NEIGHBOURHOOD

Man run over by train
Our Correspondent

According to information, Gursaid was crossing the rail-track when a train, coming from the Rajpura side, hit him. Gursaid died on the spot. Some passerby informed the railway police that took Gursaid’s body to the Civil Hospital for the postmortem.

Labour electrocuted

In another incident, a labourer was electrocuted near the Jaggi Colony. Sources said Kulbir Singh, a resident of Lohsimbly village was working as a labourer in an under constructed building at the Jaggi Colony. High voltage electric wires were crossing over the building. He came in the contact with a live wire and sustained serious bun injuries. The victim was rushed to the Civil Hospital, Ambala City, where he succumbed to his injuries.

Banur, February 5
The two-day national tech fest “Proudyogikii-12” concluded at Chitkara University, Banur, on Saturday. Nearly 6,500 students from various universities and institutes, including Panjab University, Punjabi University, Kurukshetra University, Thapar University, IIT Roorkee, IIT Mandi, IIT Ropar, NIT Hamirpur, NIT Jalandhar, PEC, GNDU participated in 30 technical and literary events organised by the student chapters of seven national and international technical societies.

“Pragyaan”, the national-level quiz, hosted by quizmaster Gautam Bose, CEO Grey Cells, Kerala, was the highlight of the fest. Teams from PEC and Thapar University bagged first and second prizes in the quiz.

With fierce competition among students, display of cutting-edge technology, technical competitions and workshops to sharpen their skills, tech fest provided a platform to the budding technocrats.

Dr Madhu Chitkara, Vice-Chancellor, congratulated the participants and winners for their enthusiastic and zealous participation and emphasised on the role of such events.

COURTS

HC directives on wards of ex-servicemen
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 5
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Haryana Government that married daughters of ex-servicemen should be given the same consideration as dependent married sons of ex-servicemen for the purpose of employment under various welfare schemes.

The High Court's ruling would bring to an end the existing "discrimination" between sons and daughters of retired military personnel. In fact, the same discrimination exists in some other states too.

The Haryana government policy provided that for the purposes of employment, married sons not having an independent source of income would be considered dependants for the purpose of issuance of a dependant certificate, while married daughters would not be considered even if not having any income. 

This had ostensibly been done by the Haryana Government on the pretext that while a married son could be dependent on his father, a married daughter could not be since she would be dependent on her husband.

Not finding the above distinction reasonable and holding it to be unconstitutional, the High Court has struck down the said clause and it has been held that both married sons and daughters, if not having independent means of livelihood, would be considered eligible for the issuance of the dependant certificate.

Chandigarh, February 5
A pedestrian was killed when he was hit by a heavy vehicle last night at the light point of sector 25 and 38. The police has registered a case under sections 279, 304-A of the IPC against unknown driver who fled from the spot after hitting him.

The pedestrian’s body was badly crushed as many speeding vehicles had run it over. The body was mutilated beyond recognition.

Chandigarh, February 5
High drama was witnessed at the Aroma hotel when some residents of Mohali alleged that they had been duped by a private company here. The residents alleged that the owner of Country Club had duped them after receiving a total of Rs 20,000 in 2000 from each person on the pretext of providing membership of the club. A total of 618 applied for the membership.

“In 2000, the manager of the company (Rajiv Reddy) came to Mohali and allotted us the slips of membership but later we found that it was a fraud,” said Harminder Singh.

Officials of the club said: “We do not know what happened 11 years ago. We have its franchisee and we are working for it,” said an official.

Panchkula, January 5
Two out of the four kidnappers Varinder Kumar and Hanish Ansari, who were involved in the kidnapping of seven-year-old Vijay, son of a roadside vendor, have been sent 
for the police remand for one day.

However, two women involved in the case, wives of Varinder and Hanish, respectively, have been sent to judicial custody at Ambala jail.

It was the second incident of kidnapping in which the poor family was targeted for demanding Rs 5 lakh ransom after kidnapping the seven-year-old child from Ramgarh village on January 26.

The 28-year-old Varinder, a native of Badayun (UP), and his wife Ram Kumari, and 35-year-old Hanish Ansari, native of Bihar and his wife Sakeena were known to the victim’s father, Rishipal. Varinder used to sell “chole-kulcha” and Hanish was working as a mechanic in a village near Ramgarh. It was the first kidnapping attempt by the accused. The ransom call landed accused in the police net.

Earlier, Anil and Sarita, residents of Pinjore, had lost their son during a visit to the Mata Mansa Devi temple on September 29. The incident occurred when Sarita handed over her son to a couple standing in a queue, saying that she needed to drink water. The police recovered the boy on February 1 and had arrested four persons from Gurdaspur and Patiala.

Zirakpur, February 5
A 42-year-old labourer died after he was hit by an unknown vehicle near Baltana link road on the Zirakpur-Kalka highway last night. The deceased has been identified as Jang Bahadur hailing from Bihar.

The incident took place when Jang Bahadur was walking towards Dhakoli side where an unidentified vehicle going towards Panchkula hit him from behind. Jang sustained serious injuries. A passerby immediately called up ambulance service and Jang was rushed to the GMCH-32, Chandigarh, where the doctors declared him brought dead, the police official said.

The body of the deceased was handed over to his family after conducting the postmortem examination. A case has been registered.

The accident has, once again, brought to the fore the failure the authorities concerned to make the stretch safer even as the number of the road accidents have been increasing.

After four-laning of the Zirakpur-Panchkula highway, the road is still not safer for pedestrians. Police sources said that more than 12 road mishaps have been reported on this same spot within one year.

From the past one year, the residents of Baltana and Dhakoli have demanded for setting up of traffic lights near K-Area, as the stretch had become accident-prone. The traffic police has failed to handle the situation, they added.

Panchkula, Feburary 5
Both the teams of women as well as men from Faridabad won the trophies in the respective categories at the Haryana State and Inter-District Carrom Championship which concluded here today. The hosts Panchkula, however, had to be content with the third place while the team from Mewat was declared the runners-up.

Speaking at the closing ceremony, chief guest SS Prasad, Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Haryana, and president of the Haryana Carrom Association, said although our country had won five world championships and other international tournaments, the game was yet to make become popular among the masses due to a lack of publicity.

The following are the results.

Women’s Team Championship

Faridabad (winners): Preeti, Kavita, Hema and Sakshi.

Men’s Team Championship

Faridabad (winners): Mahender Sharma, Saurabh Sharma, DS Dhapola and RK Tewari

Runners-up: Mewat and third position: Panchkula

Cadet girls (under 12 years) winner: Nandini Chawla of Faridabad; runner-up: Nidhi Guddu of Faridabad.

Cadet boys (under 12 years) winner: Divij Banga of Faridabad and runner-up: Naman Dhama of Faridabad.

Sub-junior girls (under 14 years): winner: Riya Goyal of Faridabad and Runner-up: Kirti of Panchkula

Sub-junior boys (under 14 years ) winner: Vipul Sharma of Faridabad, runner-up: Abhishek Nagar of Faridabad.

Junior girls (under 18 years) winner: Mansi Saini of Faridabad, runner-up: Drishti Bhatia of Faridabad.

Junior boys (under 18 years) winner: Ashish Pal of Faridabad, runner-up: Subham Rastogi of Faridabad.

Women singles: winner: Kavita of Faridabad, runner-up: Sakshi of Faridabad.

Men’s singles: winner: Saurabh Sharma of Faridabad, runner-up: Mahender Sharma of Faridabad.

Chandigarh, February 5
CA Chandigarh XI storm into the final of the CA Cup being organised under the aegis of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). CA Chandigarh XI beat CA Bhatinda XI in an one-sided affair by a massive margin of 118 runs.

Played at MES Grounds, Patiala, CA Chandigarh XI batted first and scored 178 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. Sanjeev Khanna scored 76 runs while Mukesh Arora scored 31 runs. Ankush and Mohit from CA Bhatinda XI claimed 2 wickets each.

In reply CA Bhatinda XI were bundled out for 61 runs. Pacers Gurpreet Singh and Krishna Joshi, with their economical bowling, proved disastrous for the opponents. Gurpreet claimed three wickets while Krishna took two. The highest scorer, Sanjeev Khanna, was declared the Man of the Match.