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4 kids hurt in lathi charge
Two killed, 18 injured in road mishap
School bus rams into tree, kids hurt
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3 engineers face charge sheet for loss to exchequer
90 % procured wheat lifted from mandis
Haryana to get HR panel soon
Opposition to Gorakhpur N-power Plant
Hooda asks Brahmin Samaj to spread education
Man offers lift to minor, rapes her
Loot mastermind arrested
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4 kids hurt in lathi charge
Sirsa, May 21 The villagers, who are demanding that their school be upgraded from the matriculation to senior secondary level, locked the school building in the morning and sat on dharna. Later, they blocked traffic on the Sirsa-Bhadra road and demanded that education department officers come to the village and accept their demand. The villagers alleged that nearly 100 policemen led by Ravi Khundia, SHO of the Chopta police station, lathicharged villagers sitting on dharna and blocking the road. Four schoolchildren and a villager were injured in the police action. A child, Rohit, was rushed to General Hospital in Sirsa with serious injuries while the others were treated in the village. Angered at the use of force by the police, the villagers went on the rampage, pelted stones on policemen and torched three government vehicles and a private Alto car, allegedly used by the SHO, Ravi Khundia. The government vehicles burnt by the villagers include the tehsildar’s official vehicle, District Education Officer Kum Kum Grover’s vehicle and a Swaraj Mazda vehicle of the police. Some policemen took shelter in nearby houses and escaped from the village without their uniforms. Demanding the registration of a criminal case against the policemen responsible for the lathi charge on children demanding better education facilities, INLD MLA from Ellenabad Abhey Singh Chautala alleged that the police had violated human rights by committing atrocities on schoolchildren and villagers. The SP, Devender Singh Yadav, the SDM of Sirsa, Munish Nagpal, and City Magistrate Satish Kumar rushed to the village to defuse the situation. They were holding parleys with a group of villagers. Efforts made to contact Yadav and other officers did not yield any success. |
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Two killed, 18 injured in road mishap
Fatehabad, May 21 Reports said all victims were from Kaithal and were returning to their homes this morning after attending a satsang at the dera yesterday. As the canter reached near Bhuna, its driver felt drowsy and the vehicle overturned after hitting a bridge. There were 30 passengers in the canter. Twenty men and women sustained serious injuries while the rest escaped with bruises and minor hurts. Followers of the dera coming in other vehicles immediately rushed the injured persons to the Community Health Centre at Bhuna. Some seriously injured persons were rushed to Fatehabad and Hisar. Pushpa died in CHC, Bhuna, while Savita succumbed to her injuries in the General Hospital, Fatehabad. Girl killed
Rewari: Priyanka Yadav (19) was killed after she was hit by a Scorpio on the Pataudi-Rewari road yesterday. Two of the Scorpio’s occupants also sustained injuries when it toppled after knocking down Priyanka. The mishap took place when the Scorpio, which was coming from Mahendragarh hit Priyanka, who was going to her house after alighting from a bus. |
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School bus rams into tree, kids hurt
Ratia, May 21 The 30-seater bus belonging to Mother India Convent School, Ratia, was reportedly carrying nearly 50 schoolchildren and going to Sardarewala, Ladhuwas, Nagla and Lathera villages to drop them after the school time today. The bus driver did not care to slow down the vehicle near Rattangarh on a road, which was under construction and stones were scattered over it. The bus hit a tractor and then rammed into a tree on the roadside. The bus driver, Manga Singh, jumped out and escaped from the scene after the accident. Panicked children cried for help, but there was none to rescue them. There was no help from the school authorities either. Parents rushed to the accident site after learning about the incident and took frightened children to their homes as most of them had minor injuries and bruises. Three children, Kartik, Riya and Heena, had to be rushed to the General Hospital due to their injuries. Naveen, the driver of the tractor that was hit by the school bus, was also rushed to hospital for treatment. The incident has exposed the violation of rules by the school authorities, negating claims of strict measures taken by the district authorities. The violation of rules can be gauged from the fact that a 13-year-old illiterate boy, Krishan, was accompanying the children as conductor with the school bus. While the driver escaped from the scene, the conductor, being a child, panicked after the accident and could not provide any first aid to children. |
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3 engineers face charge sheet for loss to exchequer
Chandigarh, May 21 While stating this here today, an official spokesman said executive engineer, Nuh, Ram Dhari, has been charge-sheeted under section 7 of P and A Rules for committing a serious lapse resulting into loss of crores of rupees. He said land with an area of 46.55 acres was acquired by the government for construction of an administrative block, judicial block and circuit house in the mini-secretariat complex at Nuh. The layout plan was prepared by the executive engineer, Nuh, and submitted to chief architect, Haryana, for preparation of architectural drawings. The executive engineer, Nuh, wrongly constructed the boundary wall around an area of 41.89 acres instead of 46.55 acres. Therefore, the acquired land of about five acres had not been utilised and not included in the campus. He said the government also charge-sheeted executive engineer DP Mittal as he did not diligently perform his duty and committed an act unbecoming of a government officer. He also caused a huge loss to the state exchequer. He said subdivisional engineer RK Mehta had also failed to maintain devotion to duty and did not diligently and properly perform his duty. He also committed an act unbecoming of a government officer and violated rules. |
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90 % procured wheat lifted from mandis
Jind, May 21 A spokesperson said the district had witnessed a bumper production and arrival of wheat this season. The procurement would continue till the arrival of the crop in the markets as per instructions of the state government, which had directed the officials to ensure procurement of the last grain of the crop that arriving in the mandi. There are a total 24 purchase centres of wheat in the district at present. The total arrival of wheat till last evening had reached 7.28 lakh metric tonnes of which 90 per cent had been procured and shifted to godowns. The total arrival of wheat on the corresponding date last year had been 6.26 lakh metric tonnes. “Though the authorities had started the procurement of wheat officially on April 1, the arrival had actually started late by almost two weeks due to cool and moist conditions and the inability of the procurement agencies to purchase such a lot,” said Sandeep, a commission agent. He said while there had been a bumper arrival of wheat this year in the various markets, there had been several issues, which had been causing problems to both farmers and the commission agencies. The issues, which posed hurdles in smooth procurement, included delay in lifting due shortage of gunny bags and lack of seriousness on the part of contractors allotted the work of shifting. |
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Haryana to get HR panel soon
Chandigarh, May 21 They are Justice Jagdish Bhalla, former Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court, Justice Bhawani Singh, former Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court, and Mukul Mudgal and VK Jain, both former Chief Justices of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The IP Vashist Committee also comprises the state’s Chief Secretary PK Chaudhary and Home Secretary Samir Mathur. Against the backdrop of an uproar in the state, the Hooda government had constituted a committee to assist a high-powered committee headed by the Chief Minister and comprising the Speaker of the Vidhan Sabha and the Leader of the Opposition, in recommending the names of the chairman and two members to the Governor. Sources said the committee would meet early next month to finalise the chairman and two members of the commission. In 2007, the Haryana Government, reacting to a petition filed by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) for setting up of the Human Rights Commission in Haryana, stated in the Punjab and Haryana High Court that it did not feel the need to set up the commission as an adequate mechanism existed to deal with people’s grievances. However, following an uproar in the wake of large-scale human rights violations, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was forced to announce the formation of the Human Rights Commission in the state in 2010. The neighbouring states of Himachal, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi have human rights commissions. Haryana, along with small states like Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram and Uttarakhand, does not have the rights body even as thousands of cases from the state are pending before the National Human Rights Commission. |
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Jind gets building of govt college for girls after 46 years
Jind, May 21 The college, which had been running from a rented building for the past few years, will be getting its own building for the first time after Haryana came into being in 1966. This most modern college building that has come up in the district so far will be inaugurated by the Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, on June 3. Built at a cost of Rs 13.40 crore, the four-storied building will be providing classrooms and other infrastructure for as many as 1,800 girls students at present enrolled in the college. |
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Women protesters lathi-charged
The protesters had assembled here to submit a memorandum to camp office authorities after holding a meeting at the local Chottu Ram Park in the day. As the protesters included a large number of women who assembled at the gate of the Chief Minister’s residence, the policemen allegedly resorted to a mild lathi charge to disperse the crowd. Jagmati Sangwan, leader of AIDWA, claimed that while the demonstration had been peaceful, the police resorted to an unprovoked cane charge that resulted in injuries to several persons, including women. Brinda Karat, a former MP and CPM Politbureau member, joined the protest and asked senior police officials to take action against the policemen who lathi-charged the protesters. She said the officiating SP, Vikas Dhankhar, apologised and assured them of action against the erring policemen. While Karat described it as “high-handedness” of the authorities, she alleged that the state government had failed to ensure safety of the orphan children in the shelter homes across the state. The protest came to an end after about 45 minutes of a high-voltage drama. The police officials have denied the allegations of light charge. A procession was held on the child abuse issue under the aegis of the Jan Sangathan Manch. The participants hailed from the CITU, Kisan Sabha and DYFI besides the
AIDWA. |
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Opposition to Gorakhpur N-power Plant
Fatehabad, May 21 Hundreds of farmers from 29 villages attended a meeting organised in the village school at Kajelheri on Sunday. Balbir Singh, nambardar from Khajuri village, presided over the meeting. Vowing their support to the 660-day old agitation of Gorakhpur farmers, the villagers said they would hold a big demonstration in Fatehabad on May 25. Organisers of the
Ilaqa Bachao Samiti, an organisation of farmers from these 29 villages, constituted zonal committees for mobilisation of support for the May 25 demonstration. The farmers announced that they would not allow GAPP to be set up in their area at any cost as this, they alleged, would prove a constant threat for the area for generations to come. Prominent among those who attended the meeting were Hardial Singh, Ram Kumar, Ramesh Jandli, Gulab Singh, Fakir Chand, Hans Raj, Om Parkash, Balbir Singh, Balwant Singh, Surinder Siwach and Mahabir Singh. |
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Hooda asks Brahmin Samaj to spread education
Kurukshetra, May 21 Hooda said “we should form a good society by propagating education.” He appreciated the fact that the Brahmin Samaj had been helping society in this direction. He advised them to shun self interest while serving educational institutions and society. He alleged that the Brahmin Samaj had remained neglected during the regime of the
INLD. Hooda announced a grant of Rs 1 crore to Bhagwan Parshuram College,
Kurukshetra, as well as the Haryana Brahmin Dharamshala from his discretionary fund. |
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Man offers lift to minor, rapes her
Faridabad, May 21 According to the complaint, the girl had gone to Gurgaon seeking a job. After she took snacks at a joint in Sector 17, she inquired from some persons about the way to reach Faridabad. The accused, who was standing nearby, responded saying that he was going to Faridabad and persuaded her come along on his motorcycle, police added. He allegedly pushed her in the canal which was dry and raped her and warned her of dire consequences if she reported the matter. |
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Loot mastermind arrested
Bhiwani, May 21 The alleged mastermind Neeraj, alias Leela, was produced in a local court today from where he was sent in police custody for two days It is believed that Neeraj earlier used to work with the trader and he was aware of his schedule and activities.
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