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Dera Bassi, January 19 Head of the static surveillance team AK Sharma said the seized money would be handed over to the income tax department. Police personnel with the cash recovered from a vehicle at the Dappar toll plaza in Dera Bassi on Thursday. A Tribune photograph
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Company told to pay damages
Mohali, January 19 Balbir Singh had in a complaint under Section 12 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, stated that he had got his Skoda-Octavia (Rider model 2005) car insured with the company. The car came in contact with a heavy flow of water on September 2, 2010, while being driven on the road separating Sectors 70 and 71,
Mohali. As a result thereof, the engine of the car broke down. The matter was reported to the company and on its instructions the car was brought to the workshop of Krishna Auto Sales, Chandigarh. After that, the company sent a surveyor, Saravjeet Singh, to the workshop. On his instructions, engineers and mechanics of the workshop opened the engine and removed the damaged parts with a view to assessing the loss. The surveyor prepared his survey report and submitted it to the company. On the instructions of the surveyor, the workshop repaired the engine of the car and made the same in a running condition. The workshop prepared a bill of repair charges totalling Rs 96,520. On the directions of the surveyor, the complainant paid the repair charges from his pocket. The surveyor gave an assurance that Rs 96,520 would be reimbursed to him by the company. Instead of reimbursing the same, the company settled the claim for Rs 17,313 only and denied the claim to the remaining amount on the grounds that “internal parts inside the engine body could not be damaged merely by coming in contact with the water” and that as per policy terms and conditions, the loss was not covered by the policy. Condition No.2 (a) says “consequential loss, depreciation, wear and tear, mechanical or electrical breakdown, failures or breakages” is not covered. The complainant said he was entitled to the reimbursement of the remaining amount as well. The complainant alleged deficiency in service on the part of the company and sought directions to its representatives concerned to pay him the remaining charges to the tune of Rs 79,207 with interest thereon, compensation for harassment and agony and litigation expenses. However, the company branch office concerned and the claim department stood by their letters reiterating that the remaining amount of Rs 79,207 could not be reimbursed to the complainant on account of Condition 2 (a) of the terms and conditions. They also pleaded that their surveyor assessed the loss to the tune of Rs 17,313 only and they had paid this amount to the complainant. Denying any deficiency in service, they sought the dismissal of the complaint. After careful consideration of the arguments and evidence, the forum comprising BS
Mehandiratta, president, Dr SS Dhaliwal and HK Ghuman, members, directed the company to reimburse to the complainant the remaining amount to the tune of Rs 79,207 with interest thereon at the rate of 9 per cent per annum with effect from January 3, 2010, (the date on which they paid the amount of Rs 17,313) till the date of actual payment. The company was told to pay Rs 3,000 as costs of litigation totalling Rs 3,000.
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Two acquitted of dowry death charges
Panchkula, January 19 The prosecution failed to prove the allegations following which Sessions Judge Anita Chowdhary acquitted both the accused. The police said Meena Devi, the mother of Anil Kumar, suffered burn injuries on May 30, 2009. When Meena was taken to a hospital, Sushma committed suicide. Later, Meena Devi also died in the hospital. Before succumbing to her injuries, she told the police that her daughter-in-law had set herself on fire. On the other hand, Sushma’s parents alleged that their daughter was killed by husband Anil and his father Shishpal, who were harassing her for bringing Rs 3 lakh.
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2 convicted of drug smuggling
Chandigarh, January 19 The court convicted Paramjit Singh of Amritsar and Festus Benson of Burundi, who were nabbed with eight-kg heroin on November 30, 2007. They were intercepted at the grain market in Sector 39. Paramjit came in his car to deliver the consignment to Festus. As the delivery was being made, NCB officials nabbed them.
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Six theft cases reported in city
Chandigarh, January 19 Ram Parsad, resident of Ram Darbar, reported that 41 kg steel screws and one sack of scrap iron were stolen from the Industrial Area last night. In another case, Veer Singh of Phase I, Ram Darbar, reported that Rs 5,000 in cash, four gold rings, five pairs of gold earring, two gold nosepins, one VCR, and two bottles of liquor were stolen from his residence last night. Parveen Kumar, a resident of Colony Number 4, alleged that Partap of Mani Majra was caught red-handed while stealing bicycle from near Sector-20. The accused in this case has been arrested. In a similar case Suresh Kumar resident of Kishangarh, alleged that Ajay Kumar, resident of Sector 56, was caught stealing mobile phone from the aforementioned address on January 18. Dalip Bagri of Industrial Area alleged that Laxman Bahadur Thapa of Nepal was caught stealing a 50-kg iron rod from his plot. The accused has been arrested in the case as well.
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Four cases of cheating registered
Chandigarh, January 19 The complainant added that the duo neither sent her abroad, nor returned the money. Ajit was
arrested and a case of cheating under Section 420 and 120-B of the IPC registered at the Sector-19 police station. In a similar case, Devinder Singh of Sangrur reported that Subarmaniam Pandian, Kapil and Vandana of Hilltop’s Immigration at Sector 15 took Rs 7 lakh from him for sending him abroad, but he was defrauded. In another case, Ram Singh reported that Javed Aslam of Mohali and
Ashwani Kumar of Sector 52 took Rs 4.5 lakh from him by assuring him of his appointment with the Railways as ticket-checker. The complainant, a mechanic with the Haryana Roadways depot residing at Sector 20, added that the duo neither secured his appointment, nor returned the money. In yet another case, PN Khanna of Panchkula reported that Abhimanyu Sharma and Seema Sharma of Sector 7 cheated him of Rs 1.85 crore.
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SHO booked
Mohali, January 19 As per information, a court official, Om Parkash, had gone to submit the court order regarding the possession of the shop. But the SHO allegedly helped the tenant in retaining the possession of the shop.
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Raghav pips Arshad in sudden death playoff
Chandigarh, January 19 He won the sudden death playoff against Delhi’s Arshad Ali after a birdie on the 19th. Five-down after the front nine, Bhandari started hitting good strokes. He won the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th to be one-down. He lost the 14th to go two-down. After halving the 15th, he won the 16th and 17th. Fiftyeight-year-old IPS Mann used his experience to register a win against Curtis Griffiths of
England. He missed birdies on the 4th, 5th, 6th and 16th. After a couple of par putts, Mann came back after Griffiths’ ball got stuck in a tree on the 16th. Jack Colegate of England went down to Bengaluru’s Trishul Chinappa. The day witnessed two more sudden death playoffs. The first saw Kolkata’s SK Pappu defeat Mohd Dulal Hossain. In the second, Nijita Bandara of Bangladesh overcame Kapurthala’s Ashbeer Singh Saini. Delhi’s Shubhankar Sharma, a junior-circuit player, defeated Udayan Mane 3-2 after tricky shots. His second on the first hole went to the fence, from where he hit the eight-iron for a safe bogey. He won the second after a par and the third after a double bogey to go two-up. He remained one-up after Mane birdied the 4th to win the hole. After halving the 8th, 9th and 10th, Shubhankar won the 11th, 13th
and 14th to go four-up. Mane won the 15th and ended the game on the 16th. Mohd Nazim of Bangladesh beat Sri Lankan N Thangaraja by 2-1. The top amateur in his country, Nazim was three-down after losing the 1st, 2nd and 3rd. He came back one-down after halving the 4th and winning the 5th and 6th. They equalled the 8th, but Nazim won the 9th and 10th to go two-up. Top Indian amateur S Chikkarangappa defeated Delhi’s Siddharth Semwal 5-3. Chikka won the 2nd, 6th, 8th, 9th, 13th, 14th and 15th, losing only the 5th and 11th. Hundred-year-old athlete Fauja Singh visited the golf course. “I am
happy to see young players working hard to keep the game alive in the city. I wish they
stay away from bad habits,” he said. Players qualifying for pre-quarter-finals: HS Kang beat Aman Guran, Angad Cheema beat
Col SK Lakra, Khalin Joshi beat Jasjeet Singh, Karan Taunk beat Man Simran Singh, Simranjeet Singh beat R Marimuthu, Gagan Verma beat Varun Parmar. |
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PU shuttlers clinch inter-varsity title
Chandigarh, January 19 PU team defeated Pune(West Zone No. 2), Osmania University (South Zone No. 1), Delhi University and Guru Nanak Dev University (North Zone No.1) to win the title. “The players have proved their mettle in the all-India level tournament, they are winning top honours for the past five years” said Surinder Mahajan, SAI national coach appointed at Panjab University (PU).Team members were Askshit Mahajan, Oscar Bansal, Saurav Kapoor, Abhishek, Prerak, Hermaninder,
Tarush. |
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handball meet
Chandigarh, January 19 The visiting side faced a bitter defeat from PU 24-22. Two players of Patiala team got injured giving the opponents a full chance to come back in the match and win the match by a margin of
two goals. For PU, Gurmeet (seven goals) and Harwinder (five goals) were the main scorers while for Patiala Supreet contributed six goals and Rajwant scored five goals. In another league match, PU defeated Kurukshetra University 26-23. Gurmeet, Avtar and Veena ensure team’s victory while Silochana scored four goals for Kurukshetra team. Results Delhi University beat Punjabi University, Patiala, 28-19(Delhi: Sanjeeta (nine goals); Punjabi-Rajwant (nine goals); Kurukshetra University beat Delhi University 23-21 (Kurukshetra-Ritu (five goals); Delhi-Preeti seven goals), Sheetal (five goals). |
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national games
Chandigarh, January 19 Garima Goel, Naina Suri, Meghna, Kalyani and Saayna Nagpal defeated Kerla 3-0 in quarterfinals and lost to Gujarat 2-3 in the semifinals. In the match for third place, the team overcame Karnataka 3-0. The team played under the supervision of Harmanpreet Singh and Deepak Sood. |
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Rs 98 lakh seized during naka at Dappar
