Bhiwani, March 1
A fast track court in Bhiwani has awarded the capital punishment to two youths in a case of honour killing of two young widows at Ranila village of this district two years back.

Additional district and sessions judge Sarita Gupta has sentenced Naresh and Subhash to be hanged till death for beating their widowed aunts Shakuntala and Suman to death on April 11, 2011 because they suspected their character.

They will also have to pay fine of Rs 27,000 each and in case of their failure to pay the fine, they will have to serve imprisonment of two months each.

The two youths, who are cousins, beat the two women mercilessly with sticks publicly in the main chowk of the village till they died on the fateful day.

A village panchayat member, Kailash, who rushed to the site after knowing about the incident, found Naresh and Subhash dragging the body of Suman on the road, while the body of Shakuntala lay in a pool of blood.

The police registered a case on Kailash's complaint, but the accused had escaped by then.

They were later arrested by the police on April 19.

During interrogation, Naresh told the police that he suspected the character of his aunts Shakuntala and Suman and hence he eliminated them with the help of his cousin Subhash.

He told the police that he did not repent the dual murder and had anyone come at that time to stop him, he would have killed that person too.

According to police records, Naresh has already been sentenced to imprisonment of 10 years in a case of rape of a minor girl. However, he was released on bail by the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. 

Rohtak, March 1
Two persons, including a minor boy, were killed and two injured after the roof of a house collapsed in the Gandhi Camp locality here early this morning. The injured have been admitted in hospital.

Police sources said around 6 am the roof of the house of the family of Havaldar Singh (32), an immigrant labourer from Bihar residing in a rented house in Gandhi Camp, caved in all of a sudden, resulting in the burying of Havaldar, his wife and two minor children.

As neighbours and local residents rushed to help then, Havaldar and his four-year-old son Prince succumbed to their injuries before they could be shifted to the hospital. His wife and another son, aged about six years, have been admitted in a hospital and their condition is reported to be critical.

The dilapidated condition of the house was perhaps the main cause behind the collapse, it is claimed. 

Chandigarh, March 1
The government has transferred two IAS, four IPS and eight HCS officers. Pankaj, SDO(Civil), Bhiwani, and Estate Officer, HUDA, Bhiwani, has been posted as ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Gurgaon.

Yash Garg, SDO (Civil), Hodal, has been posted as ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Kurukshetra, vice Sumedha Kataria.

Desh Raj Singh, IG, HAP, Madhuban, has been posted as IGP/Research in CPT and R, Bhondsi.

Sanjeev Kumar Jain goes as IGP, Home Guards.

Navdeep Singh, IG, India Reserve Battalion, Bhondsi, has been given additional charge as IGP/ HAP, Madhuban.

Yoginder Nehra, Commandant, 4th IRB at Manesar, has been given additional charge as SP, State Vigilance Bureau, Gurgaon.

Among HCS Officers, Sumedha Kataria has been posted as Additional Director (Administration), Secondary Education and Special Secretary, School Education Department.

Sunita Verma, ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Panipat has been posted as ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Mewat at Nuh.

Geeta Bharti, Additional Director (Adminstration), and Special Secretary, Haryana Higher Education Department, goes as Additional Director (Adminstration), Secondary Education Department and Special Secretary and School Education and Secretary, office of Lokayukta, Haryana, vice Mahavir Singh.

RS Verma, Secretary, Haryana Backward Classes Commission, has been given additional charge as ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Panipat vice Sunita Verma.

Mahavir Singh, Additional Director, has been posted as Additional Transport Commissioner, Haryana, vice Jagdeep Dhanda.

Ritu, Additional Director (Adminstration), Medical Education and Research, Haryana, has been posted as Additional Director (Admn and Mid-day Meals) and Joint Secretary, Primary Education, vice Anurag Dhalia.

Jagdeep Dhanda has been posted as Additional Director (Administration) and Joint Secretary, Higher Education . Anurag Dhalia has been posted as Joint Director, Welfare of SCs and Backward Classes.

Rohtak, March 1
Over Rs 12 lakh were looted at gunpoint from employees of a liquor contractor in Sector 3 here today.

Today, when the employees were preparing to take the cash to the company office from a rented residential accommodation here, three youths took out revolvers and snatched the cash bag from an employee.

The robbers, who were wearing masks, threatened to gun down the employees, if they resisted their attempt.

The culprits fled the spot in a vehicle. Over Rs 12 lakh, which was collected the previous day was to be deposited this morning.

The police is interrogating the employees of the company.

Karnal,March 1
The Karnal police solved the sensational case of loot of Rs 9.20 lakh from a car parked outside a restaurant on the GT Road here on February 27 evening within 24 hours and arrested all four accused. The police also recovered Rs 9 lakh while Rs 20,000 had been spent by the accused.

Delhi-based businessmen Navin and his brother, Saurabh, halted at a restaurant on the GT Road.

After a few minutes, their driver Prakash informed them on the phone that four armed persons had looted Rs 9.20 lakh.

A police team led by DSP Surinder Bhoria reached the spot and scanned the CCTV footage but no armed person was seen in the footage, raising doubts about the driver's version .

On interrogation, the driver confessed that he had hatched a conspiracy with his cousin Sanjay and friends Bhupendra and Tejbir and took away the cash. Prakash was aware that his employer would get some hefty payments in Sangrur and kept his accomplices informed on the mobile phone.

All three accomplices were following the car from Punjab on a hired vehicle. As soon as the car stopped at the restaurant, Prakash allegedly handed over the bag containing Rs 9.20 lakh to them.

The police arrested Sanjay Kumar, Bhupendra and Tejbir from Harola in Noida (UP) last evening and recoverd the cash.

.The police had initially registered a case under Sections 406 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code but later replaced section 406 by Sections 381 and 411. The SP appealed to all the hotels and restaurants to install CCTV cameras so that such incidents of theft could be avoided.