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7-year jail for man in dowry case
Ambala, August 2 According to prosecution, Seema, wife of Paramjeet, had committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance on November 3, 2012. Her brother, Subhash Chander, in a complaint lodged with the Ambala police had said that Paramjeet and his sister had harassed Seema for not bringing fewer dowry.
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Accused acquitted
Panchkula, August 2 Even in the Jiya kidnapping, the court had mentioned that the police made shoddy investigations to help the accused escape the punishment. Ravinder had robbed a resident of Sector 7, Meenakshi Singla, after forcibly making entry into her car and keeping her two sons at gunpoint when she had come with her maid and driver buy a pizza in Sector 9. Manbir Singh Rathi, counsel of the accused said the witness from the police department at the time of recovery said that no such recovery pertaining to this case was made in front of him following which the accused was acquitted. The police had shown recovery from the in-laws house of Ravinder at Sector 4. Another shoddy investigation by the police came to the fore when no such FIR on the date of incident was mentioned in the police records, despite a complaint given by the victim in the Sector 10 police post. However after Ravinder’s arrest in January, the police registered a case saying that he confessed to this crime as well during his remand period. When contacted, Rajesh Singla, husband of the victim, said, “On the day of robbery, there were two accused but the police nabbed only one. I am dismayed that the police could not prove the case.” On September 26, 2011 Singla had gone to Dominoz Pizza outlet with her driver, maid and two sons. When her driver went inside to fetch the pizza, the two accused allegedly made entered forcibly in the car and took the children at gunpoint. Singla was told to hand over her diamond jewellery, including a bracelet and bangles and threatened to shoot her sons. The accused fled with the jewellery after seeing the driver approaching. Belonging to a well-off family, a graduate, Ravinder, owned many marriage palaces in Zirakpur which he sold off recently in order to invest in some lottery and gambling business. Ravinder, a father of two, puts up in Gurgaon but he was currently staying at his in-laws place in Sector 12, Panchkula, when he started committing the crime. In 2001, Ravinder had murdered his father due to the latter’s attempt of raping Ravinder’s cousin. Ravinder has reportedly acted in various TV serials. He has been awarded life imprisonment in Jiya and Arnav kidnappings in Panchkula. While Jiya, daughter of an owner of a city-based Platinum gymnasium, was kidnapped on October 20, 2009, one and a-half-year old Arnav, son of a businessman was kidnapped from outside his house in sector 7 Panchkula while he was playing in 2010.
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ruchika case
Chandigarh, August 2 The cases include
complaint filed by Ruchika’s brother Ashu Girhotra alleging harassment and implication in theft cases allegedly at Rathore’s behest. In his petition, Parkash has challenged the orders of the Panchkula CBI special court’s order rejecting his plea on the grounds that he had no locus standi in the case. Parkash argued he was a witness in the matter, but the CBI court did not consult him before accepting the closure report. Parkash also argued that Ashu was stripped and paraded handcuffed through the market, but the statement of key witness Vijay Dheer was not taken by the agency during their investigations. He has also claimed that Ruchika’s father and brother had expressed no objection against the closure reports under duress. The case is now fixed for hearing on August 19. The closure reports filed in November 2010 were accepted by the special CBI Judge on June 1, 2012, after Ruchika's father SC Girhotra and brother Ashu Girhotra, main complainants in both the cases, did not raise objection. In the first case, the father had alleged that after his daughter consumed poison on December 28, 1993, he was forced by Rathore to take her to the PGI hospital in Chandigarh and during the postmortem, the magistrate was not called by the police. In its report, the CBI claimed that the allegations could not be substantiated "as per the documentary evidence and oral testimony of witnesses". "The probe disclosed that Ruchika had consumed poison on the morning of December 28, 1993, at her home in Panchkula and that she was taken to the PGI hospital by Girhotra and his second wife Veena of their own," the closure report said. The CBI claimed that the victim was first taken to a nursing home at Sector 8 in Panchkula by her father and stepmother from where she was referred to the PGI as the general hospital in the area was undergoing construction. In the second case, Ruchika’s brother Ashu had claimed that false cases were slapped on him about auto-theft at the behest of Rathore. In its closure report, the CBI claimed to have found during investigation that his name had been revealed by one of his alleged accomplices, Sandeep
Verma.
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Frame policy against encroachments: HC to UT
Chandigarh, August 2 The Bench verbally observed in the open court that the UT Administration was acting leniently against encroachments in the grain market, and had failed to initiate steps for its removal since April 12, a previous date of the hearing. As the case came up for resumed hearing, Chandigarh's senior standing counsel Sanjay Kaushal informed the court that the market committee was an elected body and there was no administrative control over the committee. He further informed the Bench that the UT administration was in process of setting up a fruit and vegetable market in Sector 39. The court was further informed that the temporary encroachments have been removed from the grain market area in the past three months. The UT Estate Office has also carried a detailed survey and had identified illegal modifications, encroachments and violations in the grain market area. The case will now come up for next hearing on August 31. The High Court, on a previous date, had directed the Adviser to immediately convene a meeting for considering the feasibility of setting up another vegetable market in the city. The Bench had also directed Chandigarh Administration and the chairman of the market committee to look into the mess existing in the Sector 26 Grain Market. The Bench verbally observed in the open courtroom that “inspector raj” was required to be abolished; and it was essential to bring about transparency in permitting vegetable hawkers in Sector 26. The Bench also verbally questioned why markets were not being set up in other sectors as there was total market mafia in Sector 26. Referring to the traffic scenario, the court questioned why residents from far off Sectors were made to go to the Sector 26 market to buy grocery.
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High drama as Deshraj appears in court
Chandigarh, August 2 Balbir Singh, the retired colonel, told the CBI Judge that the SP was innocent and the CBI had wrongly booked him. He had also moved an application in this regard against the CBI and sent it by post, which was dismissed by the court today. The incident occurred at 10.30 am when Deshraj Singh, who is out on bail, appeared in the court. The retired colonel was already seated in the court and the moment the Judge took his seat and the hearing began, Balbir Singh told the Judge that the case was a farce and the officer had been falsely implicated while speaking against the investigating agency. The Judge reprimanded him and while dismissing his application, asked him what was his interest in the case. As the hearing of the case resumed, the copy of the chargesheet was provided to the defence counsel and the case was adjourned to August 16. SP Deshraj Singh was arrested on October 18 last year, while he was caught red handed by the CBI taking a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from Inspector Anokh Singh, SHO of the Sector 26 police station. He was granted bail in December. The bribe was being demanded as he had assured Anokh of clearing two departmental inquiries pending against him.
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Man gets 7-year jail for robbery
Panchkula, August 2 While seven years imprisonment has been awarded under Section 328, five years imprisonment under Sections 420 and 380 and one year imprisonment under Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was awarded by the court. A fine of Rs 4,000 has also been imposed on the accused. It was in January 2009 when the accused, posing as a businessman, called up Amritsar-based owners of a Jewellery shop saying that he wanted to open a showroom in Panchkula and for that purpose wants to buy 5 kg gold jewellery from them. The owners, Om Chander and Prakash Pandey, reached a flat in Sector 20 where the accused offered them juice laced with sedatives and robbed them. A case was registered at the local police station.
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2 acquitted in case of sexual assault
Chandigarh, August 2 The case was registered on March 7 at the Sector 19 police station when the victim and his friend used to stay in a room in Sector 21. The two had reported to the police that Rakesh, along with his accomplice, beat them up and also forcefully took them in their car towards Mohali where they were sodomised in a car. The two had then reported that they were thrown from a car. While one of the victims told the court that he jumped out of the car as he was in an inebriated state and was scared of the police at a check point, the other victim denied that he was even present in the car and thus turned hostile in court. As per the prosecution case, the accused was known to their landlord, who were upset as the two had refused to pay a huge amount of electricity bill and even refused to vacate the room. Rakesh then invited the two to their house and made them consume liquor. He then took them in their car and assaulted them and threw them out. The two were acquitted under Sections 342, 364, 377, 506 and 120 B of the IPC.
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PGI courier case
Chandigarh, August 2 The police has sent the sample to CFSL for verification of his signatures.The courier packet carrying confidential documents meant for Dr Samir Malhotra, Additional Professor in the same department, was reportedly missing and an a case of criminal breach of trust was registered in May this year. The statement of the courier boy, Brijesh Kumar, has landed the senior doctor in trouble. The courier boy stated that he had delivered two couriers, one each belonging to Dr Sameer and the other to the senior doctor in January this year. He also provided a copy of the receipt, which allegedly had the signatures of the senior doctor. — TNS
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Youth arrested on charges of extortion, blackmail
Chandigarh, August 2 The police said Sandeep had clicked objectionable pictures of the victim around a year ago and he had been extorting money from her in several installments. The accused was produced in the court and remanded in two days police custody. The woman, daughter of a city-based doctor into private practice, was doing a short-term computer course at a private institute in Sector 35 last year. While doing the course the woman came close to an instructor at the institute. The instructor, Sandeep Saveta, and the woman became friends last year after the woman joined the course. They often used to meet each other. While doing a course at Lovely Professional Institute at Jallandhar, she was staying in a hostel at
Jallandhar. The police said, one day Sandeep took her to a hotel in Sector 22 last
year in August. The woman alleged that she was served a drink laced with some intoxicant following which she lost consciousness. The police said Sandeep allegedly clicked objectionable pictures and videographed her in the hotel room and uploaded her pictures on you tube and another porn site. When the woman noticed her pictures on the net she contacted Sandeep, who in turn starting blackmailing her. The woman said Sandeep started threatening and even asked her for her. The woman then informed her parents who also lodged a complaint with Punjab Cyber Cell. Sandeep then stopped making calls to her. In his complaint to the police, the victim’s father alleged that the accused started making extortion calls on his daughter’s cellphone and threatened her that if she did not pay, her pictures would be uploaded on
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Mohali, August 2 The mother of the girl told the police that her son had come home around 8 p.m. yesterday after which he started looking for Manisha. When she did not respond to his calls he went to her room and found the door bolted from the inside. On breaking open the door, they saw her body. The police was informed in this regard. Her body was later sent to the Civil Hospital for a post mortem examination by the police. The mother said that her daughter used to remain depressed. — TNS
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Suspect may have fled to Nepal: DCP
Hina Rohtaki Tribune News Service
Panchkula, August 2 The police investigations revealed that the murder was done by the victim’s husband, Suraj Bahadur, a Nepalese criminal. “To expatriate a criminal from another country is a very tedious task as an extradition pact is involved. Even if we coordinate with the police of another country or serve notices, the process to hand over the criminal by the other police is very hassle some,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Ashwin Shenvi. He said, “Alerts on various railway stations, bus stands and airports have been made. We are making all possible efforts to nab him in the country itself.” “Teams have been dispatched to various places in the country,” he said. The accused, Suraj Bahadur, has not even visited his work place ever since the murder. Bahadur was working as a mason in Himachal Pradesh. “Whenever an accused commits any crime, he has a tendency to flee to his native place. We think Bahadur has fled to Nepal,” said another police official. It was yesterday when bodies of Kiran (29) and her daughter Komal were found lying in the box of a bed and the house was locked from outside.
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Six cases of theft reported from city
Chandigarh, August 2 Sandeep Kapoor of Hoshiarpur suspected that some residents of Sector 23 stole a camera from his house in sector 23. DK Aggarwal of Sector 27 D reported that someone had stolen his Maruti car (HP-051-0851) from near Sagar Ratna Restaurant, Sector 17, on August 1. A woman resident of Sector 19 alleged that her servant stole two diamond bangles and one diamond ring from her residence. Surinder Pal Singh of Sector-33 C reported that someone had stolen his Indica Car (CH-03Z-5618) from near his residence on July 29. Rajinder Singh of Sector 23 D reported that someone had stolen his scooter (CH-03H-696) from Sector 22 D market on July 29. The police has registered separate cases of theft under Sections 379 and 380 of the IPC.
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Manav Mangal School gymnasts bring laurels
Panchkula, August 2 The competitions were organised by the District Education Department, Panchkula. As many as 135 gymnasts showcased their talent from different schools of Panchkula in the past two days. In this tournament, 22 gymnasts of Manav Mangal School participated, out of which 19 have been selected for the Haryana State School Games going to be held in Ambala in October, 2013. In the girls section Shruti in Under-14 category and Diksha in Under-17 category were declared all round best gymnasts. |
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Cricket trials today
Panchkula, August 2 The aspiring cricketers must register themselves with the association at venue of selection at least 15 minutes earlier than the scheduled time on deposit of Rs 500 as fee with Jaswinder Singh joint secretary of the association and must come in white kit. Sandeep Moudgil, honorary secretary of the association said the selected players will participate in the Haryana State Inter-District Cricket Championship for Pataudi Trophy organised by the Haryana Cricket Association, on August 4. In the opening match, Panchkula will take on Ambala at JR Institute of Cricket Technology Barwala (Panchkula) in a 40-over match. |
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Football tournament
Chandigarh, August 2 All the matches of the Sandeep Bangia Memeorial Six-a Side Football Tournament will be held at football ground of St John’s High School from August 3 to 4.
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