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11 injured as five vehicles collide

Fatehgarh Sahib, October 30
As many as 11 persons including, three women, were injured when five vehicles collided with each other near Chorwala village on the Sirhind-Patiala state highway.

According to information, a truck was parked on a road and its driver, Diwan Singh, was changing the tyre with all the four indicators turned on so that the vehicles coming from both the sides could be notice the truck. A Maruti Zen car, driven by Dr BK Goel, coming from Samana side hit the truck from behind injuring his wife Romilla and daughter Ritu.

The truck driver said when he tried to save the injured persons, a driver of the rashly driven bus coming from Patiala side lost the control over the vehicle and hit a tractor-trailer coming from the opposite side, injuring the passengers of the bus. A Qualis car coming from behind also hit the truck resulting in minor injuries to its four passengers.

The police said all the injured were been admitted to the Civil Hospital, Fatehgarh Sahib. — TNS

Fatehgarh Sahib, October 30
To curb the menace of Cancer, the state government has decided to supply 70 litres of clean drinking water per person per day in 600 villages of the state for the present financial year for the residents particularly in Malwa region may get pure drinking water. Besides, the government has also chalked out a comprehensive plan for the over all development in the urban as well as in the rural area simultaneously and Rs 10,000 crore have been earmarked for this purpose.

The development works will be completed in the coming four years and approximately Rs 100 crore will be spent on each constituency irrespective of political representation, said Chief Parliamentary Sectary rural water supply and Sanitation Virsa Singh Valtoha, while addressing the gathering after inaugurating development works in the district at village Ferozepur, Jandali and Chano today.

He said that Rs 8,750 crores have already been approved for 142 cities of the state to provide 100 per cent potable water, sewerage system and other facilities. He added that the department of water supply and sanitation has completed water supply work in 3,280 uncovered and 3455 partial covered area of the state. Besides, the government will spend Rs 1.34 thousand crores to provide potable water in 2481 villages in the coming two years. He said that the villagers would be provided clean drinking water by December 2013. — OC

Chandigarh, October 30
The Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Preeti Sahni today framed charges of murder against nine persons who had killed a Dadu Majra resident in May.

The Court framed charges under Sections 302, 506, 147, 148 and 149 of the IPC against Arjun, Gurmit, Sonu, Taranjit, Sanjay, Monty, Gautam, Krishan and Sanjeev, all colony residents.

Three other accused in the case are juveniles and their case is being heard in a juvenile court.

On May 15, a 22-year-old youth, Alok Nath, was stabbed to death at Dadu Majra in a well-planned attack by 12 persons, including the nine accused and three juveniles.

As per the prosecution case, the accused, Arjun and his friends, attacked Alok outside a house at Dadu Majra.

Arjun allegedly took out a knife and stabbed Alok to death. He allegedly stabbed Alok at least seven times.

Alok, in an attempt to save himself, barged into a house. But Arjun and his friends had then dragged him out of the house before thrashing him with rods and baseball bats.

The police said prior enmity was the reason behind the murder.

Chandigarh, October 30
In a shocking incident, a 10-year-old girl was raped by a youth in a jungle near Colony Number 4 yesterday evening. The victim, who had gone to the bushes to attend to nature’s call, was abducted by the youth. He dragged her into the dense forest and raped her.

The minor girl, who was found in a semi-nude condition and profusely bleeding, was rushed to Government Multi-Speciality Hospital where medical examination confirmed that she was raped. The police has registered a rape case under Section 376 of the IPC at the Industrial Area police station.

In her statements to the police, the minor girl stated that she had gone to the jungle where the youth forcibly took her to the interior of the jungle. He then removed her clothes and raped her. The girl initially felt unconscious and later managed to reach home at 11 pm. Her mother rushed her to the hospital and called the police as well.

The police recovered the girl’s salwar and undergarments from the jungle and have videographed the area. “The girl has stated that the accused is a colony resident and she can identify him, he will be arrested soon,” said a police officer investigating the case.

Chandigarh, October 30
The lawn tennis team of Panjab University, after securing the second position in the North-Zone Inter-University Tennis Tournament, was awarded with suitcases instead of medals and certificates by the Deenbandu Chhoturam University of Science and Technology, Sonepat (Murthal), today.

According to the director sports of the university, the team was awarded with suitcases as a gesture of love and pride. “We have awarded them suitcases because medals are of no use. They will get the certificates in the all-India edition of the tourney. They can use the suitcases in any way they want. We are not authorised to give any certificates. It is better that they should be awarded with a materialistic thing than a cheap medal,” said Dr Birender Hooda, director of sports.

The first three position holders of any recognised tournament are expected get certificates, which will helps them to avail all benefits. “We were shocked to learn that this is the only prize we are being awarded with. A certificate holds more importance than these materialistic things. We don’t know why they have awarded us with this suitcase,” said Rupinder Singh Saini, coach of the team.

Prabhsimrat Kaur Sandhu, a player, said, “This is the third time I am representing the Panjab University in the north-zone and all-India level games. I have never come across such an incident. Certificates are importance and moreover, in every inter-university competition the orgainser award certificate to the position holders. These certificates are the only proof of our achievements.”