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Long electricity cuts have Lalru residents fume
Parmod Mehta
Our Correspondent

Dera Bassi, June 13
Long power cuts have been causing harassment for people of Lalru area in the heat of this summer season. People of Lalru area told that sometime they witness no supply of electricity for the whole day due to power cuts or faults in wires.

At some places, loose electricity wires cause faults during the time of sharp or medium range winds. The unavailability of the electricity at time of 11am to 4pm causes harassment to people. The residents informed that when they try to confirm the time of power cuts from electricity office, the officials do not tell exact time of cuts. Sometime, they face cuts of 5 to 7 hours.

Residents demanded that proper electricity supply should be provided to people in this summer season. In the absence of electricity, people could not get proper water supply from the water works tanks because without electricity, water supply tube wells could not function, they added.

At a time of fast winds, electricity supply always goes missing because of the loose wires. The most line faults always occur in the lines of Mukandpur Feeder. The SDO of the electricity department, Lalru, said that time of power cuts increase or decrease from time to time. Regarding line faults, he said that repair of lines was done during past days and it caused power cuts at some places.

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Accident case
 Eyewitness supports prosecution’s case
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 13
An eyewitness of the death of veteran art and museum expert VN Singh yesterday deposed before the local court and supported the case of the prosecution. The eyewitness, Kamal Kumar, said he had seen the accident, which took place on December 9, 2010. Kumar added that the accused, BS Gill, was driving the vehicle.

The UT police had already filed a chargesheet in this case against BS Gill. On December 9, 2010, former principal of Government College of Arts, Sector 10, and a consultant with Le Corbusier Centre, VN Singh, succumbed to his injuries at GMCH-32. VN Singh, a resident of Sector 7, was in coma at GMCH-32 since November 28, 2010 when a negligent driver, BS Gill of Sector 8, rammed his speeding car into Singh’s two-wheeler. The incident had took place at the dividing road of Sector 7 and 8 and the accused managed to escape after abandoning the injured in GMSH, Sector 16.

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Placement service manager sent to police remand
Our Correspondent

Jet Immigration manager Dhiraj Bajaj after appearing at district court in Mohali on Wednesday.
Jet Immigration manager Dhiraj Bajaj after appearing at district court in Mohali on Wednesday. Tribune photo: vicky gharu

Mohali, June 13
One of the managers of Jet International Placement Services was remanded in the police custody for two days here today.

Dhiraj was arrested, yesterday, and produced in court today. He has been accused in several cases of duping people on the pretext of sending them abroad. The police has registered complaints against Dhiraj Bajaj and others who ran the company.

Bajaj was second person of the company to be arrested by the police. Earlier, Karandeep, another accused had surrendered before a court.

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Three held for fraud
 Accused include foreign national, two Indians
 Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 13
With the arrest of a Nigerian and two Indians, the Chandigarh police busted a gang involving a foreign national that used to dupe Indians on the pretext of sending them abroad. The hunt for more foreign nationals involved in the fraud is on. The Chandigarh police had received a complaint around a year ago from a bank employee who was duped of Rs 22 lakh by the accused. Twenty-seven ATM cards and documents of bank accounts opened on fake identities were also recovered from the accused, who were produced in court and sent on police remand till June 20.
The accused in police custody in Chandigarh on Wednesday
The accused in police custody in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Those arrested have been identified as the foreign national, Paul Osemwengie, Rajinder Bhaskar Salve and Swami Bharat Gupta, both residents of Mumbai.

DSP Kamal Deep said Devinder Pritpal Singh, a resident of Ambala City and working as an accountant with Patiala Central Co-Op Bank, had visited Chandigarh in 2008 during which he came across a foreign national, Thomas, at a hotel in Sector 22.

The DSP further said Thomas told him he was the secretary to Duke, who is Ambassador of France to Indonesia (yet to be verified by the police) and could arrange a visa for him if he is interested to settle abroad.

Duke promised three visas to the complainant against Rs 22 lakh. While the complainant deposited Rs 11.44 lakh in the account numbers given by Duke, Rs 10.50 lakh was paid in cash, along with two passports of Ranjit Kaur and Karan Kumar to Thomas and his associate Allen and Paul at a hotel in Mumbai, the DSP said.

The police stated that despite paying the money, the accused neither arranged the visa nor returned the complainant’s money.

A complaint to the secretary general, Amnesty International, 1-Easton Street, London, UK, and French Embassy, Indonesia, was also made, but till date no reply has been received.

During the course of investigation, accused Rajinder Bhaskar Salve, who is having two fake names, Vijay Mohan Sharma and Vijay Mahesh Gupta, was arrested from Mumbai a few days ago. His role established during the investigation was that an amount of Rs 2.72 lakh was deposited in his account opened on fake documents on the directions of the alleged persons.

At the time of his arrest, 10 ATM cards and eight blank cheques of different accounts and banks were recovered from his possession.

The second accused, Swami Bharat Gupta, having fake name of Ravi Kishore Jaiswal and Swami P Gupta was also arrested from Mumbai on the disclosure statement of Rajinder Bhaskar Salve.

The complainant had deposited Rs 4.78 lakh in Gupta’s account on the direction of the alleged person.

Paul Osemwengie was arrested from the Sheetal Nagar Mira Road, Mumbai, on the information of Rajinder Bhaskar Salve and recovered 17 ATM cards of the SBI and ICICI Bank with different account numbers.

The investigation of the case is still pending and hunt is on for the remaining accused. Sub-Inspector Onkar is the investigating official of the case.

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Constable caught red-handed

Chandigarh, June 13
The CBI caught a beat constable, Ram Nivas, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 1,000 from a juice vendor of the Ajad Market in Sector 20 here this evening.

According to information, the juice vendor, Satish had complained that Ram Nivas had been harassing him from the last couple of days for giving bribe of Rs 5,000. He reported the matter to the CBI, which laid the trap.

Satish agreed to give Rs 1,000 to the constable and when the constable received the amount, CBI sleuths caught him red-handed along with the currency.

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Hockey players honoured
 Players who qualified for London Olympics awarded with cash
 Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 13
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today gave away cash awards amounting to Rs 1.08 crore to two players of the Indian Hockey team hailing from Haryana, who have qualified for the London Olympics and members of the Indian women hockey team, who had participated in the London Olympics qualifying competition.
Hockey players during a ceremoney at Haryana Niwas as a part of a conference on “Youth in Mass Media” in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
Hockey players during a ceremoney at Haryana Niwas as a part of a conference on “Youth in Mass Media” in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photo: s chandan

The Chief Minister was presiding over a conference on “youth in mass media”, organised as a part of the year of youth celebrations by the Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Department, here today.

Hooda gave away Rs 47 lakh to ace hockey player Sandeep Singh, which included Rs 11 lakh for qualifying for London Olympics and Rs 25 lakh and Rs 11 lakh for scoring five and 11 goals, respectively, in qualifying championship and the Olympic series.

Hooda gave away Rs 11 lakh to Sardara Singh for qualifying for Olympics in hockey. He also gave away Rs 10 lakh to Harpreet Singh for winning gold medal in the Asian hockey championship.

The members of Indian women hockey team who got Rs 5 lakh each as reward included Rani Rampal, Jasjeet Handa, Ritu Rani, Joydeep Kaur and Jaspreet Kaur of Shahabad, Poonam Rani and Savita of Hisar and Deepika Thakur of Yamunanagar.

Haryana Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs, Sukhbir Kataria, said under the Sports Policy, the State Government had given government jobs to 431 outstanding sportspersons, which included the posts of inspector and that of the DSP.

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Prinkle Singh in tennis semifinals
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 13
Prinkle Singh has set the stage rolling by entering the semifinals in the Girls U-12, U-16 and U-16 doubles category in the CLTA-AITA Talent Series Tennis Tournament being held at the CLTA grounds at Sector 10 here today.
Prinkle Singh returns a shot during the U-16 CLTA-AITA Talent Series Tennis Tournament at the CLTA, Sector 10, Chandigarh, on Wednesday
Prinkle Singh returns a shot during the U-16 CLTA-AITA Talent Series Tennis Tournament at the CLTA, Sector 10, Chandigarh, on Wednesday. 

In the U-12 girls’ category, Prinkle drubbed Sehajnoor Dhillon by 4-0, 4-0 while in the Under 16 category she defeated Nilanchal Gupta by 6-2, 7-6 (4). In the U-16 doubles category she along with Sarah Dev beat Rubani Ahluwalia and Neelanchal Gupta by 6-2, 6-4.

The CLTA spokesman said that all semifinal matches would be held tomorrow at the CLTA.

Brief results:

Boys U-12: Rishabh Sharda beat Abhimanyu Rozra 4-1, 4-2, Anmol R. Kamboj beat Savesh Maria 4-0, 4-0, Sanchit Sikka beat Asav Kumar 4-5 (2), 4-1, 4-0, M.S. Karthik beat Savneet S. Bajwa 5-4 (1), 5-3.

Boys U-16: Nihit Rawal beat Vikrant Dahiya 6-4, 6-4, Sultan S. Atwal beat Manjot Singh 6-2, 6-4, Raghav Talwar beat Param Pun 6-4, 6-1, Paramvir S. Bajwa beat Santbir S. Bhangoo 6-1, 6-1.

Girls U-12: Prinkle Singh beat Sehajnoor Dhillon 4-0, 4-0, Taru Ahluwalia beat Ashpreet K. Bajwa 4-0, 4-1, Shreya Gulia beat Akshita Tandon 4-1, 4-1’ Alisha Menon beat Nimrat K. Kang 4-2, 4-0.

Girls U-16: Charvi Saxena beat Karishma Mehta 6-2, 6-0, Prinkle Singh beat Nilanchal Gupta 6-2, 7-6 (4). Harsimran Kaur beat Gurmehar Kaur 6-4, 6-0, Aarushi Kakkar beat Shrishty Dhanda 6-0, 6-1.

Doubles Boys U-16: Paramveer Singh Bajwa and Param Pun beat Anmol S Sandhu and Kabir Manrai 6-3. 6-0. Rohit Kumar and Santbir S. Bhangoo beat Rahul Seth and Manjot Singh 6-4, 7-6 (2). Adhayan and Sultan S. Atwal beat Sabrang Sandal and Rahul K. Verma 6-2, 6-1. Nihit Rawal and Vikrant Dahiya beat Rishabh Sharda and Abhimanyu Rozra 6-3, 6-0.

Doubles Girls U-16: Charvi Saxena and Saumya Saxena beat Nimrat K. Kang and Alisha Menon 6-3, 6-0. Prinkle Singh and Sarah Dev beat Rubani Ahluwalia and Neelanchal Gupta 6-2, 6-4. Karishma Mehta and Aarushi Kakkar beat Shrishti Dhanda and Kavya Gupta 6-3, 6-3. Harsimran Kaur and Nimrat Walia beat Tanya Batra and Sehajnoor Dhillon 6-1, 6-1.

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