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Dera Bassi, September 4
Mystery shrouds the death of a married woman who was found dead on Tuesday evening. The deceased has been identified as Bhavna, a resident of Lalru.

Father of the deceased, Shiv Kumar, a resident of Herbatpur, district Yamunanagar, Haryana, said Bhavna’s in-laws had been consistently harassing his daughter for bringing more dowry. He alleged that her in-laws killed his daughter. The police has registered a case against Abhishek, victim’s husband, father-in-law Subash, mother-in-law Devki, brother-in-law Shekhar, and aunt Usha.

All the accused, however, have denied the charges levelled against them and alleged that Bhavna had committed suicide.

Senior Medical Officer, Dera Bassi, Dr SK Mittal said according to the post-mortem report, the victim was strangled to death. The dead body of the victim has been handed over to her relatives.

Kalka, September 4
Scores of shopkeepers of the Kalka Gandhi chowk and the main market raised slogans against the special drive initiated by the officials of Kalka Zone, Panchkula Municipal Corporation, to remove encroachments from the main market. The shopkeepers blocked National Highway 22, which passes through Kalka.

Due to the blockade, hundreds of vehicles remained stranded in the jam, for more than an hour.

The blockade caused great inconvenience to the daily commuters, passengers and schoolchildren. “It has been over an hour now, and we are still stuck in the jam. The authorities concerned must take an action, as we are suffering due to the setback,” said a commuter.

Shopkeepers were pacified only after the local administration and SS Nanda, Senior Deputy Mayor of Panchkula Corporation, intervened. “A meeting has been fixed between the Beopar mandal and the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Kalka, to sort out the matter,” said Nanda.

Dera Bassi, September 4
An inquiry has been initiated in the forest land scam case, in which a 70-acre land of the Forest department at Peer Muchalla village was transferred to a person identified as Shiv Dyal, by allegedly altering the records of the Revenue department. Pages from the revenue record were allegedly deleted without any registration.

Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Inderjeet Kaur Kang said an inquiry was on to identify the accused involved, patwaris and kanugos of the Revenue department were also under the scan. All the accused involved will be nabbed soon, said Kang.

Registrar of the Revenue department, Gurmander Singh, said the scam had taken place three years ago, in 2010, and since then four patwaris and four kanugos had been employed in the area. All of them would be inquired in the case, said an official.

The Congress leader, Manpreet Kaur Dolly, said the accused should be identified soon and demanded that Shiv Dyal, on whose name the land was transferred, should also be brought under the grip of law.

Chandigarh, September 4
Acting on a petition filed in public interest, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed the service of court notices by the “beat of drums” for three consecutive working days. Notices will also be pasted.

The directions came during the resumed hearing of a PIL filed by Delhi High Court advocate Bhupender Chaturvedi and city-based advocate Gaurav Singla. It was brought to the notice of the Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Augustine George Masih that Tara Industries Limited was evading service of notices.

The Bench saidthe respondent was deliberately evading service of notices. Accepting the request of counsel for the petitioner, HC Arora, the Bench directed that the service through “munadi” or beat of drums. The petitioners alleged the company fragmented the plot and let out the same for running showrooms to business concerns, instead of setting up a woolen mill at the site. It had not sought conversion of the industrial plot for commercial purposes, and the misuse of the plot was continuing.

Mohali, September 4
In the ETO Ranjit Singh suicide case, the local court today approved the application of the victim’s wife, Manjit Kaur, regarding cancellation of bribe case against her husband.

Amandeep Kaur, the suspended superintendent of police (vigilance), and one of the main accused in the case, had claimed to nab ETO Ranjit Singh while accepting a bribe of Rs 2.52 lakh from a Ludhiana transporter on March 29, 2011, following which a case under appropriate Sections of Prevention of Corruption Act was registered against him.

Ranjit Singh had committed suicide on April 23, 2011, by consuming sulphose tablets. Later, in the departmental inquiry, Ranjit Singh was given clean chit.

On August 18, 2012, a case under Sections 306, 166, 167, 195, 218, 332, 353 and 120 B, of the IPC was registered and various Sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act against Amandeep Kaur, constable Harminder Singh, Rajinder Singh, Paramjit Singh and Rajinder Sood following directions of the Mohali court. Now, the proceedings of framing charges against the five accused are on in the court of Mohali Additional District and Sessions Judge (senior division) here. The court has set September 9 as the next date.