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Fake soft drink plant busted, 26,000 bottles seized
Father kills 4-year-old son, dumps body in pond
CM’s education project set to see light of day |
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Admn hurries to compensate farmers ahead of CM’s visit
TMC banks on KD Singh for its north operations
Youth offered drinks, butchered to death
Friends kill Class XII student
Earthcopia plots illegal: District admn
Nod to MBBS classes at BPS medical college
GJU launches website
Man gets life for causing death
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Fake soft drink plant busted, 26,000 bottles seized
Kurukshetra, June 9 The Kurukshetra police have unearthed a fake cold drinks manufacturing unit and seized 26,000 empty bottles of cold drinks along with wrappers, labels and logos of branded soft drink companies and arrested two persons in this connection here. Acting on the complaint of Speed Networks Pepsi, the police raided an illegal cold drink factory in the industrial area last night and collected samples of cold drinks and chemicals. DSP Bir Singh said that following a complaint that fake cold drinks were being manufactured in the district, the police raided a place and recovered 26,000 bottles of cold drinks and arrested two persons who were preparing cold drinks resembling Mountain Dew, Fanta and other lemon drinks. Thaneawasr Tehsildar Rajkumar Bhoriya, who was the duty magistrate at the time of raid, said that samples have been collected and sent for laboratory test. Fake drinks were being prepared in the factory and wrappers of branded companies were pasted on the locally-made drinks. Director of Speed Networks Pepsi, Chandigarh, Ramesh Dutt, said, “We got the information that fake cold drinks with brand names were being sold in the market and we informed the police who conducted a raid and nabbed some culprits. The raw material used in making these fake drinks is harmful to the kidneys,” he added. As the demand for cold drinks shoots up in summers, some unscrupulous people take up manufacturing fake cold drinks and selling them with branded labels to make quick bucks. The consumers of these drinks are unsuspecting as they go by brand labels. The police suspect that there might be more units engaged in manufacturing fake and unhygienic cold drinks and has stepped up vigil to locate such units. |
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Father kills 4-year-old son, dumps body in pond
Jhajjar, June 9 Aakash has been admitted to the PGIMS, Rohtak where his condition is stated to be out of danger. The deceased has been identified as Vikas. The Salhavaas police have booked the Suresh Kumar of Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh under Sections 302 and 307 of the IPC on the complaint of his wife Rekha in this regard. Suresh is a mason by profession and has been residing at the village in a rented house for past many years. “The incident took place around 1 am when Suresh started thrashing Vikas after getting engaged in physical brawl with his wife Rekha. Vikas died on the spot. Thereafter, Suresh took the body of Vikas along with his younger son Aakash to the village pond located near to his house and dumped both of them in the pond,” said Somveer, the Salhavaas SHO. Some villagers rushed to the house after hearing the cries of Rekha and saw Suresh going towards the pond. The Salhavaas police, on getting information, reached the pond well in time and fished out Vikas’s body and Aakash from there. Aakash was immediately taken to PGIMS at Rohtak. Suresh has been arrested by the police. The police said he used to suspect his wife morally which led to the scuffle. Suresh then tried to kill both his sons in a fit of anger, said Patram Singh, Jhajjar SP, adding that body of Vikas had been sent to the Civil Hospital for post-mortem. |
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CM’s education project set to see light of day
Sonepat, June 9 According to the plan, as many as 40 education plots in the range of 1.14 acre to 131.59 acre area had been earmarked for allocation to these educational
institutes. The other facilities planned to be provided include student hostels, staff residence, hotels, multiplex complexes, shopping complexes, medical centre, seminar rooms, art galleries, auditorium, weekly market, food
court etc. Besides developing a lake in an area of 12.5 acres, there will be round-the-clock water supply in the city area. The provisions of the rain harvesting system and of a sewage treatment plant are also part of the plan. The region already has the BPS Women University at Khanpur Kalan, DCR University of Science and Technology at Murthal, National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management at Kundli and Central Institute of Plastic Engineering at Murthal University. The setting up of an IIIT and study center of the IIT, Delhi near Sonepat is also in the pipeline.
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Admn hurries to compensate farmers ahead of CM’s visit
Sonepat, June 9 The step is being seen as an attempt by the administration to pacify the affected farmers of the area who have been agitating for the past two years in support of their demands. The farmers have even threatened to oppose the Chief Minister’s June 10 visit to the city. A team of officials, including Land Acquisition Officer (LAO) Subhash Mehta, Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Jag Niwas, Tehsildar Braham Prakash Ahlawat and the other revenue officials, are camping at the Public Works Department (PWD) rest house in Rai for the past four days to disburse the enhanced amount. Various necessary formalities required for the disbursement of this amount are being completed at the rest house. Mehta said 319 farmers of different villages had already received the enhanced amount so far and 179 others have also expressed their willingness to receive the amount. The enhanced amount disbursed among the farmers is around Rs 62 crore, he said adding the payment process would be continued till all willing farmers receive the enhanced amount. The farmers were paid a total amount of Rs 18 lakh per acre when the land was acquired in 2006-07. A few months back, under the directions from the Chief Minister, the state government had increased the compensation by around two and half times, which is said to be between Rs 43 to 47 lakh per acre. The state government had acquired around 2,000 acres of farming land from nine villages for setting up Education City. The farmers under the banner of the “Bhoomi Adhigrahan Virodhi Sangharsh Samitis” of Biswan Meel and Badhkhalsa have been agitating for the past two years for their demands. |
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TMC banks on KD Singh for its north operations
The party has chosen a Chandigarh-based industrial tycoon for heading its operations in the north zone. Sources say Rajya Sabha member from Jharkhand KD Singh has been nominated by the party to be the in charge of the five states in the north zone. TMC general secretary and Union Railway Minister Mukul Roy will inaugurate the party office for the north zone here on June 14. The sources say the party has big plans for the region. The first priority of the TMC would be Himachal Pradesh, which is due for Assembly elections this year. Singh is believed to have been told by the party high command to first concentrate on the hilly state by setting up a strong organisation at the grassroots level there. Next in line would be Haryana where Assembly elections are due in two years. The party expects that many leaders of various parties, who are not comfortable in their organisations due to various reasons, would join the TMC, which will make a fresh start in the region. Besides these leaders, who would give an impetus to the party in the initial stages, the TMC would like to enrol fresh faces in a big number. |
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Water Woes in
Sirsa, Fatehabad
Sirsa/Fatehabad, June 9 Villagers held a Junior Engineer (JE) of the department as their captive for over three hours in Karungawali village in Sirsa while angry residents locked a waterworks, blocked vehicular traffic and gheraoed an SDO of the Public Health Department at Sarwarpur in Fatehabad today. Angry at the scarcity of drinking water and storage of highly contaminated water in the storage tank, the villagers locked their waterworks building at Karungawali in Sirsa. The villagers, who included some women, forced the JE, Rajender Grover, who went to the village to pacify them, to drink contaminated algae-infested water taken out from the storage tank. “Our children have taken ill after drinking this water, but the authorities are not ready to listen to our grievances,” alleged Jaspal Singh, husband of the woman sarpanch. The villagers kept the JE in their captivity for over three hours. Later, Parkash Veer, an Executive Engineer in the department, visited the village and assured them of better supply in future. Jasbir Singh Jassa, a prominent progressive farmer from Sahuwala, alleged that over 24 villages of Sirsa were facing an acute scarcity of water and in some of these women have to fetch drinking water from a distance. Angad Bishnoi, Superintending Engineer, however, said there was nothing unusual if algae or other contaminants were found in the tanks of waterworks. “These are called sedimentation and storage tanks and water is purified by sedimentation of dirt and other contaminants during storage. Water is treated before supplying it to villagers,” Bishnoi maintained. He admitted that there was scarcity of drinking water in some villages, which he attributed to summer and shortage of electricity. Meanwhile, villagers locked a waterworks and blocked vehicular traffic at Sarwarpur in Fatehabad and gheraoed an SDO who went to listen to their grievance. Later, Vikram Singh, Executive Engineer of the department, pacified them by assuring of better supply of drinking water in future. |
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Youth offered drinks, butchered to death
Fatehabad, June 9 The police has registered a case and was investigating the circumstances under which the youth was murdered. The victim, Vishnu Bhagwan, hailed from nearby Hinjrawan Khurd village and the police said that Prem Chopra, a resident of Dariyapur with three others, took him to a canal passing near the village for drinks. Chopra and his three accomplices allegedly attacked Vishnu with sharp- edged weapons after the drinks. They were about to throw him in the canal when a farmer working nearby noticed them and raised an alarm. The assailants threw Vishnu in their jeep and sped away. They later threw the injured victim on their way. The farmer informed the police, who rushed critically injured Vishnu towards Fatehabad’s General Hospital, but he died on way to the hospital. The police is yet to comment on the motive behind the crime, but the villagers are linking the murder with a property dispute. |
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Four killed in road mishaps
Sirsa, June 9 The youths Chhinda and Balwinder, who ran a flourmill, were going to Sangha village after repair of some equipment from Sirsa, when two cars collided head on and their motorcycle was also hit during the collision. Chhinda, who was riding the motorcycle, died on the spot while Balwinder, who was riding pillion, succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. In another accident, Pahlwan Chand (72) and his wife Kaushalya Devi (70) died when the motorcycle on which they were riding collided with a tractor near Bappa village. According to reports, the couple’s grandson, who was driving the motorcycle, tried to overtake a tractor on a katcha road when the accident occurred. Pahlwan Chand died on the spot while his wife succumbed to her injuries on way to the hospital. |
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Friends kill Class XII student
Karnal, June 9 His body had multiple injury marks inflicted with some sharp-edged weapon, the police said. Bijender was at his relative’s place last night as his parents had gone to Utter Pradesh. He received a phone call from his friend at 12 midnight and did not return thereafter. A villager informed in the morning that he spotted drops of fresh blood in his fields and on the walls of the makeshift room there. The police immediately reached the spot along with forensic experts and dug up the mud to recover body of 16-year old Bijender. Janeshwar, father of the deceased, said his son had a fight with his friends few days back and perhaps his friends killed him due to enmity. The police said that a case has been registered and statements of Bijender’s parents and relatives were being recorded.
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Earthcopia plots illegal: District admn
Gurgaon, June 9 The recommendation to register the FIR has been made to DCP (West), in which it is mentioned that the firm which has its temporary office at Signature Tower, Gurgaon, has advertised the booking of plots through internet in colonies ‘Earthcopia-1’ and ‘Earthcopia-2’ in Sectors 112 and 107 of Gurgaon without obtaining prior permission. The district authorities said the registered office of the realtor is said to be at Pusa Road near Karol Bagh Metro Station in New Delhi. Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner PC Meena said that a realtor was required to obtain permission before starting the sale of plots. He said it was a cognizable offence as per provisions under Section 10 (1) of the Haryana Development and Regulations of Urban Areas Act, 1975. |
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Nod to MBBS classes at BPS medical college
Sonepat, June 9 Dr RC Siwach, director of the medical college, said the construction of this medical college and hospital was completed within a record period of two years by the National Building Construction Corporation.
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GJU launches website
Hisar, June 9 He said the website had been planned and designed in house. The website provided detailed information about the courses offered, their duration and eligibility, schedule of admissions, examinations, fee structure, declaration of results, DMC, guidelines for projects, placement window, alumini link, study material, syllabi, question papers of previous examinations and the latest news about the Directorate of Distance Education. The prospectus and admission forms for 2012-13 academic session could also be downloaded from the website. |
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Man gets life for causing death
Sirsa, June 9 An altercation ensued after which Vishnu allegedly pushed Prahlad out of the running bus near Asa Khera village. The victim, who sustained serious injuries,
succumbed later. |
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