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Man stabs cousin to death over property dispute
Driver shot at outside mall, robbed of vehicle
Union blocks train traffic for an hour
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Dental college authorities deny negligence in patient’s death
Amritsar, April 30 After the family of Rajesh (37) alleged that he died due to negligence on the part of the doctors, the college principal maintained that the patient had collapsed even before the treatment was initiated.
Staff crunch affecting work at college, say employees
Government Dental College and Hospital in Amritsar. A Tribune photograph
Suicide case: Victim's brother-in-law arrested
Day 2: Health Dept collects 25 food samples
District health officials during an inspection at a hotel in Amritsar on Tuesday. Photo: Sameer Sehgal
3 arrested with illicit liquor, drugs
Govt urged to grant relief package for terror victims
Dr BR Hastir (2nd from left), Chairman, All India Terrorist Victim Association, adresses mediapersons in Amritsar on Tuesday. Photo: Sameer Sehgal
Police still groping in the dark in teen’s kidnapping case
Comedian visits alma mater
Comedian Rajiv Thakur an alumnus of DAV College, Amritsar, being felicitated by the college staff upon his visit on Tuesday. A Tribune Photograph
‘Panghura’ gets a baby girl
Members of the District Red Cross with the baby girl child received at 'Panghura' at Amritsar on Tuesday. Photo: Sameer Sehgal
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Man stabs cousin to death over property dispute
Amritsar, April 30 Reports said the victim’s wife was also present on the spot at the time of the incident. The accused, Inderjit Singh, is the son of the deceased’s paternal uncle. He was handed over to the police by some people who caught hold of him after he committed the crime. The police also recovered the knife which was used in the crime. Reports said that Kewal Singh, his wife Sarbjit Kaur and Inderjit Singh boarded a bus at their native village Soian Khurd near here. When aboard the bus, they entered into an argument over the sale of a nine-marla ancestral plot in Soian Khurd. The plot in question was reportedly sold a few weeks ago and Inderjit resented that he was not given his share. Infuriated over this, Kewal requested the driver to let him sit on top of the bus. When the bus reached Mudhal village and took a brief halt at about 9.30 am, Inderjit dragged Kewal Singh from the bus top and stabbed him with a knife. Some of the onlookers nabbed the accused and informed the police. A police team led by SHO Jagdish Raj from the Verka police station reached the spot and took the accused in custody. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital where he was declared as brought dead. SHO Jagdish Raj said the property dispute was the prime reason behind this incident. “The accused has been taken into custody and a case has been registered under Section 302,”the SHO said. case file
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Driver shot at outside mall, robbed of vehicle
Amritsar, April 30 Preliminary investigations said Charanjit Singh was waiting in a Swift Dzire car (PB-02-BC-9085) at the gate of the mall for his owner who had gone inside for shopping. A few minutes later, two persons approached him and asked for his car keys. When he refused to handover the keys to them, one of the two took out a pistol and shot at his leg. They fled in the car thereafter. Despite being a busy place, not even the security staff deputed at the Mall gate noticed the incident. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP-City II) Amrik Singh Pawar said search was on to trace the culprits. "The driver was sitting in the car while listening to the music. The two youths in their mid twenties approached him and before he could understand their intentions, one of them took out the pistol and asked him to vacate the car. As the driver came out, the youth fired at his leg and sped away towards Jalandhar side in the same car," he said.
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Union blocks train traffic for an hour
Amritsar, April 30 Railway officials at the Amritsar railway station said train movement was disrupted for about an hour. They said it impacted the schedule of a couple of trains but the rail traffic was normalized after an hour. About five members of NRMU had sustained injuries on April 27 in a clash with members from another union Uttar Railway Mazdoor Union (URMU) at Ferozepur railway station.
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Dental college authorities deny negligence in patient’s death
Amritsar, April 30 Rajesh died yesterday at the Government Dental College after he was allegedly administered anaesthesia by doctors. Principal Dr Vimal Sikri said, "We have investigated the matter and it has come out that he suffered a cardiac arrest even before the treatment was initiated." He said the patient had come to the Department of Conservative Dentistry for filling of a dental cavity. Dr Sikri said they had provided the record of the treatment to the police which was investigating the matter. He said the police officials had decided to conduct post-mortem on the body to ascertain the exact cause of death. The deceased's brother Rakesh alleged that his brother had died after he was administered anaesthesia and the hospital had abandoned the body outside the Guru Nanak Dev Hospital. Dr Sikri said, "The doctors at hospital did their best to revive the patient. There is no truth in the allegation that the family was not informed." "The hospital staff looked for his attendant but there was none. He even did not have a mobile phone. Later, the employees found an Aadhaar card in his pocket," he said adding that the card did not have any address and the phone number mentioned on it belonged to o Delhi resident. Dr Sikri said the hospital employees called on the phone number who happened to be a relative of the deceased. "The man whom we called on the said phone number informed the family," said Dr Sikri.
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Staff crunch affecting work at college, say employees
Amritsar, April 30 The college has also enrolled 250 students in BDS and MDS courses. The college has 40 seats of BDS in a batch and 25 in MDS. Sources said even though the college had written to the government for filling 22 vacant posts of teaching staff, it had not served any purpose. The college has a sanctioned strength of about 36 members. The employees said there was a shortage of staff at non-teaching posts as well. Principal Dr Vimal Sikri said, "The matter is with the state government and we hope that new recruitment will be made soon." Even as the college authorities claimed that they were not letting the education of students suffer, students said faculty strength was essential. Some faculty members said delay in meetings of the Department Promotion Committee meetings had also "killed the chances of their reaching senior positions". Dr Sikri said in order to lower the stress on existing employees, the government needed to fill the vacant posts first. He said they had demanded a sanctioned strength of 60 faculty members.
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Suicide case: Victim's brother-in-law arrested
Amritsar, April 30 The accused has been identified as Satnam Singh Satta. The other three — Mesi, Amrik Singh and Joginder Kaur — all kin of the victim's wife are still absconding. Bikramjit Singh ended his life by hanging himself on the intervening night of April 27-28. His mother Amarjit Kaur had lodged a complaint at the Faizpura police station against her daughter-in-law Satti and her relatives. Investigating officer Satpal Singh said the allegations levelled by the victim's mother that Satti was already married and was had four children from her previous marriage were true. "This was concealed by her before marrying Bikramjit who came to know of the truth at a later stage. It appeared to be the prime reason of quarrel between them. We have arrested his brother-in-law. Others named in the FIR will be arrested soon. They all have been booked in a case of abetment to suicide," he said.
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Day 2: Health Dept collects 25 food samples
Amritsar, April 30 District Health Officer Dr Shivkaran Singh Kahlon said samples of sausages, wheat floor, gravies, curd, fruit cream, butter and fresh milk cream were collected. The department had collected 26 samples yesterday. Dr Kahlon said all the samples had been sent to food testing laboratory at Chandigarh and test reports would be received within two weeks. The department had busted an illegal noodle factory and a bakery operating in highly unhygienic conditions earlier this month, he said. In the month of March, the health officials had collected 55 samples of which 38 had failed on quality parameters. Dr Kahlon said the legal procedure against the shops whose samples had failed had been initiated. Dr Kahlon said in case of samples listed as sub-standard, the adjudicating officer can impose a fine of up to Rs 10 lakh on the guilty shop owners. He advised the general public to check date of manufacturing, date of expiry and batch number before buying any packed food item.
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3 arrested with illicit liquor, drugs
Amritsar, April 30 According to the information, the Sadar police arrested Babbu, wife of Tinku Masih, a resident of Mustafabad, for possessing 105 intoxicant capsules of Parvon Spas. The investigating officer Jatinder Singh said a case under Section 21/61/85 of the NDPS Act was registered against her. In the second instance, Seeta, a resident of Noori Mohalla, Bhaktanwala was arrested under Section 61/1/14 of the Excise act for possessing 49 bottles of illicit liquor. In the third instance, the Gate Hakima police arrested Gurpreet Singh, a resident of Bhai Veer Singh Colony and recovered 20 bottles of illicit liquor. A case under Section 61/1/14 of the Excise Act was registered against him.
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Govt urged to grant relief package for terror victims
Amritsar, April 30 Addressing a media conference here today, Dr Hastir said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had forwarded a letter to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in this regard in 2009. In return, the Prime Minister had replied that the communiqué had been forwarded to the Department of Home Affairs and rued that it had not released the file yet. He recalled that a delegation of terrorism victim families, led by Congress leader Shamsher Singh Dullo, had met the PM during his visit to Ludhiana on September 26, 2006. Dr Hastir said the PM had assured the delegation that a policy would be framed for the whole nation under which terrorism victims and riot victims would get equal compensation. He added that the cabinet, under the chairmanship of the Dr Manmohan Singh, had given approval to the policy of relief package on March 20, 2008. However, the implementation was decided to be wef April 1, 2008 due to which the victims of Punjab could not avail their legitimate relief package and other benefits as the terrorism period in Punjab has been marked between 01-08-1982 to 1995, the period from which the Punjab government started giving compensation. Dr Hastir said the Punjab Congress leadership ignored the demands of victims of terrorism of the state and the indifferent attitude made the Congress pay a heavy price during the 2007 and the 2012 Assembly Elections. “If the Punjab Congress leadership, especially of Majha region, is sensitive towards the innocent victims of terrorism then it should put in assiduous efforts for securing a relief package from the Union government”, he added. Among others, Gurbhej Singh Sandhu, general secretary of the association, Dr Narinder Kumar and patron Chander Shekhar Sharma were also present.
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Police still groping in the dark in teen’s kidnapping case
Amritsar, April 30 The police has booked three persons, including the truck driver, all residents of Tibber village in Gurdaspur, following a complaint submitted by the father of the victim, Shashi Pal, a resident of Himmatpura locality. Though Shashi, who runs a cloth stall, had reported the matter to the Gate Hakima police immediately after his son went missing, it took inordinate time to register an FIR in this connection and that too after the media highlighted the case. The accused were identified as Kulwinder Singh, the truck driver, Janak Raj and Shakuntala, all residents of Tibber village, Gurdaspur. Shashi said his son was sitting on the stall when he went missing. “After lunch when I retuned to my stall, I found my son missing. A person, who sells calendar adjoining to my stall, told me that a truck driver had taken the boy away. I immediately informed the police,” Shashi stated to the police. The police is now probing the kidnapping angle as the accused was related to the victim’s family. ADCP City-I, Shailender Singh Shelly said though the police has vital clues in the case, the investigations into the case were still on.
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Comedian visits alma mater
Amritsar, April 30 Students meet Sant Seechewal Students of Grade VIII of Cambridge International School returned after visiting Seechewal village, which came to limelight at national level after Sant Baba Seechewal contributed to environment conservation. The purpose of the visit was to make the students meet Sant Seechewal and know his achievements and future plans. A group of 80 students, accompanied by six teachers, went to the village. They interacted for about one and a half hour with Sant Seechewal. Sant Seechewal presented a memento and a painting of Kaali Bein and Guru Nanak Dev to the visiting groups of students. Maths quiz held for govt school students
Saragarhi Memorial Government Senior Secondary School, Mall Mandi, held a mathematics quiz for students of classes 6 to 8 of government schools falling in educational blocks 1,5 and 6 of the district. A three-member team from each school took part in the competition. Government Girls Secondary School, Mahna Singh Road, stood first , Government Girls Secondary School, Kot Baba Deep Singh, stood second and Government Girls Secondary School, Sultanwind Road, was placed third in block 1. Government High School, Valalh, Government Middle School, Qilla Jiwan Singh and Government Middle School, Nawa Pind, were the first, second and third in Amritsar-5 block. Government High School, Chattiwind, Government High School, Sharifpura and Government High School,
Varpal, stood first, second and third in Amritsar-6 block. All top teams of each block would meet at the district-level competition to be held on May 18, 2013.
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‘Panghura’ gets a baby girl
Amritsar, April 30 Kamal Rishi, wife of Improvement Trust Chairman Sandeep Rishi, who reached the place to see the child, said medical examination of the baby was conducted at a private hospital and she was found to be fit. The 'Panghura' has, since its inception in 2008, provided shelter to 66 children, 62 girls and 4 boys, she said. Children received at the institute are adopted by willing couples as per the legal procedures for adoption, she added.
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A 35-year-old man was stabbed to death by his cousin over some property dispute in full public view this morning near Mudhal village here.
The deceased has been identified as Kewal Singh of Soian Khurd village.
Members of the Northern Railway Men Union (NRMU) today blocked the rail traffic after they squatted on train tracks near Amritsar railway station. They were demanding arrest of persons who allegedly attacked and injured some of their members in a clash which took place two days back.
Amritsar, April 30
On the second day of the drive to check adulteration of food items, the Health Department today collected 25 food samples from four premier food joints and a few general stores. The food joints which were visited by the team include Hotel Ritz, Hotel Mohan International, Angreji Dhaba and Metro 42.
The chairman of All India Terrorist Victim Association Dr BR Hastir requested the recently appointed Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee
(PPCC) President, Partap Singh Bajwa, to impress upon the Congress-run Union government to release the relief package for terrorism victims and their families.
Comedian and TV artist Rajiv Thakur today visited his alma mater DAV College. He interacted with college vice-principal Prof Baldev
Sachdeva. He enjoyed his time here and also participated in various competitions at the college and university level, he said. It gave him opportunities to groom his acting and get plenty of exposure. On this occasion, vice-principal Prof Sachdeva felicitated Thakur with college memento.
District Red Cross Society managed 'Panghura' (cradle), the shelter for abandoned children, received a two-day-old baby girl at its doorsteps. The child was left at the cradle placed outside the institute.
Victim Kewal Singh (in picture) and his cousin Inderjit Singh, both from Soian Khurd village, had some dispute over the sale of an ancestral plot