Barwala road on Thursday, died on Friday morning.

He was identified as 52-year-old Baldev Singh of Maalan village. He was on way to Rampur Sainian when the accident took place, in which he sustained head injuries.

He was shifted to the PGI in Chandigarh, where he succumbed to his injuries. The police initiated proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC.

Scooterist dies in accident

Banur: A scooterist was killed in a road accident near here on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Piara Singh of Gurugobind Singh Nagar at Rajpura.

The accident occurred when a truck hit his scooter from the rear near Jangpura on the Chandigarh-Rajpura road.

The truck driver drove away from the spot. The victim was admitted to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

The body was handed over to relatives of the deceased after post-mortem examination. The police registered a case under Sections 279 and 304-A of the IPC.

Encroachments removed

Dera Bassi, October 1
Following orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the administration cleared around 20 encroachments on common panchayat land by the pond at Jolly village here today.

Village sarpanch Kiranpal Kaur and BSP activist Narinder Singh demanded that illegally constructed buildings on the land should also be removed. — OC

One booked for bonded labour
Our Correspondent

Lalru, October 1
The Lalru police has booked the owner of a brick kiln at Rampur Bhal, near here, for keeping bonded labourers.

A case was registered on the recommendation of the Dera Bassi SDM. The victims had approached the National Human Rights Commission.

COURTS

Life term for murder convict
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 1
A local court today awarded life imprisonment to Sher Bahadur of Colony No. 5 in a murder case. It also fined him Rs 5,000. The court acquitted six other accused.

According to information, labourer Alamuddin had an altercation with Sher Bahadur and the other accused on June 21, 2009, over money. Sher Bahadur and the other accused later beat him up, resulting in his death.

CRIME

Two arrested for snatching car at knife-point
Tribune News Service

Mohali, October 1
With the arrest of two youths, the Mohali police claims to have solved a case of robbery. The accused have been identified as Deepak Chopra of Sector 20 at Panchkula and Sarbjit Singh of Phase V here.

Giving this information, Mohali SSP GS Bhullar said the accused snatched an Indica car from Surjit Singh of Dadu Majra Colony, driver with the Punjab Health System Corporation in Phase VI, at knife-point around 9 pm on September 19.

He said Deepak was a student of computer electronics at a Kharar college and Sarbjit a drug addict with a criminal past. The accused would be produced in court tomorrow, an official said.

‘Thief’ nabbed

In another case, the police arrested Happy of Mohali, recovered stolen shuttering material from his possession and impounded his auto-rickshaw.

The SSP said the police had registered a case on the complaint of Inderjit Singh, a government contractor and resident of Sector 68, who reported that iron goods were lying at the construction site of the foot overbridge at Phase 3B2 here.

Impersonation in exam

The police booked six persons on Friday for impersonating during the Punjab School Education Board examination at the Government Senior Secondary School of Silaba village in Kurali.

Of these, the police arrested Amanpreet Singh, Sandeep Singh and Gurpreet Singh. A complaint was lodged by centre superintendent Harnek Singh. A case under Sections 419 and 420 of the IPC was registered.

Man held for fraud
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 1
A resident of Mohali was arrested in a case of cheating yesterday. Rakesh Malhotra, a resident of Sector 39-B said in a complaint to the police that he purchased a house in Sector 39-B from Swaran Singh of Mohali. Swaran Singh and his son Gurwinder Singh had claimed that the house was free from all sorts of encumbrances. The sale consideration of Rs 10 lakh was paid by him to Swaran Singh through cheque. However after five years, the complainant came to know that the house was attached with Punjab National Bank and a suit was pending in the DRT, Delhi. During the course of proceedings, the complainant learnt that Swaran Singh was aware of the attachment orders against the house for which they had executed a sale deed in his favour. After investigation, the police registered a case and arrested Gurwinder Singh, a resident of SAS Nagar, on September 30.

Panchayat dept staffers booked
Tribune News Service

Mohali, October 1
The police has registered a case of cheating and forgery against certain officials of the Punjab Rural Development and Panchayat Department.

They had reportedly issued transfer orders of panchayat secretaries, which were found to be fake.

Following investigations by the department’s Director, the police registered a case.

SPORTS

Dhruv Pandove trophy
Hyderabad takes lead against MP
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 1
Excellent batting performance by R Kaundaniya (103 and 47) enabled Hyderabad to take a two-point lead against the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Academy (MPCA) in a match that concluded at the Sector 16 cricket stadium here today.

Resuming at 61 for 5 and chasing 198, the MPCA were bowled out for 114 in 39 overs, thus conceding a vital first innings lead of 84 runs to Hyderabad.

In their second innings, Hyderabad scored 184 for 6 in 46 overs and declared their innings, with V Reddy scoring an unbeaten 81 and R Kundiyan 47. For the MPCA, Aditya Singh (2 for 34) was the main wicket taker.

In their second innings, the MPCA were 48 for 2 in 19 overs when stumps were drawn. Rayan Kaundinya was declared BALLS man of the match.

In the second match, Mumbai while resuming at their overnight score of 98 for 1 went on to score 304 for all in 93.3 overs and eked out a lead of 106 runs over Kerala. The Mumbai innings revolved around a punishing century 138 by Akash Parkar who ably supported by Akarisht Gumal 40 and Ninad Kadam 41. For Kerala medium pacer Abhishek Mohan 5 for 73 and Saly Vishwanath 4 for 103 did most of the damage.

Trailing by 106 runs on the first innings Kerala were 112 for 4 in their 2nd innings in 30 overs at draw of stumps. Saly Vishwanath 54 not out, Akshay Chandran 25 not out were the principal run getters for their team. Harshal Soni 2 for 45 and Roystan Dias 2 for 23 scalped the four wickets that fell in the Kerala innings. Harshal Soni for a match haul of 9 wickets was declared BALL man of the match. Mumbai got two points for the first innings lead and Kerala got zero.

Excellent bowling spell by Sandeep Singh 5 for 65 and Rahun Kanojia 4 for 53 enabled the PCA-I to take two point against Bengal in the third match held at Dhruv Pandove Cricket Stadium, Patiala. Bengal started their run chase against Punjab-I in a positive manner with their opener Writiek Chatterjee and Kaushik Ghosh putting on 77 runs for the first wicket before kaushik was caught by wicket keeper Mohit Handa off the bowling of right arm leg Sandeep Singh for 40. Chatterjee was joined by skipper Sandeepan Das and the duo put on 39 runs for the 3rd wicket before Chatterjee was trapped in front by Sandeepan for 62. Sandeepan and Vivek Singh then stitched a fruitful partnership of 82 runs for the fourth wicket before Sandipan s was caught by Jaskaran off Amritpal for 61. Vivek also left soon after scoring 44.

Thereafter it was a regular slide as Bengal folded up for 227 in 78.5 overs. For PCA - I Kanojia and Sandeep Singh did most of the damage as PCA - I won on first innings lead of 106 runs. Sandeep Singh was declared the BALL man of the match award.

Camp for special athletes ends
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 1
The first national coaching camp of softball organised by the Special Olympics Bharat Chandigarh Chapter being held to train the special players for the first National softball Championship and World Summer Games to be held in Los Angles in 2015, concluded here today.

More than 353 special athletes and 70 coaches from 17 different states of the country, who had come to learn the basic and general rules of the game, participated in the seven-day coaching camp, which commenced from September 25 at St. John's Sec-26 grounds here today.

Dr Gurcharan Singh Gill, technical expert of softball, briefed about the technical skills of the game to the athletes and coaches about the softball with fundamental skills (bating, catching, fielding, pitching, base to base run, method of stealing base) individual skill test and the latest rules and regulations of the game.