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Five booked in gang rape case
Safety net tested for PM’s visit to Golden Temple
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Chawla turns to social service
Amritsar, December 31State Social and Family Welfare Minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla has decided to retire from active politics. The 69-year-old minister will take up social service and work for backward families belonging to the border town. Welfare of women and children will be her priority. Chawla said she will resign from active politics. Laxmi Kanta Chawla
LPG dealer fined Rs
25,000 for not delivering cylinder
Internal fueds cripple working
of Kshetriya Shri Gandhi Ashram
CEC nod for Civil Surgeon’s transfer
content of being a writer
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Five booked in gang rape case
Amritsar, December 31 The Goindwal police has booked five persons, including a couple belonging to the same village, in this connection. Old enmity between the two families is said to be the reason behind the horrific incident. Earlier, the Jandiala police, under whose jurisdiction the girl was found and Goindwal police under whose jurisdiction the incident had occurred, were passing the buck on the issue of registration of a case and subsequent action. Harjit Singh, SHO Goindwal police said a case under Section 365, 366 and 376, besides other relevant sections of the IPC has been registered against the accused on the basis of the statement of the victim. The police has booked Sukha Singh, a resident of the same village that the victim belongs to, his wife and three unidentified youths in this connection. In her complaint, the victim had alleged that the accused tied her mouth and covered her face before bundling her into their vehicle. They took her to an unknown place where the three accused raped her repeatedly. After committing the crime the accused threw her at a secluded apot on the Amritsar-Jalandhar highway near Manawala in a semi-conscious condition. The Jandiala police found the girl and admitted her to the Community Health Centre at Manawala. The girl was in shock after the incident and narrated her tale to her family members who arrived to the hospital after receiving information from the police. “We are yet to initiate a probe. We will move an application for the medical examination of the girl,” he said. The accused are absconding from their residence since the registration of the case.
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Safety net tested for PM’s visit to Golden Temple
Amritsar, December 31 Singh is scheduled to arrive in the evening today. He will pay obeisance at Darbar Sahib and Durgiana Temple in the wee hours tomorrow. Various intersections on the way from Saragarhi parking to the Golden Temple will be sealed just before the arrival of the PM to the temple while no two wheelers will be allowed beyond Shani Temple near the shrine. The Special Protection Group, Punjab police jawans and the SGPC task force conducted a mock drill in and outside the temple today. A large number of policemen and officials have also been called from Gurdaspur, Batala, Tarn Taran besides Amritsar rural police district for his security. Gurdaspur police will be deputed at the airport while Batala police will be deployed on the route from the Airport to the Circuit House and then to the Golden Temple. Amritsar Rural police personnel will be deployed at the Circuit house and Tarn Taran police will stand guard at Durgiana Temple.
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Chawla turns to social service
Amritsar, December 31 She said her aim is to ensure that the target groups benefit from social welfare schemes. She said a number of slum colonies exist in city yet their inhabitants are unaware of these schemes being offered by the Centre and state governments. She said there are 400 social security schemes being funded by the Centre and monitored by the state government. She said many of them will be implemented by NGOs. She already runs an NGO Shakti in the city. She said her NGO will bring about perceptible changes in the lives of the needy. Previously, as a health minister she was instrumental in introducing the schemes whereby hundreds of children were treated for congenital heart diseases, cancer and thallassemia. Her simple way of living, unassuming style of working have earned her many admirers whereas non-tolerance towards ‘Sifarish’ earned her many foes as well. Raised in a family associated with the Sangh Parivar, Chawla initiated her political career with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). She credits eminent Communist leader, Vimla Dang, from whom she received school education, as having moulded her personality. She earned the sobriquet of a firebrand leader for leading campaigns against bride burning in the 1970s, acting underground on behalf of the Sangh during the Emergency era and openly speaking against terrorism in Punjab in the ’80s. She topped among the few leaders of the state who spoke out in favour of the victims of terrorist violence irrespective of their religion. She campaigned for mental hospital inmates in the state, many of whom had been abandoned by their families. Chawla contested the Assembly elections for five times and won it thrice.
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LPG dealer fined Rs
25,000 for not delivering cylinder
Amritsar, December 31 Parkash Yadav, a resident of Batala road, stated before the forum that he had got the gas cylinder booked on August 18 but the same was never delivered to him. He further stated that when he took up the matter with Didar Gas Agency, the employees claimed the delivery had already been made. On September 29, he filed a compliant with the forum to get the supply as per the booking already made by him. Om Parkash produced the consumers’ passbook in the court to prove that the delivery had not been made. Considering the passbook as evidence which lacked an entry if the gas was delivered, the forum directed the gas agency to be regular in its supply to its customers. The complainant had demanded a compensation of Rs 50,000 for the inconvenience and humiliation caused to him. He said he and his family had to eat out because the two cylinders with their connection were lying empty. In the judgment, the forum observed, “The LPG gas is a dire necessity these days and the complainant and his family suffered a lot because they could not prepare meals.” The forum has asked for the orders be complied within a month from the date of receipt of the copy of the orders failing which proceedings under Section 27 of the Consumer Protection Act will be initiated against the gas agency.
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Internal fueds cripple working
of Kshetriya Shri Gandhi Ashram
Amritsar, December 31 President of the Trust TP Acharya said they have been holding protests for past three days and had kept the shops closed to register their protest. He said the employees of KSGA had not received their salaries for the past eight months. Meanwhile, the Communist Party Marxist (CPM) secretary Jagtar Singh Karampura has demanded registeration of FIR in the assault. He said people responsible for taking the law into their own hands must be brought to book. Established to provide employment opportunities to people belonging to the rural areas at their doorstep, the Amritsar zone, covering Punjab, Lucknow and Jammu and Kashmir, has been unable to provide jobs even to daily wagers, weavers and charkha spinners for the past several months due to internal feuds. Earlier, employees of the Amritsar zone had been on strike for one and a half month. The zone has 10 commercial outlets under its jurisdiction. As a result of internecine feuds, the number weavers and charkha spinners has dwindled sharply. At present, 740 weavers, charkha spinners and other artisans, spread across Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Lucknow are associated with it. Internal strife forced the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises to hand it over to Khadi and Village Industry Commission (KVIC), Chandigarh, in 2010. Among other expenditure, Rs 22 lakh were spent annually to pay interest establishment and office expenditure of the KSGA which came about to be Rs 54 lakh per annum, Acharya said. A section of its employees alleged financial mismanagement and irregularities against a group of employees. Employees have not been paid salary for the past eight months. Of 41 KSGAs across the country, the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, allocated Woollen Khadi Cluster to 34 centres three years ago. Under the cluster, Amritsar zone was allocated a grant of Rs one crore for merino wool and desi wool to produce clothing for shirting, coating, tweed, hosiery, readymade garments, blankets and namda. A section of the agitating employees alleged that the raw material was shown to have been procured on inflated prices and salary was released to persons, who were never employed. Acharya said the Vigilance department of the Khadi and Village Industries, Mumbai, is conducting an inquiry and its four-member team visited the city on December 20 and 21 in this regard.
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CEC nod for Civil Surgeon’s transfer
Amritsar, December 31 Earlier, the State Health and Family Welfare department had asked for an approval for the transfers. As per the approval santioned by the Chief Election Commissioner, Punjab Civil Surgeon, Amritsar, Dr Avtar Singh Jarewal, will be transferred to Jalandhar. Taking his place will be Dr Manjit Singh Randhawa who will be appointed to the post of Civil Surgeon for Amritsar. Dr Randhawa is also the president of Punjab Punjab Civil Medical Services Association. Dr Jarewal had joined as the Civil Surgeon here only few months back. However, sources said copy of the orders for the transfers have not yet reached the office. Post swap
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On the write path, city girl scripts reel fantasies
Neha Saini Tribune news Service
Amritsar, December 31 “My first book was a story based on my own struggle of a small town girl who wanted to make it big in the city of dreams. Bits of the story does remind me of my own problems, unfortunately the steamy and nice bits are just fiction,” says the writer who was born and brought up in the city. Interacting with the audiences at a book reading session, Kanika was at her candid best. “It’s because I am in my hometown. People will be surprised to know that most Punjabis who work in the film industry are connected someway or the other to Amritsar,” she reveals. Back to her debut novel, ‘Bombay Duck is a Fish’ gives a glimpse of the good, bad and ugly in Bollywood. “Once you are a part of the film industry there are a lot of conflicts between the real and reel life. Issues that the newcomers from small towns face, cultural and emotional shocks become an everyday thing. The book is an attempt to put forth those very facts,” she says. But for her the struggle didn’t last long as she started working with Red Chillies Entertainment, as a content writer for movies like ‘Om Shanti Om’, ‘Billu Barber’ and ‘Ra.one’. “It’s an amazing experience working with SRK. He is completely selfless and helpful,” is her take on the king Khan. But writing for movies is a different ball game for this young author. “Movies are for a much bigger audience, you are writing with someone’s else’s vision and there are a lot of people involved in the creative process. But writing a book is a personal thing, you control it and its your story.” As for her next, it will be a different story.
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The area around the Golden Temple turned into a police cantonment as a large number of police personnel were deputed outside the holy shrine in view of the personal visit of the Prime Minister.
