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Violence-hit areas in Gurgaon turn fortress
Gurgaon, August 31
The police and CRPF jawans deployed in Gurgaon areas on Saturday. A day after trucks carrying cattle were burnt on the Gurgaon-Mathura road , the Haryana Police today conducted a flag march in Pataudi, Farukh Nagar and Dharuhera. Several educational institutions of Pataudi and Farukh Nagar were reportedly closed though there were no official orders for it. The Gurgaon police fanned out in the area to reinforce peace while reserve companies of the CRPF and the police were deployed to deal with any trouble.

The police and CRPF jawans deployed in Gurgaon areas on Saturday.

Job scam: Police, admn in the dock
Hisar, August 31
The job scam has put the Hisar police and the district administration in the dock as these authorities failed to take action on a complaint by the National Centre for Organic Farming within 10 days after a misleading employment notice in the newspapers to lure jobless youth to apply for 885 posts. A total of 59,554 youth applied for various posts in response to the advertisement issued on September 27 last year by a registered NGO, All-India Organic Farmers' Society, and its subsidiary firm, Organic Farmers Organisation, cheating the job aspirants of Rs 2.20 crore.



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Jind girl cremated after 6 days
Jind, August 31
Curtains finally went down on the six-day long high-voltage drama over the death of a Dalit girl of Baniakhera village of the district today with the cremation of the girl at her native village this noon. The cremation was attended by several hundred persons, including the SDM of Safidon subdivision. Alleging rape and murder of the victim, the kin and residents of the village had pitched their tent in protest on the Civil Hospital premises since Sunday alleging "police inaction" into the matter. The body of the 20-year-old girl was recovered from fields adjoining a canal on Sunday.

Cop shoots himself; daughter also dies
Rohtak, August 31
A Sub-Inspector (SI) of the Haryana Police shot himself after accidentally shooting his 24-year-old daughter, who came in the way of a suicide bid by him, at his native Sisar village in Meham subdivision this morning. A family feud is reported to be the main cause behind the incident. The young woman succumbed to her injuries later at the PGIMS. The police has started an investigation into the matter.

Woman denied delivery facilities in health centre
Fatehabad, August 31
The health authorities has sent an auxiliary nurse midwifery (ANM) and a pharmacist on deputation to other places after villagers locked a primary health centre (PHC) building at Kulan in Fatehabad where a pregnant woman in her labour pains was denied delivery facilities yesterday. Basira, a pregnant woman from Kulan, was taken to the PHC after she developed labour pain yesterday.

Boy alleges attack, kidnap bid by woman
Kaithal, August 31
Aman (15), a resident of the local Shiv Colony studying in a school here, was allegedly attacked with a blade and injured by an unidentified woman today in the afternoon when he was going for tuition this afternoon. The victim alleged that the middle-aged woman gagged him from behind and made an attempt to abduct him. The boy reportedly put up

Woman running fake firm arrested
Sonepat, August 31
With the arrest of a woman, Gunjan, of Gannaur town, the police claimed to have unearthed a racket of fake tower company being run on the basis of forged documents and fake website of the Induce Tower Company.

15 rescued from illegal de-addiction centre
Sirsa, August 31
The district authorities today raided a drug de-addiction centre running illegally without permission near Nejadela village in Sirsa and rescued 15 drug addicts. “The raid was conducted on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the presence of an observer appointed by the court,” said Dr J Ganesan, Deputy Commissioner, Sirsa.

Man beaten to death; 3 booked
Sonepat, August 31
Dalbir, a youth of Sardhana village under the Gannaur police station, was alleged beaten to death yesterday. His body was buried under a heap of cow-dung cakes and burnt outside the village last night. On the complaint of the victim's brother, Raj Kumar, the police has registered a case of murder against three youths, Vikas, Praveen alias Babloo and Manjit of the village, who reportedly had gone underground after the incident. Raj Kumar stated that about a month back, there was some altercation between Dalbir and Vikas over a payment of some amount. However, it was solved by villagers. Dalbir was last seen with the alleged accused last evening and he did not return home. DSP Rajinder Singh and the police with an FSL team reached the spot and lifted the samples of blood from the spot. The police also recovered a slipper near the heap of the cow dung cakes which belonged to the victim. — OC

Undertrial booked for carrying cell phone
Faridabad, August 31
An undertrial,Joseph, lodged in the district jail here has been booked for illegally carrying a cell phone. Two SIM cards were also confiscated from him. The smuggling of unwanted material in the high-security premises yet again exposes holes in the security of the jail. During interrogation he said he had borrowed it from a convict presently lodged in the jail. An FIR has been registered in the matter on a complaint of the jail authorities. The police said the case was under investigation. Carrying of cell phone was against the jail manual. Earlier also, cell phones had been recovered from the wards in which undertrials and convicts are kept. — TNS

Advocate killed during auction
Fatehabad, August 31
An advocate was murdered with sharp weapons in the presence of an Executive Magistrate and some other government officials when he was sitting in the Panchayat Ghar at Bhattu Kalan during an auction of agriculture land. Victim Suresh Bansal, a resident of Khabra Kalan village of this district, died on the spot. The police has booked Vijay Singh, his son Ravi Singh and another accused for the murder. A dispute over land was stated to be the reason. — TNS

Man beaten to death in Tohana
Fatehabad, August 31
A man was beaten to death with iron rods and sticks at Tohana in Fatehabad last night. The victim Ashok Kumar did not have any dispute with the accused, but he was merely trying to mediate in their quarrel with a shopkeeper over the deal of a pair of slippers. Reports said one of the accused Suresh alias Nimma had purchased a pair of slippers from a shop and wanted it to be returned. However, the shopkeeper had refused to take it back and for this, the two sides had an altercation. — TNS


 





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Violence-hit areas in Gurgaon turn fortress
Sumedha Sharma
Tribune News Service

Gurgaon, August 31
A day after trucks carrying cattle were burnt on the Gurgaon-Mathura road , the Haryana Police today conducted a flag march in Pataudi, Farukh Nagar and Dharuhera. Several educational institutions of Pataudi and Farukh Nagar were reportedly closed though there were no official orders for it. The Gurgaon police fanned out in the area to reinforce peace while reserve companies of the CRPF and the police were deployed to deal with any trouble.

"We have sent reinforcements to instil confidence among the people. The police is looking for 20 persons who have been held responsible for instigating the villagers that led to the violence," said DCP South Rahul Sharma.

The police has managed to track all employees of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation who were declared "missing" by the Chandigarh Administration and they have been sent back safely.

DC Shekhar Vidyarthi and Commissioner Alok Mittal visited the area.

Security was also tightened in Maalpura village of Dharuhera as companies of the CRPF and the RAF were deployed there. The police yesterday nabbed the driver of the truck who claimed that it was meat. The medical examination of the meat has confirmed the driver's claim.

Meanwhile, the Haryana Government has issued fresh instructions to the district authorities on cattle transfer from one place to another.

It will be mandatory to seek the approval of District Magistrates of the cities for the transfer of cattle. The route will be approved by District Magistrates and the transporters must stick to the same while transferring cattle. The local police under whose jurisdiction the route falls will be liable for security of vehicles and make necessary arrangements for these. They should also be ready to deal with any urgent situation that may erupt.

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Job scam: Police, admn in the dock
Deepender Deswal
Tribune News Service

Hisar, August 31
The job scam has put the Hisar police and the district administration in the dock as these authorities failed to take action on a complaint by the National Centre for Organic Farming (NCOF) within 10 days after a misleading employment notice in the newspapers to lure jobless youth to apply for 885 posts.

A total of 59,554 youth applied for various posts in response to the advertisement issued on September 27 last year by a registered NGO, All-India Organic Farmers' Society (AIOFS), and its subsidiary firm, Organic Farmers Organisation (OFO), cheating the job aspirants of Rs 2.20 crore.

However, documents in possession of The Tribune reveal that the police initially dumped the complaints filed by the NCOF, a wing of the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Union Agriculture Ministry, its regional office (RCOF) at Hisar, and an RTI activist PP Kapoor, who had alerted the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) by filing an RTI query in this regard the very next day of the advertisement. RTI activist Kapoor, too, approached the Haryana DGP who sent the complaint to the Hisar SP for action.

The blatant negligence of the police and the administration provided an opportunity to the NGO to dupe thousands of jobless youth. It could have been avoided had the police taken immediate action to stop the cheats from doing so.

Shockingly, not only the police ignored the nefarious activities of the NGO, it apparently botched up the investigation also on the complaints and concluded that no cognisable offence could be made out of these complaints. The city police station SHO gave a clean chit and filed (closed) the case on November 20 after Vinod Beniwal, the main accused in the case, denied the charges.

Beniwal was sent to the judicial custody by a local court after completion of his police remand today.

How the job seekers were fleeced

Sept 27, 2012 -- AIOFS issued advertisements for 885 posts promising salary ranging from Rs 8,000 to 20,600

Sept 29 -- RTI activist PP Kapoor filed query with the PMO seeking information about the AIOFS and the project

Oct 8 -- Kapoor lodged a complaint with the Hisar SP for action into the matter. Same day RCOF, Hisar, also lodged a complaint with the Hisar police while distancing itself from OFO and AIOFS

Oct 9 -- The director of NCOF, Dr Krishan Chandra, in a massage to the DC, Hisar, stated that the NGO was not authorised to implement the central scheme.

Nov 20 -- SHO, City police, concluded that there was no cognizable offence against the NGO so the police filed (closed) the investigation

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Jind girl cremated after 6 days
Bijendra Ahlawat
Tribune News Service

Jind, August 31
Curtains finally went down on the six-day long high-voltage drama over the death of a Dalit girl of Baniakhera village of the district today with the cremation of the girl at her native village this noon. The cremation was attended by several hundred persons, including the SDM of Safidon subdivision. Alleging rape and murder of the victim, the kin and residents of the village had pitched their tent in protest on the Civil Hospital premises since Sunday alleging "police inaction" into the matter. The body of the 20-year-old girl was recovered from fields adjoining a canal on Sunday.

"The body of the deceased was cremated at around 12.45 pm today at Baniakhera village with a large attendance of local residents,’’ said a district official. He said the SDM of Safidon represented the district administration on the occasion. The confrontation between the protesters and the district authorities came to an end last evening after talks, in which the authorities accepted the main demands, including financial compensation, a probe by the Special Investigation Team (SIT), withdrawal of cases booked against the protesters and release of three persons who had been arrested by the police in connection with mob violence at the local bus stand on August 25.

Earlier in various rounds of talks, the protesters refused to buy the police theory that the girl was neither raped nor murdered and insisted on a postmortem examination at the PGIMS hospital at Rohtak and later at the AIIMS in New Delhi, after the autopsy test conducted at the Civil Hospital failed to establish the charges levelled by the protesters.

The issue, however, got a new turn with the disclosure of the viscera examination, conducted at FSL, Karnal. The examination confirmed presence of a poisonous substance in the body at the time of her death and this made the plea of the authorities that the girl was not a victim of rape and murder weak.

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Cop shoots himself; daughter also dies
Tribune News Service

Rohtak, August 31
A Sub-Inspector (SI) of the Haryana Police shot himself after accidentally shooting his 24-year-old daughter, who came in the way of a suicide bid by him, at his native Sisar village in Meham subdivision this morning. A family feud is reported to be the main cause behind the incident. The young woman succumbed to her injuries later at the PGIMS. The police has started an investigation into the matter.

A report said Baljit Singh, SI, posted at Jhajjar, came to his village yesterday and entered into an argument with his family over some domestic issue.

The SI took out his service revolver to commit suicide but the bullet hit Savita when she intervened. The girl fell down. The cop shot himself in his head. While the cop died on the spot, Savita who was rushed to the PGIMS succumbed to her injuries during treatment a few hours later.

It is revealed that the family was upset over the marital discord of Savita, who had been residing with her parents for the past about one-and-a-half years. Savita left her husband as her in-laws had allegedly sought dowry from her parents.

Police officials claimed a suicide note had been recovered in which the SI had mentioned about a dispute over money with the in-laws of his daughter. While the immediate cause of the provocation is still to be ascertained, A case has been registered against Savita’s father-in-law. A probe has been launched.

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Woman denied delivery facilities in health centre
ANM, pharmacist shifted after protest by villagers
Sushil Manav
Tribune News Service

Fatehabad, August 31
The health authorities has sent an auxiliary nurse midwifery (ANM) and a pharmacist on deputation to other places after villagers locked a primary health centre (PHC) building at Kulan in Fatehabad where a pregnant woman in her labour pains was denied delivery facilities yesterday. Basira, a pregnant woman from Kulan, was taken to the PHC after she developed labour pain yesterday.

However, there was no one in the PHC to attend to her and a safai karamchari examined her and told the family to bring her after two hours. When the family members took the woman to the PHC again, there was still no one to attend her and assist her in her delivery.

Family members alleged that they requested a nurse present in the PHC to examine the woman, but the nurse said that her duty was in the PHC and not in the delivery hut. After waiting for several hours and with the woman’s condition deteriorating, the family members shifted her to the General Hospital, Tohana.

Angry villagers led by sarpanch Jagvinder Nagra locked the PHC building and demanded shifting of the entire staff. Nagra alleged that the hospital staff had crossed all limits and the villagers would not allow the locks to be opened unless the authorities shifted the staff. The villagers agreed to open the PHC today only after the Civil Surgeon, Dr Suraj Kamboj, ordered the shifting of an ANM and a pharmacist.

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Boy alleges attack, kidnap bid by woman
Our Correspondent

Kaithal, August 31
Aman (15), a resident of the local Shiv Colony studying in a school here, was allegedly attacked with a blade and injured by an unidentified woman today in the afternoon when he was going for tuition this afternoon. The victim alleged that the middle-aged woman gagged him from behind and made an attempt to abduct him. The boy reportedly put up

resistance and foiled the attempt of the woman. He hurled a brick towards her but she fled from the spot.

Aman rushed towards his home in panic and narrated the incident to his parents. He said he could not see the face of the woman as it was covered but he noticed that she wore a black saree.

On hearing about the incident, a large number of people assembled in the locality and expressed their concern over such incidents. On getting the information, the police inquired from the victim about the woman, but he could not give any satisfactory answer. The police believes that the boy may have injured himself and concocted the story due to some reason.

But police officials assured the family members of the boy of proper investigation and patrolling in the area to keep a watch over the activities of the miscreants.

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Woman running fake firm arrested
Our Correspondent

Sonepat, August 31
With the arrest of a woman, Gunjan, of Gannaur town, the police claimed to have unearthed a racket of fake tower company being run on the basis of forged documents and fake website of the Induce Tower Company.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Balbir Singh said today that Ram Lal of the Induce Tower Company which had its head office at Chandigarh, lodged a complaint that some people had opened an office in New Taranagar, Sonepat, in the name of the company and were cheating the people.

The DSP said after registering a case under the Copyright Act and other Sections of the IPC, the police raided the place and arrested Gunjan. She was produced in the court here today and sent to judicial custody.

The police had identified the alleged involvement of other persons also in the racket and they would also be arrested soon, said the DSP.

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15 rescued from illegal de-addiction centre
Tribune News Service

Sirsa, August 31
The district authorities today raided a drug de-addiction centre running illegally without permission near Nejadela village in Sirsa and rescued 15 drug addicts. “The raid was conducted on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the presence of an observer appointed by the court,” said Dr J Ganesan, Deputy Commissioner, Sirsa.

Rules provide that the drug de-addiction centres have to get permission from the authorities and their registration is issued if they meet certain norms with regard to facilities for drug addicts.

The High Court had directed that all drug de-addiction centres running in violation of these provisions be closed. A team of the authorities led by Amarjit Singh, Secretary, Regional Transport Authority, raided the centre and rescued 15 drug addicts kept there under poor conditions.

The addicts were brought to the General Hospital, Sirsa, where they were discharged after treatment.

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