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Fatehgarh Sahib, March 17
A newly married young woman allegedly committed suicide at the residence of her in-laws. The deceased has been identified as Gurjeet Kaur, 22, wife of Gurpreet Singh belonging to Badla village, Baddi Pathana. The mother of the deceased, Jaswant Kaur lodged an FIR with the Bassi Pathana police in this regard. She also alleged that the in-laws of her daughter used to harass her unnecessarily. She also alleged that when she reached her in-laws, there was no one at their house and her daughter’s body was lying.

The police brought the body to the Civil Hospital for the postmortem examination and handed over to her parents.

Patiala, March 17
A two-day national symposium on “Education and Research in Forensic Science: Issues and Challenges”, organised by the department of forensic science, Punjabi University, Patiala, concluded here. The symposium provided a forum for deliberation on issues relating to forensic education and research.

Over 200 delegates from all over the country attended this prestigious symposium and deliberated over the main theme of the symposium. Dr Narinder Bhargav, SSP, SBS Nagar, an old student of the department was the chief guest at the valedictory function. He emphasised that the forensic science had played a pivotal role in the criminal justice system, providing crucial information about the evidence to the of fact because the work done by the forensic scientists at the crime scene and in the laboratory often must be used in court.

He said it is important that the training and education of forensic scientists provide a solid scientific background and a broad base in criminalistics.

Kalka, March 17
The team of the town-planning department accompanied with officials of the district administration had to return empty handed yesterday as they failed to demolish more than 58 illegal structures in Anchal Vihar colony near Lohgarh village of Pinjore.

According to the information, the DTP team headed, by Hitesh Sharma and Tehsildar Naresh Jogwal, accompanied with posse of the policemen had to face the stiff resistance from the local residents, who claimed that they had the registry of the plots and appropriate documents with regard to the ownership of the properties.

Meanwhile, the officials of the DTP and that of the local administration said that the construction was illegal and violated the Periphery Act. They said that they had served notices to 58 persons in this regard, recently. If the people failed to demolish their structure on their own within a week they would again come again to demolish these.

It is pertinent to mention here that last year, too, the officials of the DTP had demolished some of the illegal structures in the village.

Panchkula, March 17
Justice RK Garg of the Punjab and Haryana High Court visited the district court complex on an annual inspection, here today.

According to the information, Justice Garg also inspected the functioning of the courts besides checking the annual records and the staff in the court complex. While expressing satisfaction, he also lauded the functioning of the courts and its staff. He also inspected the new building in the court complex.

Later, he also visited the Juvenile court, which is held on every Saturday in Haryana Seeds Corporation in Sector 2.

While appreciating the working of the court, he also listened to the problems being faced by the advocates in the complex.

District and Sessions Judge Anita Chaudhary, Deputy Commissioner Ashima Brar, the DCP Maneesh Chaudhary, ACJM Rakesh Singh, the CJM Gurvinder Kaur and the SDM Sharandeep Kaur Brar were among those present on the occasion.

Mohali, March 17
The CIA staff, today, nabbed a dreaded criminal, Gurbhej Singh, who had helped his accomplice Amit Kamboj in escaping from the clutches of the police last month.

Giving details, the SSP Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, said that Gurbhej Singh alias Lali, along with Gurmel Singh alias Gendu and Anu Dharmiani, wife of Gurmel, Kalu and Sunil, helped in making Kamboj escape, who was taken back to Faridkot after his court hearing in Mohali, here on February 23. Kamoj was accused in murder, robbery and several snatching cases.

“Kamboj was coming back to Fardikot after his court hearing, when Lali along with his four accomplices attacked the police party by putting chilly powder in the eyes of policemen, near Mullanpur Dakhan, and helped Kamoj in running. That time Ritu Kamboj, friend of Amit Kamboj was also with them,” said Bhullar.

Ritu was the same woman, who had burnt the turban of a police official in Mohali courts, a couple of months ago.

A country made pistol and some cartridges were also recovered from Lali’s possession. The police has registered Lali under Sections 25, 54, 59 under 
Arms Act.

The accused was produced in Kharar court today and was sent on two-day police remand.

Chandigarh, March 17
The Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) will open six special coaching centres for players in the 13 to 15 age group.

The decision to start the PCA special coaching centres for advance training of players in the age group of 13 to 15 was taken after discussions between the technical committee and the forum of district secretaries.

MP Pandove stated that there would be 20 trainees in each centre comprising three openers, one wicket keeper, six middle order batsmen, six fast bowlers and four spinners. In case of non-availability of players in any of the department, one or two adjustments would be made.

The PCA has appointed two selectors from the central pool for each district with one selector to be appointed locally by the district cricket association for trials.

The trials will be conducted at various centres as per the given schedule.

Chandigarh, March 17
An all-round performance by Vijay Bhasin (80 runs and 3 for 17) enabled BTS to defeat AG Haryana Cricket Club in the third match of Saupin’s 32 Veteran Cricket Tournament (above 50) held today.

After winning the toss, BTS-48 elected to bat first and scored 165 runs for the loss of four wickets in their stipulated 20 overs. Vijay Bhasin made 80 runs off 65 balls. Harish Sharma and T Gupta scored 33 and 22 runs off 21 and 26 balls, respectively. For AG-Haryana, Baljeet Bawa was the pick of the bowlers as he took three wickets by giving away 18 runs.

In reply, AG-Haryana Cricket Club were bundled out for 105 runs with two overs to spare. Baljeet Bawa scored 27 runs off 29 balls while Shetty made 18 runs off 19 balls. For BTS, Parveen Sharma, Vijay Bhasin took three wickets each by giving 17 and 20 runs, respectively, whereas Antaraatam Singh took two wickets by giving 28 runs.

Tomorrow’s fixture

BTS-48 Vs CCA-Haryana Cricket Club at 10 am at BTS school ground in Sector 48.

Mohali, March 17
Kedar Jadhav enabled West Zone to defeat East Zone by 108 runs in the first semifinals of the Prof DB Deodhar Trophy being held at the PCA Cricket Stadium here today.

Kedar Jadhav of West Zone was named man of the match. With this win, West Zone have booked a berth in the final. They will take on winners of the North Zone and Central Zone tie at Dharamsala on March 18.

After winning the toss, East Zone skipper decided to field first and his decision boomeranged as West Zone openers Parthiv Patel and Ajinkya Rahane put on 84 runs for the first wicket before Rahane was caught by Ishant Jaggi off the bowling of Laxmi Rattan Shukla for 36. Parthiv Patel was the next to go when he was caught by Nadeem off AA Nandi after scoring 69. Thereafter, Kedar Jadhav and Cheteshwar Pujara accumulated 171 runs for the third wicket before Pujara was castled by Shammi Ahmed for 70. Suryakant Yadav also played a quick fire cameo of 21 runs off 11 balls enabling his team to finish the day at 342 for 7 in 50 overs. For East Zone, Shammi Ahmad was the main striker as he scalped four wickets giving away 62 runs. Nandi was another wicket taker who scalped two wickets for 56 runs.

In reply, East Zone got off to a disastrous start as their opener DS Jadhav was trapped in front by medium pacer Unadkat for 2 with the team’s total reading at 2. Ishant Jaggi was the next to go being castled by Iqbal Abdullah for 22 off 31 balls. Abdullah then struck two vital blows when he removed AP Majumdar 21 and Laxmi Rattan Shukla 3 in quick succession to reduce East Zone to 60 for 4 in 14 overs. Saurab Tiwari kept one end up while Iqbal Abdullah was wreaking havoc at the other end. Saurabh hammered an unbeaten century 112 off 95 balls.

Score

West Zone: 342 for 7 in 50 overs (Parthiv Patel 69, A Rahane 36, Cheteshwar Pujara 70, Kedar Jadhav 114, Surya Yadav 27, Shammi Ahmd 4 for 62, AA Nandi 2 for 56).

East Zone: 234 for all out in 40 overs (Saurav Tiwari 112 not out, S.Nadeem 26, Ishant Jaggi 22, A.P.Majumdar 21, Iqbal Abdullah 6 for 32 and JD Unadkat 2 for 50).