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Two Panipat villages to boycott poll
My disproportionate assets worth less than my income: Chautala
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Haryana’S shame
Man held for raping neighbour for 7 years
Woman’s body found
Narnaul DC told to decide statue case
3,300 boxes of liquor seized
Cash for votes biggest challenge for authorities
Post-retirement rehabilitation policy hits roadblock
DHBVN offers out-of-court settlement
Expedite filling of police vacancies: CM
Farmers burn CM’s effigies
Bishnoi meets Murli Manohar Joshi
Bodybuilding official takes a dig at BCCI chief over IPL
Fasting farmers' leader shifted to hospital
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1,683 candidates in the fray for 7 MCs
Chandigarh, May 31 Sources said 1,683 canidates were in the fray for the poll being contested by the INLD and the BJP on their party symbols. As many as 120 BJP candidates, 140 from the INLD, four from the CPM and three from the NCP are contesting on their respective party symbols. The sources said seven wards were reserved for women, including one ward for SC, in the six municipal corporations of Ambala, Yamunanagar, Karnal, Panchkula, Hisar and Rohtak while eight wards have been reserved for women, including two wards for SC women candidates in the Panipat Municipal Corporation. The total number of voters in the seven MCs is 17,03,565, including 9,16,580 male and 7,86,985 female voters with the Ambala MC having the highest number of 2,71,798 voters (1,44,825 males and 1,27,173 female voters) while the Karnal MC has the lowest at 2,08,794 voters (1,11,102 male and 97,692 female voters). The male voters exceed female voters by 1,29,595. Sources said Ambala would have the highest number of 275 booths, followed by Yamunanagar (246), Rohtak (238), Panipat (2340, Panchkula (230), Karnal (206) and Hisar (196). Elaborate security arrangements have been made to ensure a free and fair poll. Election expenditure observers are keeping a strict vigil on the expenditure spending on poll related activity. The MC elections are considered to be the virtual semi-final among different parties ahead of the Lok Sabha elections next year . Meanwhile, the government and semi-government establishments will remain closed on June 2 in Panchkula, Ambala, Yamunanagar, Karnal, Panipat, Rohtak and Hisar on account of elections. Factory workers will also be allowed a holiday on that day.
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Two Panipat villages to boycott poll
Panipat, May 31 The electorates of these villages are apprehensive that the rural character of their villages would be diluted and about 100 acres of land under pastures, village common land and village pond would be put to commercial use, urban taxes would be levied on them and restrictions would be imposed on vocations like dairy farming, affecting their livelihood, Gopal Dass, a villager said adding that even for organising village functions and construction of houses, MC permission would be required. Residents of Shimla Maulana and Nizampur villages with 835 and 810 votes rued that they had been fighting for exclusion of their villages from the MC area since 2010 when the panchayat was abolished. Despite representations to the Chief Minister, MP Arvind Sharma and the Deputy Commissioner, nothing was done to address the issue and the villagers were forced to adopt the path of protest and confrontation. Meanwhile, 318 candidates are vying for 24 wards in Panipat and 239 for 20 wards in Karnal. Security forces have been deployed at polling booths. Additional forces have been deployed at sensitive polling booths. Prohibitory orders have been issued barring assembly of more than five people within 200 metres distance from polling booths and sale of liquor has been banned. Ambala: In most of the MC wards, the local issues, including roads, sewerage and water supply dominated the campaign and voters felt impressed with the candidates promising resolution of these problems at the earliest. However, the issue of conversion of leased land in the Sadar area to free-hold plots, which has been hanging fire, also proved to be a major game-changer in the MC elections. All candidates, irrespective of their party lines, promised that if voted to power the matter would be settled in the best interest of local people.
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My disproportionate assets worth less than my income: Chautala
Gurgaon, May 31 Addressing a press conference at Medanta hospital here today, Chautala said even the CBI/ED findings indicated that the allegations against him were exaggerated. “The complaint lodged against me at the behest of the state Congress leadership maintained that I owned assets worth nearly Rs 1,467 crore. However, as per the submission of the investigating agencies, the investigations/assessment carried out under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) showed that I had acquired disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 6.09 crore beyond my known sources of income,” he maintained. The INLD leader asserted that his own income was more than Rs 6 crore on which he duly paid income tax. Chautala claimed that his Gurgaon flat attached by the ED authorities was the only property he owned in Haryana, apart from his ancestral property. “I bought this flat in a housing society meant for people’s representatives during my tenure as Chief Minister…Many houses in the society are owned by several MLAs and MPs of Haryana, including those owing allegiance to the Congress,” he pointed out. The former Chief Minister further maintained that attaching a property by the ED was a routine procedure in such cases, but the ruling Congress was trying to project him as a big criminal in the garb of this. He appealed to newsmen to exercise restraint in reporting such sensitive matters and verify the facts before publishing/airing news. Regarding state politics, the INLD leader said they were open to enter into an alliance with the BJP or any political party in order to keep the Congress away from power.
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Minor gang-raped in Fatehabad
Tribune Reporters
Fatehabad, May 31 The victim, who had come to meet her sister, was allegedly taken away by the four accused, all from Raipur Dhani, on a motorcycle. They took the girl to a tubewell in the agriculture fields, where the four raped her. Later, they threw the girl in an unconscious condition near a temple at Ayalki village. The family members of the girl took her to the Sadar police station from Ayalki. The police is in the process of getting the girl medically examined for verifying the allegations of rape. The police said a case of kidnapping had been registered against the four youths. Appropriate sections of gang rape would be included, if the medical examination confirms the rape. In another case, a girl was raped by a youth after drugging her at Shakti Nagar in Fatehabad. The girl has alleged that the accused, Virender, had been raping her for the past three years with a promise of marriage. She distanced herself from him after she came to know that he did not mean his promise. On May 26, the accused had gone to the victim’s house and offered her some drink and raped her after she fell unconscious. When her mother protested against Virender’s action, she was beaten up by him. She was shifted to the local General Hospital in an unconscious condition where doctors discharged her the next day. The police said a case had been registered and they were investigating the matter. Mother, relative booked for rape
Rewari: A student of Class X had committed suicide by hanging herself in Saini Mohalla at Dharuhera on Monday. According to a postmortem report that was conducted by a board of doctors at the Community Health Centre (CHC) at Bawal on Tuesday that the girl had been raped before her suicidal death. The Dharuhera police has registered a case against a distant relative of the victim, Pawan Kumar (23), and the victim’s mother, Geeta Devi (35), on a complaint filed by the deceased’s grandfather, Jaswant Singh. While the police has recovered a suicide note from Geeta Devi’s house, it has also taken Pawan into custody for interrogation. Police sources said apparently Pawan, who had seemingly illicit relations with the girl’s mother, raped the girl with her mother’s collusion after which the girl committed suicide for fear of social stigma. The police said an answersheet of the victim’s Class IX annual exams obtained from the school authorities and the suicide note were being sent to a forensic lab in Karnal to ascertain the factual position whether it was written by the victim or someone else. Uncle rapes minor
Sonepat: A man raped his minor niece at her residence at Gohana on Wednesday night. After medical examinations of both accused and the victim at the local Civil Hospital, a case has been registered against the victim's maternal uncle, Sanjay, a resident of Gannaur. The girl alleged that while the accused and her father were sleeping on the terrace, she was sleeping on the ground floor. During the night, Sanjay, who was under the influence of liquor, came down and raped her.The police has arrested the accused. Rape attempt
Gurgaon: Two groups of Kherki Daula clashed over property on Friday following which woman from one group accused two members of the other of attempting to rape her. The victim claimed that Pradeep and Narender entered her house and tried to rape her but she managed to flee. An FIR has been registered |
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Man held for raping neighbour for 7 years
Gurgaon, May 31 The victim said Raj Kumar, who is a taxi driver and her neighbour, first raped her when she was 13 and threatened to kill her. She said, “He has been raping me for the past seven years. I had expected things to change when I got married last year. He forced his way into my house yesterday when my husband had gone out and raped me.” The victim confided in her husband and mother today, who took her to the police. The accused has been sent in judicial custody. |
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Woman’s body found
Sonepat, May 31 Daljit Singh strangulated her wife in his flat on May 15 after some altercation between the two. He dumped her body in a sewer line near Jatheri on May 16, then he called up his step son Jasdeep at Amritsar that his mother had gone to Amritsar to meet him. Jasdeep lodged a missing report of her mother at a Amritsar police station on May 19. During investigations by the Amritsar police and the Kundli police, Daljit Singh confessed his involvement in the murder. Later, Kiranji’s body was recovered from the sewer line. A case of murder has been registered against him.
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Narnaul DC told to decide statue case
Chandigarh, May 31 The deadline came during the hearing of a petition by Ajay Yadav. He was seeking the removal of a statue from the Singhana-Nizampur t-Point in Narnaul. The petitioner submitted the statue has been unauthorisedly installed by an NGO without permission from the Municipal Council. The NGO committed a fraud by fixing a plaque on the statute which falsely read it had been inaugurated by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. |
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Karnal, May 31 Police sources said the liquor boxes seized from the four canters were apparently being transported from Ambala to Delhi. Out of the total 3,300 boxes containing 39,600 bottles, 1,880 boxes were of country-made liquor while 1,500 boxes were of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL). The accused were identified as Rupinder, Ved Prakash, Rameshwar and Ashok. —TNS
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Cash for votes biggest challenge for authorities
Hisar, May 31 Money has been playing a vital role during the elections in Patel Nagar Camp, Mill Gate area, Padav area, 12 Quarter area and some other outer colonies of the town in the elections held in recent times. As the post of Mayor in the Hisar Municipal Corporation is reserved for women, the seven wards reserved for women have been witnessing the fiercest electoral battle in these elections. Stakes being high in the wards reserved for women, the chances of purchase of votes is more in these wards. Sources said some candidates had already started poaching on voters in their respective wards by lucrative offers. While a candidate is offering Rs 1,500 per vote, another is offering a bag of wheat along with Rs 1,000, the sources said. However, a resident of the Mill Gate area said hardly two per cent of voters, even from the areas notorious for selling votes, actually sell their votes for money. “In most cases, the money supplied by the candidates or their poll managers goes to the pockets of touts, who become self-styled contractors for the rest of the voters of their respective mohallas,” he claimed. Meanwhile, the police has arrested three persons and recovered illicit liquor from them last evening. The police said the liquor recovered by the police was meant for distribution among voters for the poll.
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Post-retirement rehabilitation policy hits roadblock
Chandigarh, May 31 “The re-employment of officials after retirement should not be allowed as a matter of routine but only in very exceptional circumstances,” the latter stated. A substantial number of bureaucrats, technocrats and middle-rung staff retiring in recent years had been rewarded by the state government with plum postings after superannuation. While on the one hand such appointments put a substantial burden on the state exchequer, on the other they block the chances of unemployed youth to get government jobs. This is more so as the post of the retired official being appointed is treated within the sanctioned posts in the cadre concerned. Currently, in the case of re-employed retired persons, the Finance Department has two options. One, a new post is created for the retired person. Second, an exisiting post vacated by the retired person(to be re-employed) is utilised by the retired person. “Now in exceptional cases, the Finance Department has opted for the second option since re-employment in every cases would involve creation of additional posts causing unnecessary burden on the state exchequer,” the letter said.
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DHBVN offers out-of-court settlement
Hisar, May 31 VK Chaudhary, Director, DHBVN, said the scheme would remain in operation till July 31 and would be available for settlement of all cases of consumers pending in courts, District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, State Commission and Arbitration as on February 28. He said all such disputes where penalties had been levied could be settled under the scheme provided the consumer pays a reduced amount of 50 per cent of the amount initially assessed, along with a simple interest @12 per cent per annum on the unpaid balance amount of the reduced amount. In theft cases, the scheme would be available only if the theft case is booked for the first time. In such cases, the full amount of compounding charges along with 50 per cent of the assessed amount along with a simple interest @ 12 per cent per annum shall be charged. However, the scheme will not be applicable where the dispute is on account of applicability of the multiplying factor wherein the amount calculated as per the multiplying factor shall be charged fully along with a simple interest @12 per cent instead of surcharge. The scheme would not be applicable to the cases where the consumer had made 100 per cent payment. New scheme for
shifting dhanis
Chandigarh: In compliance with the announcement made by Power Minister Ajay Singh Yadav in the Vidhan Sabha during the last session, the DHBVN and the UHBVN have revised the scheme for shifting dhanis (hamlets) from agriculture
feeders to rural domestic feeders. Devender Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, DHBVN and UHBVN, said the total expenditure of shifting dhanis from agriculture feeders to the rural feeders would be borne in the proportion of 50 per cent, 22.5 per cent, 22.5 per cent and 5 per cent by the discoms, MLA/MP, the state government and the consumer, respectively. The CMD said the consumers could also opt for self-execution as per guidelines of the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission and would have to deposit 1.5 per cent of the estimated
cost as supervision charges. In that case, the transformer would be provided by the nigams State supplied 30% extra power
Chandigarh: Chairman and Managing Director of the UHBVN and DHBVN Devender Singh said the discoms supplied about 30 per cent extra electricity to consumers in the state during the past 14 days as compared to the corresponding period the last year. He said the state had already arranged sufficient electricity to meet the requirement of consumers during the summer and ensuing paddy season. At present, the state power utilities had to resort to shut down in unit numbers 1,2,3 and 4 of the Panipat thermal power plant of 110 MW each as the discoms had planned and prepared for sufficient and adequate power keeping in view anticipated load growth on the higher side.These units wouldl be made operational as per requirement and as per merit order. Singh specifically stated that the electricity was being supplied over and above the scheduled supply or power regulatory measure schedule. There was a zero power cut in the state on Wednesday so far as the power regulatory measures are concerned. Against a schedule of supplying electricity to rural domestic consumers for 14 hours daily, the electricity was supplied for about 14 hours 20 minutes on May 29. Similarly, the electricity was supplied for 8 hours 30 minutes to agricultural tubewell consumers, 23 hours 28 minutes to industrial and 23 hours 18 minutes to urban domestic consumers in the state against the scheduled time of 8 hours, 20 hours 30 minutes and 2 hours respectively. |
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Expedite filling of police vacancies: CM
Chandigarh, May 31 Hooda was presiding over the second meeting of the board. The law and order and crime situation was reviewed. Policy matters including finalisation of the Haryana Police Rules and filling vacant posts at all levels were also discussed. It was decided that a suitable building for the Haryana Police headquarters would be built in Chandigarh and the UT Administration would be approached for a suitable piece of land. Installing CCTV surveillance cameras at important locations frequented by the public was reviewed. He said the committee set up under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary which included as members the Home Secretary, the Director-General of Police and the Principal Secretary for Information Technology should meet immediately and take further steps regarding the installation. It was decided to constitute special teams with professional skills to detect and investigate cyber crimes in view of the extensive use of information technology gadgets and the increase in incidents of cyber crimes, including tampering, intrusion, hacking and morphing. He said the help of major information technology companies based in Gurgaon would be taken to buttress the efforts of these special teams which would be stationed in Gurgaon to provide the service statewide.
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Farmers burn CM’s effigies
Kurukshetra, May 31 They were demanding wheat bonus of Rs 300 per quintal and a compensation Rs 25,000 per acre in case of crop damage. BKU president Gurnam Singh said the government was purchasing wheat at the rate of Rs 1,350 per quintal against its growth cost of Rs 1,613 per quintal as per the government figures. The Chhattisgarh government is granting wheat bonus at the rate of Rs 270 per quintal, while the Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh governments are granting wheat bonus at the rate of Rs 150 per quintal each, he added. |
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Bishnoi meets Murli Manohar Joshi
Hisar, May 31 “All Big Six of the BJP have made it absolutely clear during my meetings that the BJP-HJC alliance in Haryana is on a firm footing,” Bishnoi told The Tribune on the telephone. “I drew their attention to the fact that no member of the Chautala clan or no INLD leader has been able to win a parliamentary election after Devi Lal's death . I have also brought to their notice that Chautala’s elder son, Ajay Singh Chautala, has scored a hat-trick of defeats in the parliamentary poll in 2004, 2009 and the Hisar parliamentary byelection in 2011,” he said. Asked whether he wanted to see Modi as the PM after the 2014 elections, Bishnoi said he would back anyone whom the BJP decided to field as its PM candidate.
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Bodybuilding official takes a dig at BCCI chief over IPL
Rewari, May 31 Taking a dig at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president amid the controversy, Swami said it was strange that all other sports organisations were under the ambit of the Union Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs while the BCCI had been functioning independently. Stating that the Olympic committee had not accorded recognition to cricket, he alleged that cricket mandarins had commercialised cricket on a vast scale. He urged Union Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs Jitendra Singh to ensure that cricket was brought under the ministry and rules and regulations for other sports organisations were made applicable to the BCCI and cricketers as well.
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The stage is set for the June 2 elections to the seven Municipal Corporations (MCs) of Ambala, Panchkula, Karnal, Panipat, Hisar, Rohtak and
Yamunanagar.
Gurgaon, May 31
