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Protect witnesses in sensitive cases, HC tells state
Illegal structures dot highways
Man held for fraudulently withdrawing Rs 11 lakh from SBI
Wheat pest bugs Rohtak residents
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Dalit panel visits Bhagana
Hisar protests power cuts
Acid attack on schoolgirl
Man beheads son over crop
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Protect witnesses in sensitive cases, HC tells state
Chandigarh, May 26 The exceptional directions by Justice Ranjit Singh came after a witness, “an injured child”, turned “hostile” and resiled from his statement in the double murder case of his mother and sister. The directions follow a report by the Sonepat Trial Court. The court was asked to submit its report in FIR dated June 17, last year, for murder and other offences on the statement of Sunil, alias Sonu. He had told the police that his mother and accused Jagbir’s wife had a quarrel a month before the occurrence. The matter came to the high court’s notice after another accused, Sunil, alias Shilu, sought bail. In his report, the Trial Judge claimed that the conditions prevailing in Sonepat made it difficult for the witnesses to depose before the Court and killing of witnesses was a common phenomenon. The Trial Judge also requested the high court to ensure an effective mechanism for protection of witnesses. The report added that delay in examination of witnesses before the Court, and the failure to produce the case property, was giving the accused an opportunity of influencing the witnesses. Taking up the report, Justice Ranjit Singh asserted, “That being the position, the State cannot sit as a silent spectator to ignore this serious interference in the administration of justice. “The State machinery has to take necessary action to ensure fair trial in offences to maintain orderly behaviour in society. If the witnesses are not able to appear and depose freely in the courts of law, the cause of justice would suffer. The responsibility to administer justice is also a responsibility and duty of the State.” Before parting with the order, Justice Ranjit Singh directed, “A copy of this communication be supplied to the State counsel to file response immediately as to what measures the State could wish to adopt in. “In the meantime, the matter be brought to the notice of the Principal Secretary, Home, the State Advocate-General, the Director-General of Police and the Senior Superintendent of Police, Sonepat, to take steps to protect the witnesses in the present case and other cases as well, which are in progress at various stages and are sensitive. “The State would also come up before the Court with a scheme that it would adopt for ensuring witnesses’ protection in serious cases, where justice is likely to suffer on account of threat to the witnesses.” |
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Illegal structures dot highways
Chandigarh, May 26 Though there are 56,796 unauthorised constructions in the state, the authorities concerned have been able to demolish only about 450 illegal structures since January 3, 2009. In fact, areas along roads in districts falling in the National Capital Region (NCR) are affected the most on account of a spurt in illegal constructions, data collected by The Tribune revealed. The data showed that though 9,944 persons applied for regularisation of unauthorized construction as per the policy formulated by the state government, the government regularised only 4,424 such constructions. As many as 5,029 applications for regularisation were rejected. Topping the list of illegal constructions is Bhiwani district (4,689), followed by Sonepat (4,665) and Rewari(4,229). However, Fatehabad with just 632 such constructions and Panchkula with 1,617 and Faridabad with 1,620 accounted for fewer illegal constructions along roads. In fact, 1,118 persons applied for regularisation of unauthorised constructions in Yamunanagar district, followed by Panipat (896) and Rewari (822). Yamunanagar also topped the state with 648 structures regularised, followed by Kurukshetra (588) and Panipat (491) . The maximum number of applications for regularisation were rejected in Kurukshetra (635), followed by Panchkula (575) and Rewari (522).
Encroachers’ paradise
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Man held for fraudulently withdrawing Rs 11 lakh from SBI
Kurukshetra, May 26 Stating this here today, the district police chief, Rakesh Arya, said Sanjay had confessed that he had committed frauds at bank branches in Shahabad and Ambala. He was produced in court here today and was remanded in police custody for six days. Arya said Joginder Pal, a resident of Shahabad, had lodged a complaint with the police alleging that he went to the SBI in Shahabad to withdraw Rs 2,000 from his account on December 9, 2011. After some days, he detected that a sum of Rs 10.87 lakh had been withdrawn from his account. Sanjay told the police that he reached the OBC, Shahabad branch, on December 9, 2011, and stole the pass book in the name of Shiv Kumar. Later, he managed to get a duplicate pass book in the name of Joginder Pal against his account number and deposited a sum of Rs 500 by putting the signatures of Joginder Pal on the deposit form. Now when he got this deposit amount entered in the pass book, he saw that there was a balance of about Rs 11 lakh. The same day, Sanjay got prepared a demand draft for Rs 9.52 lakh from Joginder Pal’s account and deposited it into the account of Shiv Kumar in the OBC, Shahabad, branch and after some time this amount was withdrawn. Next day, Sanjay reached the SBI, Shahabad branch, and withdrew the balance amount of Rs 1.35 lakh from the account of Joginder Pal, Arya added. |
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Wheat pest bugs Rohtak residents
Rohtak, May 25 “The problem erupted recently after shifting of the procured wheat to the godown here. It could persist for at least two months or till the officials concerned take measures to control the bug in wheat,’’ claimed Bhim Singh, a resident of the Hafed Road locality here. He said hundreds of ‘sursis’ could be found in all rooms of his house every morning and his family is tired of removing them every day. “The ‘sursi’ menace has hit several dozens of houses located in the vicinity of the Hafed complex here. This is mainly due to the fact that no insecticide spray had been done by the officials so far,” claimed Krishan Hooda, another resident here. |
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Dalit panel visits Bhagana
Hisar, May 26 The team led by a senior investigator in the Chandigarh office of the NCSC, RK Sharma, met a cross-section of people in the village and recorded their statements on the present imbroglio. The NCSC officials went to the piece of land near the houses of Dalits, which has become a bone of contention between the two communities in the present mess and met the village sarpanch, a former sarpanch and some others. The 80-odd families, who left their homes on Monday, had alleged that they were ostracised by Jats and a shopkeeper who sold them grocery items was made to pay a heavy fine. |
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Hisar protests power cuts
Hisar, May 26 “We have not received any power since morning and the DHBVN did not attend our phones,” said Mahi Pal, a protester. Dinesh Kumar, another resident, alleged the power had become the bane of residents in this scorching heat. Aspokesperson of the DHBVN today said that power supply in urban and mixed urban areas was being given for 20 hours a day and period of regulation had been fixed. If it is necessary to restrict supply for load restriction, it will be from 8 am to 10 am and 2 pm to 4 pm in areas of Narnaul, Rewari and Gurgaon-II circles; from 10 am to 12 pm and from 4 pm to 6 pm in A-5 Palla and Gurgaon-I and from 12 pm to 2 pm and from 6 pm to 8 pm in areas of A2 Palla, Sirsa and Bhiwani circles. The industrial feeders will run from 12.30 am to 6.30 pm. The peak load restrictions for industries will be from 6.30 pm to 10 pm.
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Acid attack on schoolgirl
Rohtak, May 26 The condition of the victim who has suffered 20 per cent burn injuries is reported to be stable. The police has registered a case. This is the second such incident in the district in the past one year. Three schoolgirls had been injured in a similar attack that took place in Sector 3 here. The shocking incident took place in the Sainipura locality this evening around 4 pm when three youths riding a mobike threw the chemical on the victim when she was walking towards Saini school. The victim is a plus two student here and was on her way to the school grounds. The accused poured acid on the girl and fled before anyone could help her. |
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Man beheads son over crop
Fatehabad, May 26 The accused had an altercation with his son Mithu Ram over the distribution of wheat crop last night. After the quarrel, Suba Ram went to sleep in his house, while Mithu Ram went to sleep in the nearby fields, where he beheaded him. |
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