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16-yr-old gangraped in Yamunanagar
Girl raped on promise of marriage
Crime Against Women
Two gangrape accused in police custody
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33 cases of rape in Rohtak this year
No takers for paddy in grain markets
Municipal staff union to support Oct 14 protest
BJP, HJC activists burn Jaiswal’s effigy
Mishap claims 2 lives
CJ pushes for more ADR centres
Social bodies, NGOs oppose hike in LPG rates
Missing taxi driver’s body to be taken out of well
Karnal village wins CM’s sanitation award
Drive against polythene in Gurgaon
Central varsity resumes construction
Two in cop’s garb held
6 injured in factory fire
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16-yr-old gangraped in Yamunanagar
Yamunanagar, October 4 The two were identified as Kaku and Shaukat. They stopped the girl and forced her into their car and took her to the fields away from the village. Even as her family got perturbed and started looking for her all across the village, the two kept the girl in illegal confinement throughout the night and repeatedly raped her. Later, in the morning the two fled the scene, leaving her behind in a bad shape. The girl, who hails from a minority community, managed to get out of the fields and went to the nearby Padohli village where she sought help from the locals and returned home. As she told them about the incident, they reported the matter to the police, following which district police chief Mitesh Jain along with other officials visited the village and initiated action. Mitesh Jain said the police had registered a case against the two accused at the Bilaspur police station and the two had been arrested. During interrogation, the two reportedly confessed to their crime. The police also confiscated the car which had been used in the crime and later got a medical examination of the girl conducted at the local Civil Hospital, the report of which is awaited. |
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Girl raped on promise of marriage
Karnal, October 4 The victim stated in her complaint that Pradeep (25), her neighbour, had been raping her for the past few months on the pretext of marrying her. However, he married another girl, leaving
the victim in the lurch. The accused trespassed into her house last night when she was alone and raped her again, the victim said. He even threatened her of dire consequences but she reported the matter to the police. The police has booked Pradeep on a rape charge. The victim would be medically examined, said Shashank Anand, SP, Karnal. |
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Crime Against Women
Chandigarh, October 4 What is more surprising is that despite so many cases, no women’s organisation has come forward to lend any support or make any noise. While Haryana, where atrocities on women abound, does not have an organisation working for the rights of women or fighting for justice for them, Delhi’s organisations, a stone’s throw away from Haryana, too, seem to be only watching from the sidelines as hapless victims continue to struggle with their fears. Even as the rape graph has jumped in Haryana this month, experts feel it is not without reason that this is happening. There is easy money and are idle minds to blame. Weak parenting and economic development, besides the sociological history which proves that a woman has never been an equal in society, are the other reasons. Explains the coordinator of the Centre of Behavioural Research and Intervention, Guru Jambeshwar University, Hisar, Dr Sandeep Rana, “The attitude towards women has always been irrational. While equality has never been an issue, with men being seen as the superior of the two, violence against women is the assertion of this superiority, whether is manifest in female foeticide or rape or domestic violence.” While economic development and easy money through the sale of lands has raised the standards of people, cognitive development has not kept pace which is why values and thinking have not changed. “Having economic means has become a goal by itself. Financially sound after the sale of lands, people have nothing to do. Then, the easy availability of money to splurge has weakened parenting and increased peer pressure. The next obvious step for the goal-less generation is drugs, achohol and assertion of power through such acts,” Rana adds. From the Department
of Sociology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Madhu Nagla agrees that increased money power and sociological history where women have been subjugated to all kinds of oppression are responsible. “She’s has been a commodity to be used and forgotten. The gender ratio, too, has been favourable to men and the society is patriarchal where sharing a wife among brothers was an accepted norm. The situation continues to be the same,” she says. Given the strong patriarchal roots of society, women have never been valued, Nagla maintains. |
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Two gangrape accused in police custody
Sonepat, October 4 While Sunil and Sanjay were remanded to
police custody, Anil and Sarvan were sent to 14-day judicial custody by the court. The woman accused, Maafi, who was produced in the court at Gohana late last evening was also remanded in judicial custody. In another development, the rape victim was asked to record her statement before the judicial magistrate, but she reportedly did not turn up. All accused belong to the same caste. Meantime, it is learnt that a panchayat of the representatives of the victim’s caste was convened today in Banwasa to deliberate on the case and bring about a compromise. |
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33 cases of rape in Rohtak this year
Rohtak, October 4 The statistics show a decline of 32 per cent in such incidents this year in comparison to the last year. The district has recorded a total of 33 incidents of rapes so far this year. The total number of rape incidents in the district between January 1 and October 3 was 33 as against 49 in the corresponding period last year. “There is a drop of almost 32 per cent in such a crime but the hype over the spate of such crime has projected the Chief Minister’s home district in a bad light,” said a police official. As per the data of the police department, the number of murders in the district, which were 56 last year, has also gone down to 51 till October 3. Similarly, the number of molestation has gone down to 20 from 32 earlier. The cases of rioting, kidnapping and abduction have also shown a decline of up to 20 per cent. The incidents of motor vehicle theft, which were 465 last year, have also slipped to 399 this year, while the total cases of burglary recorded by the police this year have been pegged at 209 in comparison to 282 last year. The total number of loot cases this year has been put at 48 so far. In the neighboring district of Jhajjar, the number of rape cases this year has been just 12 in comparison to 32 last year in the same period. |
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Cops check youths near girls’ institutes
Sirsa, October 4 The police kept a close vigil on youths roaming near these colleges on motorcycles and questioned them about the purpose of their visit. Many, who were found roaming without any valid purpose, were shooed away. “It is a routine exercise to stop eveteasing,” said superintendent of police Devender Singh Yadav. He said the district police would conduct this operation daily. |
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No takers for paddy in grain markets
Sirsa, October 4 Farmers are getting a maximum of Rs 4,000 per quintal for the cotton crop, while there are virtually no buyers of the paddy because the government procurement agencies are yet to start their purchases. “We have been purchasing raw cotton in the range of Rs 3,500 to 4,000 per quintal,” said Sushil Mittal, state president of the Haryana Cotton Industries Association. He attributed lesser prices to greater moisture contents and a lean market with demand from the exporters still to come. Last year, the cotton fetched prices up to Rs 4,800 per quintal, while in 2010-11, the crop was sold for a price as high as Rs 7,000. Gurdial Mehta, a trader and former president of the Sirsa Grain Market Association, said the government procurement agencies were still to begin their operations in the grain market. He said private purchasers had procured some stocks for price up to Rs 1,350 per quintal for parmal and Rs 1,850 for muchhal paddy. “I am sitting in the grain market with my paddy for the past two days in the hope that the procurement agencies will start their purchases, but there is no buyer,” alleged Jagrup Singh, a farmer. District Food and Supplies Controller Diwan Chand Sharma said the government procurement agencies had come in to make purchases from today, the paddy being brought by farmers contains moisture contents higher than the admissible limits. “The government allows moisture contents up to 14 per cent, but the crop coming these days contains 18 to 20 per cent moisture,” he said. Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner Dr J Ganesan directed the procurement agencies to make payment to farmers within 72 hours of the purchase. Ganesan said the authorities had set up 18 markets and purchase centres in the district. The government has set a minimum support price of Rs 1,250 for common grade of parmal paddy and Rs 1,280 for the A grade paddy. |
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Sonepat drivers halt buses to protest manhandling
Sonepat, October 4 The services were restored after deputy superintendent of police Balbir Singh, who reached the depot after receiving information, said action would be taken after investigation. Bus driver Rajesh and conductor Sanjay complained to the police that the Roadways bus going from Guhna-Farmana to Sonepat was forcibly stopped by the youths as they parked the motorcycle in front of the bus near the bypass on the Gohana road. One of the motorcyclists allegedly drag the driver out, manhandled him and put a revolver on his chest. Meanwhile, some passengers got down from the bus and overpowered one of motorcyclists while the other one managed to escape. He was handed over to the police in the local judicial complex. One of them introduced himself as the nephew of a Congress leader. After receiving information of the incident, the Roadways staff went on strike, closed the doors of the bus stand and raised slogans against the administration and the government. The passengers were were put to great inconvenience as there was no service from the bus stand for three hours. Later, a compromise was struck between the Roadways employees and the accused -- Harvinder and Amit. The city station house officer, Rishi Kant, confirmed it. The complainants have reportedly withdrawn their complaint. |
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Municipal staff union to support Oct 14 protest
Faridabad, October 4 Naresh Shastri, state president, Nagarpalika Karamchari Sangh, and vice-president, Sarv Karamchari Sangh, said in the first phase of the agitation, rallies would be organised in all four divisions of the state. The rally in Gurgaon Division would be held in Faridabad. Shastri said at a meeting with office-bearers of the Sangh on May 23 this year, the then Minister for Urban Local Bodies had agreed to some of their demands, including rectifying pay anomalies of Group C and D employees and discarding the policy of making appointments through contractual system and privatisation of jobs. |
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BJP, HJC activists burn Jaiswal’s effigy
Sirsa, October 4 Renu Sharma, state president, BJP’s Mahila Morcha, who led demonstration, demanded removal of Jaiswal from the Union Cabinet. “The prestige and respect of women in our society increases with their age and they take bigger responsibilities in their families, as they grow older. The manner in which Jaiswal has denigrated women by making such comments, women across the country are feeling insulted and humiliated,” she said. The activists took out a march to Subhash Chowk and burnt the effigy amidst slogans against him and the UPA Government. |
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Mishap claims 2 lives
Hisar, October 4 The angry students also stoned vehicles of government officers who had rushed to the spot, damaging the SDM’s official jeep. Two girl students of Government College for Girls were going to their college on a bicycle. As they approached the bypass from the Forest Department road near Airport Chowk, a truck trying to overtake an autorickshaw lost its balance and crashed against the auto-rickshaw and a motorcycle. One of the occupants of the auto-rickshaw, Mamata, was seriously wounded and rushed to a hospital where she died. Nine others, including the girls riding the bicycle, were also injured. Sanjay, the motorcyclist, was admitted to a private hospital here where he succumbed to his injuries this evening. The protesters agreed to lift the blockade after the Deputy Commissioner and the Superintendent of Police agreed to recommend to the government that a family member each of the two deceased would be given a government job, among other things. |
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CJ pushes for more ADR centres
Ambala, October 4 The chief justice, who was here to lay the foundation stone of the state’s eighth ADR centre at the local Judicial Courts Complex, said the main objective of these centres was to have a permanent place where disputes could be resolved through alternative means, which may include arbitration, conciliation, lok adalat or mediation. Justice Sikri, who is also the patron-in-chief of the Haryana State Legal Services Authority, said these centres, which were informal in nature, would help ensure quick settlement of cases outside the courts. He stated that as the primary health centres had proved beneficial for the health sector, the ADR centres would play an important role in providing aid to the legal services sector. Justice A.K. Sikri also released a book titled “Jan Kalyankari Yojnao Ka Sangreh”.
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Rail engine catches fire at Ambala
Ambala, October 4 Locomotive driver Jaswinder Singh escaped unhurt as he jumped off the engine. Soon, fire tenders from cantonment and city fire stations were pressed into service to douse the flames. However, the fire tenders faced a lot of difficulty in reaching up to the engine and took more than an hour to completely douse the flames. Following the incident, a team of technical experts reached the spot to take stock of the situation. |
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Experimentation leads to confusion at Delhi-Gurgaon toll plaza
Gurgaon, October 4 Though the toll barriers have to be opened for all during the morning and evening peak hours as per the court orders, the nagging traffic jams, are there to haunt the commuters once again. Commuters feel that apart from the traffic congestion, they have to face a lot of confusion due to the numerous barriers and signages bearing contradictory instructions put near the toll plaza by the expressway concessionaire. “There are signages instructing the cash-paying commuters to certain specific lanes but the boards put up there announce that the lanes are reserved for vehicles having tags,” says Kiran Kumar, a regular commuter between Delhi and Gurgaon. Several others endorse his assertion, adding that the barriers placed near the toll plaza also adds to the traffic chaos and confusion. Local residents also resent the latest experiment of banning the U-turn before the toll plaza on the Gurgaon side during the peak hours as it means that the Gurgaon residents, who want to visit Ambience Mall or any other nearby place first have to cross the toll plaza, enter Delhi and then return from the Delhi side, paying the toll twice while also struggling their way through traffic. “Instead of banning the U-turn during the peak hours, they should install a traffic signal between the flyover and the toll plaza to regulate the flow of vehicles going straight and those turning towards the mall,” maintains Ashok, another regular commuter on the route. |
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Social bodies, NGOs oppose hike in LPG rates
Karnal, October 4 Hundreds of protesters assembled at Karan Park and marched towards the Civil Secretariat, raising anti-government slogans and carrying placards, condemning the decision. Describing the decision to withdraw the subsidy on LPG cylinders for religious places, social organisations and charitable institutions and other such places as a cruel joke with underprivileged and destitute people, Pritpal Singh Pannu, president of the National Integrated Forum of Artists and Activists (NIFFA), said, “It is an irony that the canteen of Parliament is highly subsidised but the orphanage and old age homes are being made to purchase LPG cylinders for Rs 1,100 to Rs 1,150 against the subsidised rate of Rs 400 to Rs 450.” “These institutions with limited resources were raising donations from the public to provide some help to people in need and if they stopped running these institutions, wouuld the government come forward to look after the inmates?” an elderly inmate at Shradhanand Old Age Home asked. Copies of the memorandum were also sent to the President , the Chief Justice of India, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, the Chief Minister of Haryana and all Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members from Haryana. |
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Missing taxi driver’s body to be taken out of well
Fatehabad, October 4 A special team of police attached with the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Hisar, cracked the case with the arrest of two persons in this connection. “We will soon take the services of divers to retrieve the body or whatever has remained of it from the well,” said Jeet Singh, an Inspector with the IG staff. The police had initially closed the case as untraced after Krishan Valmiki, a taxi driver from Mandi Adampur in Hisar, went missing in April 2011. Krishan worked as driver on the Bolero vehicle of Kuldeep, who also lived in Mandi Adamapur. On April 23, 2011, some people hired his vehicle, but since then neither Krishan returned home nor was there any clue of his vehicle. His family members lodged a missing report on May 1, 2011, but the local police failed to reach to any conclusion and closed the case as untraced. However, upon representations by villagers, Hisar IGP Arshinder Singh Chawla reopened the case and he got it investigated from his own staff. “We decided to speak to all those who knew the victim to reach to some conclusion and found Krishan, a resident of Bothan in Fatehabad, evasive in his replies. This Krishan too was a taxi driver and his acquaintances informed the police that he had stopped going to taxi stand ever since Krishan Valmiki went missing. When interrogated, he spilled the beans and informed the police that he along with Virender, Bajrang and another Krishan had hired Valmiki’s taxi for Gurgaon, but instead strangulated him in Fatehabad on the same day. They threw his body in a deserted well of Nadhori village, near Bhuna in Fatehabad. The police has arrested Krishan Bishnoi of Bothan village and his accomplice Virender of Khajuri village in this connection. Police said the accused had taken away the victim's vehicle and sold it for Rs 1 lakh. The police had later traced the taxi in Barnala in Punjab. Friends killed him, took away taxi The police will try to retrieve the body of a taxi driver believed to be dumped in a well near Nadhori village in Fatehabad district some 18 months ago by his friend and his three accomplices who killed him to snatch his taxi. |
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Karnal village wins CM’s sanitation award
Karnal, October 4 Sarpanch Kulbir Singh says the village had won the first prize for sanitation in the category of villages with a population up to 1,100. Recently, it won the Chief Minister’s sanitation award in the category of villages with a population up to 1,500. He said the cash prize received was being utilised for the development of the village and sanitation. The village was earning Rs 8 lakh from 40 acres of land under its possession annually, he said. |
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Drive against polythene in Gurgaon
Gurgaon, October 4 At the same time, he said officers equivalent to Executive Engineers of various departments would be delegated powers to issue challans to those found using or selling polythene bags. Targets would be be fixed for officers in this connection and their achievements reflected in their ACRs, he added. He asked officers of the Labour Department to curb child labour by raiding
commercial establishments that employed children below 14 years of age. The District Informatics Officer of the NIC informed the meeting that of the 210 villages in the district, jamabandi data of 104 villages had been uploaded on the website jamabandi.nic.in.
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Central varsity resumes construction
Mahendergarh, October 4 The residents of these villages, who have been holding a demonstration in support of their demand for reservation in jobs and admissions in the university, had got the construction work on the university campus stopped a few days ago. However, the villagers later maintained that they would allow construction work while their demand was being considered by the authorities concerned. |
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Two in cop’s garb held
Rewari, October 4 The police has registered a case against them. The two were yesterday produced in a local court which remanded them in judicial custody. A police official said when a constable of the Delhi police and Ashish’s friend, took off his uniform and went to sleep at his guest house in Sector 3 here, Ashish wore his shirt and then, along with his two associates — Amit and Mohit — arrived in a car at the Dharuhera chungi and started checking vehicles. |
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6 injured in factory fire
Jhajjar, October 4 The fire broke out in Supreme Polymer after a drum filled with chemical burst in the morning. Five labourers, Ram Sharan, Puran Singh, Raj Kumar, Virender and Aman, and factory owner AS Malik suffered burns in the fire. Bahadurgarh administrative officials along with fire tenders rushed to the spot and doused the fire. |
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