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Dera Bassi, October 14
A cultural function was organised at the Punjab Group of Colleges, Lalru, during the freshers’ party. The programme was inaugurated by the local MLA and chief parliamentary secretary, NK Sharma.

On the occasion, students presented different cultural items, such as giddha, bhangra, modelling, and group songs. Kumari Silpa was selected Ms Fresher and Saket was selected Mr Fresher during the function. Chief guest of the function, NK Sharma, distributed awards to the participants. — OC

Dera Bassi, October 14
Punjab Group of Colleges, Lalru, conducted a placement drive during which more than 60 students received letters of selection from companies. Selection was based on a written test, one to one interview, telephonic round followed by pre-placement talk. 

During Pre Placement talks students were awared about latest technologies of companies and their future scope. Chairman P.K. Dhawan congratulated the selected students and thanked the companies for their efforts.

Ambala, October 15
Additional Sessions Judge, Ambala, Vimlesh Tanwar, has sentenced 10 persons to life imprisonment in Vikas murder case here today. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each on all of the accused.

The accused, who were sentenced life term include Himanshu, Gulshan, Nirmal, Naresh, Kala, Rinku, Jeewan, Mandeep, Sanjiv and Chaman Lal. Most of the accused are the residents of adjoining villages of Naraingarh (Ambala).

According to prosecution, the deceased Vikas (18) was a resident of Nagoli village near Naraingarh. He was the student of polytechnic college, Bhurewala. On June 10, 2009, when he came out from the polytechnic after attending the classes, some assailants attacked him with iron rods and sticks near the main gate. The father of the deceased is a teacher.

Vikas sustained serious injuries on the lower part of his abdomen. He was rushed to the Civil Hospital at Naraingarh where he was declared brought dead.

The police had registered a case of murder case against 10 persons on the complaint of his uncle.

Urmish Gandhi and Sartaj Singh, the counsels of the complainant, said as many as 18 witnesses were produced in the court to prove the accused guilty.

This court had also sentenced life term to 10 persons of the Ambala City in Amrender murder case around one month ago on September 7.

Patiala, October 15
Students of Mukat School, Rajpura, won laurels in the CBSE Cluster XV Table Tennis Tournament. The tourney was held at Barnala in Mother Teacher Prep School. While the students bagged first position in U-14 and U-16 categories, the team won second place in U-19 category.

In the individual event, Sarthak Sota of class X won first prize in the U-16 category and Satnam Singh won second prize in U-19 category. School principal Gayatri Kaushal congratulated the students on their achievement.

Chandigarh, October 15
A CBI Court today rejected the regular bail application of Sub Inspector Naveen Sharma who was caught taking a bribe of Rs 5 lakh on September 6. The application was rejected after the investigating agency strongly opposed the bail plea of the officer.

SI Naveen Sharma, who was then posted with the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the police, was arrested on September 6 for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from a Ludhiana resident to ‘settle’ his bail application in court. SI Naveen Sharma is the brother of an acting judge of the district court and is the son of a retired Chandigarh Police Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP).

While opposing the bail plea of Naveen, the CBI had stated that investigations in the case are at an initial stage and since the amount of bribe is huge, the SI should not be released on bail. The CBI stated that they are still investigating the case if the SI gets released, it may hamper with their investigations.

As per the case, the SI was demanding bribe for not opposing the bail application of Gurvir Shergil, Sukhbir’s wife, which was to come up for hearing in court on the day he was arrested.

The CBI had also recovered an amount of Rs 9 lakh from the Sector 46 residence of SI Naveen Sharma following his arrest.

Earlier, the CBI court had also rejected the bail application of co-accused SN Aneja, who acted as a conduit, and was arrested in the case along with Naveen.

Mohali, October 15
Even as the police continued the search for an accomplice in the heroin seizure case, the two accused arrested earlier were remanded in the police custody for two more days by a court here today.

Michael Chukks, a Nigerian, and Balwinder Singh from Baghrian village, who were arrested on October 11, were earlier remanded for three days in police custody.

The police sources said that Chukks during interrogation revealed that he had an accomplice, Andy, another Nigerian, who lived at Phase VI. However, a search of the phase by the police proved futile.

Sources further said Chukks also revealed that heroin handed over to him allegedly by Balwinder Singh was to be delivered to Delhi.

He, however, claimed that he was not told about the name of the person to whom the consignment was to be given or the place of delivery.

The local police had arrested Chukks and Balwinder Singh and allegedly seized 2 kg of heroin and cash from their possession.

Mohali SSP GS Bhullar, Balwinder Singh had come to deliver the consignment to Chukks when the police nabbed them at Phase III B 2 here.

Chandigarh, October 15
A bloody clash took place at Dadu Majra late this evening when around 14 assailants attacked three youths and opened fire at them. Out of the three injured youths, one Arun Kumar (24) sustained a gun shot injury on his left shoulder. He was rushed to the PGI, Chandigarh, where is said to be critical.

Kuldeep, the other victim, is also said to be critical as he has sustained injuries on his right shoulder. Kuldeep and Deepak were attacked with swords and stones.

“It was in the evening when around 14 assailants attacked the three. The youths were collecting some donations in their locality when they were attacked,” said a police official. “It is a case of old enmity. Recently, a brawl had taken place among the youths at the court as well,” he added.

The assailants have been identified by the victims. A case has been registered at the Sector-39 police station against Kalu, Ajay and others. The accused are absconding. 

Chandigarh, October 15
A 56-year-old man riding a scooter died after being hit by a school bus in Dhanas here this afternoon. The victim, Balbir Singh, a resident of Milk village in Mohali, was declared brought dead at hospital. 

Chandigarh, October 15
In an accident reported last night, six passengers in an auto rickshaw were injured after a Ford Figo car (CH01 AD 0450) hit the auto. The mishap occurred near the needle factory in Colony Number 4 when the auto rickshaw was ferrying the passengers to the railway station. 

Chandigarh, October 15
The UT Sports Department might leave no stone unturned to smoothly conduct the ongoing 10th UT Administrator Football Cup for boys (U-17). But the appointment of the technical heads or that of the disciplinary committee, in the competition, has left the officials of the department, “tangled”.

As per schedule, a total of 16 matches will be played at the same time at two different venues and now facing the flank, the department has failed to explain that how will head-officials will mark there presence, in two different venues, at the same time.

Except having a total of eight-referee panel, the department has appointed three technical heads including a match commissioner, a match inspector, a head referee and the presence of these three officials is mandatory in every match.

However, as per top officials of the sports department, the local Chandigarh Football Association has appointed them with the consensus of the AIFF (All India Football Federation) and they have no direct role.

“As the tournament is backed by the AIFF, it is the duty of the Chandigarh Football Association, to provide the panel. As per rules, we just need to pay them,” said JPS Sidhu, joint director sports. On their presence at two grounds, at same time, the official added, “I think, these three officials will manage to look after all the matches. Out of these, three officials will go at Sector 42 and others will remain here at Sector 17. The national-level tourneys by the AIFF has all particular officials, it might be mandatory here,” said Sidhu.

Notably, the ongoing competition is a national-level tourney and teams from all-over India are marking their presence. The tournament is backed by the AIFF and as per rule each match should have these officials besides having a tournament commissioner, who heads the tournament. The commissioner of the match and the other heads look after the smooth conducting of match. It is also clearly mentioned in the brochure of the tournament (Article 15-1), “Protest, if any shall be lodged in writing with the match commissioner, within two hours after the end of the match.”

An official, on the basis of anonymity reveled, “The protest could only be made if the match commissioner will remain present on field. A team will not go a wander around to two venues to find the officials and lodge protest. If the tournament is being conducted under aegis of AIFF, they must have appointed equal number of officials or should have different timings of every match,” said a head.

On other hand, it is also mentioned in the brochure (Article 16-1), “The disciplinary committee shall be chaired by the Match Commissioner or a Disciplinary Representative Appointed by the AIFF. It shall have three members; the match commissioner, referees/ instructor, a representative of the state association’.

Whereas, as per provided document, the tournament has appointed, Rakesh Bakshi (honorary general secretary of the local association), as the Match Commissioner, IP Nagi as Match Inspector and Amrik Singh as chief referee.

Chandigarh, October 15
The basketball team of Post Gradugate Government College for Girls, (PGGCG) Sector 11, defeated DAV College, Sector 10, by 42-23, in the first match of the PU Inter-College Basketball Tournament for Women, played on knock out, here today.

In their second match, the team overcame Dev Samaj for Women College, Sector 45, by 54-12. In another, GTB Khalsa College, Dasuya, thrashed MCM DAV College, for Women by 50-6.

Chandigarh, October 15
Tennis player, Sumer Sandhu of Strawberry Fields World School, Sector 26, routed top seed Yuvraj Kooka, in the match of boys (U-12) category, during the ongoing YMCA Total Tennis Championship, being held here today.

Sumer took an early lead of 3-2 and defeated his opponent. In the second quarterfinal match, Manvir Sohi beat Sehaj Sidhu by 7-6(7-4).

Results:

Boys (U-10)-Asav Kumar beat Udayveer Singh 4-0, 4-1. Boys (U-12)-Sumer Sandhu beat Yuvraj Kooka 6-2; Chiraz Singh beat Neel 6-4; Manvir Sohi beat Sehaj Sidhu 7-6 (7-4); Asav Kumar beat Jaskaran Riar 6-1. Boys (U-14)-Manvir beat Sumer Sandhu 6-0; Yuvraj Kooka beat Kinshuk Soldi 6-0; Semifinal-Aniket Khosa beat Amitoj 6-4; Boys (U-16)- Manjot Singh beat Harjasleen 6-3; Nikhil beat Parmeet Deol 6-2; Men’s quaterfinals-Manjot beat Rajeev 6-0; Arsh Bulland beat Utkarsh Khosla 6-3; Shivain beat Shahbaj Singh 6-0; Girls (U-16)-Naemat Aulakh beat Harleen 6-5 (7-4); Naemat Aulakh beat Janvi 6-1; Preet Nain beat Ashpreet 6-3.