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Woman kills paramour
Vayapar Sena protests
SAD-BJP policies
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5 booked for abetment to suicide
No smooth sailing for online scheme
JIT told to compensate on gas pipeline facility
Two women die in road mishaps
One killed in MUVs’ collision
‘Influential’ residents yearn for old vehicle No. series
3 held for fraud
from schools
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Woman kills paramour
Jalandhar, August 11 Interestingly, giving the reason for killing her own paramour with whom she had been reportedly in relationship for years, the woman confessed before the police that the former was making indecent advances to her daughter for the past sometime, which was objectionable
to her. The Jalandhar Cantonment police has nabbed the accused woman Dolly and her daughter Preeti, while her son Mani is at large. A case under Sections 302, 34 of the IPC has been registered. The deceased, who was identified as Aman Arora of Laxmi Pura, was an auto-rickshaw puller, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Cantt, Manpreet Singh, said. The victim’s wife Rajni Arora, in statement to the police, revealed that on Friday night at around 12.30, Dolly’s son Mani had come to their house and took her husband along. When the victim reached their home, the accused woman reportedly served him some drink laced with sedatives. When the victim started losing conscious, the woman, along with her son and daughter, strangulated him to death with a duppata, the ACP said. Meanwhile, the accused hanged the body with the ceiling fan just to give the impression to the police that it was not a murder but suicide. After committing the crime, the accused had also called up at the police control room and revealed that said person had hanged himself to death at their residence, the ACP said. When he reached the spot, he smelt something wrong. “The way the body was hanging with the ceiling fan with bended legs was giving the impression that the victim was hanged after being done to death,” the ACP said. Other circumstantial evidence gathered from the spot had also raised fingers against the woman. During preliminary investigation, the woman had also confessed that Aman had not committed suicide rather she killed him. About the reason, she confessed that she had relations with Aman for the past some years and he often used to come to his place, but now he was reportedly sending overtures to her daughter, which was objected to by her. She also admitted that after serving drinks laced with sedatives to the victim, the latter was hanged to death at 3.30 am. |
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Vayapar Sena protests
SAD-BJP policies
Jalandhar, August 11 The activists of the Vayapar Sena were protesting against the imposition of VAT on sugar, steep hike in power tariff with retrospective effect from April 1 and the issuance of new orders of informing in advance through e-mail to state government regarding the sale of iron worth over Rs 2 lakh and any other item worth over Rs 3 lakh. Addressing the protesters outside Chunni Lal’s house, state president of the Vayapar Sena Ravindra Dhir flayed Parkash Singh Badal-led SAD-BJP government for these policies. Stating that Punjab is the only state where VAT has been imposed on sugar, Dhir reiterated his demand of rolling back of power tariff hike without any further delay. Also criticising the BJP, Dhir questioned, “Why has it observed silence over the imposition of new taxes and bizarre orders by the Badal government as it claims to represent the urban voters?” The Vayapar Sena general secretary Vipin Prinja also addressed the agitators. A number of members of the Metal Merchant Shopkeepers Association also participated in the protest. Dhir threatened to intensify their stir if the government did not fulfill their demands of rolling back power tariff hike and withdrawing imposition of new taxes on various essential commodities. |
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5 booked for abetment to suicide
Jalandhar, August 11 Ashok Kumar allegedly ended his life after certain persons blamed his sons for stealing cash from a temple and they reportedly also thrashed him. Unable to bear the humiliation, he took the extreme step. The police had also recovered a suicide note near the body, in which, Ashok Kumar held five persons responsible for his death. The accused, booked under Section 306 of the IPC, have been identified as Roshan, Ramesh, Ram Behram, Jeeta and Sethi. The victim’s sister alleged that her brother ran a provisional store in the village and on Thursday evening, when the victim’s sons Deepak and Neeraj went to a local temple and were standing in the queue to take ‘parshad’, the five persons behaved rudely with them. When Ashok Kumar’s sons protested their move, the accused thrashed them in the temple. Meanwhile, her father reached the spot and a compromise was achieved. The victim’s sister further alleged that on Friday evening, the accused reached their home along with the police and levelled allegation
of theft against the victim’s sons. Unable to bear the humiliation, Ashok ended his life, she said. Interestingly, the persons who levelled allegations of theft against the youths had been admitted to the Civil Hospital, and levelled counter-allegations against the youths, alleging that they attempted to steal cash from the temple and attacked them when they caught them red handed. |
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No smooth sailing for online scheme
Jalandhar, August 11 While the system had been set in place to facilitate the constant updation of works approved, their estimated cost, inauguration, tentative date of completion of work and percentage of work completed, the officials concerned have stopped putting any details on the administration’s official web portal www.jalandhar.nic.in. As per the scheme, the EOs of Shahkot, Lohian, Nurmahal, Bhogpur, Goraya, Phillaur, Adampur and Kartarpur, BDPOs including those of Jalandhar East, Jalandhar West, Rurka Kalan and Nakodar, XENs of PWD and Mandi Board, Chief Agricultural Officer, Animal Husbandary officials and District Education Officers were supposed to put in details for fund use sent to them for various projects and even upload photographs of works to prove their point. However, none of them seem to be using it for more than a year. Put in any time period for any kind of detail of the works sought, there is a message “No record found”. Further the column total works for various projects is shown as 7,475, but the works for which progress updated is nil. Go blockwise or village wise, the tentative dates of completion have been shown as those in 2010 or 2011. The officials had been slow in adopting it, but had still started complying with it till February last year, but ever since, they seem to have shown complete lack of interest. The Deputy Commissioner had started the scheme since he felt it was completely impossible for him to personally visit all areas. Through e-monitoring, he had planned that he would keep an eye on problem areas and choose to check them on a priority basis. Bharti said last Tuesday, he had held a meeting on the issue and pulled up the officials concerned. “I had given them just a week’s time for all kind of updations. Some of them were asking for operators. I have roped in eight operators. They were even asking for more computer systems, which I am trying to provide. For uploading progress through photographs, I have given them a month’s time,” he claimed. Interestingly, the brainchild behind the project was Deputy Commissioner Kapurthala Alaknanda Dyal, the Jalandhar DC’s better half.
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JIT told to compensate on gas pipeline facility
Jalandhar, August 11 The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has asked the JIT to pay up Rs 5,000 to an allottee for the inordinate delay in providing the service even eight years after levying the charges. Complainant Mukta Khosla said she was allotted 100 sq yards plot in the 170 acre development scheme Surya Enclave in February 2004. She said she had paid an extra money for the piped LPG supply to the tune of Rs 9,000. She said she made the payment on March 19, 2004. She was also asked to pay up non-construction charges thrice - Rs 32400 on June 3, 2009, Rs 15,000 on December 23, 2010, and Rs 15,000 again on December 30, 2012. She complained that the Trust failed to provide piped gas supply till date. The Trust did not meet the conditions of the allotment letter and also charged non-construction fee from her. She claimed that the Trust had no right to do so till it fulfilled its liability in totality as per the allotment letter in question, while demanding the refund of the non-construction charges and restraining it from further charging any such fee. The Trust officials filed a written reply, pleading that the supply of gas through pipeline was just a value-added service and not an essential amenity. All essential amenities such as roads, water supply, sewerage, street lights, parks etc had already been provided to the residents of Surya Enclave. The officials further said that the payment of Rs 1,40,90,000 had already been made to the gas company, vide cheque dated August 22, 2006, for laying of the gas pipeline. The work was under process and the gas pipe line would be laid out very soon. “Not laying of gas pipeline can never be a reason for not constructing the house on the plot when all essential amenities are present at the spot. It is just a lame excuse made up by the complainant so as to cover her mistake,” they shot back. The forum opined that not laying of gas pipeline cannot furnish a valid ground to the complainant not to construct a house over the allotted plot within the stipulated period, particularly, when all essential amenities had been provided. “At present, no locality in Jalandhar is getting piped gas supply amenity. However, the Trust received Rs 9,000 in the year 2004 for the purpose of providing piped gas supply, but till date the gas supply has not been provided to the residents of Surya Enclave. This inordinate delay after receiving the amount of Rs 9,000 in not giving piped gas supply definitely constitutes a deficiency in service. The counsel for the Trust has failed to satisfactorily explain this delay in not supplying the piped gas supply to the allottees. In case, the Trust was not in a position to provide piped gas supply, it should have refunded the charges to the allottees.
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Two women die in road mishaps
Jalandhar, August 11 In the first incident, an elderly woman died after she was hit by a motorcycle on the Jalandhar-Phagwara road. Eye-witnesses told the police that the woman was hit by a speeding motorcycle while she was moving on road. On noticing the accident, nearby people nabbed the errant bike-borne youth and handed him over to the police. The victim’s body had been kept in the mortuary at local Civil Hospital, the police added. In another accident, a middle-aged woman was hit by a speeding car in Kang Sabu village near Lambra here this afternoon. The woman had sustained serious head injuries and died on the spot. The victim’s body, who had not been identified yet, has been kept at civil hospital, police sources said. A case of negligent driving had been registered against the unidentified car driver.
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One killed in MUVs’ collision
Jalandhar, August 11 Satish Kumar, the driver of Tata Sumo, died on the spot, while its occupants, residents of Kishanpura, sustained injuries and were admitted to private hospital. The occupants were returning home after attending the engagement ceremony of their relative. The injured were identified as Manoj Kumar, Baljit Kaur, Gyan Kaur, Naresh Kumar, Bindu, Preeti, Harry, Anshu and Nano. Officials of the Sadar police station reached the spot and started investigation. Assistant sub-inspector, Jandiala Manjki police post, said a case of negligent driving had been registered against the driver of Balero, Satish, adding that the accused driver had been undergoing treatment in a hospital, but once he gets discharged, he would be arrested.
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‘Influential’ residents yearn for old vehicle No. series
Jalandhar, August 11 Of late, it has become common for the VIPs and SUV owners to be flaunting three-alphabet registration numbers such as PCF, PCK, PAK etc that prevailed prior to the starting of the double alphabet series like PB-08 that had specific code numbers of each district as well (since 08 is for Jalandhar). The District Transport Office in Jalandhar daily gets two to three applicants for such numbers, each one with a recommendation from a politician or a top bureaucrat. The office, too, in the recent past has re-issued a few such numbers on the production of evidence of owing a vehicle with same number which is now off road. The office has been charging half the amount of current charges for registration for the re-issuing of such numbers. There are divergent views on whether such numbers can be given again. District Transport Officer RL Jassal claims that the office was no longer authorised to re-issue old series numbers. “We can re-issue numbers of the new series only in PB-08 format,” he claimed. Secretary Regional Transport Authority Jaskiran Singh opines, “There is little ambiguity on the issue. The matter I think is still sub judice, as applicants from New Delhi and other cities have challenged the decision of the transport department, claiming that they had sentiments attached with the old series.” There are other issues involved for re-starting the old series. The high-security number plates, which are bound to be compulsory in the coming days, are being issued only in the new series format. Also the online registration details of all vehicles which have been made available through Vaahan and Sarthi softwares of the transport department also perhaps do not conform to the old registration style. Official speak There is little ambiguity on the issue. The matter I think is sub judice, as applicants from New Delhi and other cities have challenged the decision of the transport department, claiming that they had sentiments attached with the old series. There are other issues involved for restarting the old series. The high-security number plates, which are bound to be compulsory in the coming days, are being issued only in the new series format. — Jaskiran Singh, Secretary, Regional Transport Authority
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Residents curse MC for poor
state of roads
Jalandhar, August 11 Though the monsoon has not shown its true colours yet, still the fear of facing the water-logging woes, when the monsoon will be in full swing, has been adding to the worries of residents of many localities. Residents fear that if not repaired in time, these roads would again become pools causing enormous problems for them. Residents said during the MC elections the candidates promised them of making new roads and initiating patching up of potholed roads where required, but after winning the elections they were now nowhere to be seen. Pawan Sharma, resident of Ladowali Road, alleged that recently a few minutes of rain had completely flooded the potholed road, which caused many problems to the residents. Many residents have also been started approaching their area councillors to demand immediate repair of the broken roads to prevent water logging. “We have done our duty by voting the candidates of our liking to power, now it is the turn of the elected councillors to take a bit pain and initiate the repair work, where required,” Amrita Sharma, rersident of Deol Nagar, said, ruing that the water-logging woes during rains would further give birth to water-borne diseases and the area councillor should be held responsible for the same. The city has 60 wards and roads in most of them are in a sorry state and need urgent repairs. Roads in Guru Nanak Pura, Alaska Chowk, Garha area, Guru Amardas Nagar, Deol Nagar, Seth Hukam Chand Colony, Gujja Peer area, Basti Bawa Khel, etc, have developed potholes and need immediate repair.
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Kohar to unfurl Tricolour at PAP grounds on I-Day
Jalandhar, August 11 More than 3,000 students from various schools and colleges will be participating in the PT and cultural show to be held on the day. The participating institutes include KMV, HMV, Guru Amar Dass School, KMV Sanskriti School and Government Senior Secondary School for Girls, Nehru Garden. The march past will comprise contingents from the BSF, CRPF, Punjab Police, Punjab Home Guards, NCC, Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. A full dress rehearsal has been planned for Monday, which will be supervised by Additional Chief Administrator, PUDA, Sarojini Gautam Sharda.
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3 held for fraud
Jalandhar, August 11 The accused were identified as Munish Malhotra, his sister Shalini Malhotra and Mother Ramma Malhotra, residents of Shiv Vihar here. The complainant Davinder Gupta had filed a complaint with the police that last year, he was promised by the accused to send him to Europe and for that, a deal was struck for Rs 7 lakh. “I had also paid about Rs 3 lakh to the agent in advance and when I did not get visa, I asked Munish to return my money. He gave me a cheque which bounced in the bank.” Acting on the tip-off, the accused were nabbed from Urban Estate Area.
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Chinese university students ‘know India’ at LPU
Jalandhar, August 11 The visitors are on a 12-day visit and stay on the campus till August 15. The Chinese students and faculty are here to learn the best Indian practices, culture and economic strength. Hailing from diverse fields like information technology, education, agriculture, automation, mechanical engineering, music, social administration and life sciences, the students are also here to understand and share issues relevant to their fields. As a part of the programme, they are undergoing a lot of interaction with students and faculty members of LPU, visiting different departments, imbibing knowledge through lectures and seminars and touring many places of historical, religious, geographical and cultural importance in the country. Welcoming the touring Chinese ensemble on the campus, LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal said, “We are glad to receive the Chinese students and faculty from the world’s most populous and fastest-growing economy. As India too, is an emerging superpower, the students of both the prominent countries of the world will surely gain much through mutual interactions, each other’s culture and thoughts of common interests.” Sharing the best of their culture, the Chinese students are making live demonstrations in letting the LPU students learn martial art kung fu for self-defence. They taught motor skills, complex movements and thought for kung fu. They also let LPU students know about the Chinese cultural dragon dance with music, Han Chinese folk music and traditional Chinese musical instruments based on their material of composition like animal skins, bamboo, silk, stone, etc. Xia Ling Summer, team leader from the Office of International and Cooperation of Kunming University, said, “The visit is indeed going to be a memorable trip for all of us as we are soon going to visit the Taj Mahal at Agra, in addition to many other places of importance.” Similarly, Prof Zhang Hong from Kunming University’s School of Physical Education said: “Travelling to India and LPU has been a unique opportunity. I have learnt the great greeting word ‘Namstey’, which is very captivating for me.”
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from schools
Jalandhar, August 11 Janmashtami was also celebrated at Manav Sehyog School, Shahpur. Students attired themselves like Radha and Krishna. The school was decorated with flowers, buntings, swings and pictures of “Makhan Chor”. Students of senior classes gave information about Krishna’s life and thoughts. The festival was celebrated at Emm Aar International School, where children from the nursery class came to school dressed as Radha and Krishna. The festival was also celebrated at APJ School, Rama Mandi. Vanamahotsava Vanamahotsava was celebrated at MGN Public School, Adarsh Nagar. Saplings were planted by members of the Old Montgomerian Association - Ramnik Singh Kalra, Amarjot Singh, Dr Parmdeep Singh, Rajkaran Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Apandeep Singh, Upkar Hothi, Hardeep Singh and Ekjot Singh. Principal Satwant Gakhal and Vice-Principal Brinder Badwal were also present. “Sur Sangam” “Sur Sangam”, a musical extravaganza, was held at the Ivy World School, wherein young singers and musicians performed on stage. Patriotism and social awareness were the themes that the teams performed on. The function was judged by CD Safri, who has been associated with the All-India Radio through his melodious gazal singing in India and abroad, and Mamta Joshi, a doctorate in music and a gold medalist in postgraduation of music, were the judges. The first prize was won by Cambridge Girls School in both the categories. In the group song category, Police DAV School stood second. Mayor World School bagged the second position in the Western music solo category. NCC camp As many as 15 cadets from MGN Public School, Adarsh Nagar, participated in the Annual Training Camp (ATC) of the NCC at Jalandhar Cantonment. Students were trained for discipline, firing, parasailing, parade and various other sports activities. A cultural programme was also organised. The camp lasted for 10 days from July 30 to August 8. The MGN school bagged the overall trophy on the occasion by defeating 11 institutes. The school won prizes in 100-m run (1 gold and 1 silver medal), 200-m run (1 gold medal), volley ball (1st position), drill competition (2nd position), cultural programme (3 gold medals in group dance and 1 silver medal in solo dance). Environment rally Guru Amar Dass Public School, Model Town organised a rally for public awareness to keep the environment clean and green. The rally was a part of the “Sar-Sabaz” programme, started by the Guru Amar Dass Public School management last year. Saplings are distributed free of cost among the staff and students of the school from time to time. Medical camp A free medical camp was organised by the Bowry Memorial Medical and Educational Trust at Lambhra under the aegis of Innocent Hearts Group of Institutions. About 150 patients were checked and got medicines. Extempore contest Innocent Hearts School, Green Model Town, organised an English extempore contest for the students of Class XI and XII. Topics were “Facebook”, “Mobile phone”, “Internet - blessing or a boon”, “Importance of book reading”, “Importance of games period daily”, etc. Judges were Professor Mago and principal Dheeraj Banati. Sumedha Uppal (XI) and Prachi (XII) bagged the first position. Disha (XI) and Nikhil (XII) bagged the second position. Ankita (XI) bagged the third position. Dance and fancy dress competitions Little Blossoms School organised dance and fancy dress competitions at its Urban Estate branch. Around 125 students participated in the interclass competitions. Students between the age of two and four displayed their talent in fancy dress. Students of Class I to XIII participated in the solo dance contest under the classical and western categories. Principal Vandana Murria and the director gave certificates of appreciation to participants.
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Jalandhar, August 11
In a novel way of protest against imposing new taxes on various items, activists of the Vayapar Sena distributed several packets of sugar free of cost to the public.
