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INLD to capitalise on JBT scam verdict
Haryana’S shame
Married woman raped in Bhiwani
On back foot, INLD hits out at Congress on corruption
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Chemists get sale licences online
Pataudi gets sub-divisional court
Rally for nuclear power awareness
Rapist gets 7-yr jail
Police burns seized narcotics
Polio eradication drive today
Youth held for raping minor
JE held accepting bribe
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INLD to capitalise on JBT scam verdict
Chandigarh, January 19 “Chautala and his son have gone to jail for a secure future of their supporters and their kin” is the new mantra of the INLD that aims to cash in on the judgement that is considered too weak to keep the father-son duo behind bars for long. On the other hand, based on the feeling that the judgement has no concrete evidence against the Chautalas and a lot of emphasis is laid on “presumptions”, both the Congress and the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) have started a blame game on the issue of “motives behind the timing of the judgement”. Contrary to popular belief that the INLD has suffered a big setback owing to the jail term for the top INLD leadership and their close aids, the issue may
actually boomerang and create a “sympathy factor” for the party. Om Parkash Chautala, in his statement before the CBI court at Rohini in Delhi that convicted him, denied any knowledge or his role in the scam. The order reads, “Om Prakash Chautala, Ajay Singh Chautala and Sher Singh Badshami have denied not only their participation in the crime, but also having any knowledge of the same at the relevant time”. The 308-page judgement does not refer to any direct involvement of Chautala or Ajay. Chautala has been convicted on the basis of the statement of IAS officer Sanjiv Kumar, whose each and every argument has been rejected by the court, except the fact that “Chautala called him for breakfast and asked him to change the list of candidates”. In case of Ajay, the judgement reads that Ajay was present in meetings where there was talk about the lists being altered, but Ajay never once asked anyone to change the lists. His presence in the meetings is taken as his being the mastermind behind changing of the lists. The judgement acknowledges that Chautala did state to the court that IAS officers Sanjiv Kumar and Rajni Sekhri Sibal were “playing in the hands of their political opponents namely Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the present Chief Minister of Haryana and earlier the main Opposition leader belonging to the Indian National
Congress party, in connivance with another politicians like Karan Dalal and Kapil Sibal”. Denying any role, the Congress has started a campaign that suggests that the HJC leadership is behind the speeding up of the trial. This, they say, has been done to prevent all possibilities, though remote, of the BJP having a re-think on its poll alliance with the HJC and forming one with the INLD prior to the 2014 Parliamentary and Vidhan Sabha elections. The INLD has decided to highlight relevant portions of the judgement that support their proposed campaign to turn Chautalas into heroes. One such para reads, “Though, it is true that there is no evidence that they took any bribe from any candidate nor there is any evidence to show that they favoured any of his relatives but there is enough evidence to show that their political and bureaucratic bosses intended to cause wrongful gain to some candidates and wrongful loss to the other candidates”. In plain English, the INLD plans to translate this to read that the party leadership cares for its supporters, workers and their well being. “Is it a crime to fulfil the needs and aspirations of the party workers?” is an argument given out by the party think tank. |
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Six booked for raping teenager in Hisar village
Tribune News Service
Hisar, January 19 Pradeep, Baru and Golia, all from her village, raped her at knifepoint two months ago and prepared an obscene video of her on the mobile phone. The video was allegedly circulated to other youths in the village. Some days later, another village youth, Kuldeep showed her the video prepared by Pradeep and others and raped her, she alleged. Two days ago, when the girl’s parents went out for some work, Kuldeep came to her house with another youth, Mange Ram, and the two allegedly raped her. Yesterday, Kuldeep’s brother Rohtash caught her and tried to drag her towards a house. She somehow managed to save her and narrated the incident to her family.
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Married woman raped in Bhiwani
Bhiwani, January 19 The police has registered a case under relevant sections of the IPC and under the provisions of the Prevention of Atrocities on Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes against the accused on the complaint of the victim. |
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On back foot, INLD hits out at Congress on corruption
Chandigarh, January 19 Interacting with mediapersons, INLD state president Ashok Arora rallied around INLD supremo claiming that no irregularities were committed in the recruitment of 3,206 JBT teachers and the CBI had been ‘misused’ by the ruling Congress to nail its political opponents, including former chief minister Chautala. Flanked by party MLAs - Ram Pal Majra, Pradeep Chaudhary and Rajbir Barara - Arora said the party would challenge the special CBI court’s judgement in a higher court after the quantum of sentence was announced by the court on January 22. “In fact, this is not the final judgement. While we will challenge the court’s judgement, the INLD would take fight against the misrule of the Hooda Government to its logical conclusion by going to the people,” he asserted. Taking potshots at the Hooda Government for allegedly favouring AICC president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra in certain land deals, the INLD leader alleged that the government was dragging its feet on making report of the committee public after whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka cancelled the Manesar DLF-Vadra land deal. “The Hooda Government lacks credibility in speaking about corruption and crime as its at least 12 ministers and MLAs are involved in corruption and facing criminal charges,” he alleged. |
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Chemists get sale licences online
Sirsa, January 19 Haryana has become the first state in north India to have started online licencing, claim the FDA authorities. The authorities claim that Haryana in fact is among the very few states in the country to have such facilities. “Barring a few districts, where there are some teething problems, new sale licences are being issued through the online system in the state. Soon, the issuance of manufacturing licences will also be made online,” said Girdhari Lal Singal, State Drug Controller-cum-Joint Commissioner, FDA, in Haryana. For this, the FDA had made a proposal to the state government for the creation of additional posts of enforcement and technical staff at zonal as well as district levels. The government has already appointed eight new drug control officers in Haryana as part of endeavours to strengthen the enforcement system. Singal said the process for online licensing of manufacturing licences and other related matters like the issuance of certificates of good manufacturing practices (GMP), good laboratory practices (GLP), free sales certificate (FSC) and certificate of pharmaceutical products (COPP) etc. are likely to be made effective within a month. The pendency of renewal of sale licenses was reduced to almost zero by efforts of the department. People who want to apply for a licence will simply upload the scanned copies of his application along with the documents required for the licence on the website of the FDA and they will get their licence online within 15 days of the application. Earlier, people had a complaint that their applications were not even recorded in the receipt register of the department for months. In addition to this, the FDA has conducted numerous raids on hookah bars and outlets which were found engaged in the sale of medical intoxicants for illicit use. |
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Pataudi gets sub-divisional court
Pataudi (Gurgaon), Jan 19 He was accompanied by his wife Madhu Sikri and four High Court Judges, Justice SK Mittal, Justice RK Garg, Justice Ajay Tiwari and Justice RC Gupta. The venue of the programme had to be shifted to Hari Mandir Ashram due to rain. Justice Sikri said “All of us (Judges) should pray that no mistake is committed by us in delivering justice as we all have to appear in the court of the Almighty after completing our life span.” He said the establishment of the local court was a reaffirmation of the premise that all should have access to justice and having access to the court was just the first step in that direction. He hoped that the sub-divisional court at Pataudi would be helpful in delivering inexpensive, appropriate and speedy justice to the people of this area. The Chief Justice also exhorted the people to make maximum use of mediation for resolving the disputes and asserted that efforts should be made to settle the disputes through mutual consent in mediation before initiating a regular case in the court. Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division) Tarun Singhal became the first Judge of the Pataudi sub-divisional judicial court. |
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Rally for nuclear power awareness
Bhiwani, January 19 Dr Neelam Goyal, head of an NGO Atomic Power Evolution Awareness Foundation (APEAF) and better known as “Bharat Kee Parmanu Saheli”, led the rally that started from Agarsen Chowk and after passing through Meham Gate, Chiriya Ghar road and Hansi Gate, culminated at Ghantaghar Chowk. Students carried placards to make people aware of needs of energy and how other sources of producing power are becoming scarce. “Since Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited is coming up with an atomic power plant at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad, I decided to launch an awareness drive in the districts close to the proposed unit. After Bhiwani, I plan to shift my focus on Fatehabad and Sirsa districts,” Dr Neelam said. She said the main emphasis of the awareness drive was make to people feel that the nuclear energy was clean and safe and the country needed it for its development. “The APEAF has in place a public awareness programme focused on reaching out to the public and placing the facts about atomic energy in a correct perspective, in a transparent and comprehensive manner,” she said. |
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Rapist gets 7-yr jail
Karnal, January 19 The father of the victim had lodged a report in Nissing police station on May 5, 2011, alleging that his 16-year-old minor daughter was abducted and raped by Jitendra and a case of rape was registered on June 3, 2011 after the medical examination confirmed the rape. The ADJ found the accused guilty of rape and pronounced sentence. Meanwhile, the Karnal police today booked three members of a family in connection with a suicide by a woman. The victim, who was married to Sudhir on November 30, 2011, allegedly committed suicide yesterday by consuming some poisonous substance and her father alleged that her husband had been torturing her. The police registered a case of abatement to suicide against the husband Sudhir, his brother Sandeep and his wife Sushma and arrested then from Mohdinpur village. Sushma was produced in the court and sent to jail today while the other two accused would be produced in the court tomorrow.
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Police burns seized narcotics
Sirsa, January 19 The narcotic material destroyed today included 3,387 kg poppy husk, 6 kg and 100 gram “ganja” and 35 grams of smack. These narcotics were seized by the Sirsa police in 77 cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Besides, 6 kg and 800 gram opium recovered in six cases of the NDPS Act was sent to the government laboratory in Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh as per the rules. Members of the committee constituted for this purpose were present when Chawla set the narcotics on fire. The narcotics seized during the arrest of traffickers remained with the police as case property till the trial of the accused and it was destroyed by burning thereafter by the committee headed by the
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Polio eradication drive today
Kurukshetra, January 19 This was stated by the Deputy Commissioner, Mandip Singh Brar, while addressing the district task force meeting held in the conference hall of mini secretariat here today. Brar said about 1,101 transit and mobile teams had been deployed to cover the rural and urban areas. For this work, 104 vehicles and 127 supervisors along with senior supervisors had also been deputed, he said. |
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Youth held for raping minor
Fatehabad, January 19 On January 16, villagers had staged a dharna outside the police station at Ratia and demanded immediate arrest of the accused. The police had finally arrested Babloo from the bus stand when he, along with the girl, was boarding a bus. The police took the girl to the General Hospital where her medical examination confirmed that she was raped. |
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JE held accepting bribe
Fatehabad, January 19 The SVB has booked JE Kuldeep under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Kashmir Singh, a farmer from Raipur Dhani village of Fatehabad, had applied for a tubewell connection in 2005. He said the JE had demanded money to release power connection for the tubewell. |
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The conviction of former Haryana Chief Minister and Indian National Loki Dal (INLD) chief Om Parkash Chautala and his MLA son Ajay Chautala along with others in the JBT recruitment scam has taken a political twist with the party capitalising on judgement that says that recruitments were done purely “for adjusting their own people” and “no bribe was paid or taken” to provide jobs to the selected 3,206 JBT teachers.
A teenaged girl was allegedly gang-raped at Bugana village near Barwala in the district and the accused prepared her obscene videos on a mobile phone.
Superintendent of Police B Satheesh Balan said a case had been registered against six persons.
