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BJP to sharpen its strategy on seat-sharing with HJC
State must not snatch houses of poor: HC
Defaulters to get red power bills
16 Haryana MLAs ‘tainted’
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Mirchpur Dalits claim admn ignoring them
Teacher booked for molestation
Ban on heavy machinery near canalbeds
Govt to double women PCRs; RAF on cards
Clamour for EWS quota restoration in private schools
BJP opposes same-gotra marriages
Jats to chalk out strategy for quota at Bhiwani meet
Centre approves skill development scheme
SAD (A) to contest LS poll in alliance with BSP in state
Mini dairy units to provide jobs to rural youth
Former minister’s daughter flays Cong for ‘ignoring’ old leaders
MC employees call off tools-down strike
Teachers protest outside Mullana's residence
Lok Adalat settles 107 cases
Man held with 7 country-made pistols
In-laws booked on dowry charge
Three booked for murder
Man run over by train
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BJP to sharpen its strategy on seat-sharing with HJC
Chandigarh, September 22 Buoyed by Narendra Modi’s impressive September 15 rally at Rewari, the state BJP top brass will try to put a united front before the party high command, particularly on the issue of the BJP-HJC alliance, at tomorrow’s face-to-face meeting with the national president -- primarily organised to gear up the party organisation in the region for the next year’s Lok Sabha poll. Though the final seat-sharing with the HJC is expected to be finalised at the BJP-HJC coordination committee meeting at Kurukshetra on September 30, yet a broad consensus is expected to emerge at tomorrow’s meeting. The BJP and the HJC have agreed to fight on 45 seats each in the state Assembly elections while the BJP will contest eight Lok Sabha seats leaving two seats to the HJC. In fact, tomorrow’s deliberations before Rajnath Singh and party in charge Jagdish Mukhi will assume importance against the backdrop of speculation about the future of the BJP-HJC alliance and BJP Campaign Committee chairman Narendra Modi’s fascination for Om Prakash Chautala’s led-INLD. Recently, the INLD pledged an “unconditional” support to Modi if the BJP formed the next government at the Centre. Though state president BJP Ram Bilas Sharma today rubbished reports of BJP-INLD tie-up, claiming that the “BJP-HJC alliance is as solid as rock”, yet an influential section with the BJP believed that only the BJP-INLD alliance could take on the Congress in the next year’s elections. BJP sources said since Chautala and his MLA son Ajay Chautala had been convicted in a corruption case, the tie-up with the INLD could send wrong signals to the electorate in the run-up to election as the BJP had made Congress-led UPA government’s corruption as major election issue. “The tie-up with the HJC will last till the Lok Sabha election as by that time the BJP will have a fair assessment of the support base of various parties, including our junior partner,” a BJP leader told The Tribune. |
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State must not snatch houses of poor: HC
Chandigarh, September 22 The indictment of sorts came on a petition filed by “underprivileged” landowners, whose land was acquired for development purposes. Conditionally upholding the acquisition of their land, the Bench directed: “Unless the respondent state or its agency allots an alternative plot at least measuring 150 square yards to the petitioners in an urban sector of Faridabad, in terms of its policy dated November 9, 2010, they will not be dispossessed from the acquired property”. In their petition placed before the Division Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Surinder Gupta, Chamba Devi and other petitioners were seeking the quashing of notifications dated July 4, 2011, and July 2, 2012, issued under Sections 4 and 6 of the Land Acquisition Act. The petitioners had added their land measuring two bighas and six biswas with dwelling units constructed on it, situated within the revenue estate of old Faridabad, was acquired vide the impugned notifications for the development of roads from Sectors 75 to 89 in the Urban Estate, Faridabad. Taking up the petition, the Bench asserted: “While it may be true that the construction of the sector road is a public utility of paramount importance, for which acquisition of the land may be justified. However, the petitioners, who apparently belong to the underprivileged section of the society, are living in a small dwelling unit. “This court will take notice of the fact that the amount of compensation is normally paid after a long span and
is totally inadequate for providing social shelter to small scale landowners and their families. “It hardly needs emphasis that right to shelter is an integral component of right to live with dignity and honour and, thus falls within the four-corners of Article 21 of the Constitution. If the state owing to its financial constraints is not in a position to provide roof over the head of all the landless people, it must not snatch the residential houses of lesser fortunate people in exercise of its power of eminent domain under Article 300-A of the Constitution.” |
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Defaulters to get red power bills
Sirsa, September 22 The Discoms have taken this decision in view of the huge pending arrears and failure of the power authorities at the local level to disconnect power supply to the defaulting consumers for months. The DHBVN is going to start issuing red bills from the coming months. A spokesperson of the Discoms informed The Tribune that the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD), Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam, Devender Singh announced this at a meeting of senior officers of the DHBVN called to review the operation activities of the nigam. Devender Singh asked the officers that no defaulter should remain connected and premises of disconnected defaulter consumers should be checked frequently to ensure that he was not committing any unscrupulous activity. The CMD said every checking for detecting power theft would now be reported and all reports would be filed online. Earlier, the checking teams were required to report merely theft cases and not those where there was no pilferage of power. The Discoms are planning to constitute committees at circle levels. The committees will be headed by Superintending Engineers. The committee will decide the case within seven days. He said the period of paying off the amount of penalty was also being extended from 48 hours to 72 hours. A warning
If a state resident receives a red-coloured electricity bill from power utilities, it indicates that the authorities are going to disconnect his power supply soon if he does not pay pending bills immediately |
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16 Haryana MLAs ‘tainted’
Chandigarh, September 22 Former Haryana minister OP Jain and former Chief Parliamentary Secretary Zile Ram Sharma are the latest "additions" to this list following their surrender before a CBI court yesterday. The first to take a "big hit" in January was the INLD. A CBI court convicted Leader of the Opposition Om Prakash Chautala and his elder son, Ajay Singh Chautala, in the JBT scam, besides party MLA Sher Singh Badshami, among others. For the Chautalas, there is more to come with the disproportionate assets case hanging like a Democles' sword over their head. The recent monsoon session saw a sudden surge in the number of "tainted" MLAs. An Opposition-sponsored sting on cash-for-change-of-land use (CLU) stung the Treasury Benches, taking seven MLAs in its fold. The matter has since been referred to the Lokayukta for a thorough probe. However, though the veracity of the CDs is yet to be proved, CPSs Ram Kishen Fauji, Vinod Bhyana and Jaleb Khan, besides Naresh Selvel, Ran Niwas Ghorela, Sampat Singh, Jarnail Singh have been left "tainted" for the time being. Among other members facing trial is Chief Parliamentary and Congress MLA Ram Krishan Gujjar, a Congressman, in the abetment-to-suicide case. Minister of State for Sports and Youth Welfare and Independent MLA Sukhbir Kataria, has been accused of being allegedly involved in bogus voting in Gurgaon during the assembly election of 2009. He is on anticipatory bail. Former minister and Independent MLA Gopal Kanda is facing trial in the Geetika suicide case. Sources said in a House where MLAs on either side are facing investigations, constructive criticism and a healthy debate are impossible. "They are so busy ensuring that the heat is not turned on them that they deflect any attempt at discussion by indulging in a slanging match," a senior legislator observed. |
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Clinic conducting illegal abortions raided, ANM held
Fatehabad, September 22 The team comprising Naripen Goyal, Senior Drug Control Officer, Hisar, Renu Bala, a Medical Officer in General Hospital, Fatehabad, and Rajnish Dhaliwal, Drug Control Officer from Hisar, raided the clinic of Radha Kamboj, an ANM working with the Health Department, where she used to conduct illegal abortions and deliveries, said GL Singal, State Drug Controller-cum-Joint Commissioner, FDA, Haryana. Radha Kamboj is the fifth catch of the FDA and the department in a week, as the authorities have earlier caught two women in Panipat, booked a couple at Samalka and nabbed another woman at Hansi for illegal abortions and deliveries in the past seven days. "We have lodged an FIR with the police against her under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act as well as for the theft of medicines received by her under government supply," Singal said. The police has arrested the ANM. Radha Kamboj was running her clinic right under the nose of the Civil Surgeon office — Hans Market is hardly 200 metre from there — and though she was posted at Dhani Issar, she had managed a deputation to a convenient station Jhalnia. "After receiving a tip-off, our team conducted the raid and even the Civil Surgeon Suraj Bhan Kamboj was not given details of the raid and he was merely requested to provide a woman medical officer for the raid," Singal said. "On Monday, we caught ANM Meena at Panipat and on the basis of leads received from her, our teams raided the clinic of Manisha, a gynaecologist, and both were booked and arrested under the MTP Act. Later, Vandana Malik and her husband Satyawan Malik, both BAMS doctors from Samalka, were booked under the MTP Act, but both have been at large since then and two days back, our teams caught Munni Bai, an ANM at Hansi, and she was also booked and arrested under the Act," said GL Singal. |
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Mirchpur Dalits claim admn ignoring them
Hisar, September 22 The team visited them and instructed the local administration to look
into their demands after the Dalits raised their problems before it. The team comprised Sessions Judge Ajay Jain and Shamim Modi of Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Social Sciences during its two-day visit on August 5-6. The team had asked the Dalits to meet the district administration and assured them that their demands would be fulfilled. The next day, a delegation led by advocate Rajat Kalsan met District Development and Panchayat Officer (DDPO) Sumit Kumar with the demands, including providing
them good quality tents, gas connections, electricity, daily water supply,
two quintals grain to each family and to ensure admission of their children to schools. However, the Dalits are divided over the relief provided by the administration with one delegation member Ramesh Kumar maintained that their demands for tents, water supply, grain supply and admission of children had been fulfilled except to a couple of families. However, another Dalit youth Satyawan refuted the claims of Ramesh, stating that none of their demands had been fulfilled. He argued, “Still there are around 15 families which are without tents while
the water supply too is irregular like earlier. Even the grain is not reaching each family”. Similarly, he also
disputed the fact that the administration had been able to drain out rainwater from the farmhouse where they had been residing. He stated that their main demand was to provide them jobs and plots for rehabilitation and the administration had not taken any step in this regard so far. DDPO Sumit Kumar, however, maintained that all demands except providing gas connections had been fulfilled. “There is no provision to provide gas connections. We have given them 90 tents, provided grain and also ensured daily water supply”, he said. |
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Teacher booked for molestation
Bhiwani, September 22 Sources said Jagbir Singh, a resident of Kundal village, molested the Class VIII student when she was sitting alone in the classroom on Friday. She narrated the incident to the school principal and to her family the next day. Enraged over the incident, the villagers accompanied with the girl's family members arrived at the school and thrashed the teacher. He, however, managed to escape even though he suffered injuries. The school authorities informed the district authorities and the police about the incident after which District Education Officer Nirmal Sheoran, naib tehsildar Banwari Lal, SHO of Bawani Khera police station Devender Singh rushed to the spot. The Bawani Khera SHO said today that the girl had recorded her statement. The teacher was booked. He said the teacher was admitted to a hospital and the police would arrest him soon. The police would take action on Monday on the basis of the girl's statement. Woman raped by colleague
Gurgaon: An executive of renowned flower and gift company Ferns and Petals was allegedly raped by a colleague after an official get-together here. A complaint filed by the executive stated that she had come with about 50 others to the Country Club for an office party.The girl said as she was under the influence of alcohol,her colleague took her to a room and raped her. The police arrested the accused and sent the girl for a medical examination, said Rahul Sharma, DCP Bid to rape Dalit
Sirsa: A 20-year-old Dalit woman from Hanspur village of Fatehabad has alleged that an attempt was made to rape her by four persons by keeping her in illegal confinement in MC Colony of Sirsa. Though the police said it was investigating the matter to go into the veracity of the allegations, an FIR has been lodged today. The woman alleged that she was lured into coming to Sirsa on some pretext, where she was kept in illegal confinement in MC Colony. She alleged that she was offered a drink laced with some intoxicant and an attempt was made to rape her by threatening to kill her. She said she fled from there and approached the police. Student kidnapped
A student from Khari Surera village of Sirsa was allegedly kidnapped by youths on her way to college in Ellenabad town of Sirsa. The girl was later found lying unconscious near her village last evening. The girl, who is admitted to General Hospital at Sirsa, alleged that she was dragged in a red car and taken towards Sirsa. She alleged that she was offered a cold drink laced with intoxicants after which she lost consciousness. Her family members later found her lying near the village. The police said a case had been registered. The police, however, said preliminary investigations had revealed that the girl had willingly gone with a boy. |
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Ban on heavy machinery near canalbeds
Karnal, September 22 The orders promulgated by Karnal Deputy Commissioner Vikas Yadav under section 144 of CrPC will remain in force for the next two months. The orders, which have been issued in the light of directions given by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to check illegal mining, said the entry of heavy machinery like tractor-trolley, hydraulic trolley, four-tyre trolley and tractor-driven cart will be banned in the radius. The DC also banned assembly of five or more people or carrying of fire arms within 1-km radius of canalbeds and said those violating the orders would be booked under section 188 of the IPC. He directed landlords, business houses and institutions to furnish detailed information about employees, tenants and paying guests along with proof of their permanent address and said this would help in tracing the criminals, who go scot-free after committing crime. In another move to keep a tab on criminals, the DC directed all taxi stands to maintain a register and keep a record of all people who hire cabs or autos along with their names, address, mobile number, vehicle registration number and destination to trace the vehicle in case of any mishap or crime. |
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Govt to double women PCRs; RAF on cards
Chandigarh, September 22 Stating this today, a spokesman of the Police Department said a battalion of women RAF had been deputed in Hisar. Also, 55 women master trainers had been appointed to impart self-defence training to girl students
in schools and colleges, he added. He said a women helpline number was working where the complaints regarding crime against women could be registered. He said 21 fast-track courts were playing an important role in providing justice
to women. He said CCTV cameras were being installed at various places in the cities to put a check on
the crime against women and for it a committee of officers of the department had been constituted. He said every year the department got a grant of Rs 50 crore to 100 crore from the Union Government which was spent
for modernising the police force. |
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Clamour for EWS quota restoration in private schools
Chandigarh, September 22 Addressing a press conference here yesterday, Satvir Hooda, president of the organisation, said members of the organisation would sit in a relay fast here from October 9 to pressurise the Haryana Government to restore the quota for the poor students, which had been reduced to 10 per cent from 25 per cent allegedly under pressure from private schools. “Besides restoration of the quota for the poor, the organisation is agitating against the high fee structure of the private schools which has made education virtually out of the reach of the common man,” he said. Threatening to intensify the agitation against the “anti-people” policies of the Hooda Government which favoured the private schools, he said in the first phase, three activists of the organization would sit in the relay fast. Earlier, the organisation, which is also waging a legal battle against the Hooda Government on the issue of education for the poor, had handed over a representation to MLAs during the recent monsoon session of the Vidhan Sabha to oppose the government's "anti-people" decision to reduce the quota for the poor in private schools from 25 per cent to10 per cent. |
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BJP opposes same-gotra marriages
Chandigarh, September 22 He, however, came down heavily on the ‘ineffective police’ for its failure to prevent the crime despite the girl’s brother giving a missing complaint to the police several days before the crime. Flaying the Hooda government for virtual collapse of law and order in the state, Sharma alleged that Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was presiding over a regime in which a substantial number of ruling party legislators were facing serious criminal charges. The BJP leader demanded immedidate dissolution of the recently constituted Police Recruitment Board which was packed with the ruling party’s “political favourites”. |
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Jats to chalk out strategy for quota at Bhiwani meet
Hisar, September 22 In a statement here today, Hawa Singh Sangwan, state president of the samiti, said the Centre had appointed the president of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) and now they needed to lobby for getting their demand accepted with the Centre. He said the samiti would again urged the khap panchayats to come forward on the issue to apply pressure on politicians on the issue. |
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Centre approves skill development scheme
Chandigarh, September 22 A spokesman for the HTC said here yesterday the Central Government had taken this initiative to empower the youth belonging to economically weaker sections of society and promote skill development in various trades amongst them. He said under the scheme, courses in food production and food and beverages would be conducted which would be managed by officials in charge of various tourist complexes. He said boys and girls between age group of 18 and 28 years with Class VIII as minimum qualification would be eligible for these courses which would be provided free of cost by the Central government. A skill test would be conducted at the end of the course and those getting through the test would be awarded the certificates. He said a tool-kit, uniform, stipend of Rs 2,000 for food production and Rs 1,500 for food and beverages services would be given to the students. This would be in addition to free lunch. He said such courses would be conducted at 15 tourist complexes of the HTC. The candidates successfully completing the course would have an opportunity to get employment in hotel and catering establishments not only in India but across the globe. The application forms are available in the tourist complexes enlisted to conduct the course and at website www.haryanatourism.gov.in. |
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SAD (A) to contest LS poll in alliance with BSP in state
Karnal, September 22 Addressing a gathering at Budha Khera gurdwara, 3 km from here on Saturday, Mann said the party would field its candidates from Ambala, Karnal, Kurukshetra and Sirsa Lok Sabha constituencies where the population of Sikhs was above two lakh and they were in a position to upset the apple cart of other parties while the alliance partner would contest the remaining six seats. SAD (A) secretary general Jaswant Singh Mann said Guru Gobind Singh university would be established on 100 acres of land near Sumana Bahu by the World Sikh Foundation and the work would start by April next year. He said, “Punjabi has not being accorded its due status in the state.” He reiterated the party’s demand for adequate representation in jobs and appointments to boards, corporations and other statutory bodies. Mann urged the Haryana Government to make Sikhs equal partners in development of the state. |
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Mini dairy units to provide jobs to rural youth
Chandigarh, September 22 A spokesman for the Animal Husbandry and Dairying Department said under the scheme, it was proposed to establish dairy units each having three, five and 20 plus milch animals. Commercial banks would finance the dairy units under the agriculture finance programme. Marketing facility for milk would be provided by the Haryana Dairy Development Cooperative Federation (HDDCF) and others in the state, he said. He said the department would assist these dairy units by providing free training to the suitable entrepreneurs. It would also sponsor loan applications to banks and 50 per cent cost of insurance of dairy animals in the case of general and 100 per cent of premium of Scheduled Caste beneficiaries would be borne by the department. He said veterinary and breeding facilities would be available at farmers’ doorstep and arrangement for marketing of milk through HDDCF would also be made. |
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State ahead of Gujarat in welfare plans: MP
Sonepat, September 22 Addressing the Virat Brahmin Sammelan at Bhanderi village in the Gohana area of the district, the MP said Haryana was far ahead of Gujarat in implementing a number of welfare schemes, including MGNREGA, old-age pension, support prices of the crops, sports policy, scholarships to students etc. The MP also said Haryana was the first state in the country which had given 10 per cent reservation to the upper classes on economic basis. The Haryana Government had taken care of the interests of every section of society and every region of the state. He also inaugurated a primary health centre at the village. |
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Former minister’s daughter flays Cong for ‘ignoring’ old leaders
Sirsa, September 22 Addressing a gathering of her supporters organised to thank them for the victory of her candidate Sangeeta Sachdeva in the September 17 byelection to Ward 8 of the Sirsa Municipal Council, Setia alleged that people of Sirsa had given a befitting reply to those, who had termed Sachdeva as a candidate of the “fake” Congress during campaigning. Two former MPs from Sirsa - Atma Singh Gill and Sushil Indora - were among those who attended Sunita’s public meeting. “Let the people of Sirsa decide whether my father, who won Sirsa seat as a Congressman on five occasions, was the real Congressman or an independent MLA facing serious charges of moral turpitude in a Delhi court (obvious reference of Gopal Kanda), whom Tanwar and some other Congress leaders were supporting, was the real party leader,” Sunita Setia said. |
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MC employees call off tools-down strike
Faridabad, September 22 Naresh Shastri, president of the Nagar Palika Karamchaari Sangh, Haryana, said the six-day strike was called off as the authorities of the corporation accepted their demands, in principle, at a meeting with employee leaders yesterday. According to him, the authorities assured them that they would act on the demands which lay in their jurisdiction within seven days. The demands are related to LTC, accidental insurance policy for sewermen, and EPF and ESI benefits to outsourced employees. However, the major demands, including regularisation of services of more than 2,000 employees, would be referred to the state government within 10 days. The authorities would arrange a meeting of the employee leaders with Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda with regard to the demands. The sangh, which is spearheading the agitation, however, clarified that only the tools-down strike had been called off. Other forms of agitation would continue till the authorities give effect to their assurances. They have already protested at the residence of two ministers of the government, Shivcharan Sharma and Mahender Pratap. They will protest outside the residences of Congress MLA Anand Kaushik on September 25 and Chief Parliamentary Secretary Sharda Rathore on September 28. |
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Teachers protest outside Mullana's residence
Ambala, September 22 Hundreds of guest teachers, led by state president Arun Malik and general secretary Rajinder Sharma Shastri, gathered in a park in the city to submit a memorandum to Mullana at his residence. When the police did not allow the teachers to go to his residence, they held a protest and burnt an effigy of the state Congress chief Mullana. Malik said the guest teachers would protest in Rohtak on October 2. Members of the Adhyapak Sangh, including Ranbir, Kuldeep Jharoli, Shashi Bhushan, Shiv Charan, Subhash Ravish, Sonia Gill and Kaptan Arya were also present on this occasion.
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Lok Adalat settles 107 cases
Kurukshetra, September 22 Batra said 23 cases of vehicle accidents, one case of Hindu Marriage Act, 56 cases of civil, four cases of execution, one each case under Section 125 and 138, nine cases of criminal, four cases of civil appeal and seven small criminal cases were settled on the spot. It was ordered that the compensation of Rs 29.55 lakh would be granted to the victims of vehicle accidents and Rs 7,400 to the victims of small criminal cases, Batra added.
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Man held with 7 country-made pistols
Sonepat, September 22 A police spokesman said Deepak was to hand over the illegal arms and ammunition to a contact person of gangsters Jitender alias Gogi and Manoj alias Bukhara, presently lodged in a jail here. During a routine checking against the anti-social elements, a team of the police noticed a person standing in suspicious circumstances with a bag. When the team questioned his identity and searched the bag, it seized the illegal arms and ammunition from his bag. During interrogation, he confessed that he was to deliver the consignment to a contact person of Manoj and Jitender. A case under the Arms Act was registered against him and he would be produced in a court tomorrow. |
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In-laws booked on dowry charge
Rewari, September 22 The case was registered on the directions of the court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate. In her petition, Laxmi Devi (26), a resident of Krishna Nagar colony here, alleged that her husband Mukesh Kumar, father-in-law Kartar Singh, mother-in-law Kamlesh Devi and three others had recently locked her in a room and then thrashed her for dowry. Laxmi, who got married to Mukesh in 2009, said after the incident, she returned to Rewari and started living with her parents and filed the petition against her in-laws in the court. |
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Three booked for murder
Rohtak, September 22 Sources said the victim, Virender Singh, was residing at the village with his maternal uncle since his childhood. He was hacked to death with a sharp-edged weapon last night. His body was spotted in the morning by a local. The police booked Sonu, Laxman and Bhoop. |
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Man run over by train
Rewari, September 22 Rs 70,000 looted
Three motorcycle-borne armed miscreants looted Rs 70,000 at gunpoint from a petrol station on the NH-8 at Jaisinghpur Kheda border, around 20 km from here, today. After committing the crime, they fled with the booty. The Bawal police has registered a case of robbery. |
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Chandigarh, September 22
