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Mohali, December 20
A Mohali court today issued fresh arrest warrants against the five accused in the ETO's suicide case as the police has failed to arrest them.

Today, the court ordered the police to arrest and produce the accused, Superintendent of Police (Vigilance) Amandeep Kaur, head constable Harminder Singh, Rajinder Singh and Rajiv Sud (both traders) and driver Paramjit Singh, on January 9, 2013.

Notably, the court had issued non-bailable warrants against the accused on November 26 following the presentation of a challan by the Mohali police on October 25, but the police had failed to arrest the accused.

Even the case under Sections 120-B, 306 and 506 of the IPC and Sections 7 and 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act against the accused was registered on August 18 following the intervention of the Mohali court. The police had also set up a special investigation team in the case, but could not nab even a single accused.

Manjit Kaur, wife of the deceased, alleged that the police did not want to arrest the accused for obvious reasons. "Even the challan, which the police had presented in the case, is nothing less than a formality," alleged Manjit Kaur.

She added that her husband ETO Ranjit Singh, who committed suicide on April 23 last year following his arrest by Amandeep Kaur on the charges of corruption, was falsely framed in a case, which forced him to take the extreme step.

Chandigarh, December 20
A 25-year-old youth died in a road accident at the Industrial Area last night. The victim, Sonu, was travelling with his two friends when their car hit an auto-rickshaw. He was declared brought dead at the hospital.

A case of rash and negligent driving and causing death due to negligence under Sections 279, 337, 304-A of the IPC has been registered against Sonu's friends Varinder and Ajit, who also sustained injuries in the mishap. Sonu was a resident of Ram Darbar.

Dera Bassi: A person was killed in a road accident near the Dera Bassi bus stand today morning.

The deceased was identified as Navneet Sharma, a resident of Ward no. 7, Dera Bassi.

As per information, the accident occurred today morning when the victim was going on foot to offer prayers at a religious place on the Ambala-Chandigarh Highway near the bus stand here. Suddenly, a canter hit him from the back side. The victim died on the spot.

The body of the victim was handed over to the family members after conducting postmortem examination.

The police had registered a case against the canter driver under Sections 279, 304-A of the IPC. — OC

Chandigarh, December 20
The UT police has booked the manager of a club in Sector 26 for failing to close the club at the mandatory time of 1 am last night today.

A case under Section 188 of the IPC has been registered against Surinder Pal, manager of RV club. He is a resident of New Colony, Khuda Lahora, Chandigarh. The accused has been arrested in the case.

Chandigarh, December 20
Making the city proud, local chess prodigies Arunima Goyal and Tarini Goyal bagged top honours during the Asian Schools Chess Championship, concluded in New Delhi recently.

Arunima Goyal of Sacred Heart Convent School bagged the bronze medal in the standard sub-juniors (U-15) girls' category and on other hand, her younger sister Tarini Goyal, a class VI student of same school, won the gold medal in the blitz format of girls' (U-11) category.

With this feat Arunima secured a place in the World Schools Individuals Chess Championship-2013, to be held in Halkidiki, Greece. Arunima played well throughout the the seven-round tournament, with not conceding even a single game. She defeated Methmini Nelunika of Sri Lanka, Sydykova Aklayi of Kazakistan. She played a draw against Kahanda IDS of Sri Lanka, Aasa Deepika Kuditipudi and Matta Theja of Andhara Pradesh and Radhika Garg of UP. Tarini secured four and a half points out of the five points after defeating Salimova Asal of Uzbekistan and Asmitha Raju, Supreetha Potluri Archi Aggarwal of India. However, she was forced to play a draw by Zhang Yuxuan of China. Vipnesh Bhardwaj, honorary secretary of the CCA congratulated Tarini and Arunima. 

Chandigarh, December 20
Eighty golfers from 11 countries and 62 golfers from India will tee off for the titles of the 8th Chandigarh Golfing Tour-12 to be held on the greens of the Chandigarh Golf Club, Forest Hill Resorts and the Panchkula Golf Club from December 21 to 23.

The tournament will witness NRIs of different golfing bodies staking in different handicap categories, both gross and net. The overall best three-day gross score will decide the overall winner for the trophy.

A total of 38 golfers from the US, 17 from Canada, 8 from Australia, five each from UK and Singapore, 2 from Dubai, one each from New Zealand, France, Netherlands, Kuwait and Brazil will vie for the championship. — TNS

Chandigarh, December 20
Punjab’s bowling attack scripted the team’s win over Saurashtra after sweeping the rivals on the total of 242 runs to move further in the ongoing campaign of Cooch Behar Cricket Trophy for Boys (U-19) held recently.

After this win, the Punjab team garnered seven points. Bowler Amritpal Bajwa and Vinay Chaudhary claimed three wickets each, while Siddharth Sharma and Sandeep Singh shared the points after taking two wickets each.

Earlier after resuming at overnight score of 83 runs, the Saurashtra team was bowled out on a mere total of 242 runs in 102.3 overs. The opening pair of SS Patel and JJ Sitapura put on 127 runs for the first wicket in 48.2 overs before bowler SP Sharma took Patel for 55 off 143. Sitapura scored 82 off 167, including 11 boundaries, before getting caught and bowl by Sandeep Singh.

DM Chohan (36) and TJ Gohil (21) were the other main contributors to the team’s total. The team trailing with 213 runs on the first innings set a target of 30 runs for the rivals.

In reply, the Punjab team achieved the target without losing any wicket.

Scores

Saurashtra: 273 all out (Vinay Chaudhary 4 for 88, Siddharth Sharma 2 for 44, Karan Kaila 2 for 54 and Sandeep Sharma 2 for 36).

Punjab: 486 all out in 118 overs (Mandeep Singh 21, Navneet Singh 9, Prabhjot Singh 118, Maninder Singh 109, Mohit Handa 31, Karan Kaila 27, Vinay Chaudhary 69, Amritpal Singh 62 not out, Tejpal Gohil for 2 for 74, P. Mankad 2 for 93, K. Parmar 2 for 53 and K. Karan Chandani 3 for 119).

Saurashtra (2nd innings): 242 all out in 102.3 overs (Snell Patel 55, Jasmene Sitapara 82, DM Chohan 36, TJ Gohit 21, Amritpal Bajwa 3 for 38, Siddharth Sharma 2 for 38, Sandeep Singh 2 for 80, Vinay Chaudhary 3 for 55).

Punjab (2nd Innings): 31 for no loss.