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Joint Protest against state govt amid tight
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Problem of staff shortage delays probe in criminal cases
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Stoppage of Jammu-Tawi sought at goniana
NRI booked for demanding dowry
Move to grant promotion on the basis of caste draws flak from GCWF
Bank employees exhibit their sporting talent
Coaching institute hosts talent test
Aam Aadmi Party meet to form dist unit
NGOs extend a warm hand to poor
Three injured in separate road accidents
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Joint Protest against state govt amid tight
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Bathinda, December 16 The entire police force of the district, including SHOs of various police stations, was on its toes following massive protests by these unions, which decided to take out a protest march in the city despite opposition by the police. Members of these unions united after they had held separate protests in the city over the past many days. The members said instead of fighting their individual battles, they had decided to unite and raise their voice against the Punjab Government. They said since all the unions were protesting against the state government, they decided to come on a single platform and raise voice against the wrong policies of the government, which has led to unrest among various sections of society. Addressing the gathering, various speakers said they would not rest till all their pending demands were not met by the state government. Heavy police force equipped with sophisticated weapons, tear gas shells and other machinery of the police department, was pressed into service in view of the joint protest. The dharna continued for more than three hours and the police too was determined against allowing protesters to take out a protest march in the city and disturb peace. Members of the Unemployed Linesmen Union said they would now target the political conferences to be held at Fatehgarh Sahib on the occasion of Jor Mela. Apart from taking part in the massive dharna, the unemployed linesmen assembled at the Nehru Park along with their families to chalk out a strategy for their next agitation. The Jor Mela is held every year at Fatehgarh Sahib to commemorate the martyrdom of younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh guru. Different political parties hold conferences on the occasion. The Unemployed Linesmen Union has decided to agitate against the government at the SAD-BJP conference. Around 200 linesmen and their family members, including spouses, kids and parents, gathered at the Nehru Park. As many as 1000 linesmen, who have been appointed, also expressed solidarity with the protesting linesmen. State general secretary of the union Jagtar Singh Mahinangal said the union members were scheduled to meet Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on December 12. The union has been demanding appointment of 4,000 linesmen in the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL). The members of the union had asked the PSPCL to amend the Special Leave Petition (SLP) that it has filed in the Supreme Court to obtain a stay on the recruitment of linesmen, imposed by the High Court, vacated. "The state government had promised us of moving an application for early hearing of the cases being pursued in the High Court and the Supreme Court. Despite the assurance, nothing has been done so far. We wanted to take up the issue during a meeting with the Deputy Chief Minister on December 12, but it did not happen," he said. Earlier, the unemployed linesmen held a dharna at the rally of the state irrigation minister Janmeja Singh Sekhon in Maur Mandi in November. They were arrested for staging the protest.
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Problem of staff shortage delays probe in criminal cases
Bathinda, December 16 A section of police officers, SHOs and others while talking to TNS regretted that the frequent visits of VIPs, including Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, MP Harsimrat Badal and various other leaders, and holding of various events like Virasat Mela and Kabaddi Cup that see members of Badal clan of senior leaders of the ruling alliance as chief guests, have virtually left the police only to perform VIP duties. A senior police officer said all the important police stations of the district were left on the mercy of Munshis during a mega medical camp organised in Mansa recently. The officer regretted that a Munshi was not at all capable of handling complaints, investigations and even to counsel two parties fighting over an issue at police stations. The officer said the matter had already been discussed at length with SSP Ravcharan Singh Brar and he was soon going to take up the matter with the DGP. An SHO deployed at one of the police stations in Bathinda district, while pleading anonymity, said the SHOs were forced to do extra work and even if a minor error creeps in, the erring SHO was either suspended or transferred out. "One policeman cannot handle more than one enquiry at a time. But the investigation officers are forced to do more than two or three investigations simultaneously," said an official deployed at the Civil Lines police station. The police station has registered the maximum number of cases as compared to the other police stations in the district. The police officials at the Kotwali police station, which also has got a huge number of cases registered, expressed similar views. "There is no dearth of complaints at the Kotwali and the Civil Lines police stations. Most of the cases registered at these police stations were related to theft, robbery, minor skirmishes and clashes," they said. Bathinda SSP Ravcharan Singh Brar said "We are managing quite well with whatever resources and basic facilities that we have been provided with by the government. We always try our best to satisfy all the complainants and have recently cracked even blind cases." He pointed out that a separate investigation cell was in the pipeline and modalities in this regard were being finalised and the same would soon be introduced in police stations. Brar added that many police stations registered more than 400 FIRs in a year and the cops were learning the technique of multitasking to crack more than one case at one point of time. "Staff crunch gives an opportunity to the cops to show their calibre by doing more than one job at a time," he said. Fact file
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Stoppage of Jammu-Tawi sought at goniana
Bathinda, December 16 President of the foundation, Dr MM Garg said cancer patients often visited Bikaner to undergo treatment. Halting the train at Goniana railway station would help in minimising the sufferings of the patients and their relatives by giving them direct connectivity. They added that thousands of pilgrims from the area also visit Vaishno Devi every year. Besides this, there are a number of pilgrims visiting the Dera Beas as well as Brahm Kumaris at Mount Abu in Rajasthan. Goniana Mandi also has the prominent Gurudwara Tikana Bhai Jagta Ji Sahib and thousands of people from India and abroad come to the gurudwara. Direct connectivity would be helpful for the followers of all these sects, the foundation argued. It also stated that the military personnel posted in Rajasthan, particularly in areas like Bikaner, Suratgarh and Jodhpur, will also be benefited as it will be easier for them to board the train from Goniana Mandi. Garg said the stoppage will also be helpful to many traders of Goniana Mandi who are engaged in cloth business and visit Ahmedabad and Surat for work. Earlier too, area residents had pleaded with the Northern Railway authorities for halting the Jammu-Tawi Express in Goniana Mandi. The general manager of Northern Railways has been repeatedly sent representations and correspondences from various quarters demanding that the train be halted in the area. The Bathinda unit heads of Brahma Kumaris, Tikana Bhai Jagtaji Sewa Panthi and residents of Goniana Mandi have already sent written representations to the Railway Minister. Garg said Goniana railway station is situated on the Ferozepur-Bathinda main railway line and Punjab Mail has been stopping at the station for many years now. “Goniana Mandi is a sub-tehsil of the town and having a halt of Jammu-Tawi Ahmedabad Express would mean giving an impetus to the development in our area,” said Garg. How will it help?
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NRI booked for demanding dowry
Bathinda, december 16 The matter was brought to the notice of police and investigation was done by the Woman Cell and a case under the sections 498-A, 406, 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered in this connection at the Woman Police Station. No arrests are made by the police so far. One arrested for stealing gold jewellery
Police today arrested a resident of Harraipur for stealing gold jewellery from the house of another resident of his village. In a complaint to the police, Jagsir Singh stated that some unidentified persons stole gold jewellery from his house. He added that after searching for the stolen jewellery for some time, he found out that Daljit Singh, a resident of his village, was tehreal culprit. The police rounded up Daljit Singh who, during preliminary investigation, confessed that he had stolen the jewellery. A case under the sections 457 and 380 of the IPC has been registered in this connection against the accused at Nehianwala police station. Two booked for beating
up woman
Following the complaint by Kuljeet Kaur, a resident of Model Town Phase I, Bathinda, police today booked two persons, including a woman, for beating up Kuljeet. In her complaint to the police Kuljeet stated that she was residing on the ground floor while her uncle was residing on the first floor of the same house. She said on December 9 her uncle attacked her and inflicted injuries upon her. She also accused her uncle of tearing her clothes off. After investigation into the matter, a case under the sections 354, 342, 323 and 34 of the IPC has been registered in this regard at the Cantt police station. No arrests have been made by the police in the case so far. Kotha Guruka resident arrested with revolver
Police have arrested a resident of Kotha Guru Ka village for possessing a 32-bore revolver. Sleuths of the Narcotics Cell, Bathinda, found the accused, who has been identified as Ranjodh Singh, failed to give a satisfactory reply about the revolver he had in his possession. He was brought to Dyalpura police station where a case under the sections 25, 54, 59 of the Arms Act was registered by the police against him. Woman arrested with
illicit liquor
A woman was today arrested by the police for possesing four and a half bottles of illicit liquor and 150 kg laahan. The accused has been identified as Dileep Kaur, a resident of Balianwali village. Police said the accused was found carrying the liquor by policemen during police patrolling. The woman tried to evade queries of the police and had to be taken to the police station with the help of women police constables. She had been booked under the sections 61, 1, 14 of the Excise Act at Balianwali police station. |
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Move to grant promotion on the basis of caste draws flak from GCWF
Bathinda, december 16 In a press statement issued here today, district president of the federation, Shiv Pal, stated that the Supreme Court, while
pronouncing judgment in M Nagraj Vs Union of India, had laid certain conditions for the promotion of employees on caste basis. He added that maintaining efficiency in administration and showing pressing reasons for promoting an employee on caste basis were the main conditions, which could not be violated. He also alleged that the
Congress-led UPA government was bent upon amending the constitution to nullify the Supreme Court judgment. He said, "If the amendment is cleared, the employees of the reserved categories would be promoted out-of-turn and little attention would be paid to the merit of the employees," he said. |
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Bank employees exhibit their sporting talent
Bathinda, December 16 SBoP employees from the zone actively participated in many track and field events organised at the sports meet While the indoor sporting events were held at the Civil Lines Club, athletic events were organised at the MSD Senior Secondary School. Deputy general manager and president of the Zonal Sports Committee SP Shrimali, vice-president of the committee DK Dhawan, AGM-I Lachhman Singh, AGM-II Sanmeet Singh, AGM-III PC Singla, secretary of the central sports committee Sanmeet Singh, vice-president of the central sports committee BS Sandhu and member of the central sports committee Narinder Bansal were present during the prize distribution ceremony.
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Coaching institute hosts talent test
Bathinda, December 16 In an exclusive meeting, Gaurav Gupta, director of the institute said the purpose of hosting the test was to choose from the talent pool and ensure that brilliant students don’t need to go to some other city to take coaching to qualify for IITJEE and AIEEE. He added that on the basis of the test, meritorious students would be
given scholarship and their coaching fee at the institute would be slashed which would lessen the economic burden on parents. The series of tests also aims at making the meritorious students realise their potential, Gupta added. |
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Aam Aadmi Party meet to form dist unit
Bathinda, December 16 Talking about the meet, the national observer of the party, Mehak Singh Trar said all the residents of Bathinda are welcome to come for the meet. In the meet the district unit and working committee of the party will be formed. During this meet, issues of common man and the inclusion of villagers in the party will also be discussed. This meet will be organised under the Mahak Singh Trar and the state observers Punit Garg and Raghuvir Singh. The members of the party said they were looking to recruit a large number of people from the district. They said everyone was welcome to join the party except those who were members of some other political party. |
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NGOs extend a warm hand to poor
Bathinda, December 16 Like last year, the NGOs have started distributing blankets and sweaters to the poor and homeless in the city. Aasra Welfare Society distributed blankets to the poor in the city today. The blankets were distributed with the help of Prem Kumar Mangla and his son Sunil Mangla. The NGO distributed as many as 70 blankets in Uria Colony. The volunteers also distributed sweaters to the poor. Senior deputy mayor of the Municipal Corporation, Tarsem Goyal was also present on the occasion. Addressing the gathering, Goyal appreciated the work being done by the NGOs in the city. |
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Three injured in separate road accidents
Bathinda, December 16 The injured were rushed to the hospital by the volunteers of Sahara Jan Sewa. The injured had been identified as Ram Singh and Amandeep Singh. The victims were rushed to the hospital where they were admitted in the emergency ward of the hospital. In a separate accident, a scooterist was injured in an accident on Bathinda-Mansa road. The victim has been identified as Sanjay Kumar, a resident of Jassi village. He too was rushed to the hospital by the volunteers of Sahara Jan Sewa.
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Lack of a separate investigation cell in police stations across the district has hampered the process of probing various criminal cases.
Sources said despite the recent recruitment of cops and tall claims made by the Punjab Government there was hardly any progress in investigation of a number of cases.
Ravcharan Singh Brar
