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Frame new Constitution, says Badal
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Court order worries Sikhs
CM to meet President today
Of failed hangings and other modes of capital punishment
Industrialists against bandh
‘Khanda’ flags dot streets
Sea of saffron floods Rajoana’s native village
CM gives tips on politics to Cong
News Analysis
DGP Saini to look into vendetta cases
Govt-aided school teachers to gherao treasury offices
Get cracking on drug menace, Punjab told
Man gets life sentence for killing trader
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Frame new Constitution, says Badal
He appealed that the House should pass a resolution in this regard. However, the Opposition did not take up the offer. Badal said the country could not prosper unless it adopted a "genuine" federal system. He said though the Constitution had been framed keeping this in mind, "federalism had not been adopted". Advocating strengthening the states financially, he said this could be achieved only if the Centre returned at least 50 per cent of the revenue collected from then in the form of taxes. The Chief Minister reiterated that Punjab had a right over Chandigarh. He said, "Chandigarh is our spirit." Replying to a question by CLP leader Sunil Jakhar as to what he had done on Chandigarh, Badal claimed everyone knew the state capital was on the verge of being transferred to Punjab and that the plan was put off on the very last night after pressure from Haryana. Indicating that it was the Centre that had failed on this front, he made it clear that the Akalis would not go back to agitation on this issue. "You want agitations? Do you want to take Punjab back to the old days?" he asked. The Chief Minister also claimed that the Centre was interfering in the affairs of the SGPC. He said the Sikh body's general house was yet to be constituted even as the budget was due for presentation before March 31. he said he had appealed to the Prime Minister and the Home Minister in this regard, but to no avail. Badal also claimed the centre was trying to interfere in state subjects by going in for the NCTC (National Counter Terrorism Centre). He said central agencies wanted to control law and order in the states through the NCTC. "Law and order is a state subject. The Centre has no right to interfere on the issue," he said. "Giving search, investigation and arrest powers to central agencies under the NCTC will not be right." The Chief Minister also assured Congressmen that the state was in good hands and that finances would not be a problem. He claimed his last government had performed much better than the earlier Congress one. He said during the last Akali-BJP government, tax collection had increased from Rs 9,000 crore (during the Congress rule) to Rs 20,000 crore. Similarly, he said, the plan size had been increased from Rs 4,000 crore to Rs 11,500
crore.
CM takes on union govt
jurisdiction over Chandigarh
Controversy over NCTC
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...but Opposition demands setting up of commission for investigation
Chandigarh, March 27 This, despite assurances by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal that his government would not indulge in vendetta. Badal said, "I will ask the Home Minister (Sukhbir Badal) to get all vendetta cases reviewed by a team of senior police officials." Not satisfied with the reply, Jakhar said a commission, headed by a retired High Court judge, should be set up to review all such cases. While the ruling and the opposition parties traded charges over vendetta, Badal took on the Congress saying it was the Capt Amarinder Singh government that had booked his wife, son and other relatives in false cases. "The moment I was exonerated by the court, I decided to burry the hatchet and withdrew all cases against Amarinder," he told the House. "I assure, there will be no vendetta." Badal said there were 182 cases that would be reviewed over the next two weeks. He said if any police official was found guilty of booking a Congress leader or worker in a false case, he would be suspended. Jakhar said the initiative was welcome. He said he had a list of around 20 such cases with him in the House. Soon after the Zero Hour, Congress MLA Tarlochan Singh, while replying to the Governor's address, raised the issue of punishing those behind the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. He said even all those who were killed by the militants should find a mention. Tarlochan Singh's father Jagat Ram, a former minister, was also killed by militants. He even referred to the killing of RSS workers in Punjab. Seeing the debate drifting away from the Governor's address, Revenue Minister Bikramjit Singh Majithia raised a point of order saying the debate was leading into the wrong direction and asked the Speaker to intervene. Jakhar intervened to say it was the duty of the government to maintain peace and the Congress would support all initiatives in this regard. He also asked Health Minister Madan Mohan Mittal to make the BJP's stand on terrorism clear. Congress leader Rana Sodhi sought the replacement of Para 17 of the Governor's address saying it had cited misleading figures. He also challenged the claims of the SAD-BJP alliance on health and education saying the credit for the ambulance service should be given to the UPA Government that had funded the scheme. Sodhi said the government had set up a corpus of Rs 20 crore for the treatment of cancer patients in the state, which was inadequate as each patient required treatment worth over Rs 1
lakh. zero hour Congress Legislature Party leader Sunil Jakhar (in pic) raised the issue of cases registered out of 'vendetta' cases party leaders and workers during the Zero Hour in the Vidhan Sabha here
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Rajoana
hanging
Patiala, March 27 Citing a 1982 case in the Supreme Court in Harbans Singh versus state of UP, the jail refused to receive the death warrant. After the Chandigarh Court rejected their plea, the Jails Department is now preparing to move the High Court against the hanging orders. Highly placed sources confirmed that whatever be the outcome of the appeal in the higher court, the Jails Department would not go ahead with the proposed hanging scheduled for March 31. "The plea may go to the Supreme Court while the government will approach the President of India to ensure that the hanging is either postponed or converted to life term," they stated. Insiders in the Patiala Central Jail revealed that the Jails Department's stand could be known from the fact that it had officially not tried to either locate a hangman or got the execution area repaired. "It has not been used for over two decades and if the department wants to hang anyone, the gallows would need a minimum of three days to be set in order," they said. Senior officials confirmed that preparing the gallows was an expert job and only a hangman knew how to prepare these in the right manner. "We were busy in preparing for court replies and drafting pleas on part of the Jails Department and therefore, limited efforts were made to arrange a hangman who could be kept on standby in case the orders are to be executed as the last resort," they said.
Punjab saw Last hanging in 1989
The last execution in Punjab was carried out at the Patiala Central Jail on June 16, 1989, when two brothers Gurcharan Singh and Pritam Singh from Sangrur were hanged to death in a murder case. The hanging was performed by Kaloo, who was specially summoned from the Tihar Jail as Punjab did not have a hangman on its rolls. The last hangman, Faqeera, who was deputed in Patiala, died on duty some three decades ago and the post is vacant since then.
As per the Punjab Jails Manual, 1896, in the absence of an official hangman, the jail authorities could get a hangman from another jail in the country or the deputy jail superintendent of the jail where the convict is to be hanged has to perform the job of a hangman.
khalra mission’s plea turned down Chandigarh: Attempts by the Khalra Mission Committee to keep Rajoana's execution stayed failed to find favour with the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Dismissing the petition on Tuesady, the Bench of Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice AN Jindal asserted: "Once the sentence has been awarded by a competent court, no other court, except the court in appeal or revision, can modify the order of sentence. — TNS
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Court order worries Sikhs
Amritsar, March 27 There is a possibility that the Sikh clergy may hold yet another meeting on Thursday to discuss the issue if there is no “positive development” tomorrow. Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh said the court should have taken into account the entire situation before deciding to maintain the judgment. “Will it be right to hang an accused while the appeal of other co-accused in the case is pending before the SC,” he asked. The Jathedar said the peace had been restored in Punjab after a long period of turmoil and it should be maintained at all costs. “This is possible only when the prevailing situation is averted.” He urged the people to maintain peace and harmony during the bandh tomorrow. Meanwhile, DSGMC chief Paramjit Singh Sarna today met the first secretary to the President, Christy Fernandez, to save Balwant Singh Rajoana from the gallows at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi. Sarna said they told the official that the co-accused in the case, who had more serious charges against them, were given life imprisonment, but Rajoana was awarded death sentence. “We also aired our apprehensions about the move leading to the unrest in Punjab where peace has been prevailing for around one and a half decade now.” He also raised a question mark over the “seriousness of the SAD and the SGPC” over the issue. On the other hand, SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar said the clemency petition moved by them had been submitted at the Rashtrapati
Bhawan. Companies of paramilitary forces & PAP and UP cops
(in pic) have been deployed in the holy city of Amritsar. In other districts of Majha belt too, PAP companies have been deployed to maintain law and order.
Photo: Vishal Kumar
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CM to meet President today
Chandigarh, March 27 They said the CM is expected to urge putting off the directive to hang Rajoana on March 31, as an appeal was being filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court in this connection. Meanwhile, Badal left for Delhi immediately after rounding up the debate on the Governor’s address in the Vidhan today afternoon. He was back in Chandigarh late in the evening. His office said the Chief Minister had gone to Delhi to consult legal experts. Delegation submits clemency petition New Delhi: Even as Punjab-based political parties are vying with each other to save Rajoana from the gallows, a Sikh delegation today submitted a ‘mercy petition’ to President Partibha Patil to commute his death penalty to life sentence. Among the signatories of the petition were Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) chief Parmjit Singh Sarna, Former Additional Solicitor General of India, KTS Tulsi and president of the International Punjabi Civil Society, RS Jaura. Sarna said they met the first secretary to the President, Christy Fernandez, at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi. Sarna said they told the official that the co-accused in the case, who had more serious charges against them, were given life imprisonment, but Rajoana was awarded death sentence. SAD fails to raise issue in Lok Sabha Amid uproar in Parliament on Tuesday due to protest by MPs demanding a separate state of Telengana, Akali Dal leader in the House Ratan Singh Ajnala was unable to raise the issue of Rajoana.
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Of failed hangings and other modes of capital punishment
Incidentally, there are no hangmen in Punjab and the neighbouring states for hanging Balwant Singh for his role in the State's former Chief Minister Beant Singh's assassination. If you are wondering why the job cannot be done by just anyone, you have the classic case of British national John Henry George Lee. Better known as John "Babbacombe" Lee, he survived three hanging attempts for a murder to bag the title of "The Man They Couldn't Hang". Following the series of failed hangings, a committee was formed in 1886 in Britain to discover and report on the most effective manner of hanging. The results were published in 1888. The Official Table of Drops was then published by the British Home Office. The manual is used to calculate the appropriate length of rope for long drop hangings. For an 89-kg man, you need a 5'5" drop. In all, there are four ways of judicial hanging: suspension hanging, the short drop, the standard drop and the long drop. A mechanised form of hanging, the upright jerker, was also experimented with in the 18th century. Its variant is used today in Iran. A hanging can lead to the breaking of the neck or cervical fracture, causing traumatic spinal cord injury or even decapitation. It can also cause death due to the closure of the airway, carotid arteries or the jugular veins. In India, a challenge was thrown to the method of hanging for execution. But, the challenge failed in the Supreme Court. In its 1983 judgment, the apex court held hanging did not involve torture, barbarity, humiliation or degradation. But, the country has not witnessed any execution since 2004 after Dhananjoy Chatterjee was hanged. Currently, 22 cases of death penalty are awaiting execution. Between 1975 and 1991, about 40 people were executed. About 26 mercy petitions are pending before the President, including clemency petition of Davinder Singh Bhullar. Also facing the gallows are Gurdev Singh, Satnam Singh, Para Singh and Sarabjit Singh, awarded death penalty for killing 17 in an Amritsar village in 1991. Rights activists are demanding that India too should join 140 compassionate nations, which have done away with death penalty in law or practice. execution rules elsewhere
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Finally, Rajoana agrees for ‘Zinda Shaheed’ title
Patiala, March 27 In a letter handed over to his sister Kamaldeep Kaur today, Rajoana said he had never turned down the title but had not accepted it citing Sikh tenets. "The five high priests of the Akal Takht have refused to withdraw the title and therefore, I humbly accept it with folded hands," reads the letter. But, sources say Rajoana is still adamant against the clemency plea and he does not want anyone to pursue the matter with the President. In his letter, Rajoana has said he accepted the title of "Zinda Shaheed" as it will make him more determined towards his goals and mission. The letter highlights the drugs menace in the state and has a message by Rojoana for the youth of Punjab. "We should follow our culture and religion and keep away from westernisation," reads the letter. Tight security in place at Patiala Central Jail The Patiala Central Jail has turned into a fortress with heavily armed police and paramilitary forces guarding it round-the-clock. The sources say after tomorrow's Punjab bandh, members of radical organisations would hold a dharna outside the Patiala Central Jail for the next two days. DIG Patiala range LK Yadav has asked the people not to believe in rumours and report anything objectionable to the nearest police station. Patiala SSP Gurpreet Singh Gill said the Punjab Police and paramilitary forces conducted a flag march at various places today. "The situation is under control and we are ensuring foolproof arrangements. Only peaceful demonstrations would be allowed," he said.
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Industrialists against bandh
Chandigarh, March 27 Shops and commercial establishments will remain closed tomorrow in all major cities. Manpreet Singh, president of the Akalgarh Market Association in Ludhiana, said all markets in the city would remain closed tomorrow. "We have distributed letters to all 750 shops in our market, as well as in 58 other markets, asking shopkeepers to down their shutters," he said. But, manufacturing activity is expected to carry on as usual. While pleading with the state government to ensure peace, most of these organisations have expressed fear that such bandh calls could spell the death knell for the recession-hit industry in the state. Badish Jindal, president of the Federation of Punjab Small Industries Association, which has 30 industry associations in its fold, said they had sent SMSes and made calls to all their members, urging them not to succumb to the demand of hardliners. "We have asked all industries to carry on their operations as usual, especially when the administration is assuring of complete security. We have just asked them to be a little cautious," he said. Gunbir Singh, an Amritsar-based businessman and member of the national council on public affairs of the CII, said they wanted peace to be maintained at all costs. "Peace is important for the economic development and we urge the hardliners as well as the government to ensure a peaceful atmosphere," he said.
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‘Khanda’ flags dot streets
Jalandhar/Muktsar, March 27 Responding to an appeal by Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh, a large number of people put up saffron flags atop their houses. Protest marches were taken out in Jalandhar, Phagwara and Hoshiarpur. Most roads in Muktsar are dotted with saffron flags as a mark of protest against the impending hanging of Rajoana. Flags with a 'khanda' printed on these have been hoisted atop every prominent building here. A few Sikh organisations today carried out a protest march in the city while supporting the Punjab bandh call for tomorrow.
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Sea of saffron floods Rajoana’s native village
Rajoana (Raikot), March 27 Flag marches by security forces and appeals by the administration failed to deter them to support Rajoana’s ideology. Irrespective of their political allegiance, the residents are united when it came to the question of Rajoana's life. "We tried to persuade Balwant to make an appeal, but he refused. Now, the government and Sikh organisations should find out some constitutional way to save his life," said Jagdeep Singh, the village sarpanch. "Nobody knows what is in store for us. We will not deviate from the path adopted by our uncle who has preferred death to begging," said Ravneet Singh, Rajoana's nephew.
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CM gives tips on politics to Cong
Chandigarh, March 27 He asked them to reflect on the leadership provided by Pradesh Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh and compare it with the SAD-BJP coalition’s agenda. The Chief Minister was at his witty best during his more than two-hour speech while winding up the debate on the Governor’s address. Elaborating on the party’s historic win, he said this came about because the alliance went to the people seeking a mandate for development, peace, communal harmony, good governance and social welfare. “The people believed us and voted us again to power,” he said. “In contrast, the Congress’s campaign was characterised by uncivilised language”, he said, questioning the leadership qualities of the PCC chief who, he said, had even gone to the extent of threatening his party rebels with a
‘qatl-e-aam’. Badal also accused Amarinder of showing political immaturity by planning his “coronation” even before the poll results were out. He said it was because of this and his “inaccessibility” that even Amarinder’s own party men, including a central minister, had turned against him. “Those who went to Delhi seeking the party ticket were not allowed to meet Amarinder. Only one person, Arvind Khanna, had access to him”. He said Congressmen were themselves now condemning their leader. He said, “Sab kuch lutaa ke hosh me aaye to kya faida, din mein agar chirag jalaya to kya faida (Repenting when all has been lost is of no use, lighting a lamp during daytime too is of no use)”.
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News Analysis
Ashwani Kumar remained in Delhi when his party required him in Punjab. Most of the party leadership in the state is irked over his statements, saying he did not come to Punjab even to cast his vote. Sukhpal Singh Khaira, until the election results, took pride in being known as an Amarinder loyalist. So much so, a few days before the results, he hosted a dinner for Amarinder and what he now calls his coterie. Defending the Congress president, a senior party leader observed: “Amarinder has owned responsibility for the party’s defeat but have these leaders the moral courage to own up responsibility for their own defeats in a similar way ?” Khaira lost despite the fact that he neither faced a rebel nor opposition from within the party and was not affected by the BSP factor. Leaders like him require to introspect and find reasons for their own defeat. Had it not been for the efforts of the PCC chief, Gurdaspur MP Partap Singh Bajwa’s wife would have faced a rebel in Fatehjang Singh, her husband’s brother, in Qadian. Yet Bajwa was the first to raise a banner of revolt against Amarinder. Amarinder may have several shortcomings and a lot to answer for. But to be fair to him, he has already owned responsibility for the party defeat and offered to submit his resignation to the AICC chief. The ball is now in Sonia Gandhi’s court. She is reportedly unhappy over some Congress leaders’ attempt to pressurise her into removing
Amarinder.
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Punjab gets 50K applications for liquor vends, draw today
Patiala, March 27 Sources said that the state government had collected Rs 145 crore through application fees. "This is refundable. It is Rs 30 crore more than what it was during the last financial year," said an official of the Excise and Taxation Department. The official confirmed that for nearly 7,000 liquor vends, including Indian Made Liquor and Punjab Made Liquor (PML), over 50,000 applications were received till Monday. "A draw of lots would be held on Wednesday to allot vends for the next financial year," he said. Official records of the Excise Department states that the maximum number of applications were received in Ludhiana, Mohali, Patiala, Fatehgarh Sahib, Mansa and Ferozepur districts. "These districts had the maximum applicants with many turning up till yesterday," he said. Recently, the Cabinet also approved the excise policy for 2012-13 with an increase of Rs 570 crore over the last year. The excise revenue will touch Rs.3,638.40 crore at the end of March 2013 against the expected excise collection of Rs 3,068 crore for 2011-12. The Cabinet had also decided that an amount of Rs 105 crore out of the total excise collection would be treated as dedicated fund for the Education and the Sports Departments. "By this calculation, the money for the two disciplines has already been earned through application fees alone", said another. The license fee on the PML and the IMFL has been increased by Rs 17 per bottle, while the quota for the current year has been increased by 5.5 percent over the last year. To promote lighter drinks, the maximum retail sale price of light and strong beer has also been fixed at Rs 70 and Rs 75 per bottle. Punjab Excise and Taxation Commissioner A Venu Prasad said that the interest shown by applicants was enormous. "The fee per application was approximately Rs 12,000, but it did not deter individuals to stake claim for vends", he stated.
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DGP Saini to look into vendetta cases
Badal, in a statement in the Assembly, assured the Congress leaders that he had already forwarded the list of such cases (submitted by Jakhar) to the DGP and ordered him to get the entire matter enquired under his direct supervision and submit the report within 15 days. He also told the DGP to keep the CLP leader abreast of the report and the subsequent action taken on it. Earlier, Guruharsahai legislator Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi claimed that Akali legislators who had lost in the elections were mainly resorting to registration of false cases against their rivals. He said nine such cases had been registered in his constituency alone. action assured
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tribune impact
Mirzapur (Kurali), March 27 Parveen Kumar, Conservator of Forests, Shivalik Hills, said records of the area has been sought to ascertain whether areas in question were out of the preview of the PLPA. He said the de-listing was conditional. To warn outsiders who were being sold land in the area in the name of farmhouse sites, the Forest Department has put up warning boards at different places. “Before carrying out construction in the de-listed area, permission has to be sought from the Forest Department and the GMADA,” reads the notice. Officials said that investors were being taken for a ride as they were being sold the land that could not be fragmented under the latest guidelines of the Revenue Department. The clause under de-listing states that the land use cannot be changed.
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Labourer’s son excels in PCS (Judicial) exam
Faridkot, March 27 A resident of Ratti Rori village in the district, Rajinder (30) lost his father Harbans Singh, a daily wager, in 2006. But his mother and uncle, both daily wagers, supported him in pursuing his aim of becoming a judge. "I owe my success to the relentless persuasion of my uncle and mother who kept me urging to achieve my goal," said Rajinder. After his primary education from the government primary school at Kameana village, Rajinder did his matriculation from a government school in Faridkot. For his senior secondary schooling, he joined evening classes at Balbir School here. "Everyday, I used to leave my village early in the morning to reach Faridkot. For first half of the day, I worked as a daily wager and then attend evening classes," he said. After his graduation from Barjindera College, Faridkot, he joined Punjabi University in Patiala for the LLB course. Rajinder's mother Jaswinder Kaur said, "It is very difficult to supplement family income and pursue education at the same time. But he did it with diligence. He took each hurdle as a challenge and cleared it with determination." Child labour is an offence- he knew about this act since his childhood. “Extreme poverty is the main cause of child labour. Children either supplement their parents' income or are the only earners in their family, so for effective stoppage of child labour, the eradication of poverty is necessary," he said.
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Govt-aided school teachers to gherao treasury offices
Fatehgarh Sahib, March 27 "More than 8,000 teachers of the government-aided schools in the state are without salaries from the past six months. They are not been able to sustain their families due to the indifferent attitude of the state government," said Ravinder Joshi, president of the Government-Aided Schoolteacher's Union. He said that salary bills from October 2011 to March 2012 were lying pending with the office of the district treasury officer. He said that the DTO had expressed his inability to pass these bills without orders from the higher authorities. DTO Om Parkash said that salary bills were pending and he had already sent the pendency report to the head office. "I will clear the bills whenever I receive orders from the higher authorities," he said.
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Get cracking on drug menace, Punjab told
Chandigarh, March 27 The directions are significant as estimates suggest approximately 70 per cent of young Punjabi men are hooked on drugs or alcohol. Reports by the United Nations Development Programme and other agencies, in fact, indicate around 73.5 per cent of Punjab’s youth is addicted to drugs sold at a price as low as Rs 25 per dose. Rampant unemployment amongst the youth leading to a deprived psychological state is cited as one of the reasons behind the menace of drugs in cities like Jalandhar, Patiala, Bathinda and Amritsar. The directions came on a petition filed in public interest by Balkar Singh for directions to the State of Punjab and other respondents “to devise a policy for putting an end to the use of narcotics by the youth”. The petitioner had suggested the arresting of end users and “getting leads through them for arresting and prosecuting the chain of suppliers”. Taking up the matter, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Mahesh Grover asserted: “Whenever a violation arises out of use or possession of narcotics, the relevant provisions of law would step in and the offender will have to be dealt with in accordance with law.” “If there is any specific instance where the law is not being enforced in the required manner, the court would certainly intervene. However, the broad and omnibus prayer as made in the writ petition cannot be an appropriate subject matter of judicial consideration”. Disposing of the PIL, the Bench added: “We, therefore, decline to entertain this public interest litigation any further. Instead, we dispose of the same by directing the law enforcement agencies to maintain a strict vigil in the matter of possession and/or use of narcotics in any form and deal with all offender(s) promptly in accordance with the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, or
any other law for the time being in force”.
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Man gets life sentence for killing trader
Ludhiana, March 27 A fine of Rs 15,000 was also imposed upon the accused. The court had declined the plea of leniency raised by the accused. Prosecution said that the accused had killed Gupta to snatch Rs 4.35 lakh he was carrying. The victim was coming back to Mandi Gobindgarh after collecting payments from shopkeepers in Jalandhar on August 6, 2008. The victim had hired the accused to go back to Mandi Gobindgarh. With an intention to snatch money, the accused killed Gupta by piercing a needle-shaped 'sua' meant for cutting ice into his neck. The police arrested the accused from near the Amaltas Hotel when he was looking for a suitable place to dump the body. After seeing the police, the accused tried to run away, but his car could not mover further after hitting an electric pole. A case under Section 302/201 of the IPC was registered against the accused on August 6, 2008 at Salem Tabri police station.
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Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today demanded the setting up of a new constituent assembly to rewrite the Constitution along "genuinely federal lines".
Winding up the debate on the Governor's address, the Chief Minister claimed the Centre was not fulfilling its duties towards the states and that was why the Constitution needed to be rewritten.
The Opposition Congress today demanded the setting up of a commission to probe the alleged fake cases being registered against its workers at the behest of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal.
Congress Legislature Party leader Sunil Jakhar raised the issue during the Zero Hour in the Vidhan Sabha here.
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