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Bribe case: Clerk chargesheeted
Milk adulteration widespread in city
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Abandoning of girlchild
Two rape cases reported; victims were promised marriage
Festive season sales flood the market
Photo exhibition on '84 riots ends
Supreme Court advocate H.S. Phoolka addresses mediapersons in Amritsar on Tuesday.
Photo: Vishal Kumar
RVG machine installed at CKD hospital
Handball meet held at GNDU
CPI protests against encroachment on Chabba village school land
110 kg of adulterated khoya seized
Officials along with the adulterated khoya that was seized in Amritsar on Tuesday. Photo: Sameer Sehgal
4 held with heroin
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Bribe case: Clerk chargesheeted
Amritsar, October 23 The lid, behind the conniving employees of the Revenue Department and the district administration, was blown off after a vigilant citizen submitted a chip containing a voice recording between him and the class IV employee of the department, Angrej. Rajat Aggarwal immediately ordered the probe to SDM (City-I) Manjit Singh Narang, who submitted the inquiry report within hours. Narang said the report indicted Token clerk Ilyas Masih, who admitted in writing that he had given the tokens to Tarjit, driver of the SDM II Manmohan Singh Kang, who did not submit any registry. Upon questioning, Narang said Ilyas maintained that he
gave tokens, as Tarjit said his relatives required the same. Narang said the tokens were given without registries on October 18 for the registeration of properties on October 23. He said the deal was reportedly finalised at Rs 6,000. He confirmed that two numbers, 67 and 68, were allotted, but the department did not have registry. With a view to avoiding the deadline of the implementation of the new rule, which makes it mandatory to bring along the original owner while registering properties deals of which are finalised on power of attorneys, hordes of customers flock the Revenue Department in the court complex as early as 6 in the morning. Meanwhile, the Amritsar Deed Writers Association maintained that the newly introduced token system had some loopholes. The association president Naresh Sharma said, in the present format, the buyers were unable to confirm the title of the property whether there was any dispute or stay orders on it before finalising the deal. Earlier, the prospective buyer used to submit an official copy of the sales deed to the Revenue Department for the confirmation of its authenticity beforehand. "It used to save buyers time and money, including stamp duty charges," said Sharma. In the present scenario, the entire payment is made at the time of the submission of the documents and an objection at a later stage could pose untold hardships to the buyers, he averred. However, in the case of the execution of the sales deed, which now takes more than a day, and if any person concerned - buyer or seller - died, there would be no one to bear the expenses incurred on the stamp duty or the money exchanged against the property.
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Milk adulteration widespread in city
Amritsar, October 23 The field is open for the mischievous sellers and dealers, as a majority of the city residents prefer to procure "loose" milk. The only organised body selling packaged and pasteurised milk here is Milk Plant, Verka, near here, a unit of the Markfed. It sells nearly 45,000 litres of milk daily. However, the actual consumption of milk is much more. The milk plant periodically holds quality tests on "loose" milk to convince customers to turn to packaged milk. Sources in the plant said many a time, adulteration using water, caustic soda, urea and castor oil was found. The milk plant general manager Harminder Singh Sandhu said the last quality campaign was held in September. He said roughly 33 per cent adulteration is found in milk, costing about Rs 35 per litre. About 50 per cent adulteration is found in milk that costs Rs 28 per litre. He said adulteration using water, caustic to increase shelf life of the produce, and other injurious elements had been found. He added that as per the standard specifications, solid, not fat, must be at least 8.5 in the cow milk, while over 9 in the buffalo milk. He said it was very difficult to maintain these standards, but the packaged milk being sold by the milk plant fulfilled all these specifications, as it undergoes quality checks at various levels before being supplied to the consumers. He added that, on an average, there was 10 per cent increase in the consumption of pouched milk in Amritsar. However, he rued that the growth of pouched milk was much low in the city in comparison to Jalandhar, Chandigarh and Mohali, where the service class prefered to procure the packaged milk. He said one of the reasons for this was the consumers' habit of paying for the milk after the completion of a month. The milk plant dealers prefer to sell the produce on cash payment. Civil Surgeon Yash Mitra said a majority of the failed samples of milk were found to be of water adulteration, followed by powder milk added with water. He said it diluted the standard of the produce while not posing health risks. He said the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954 was replaced with the Food Standard and Safety Act in August 2011. As per the new Act, the penalty on the adulteration using water ranged from Rs 25,000 to Rs 2 lakh, while the presence of injurious ingredients could land an offender in jail for life and penalty up to Rs 10 lakh. “The department, after collecting the samples, sends the same to a laboratory in Chandigarh, which gives the result in 14 days. On the failure of a sample, the complaint is filed with the Additional Deputy Commissioner, who is also designated as Food Safety Officer and possesses the penalty power. He said he could not produce the number of samples failed till this year, as he had joined the office here recently. Quality tests
Verka Milk Plant general manager said they periodically hold quality tests on 'loose'
milk to convince customers to turn to packaged milk. Many a time, adulteration using water, caustic soda, urea and castor oil was found. The growth of pouched milk is much low in the city compared to Jalandhar, Chandigarh and Mohali, where the service class prefers to procure the packaged milk. He said one of the reasons for this was the consumers' habit of paying for the milk after the completion of a month
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‘Mentality needs a makeover'
Neha Saini Tribune News Service
Amritsar, October 23 As the count of abandoned girlchild reached 55 in the holy city alone, we ask women across the city about the failure of campaigns and other planned moves to root out this menace.
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Two rape cases reported; victims were promised marriage
Amritsar, October 23 Both Chheharta residents were pursuing ETT through Jammu University and were undergoing coaching for the same through a local coaching centre. According to the police, they were known to each other and intended to get married, but the boy?s parents raised objections to their motive. In a complaint submitted with the Chheharta police station today, the victim alleged that the accused had intimated her that since his parents would not be agreeing to their relationship, so they should get married on their own. Three days ago, the accused took her to a hotel in Amritsar at about 7 pm and allegedly raped her. The next day, he abandoned her near Sandhu Dairy, before fleeing in an auto-rickshaw. The investigating officer of Chheharta police station Amrik Singh said on the basis of the complaint registered by the victim, the accused had been booked under Section 376/506 of the IPC. "The accused has not been arrested so far. It appeared to be a love affair, which took an ugly turn. The parents of the accused refused to accept this relationship. Both were studying in the same class in a local coaching centre and the girl has alleged that she was raped by the accused on the false assurances of getting married. Further investigation is on and we are on the lookout for the accused," he said. In the second case, Rajesh Kumar, a resident of Fat Wali Gali, has lodged a complaint with the C division police station that his neighbour Ranbir had abducted her minor girl around three months ago, on the pretext of marrying her. The accused has also been supported by one Farida and her wife Sonia. The trio has been booked under Sections 363/366-A/506/34 of the IPC with the C-Division police station. The investigating officer with the C Division Gulwinder Sing said the girl was allegedly abducted on July 28. "We have received the complaint today only and the investigation is on," he said. The father of the victim, Rajesh Kumar, stated that his daughter, aged about 15, was from his first marriage. "On July 28, the accused lured her with false marriage promise and the other two Farida and Sonia helped him in abducting my daughter," he alleged.
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Festive season sales flood the market
Amritsar, October 23 Now, celebration is the foremost reason for any Indian to turn shopaholic during this time of the year. But that is not just the only reason. All the festivities come at an affordable price with all the major brands and most sellers tempting the customers with heavy discounts and offers, whether its cars, couture or consumer items. "Most people wait for Diwali to buy consumer and luxury goods. I think its a best time to splurge as you get more and pay less," says Rajdeep
Kaur, who spends most on clothes and jewellery during the season. Like every year, electronics and white goods are the most favourite to spend on, given maximum discount rates on them. "The trend of Diwali shopping has made the Indian consumer wait and postpone most of their big buys, which are reserved for this season. The aspirations of consumers are high during this season and this boosts sales for most traders. The sales and discounts mean good revenue growth, a promised clientele and maximisation of sales," says Bhuvan
Arjun, owner of a leading electronics retail shop. As most brands in the market get bitten by the festive bug, even the hi-end luxury brands join in the discount race by lucrative offers. So, if you have been waiting since ages to own a exquisite piece from
Dior, LV, Armani or the league, festive season might be the lucky chance. "Most online shopping portals are overflowing with festive offers on designer collections. Like I came across this offer from a fashion website Pernia's Pop Up, which is offering an exclusive Sabyasachi piece on participating in a contest being run by them," shares Ruchika Gupta, a fashion enthusiast. "Festive season is the best time to buy designer goods as every brand has its best collection on display," she
says. Jewellery is another thing that looks an easy buy, if you consider the special offers put on board by various brands. "To boost up their sales, every jeweller in the city is giving away freebies along with the purchase. Whether its getting gold or silver coins, slashed making charges or a direct discount on the gold prices, everybody is trying to make up on the loss in sales due to hike in the prices," Neelam
Kapoor, a housewife, said. So, if you too have put some big purchases on hold, its time to get in action and buy whatever you like as festive season is on till limited period!
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Photo exhibition on '84 riots ends
Amritsar, October 23 The exhibition, containing 80 photographs and paintings, was part of an awareness campaign, "Forgotten Citizen's", launched by senior counsel of the Supreme Court H.S. Phoolka in collaboration with various human rights organisations to create awareness among the citizens and pressurise the government to deliver justice to the victims of the riots. The mobile exhibition today left for Sultanpur Lodhi. The exhibition would arrive at Jalandhar on October 25, Ludhiana on October 26, Anandpur Sahib on October 27, Chandigarh on October 28 and Delhi on October 30. At the national Capital it will remain till November 3. Phoolka said the motive was to draw the nation’s attention to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and put a pressure on the government to deliver justice to the affected families. He reiterated that the 1984 anti-Sikh riots were perpetrated by the then Union Government and not by any community. He said the signatures of people on an online petition seeking justice for the victims would be sought, which would be handed over to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. In Delhi, they would hold a candlelit vigil at Jantar Mantar on November 3, a seminar on “Effective legislation against communal and Sectarian violence” on November 4, a people’s court, where former judges would hear the cases of riot victims at India International Centre on November 9.
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RVG machine installed at CKD hospital
Amritsar, October 23 Charanjit Singh Chadha, president of the Chief Khalsa Diwan Charitable Society inaugurated the machine. Costing about Rs 2 lakh, the machine increases clarity of the X-ray and will prevent radiations to the visiting patients and also the treating dental doctors. The RVG machine was donated by Raja H.S. Batra. The others present on the occasion included Santokh Singh Sethi, honorary secretary of the CKD, Dr Dharamveer Singh, Director (Education), Suba Singh and Surjit Singh, both members of the CKD, and dental doctor Dr Ritudeep Randhawa, Dr Gungeet Kaur and Dr Keeratjot Sandhu.
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Handball meet held at GNDU
Amritsar, October 23 The second position was garnered by the team of Computer Science and Technology Department. The team of the Applied Science Department got the third place and the Pharmaceutical Science Department got the fourth position. Academic Staff College Director Prof T.S. Benipal presented trophies to the winners at the concluding ceremony of the meet. In the women section, the Electronics Technology Department got the first place, Applied Chemical Science and Technology Department was placed second place, whereas the Food Science and Technology Department came third.
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CPI protests against encroachment on Chabba village school land
Amritsar, October 23 The protesting activists also submitted a memorandum at the DC office. A leader, Balbir Singh Dhudhala, addressing the activists said the government's tall claims of providing public education in government schools remained only on papers. He added that the reality was entirely different and the land and buildings of government schools where majority of students come from economic weaker sections were not even protected. He alleged that the leaders raising voice against the encroachment by an individual were being scared by registering false cases against them.
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110 kg of adulterated khoya seized
Amritsar, October 23 He said about 15 samples of eatables were collected from bakeries, diaries and karyana stores at posh Ranjit Avenue, GT Road and near Guru Nanak Dev University. All samples had been sent for quality checks to a laboratory in Chandigarh, he added. The department has recovered over 4.60 quintals of adulterated khoya in two raids in more
than a month.
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The three-day mobile photograph exhibition, narrating the crimes committed during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, which had broken out following the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, concluded here today. The ruling SAD ignored it as no leader from the party visited it.
The exhibition, containing 80 photographs and paintings, was part of an awareness campaign, "Forgotten Citizen's", launched by senior counsel of the Supreme Court
H.S. Phoolka in collaboration with various human rights organisations
Amritsar, October 23
It’s a problem of rotten mentality. I belong to village Lopoke Chugawan, where people still consider girlchild a burden and unwanted. I have been part of numerous programmes and initiatives, actively campaigning against female feoticide given the nature of my job as a media professional, but not much progress has been made to change their mentality. I feel such people should be boycotted and banned from all social events. 
