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Drug peddler held

Fatehgarh Sahib, December 9
The district police arrested a drug peddlers, involved in the sale of drugs during a checking today. The police recovered 1,100 intoxicant tablets and syrup bottles from his possession.

HS Mann, SSP, said during a checking the Khamano police arrested Bahadur Singh, alias Lalli, a resident of Khamano, and had recovered 1,100 intoxicant tablets and syrup bottles, which he used to sell to drug addicts in the rural area. He was booked under

The NDPS Act and was produced in the court, which has sent him in judicial custody for 14 days.

In another incident, the police arrested a thief and recovered stolen iron goods worth lakhs of rupees. The accused has been identified as iqbal Singh, alias Bhoora, a resident of Bassi Pathana. — OC

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Youth dies in mishap
Our Correspondent

Dera Bassi, December 9
A youth was killed in a road accident near Lalru on the Ambala-Chandigarh Highway last night. The deceased was identified as Lalit Kumar, a resident of Saraswati Vihar, Ambala city.

The accident took place when the mototcycle, on which the victim was riding, rammed into a truck. The victim was going to Ambala after completing his duty at a factory in Panchkula .

The victim died on the spot. The police has taken the truck in its custody but the truck driver manged to flee from the spot.

A case has been registered against the unidentified truck driver under Section 279, 304A of the IPC. The body of the victim was handed over to the relatives after conducting a postmortem.

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Girl goes missing

Ambala, December 9
A girl student of Kalpna Chawla Polytechnic for Women, Ambala City, has been missing for the past two days. The police registered a case of abduction on the complaint of her father today.

The girl is a student of computer science at the polytechnic institute. She had gone to the institute on December 7 as usual but she did not return.

In the complaint, her father has suspected of kidnapping. The Baldev Nagar Police Station registered a case against an unidentified person under Sections 363 (kidnapping), 366 (kidnapping a woman to compel her marriage or to cause her defilement) of the IPC. No clue of the missing girl has been was achieved so far.

Chain snatching

Ambala: Two motorcycle-borne youths snatched a gold chain from a person at Sector 7, Ambala City, today. The person was standing outside his residence when the incident took place.

Rajeev Duggal, the victim, has filed a complaint with the Baldev Nagar Police Station in this regard. The snatchers manged to flee. The chain was of about Rs 80,000.

Duggal has mentioned in the complaint he had shouted for help but the youths managed to escape. It is not for the first incident that such incidents has taken place in the city. Earlier, many incidents of snatching had taken place in various sectors of the city during the recent months. — OC

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Paras Downtown Square directed to pay Rs 2 lakh to showroom owner
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 9
The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Punjab, has penalised the Paras Downtown Square in Zirakpur for discontinuing the payment of assured return to the complainant against the agreement reached between the two sides.

The opposite party (including various officials of the mall) has been directed to deliver the actual physical possession of the premises to the complainant and pay Rs 2,00,000 to the complainant for causing physical and mental harassment and adopting an unfair trade practice.

The complainant, Gurbir Singh, a resident of Mohali, alleged that he was “allured by the opposite parties to invest money and therefore, agreed to purchase a shop in Paras Downtown Square, Zirakpur, for self-employment. He paid the entire amount of Rs 79,84,200 as per the buyer agreement.”

“The opposite parties were bound to pay the assured return of Rs 1,35,446 per month to the complainant which was paid from September, 2008 to March, 2010 but thereafter, they stopped paying the same. The opposite parties also refused to deliver the possession of the shop premises to the complainant,” read the copy of the judgement.

The Commission directed the opposite parties to pay the entire amount due from the complainant as arrears of assured income along with interest at the rate of per cent per annum. The opposite parties have also been directed to pay Rs 25,000 towards cost of litigation.

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16 booked for defacing public property

Chandigarh, December 9
The UT Police has registered cases against 16 people under Section 3 of the West Bengal Property Defacement Act for pasting advertisement posters at walls in Sector 17. All cases have been registered at Sector 17 Police Station.

In total 16 cases, eight accused were arrested, who were later bailed out.

Ram Gopal, SHO, Sector 17 Police Station, said they were keeping a close watch on the people defacing the public property by pasting advertisement posters on walls and pillars in various parts of Sector 17 and Sector 22.

The officials further said registering cases against the people defacing the city would deter others from pasting posters on the public property.

The police said cases had been registered against them and an inquiry had also been initiated. — TNS

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cop thrashing case
SSP asks DSP to check role of victim
Tribune News Service

MOhali, December 9
In the case of bashing up of two PCR policemen on duty by some youngsters on October 26, the Mohali SSP has directed DSP (City I) to check the role of the policemen in it.

The development took place following the complaint by Rupinder Kaur, fiancée of one of the main accused Deepinder Singh, in which she alleged that the cop on duty Ravinder Singh had teased her when she went to have dinner with Deepinder Singh few hours before the incident had occurred.

Rupinder met SP (City) Swarndeep Singh yesterday and gave her complaint to him.

Mohali SSP GS Bhullar said that he had directed DSP RS Sohal to check all the aspects in the case, which led to an attack on the cops on duty.

Notably, on October 26, Deepinder Singh, his cousin Harshveer Singh, and some of their friends, carrying swords, rods and baseball bats, had allegedly attacked on Ravinder Singh at Phase 3B2 market around 11.30 pm and left him injured.

In the melee, Ravinder’s colleague, Purshotam, also sustain minor injuries while Ravinder had to be shifted to the Civil Hospital, Phase VI.

The police has already made three arrests including of Deepinder Singh and Harshveer Singh in the case.

A case of attempt to murder has been registered against Deepinder, Harshveer and their 12 friends in this connection.

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Man killed in road accident at Panchkula
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, December 9
A drunken driver claimed the life of a gardener near the road separating Sectors 14 and 15, Panchkula, here this evening. The victim, identified as Ram Nath, was going home on his bicycle when a recklessly driven canter hit him from the rear side.

Nath was rushed to the General Hospital, Sector 6, Panchkula, where he was declared brought dead.

The body of the deceased has been kept in the mortuary for the postmortem.

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Woman dies as auto overturns

Chandigarh, December 9
A 32-year-old woman died when the auto she was travelling in, along with her brother and father, overturned near Sector 38 here today. According to the police, auto driver Ajay Kumar lost the control of the vehicle, which was loaded with clothes, following which it overturned near Sector 38-38w roundabout.

Shoba, her father and the auto driver were rushed to the PGI, where doctors declared Shoba brought dead.

A case under various sections of the IPC has been registered at Sector 39 Police Station and an inquiry has been initiated. — TNS

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No gradation certificates for kabaddi, kho-kho players
Deepankar Sharda
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 9
On the one hand when the Punjab government is popularising the rural game, kabaddi, by organising an invitational tournament. On the other hand, the local kho-kho and kabaddi players are facing problems as the UT Sports Department has failed to put both the games under the sports gradation certificates policy.

Reforming the rules, four years ago, the officials of the respective department have kept both the games out of the grading policy after declaring them non-Olympic events.

Notably, cricket, despite being a non-Olympic event has been kept under the grading policy leaving many sports experts in deep thought over the official step.

“Games like kho-kho and kabaddi are not recognised by the International Olympic Committee. They do not fall under the charter of Olympics. We provide grading to only those games that are recognised by the international committee,” said JDS Sidhu, joint director sports of UT sports department.

When asked about cricket being included in the grading list, he said: “It’s a mass game and through special administrative approval, we have added it. Many people play cricket and being so popular we have awarded it a graded sports status,” said the official.

The Sports Complex, Sector 42, (head office of the sports department) from where the official staff functions witnessed a total fall of almost 60 kabaddi players. Apart from organising state championships various local level tournaments are organised and also the inter-school tournament witnesses almost 30 teams in each group. But still, the officials keep kabaddi and kho-kho away from being declared as a mass game.

“Earlier, both the games were under the grading policy but I don’t know the exact reason, why it has been pulled out. Surely, the game is a mass game. Like every other game, our players also attend international, national camps and participate in other local tournaments. The players might not be rich enough to showcase their expensive bats or something but they are powerful enough to play hard and make the game interesting. Getting gradation is a player’s right and it supports his or her academic career,” said a coach.

“There should be proper criteria to judge a game for keeping it under the sports gradation policy. In city, there is no association of cricket and half of the tournaments are non-recognised, so the official should look into that aspect also,” said Moti, a local Kabaddi player, who attended junior and senior Indian camp twice.

Other players seconded her and said, “The games should fall under the grading policy. If the officials are following any charter then it should be applicable to every game. They should not treat us badly.”

Sports website not updated

The UT Sports Department might have kept certain games out of the grading policy. But the department fails to convey it to the masses in right manner. Providing wrong information, the website of the UT Administration Sports Department clearly mentions games like kabaddi (national style) and chess under the grading policy. According to sources, the website was last updated in the year 2007 and after that no changes have been made. “The website carries wrong information as has not been updated since 2007. The games like chess and kabaddi are no more part of the sports grading policy,” said an official of the sports department.

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GMSSS-26 win by 3 wickets
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 9
In the ongoing Blessed Edmund Rice Cricket Tournament for boys (U-17), the team of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 26, (GMSSS-26) defeated Dev Samaj School by 3 wickets, here today.

The losing side after opting to bat first posted a total of 119 runs in allotted slot of 20 overs. Manoj scored a quick fire 40 off 19 while Ravi Pratap contributed 20 runs for the batting side. Bowler, Rishi claimed 2 for 20.

On other hand, the wining side registered victory after loosing seven wickets. Jatinder and Shubham scripted team’s win after scoring 35 runs each. For bowling side, Tushar claimed 3 for 12 whereas Gurinder took 2 for 23.

In the match of boys (U-14) group, the St Kabir team outplayed St John’s (B) team by 30 runs. The team scored 125 runs with Shivanshu Sood scoring an unbeaten knock of 40 runs and Ritik contributing 25 off 35. Bowler, Angad Gill grabbed 3 for 12 while Aman took 2 for 20.

In reply, the St John side was bundled out on a mere total of 95 runs. Nikhil scored 21 runs while Garry contributed 16 runs. Shivanshu Sood remains the pick of the day after taking 3 for 12.

The team of Saupin’s school defeated Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 26, by 7 wickets. After elected to bat first, the team scored 120 runs after losing 8 wickets. Batsmen Arun (21off 30) and Prashant (25) was the main scorer of the day. Prabhjeet and Satyam claimed 2 wickets each.

In the reply, the Saupin’s team chased down the target in the 18th over with Parbhjeet contributing 50 runs along with Satyam (22 runs). For bowling side, Arun claimed 2 for 20.

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roller skating championship
Rolling Tigers bag 134 medals
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, December 9
The skaters of Rolling Tigers bagged a total of 134 medals, in the 18th District Roller Skating Championship, concluded at Blue Bird High School, here today. The skaters won top honours after wining 68 gold medals, 45 silver medals and 21 bronze medals. Reportedly, over 250 skaters from the district participated in the tourney.

Results:

Boys (U-4 to U-6): Quads-Chinmay Kansal, Vedant Parashar, Ekansh Jain. 6 Boys (U-4 to U-6). Inline-Tanmey Aggarwal, Pushkar, Saksham. Girls(U-4 to U-6). Quads-Harshita, Rayna, Yahvi Kaushal. Boys (U-6 to U-8). Quads-B Pranay Gaud, Nitansh Singla, Uddhav.

Girls (U-6 to U-8): Quads-Sonakshi and Mehak, Aashna Singh, Swarnima Soni. Boys (U-8 to U-10)-Quads-Saksham Bansal, Sanyam Gupta, Aditya Dabas. Girls (U-8 to U-10). Quads-Akshita Shourie, Sumedha Parihar, Simranpreet Kaur. Boys (U-10 to U-12). Quads-Adhiraj Kundlas, Mukul Verma, Vaibhav Arora. Girls (U-10 to U-12). Quads-Mrinal Vashisth, Sakshi Yadav, Palak Setia. Boys (U-10 to U-12). Inline-Harsh Gupta, Lovish Singh; Ritin Singla.

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basketball championship
New Public School-18 emerge victorious
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 9
The cagers of New Public School, Sector 18, defeated host team of St Xavier`s Senior Secondary School, in the St Xavier`s Basketball Tournament, held here today.

In the title clash, the wining side defeated the opponents by a margin of 56-31. For Xavier’s, Khusman (8) and Gursher (10) gathered main points while for New Public School, Sector 18, outfit Abhishek (21) and Amit (19) guided the team to victory. Parvesh of New Public School was declared as man of the match.

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Kabaddi trials today

Chandigarh, December 9
The Chandigarh Kabaddi Association will conduct trials to select junior and senior Kabaddi teams on December 10 (3 pm) at Kabaddi grounds of the Sports Complex, Sector 42, here.

The selected players after undergoing a proper coaching camp will represent the city in the upcoming Junior and Senoir National Kabaddi championship to be held at Tamil Nadu and Haridwar, respectively. — TNS

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