NEIGHBOURHOOD

Youth run over by bus in Ambala
Suman Bhatnagar

Ambala, July 9
A team of the Ambala health department led by Senior Medical Officer Dr BB Lala raided a residence at Saunda village close to Ambala City and nabbed two persons while conducting an illegal sex determination test. The accused were posing themsel-ves doctors.

Civil surgeon Dr Manoj Gupta said that he had received information that a sex determination test was being conducted at a residence in Saunda.

He said that two decoy women Rajni Sharma and Pooja Rani, the members of a women organisation were sent there as a customer from whom Rs 6,000 to 7,000 were demanded for sex determination test.

He said that a team of doctors raided the residence where two persons including an RMP practitioner were conducting the sex determination of a woman hailing from Barara.

The police has registered a case against the duo under Sections 420, 120B of the Indian Penal Code and PNDT Act.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioner, Shekhar Vidyarthi, has announced award of Rs 20,000 each for Rajni Sharma and Pooja Rani who had played an important role in nabbing the so-called doctors.

Banur, July 9
Two persons were seriously injured in a clash over land dispute at Gurdittpura village near here on Monday.

The injured were admitted at the Rajindera Hospital, Patiala, in a serious condition.

As per information, there was a dispute over a piece of land among three brothers namely Kuldeep Singh, Rajinder Singh and Amrik Singh of Gurdittpura village. Presently, only Kuldeep Singh was living at the village and the other two brothers were working in Delhi and Chandigarh.

Sources said that the whole land (share of three brothers) was being cultivated by Kuldeep Singh for past some time. When the other two brothers Rajinder Singh and Amrik Singh had come to get possession of land of their share, Kuldeep Singh allegedly attacked them with the help of some other persons. During the clash, Rajinder and Amrik were injured and admitted to the Rajindera Hospital, Patiala.

The police has registered a case under Section 307. No one was arrested till now. — OC

Dera Bassi, July 9
Sand shortage has been affecting the development projects at Dera Bassi and adjoining areas due to the ban on sand mining for the past few months.

The mining was stopped to check the illegal mining a few months ago. But it could no be started till now. The prices of sand were skyrocketing and it is being sold on double rates in the market. Some persons involving in the construction business informed that the construction work was halted due to the sand shortage. For the past few months, sand was not easily available in the market due to ban on sand mining in Ghaggar and other rivers, they added.

The sources belonging to the sand mining business informed that despite completing all conditions of ensuring legal sand mining, the mining could not be started. They told that the top political leaders were interfering in this process, which was also becoming reason of delaying of starting of mining.

Meanwhile, district mining officer, Vishavbandhu, said that some big mining sites were lying blocked due to lack of environmental clearance from concerned department and efforts were on to complete this process as soon as possible. He informed that one big site at Ghaggar near Chadiala was cleared by the pollution Board, Patiala, and an auction for this would be held soon.

He assured that mining would start till the end of July. Other small sites in Ghaggar river were lying blocked due to lack of material in these sites, he added. After filling the material in these sites during the raining season, mining could be started after that, the added.

On the other hand, those involved in sand mining business told that they were not informed about this reason and material was available in some small sites. As per information, sand mining was lying blocked at some auctioned sites as in Ghaggar river as on Meerpur auctioned site, Rampur kalan, Bakarpur, Alamgeer, Pragpur, Khanpur Khurd, Basma and Amlala.

Chandigarh, July 9
The UT Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has ordered the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) to pay a compensation of Rs 5,000 along with litigation cost of Rs 4,000 to Babu Ram, a resident of Mouli Jagran, for making wrong payments on his water bills.

The order is sought to be complied within 30 days from the date of receipt of copy of this order, failing which the MC will be liable to pay a penalty of Rs 25,000 and compensation amount of Rs 5,000 with 12 per cent interest from the date of filing the complaint, which was March 28.

Babu Ram allegedly received an inflated bill of Rs 28,172, shown as arrears. He deposited a part payment of the bill. Then, he made complaints regarding the excessive bills, but to no avail.

The complainant appeared before the SDE, but he refused to rectify the bill amount. Thereafter, the complainant made several visits to the office of the official concerned and filed the RTI application. He was informed that the commercial charges had been levied on him. The complainant said he never used his house for any commercial activity.

When the MC authorities still did not pay heed to complaints of Babu Ram, he approached the forum with his complaint.

Panchkula, July 9
The special NIA court here would hear the arguments over the extension in time for filing supplementary charge sheet against Kamal Chauhan in Samjhauta blast case would be heard in the court tomorrow.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the NIA court to permit Chauhan to file his statement and the case would now come up for arguments tomorrow.

Notably, the High Court had recently set aside the Panchkula NIA Court’s order of May 9 this year, extending the deadline to file a supplementary charge sheet against Kamal Chauhan.

The NIA Court had been directed to decide the case afresh after serving notice to Chauhan besides directing the NIA to submit the progress report in the Samjhauta blast case.

Chauhan, who was picked by the NIA from Noida on February 13, had filed a bail application stating that the NIA had failed to produce the challan within 90 days of the arrest.

However, his application was rejected as the Special NIA court had granted extension to the investigating agency for filing the challan.

All the three accused, including Swami Aseemanad, Lokesh Sharma and Kamal Chauhan, were brought to the court from the Central Jail, Ambala. The NIA had filed a charge sheet against Swami Aseemanand and four others at the Panchkula NIA court on June 20, last year.

Chandigarh, July 9
For the second time this month, the Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Shalini Nagpal today issued non-bailable warrants against Jaswinder Singh, alias Rocky, after he failed to appear before the court again. The case has now been adjourned to July 20. The case is at the final stage.

Rocky was arrested in the Dimpy murder case of 2006. He is at present out on bail. He had failed to appear before the court on July 5.

He had produced a medical certificate to explain his absence, which was not accepted by the court.

Rocky was arrested on July 28, 2008, for allegedly being a part of the conspiracy to eliminate Dimpy. A .45-bore US-made pistol was recovered from his possession. It was used for killing Dimpy on July 7, 2006, near Sukhna Lake.

Prabhjinder Singh Dimpy was shot dead near the Lake Club when he was in his car along with friend Harneev, who had sustained injuries.

Two motorcycle-borne assailant had fired five bullets at Dimpy. 

n Prabhjinder Singh Dimpy was shot dead near the Lake Club when he was in his car along with friend Harneev, who had sustained injuries.

Chandigarh, July 9
For deficiency in services, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Chandigarh, directed the Bank of Baroda to reverse the entry of Rs 22,249 in the account of a resident of Sector 26 and was also directed to pay compensation of Rs 10,000, along with litigation cost of Rs 5,000.

Complainant Vashisht Gupta, a resident of Bapu Dham Colony, Sector 26, was having a saving bank account with the Bank of Baroda. The complainant’s counsel, Divanshu Jain, pleaded that the complainant on getting his passbook updated on November, 2011, was shocked to see that an amount of Rs 22,249 has been shown as withdrawn from his account on May 9, 2011, without his knowledge. When the matter was brought to the knowledge of the bank authorities, it informed that an online shopping was done from his account in Bangalore, whereas the complainant, a poor and illiterate person, never used the ATM-cum-debit card for shopping.

Divanshu Jain alleged that due to lack of proper security measures, the fraud was committed. However, the bank instead of reimbursing the loss to the complainant, supplied him a hyper-technical transaction details, which he could not understand, he added.

The bank in its reply contended that no complaint of any fraud was made to the bank. It was also contended that the complainant was asked to fill the claim form and to lodge the cyber crime complaint, as the said online shopping had been done at Bangalore and the bank had made the payment in terms of online shopping.

The forum in its order stated that the bank had not properly investigated the matter at its end with regard to the fraud committed, causing loss to the complainant nor taken proper care while disbursing the amount from the account of the complainant, which amounts to deficiency in rendering proper service.

Panchkula, July 9
The police arrested a mastermind of the interstate gang of vehicle lifters who were active in the northern states of Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh and New Delhi region.

The accused, identified as Raghunandan, was produced in court today, which remanded him to two-day police custody. The police has also recovered two cars from his possession, taking the total number of vehicles to 29, recovered from the gang.

Besides Raghunandan, the police has also arrested three accused, identified as Ramu, alias Ram Niwas, Sher Singh, alias Kaka Punjabi, and Krishan Kumar. The trio has already been remanded to judicial custody at the Ambala Jail.

The police said the main accused, Raghunandan, used to prepare fake registration certificates with the help of a computer. The police said during investigation, Raghunandan revealed that three more accused, who had been identified as Rajan, Lovely and Deepu, all residents of Neelokheri near Karnal, were members of the gang and were still absconding.

The police said the accused used to engrave new engine and chasis number on the stolen vehicles and after preparing the fake registration certificate used to sell these in other states.

Notably, the police had busted an interstate gang of vehicle lifters who were active in the northern states with the arrest of Sher Singh. The accused, a resident of Rattangarh village, Kurukshetra district, was driving an Indigo car with a fake registration number at the time of arrest in Sector 11 on May 16 last.

Later, the police had recovered 27 cars of various makes and models, including Mahindra pick-up vans, Indigo CS cars, Bolero jeeps, Santro car, tractors, Verna, Tata Safari and Tavera.

Chandigarh, July 9
A student was arrested for assaulting an employee of Score discotheque in Sector 8 last night. The police arrested Kavin Sushant, a resident of Kharar, for causing hurt and criminal intimidation under Sections 323 and 506 of the IPC. He is a graduate from Manipal University.

The scuffle took place last night when Kavin was at the discotheque with his friends. He was ‘drunk’ when he slapped Mulk Raj, an employee of the disco, following an argument. — TNS

Mohali, July 9
A 55-year-old man was run over by a private bus at Phase V last night.

The deceased has been identified as Dharminder, a resident of Kharar. He was going to Kharar from Chandigarh on his motorcycle when the incident took place.

The bus coming from PTL Chowk hit Dharminder bike. Dharminder’s head got crushed under the rear wheel of the bus and he died on the spot. A case has been registered against the bus driver, identified as Makhan Singh, a resident of Manakpur village

Chandigarh, July 9
Prakhar Asawa, a native of Jaipur, Rajasthan, and currently ranked India No. 1 in the order of merit (‘B’ boys’ category) of the Indian Golf Union would hone his skills at the Chandigarh Golf Club.

The young golfer, who has won many national-level tournaments, will now hone his skills in the city, where the likes of Jeev Milkha Singh learnt the nuances of the game.

Prakhar shifted to Chandigarh after his father Amit Asawa, who guided the Rajasthan cricket team to two successive Ranji Trophy titles, accepted the BCCI’s offer to become the coach of its Mohali-based academy. The senior Asawa, who also coaches his son, felt Chandigarh would provide the right kind of atmosphere to him.

Chandigarh has a strong golfing culture and Amit felt that Prakhar would benefit by the competition he would get in the city.

Prakhar, who plays in the ‘B’ category in the national-level tournaments, has already won three titles this year. He was placed third in the Asia Pacific Junior Golf Championship held in Myanmar in May this year. He has been selected to represent the junior Indian team in Evian Masters Junior Cup to be held in France from July 20.

Panchkula, July 9
Shivam Chaudhary has been appointed as the captain of Panchkula district under-14 cricket team that will play one day and two-day matches during a camp, which began at St Soldier School, Sector 16, here today.

Stating this, association’s secretary Sandeep Moudgil said on the basis of performance of players during the camp, the players would be considered for recommendation for Haryana state team, which will participate in the North Zone Inter-State Cricket Championship to be organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

Mohali, July 9
The BCCI first curators’ certification course was inaugurated by MP Pandove, chairman, PCA, and specialised academies, BCCI, at the PCA Cricket Stadium here today.

Addressing participants, Pandove emphasised on the long awaited need of this kind of course for standardising and upgrading wicket laying and ground maintenance procedures at all cricket-playing centres. He stated that the idea of this course was to lay down a certain standard for preparing of wickets all over the country. The focus would be to prepare good cricketing wickets, which would have something for everyone i.e. fast bowlers, spin bowlers and batsmen.

Pandove said it had been seen that the Indian team’s performance abroad had not been encouraging because back home the tendency was to shy away from making fast and bouncy tracks. He said the country had different types of soils, which would make the character of wickets in different centres invariance to each other like the western part of the country has red soil, whereas southern and northern parts have black soil.

He emphasised that the curators’ job was as important as that of an umpire, coach, trainer or a match referee. He hoped that this course will go a long way in updating the knowledge of the curators and will help them to make better pitches and grounds in their respective centres, which in turn will be a great help in enhancing the performance of cricketers in the domestic circuit, particularly the bowlers. He was sure that the curators’ certification would also give an opportunity to those, who clear this in terms of financial gain and recognition. He advised the participants to take advantage of this to assimilate as much knowledge and know-how from the faculty and use it in their respective areas of operation.

About 30 participants from 30 affiliated states of the BCCI have sent their representatives to attend this 21-day course. The BCCI had laid down the criteria of one curator from each state association for this course and the member associations were asked to send their main curator for this course.

Vankat Sundram, chairman, BCCI’s pitch and ground committee, who is also a member of the faculty, thanked Pandove for taking this initiative.

Chandigarh, July 9
The two-day under-25 and under-11 boys and girls’ chess championship would be organised by the Chandigarh Chess Association (CCA) at St Xavier’s Senior Secondary School, Sector 44-C, Chandigarh, from July 14.

Stating this in a press note here today, CCA vice-president Naveen Bansal said four boys in the under-25 category and two boys and two girls in the under-13 category would be selected to represent the city at the nationals to be held at Maharashtra (under-25) from August 21 to 30 and Jharkhand (under-11) from August 5 to 14.

Bansal said the last date of the entry was July 13 and reporting time for the first round was 2 pm on July 14. He said for further inquiries, the players should contact Vipnesh Bhardwaj on his mobile number 9814615100.