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Tribune News Service

Fatehgarh Sahib, April 8
Deputy Commissioner Yashveer Mahajan has issued an order under the Section 144 of the CrPC to impose ban on digging of wells to further deepen the tube wells without the prior written permission of XEN of the Water Supply and Sewerage Board.

These orders will remain in force till November 16. These orders have been issued to avoid the unfortunate incidents by which people lost their lives by falling into the wells.

Keeping in view the increase in number of accidents and deaths due to drowning in the canal and to prevent any untoward incident by the anti social elements, DC has banned the movement of vehicles on the banks of Bhakra canal in the district.

Similarly, Deputy Commissioner has directed the cyber café owners not to allow any one to use cyber café services without showing proper ID proof and registering their names in register. He has also directed the owners to save activity server log at main server for six month. He warned that if anyone found violating the orders would be punished as per law. 

Banur, April 8
One youth was killed and other sustained serious injures in a road accident on the Chandigarh-Banur highway today afternoon.

According to sources, this accident occurred when a car that was coming from Banur hit the motorcycle borne youths, who were coming from Zirakpur. Motorcycle borne youths were immediately rushed to GMCH, Sector 32, Chandigarh, where 25-year-old Gora Singh, a resident of Dhnksukalan, succumbed to his injuries and the other injured youth Amandeep Singh is under going treatment. The police has registered a case against the car driver. —OC

Kalka, April 8
Panic spread at Prempura village in Pinjore block when two children noticed two foetuses in village fields. The childreninformed other villagers that two foetuses were lying wrapped in an orange cloth.

The police said both the premature foetuses were of girls, three to four months old. A dog squad also inspected the spot. The police sent the two foetuses to the Kalka CHC for post-mortem and the DNA test would also be conducted on them. A case has been registered under Section 318 of IPC against unknown persons, said the police.

Patiala, April 8
A five-day workshop of the Indian European Research Networking in Social Sciences on the theme “Cyber bullying, pupil safety and well being” got underway at the Punjabi University campus today.

The workshop is being organised by the Department of Psychology. Emertius Prof Peter K Smith inaugurated the workshop. Dr Devinder Singh, Director Planning and Monitoring presided over the inaugural function of the workshop. In his inaugural address, Prof Peter K Smith said, “This is the first multilateral social science research collaboration that India has entered into. The networking projects will rationalise and economise Europe's efforts of engaging with India to produce high quality, high impact social science research addressing major global challenges, including economic growth and development, energy and climate change and health and well being.”

He said, “The first joint call announced under this India-Europe initiative in May 2011 resulted in six projects agreed for funding over a period of three years. The six projects awarded funding cover areas of growing social concern ranging from ageing and well being, bullying and pupil safety, globally accessible medicine to mapping the cultural authority of science and climate governance.” 

Fatehgarh Sahib, April 8
The district police has arrested three drug peddlers and recovered 2,300 intoxicant tablets and 1,500 capsules from their possession.

SSP HS Mann said anti-narcotic cell of the Fatehgarh Sahib Police during checking signalled a pillion rider to stop for but he tried to flee. Later, the police nabbed him and during checking recovered 1,000 intoxicant tablets and 750 capsules from his possession. He was identified as Parminder Singh alias Panju, a resident of Mandi Gobindgarh. He admitted that he used to supply tablets to the petty peddlers and drug addicts in rural areas. The Mulepur police has arrested Satwinder Singh alias Bhindi, a resident of Mulepur, and recovered 600 intoxicant tablets from his possession. The Fatehgarh Sahib Police has arrested Balram, a resident of Bhagrana village, and recovered 700 intoxicant tablets and 750 capsules from his possession. He told the police that he used to carry the consignment of peddlers. All the accused have been booked under the NDPS Act. 

Panchkula, April 8
A Panchkula court has issued warrants against former Punjab Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Gurcharan Singh Bhullar, his son Gursimranjit Singh Bhullar and his wife Manjeet Kaur Bhullar, in a fraud case. Interestingly, a fresh case under Section 420(fraud) has also been registered against his son Gursimranjit Singh at the Zirakpur police station, last night.

A copy of warrants issued. A Tribune photograph

Pradeep Kumar Kaushal, a resident of Sector 25, Panchkula, who owns a shuttering business, moved the court after he supplied shuttering to Bhullar Resorts, Zirakpur, and was duped of Rs 30 lakh by them.

In 2011, Kaushal had supplied shuttering to Bhullar Resorts. After repeated requests when he asked for the same back, Bhullar said that he had taken loan and the payment was under process. Later, Kaushal found that his shuttering was being sold by another resident of Sector 15, Panchkula. On being asked, the resident said that he had got it from the owners of Bhullar resorts.

In the meantime, Kaushal deposited two cheques given by the accused each of Rs 20 lakh and Rs 10 lakh, respectively, in the bank, but the cheques bounced and soon he realised that he had been duped.It was then he moved the court and warrants were issued against the three.

Yesterday, a case under Sections 406, 420 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was also registered by the Zirakpur police against Gursimranjit Singh Bhullar for duping a resident of Sector 10, Panchkula. The victim, Amrish Singla, said that he was duped of Rs 28, 13,741 lakh by Bhullar as he was not paid for the material supplied to Bhullar Resorts.

The victim said that a number of request letters were written to the former ADGP and frequent visits were made, but the latter threatened him of dire consequences.

Chandigarh, April 8
A 24-year-old LLB passout allegedly committed suicide by consuming a poisonous substance at her residence in Sector 38 yesterday. The victim, Mankiran, was under depression, the police said.

She had recently started training with an advocate in Sector 16. The police said the reason behind suicide was not known .—TNS 

Chandigarh, April 8
A shopkeeper, Sonu, was attacked by a group of youths over the issue of eve-teasing at Sector 20 late this evening. Sonu sustained multiple injuries and is admitted to the Sector-16 hospital. One of the accused is the owner of a prominent sweet shop in the Sector.

The incident occurred in the evening when Sonu objected to some youths standing in front of his shop and creating a ruckus.

He was then beaten up and also sustained injuries. The police has registered a case.

Chandigarh, April 8
Commuters at the Piccadily roundabout in Sector 35 were greeted with a pleasant surprise this evening as Kings XI Punjab Captain and former Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist came out on the road with Chandigarh Traffic police to spread the awareness on road safety.

The Kings XI Punjab skipper is in city ahead of his team’s IPL encounter with Chennai Super Kings on April 10. The cricketer spread awareness by giving pamphlets to commuters and also carried hoardings of road safety awareness.

However, the interaction with the public was brief, since a huge crowd gathered on seeing the Australian cricketer on road resulting in a traffic jam.

Later, Gilchist lauded the effort of the Chandigarh Traffic Police in creating road safety and said the roads of the city beautiful were very good and he would love to drive on those roads. 

Chandigarh, April 8
Ahead of their match on April 10, both team of Kings XI Punjab and Chennai Super Kings arrived in city beautiful, here today. The team of Chennai Super Kings landed the city in the absence of their skipper MS Dhoni as he is expected to join the squad tomorrow. 

While the King XI Punjab team returned home after defeating Pune Warriors, to play their first home-encounter at Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium, Mohali

Chandigarh, April 8
It seems that senior level soccer is dying in the city. Ironically, the Chandigarh Football Association has to organise any tournament for the senior category players, here.

In the absence of quality tournaments, the competition such as the ongoing 7-a-side tournament, organised by different groups of youngsters, is turning out of be the only platform for the local players, to showcase their talent and to stay in touch with the game. Many youngsters opt to play tournaments organised by rural committees in Punjab, in the absence of full fledged tournaments.

The recently held seven-a-side tournament witnessed almost 40 teams compromising 10 players each participated in the tournament. “A total of 400 players participated in the two-day event. Notably the tournament was not even recognised by any institution. But if these kinds of tournaments can attract so many player then why can't the local association make some efforts and organise better tournaments. During the last one year, no senior league was organised and even the sub-junior cup was sponsored by a cold-drink brand, while another junior cup was sponsored by a school”, said a coach seeking anonymity.

Interestingly the last senior category soccer tournament organised by the local association, was during the year 2011 and that too after a gap of three years. Thereafter in 2012 the association failed to organise any tournament. During the 2011 general meeting, it was also decided to introduce football tournament for financial institutions, corporations and corporate houses. The matches were expected to be held on holidays and weekends. But the plan could never be materialised.

“At present, the soccer in city has now been left only to the schools, state run academies and government offices. Apart from that there are no grass-root, junior, senior-level programmes or tournaments, organised by the association. The functioning of the association comes to light only during the selection of national teams. Other than this, there is no involvement of any kind for any activity”, said Prabhjot Singh, a player.

The authorities while releasing the annual calendar for 2008-09, had decided to include a tournament for the city colleges. The prize money for which was Rs 1 lakh. But even after 3 years, the authorities failed to organise any such tournament. The recently organised All India Football Federation (AIFF) Grassroot program for coaches and players also raised several eyes, when majority of PTI teachers instead of professional soccer coaches were asked to join the programme. But all the session of the programme were organised successfully by the head-coach of the seminar.

2012- Selected among probables of the 56th Lawn Tennis National Competition for Girls (U-17) in Pune; Won silver medal in 57th Lawn Tennis National Competition for Girls (U-17) in Delhi; Bronze medal in 57th Punjab State School Games for Girls (U-17) at Ropar; 2011- Silver medal in Punjab Women Tennis Tournament at Ludhiana; Gold medal in 2010-2011 national-level games at Chennai.

Chandigarh, April 8
Local billiards player Alok Kumar went down against world champion Rupesh Shah of Gujarat, in the final game of the 12th Asian Billiards Championship, played at the Indore Tennis Club, Indore Madhya Pradesh, today. 

Rupesh defeated Alok 6-4. Rupesh registered a first game win in the best of 11 final-match. Soon after, Alok recovered in the second game and leveled the match 1. But Rupesh bouned back by producing a 67 points break and advanced 2-1. Later, Alok with an unfinished break and won the next game. Follwoing this, Rupesh made three breaks of 101, 95 and 100 to leave Alok behind. Though Alok succeeded in the ninth game by producing a break of 76 points, Rupesh sealed the match in the last game.