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Teenager gangraped
Mohakampura school cries for decent building
Visitors prefer open area than toilets in Company Bagh
Tributes paid to martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh massacre
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Devotees suffer as VVIPs visit Golden Temple
Indo-Pak peace forum takes out candlelight march
Members of the Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy hold a candlelight march on the anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar on Friday. Photo: Sameer Sehgal
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Seven, including stepmother, booked
PK Jaiswar Tribune News Service
Amritsar, April 12 The police has booked seven persons, including her stepmother, in this connection, while no arrest has been made so far. The case was registered following the directions of the Commissioner of Police, to whom she gave a written complaint. In her statement to the police, the girl alleged that a day before yesterday when she came out of the shrine at about 6 pm, the accused bundled her in their white-colour Safari (bearing number 9222) and threatened to kill her if she raised an alarm. She alleged that they took her to an unknown secluded place and raped her one by one for three hours. After committing the crime, they threw her on a roadside and fled. Those booked include her stepmother Balwinder Kaur, one Brar and his two sons Sukh and Harman, Rana, Master and his unidentified son, all residents of the Naraingarh area in Chheharta. A case under Sections 366, 376, 506 and 120-B of the IPC has been registered against them. She stated to the police that her stepmother had married her when she was just 14-year-old to a drug addict, who used to harass and beat her. She said she had been living separately from her husband for the last couple of years. She alleged that the accused wanted to usurp her property, which was the basic reason of the crime. Ashwani Kumar, SHO, Chheharta police station, said the case was registered following the directions of Commissioner of Police RP Mittal. He said the investigations were under progress.
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Mohakampura school cries for decent building
Amritsar, April 13
Located in the city’s slum locality Mohkampura, the school is functioning on the land of a gurdwara, which shares its wall with the school. Majority of its students come from economically weak families. The paucity of resources at home and wretched condition at the school are enough for students to have little interest in studies. Yet promising students like Mandeep Kaur, whose father works as a labourer, earned laurels for the school as she won cash reward of Rs 2,000 in mathematics last year. However, these students have to sit on mats made from jute bags, while its seven teachers have to manage with limited chairs as there is not adequate furniture in the school. The school has two rooms, a verandah and a dusty foreground. A dingy room and a verandah serve the purpose of classrooms. Another room doubles up as a kitchen and a store. Prevailing unhygienic condition escalates the risk of food being infected. An uncovered toilet seat is out of use. Students are forced to urinate in open, while teachers have to seek help of neighbouring houses. Sources said the Revenue Department allotted 500-sq yard plot each for raising school buildings to four elementary schools Tungpai, Sawan Nagar, Dharma Nagar and Mohkampura in 2004. Except the Mohkampura school, the rest of the three schools managed to construct their buildings. The land belonged to the Irrigation Department. Meanwhile, with the passage of time sewerage was laid on the land and as per the norms no building could be constructed on it. Now a road was laid on that plot. Efforts to shift the allotted land to somewhere else could not be materialised as departments involved failed to reproduce the first allotment letter.
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Visitors prefer open area than toilets in Company Bagh
Amritsar, April 13
The Company Bagh, belonging to the era of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, is visited by hundreds of visitors for recreation and exercise. The entrance to the washrooms near the gate on the Mall Road is covered with filth as a consequence of which people avoid using it. The urinals near Maharaja Ranjit Singh Panorama are in such a pathetic condition that weeds and small trees have grown in the cracks in front of the entrance. The visitors rarely enter these washrooms because of the old looking and shabby structure. Though the male visitors are often seen relieving themselves along the outer walls, the female visitors don’t have a place for them. “The garden should have neat and clean washrooms. If the administration feels like it can even charge a fee for using the urinals, but the facility should be provided,” said Surjit Singh, a daily visitor.Visitors said the bagh was visited by foreigners as well as tourists from other states. “It does not look nice when people urinate in the open. However, even the visitors do not have an option. The administration just needs to ask the safai sevaks to do their work properly,” said another visitor, Ram Narayan. As the bagh is under renovation and workers are busy paving concrete paths all over it, residents said washrooms would be an added asset. “The administration is installing benches for visitors to sit, paving concrete paths for them to walk and doing so many other things. It should also pay some attention to the basic needs of drinking water and washrooms,” said Shruti Sharma, a student.
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Tributes paid to martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Amritsar, April 13 This Baisakhi Jallianwala Bagh had a special visitor - Jagdish Singh, a lookalike of legendary martyr Bhagat Singh, who accentuates his looks with curled mustaches and a hat. Holding Tricolours in his hands, Jagdish attracted immediate attention from the visitors. Jagdish is so enamoured with Bhagat Singh that he has added “Bhagat” to his name - Jagdish Bhagat Singh. A resident of Panchkula, Jagdish, said he had made a temple of Bhagat Singh in his home where he pays obeisance to the martyr daily. Addressing a gathering of visitors, Jagdish said people must live up to the expectations of the freedom fighters. “We must learn from the lives of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev,” he said. Jagdish, an employee with the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN), is the president of the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Jagriti Manch, which he floated some years ago to perpetuate the memory of the great martyr. The martyrs of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre were remembered by various organisations by holding separate functions at different places. Activists of various student organisations took out a march, starting from martyr Madan Lal Dhingra’s ancestral home to the Jallianwala Bagh, to remember the martyrs. The activists also demanded that Dhingra’s home should be converted into his memorial. The district administration also organised a function at the bagh. A large number of visitors from surrounding areas visited the bagh to pay their tributes to the martyrs. The people also visited the museum at the bagh.
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Devotees suffer as VVIPs visit Golden Temple
Amritsar, April 13
A huge number of devotees thronged the holy shrine to seek the blessings of the God on the onset of the Baisakh month. However, the traffic police had put up barricades restricting the movement of vehicles at Town Hall. This all has been done in view of the arrival of many VVIPs in the city. Union ministers, including Home Minister P. Chidambram, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma, Parliamentary Affairs and Planning Minister Ashwani Sharma and Minister of State M. Ramachandran, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Pakistan’s Commerce Minister Makdoom Amin Fahim and Chief Minister Punjab (Pakistan) Shahbaz Sharif were among the VVIPs who were in the city in connection with the formal inauguration of the Integrated Check Post at Attari. They were also likely to visit the Golden Temple and historic Jallianwala Bagh for paying tributes to the martyrs of the country. Parkash Singh Badal paid obeisance at Darbar Sahib in the morning. Due to huge rush of devotees, his cavalcade went through the congested Katra Ahluwalia to reach the Golden Temple, instead the usual Jallianwala Bagh route. No traffic was allowed beyond Town Hall. The devotees were asked to park their vehicles in the adjoining parking. The inhabitants of the area complained of the harassment as they were not allowed to enter the area with their vehicles. The old people were the major victims of the restrictions imposed by the traffic police. They found it very difficult to reach the temple by walking through the labyrinthine streets of the old city. “If the VVIPs wanted to visit the Golden Temple they should visit early morning so the common man does not suffer due to restrictions imposed by the police authorities. Almost all the roads leading to the Golden Temple have been blocked by the police. We have to walk extra distance on foot to reach Harmandir Sahib,” said Jagdeep Singh, a villager, who came to the Golden Temple to take holy bath on Baisakhi. Nehru Ram, traffic in charge of Amritsar (South), said the problem was due to scheduled visit of VVIPs to the holy shrine. He said the huge rush due to Baisakhi added to the traffic chaos.
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Indo-Pak peace forum takes out candlelight march
Amritsar, April 13 Ten Pakistan nationals came to take part in the march. The march started from the Golden Temple and candles were lit from the fire of Amar Jyoti, where fire constantly remain burning, in Jallianwala Bagh. The march concluded at Shahidid Smarak in the historic bagh after the participants paid their tributes to the martyrs of the freedom struggle. A Pakistani delegate and a poet Tabasum said the march was also dedicated to peace and democracy in both the countries. She said majority of the citizens of India and Pakistan wanted peace and harmony and freedom from poverty and diseases.
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Members of the Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy took out a candlelight march to pay tributes to the martyrs of the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre.
Ten Pakistan nationals came to take part in the march. The march started from the Golden Temple and candles were lit from the fire of Amar
Jyoti, where fire constantly remain burning, in Jallianwala Bagh.
