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4-year-old girl trapped in
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3rd breach in a month, crops submerged
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Jolt to TMC as Chawla, others quits party
Villagers for arrest of culprits in widow’s murder case, block road
Policemen try to pacify agitated villagers who blocked Hansi road in protest against Ashok’s murder in Karnal on Thursday. Tribune photo: Ravi Kumar
Man kills granddaughter accidentally
CDLU revives Chair in Selja’s father’s name
Probe into funds spent to tame Ghaggar
Biased Approach of Police
Man murders mother
Steep hike in penal rent
Protest against water scarcity
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4-year-old girl trapped in
borewell
Manesar, June 21 Neighbours said it was Maahi’s birthday yesterday and her family had organised a big celebration last evening. As the tempo, reportedly carrying the DJ system, could not pass beside the borewell, the boulder covering the borewell opening was reportedly pushed aside to make way for it. However, a little later, Maahi, who was playing with other children, slipped and fell into the borewell. Rescue operations began last night itself, but it gathered momentum with senior government officials reaching the scene of the accident in the morning. JCB machines were used to dig a tunnel parallel to the borewell. The digging of the tunnel was expedited after a drill equipment used by the DMRC was installed for the purpose in the evening. As many as 50 Army Oxygen was being supplied to the girl and her movements were being tracked with the help of cameras. A number of people gathered around the spot despite hot weather. Maahi’s father, Neeraj Upadhyay, a migrant labourer who works as a security guard with a private company, said they had celebrated the girl’s birthday yesterday. “In fact, the celebration was on and Maahi was playing in front of our house when she slipped and fell into the borewell around 11 pm. We called up the police immediately,” he said. Neeraj maintained that Maahi kept on crying for help from inside the borewell for more than an hour. The hapless parents and other family members kept on calling the girl even after she stopped responding. The family saw a ray of hope when the officials maintained that some movement inside the tunnel had been recorded on the camera. However, after that, the long, agonising wait resumed. FIR lodged, probe ordered
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3rd breach in a month, crops submerged
Fatehabad, June 21 Officials of the Irrigation Department have been trying to plug the breach with JCB machines. “This is the third time in less than a month that this canal has suffered a breach. The Irrigation Department has not cleaned the canal of silt and vegetation resulting in narrowing of the creek. Water overflowed due to silt and vegetation before a bank of the canal finally gave way,” alleged villagers, who had assembled at the site. The villagers alleged that they have been suffering losses due to repeated inundation of their fields, but the authorities have not been paying heed to their problem. Satish Kumar Jinaawa, Executive Engineer of the Irrigation Department, however, maintained that the breaches were occurring repeatedly due to the quality of soil of the banks, which developed cracks in hot conditions. He said when water suddenly flowed in the canal, its banks gave way. “One solution is to leave smaller quantities of water initially to allow rinsing of the canal before it runs to its full capacity, but in that condition, farmers, whose turn comes first do not allow us to do that,” Jinaawa maintained. Jinaawa claimed the department acted swiftly in plugging the breach in Fatehabad branch that developed a breach on Monday and plugged it in less than 20 hours. Meanwhile, a 30-foot wide breach developed in another canal - Bhirdana Minor - near Hasanga village leading to inundation of crops on over 50 acres of land.
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Jolt to TMC as Chawla, others quits party
Chandigarh, June 21 Chawla was appointed convener of the Haryana unit of the party by industrial tycoon KD Singh, who has been made in charge of the north zone chapter of the party, on June 14 at the inaugural function presided over by Union Railway Minister Mukul Roy. Roy is also a general secretary of the TMC. Along with Chawla, Shashi Malhotra, who had conducted the stage at the inaugural function, has also quit the TMC. Chawla, who is a former media coordinator of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, told The Tribune on the phone that certain persons misled him to join the TMC. He said he took this step without consulting his advisers and well-wishers. He said now he had realised his folly and had come back to his home, the Congress. Only yesterday media adviser to Haryana Chief Minister Sunder Pal had quit his post, which he had been holding for more than seven years. Speculation is that he may join the TMC. Chawla’s home coming is a big setback to political ambitions of the Chandigarh-based industrial tycoon, who is also a Rajya Sabha member. |
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Villagers for arrest of culprits in widow’s murder case, block road
Karnal, June 21 A 32-year-old widow, Mukesh, was allegedly murdered in her in-laws’ house yesterday and the police registered a case against nine persons but no arrest was made. Furious over police inaction, people from the native Raipur village of the deceased placed her body on the national highway and blocked traffic. The blockade was lifted after the district police chief assured villagers that prompt action would be taken to arrest the culprits and the villagers gave 24 hours’ ultimatum for arresting the accused. In another murder case in which Ashok Kumar, a resident of Samalakha village, who was brutally stabbed to death at the busy Hansi road in broad daylight in the presence of a large number of people on May 29, the enraged relatives and near and dear ones of deceased blocked the Hansi road for almost two hours, protesting against “inaction” of the police in the murder case. Not even a single person had been arrested during the past three weeks and the people were up in arms against the police for alleged laxity and were demanding that the guilty should be punished and justice should be done, said Shashi, sister of the deceased. The deceased Ashok had a dispute with some persons in the village and he was to appear in the court a day after he was murdered and the family members suspected the hand of the rival party in his killing. |
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Man kills granddaughter accidentally
Kaithal, June 21 However, the victim’s mother, not caring for her safety, informed the police following which the police arrested both the father and the son. Both the accused were produced in a local court and sent in judicial custody. Giving details of the case, Kuldip Singh, SP, told mediapersons here today that Pooja, wife of Ramdiya, a resident of Teek village of the district, in her complaint to the police said that she had three children, Aman (10), Raman (7) and Rahul (3). Her husband often used to beat her after consuming liquor. On May 10, her husband and father-in-law sat together for drinks at about 8 pm and soon started quarrelling among themselves. In a fit of anger, her father-in-law picked up an axe lying nearby and threw it at her husband. The axe missed Ramdiya and hit her daughter on the face, following which she died on the spot. The father and son duo did not allow her to inform anyone and cremated the body secretly next morning. However, the mother of the deceased informed the police on May 12. On receipt of the complaint, the police investigated and arrested the father and the grandfather of the deceased on the charge of causing unintentional death. — OC
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CDLU revives Chair in Selja’s father’s name
Sirsa, June 21 The university had set up a chair in the name of Chaudhary Dalbir Singh, himself a former Union Minister and six-time MP from Sirsa, in 2006. However, nothing concrete was done in this direction after that“Chaudhary Dalbir Singh Chair will work towards facilitating studies for promoting communal harmony, providing justice to weaker sections of society, strengthening the national mainstream, facilitating capacity- building, women empowerment, fighting social evils, dowry, child marriage, female foeticide and domestic violence,” Dr Bhardwaj said after the appointment. Once politically close for years, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Kumari Selja have not been enjoying the best of relations of late. In the backdrop of this, the revival of “Chaudhary Dalbir Singh Chair”, which was lying defunct for six years is being seen as a significant development.
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Probe into funds spent to tame Ghaggar
Sirsa, June 21 In a report, “Flood preparedness report raps authorities” published in these columns on June 19, The Tribune had quoted an executive engineer of the Irrigation Department that Rs 5.63 crore had been spent on flood-protection work under MNREGA since 2010. The news item pertained to a report prepared by the District Congress Committee that nothing had been done to protect people from floods in the Ghaggar since 2010, when thousands of acres of land was
inundated. DCC president Malkiat Singh Khosa, who authored the report based on a survey conducted by his workers and village
sarpanches, met the DC and expressed apprehension that funds might have been siphoned off by unscrupulous officials as nothing has been done on the ground. On Ganesan’s directions, Ellenabad SDM Munish Nagpal visited various sites of the Ghaggar today. “Initially, we are probing the funds spent in Rania
(Rs 1.16 crore) and Ellenabad (Rs 71.6 lakh) areas in 2011-12,” said
Nagpal. He said he had constituted a three-member team comprising the
tehsildar, the block development officer and the executive engineer to meet villagers, who have been shown to have received wages under MNREGA for this work.
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Army officer seeks euthanasia
Tribune News Service
Gurgaon, June 21 Satish, currently posted at an artillery regiment in Hyderabad, has stated that due to his service he had been away from his native village for the past 15 years. He, along with his wife and two children, had been living at the stations where he got posted. Early this year, Satish asked for his share in his ancestral property at the village as he wanted to build a house there. However, he found that his cousins had grabbed his plot. The soldier said he lodged a complaint at the IMT Manesar police station, but the police did not take any action. Satish went to his village with his family last month. Where he and his family members were attacked by his cousins. The police lodged complaints from both sides. “However, while my brothers were arrested and sent to jail, none from the other side was even taken into custody,” said Satish. In his complaint, the JCO said his father was also in the Army and had died during service. His widowed mother and younger brother were helpless against his powerful cousins and their family. Instead of taking action against them, the police had targeted his family.
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Man murders mother
Rohtak, June 21 The latest incident of murder took place at Bakheta village, about 20 km from here, when the accused, identified as Satya Prakash (38), attacked his mother, Sona Devi (62), with a spade after a heated argument. The victim was engaged in some repair work in the house when she was attacked with the spade, it is reported. The accused reportedly told the police that he was upset as his mother failed to visit him even once during the jail term.
Satya Parkash was released from the jail about a year in advance due to his good
behaviour. But his conduct after release from the jail was shocking, said a police official. The accused was produced in the local court today. |
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Steep hike in penal rent
Chandigarh, June 21 He said it had been decided that the penal rent would at least be 300 times the licence fee. He said the penal rent could be charged after three months of overstay. The defaulting employees would be charged twice the market rent. It might be revised on an yearly basis. In the case of sub-letting , the penal rent would be 500 times the licence fee for the first three months and five times the market rent thereafter. Also, it should debar him or her from getting government accommodation for five years. |
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Protest against water scarcity
Sonepat, June 21 Despite more than an hour-long dharna, no official from the Public Health Department visited the spot. Finally, policemen succeeded in convincing them to end their protest on the assurance that their grievances would be brought to the notice of the higher authorities. — OC
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‘Harassed’ Dalits seek Selja’s help
Hisar, June 21
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Villagers lay siege to powerhouse
Sirsa, June 21 Due to erratic power, drinking water had also become scarce in their village. The villagers threatened that if the DHBVN authorities did not solve their problem soon, they would be forced to launch an agitation.They also threatened to disrupt power supply to Sirsa town.
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