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Sanjay Bumbroo
Tribune News Service

Banur, March 4
A three-day "Techno-Cultural event Panache-2013" started on the campus of Shaheed Udham Singh Group of Colleges, Tangori. Azad Singh, zonal head and Mandeep Singh Manager Indian Bank, were the chief guests for the inaugural ceremony. Gurlabh Singh, general secretary and Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu chairman, SUS Group of Institutions were present during the inaugural ceremony. The festival started with lighting of the lamp by the chief guest followed by the saraswati bandna, solo song bhangra and Kashmiri dance by the college students.

On the first day, cultural and techno events were performed. In the solo singing and duet singing 20 colleges of north India took participation. In the choreography event, 10 teams of different college participated and in the skit event 7 team of the colleges participated. A fashion show would be held at night.

On the second day of the festival, paper presentation, modelling and rock war competition would be held. On the last and final day, a cultural programme would be performed by a prominent Punjabi singer, Kamal Heer.

In the inaugural address, the chief guest stressed upon the teachers to adopt quality and innovative methodology to teach the students. 

Dera Bassi, March 4
Jindal Electric and Machinary Corporation conducted a campus placement drive in the Punjab Group of Colleges here today. More than 100 students of participated in the drive. — OC

Chandigarh, March 4
In an embarrassment to the UT police, a local court today rejected the police plea to take the accused in a tyre theft case in police custody. All the four accused, who are students, were sent to judicial custody and they also filed their bail applications in the court. The court dismissed the police plea as there was no material ground to interrogate the accused.

After the four students applied for bail, the court issued a notice to the UT police to file a reply on March 7.

The UT police had arrested four students, all belonging to well-to-do families of Punjab, in the case of theft of a rear wheel of a Yamaha sports bike parked outside a house in Sector 15.

The accused have been identified as Harmanjot Singh, Inderpal Singh, Abhishek Sharma and Manmeet Singh, all residents of Mohali.

While seeking their police remand, the police told the court that there had been more instances of tyre thefts in the same sector and they have to verify if these students have committed more such thefts.

The police said Harmanjot Singh is pursuing engineering from the UIET, PU, and Abhishek Sharma is pursuing a pharmacy course. Inderpal Singh is a BCom student of DAV College and Manmeet Singh is pursuing a course in designing at Mohali. Manmeet Singh also designs bikes and actively takes part in motorcycle rallies, the police said.

On March 1, the police received a complaint from Anita Thakur, a resident of Sector 15, that two persons, apparently in police uniforms, took away the rear tyre of her motorcycle parked in front of her beauty parlour-cum-residence. 

Mohali, March 4
In the Advocate Amanpreet murder case, Jaswinder Singh, son of SGPC member Ranjit Singh, has been sent to police remand for seven days, up to February 10, by the local court.

The court has also extended the police remand of other two accused, Onkar Singh and his nephew Sunbir Singh till February 10.

Earlier, the trio was produced before the local court today afternoon. The Mohali police demanded seven-day remand of Jaswinder Singh and extension of equal duration for the two other accused, whose earlier six days remand came to an end today.

The police is yet to arrest the remaining six accused and recover the weapons used in the crime. Moreover, it also wished by the police that a cross examination of the accused in each other presence should take place.

One person arrested for providing shelter, money and vehicles to the accused

The Mohali Police today arrested Amandeep Singh from Kurali after registering case against him for providing shelter and other facilities to the accused of Amanpreet murder case.

The Mataur Police Station's SHO Atul Soni said that Amandeep Singh and Jatinder Singh had provided shelter, vehicles and money to the accused after the crime.

"We have recovered a car (PB65Q 3538), which Amandeep had given to some of the accused. Jatinder Singh had helped the accused by providing his Mercedes (CH55 T 0499),"said the police officer.

Amandeep Singh has been absconding and the police is yet to recover his car. A case under Sections 212 and 216 of the IPC has been registered against the duo.

Mohali, March 4
The police today arrested Amarinder Singh, a resident of Parch village, on a charge of killing his wife Manjit Kaur on February 16.

The police claimed that Amarinder Singh had confessed that he had murdered his wife Manjit kaur (22) by strangulating her with the 'dupatta'.

The accused had earlier concocted a story that his wife was strangulated when her 'dupatta' got stuck in the wheel of his motorbike while they were on the way to temple. The victim's mother Shanti Devi, a resident of Zirakpur, had \ lodged a complaint against her son-in-law.

The police claimed that while confessing to his crime, the accused said that he never liked his wife and was already in a relation with someone else. The couple got married on November 28 last year.

Panchkula, March 4
Two persons were arrested from the Sector 16 market late last night with the weapons, a pistol and a knife.

It was the fascination for the luxury cars which landed the two 23-year-old boys, Jai Krishan and Surya Pratap Singh, in a police net.

Krishan hails from Punjab and was residing in Sector 11, Panchkula, with his paternal uncle. Surya Pratap hails from Uttar Pradesh and was doing a private job in Chandigarh.

"They had gone with their respective friends to Goa few months back when the two met each other. They then got in contact and became friends," said SHO Lalit Kumar, Sector 14 police station.

He said, "They wanted a luxury car and for that they were preparing robbery plan when they were caught."

The police has registered a case at the Sector 14 police station.

Panchkula, March 4
Two youths tried to outrage the modesty of a 23-year-old girl while she was strolling in a park at Sector 5, Panchkula.

The youths stalked her for about 20 minutes and passed lewd comments following which she got scared and rushed to a crowded area.

A case under Section 354(assault with intent to outrage modesty of a woman) of the IPC has been registered at the Sector 5 police station.The victim works at a private firm in Chandigarh IT Park. —TNS

Mohali, March 4
The Mohali Police today booked a resident of Phase XI, Mohali, for illegally running a paying guest accommodation.

The police has registered a case under Section 188 of the IPC against Rajan Luthra, an owner of HIG house, Phase XI, as he had not registrated his PG accommodations with the authorities. The police has already booked three more such persons, including Janak Raj, Daljit Singh and Harjit Singh.

In Janak Raj's house the accused of Amanpreet murder case was residing as a paying guest. He was arrested by the police the next day of the crime. Daljit Singh is an executive engineer in the Irrigation Department at Chandigarh. He is a resident of Phase VI, Mohali. He was booked for putting up 12 girls as paying guests in his house. A similar case was registered against Harjit Singh, a resident of Sector 71, Mohali.

Mohali SSP GS Bhullar said a special drive has been launched against the illegal paying guest accommodations.

"In most of the criminal cases involvement of PGs is being noticed. So it's the duty of the owners to provide information about their tenants and paying guests to the police so that we can check their credentials," said SSP GS Bhullar.

Panchkula, March 4
Four more persons were arrested in the Ravi murder case by the police. The main accused, Pradeep, is still at large.

The four accused identified as Sunil, Vicky, Tota and Sonu were also produced in the court today and were sent to a police remand for five days.

Already three accused have been arrested in the case out of which one was a juvenile.

The accused had confessed that it was Pradeep who had forced them to come and beat the brothers.

Two accused identified as Deva and Vikas alias Bhaand were arrested in the case. They are also on five-day police remand. The accused have admitted that in a fit of rage they had stabbed Ravi at the Kisan Mandi, Sector 5, Panchkula.

Ravi was killed while his brother Aneesh, a resident of Ram Darbar, received seriously injuries for Rs 10. As many as seven youths had beaten them up on Thursday night. Ravi and Aneesh were here to put up a vegetables stall when Pradeep and seven others burtually thrashed them over the umbrella which the accused used to give on rent. While Ravi was stabbed to death by the accused, Aneesh was referred to PGI, Chandigarh.

The family members of the deceased had blocked the road separating Sector 5 and Sector 6 a day of the murder.

A case under Section 302 of the IPC has been registered against the accused.

Chandigarh, March 4
The cricket team of Vivek High Asian Cricket academy defeated Twenty-20 Cricket Association of Uttar Pradesh by 19 runs, in the final match of 4th Senior North Zone T-20 Cricket tournament, organised by Twenty-20 Cricket Association of Uttar Pradesh played at Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Batting first, the winning side posted a total of 198 runs for 3 wickets in the allotted slot of 20 overs. Karan Veer Khosla contributed an unbeaten knock of 75 runs while Sutixen Mehta scored 63 runs. Later, Manjit Singh scored essential 35 runs, in the team’s total. For the bowling side, Neeraj Tiwari claimed 3 for 38 while Suraj Kulkarnai took 2 for 37 runs.

In reply, the local side was bundled out on the total of 179 runs in 19.2 overs. Rakesh (73), Krishna Bali (42) and Neeraj Tiwari (32) was the top scorers for the team. For the bowling side, Arjun Singla was the highest wicket taker for the team with 4 for 33 while Manjit Singh took 3 for 31.Sutixen Mehta claimed 2 for 32 runs.

Sutixen Mehta (63 runs and 2 wickets) was declared the man of the match. Dharamveer was declared man of the series. — TNS

Chandigarh, March 4
Owing it to the lethargic approach of the UT Engineering Department in completing the work of the indoor basketball stadium, Sector 42, Sports Complex, the department is organising the All-India Invitational Basketball Tournament for Men, at the outdoor court of Sector 46 from March 8, here.

The original plan of the UT Sports Department was to organise an All-India Basketball (U-19) Tournament at the new indoor stadium during the year 2009-10. But due to the incomplete work, the tournament was postponed. After failing to get the court on right time, the tournament is being organised for the professional men’s team.

“The original plan was to organise the tourney, in the newly build indoor stadium. But after for so many years, we failed to get any positive response from the engineering department. Now, that we have to organise the tournament, so we opted for this complex at Sector 46. The present venue is under make-over and soon will witness the tourney from March 8,” said KS Bharti, District Sports Officer. Adding further, “The tournament will be conducted in outdoor courts under the guidelines of Indian Basketball Federation,” said Bharti.

A total of 8 teams including Indian Overseas Bank, Chennai, Oil & Natural Gas Commission, New Delhi, Central Reserve Police Force, New Delhi, Punjab Basketball Association, Ludhiana, Punjab Armed Police Force, Jalandhar, Army Sports Control Board, New Delhi, Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala and Coaching Centre Chandigarh will vie for this cup.

The winners of the tourney will be awarded with a cash prize of Rs 1.5 lakh while runners-up and third position holders will get Rs 75,000 and Rs 50,000, respectively. All the matches will be played in the league-cum-knockout tournament.

Notably, it was reported in same column during the year 2011 about the non-completion of the indoor stadium. According to sources, in engineering department, the department will take another three to four month in lying down the synthetic court at the indoor stadium. “The officials of sports department were asked to shortlist the color and quality of the synthetic court. The major delay was due to long process of tender work. The further process will take time but we are trying to complete al the civil work and handover the indoor stadium to the sports’ department as soon as possible,” said a source.

Panchkula, March 4
The Godrej Cricket Club defeated Infosys-XI by 5 wickets during the final match of IVth Proflex Cup League Cricket Tournament, being held here. A fine all round performance by Harish Garg (63-runs and 2 for 19) enabled the team to register win.

After elected to bat first, the loosing side scored 159 runs with Ajit Nair (47) and Raghav Seghal (23) scoring 50 runs for the first wicket. Later, Sahil Aneja (39) and Ujjawal Tickoo (27) increased the run rate and enabled their team to score 159 runs in their allotted slot.

For the bowling side, Vijay Pal was the pick of the day after he claimed 3 for 22 while Naresh Dhingra took 2 for 26 during the IVth Proflex Cup League Cricket Tournament.

On other side, the Godrej team attained the target in the 22nd over of the match. A fine partnership between Harish Garg (63) with skipper Vaneet Chawla (32) guided the team to victory. Sanjay Ahuja (22) and Harpreet Sunny (31) were the other noticeable scorers during the IVth Proflex Cup League Cricket Tournament.

Brief scores:

Infosys-XI, 159 for 9 in 25 Overs (Ajit Nair-47, Sahil Aneja-39, Ujjawal Tickoo-27, Raghav Seghal-23, Vijay Pal-3 for 22, Naresh Dhingra-2 for 26, Harish Garg-2 for 19) during the IVth Proflex Cup League Cricket Tournament.

Godrej-CC, 160 for 5 in 21.4 overs (Harish Garg-63, Vaneet Chawla-32, Harpreet Sunny-31, Sanjay Ahuja-22, Lakshya Awasthi-2 for 31, Gautam Gulati-2 for 35).

Chandigarh, March 4
The weightlifting team of Panjab University secured the third position in the All-India Inter-University Weight Lifting Championship for Men held at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur.

Weightlifter Sharndeep Singh bagged the only gold medal for team in the +105 kg weight category.

Chandigarh, March 4
The netball team of Panjab University secured third position in the All-India Inter-University Netball Championship for Men. The tournament was held in Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, from February 26 to March 3.

The host team of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, won the championship while Punjabi University, Patiala, secured runners-up place. Guru Nanak Dev Univeristy, Amritsar, finished fourth All-India Inter-University Netball Championship for Men.