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CRIMINALISATION OF POLITICS
Hooda hits out at Oppn behaviour
Diseases grip 150 families of uprooted Sikh farmers
Migrant worker sodomised, murdered
CHEATING OF JOBLESS YOUTH
Minor girl raped in Rohtak
Haryana Insaaf Manch to remain apolitical: Inderjit
Illegal constructions razed
A house being demolished at Janti Kalan village in Sonepat district. Photo: BS Malik
OP Jain, ex-CPS Zile Ram granted interim bail
Husband held in dowry death case
Seven SDMs shifted
House pays tributes
50 booked for vandalism
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House panel for action against Chautala’s trusts
Pradeep Sharma Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 6 "The government should make a request to the Government of India, the Government of Delhi and the Chandigarh Administration to initiate an inquiry to take action against these trusts/societies in accordance with the law.The matter may also be investigated by the Income Tax authorities and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence," the committee of the Haryana Assembly headed by Congress legislator BB Batra said. The committee, whose eight-part report was laid on the Floor of the Assembly today, said that "it has also come to the notice of the committee that there are flagrant violations with the transfer/allotment of properties within Haryana. There are also projects/institutions being run by the trusts/societies which are situated within Haryana. The state government may take appropriate action according to law." The Haryana Assembly had formed a committee on the suggestion made by Raghuvir Singh Kadian, MLA, to examine the irregularities committed by trusts/societies of family members of Chautala. The main societies run by the Chautala family are Jan Sewa Trust, Ch Devi Lal Memorial Trust and Ch Devi Lal Memorial Society. Ch Devi Lal Memorial Trust acquired properties at Sirsa, Chandigarh, Hisar, Kaithal, Narnaul and Jhajjar and also established one alleged Centre of Excellence and Learning in Sector 28-B, Chandigarh. From the reports
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Poor pass percentage in govt, private schools comes under fire
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 6 In fact, the pass percentage has been coming down over the years in both government and private schools. While in 2011, it was 59.90 per cent in government schools and 76.32 per cent in private schools, it came down to 56.16 per cent in government schools and 75.70 per cent in private schools last year. Clearly dissatisfied with the minister’s reply, Sampat Singh alleged that nearly 30,000 teachers’ vacancies and lack of a clear sense of direction was responsible for the sorry state of education in the state. Power Arrears
The power consumers owe a whopping Rs 4527.75 crore to the state government with domestic consumers topping the list with Rs 3339.94 crore, Power Minister Ajay Yadav informed the Haryana Assembly today. The non-domestic sector owed the government Rs 340.03 crore, followed by industry Rs 262.07 crore and agriculture Rs 190.84 crore and the Irrigation Department Rs 178.52 crore. Drinking Water
As many as 37 labs for testing drinking water have been set by the Pubic Health Engineering Department for testing of drinking water in Haryana, Public Health Engineering Minister Kiran Choudhry said during Question Hour. Power Supply
As many as 536 villages are getting electricity supply on urban mode in Haryana. Besides, a one-time settlement scheme for better electricity supply to villages has been launched by the Power Department under which regular supply of 20 to 24 hours electricity will be provided to the villages if 80 per cent of households of all such villages agree to take part in the scheme by taking their meters out and also obtaining new connections, Power Minister Ajay Yadav said. MC Grants
The Haryana government has released grants amounting to over Rs 100.58 crore under various schemes from 2005-06 to 2013-14 to the municipal committees of Nuh, Ferozepur Jhirka, Taoru and Punhana, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said. Edusat
For the proper utilisation of Edusat system for students, 22 Junior Engineers have been appointed on contract basis, one in each district except Mewat where two Junior Engineers have been appointed by UTKARSH Society constituted by the Education Department, the Education Minister said. |
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Dismiss Chautala from House, demand Cong MLAs
Geetanjali Gayatri Tribune News service
Chandigarh, September 6 Congress MLA Anand Singh Dangi’s calling attention motion on criminalisation of politics, taken up immediately after the question hour and in the absence of the Opposition, provided them the perfect opportunity. It is another matter that it seemed like old wine in a new bottle since the issue, brought as a calling-attention motion on probity in public life by Sampat Singh, had been discussed threadbare by the House in the budget session earlier this year. While Dangi maintained the Constitution contained conditions for disqualification of elected MPs and MLAs and criminalisation was a matter of constant debate, he sought to know if the Leader of Opposition with Cabinet rank and a legislator should continue even after their conviction. In his reply, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala, quoting a judgement and provisions of the Constitution, said the courts had upheld the constitutional mandate of being stringent towards convicted legislators. Chief Parliamentary Secretary Ram Kishan Fauji and Congress MLA Naresh Sharma urged the Speaker to exercise his powers and not only strip Chutala of the Leader of Opposition status but even dismiss him from the House. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said that those who occupied high positions in the legislative system must remain sensitive to the perceptions of morality and ethics of the people who have elected them. Our politics without a self-searching morality could not sustain a strong society and economy. He said the decision to quit or continue should be left to the conscience of those convicted. Speaker Kuldeep Sharma said that there were no powers vested in him to dismiss Chautala from the House of withdraw the status given to him as Leader of Opposition. Later, Hooda, addressing the mediapersons in the press lobby, said the Opposition had wasted the chance to raise public concerns in the House. “Out of the total 20 questions scheduled for today, 17 were of the Opposition. They chose chaos over public,” he said.
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Hooda hits out at Oppn behaviour
Chandigarh, September 6 “I can only apologise on their behalf,” he told Speaker Kuldeep Sharma soon after the latter expelled the entire INLD and a BJP member from the House for preventing it’s functioning. Hooda interjected at the start of question hour and told the Speaker that he wanted to say something. Without fumbling, he attacked the Opposition, saying 17 out of the 20 questions to come up today were from the opposition Benches. He specifically pointed out that the House was scheduled to discuss the future of sportsmen who will represent the state in the Olympics. But the INLD members already had a plan to disrupt the House. “They should have been asking questions for the improvement of those who have sent them here, but all they want to do is run away from difficult situations,” he said. The Speaker supported Hooda by saying that he gave many opportunities to the Opposition, but after he saw that they were determined to interrupt the proceedings of the House, he expelled them. |
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Diseases grip 150 families of uprooted Sikh farmers
Karah Sahib (Pehowa), September 6 A medical examination conducted on villagers by doctors of the Miri Piri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Charitable Trust), Shahabad, has revealed that 143 out of 650 villagers are suffering from malnutrition, blood pressure, diabetes, viral fever, malaria, orthopaedic problems, urine infection, diarrhoea, abdomen pain, allergies and other diseases. The medical examination report pointed out that 21 persons were suffering from malaria and viral infection, 13 from anaemia and malnutrition, 21 from backache, cervical, joint pains, arthritis and fractures, 24 from high blood pressure and diabetes, 20 from diarrhoea, abdomen pain and amoebiosis, seven from urinary infection and kidney stone, 12 from allergy, itching, fungus and scabies, five from cataract and eye infection, seven from upper respiratory, catarrh, deafness and tinnitus and 13 from other diseases. Dr Narula, who headed the team that conducted a medical checkup on Kupia Plat villagers, said a majority of the diseases detected among the villagers were due to malnutrition and perpetual mental tension. The number of ailing persons was likely to go up significantly as proper medical checkup of women could not be conducted in the absence of a female doctor. Senior vice-president of the SGPC Raghujit Singh Virk said free treatment and medicines would be provided to the ailing by the Miri Piri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Shahbad. |
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Migrant worker
sodomised, murdered Nawal Kishore Rastogi Our Correspondent
Rewari, September 6 While they have been sent to the Lines, DSP Jaipal Singh (Headquarters) has been deputed to conduct a departmental inquiry against them. The case pertains to the alleged sodomisation-cum-murder of a teenaged migrant worker Raju (17) of Goriya village in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, by a dairy owner's son and his three accomplices at Bhagdana village, under the Kanina police station of Mahenderagarh district, about 50 km from Rewari, some three days ago. When Raju, who was employed at the above dairy, sought some money to enable him to visit his home, the dairy owner's son , who was in charge of the said dairy, and his accomplices not only allegedly sodomised him but forcibly poked a bottle of beer into his anus as well on September 1. In that critical condition, Raju somehow reached the police station at Kanina where he was cold shouldered by the police officials concerned. Then he reportedly went by train to Rattangarh town in Churu district of Rajasthan and started getting treatment in a hospital there. After receiving information from the hospital authorities, the caretaker of the dairy brought him back to Bhagdana where he succumbed to his injuries on September 4. While his body was placed in the Civil Hospital at Mahenderagarh, Simar Deep Singh saw things himself and immediately initiated action in the matter. Raju's postmortem was conducted today after his guardian and other members of the family arrived in Mahenderagarh from Ludhiana in Punjab. The Kanina police also registered a case of murder, sodomy and under the POCSO Act against the dairy in charge Babloo and three others. A senior police official said efforts were on to apprehend the culprits who were missing.
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Bank accounts of tainted society frozen, main accused Vinod Beniwal sent to jail
Deepender Deswal Tribune News Service
Hisar, September 6 The main accused, Vinod Beniwal, director of the society, was produced in the court today after two days' police remand and was sent to jail by the court. During two days' interrogation, the police extracted information about his bank accounts from him and found that he had afixed deposit receipt (FDR) of Rs 45 lakh with the NABARD and also had three or four accounts in the name of the society. The investigation officer, DSP Amit Dahiya, said they had written to NABARD to cease the FDR. “While his other accounts have also been ceased which had around Rs 10 to Rs 15 lakh deposits, these accounts had become a case property in the fraud case," he said. The police woke up to the scam only last month when it registered a case on the grounds that the accused had duped applicants, forgery under various sections of the IPC and the Prize chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act at the city police station and arrested three persons, including Bharat Grover, Manjit Singh and Beniwal. The police failed to foil the fraud when the AIOFS issued an advertisement by using the name of government agencies likethe National Centre for Organic Farming (NCOF) on September 27 inviting applications for 885 posts. A total of 59,554 youths applied in response to the advertisement with the requisite fee. The society collected Rs 2.20 crore by duping the job aspirants. Though the NCOF, its Hisar unit and an RTI activist, PP Kapoor, had lodged complaints with the the Hisar police soon after noticing the advertisements in newspapers, the police gave a clean chit to Beniwal after an inquiry at that point of time which provided him an opportunity to go ahead with his plans. had been duping jobless youths. However, following the clean chit by the police, which found that no cognisable offence could be made out of complaints, the court, too, dismissed the PIL. Dismissal of PIL
RTI activist PP Kapoor even filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking action against the NGO, alleging that it had been duping jobless youths. However, following the clean chit by the police, which found that no cognisable offence could be made out of complaints, the court, too, dismissed the PIL |
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Minor girl raped in Rohtak
Rohtak, September 6 In another incident, the police booked Anil (40) for raping a married woman on Monday night. The accused hails from Krishna Colony and was a known to the victim. The accused managed to flee after the crime. These incidents have taken the total incidents of rape to five in the past nine days. Fatehabad: A minor girl was allegedly raped by a youth at Mohammedpur Rohi village in Fatehabad today. The 14-year-old victim alleged in her complaint that Sonu (20), a resident of the same village, enticed her and then committed the crime on her. Deputy Superintendent of Police (Headquarters) Shamsher Singh Dahiya said the police had booked Sonu under Sections 363, 366 and 376 of the IPC and relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The accused had been arrested, he added. Kurukshetra:
The police has arrested Prakash, a resident of Sianasaida, for allegedly raping mentally retarted minor girl. He was to day produced in a local court, which remanded him in judicial custody. Minor gangraped, one arrested
Jind: Two incidents of rapes have surfaced in Jind . These include gangrape of a minor girl hailing from a residential colony here. The police has arrested one accused while three others are at large. A 16-year-ld girl was allegedly abducted and gangraped by three youths. The accused -- Vikas of Neebri village, Kuldeep and Sumit of Ausar village-- allegedly abducted the victim, a resident of Hanuman Gali here, while she was waiting for someone near the local Government College. They took her to Matlauda village of Panipat where she was gangraped. The girl who reached her house yeterday lodged a complaint with the police. While Vikas was arrested this morning, the other two were at large. In another incident, a young woman employed with a private company here has charged a youth with rape. A resident of Jhanj Gate, the complainant alleged that Shiv Narayan raped her recently. |
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Haryana Insaaf Manch to remain apolitical: Inderjit
New Delhi, September 6 The MP from Gurgaon, who is opposed to the style of functioning of Haryana Chief Bhupinder Singh Hooda and has openly questioned Hooda for ignoring southern Haryana, has convened a meeting of his supporters for September 8 in connection with the martyrdom rally at Rewari on September 23. The rally is to mark the death of Rao Tula Ram. The Rao, who was the Minister of State for Defence, clarified that the Haryana Insaaf Manch would remain apolitical. There were media reports last month that his daughter, Bharti Singh Rao, had applied to the Election Commission seeking registration as a political party. Rao Inderjit denied these reports today. A few weeks ago, the Rao had demanded a probe into the allegations of shady land deals in Gurgaon. Today when he was asked if he was quitting the party, he told reporters "Plans will unfold with time. You will have to wait and see". Singh had last month demanded an inquiry into allegations of change of land use from agriculture to commercial or residential in Haryana and said anybody who had made money illegally should he held accountable. After the Rao formed the Haryana Insaaf Manch, there has been speculation about forming his own outfit or joining hands with one of the Congress rivals. |
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Illegal constructions razed
Sonepat, September
6 The team, led by District Town Planner Dilbag Singh, demolished the illegal constructions with the help of three JCB machines. Despite opposition from many villagers, the demolition continued till the evening. The District Town Planner said the unauthorised colonies were being developed in the controlled area zone of Janti Kalan and Khatkar villages and despite notices from the department, the illegal constructions did not stop. The demolished structures included 800 feet boundary wall, three offices of property dealers, four constructed houses and 80
DPCs, said Dilbag Singh and added that the department was inquiring about the property dealers who were raising unauthorised colonies so that legal action could be initiated against them. |
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OP Jain, ex-CPS Zile Ram granted interim bail
Chandigarh, September 6 The High Court has stayed their arrest till September 10. The orders by Justice Daya Chaudhary come with a rider. They have been asked to remain personally present in the court on September 10. They had moved the High Court against the rejection of their anticipatory bail and issuance of non-bailable warrants by the CBI special court. The CBI had filed a chargesheet against three persons on August 8 in the case hovering around the
death of Karam Singh, a former sarpanch of Kambopura village in Karnal. —
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Husband held in dowry death case
Hisar, September 6 Santosh Kumar in his complaint to the police had said that he married off his daughter, Bhagwati Rani, to Vijay Singh around three years ago. Vijay is the son of Bhoop Singh, a BDPO with the Haryana Government. He said his daughter was reportedly killed by her husband and in-laws. Even her body was disposed of. Later when thepolice recovered the body, the accused refused to identify it, after which the municipal authorities cremated the body as unclaimed.
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Seven SDMs shifted
Chandigarh, September 6 Mukul Kumar,SDM, Karnal, has been posted as Estate Officer, HUDA, Karnal, in addition to his present duties vice Subhita Dhaka, who has been posted as SDM, Rewari. RKSingh, SDM, Panchkula, goes as Managing Director, Cooperative Sugar Mills, Karnal, vice Gurmeet Singh, who goes as SDM, Panchkula. Manoj Kumar, SDM,has been posted as SDM, Narnaul, vice Satish Yadav. Satish Yadav has been posted as SDM,
Bahadurgarh. — TNS |
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