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Double Murder Protesters try to remove barricades put up by cops to prevent them from marching to the Chief Minister’s residence in Rohtak on Sunday. Photo: Manoj Dhaka
Girl molested in Hisar; four youths booked
Workers of the Bharatiya Janwadi Naujawan Sabha protest outside the SP’s residence against molestation of a girl in Hisar on Sunday. Photo: Manoj Dhaka
1 held for molestation
Lover held for killing girl
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State govt claims fall flat on investment
Pragati
Rally at Ballabhgarh
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda addresses a rally at Ballabhgarh (Faridabad) on Sunday. Tribune photo
Sexual Harassment Case
Denial of Info to
ex-DGP in Recruitment Case
Haryana’s share up in Rajnath team
Justice AK Sikri, Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, inaugurates the extension blocks of two courts at the judicial complex of Jagadhari, Yamunanagar, on Sunday. A Tribune photo
Tributes paid to Surender Singh
60 sacked Maruti staffers booked
INLD to submit memo to Guv today
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Dalits lay siege to CM's Rohtak residence
Bijendra Ahlawat Tribune News Service
Rohtak, March 31 The victims' relatives squatted on the main road for around two hours with the bodies in protest against the police failure to arrest all culprits. The protest ended after the intervention of the IG, Rohtak range, who promised immediate action and compensation to the victims' next of kin. Vikram (25) and his cousin, Sudhir(11), were allegedly shot dead by some youths in the fields of Madina village , about 20 km from here, yesterday. Sandeep, who suffered bullet injuries, was under treatment in the PGIMS here. Alleging that Mandeep and Bhumi opened fire on them, the victims' kin claimed that the upper caste accused had been nursing enmity for the past several months after they had protested against their highhandedness. The accused. the complaint stated, had tried to ‘ molest’ a Dalit woman a few months ago. The police, however, said the situation turned worse after Dalits beat up a member of the upper caste a few weeks ago. Sensing trouble cops had been posted in the village then but were withdrawn recently. The police had registered cross-FIRs in the case. The matter flared up with upper caste accused opening fire on three persons of the Dalit community, said a police official. Sumit Kumar , DSP (Headquarters), said eight of the 18 accused booked in the case had been arrested. The protesters agreed to cremate the bodies following an assurance from senior police officials. Policemen had been deployed in the village to control the situation, he said.
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Girl molested in Hisar; four youths booked
Hisar, March 31 The woman, who was shifted to a local hospital late last evening, alleged that she was going towards Camp Chowk with her two nieces, when four motorcycle-borne youths came in inebriated condition and started molesting one of them. Exhibiting courage, the woman took out the key of the motorcycle. However, the miscreants attacked her and ran away after snatching the key. The injured woman went to the SP's residence along with the girls and narrated the incident to the policemen deployed there. The woman was later shifted to a local hospital. Schoolboy faces molestation charge
Meanwhile, The police has registered a case after a local schoolgirl lodged a complaint of molestation against her classmate. The police has booked her classmate, a juvenile, under section 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The girl alleged that she was alone in her classroom during recess when the accused caught her. When she protested, he allegedly used foul language against her. The girl complained
to the principal, who resolved the matter after the boy apologised. She alleged that the accused boy started harassing her again after a few days. |
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1 held for molestation
Fatehabad: One person has been arrested for molesting a woman at Aherwan village in Fatehabad on Sunday.
Shamsher Singh Dahiya, DSP (Headquarters), said the 30-year-old victim had alleged in her complaint to the police that Jaswant molested her while she was on the way to her home on March 27. She alleged the accused threatened her when she
protested against his conduct.
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Lover held for killing girl
Kaithal, March 31 The accused was produced in a local court today and sent in 14-day judicial custody. Jyoti, a teacher in a private school, was found murdered near the Shergarh minor on March 26. The police said the accused who had confessed his crime said he had developed friendship with Jyoti and wanted to marry her . But he was shocked when he learnt about Jyoti's engagement . He called the victim from school on some pretext and took her with him on his motorcycle. He murdered her with a knife and dumped the body near a minor on Shergarh road.
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State govt claims fall flat on investment
Panipat, March 31 After the implementation of the SEZ Act in 2005, the government received 101 proposals for setting up SEZ with investment of Rs 2-lakh crore and employment generation for 20 lakh, but only four SEZ with investment of Rs 3,179 crore were set up, but the government is still issuing big advertisements in major newspapers making tall claims. The reality is that only 1.79 per cent investment and 1.58 per cent employment has been achieved and only 115 large and medium industries have come in the state with employment for 20,306 persons, according to information received through the RTI Act. The meager investment of Rs 2,920.76 crore in large and medium industries was also not evenly distributed and investment worth Rs 2,000.53 crore was made in 31 units in Gurgaon while investment amounting Rs 240.87 crore was made in seven units in Panipat, Rs 185 crore in 33 units in Faridabad, Rs 118.82 crore in 12 units in Jhajjar and Rs 59.83 crore in 12 units in Sonepat district. No large or medium industries were set up in five districts of Ambala, Kaithal, Fatehabad, Rohtak and Mohindergarh while only one industrial unit each was set up in Sirsa, Palwal, Panchkula and Hisar districts and two industrial units each in Jind, Kurukshetra and Mewat districts. RTI activist PP Kapoor, who procured information under the RTI Act, said only 16,932 Industrial units with a total investment of Rs 7,645.55 crore were set up in the small, medium and micro sector in the state during the past eight years and the total employment generated was 2,63,325. He said while industrial growth and employment was gradually on decline since 2008-2009, the government was misleading the people by making false claims through advertisements in the media and wasting public money. He said 2,599 new units with investment of Rs 1,294.36 crore and employment generation for 49,965 people were set up in 2008-2009, but the number of new industries declined to 1,592 and investment was down at Rs 914.57 crore while and employment generation dropped to 28,962 in 2012-2013. The decline was 42 per cent in employment and 39 per cent in number of new industries, yet the government was boasting of industrial growth and employment, he said. Claims, ground reality After the implementation of the SEZ Act in 2005, the government received 101 proposals for setting up SEZ with investment of Rs 2-lakh crore and employment generation for 20 lakh, but only four SEZ with investment of Rs 3,179 crore were set up, but the government is still issuing big advertisements in major newspapers making tall claims.
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Hooda reiterates uniform development in state
Tribune News Service
Ballabhgarh (Faridabad), March 31 The Chief Minister said his government was working for overall and speedy development in the entire state. While addressing a well-attended Pragati Rally, Hooda without naming his political detractors said they were trying to mislead the people. He rubbished the allegations by the non-Congress parties that have suggested that the present government discriminated on the basis of areas with regard to development. Hooda said the government was committed to construct two lakh houses in villages and 1.5 lakh in towns and cities for poor section of society. The people of Faridabad district would be the biggest beneficiaries of the project, he added. He also said a Bill drafted by his government for regularisation of unauthorised colonies in the state would be enacted in law soon. He justified the delay in regularising the colonies, which was a promise made by the Congress during elections. He said the construction on the ambitious Industrial Model Townships (IMTs) at Faridabad, Ambala and Rohtak would further boost industrialisation in the state. The Faridabad IMT was near completion. He also announced that Haryana would soon emerge as an education hub of an international repute. The rally was organised by Haryana Chief Parliamentary Secretary and local Congress MLA Sharda Rathore. Its salient feature was almost equal participation of women. He said he had long-standing emotional relationship with Faridabad district and thanked people for giving their mandate in its favour in the last Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. He urged the people of the district to continue their faith in the Congress and further strengthen its hand. Trying to blunt allegations against his government for adopting lopsided development model benefiting some regions of the state, he said during the six-year rule of the government headed by Om Prakash Chautala, a total of Rs 493 crore was spent on the development of Faridabad. However, in the past eight years of the Congress rule more than Rs 3,284 crore had been spent. In the same period, while the Chautala government spent Rs 87 crore for the development of Ballabhgarh, the Congress government spent Rs 378 crore. Responding to a charter of demands put forward by Rathore, Hooda said the construction work on the extension of the proposed Delhi Metro rail link from the YMACA in Faridabad to Ballabhgarh would commence before the next parliamentary elections. He announced Rs 25 crore for beautification of Ballabhgarh and for integrated development of wards no. 34 and 35. He also accepted, among others, a demand for a community centre for Muslims, and for creation of a site for ‘Chhath Puja’, a fesitival of people of Bihar. With regard to a demand to allow freehold ownerships of 1,050 shops of the local Municipal Corporation to the leaseholders concerned, he said his government would give a sympathetic consideration to it.
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Devi Lal varsity ‘lenient’ towards 2 indicted teachers
Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Sirsa, March 31 The university did not list the issue in its agenda for the meeting of Executive Council (EC) held yesterday after deferring it the last meeting held on December 31, 2012. On the one hand, the university has refused to give a copy of the report to the complainant before the EC takes a decision on the report, on the other, the authorities have been willfully ignoring to consider the report in the council meetings. An inquiry conducted by Bajaj into the allegations of sexual harassment by a student of the Mass Communication Department at Chaudhary Devi Lal University has found Sewa Singh Bajwa, an assistant professor in the department, guilty of moral turpitude. The inquiry report has also indicted another assistant professor of the university Amit Sangwan of sexually harassing the girl by his tacit consent to the seductive language used by Bajwa and the report has also held him guilty of getting signed a letter suggesting withdrawal of complaint by the girl to cover up his misconduct. Both Bajwa and Sangwan are already facing criminal trial under sections 294 (Obscene acts) and 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the IPC in a Sirsa court. Earlier, two parallel inquiries — one by the women complaint committee of the university and the other by the Protection Officer under the Domestic Violence Act — had also found the two teachers guilty of the girl's sexual harassment . The alleged incident pertains to April 6, 2010, when the victim went to Sangwan for finalisation of questionnaire for her dissertation. Bajwa, who was sitting with him, allegedly told her that she would have to "fulfil the desires of her guide" if she wanted her work to be done. Bajwa allegedly went to the extent of warning her that she would have to complete her studies next year when she disapproved of his conduct. She alleged Sangwan kept smirking during this conversation in his tacit support to Bajwa's words. The university listed the inquiry report for the EC meeting held on December 31, 2012. However, the matter was deferred for the next meeting. However, the university ignored to list the issue in its agenda for the EC meeting held yesterday. Registrar Manoj Siwach said only the Vice-Chancellor could answer this question. Vice-Chancellor ML Ranga said he was busy with interviews.
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Denial of Info to
ex-DGP in Recruitment Case Yoginder Gupta Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 31 Setting aside the CIC's order on the ground that the commission had exceeded its brief, Mr Justice Tejinder Singh Dhindsa directed the CIC to reconsider the case and decide it within six months. Malik had sought certain information from the CBI to find out how his name was included in the final report submitted by the agency before the trial court when his name had not figured in the FIR registered by the anti-corruption branch of the CBI at Chandigarh on June 19, 2006. Among the documents sought by Malik was a copy of the official case file of the CBI containing remarks/ opinions/observations/recommendations made by Vijay Shankar, IPS, the then Director, CBI, for making Malik as one of the accused in the police recruitment case. In this case originally, the then SP, GRP, Haryana, and others were made the accused. However, the SP, CBI anti-corruption branch, Chandigarh declined to give this information to Malik on June 6, 2009, on the ground that it might impede the prosecution and, therefore, it was exempted under Section 8(1)(h) of the Right to Information Act. The appellate authority (DIG, CBI, Chandigarh) allowed Malik’s appeal only partly. He ordered that a copy of the preliminary enquiry report should be supplied to Malik but rest of the information was declined. Malik moved the CIC, which upheld the contention of the CBI on January 12, 2011. Mr Justice Dhindsa said the CIC had disposed of Malik’s appeal on the assumption that it was within its jurisdiction to peruse the file notings of the case recorded at various levels beginning with the investigating officer (IO) up to the Director, CBI, and thereafter to take a view as to whether the decision to add Malik’s name as an accused was justified or not. “The CIC... was required to examine the validity of the order passed on July 8, 2009, by the DIG, CBI, Chandigarh,... and, accordingly, had to specifically determine whether the information sought and declined fell under any of the exemptions under Section 8 of the Act. The commission, on the other hand, has recorded observations to the effect that the apprehension of the petitioner that his name had been added arbitrarily at the highest level in the CBI is not borne out by a reading and appreciation of the file notings.” The judge said the commission had clearly exceeded its brief.
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Haryana’s share up in Rajnath team
Chandigarh, March 31 Capt Abhimanyu, who was a secretary in the outgoing team, has been promoted as a spokesperson of the party. Capt Abhimanyu, a business tycoon, is related to former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh . He has unsuccessfully contested from the Rohtak Lok Sabha constituency a number of times. Om Prakash Dhankar has been projected as the "farmer face" of the BJP. He has retained the presidentship of the BJP Kisan Morcha, the farmers' wing of the party. The new entrant from Haryana is former MP Sudha Yadav. Widow of a Kargil martyr, Sudha was brought into politics by the BJP in the 1999 Lok Sabha elections. She, however, failed to retain the Mahendragarh seat in the subsequent elections. She has been appointed a secretary in the Rajnath team. Sources say the RSS had been backing Sudha and her name has been included in the new team at the instance of the Sangh Parivar. Her inclusion in the national team is a sort of a setback for Haryana BJP president Ram Bilas Sharma. Sudha is considered to be anti-Sharma.
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CJ bats for village courts
Yamunanagar, March 31 The Chief Justice, who was here to inaugurate the extension blocks of two courts at the judicial complex of Jagadhari in the district, while speaking on the occasion said a number of courts were also being increased and this would reduce the number of cases with each judge from 2,000 to 800. He said the permanent legal literacy camps were being run in 1,500 schools and 2,700 paralegal volunteers were imparting free of cost knowledge regarding legal rights to people in the state. |
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Tributes paid to Surender Singh
Bhiwani, March 31 Kiran Choudhry, the former minister’s widow and Haryana Minister for Excise and Taxation and Public Health Engineering, their daughter and Bhiwani MP Shruti Choudhry, Surender Singh’s former close aide Chief Parliamentary Secretary Ram Kishan Fauji and several others paid tributes to Surender Singh. Earlier, Shruti Choudhry and Ram Kishan Fauji inaugurated an eye camp in memory of Surender Singh at Government Ram Kishan Jalan Eye Hospital in Bhiwani. As many as 135 patients underwent surgeries for removal of cataract in the camp. Shruti Choudhry and Ram Kishan Fauji announced grants of Rs 5 lakh and Rs 2 lakh, respectively, for the hospital.
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60 sacked Maruti staffers booked
Kaithal, March 31 Sushil Kumar, a local resident and owner of the plot where the employees had been sitting on fast, had lodged a complaint with the police station that his plot was under the possession of striking employees. He had asked them to vacate his plot but they refused. Meanwhile, the families of the dismissed Maruti employees and members of other employees' unions will organise a procession here tomorrow. |
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Residents of Madina village staged a blockade near the Chief Minister's residence here this evening, demanding immediate arrest of all those involved in the murder of two Dalits last evening.
Four youths allegedly molested a girl, an engineering student, near Camp Chowk in Hisar last evening and thrashed the girl's woman relative when she tried to stop them.
Ballabhgarh (Faridabad), March 31
