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13-yr-old girl shot dead
Kundli gets institute of food technology
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Sacked Maruti staff go on fast
NRI woman accuses Indian husband of cheating, extortion
Power SE, XEN offices found using ‘kundi’
Sikhs to campaign against Cong: Nalvi
Short-circuiting led to thermal plant fire
Runaway Apna Ghar girl traced
Man planning to kidnap religious leader held: IGP
Accused gets bail in Khemka threat case
Man accused of raping Dalit woman held
Doctor raped by acquaintance
CIA to probe case of gang rape, murder
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13-yr-old girl shot dead
Kaithal, November 7 At the time of the incident, Shikha, daughter of Nanak Singh, and Amandeep, daughter of Jagdev Singh, were going to their school in the village. Amandeep, who was hit in an arm, was operated upon and the bullet was removed from her arm. Sources said no one saw the shooting incident but some residents heard gunshots and they thought it to be bursting of crackers. The two youths with their faces covered escaped from the spot. After the news spread in the area, hundreds of villagers gathered at the spot. Demanding immediate arrest of the accused, they placed the body on the Kaithal-Patiala road and blocked vehicular traffic. Kaithal Superintendent of Police (SP) Kuldeep Singh Yadav and Additional Deputy Commissioner Dinesh Yadav rushed to the village and tried to pacify the villagers. However, the irate mob refused to remove the body unless the accused were arrested. Later, they lifted the blockade at about 2 pm. The police handed over the body to her family members after the post-mortem examination. Nanak Singh, who is a driver of a private bus, said his family had no enmity with anyone and he was unable to understand the motive behind the attack. A case under Sections 307 and 25, 54, 59 of the Arms Act has been registered against unidentified persons. The SP said teams had been constituted and the culprits would be apprehended soon. firing spree
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Kundli gets institute of food technology
Sonepat, November 7 Pawar said the food processing sector had the potential to bridge the gap between the needs of farmers and the consumers, as both were not satisfied for want of remunerative prices and right quality products at right costs, respectively. He said that despite record agricultural production both the consumers and farmers were dissatisfied. “Food processing has got tremendous potential to enrich the supply chain by adding value to the agriculture produces, reducing and sometimes eliminating wastages, preserving the produce, safe transportation and reach to the consumers with full satisfaction,” he added. Pawar said food processing was growing faster than the agricultural and manufacturing sectors and turning farmers into entrepreneurs. It has the potential to create jobs in rural areas and earn foreign exchange by export of value-added farm produce, he said. This institute was expected to provide one-stop solution to the food processing sector and offer high quality education, research and management programmes specific to the food industry, he added. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the state government would take a number of initiatives to develop Haryana into a food processing hub of north India. He said that the state government intended to work closely with NIFTEM in development of the farm-to-fork technologies. |
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Sacked Maruti staff go on fast
Gurgaon, November 6 The protesters claimed that the police had refused to release two of their leaders, Ram Niwas and Om Prakash, on the pretext that they were named in the FIR pertaining to the July 18 violence. As a precautionary measure, the police stopped the protesting workers from moving towards the DC’s office and even removed their tents. They were stopped around 500 metres from the Secretariat. However, around noon they were allowed to start their strike near one of the gates. In addition to this, nearly 145 arrested workers refused to eat their lunch in the Bhondsi jail in support of the strike. "The investigation into the alleged murder of HR manager and the violence is yet to be completed and the company sacked more than 500 workers. A majority of us are not responsible for anything but have been targeted for demanding our rights. We want a thorough investigation into the July 18 violence," said one of the protesters. With Manesar worker union having become defunct with their leaders in jail, the sacked workers have constituted a seven-member provisional committee which is leading the strike. |
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NRI woman accuses Indian husband of cheating, extortion
Karnal, November 7 An NRI woman, married to an Indian, three years ago has accused her husband of duping, cheating and exploiting her physically and emotionally. She is running from pillar to post for justice. Rama Sharma has come all the way from USA after knowing about the escapades of her husband Neel Kamal, a resident of Sector 9, Karnal, and a divorcee. They married on October 2, 2009. In a complaint lodged in Civil Lines police station, she alleged that her husband had betrayed her from the very first day after marriage and during the past three years she had transferred about Rs 1 crore through numerous transactions from Western Union Bank. She said she came in contact with Neel Kamal through her cousin in 2008 while she was abroad. Neel Kamal told her that he was a divorcee and showed her the divorce papers to convince her. As she was visiting India for five weeks, the got married on October 2, 2009 at Anmol Garden, Delhi. The marriage was registered after four days on October 6, she said. “But to my utter shock, I came to know that Neel Kamal has lied to me. He is living with his first wife Reena. His friend Dheeraj Kharkali conspired to extract cash from me and Neel Kamal duped me of money and also emotionally and physically exploited me,” she alleged in her complaint. She said she sent money for investment purposes as Neel Kamal and his friend Dheeraj Kharkali assured her of multiplying money from property and told her that they had invested in stores, a petrol pump and bought property in the names of his relatives and friends. He also took money for treatment of his relatives. “I have two daughters to take care of from my first marriage. When I came to know that I have been cheated, I called Reena who accepted that she was living with Neel Kamal and all three of them had planned to cheat me. They also threatened to kill me if I visited India. Even after a request for protection, nothing has been done,” lamented Rama, herself a divorcee. A citizen of America since 1990, Rama was born in Fiji and later migrated to the USA in 1979. |
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Power SE, XEN offices found using ‘kundi’
Jind, November 7 Though the faulty meters have been replaced, the district unit of the BKU has started a dharna outside the office of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam, seeking the registration of power theft cases against the officials concerned. The department has claimed to have detected 471 cases of power theft in the last one month as part of the check power theft drive in the district. “The offices of the SE and the XEN here had been getting power supply through a kundi connection for the past several months as the meters installed there had become defective or had been removed,’’ claimed Mahender Ghimana, who has been among those who brought the matter to the notice of the media and local residents. He said following the expose, the officials concerned got the faulty equipment replaced with new ones within a couple of hours. It is revealed that the meters of the offices of SE and the XEN had gone faulty in January and February, 2011, respectively, and since then the supply made was directly from the line. Ghimana said this was blatant misuse of the authority and if the officials of the department indulged in such activities how they could prevent theft by the consumers or book them for power theft. Demanding a probe into the expose, he said the officials had recently booked several consumers on charges of overload connection at Gulkani. He said the dharna would continue till action was taken against the officials concerned. The SE, O.K. Sharma, claimed that he was not aware of any incident of this nature. The XEN, J.K Arora, denied the allegations of power theft as he claimed that the units consumed by the office were free though only a track record of the consumption was kept by the office. He, however, said that he was not aware of the limit on the free power unit consumption. Jind has one of the highest line loss rates pegged around 50 per cent which includes 73 per cent in rural and 30 per cent in urban areas. Though 471 cases of theft have been detected in the district in the past one month, these do not include any office or government official, reveal sources. Among the major defaulters, the public health and the irrigation departments here owe a whopping Rs 2.25 crore and Rs 50 lakh, respectively, to the department at present. |
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Sikhs to campaign against Cong: Nalvi
Ambala, November 7 Didar Singh Nalvi, who has been spearheading a campaign for the separate SGPC in Haryana, said the Congress had thrice deceived the Sikhs of the state by promising to constitute Haryana SGPC in its election manifesto during the assembly elections in 2009. He said the Congress had managed to get a mandate in the assembly as well as Lok Sabha elections in 2009 by promising that they would constitute the separate SGPC in the state. Nalvi claimed that Sikhs were in a majority in as many as 31 of 90 assembly segments in the state and they would not vote in favour of the Congress
in any of the elections to be held in future as it had failed to fulfil the promise. He said the state government had already gone ahead with the constitution of a human rights commission and Scheduled Caste commission, while the demand of the Sikhs for a minority commission was still hanging fire. He reiterated that the right to manage their shrines was a fundamental right of the Sikhs. He said by not constituting the separate SGPC for the Sikhs of Haryana, the state government had violated the provisions of the Punjab Reorganisation Act of 1966, according to which a separate body to manage the affairs of the Sikh shrines in Haryana was to be constituted as had been done in case of the Wakf Board. Nalvi said by denying the state Sikhs right to run
their own shines, the government was hindering their growth as a community. He said non-constitution of the minority commission had made it difficult for the Sikhs to seek legal help in case of violation of their rights. |
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Short-circuiting led to thermal plant fire
Panipat, November 7 The incident occurred around 6 pm during the overhauling of the 210-MW unit V of the power station. Two other employees received 50 to 60 per cent burn injuries. The body of deceased technician was sent for post mortem while the injured employees were admitted to a private hospital for treatment, an official said. Panic gripped the Thermal Power station as the news of fire and death of the technician spread and hundreds of employees and their families rushed towards the Power Station. The senior officers of Thermal Power Station and police also rushed to the spot for rescue operations. The power station authorities are also investing the cause of sparking and sudden rise in voltage. The investigation officer, Ashok Kumar said that only three employees were working on the plant and due to sudden increase in voltage, sparking occurred. Dr Samir, who examined the injured persons said that both of them had over 55 per cent burn injuries. |
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Runaway Apna Ghar girl traced
Panipat, November 7 Appearing to be mentally retarded, 20-year-old Puja was moving under suspicious circumstances in Urban Estate by two women of Durga Colony, Hisar who took her home and asked about parents and place. She confided that she had run away from the shelter home and the women contacted an NGO, Health and Care which informed the police.
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Man planning to kidnap religious leader held: IGP
Hisar, November 7 The IGP, AS Chawla, said here today that the kidnapping was planned by Kheri with his friends. These criminals had also prepared a recce video which had been recovered by the police. However, Ranjit narrowly escaped the police dragnet and now a warrant for his arrest would be obtained. He said Kheri had looted cash worth Rs 50 lakh from a bank at Digwa village of Bhiwani recently. The police had recovered Rs 30 lakh out of the looted cash. Chawla said Kheri was also planning a number of murders for which he claimed he had ordered purchase of a hand grenade and an AK-47 rifle. Kheri had not returned to the jail after he was released on parole in March this year. He had committed several crimes after he was sent on parole. The police has also nabbed Sukhbir who had escaped from Punjab Police custody while he was being taken to a court for a hearing. The police has recovered 3.25 kg gold and a huge amount of cash from him. The gold had been looted from a goldsmith at Ayalki village near here. |
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Accused gets bail in Khemka threat case
Panchkula, November 7 Yesterday, Umed moved an application for bail when he was produced in the court after completion of his judicial custody. The Panchkula police had arrested Umed (52) for making the threat call to Khemka from his residence in Gurgaon on Friday. Khemka was appointed as the Managing Director of the Haryana Seed Corporation last month after his transfer from the Land Consolidation Department. Khemka had dismissed Umed Singh in 2006 when the latter was working as a draftsman with the Haryana Housing Board in
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Man accused of raping Dalit woman held
Sirsa, November 7 The accused, Gagan Singh, as per the complaint lodged with the Sadar police station at Dabwali, came to the victim’s house with Amarik Singh and Soni on the night of October 31, when her husband was working in the fields. While Amarik and Soni allegedly stood guard outside her house, Gagan raped her after pointing a pistol on her. The 21-year-old victim alleged that the accused threatened her of dire consequences if she revealed the matter to anyone. She brought the matter to her husband’s notice, who sought the help of village elders for lodging a complaint. Initially, a panchayat of village elders tried to settle the matter at its own level. However, after a series of meetings failed to reach any conclusion, the victim’s family approached the police yesterday. Senior superintendent of police Rajshree Singh today visited the village and met the victim and her family members and heard the version of village elders on this issue. A team of forensic experts went to the village today to collect evidence from the victim’s house. The police registered the FIR under Sections 376 and 506 of the IPC and provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act after advocate Vandana Monga, counsel on the panel of the District Legal Services Authority, recorded the victim’s statement. |
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Doctor raped by acquaintance
Rewari, November 7 The medical examination of the victim was conducted in the local civil hospital. Police sources said the doctor and the accused had known each each other for 14 years. The doctor, who is a widow, is running her private clinic at Dahina and Dr Ranbir Singh is running his clinic at Boodhi Bawal village in Rajasthan, near Dharuhera. Sources said when Dr Ranbir came to know that the doctor was indisposed, he came to see her and allegedly administered an some sedative and then raped her in a state of semi-consciousness. |
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CIA to probe case of gang rape, murder
Sirsa, November 7 SSP Rajshree Singh has directed the CIA staff to investigate the case at the earliest and bring the guilty to book. Yesterday, The Tribune had carried a story “No headway in case of gang rape, murder, Parents approach HC, write to PM, Sonia” in these columns highlighting how Sirsa police had failed to make any headway in the case even after 11 months of the crime. The 16-year girl’s body was recovered near a roadside eatery on the Nathusari Chopta-Kagdana road on the night of December 10, 2011. Tests on the semen swabs taken from her body revealed that it was a case of gang rape. “After 11 months of a crime, it becomes difficult for the police to collect evidences from the spot,” she said.
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