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Neighbour kills girl’s colleague
Gang of vehicle-lifters busted, one held
Woman held for trying to sneak mobile phone into jail for husband
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 MC asked to ensure lifting of garbage from outside school
Amritsar, August 30 The district consumer disputes redressal forum has ordered the Municipal Corporation (MC) to ensure lifting of garbage from outside Arya Samaj Senior Secondary School in the Bambay Wala Khoo area on a complaint filed by the People Welfare Society. A Municipal Corporation employee lifts garbage from outside Arya Samaj Senior Secondary School
state of government schools
Now, shell out more for your dream home
DC dismisses patwari from service for corruption
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Neighbour kills girl’s colleague
Amritsar, August 30 The victim was a 25-year-old Vicky, whose throat was slit with a sharp-edged weapon by Ravi Kumar Sharma, resident of Gali Tiwarian, Lahori Gate. Though a case under Section 302 of the IPC has been registered against Ravi Kumar Sharma at the E- Division police station today, but he is still at large. The incident occurred in the Hathi Gate area when the Vicky, as usual, had come to drop the girl at her home in the evening. Suspecting them to be having a love affair, Ravi Kumar intercepted them on the way and after a verbal altercation, he took out a knife-like weapon and slit Vicky’s throat. Incidentally, Vicky’s brother Pawan Kumar also happened to be few yards away from the spot and noticed the verbal dual between them. He stated before the police that before he could gauge the sensitivity of the situation, he found his brother lying in a pool of blood. “I had noticed Ravi following them on his motorcycle and later stopping them on the way. Before I could intervene in the altercation between Ravi and my brother, hed took out a sharp-edged weapon and slit my brother’s throat. Thereafter, he fled from the spot on his motorcycle. I somehow managed to take my brother to Chawla Hospital, but he was declared brought dead,” he said. Meanwhile, ADCP (Crime) Harjeet Singh Brar, ADCP (Central) Gurcharan Singh and in charge of the Kotwali police station Dilbagh Singh reached the spot with a police party. It has been learnt that Vicky and the girl used to work for the same organisation, located near Bhandari Bridge. For the past 10 days Vicky had been dropping her back home after the office hours as the girl
had shared with the office staff about Ravi regularly teasing her, especially
during the times when she goes back after office hours. This infuriated Ravi, who out of rage committed such a heinous crime. Investigating officer Dilbagh Singh of the E-Division police station said Ravi was also accompanied by another unidentified person, but the case was registered against him only. “At present we have booked Ravi Kumar on the basis of a complaint submitted by the brother of the victim. We are on a look out for him and his accomplice. Our teams have been constantly raiding their possible hideouts to nab them,” he said.
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Gang of vehicle-lifters busted, one held
Amritsar, August 30 The arrested thief has been identified as Davinder Singh, who, too, tried to dodge the police by hiding himself in a cupboard when the police party conducted the raid at House No 29 in Professor Avenue, Chheharta. Meanwhile, a case has been registered against five gang members, including Davinder Singh, resident of the Pahuwind area, under Sections 379, 411, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 34 of the IPC at the Chheharta police station. The absconding gang members have been identified as Aman Master, resident of Bhikhiwind in Tarn Taran district, Saurav and Gaurav, both residents of Amritsar, and Gopi, resident of Bhikhiwind. The gang used to target luxury vehicles and in connivance with their partners active in other cities like Chandigarh, Delhi, Pune and Mumbai, used sell them in other states with forged documents. The police could reach them through an information procured from a vehicle lifter, Harjeet Singh, who was already arrested by the CIA a few weeks ago. The CIA team, led by Avtaar Singh, and the Chheharta police team, led by its in charge Ashwani Kumar, raided their hideout. After finding the house locked, the police party broke it open. Initially, the police found the place abandoned, with some vehicle spare parts like central locking sets, headlights, handle locks, car trunk locks, car battery chargers lying there. After a thorough search, Davinder was spotted in the upper portion of a cupboard. Davinder told the police that he worked as a driver with the gang and had joined it just 10 days back. The kingpin was Master Aman, who was always accompanied by Saurav and Gaurav. Davinder told the police that the trio had left the place yesterday in a Swift car, most probably a stolen one. Investigating officer Bhagwant Singh of the Chheharta police station said one Verna Car (PJO 69) was recovered from the house, where they stayed. “They used to steal vehicles and sell them on forged documents in connivance with their other gang members, who operate in other states. We are trying to establish contacts with the police of those states so that these vehicle lifters could be traced,” he said. Second-time lucky
It is for the second time that the kingpin of the gang, Master Aman, has given the police a slip. Earlier on May 24, the police had intercepted a black colour Tata Safari on the GT Road carrying four persons. The two occupants had run away, while the other two were caught on the spot. Master Aman was one of the absconded criminals.
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Woman held for trying to sneak mobile phone into jail for husband
Amritsar, August 30 The police has registered a case under the Prisoners Act against the woman and arrested her for defying the jail norms and trying to dodge the jail guards. The accused has been identified as Sonia, resident of Theka Colony, Khadoor Sahib. According to investigating officer Mangal Singh of the Gumtala police post, she had come to see her husband Harpreet Singh, who was facing a trial and lodged in the jail on the basis of a case registered under Sections 379, 467, 468 and 120-B of the IPC at the Goindwal Sahib police station against him. The women jail staff during the search of Sonia, before letting her enter the meeting room of the jail, found a mobile phone with SIM card hidden in her undergarments. According to Jail Superintendent BS Gill, Sonia did not disclose anything about the mobile phone before the search and had hidden the phone in her undergarments, which was spotted by our women staff during her search. Later, she admitted that she had intentions to pass it on to her husband. “She was arrested and handed over to the police for further investigations.
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MC asked to ensure lifting of garbage from outside school
Amritsar, August 30 In a complaint made earlier, the society had stated that garbage from the nearby areas was collected at the place and not lifted for days. The society had further complained that a 5 feet area on both the sides of the road is lower by around 2 feet, as a result accidents are frequent. The society had demanded that the consumer court should see it as a deficiency in services on part of the MC and ask it to elevate the area on both the sides to the level of the road. The condition of the area outside the school prior to filing of complaint was such that people often complained of foul smell and choked sewerage system. The forum has disposed of the complaint asking the corporation to place a yellow bin for the collection of waste. It has further asked the MC to ensure lifting of the waste from the bin twice a day. It has also asked to elevate the area on the sides of the road and cover the open drains on both the sides within a period of six months. The forum has observed, “Keeping in view the financial constraints - paucity of funds with the state government as well as the local government - the opposite party (corporation) is directed to make compliance of this order as early as possible, preferably within six months.” Meanwhile, the corporation has already deployed a workforce to ensure the compliance of the orders. Two employees of the corporation’s health wing - Raj Kumar and Hari Krishan - said they had been assigned the duty of ensure proper cleanliness of the area. Raj Kumar said, “The garbage is being lifted in time. Besides we keep a watch so that nobody throws waste outside the bin.” The level of the space on both the sides of the road had also been raised. A resident, Gopal Singh, said, “Things here have changed a lot in the past few years. Earlier, there was a lot of trouble.” He said they were thankful to the People Welfare Society for taking up the matter with the forum.
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Maqboolpura Govt Elementary School offers 2 dingy classrooms to 197 students
Neeraj Bagga Tribune News Service
Amritsar, August 30 As many as 197 students are being imparted education in a school building which has two dingy classrooms to accommodate equal number of classes and a dusty foreground, which holds three other classes. Basic civic amenities, like potable water and toilets, are completely absent and teachers and students are dependent on the residences around. Teachers go to a nearby gurdwara for using toilet, while students urinate in open and girl students go knocking at the doors of neighbouring houses. Yet they feel lucky that their situation has improved with the covering of a nullah as its foul smell had made their lives miserable. The state legislators are being pampered with expensive cars and other luxury items. On the other hand, teachers and students do not find any respite from scorching summers and rains. Families of extremely low income groups from Maqboolpura and slum localities around, who cannot afford costly private education, send their wards to the school. Apart from two classrooms, there is a storeroom to where raw eatables for mid-day meal of the students are kept, but it lacks ventilation. Head Teacher’s small office also doubles up as classroom. As if all these glaring deficiencies were not enough, the school staff encountered theft of LPG cylinders. As many as two cylinders have been stolen in the past three months. Mid-day meal is now being cooked with a cylinder made available from the house of a teacher. The government even failed to supply fans to the schools and they were made available by donations from parents of students and teachers pooling together their money. There are only 52 benches for nearly 200 students. School’s Head Teacher Rakesh Kumar said a file seeking funds to provide various amenities and infrastructure at the school had been forwarded to the Education Department. He said the school staff was making all efforts to teach students well, despite shortcomings.
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Nooran sisters enthral audience
Amritsar, August 30 “We sing because we worship music. Its like a divine gift and we don’t want to corrupt it by pretending to be something we are not,” says Sultana, the eldest of the two. The tickets of their performance at Punjab Natshala on Tuesday evening were completely sold out, even prompting noted sufi singer Puran Chand Wadali, who was the guest of honour to become an animated audience. Spellbinding the audience with one song after another, the young Sufi singers, who are granddaughters of the renowned Sufi singer Bibi Nooran, lived up to their name. “We got a really great audience, which is a rarity as not many people understand and acknowledge Sufi music. But Amritsar is always a haven for the divine music,” said Sultana. Their musical journey started from their birth, but it only got recognition after their successful and smashing performance on MTV Coke Studio. “It was a different experience for us. We had only performed at regional music festivals, but when we got to know that one of our performance has got more than 75 crore hits online we couldn’t believe it. My sister had tears in her eyes,” says Jyoti. And then Coke Studio happened, “The genre of fusion music is alien to us as we have dedicated our life to the Sufi music. But it’s good to know that it enjoys a great respect in the world,” said Sultana, who was glad they were called in for the second season of the show after their performance in the first became a rage on the Internet. “We only sing Sufi qalam. Our grandmother used to sing Bullehshah’s Tung Tung,” says Sultana, the shy one, emphasising how the genre should not be slotted as folk. Jyoti enjoyed recording with a live rock band. Another high point for the girls, in their twenties, was having Puran Chand Wadali as an audience. “He is a stalwart in Sufi music and it is an honour to have him as an audience. He had the kindest words to say to both of us,” said an ecstatic Jyoti. While they take on the responsibility of promoting and popularising Sufi music, they also admit that Punjabi music is getting divided into two. “One being folk and Sufi culture, another the more commercial genre. Though we won’t say it’s a bad trend, but I believe it will fizz out soon. But as long as it lasts, its definitely getting in the moolah,” said Sultana.
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Now, shell out more for your dream home
Amritsar, August 30 Currently, a property buyer has to shell out 5 per cent stamp duty and 3 per cent social security on the registration of land. However, there is a reprieve for women buyers in the urban areas as they have to deposit three per cent fee in both cases on registration of land. The Punjab Cabinet’s approval of slew of new taxes has caused the social infrastructure cess to go up by 1 per cent at the time of registration of land for health and education. Besides, a new buyer has to shell out registration fee that has been increased from Rs 30,000 to Rs 2 lakh. Arvind Kumar, a deed writer, said the maximum limit of registration fee had been fixed at 1 per cent of Rs 2 crore and a buyer procuring property above Rs 2 crore would have the advantage of shelling out only Rs 2 lakh registration fee. It offered a little advantage to big property buyers, he said. As land prices are shooting up so are government’s various fees. Private investors and colonisers are constructing private colonies. People are investing their hard-earned money in real estate flats, but many of them are falling prey to the designs of cheat colonisers. Rajesh Mahajan said he procured a 100 sq yard plot in New Golden Avenue, where the residential registry rate for a square yard of land was Rs 17,000 and the commercial rate was Rs 50,000. “I bought the plot near railway lines where the price was much lower, between Rs 10,000 and Rs 12,000,” he said. Rajesh said as per the circle rate, he needed to shell out Rs 1.53 lakh more, nearly 9 per cent over and above the cost of property in the shape of stamp duty, social security cess and registration fee. Suresh Kumar Vashisht, a real estate financier, said it was only a couple of days ago that the new rule making the owner’s presence mandatory while registering the property through previously done power of attorneys was reverted and new taxes on property had been introduced. He added that now new taxes had also been imposed on buying and even holding of property. He remarked that these measures had shaken the faith of investors and a majority of them were in panic. He claimed that the local Revenue Department earned about Rs 250 crore from registering about 40,000 registries and nearly 20,000 Power of Attorneys. “Earlier, there was a routine stagnation, which has now turned into a slump as investors had held back new investments and the real customer was coming out in trickles. High registry rates and new taxes are enough to deter the real customers away from buying the property,” said Nishant, a real estate agent.
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DC dismisses patwari from service for corruption
Amritsar, August 30 The court has announced five years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000 for patwari Kanwar Shamsher Singh, posted at Circle Abusaaid, near Ajnala. A resident of Gagomahal village had in a complaint on June 6, 2006, alleged that the patwari had taken a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh for the mutation of a property. Later a case was registered at the Ramdass police station. Deputy Commissioner Rajat Aggarwal said the patwari was dismissed under the Punjab Civil Services rules.
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Acting on a tip-off, the CIA staff and a Chheharta police team busted an interstate gang of vehicle-lifters in a joint operation late last night, but could arrest only one of its members, as others gave them a slip.
Amritsar, August 30
