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Girl’s alleged rape, murder trigger violence in Jind
Policemen beat up a protester in Jind on Sunday.
Photo: Manoj Dhaka
Tempers flare up at Cong
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Villagers want CRPF unit shifted from school
Only 2 teachers run
Jagadhri school
A class without a teacher in the government school at Kail village in Yamunanagar. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
Panic of Kala Kachha gang grips Sirsa, Fatehabad
28 pc cotton crop under whitefly attack
Crop failure: Farmers block highway
Farmers sit on the Delhi-Hisar highway in Mayyar village on Sunday. Tribune photo
Public meeting in Mann’s memory
(From left) MP Naveen Jindal, State PWD Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala and MP Deepender Singh Hooda during a meeting in Kalayat on Sunday. Photo: Satish Seth
Residents protest against disrupted power, water supply
Funds for Ambala shifted to other districts: BJP
667 bottles of cough syrup seized
Villager shot at for seeking info under RTI
Health Mela organised
Boy healthy after liver transplant
Student booked for classmate’s rape
Petrol station looted at gunpoint
Ex-servicemen raise demands at HPCC meeting
MC notice to builders
3 booked for dowry
2 held for murder
Woman commits suicide
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Girl’s alleged rape, murder trigger violence in Jind
Jind, August 25 According to reports, her relatives and residents of Baniakhera village assembled at the local Civil Hospital after they came to know that the body of a 19-year-old girl hailing from the village had been found. She was pursuing JBT course and had gone to an institution at Kinana village to appear for a test on Saturday, but failed to return to her home. As the family members started the search last evening, they were told that the body of the girl had been lying in a field adjoining the Hansi branch canal near Amarheri village. While it was suspected that she could have been raped before she was “murdered” and was dumped on the spot, this news spread like wildfire, resulting in a large number of persons reaching the hospital, where the body was kept for post-mortem. “We tried to persuade the kin of the victim that a post-mortem examination would be conducted by a board of doctors as per their demand, but a group of enraged youths took the body of the girl to the main road, outside the main bus stand, and started the protest, blocking the traffic’’, claimed DSP Headquarters, Adarshjit Singh. He said as the protest soon turned violent and the protesters started damaging the buses, the police had to resort to cane charge. He claimed that while 25 buses had been damaged, no one was seriously hurt in the lathi-charge. Though the protesters alleged that the girl had been “raped” before the murder, police officials said they were ready to get the medical and post-mortem examination conducted as per their wish, but before this could be started, the protesters resorted to violence. The police has registered a case in this connection, but no arrest has been made so far.
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Tempers flare up at Cong
meeting
So much was the tension in the “warring” Congress in Jind, the stronghold of Rajya Sabha MP and dissident leader Birender Singh, that the police had to be called in to bring situation under control. Sources said trouble began soon after the workers gave a rousing welcome to Mullana and Asha Kumari. When District Congress chief Jasbir Deswal, considered close to Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, stood up to make a welcome speech, he was booed by Birender’s supporters who insisted that only Mullana and Asha Kumari would be allowed to speak. Even Mullana could not address the gathering as a slogan-raising match between supporters of the two camps began. Sources said as soon as Mullana took to the stage, a worker of the Chief Minister’s camp raised a pro-Hooda slogan after which Birender’s supporters raised the pitch with pro-Birender Singh slogans. Mullana, too, was at the receiving end after both camps paid no heed to any appeals to let him speak and even hooted him even as unruly scenes were witnessed. Only Asha Kumari could have her say. She conveyed Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s messages of strengthening the party. Meanwhile, the police was also called in to control the workers who indulged in anti-Hooda slogans outside the venue. The supporters of Birender are learnt to have given a complete picture of “discrimination and step-motherly treatment” with Jind being meted out by the Haryana Government and complained that no big project or basic facilities were coming to the district, highlighting their disillusionment with the government. At another meeting at Panipat local MLA Balbir Pal Shah and his supporters stayed away from the meeting while many others nursed the grouse that they had not been informed of the meeting, sources said. The workers claimed that there was a lot of resentment among them since the government had failed in realising their aspirations. Sources said the workers also rued that neither local MLAs nor ministers gave them time or addressed their grievances. Some workers also raised the issue of Shah’s absence. Secy upset
Asha Kumari said she had asked the district chief to submit a report on those who were raising anti-Hooda slogans at the venue. She said,“The District Congress chief had claimed that the people who were not supposed to be at the meeting had made their entry in the hall. What troubled me was that a group of people indulged in anti-Hooda slogans outside. |
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Villagers want CRPF unit shifted from school
Hisar, August 25 The villagers said they would have to stop sending their wards to the school if the unit was not moved from the place. The police had not only occupied a major portion of the building, but were also a major distraction for the students. The All Caste Peace Committee of the village decided to call on the district authorities at Hisar on Tuesday in this regard. The government has deployed a unit of the Paramilitary Force in the village following violence on the Dalit community here. A unit of the CRPF was thereafter deployed in the village in January 2011 that stationed at the government school of the village. The cops have been occupying the new building, leaving the old portion for the children. Though no one could object to it at that time, the school authorities later realised that the presence of around 125 odd cops on the school premises was uncalled for and disturbed the atmosphere of the school. Chander Prakash, a member of the village peace committee, which has been working to restore peace and caste harmony after the violence, told The Tribune that teaching and learning was not possible in the presence of cops. “Parents have showed their resentment over this issue. We had taken up the matter with senior police officials earlier also,” he said, adding that they wanted the cops to shift to another building. Principal Sawroop Singh said he had written to the education authorities about the problem several times. “The village has a strength of 275 students. They belong to all the communities. For three years, we have been facing hardships due to lack of space as well as disturbance due to the presence of cops. The students and teachers will be able to concentrate on studies only when they are shifted to another building in the village,” he added. |
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Only 2 teachers run
Jagadhri school
Yamunanagar, August 25 The only class that is held in all seriousness at the school is that by a Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) volunteer, Sarita. She not only teaches the three mentally challenged children, for which she has been especially appointed for, but also takes Hindi classes. Muskaan, a student, said, “We don’t have any teacher for the three tough subjects in the school for almost a year-and-a-half. Learning English and maths is difficult without a teacher. While some students take private tuitions for these subjects, others do what they can on their own.” While her class is busy reading a chapter, junior classes that take place on the other side of the room, revise their lesson, making noise. The two teachers, a Hindi teacher and a drawing teacher, finally, make an appearance in the corridor, claiming they were busy with wrapping up the mid-day meal in the kitchenette. They maintain that in the absence of teachers for maths and English, it becomes difficult for them to keep the students occupied through the day. Claiming that the standard of Hindi in the school is also very poor, one of the teachers explained, “An SSA volunteer is taking classes of three mentally challenged children. To improve the standard of learning among our students, we make them sit in the same class.” Despite the ‘missing’ teachers, Reena, a class VIII student, has different concerns. She wants her school upgraded to the secondary level. Her worry is that the nearest senior school is over four kilometres away, which may force her to discontinue her studies. Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal said the department had initiated the process of rationalisation. “The new appointments have not been made because of a court case. As a stop-gap arrangement, our teachers are taking classes for three days in one school and the rest of the week in another. We will look into this and see what can be done,” she said. |
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Panic of Kala Kachha gang grips Sirsa, Fatehabad
Sirsa, August 25 Today, villagers beat up five to six strangers near Bighar village in Fatehabad when they were roaming near a canal in the broad daylight. When a police party tried to rescue them, hundreds of villagers surrounded the police vehicle and they were refusing to let the police take away the strangers, whom they suspected were members of the gang. “I am on my way to Bighar and will be able to tell the matter only after accessing the situation,” said Shamsher Singh Dahiya, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Headquarters), Fatehabad. This has become the story of almost every village in Sirsa and Fatehabad, where panic stricken people stand guards around their villages and attack whenever they see a stranger. Fearing the possibility of panicky villagers lynching some stranger, Sirsa Deputy Commissioner Dr J Ganesan has ordered a round-the-clock guard by able bodied youths on turn basis.“The police has clarified several times that Kala Kachha Gang is not active in Sirsa. It is a rumour that possibly originated from Punjab and then spread in Sirsa via Fatehabad,” said Saurabh Singh, SSP, Sirsa. Fatehabad SP Shiv Charan Attrey has also issued a similar appeal to residents, who, however, come with a new imaginary incident of attack by the gang every day. Interestingly, not a single case of attack by the gang has been reported to the police so far.
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28 pc cotton crop under whitefly attack
Sirsa, August 25 The impact of the attack is visible in all major cotton-producing districts of Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar and Jind, though the disease is relatively under control in Bhiwani. Experts said it would adversely affect the total production of cotton in Haryana this year. “I used all pesticides as recommended by experts and still my crop has suffered badly this year,” said Gurdial Mehta, a farmer from Panjuana village in Sirsa. Labh Chand of Ahlisadar in Fatehabad said though the insects hit their crop almost every year, their attack is more harmful this year. “The disease is more pronounced in fields where the farmers have not been able to use the pesticide intelligently and is under control where they have adopted integrated techniques,” said Dr RK Saini, Head, Entomology Department of the CCSHAU. Whitefly damages crops in three different ways, as per agriculture experts. Firstly, the insect sucks juice from the underside of cotton leaves, thus hampering the growth of plants. Secondly, as these whiteflies suck leaves, they secrete the excessive juice in the shape of sticky sugary substance called “honeydew”, which leads to fungal growth on plants and the sticky material fallen on plants and ground damages the lint quality of the cotton. Thirdly, these whiteflies act as carrier for CLCuV, a virus infection that further damages cotton crop by curling plant leaves and hence, impeding its growth. “The environmental conditions that prevailed in this part of Haryana this year are best suited for the growth of whiteflies. The insects require a moderate relative humidity of 65 to 70 per cent, which it is getting due to brief spells of rain and then a gap of one week or so,” Dr Saini said. |
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Crop failure: Farmers block highway
Hisar, August 25 Deepa Singh, sarpanch of Mayyar village, stated that the fake seeds, disease and waterlogging due to excessive rainfall had damaged cotton, bajra and guar in around 10 villages. "We have been asking the administration to carry out a special girdawari to assess the crop loss but there is still no response from the authorities". He said a large number of farmers were facing a difficult situation due to crop failure and they were unable to feed their families now. "Many farmers have taken loans from agents to meet the expenses for sowing the crops but they are unable to return the loans", he said. The farmers of
Mayyar, Kharar, Alipur, Sisay, Kaliraman, Kheri Gangan, Mamanpur, Dhani
Kutubpur, Bhatla and Chanaut had been agitating, demanding a compensation of Rs 50,000 per acres and criminal action against the private firm which provided fake seeds and pesticide to the farmers. The SDM Hansi went to the village and assured the farmers that their demand would be sent to the state government for consideration. |
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Public meeting in Mann’s memory
Kalayat (Kaithal), August 25 He was speaking at a public condolence meeting organised at the Kalayat Anaj Mandi to pay homage to former minister and Kaithal DCC president who was passed away in Karnal last month. The former minister had unsuccessfully contested the previous Assembly elections from Kalayat. MPs Naveen Jindal and Deepender Singh Hooda, CPS Sultan Singh Jadola, MLA Sumita Singh and Chairman, Haryana Warehousing Corporation, Dillu Ram, a former CPS, ex-MLAs Jogi Ram and Bhim Sain Mehta and sons of Tejinder Mann, Brijender Singh Mann and Ranbir Mann, were among those present. Deepender said the presence of a large number of people in this condolence meeting was a strong proof that he was popular among the masses. Naveen Jindal said after the death of his father in 2005 he always got moral and political support from Tejinder Mann. He assured full support to his sons in their efforts to fulfil the dreams of their father. Sulan Jadola, Sumita Singh and former minister Prof Chhatar Pal Singh also paid tributes to the departed leader. Later, Surjewala laid the foundation stone of a railway road in Kalayat named after Tejinder Pal Singh Mann, which will be built at cost of Rs 4.5 crore. |
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Residents protest against disrupted power, water supply
Sonepat, August 25 They alleged despite repeated complaints and demands, the nigam authorities had not taken any action. After receiving information of the blockade,
the police, local MLA Kavita Jain and state vice-president of the BJP Rajiv Jain reached the
spot and listened to the grievances of the protesters. The BJP leaders asked the nigam engineers to redress the grievances of the residents at the earliest. The protesters were pacified only after the MLA’s assurance that drinking water would be supplied through tankers till the transformer was replaced. She criticised the state government for not releasing the fund despite the fact that the Chief Minister had announced financial assistance of Rs 45 crore for strengthening the power infrastructure. The engineers said the transformer would be replaced soon. They
also asked the residents to get their extra load of electricity registered with the nigam. |
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Funds for Ambala shifted to other districts: BJP
Ambala, August 25 He said the projects worth several crores in the cantonment area had been approved by the state government in 2011, including construction of storm water drainage system in Ganesh
Vihar, Kardhan Colony, Ekta Vihar and the adjoining areas on which Rs 143.80 lakh was to be spent. Besides, a project of dewatering the flood water in Ambala on which Rs 9.5 lakh was to be spent and improvement of drainage system in various colonies of the cantonment area on which Rs 86.35 lakh was to be spent had not been completed till date. He said Minister for Public Health and Excise and Taxation Kiran Chaudhary had informed him on September 8, 2011, that Rs 30.92 lakh had been sanctioned as the first instalment for the projects. However, till date, none of these projects had been completed. He said funds for completion of these projects were shifted for development projects in other districts, neglecting Ambala Cantonment. |
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667 bottles of cough syrup seized
Sirsa, August 25 The intoxicants recovered include 667 bottles of a cough syrup containing codeine, a derivative of opium, 720 ampoule of Fortwin, an injection used for a kick and 33,000 tablets of Alprazolam, another drug misused as intoxicants by drug addicts. On a tip-off, the CIA staff of the district police raided a house in the Bhagat Singh colony and recovered medicines from a box hidden under a bed. The police has arrested Vicky and his accomplice Sanjeev Kumar, a resident of Khairpur colony, in this connection. The police said Sanjeev ran a medical shop near Sangwan Chowk in Sirsa. Despite state-wide offensives against medical intoxicants by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Haryana, Sirsa and Fatehabad continue to be the hotbeds of drugs used for a kick by drug addicts. Sirsa does not have a regular Drug Control Officer for several months, while in Fatehabad, intoxicating drugs are allegedly being sold in connivance with officials of the FDA. |
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Villager shot at for seeking info under RTI
Sirsa, August 25 The injured Pawan Kumar has alleged that his uncle Mani Ram had moved an application under the RTI Act to get information about the development works taken up by sarpanch Partap Singh. He said his uncle and other members of the family had been receiving threats since then. “Five persons barged into our house, beat up us and opened fire,” alleged Pawan Kumar in the hospital. Sarpanch Partap Singh could not be contacted for his comments. SSP Saurabh Singh said preliminary investigations had revealed that there was some old rivalry between the families of the sarpanch and the former sarpanch. He, however, said that the fact would come out only after investigations were complete. |
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Health Mela organised
Kurukshetra August 25 The Mela was inaugurated jointly by Haryana Finance and Irrigation Minister Harmohinder Singh Chatha, Rohtak MP Dipender Hooda and Kurukshetra MP Naveen Jindal by lighting a traditional lamp. Dipender Hooda said Naveen Jindal was taking forward his campaign of social service by following in his father’s footprints. A health camp and a medical check-up camp was being organised by the sansthan every month, said Naveen Jindal. |
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Boy healthy after liver transplant
Gurgaon, August 25 "After the transplant, the child is on a normal diet and mentally sharper than before. For the first time in his life, he drank milk and ate a chocolate,” said Neelam Mohan, Director, paediatric hepatology. Rishi suffered from mental slowness, recurrent vomiting, poor feeding and chest and intestinal infections. “For four years, the child survived on a low protein diet with medicines and imported essential amino acids formulae that cost Rs 30,000 per month. “I have never been this happy. I cannot express the feeling to see my child having milk for the first time. We had kept him on a low-protein and high-carbohydrate diet all this while,” said his mother. |
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Student booked for classmate’s rape
Rewari, August 25 In a complaint filed yesterday by the girl, the police registered a case of rape and
causing hurt against the accused. The medical examination of the girl which was conducted today at the local Civil Hospital confirmed sexual assault. In her complaint, the girl stated that after developing relations, Ravi promised to marry her. She frequently went to his village where he exploited her sexually for the past about one year. She said on her recent insistence of marriage, Ravi not only refused to marry her but also thrashed her and warned her not to open her mouth.
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Violence erupted after the body of a teenaged girl student was found from a field near Amarheri village of the district this morning.
A mob of about 200 persons clashed with the police near the main bus stand.
With no teacher for English, mathematics and social studies posted at a Jagadhri government school, Kail, self-study is the only way for the students to pass examination and to ‘kill time’ during school hours.
There are 117 students and only two teachers to monitor them. The only saving grace is that no student can fail under the Right to Education up to Class VIII, which is how the promotions keep going.
Hundreds of farmers blocked the Delhi-Hisar highway for around two hours today in protest against the district authorities for ignoring the interests of farmers who had suffered huge losses due to crop failure.
They also threatened to block the highway indefinitely if the government failed to heed to their demand. They would also block the road on Monday. However, commuters faced inconvenience who got stuck in a jam for around two hours.
“Late Tejinder Pal Singh Mann was a symbol of struggle and sacrifice and he always had a dream to ensure development of the Kalayat area. We will work in unison to fulfil his aspirations,” said Randeep Singh Surjewala, PWD and Industries Minister.
Chandigarh, August 25