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Tribune News Service

Panchkula, October 23
The court today directed the local police to conduct investigations in the case against IAS officer Ashok Khemka that has been filed by an employee when the officer was the managing director with the Haryana Warehousing Corporation.

The petition was filed by the employee Vijay Dahiya who was working as a technical assistant. The petition stated that in 2008 Khemka intentionally troubled him and gave remarks on his caste.

The court directed the police to conduct investigations and if found guilty to register a case against him.

Mohali, October 23
In local advocate Amarpreet Singh's murder case, framing of charges against the nine accused would take place on November 6.

The case is being heard in the Court of Mohali Additional District And Sessions Judge Manjot Kaur.

According to sources one of the two accused, who have been lodged in Ludhiana Jail, could not turn up to attend today's proceedings in the court following which the court has set November 6 as next hearing date on which framing of charges would take place.The accused Dharminder did not attend the court proceedings on medical grounds today. Meanwhile, the jail superintendent of Ludhiana Jail, who was asked by the court to give his explanation for not sending Dharminder and Jaswinder Singh to attend last hearing on October 16 from his jail, today submitted his explanation in this regard. — TNS

Panchkula, October 23
In the Samjhauta blast case, the court today allowed the NIA to take fingerprints of three accused, Kamal Chauhan, Lokesh Sharma and Rajender Chaudhary. The fingerprints were sought by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to match with those found by the forensic team after the blast scene.

It was on August 9, 2012 when NIA had filed a charge sheet accusing two persons, including RSS worker Kamal Chauhan of planting bombs along with their associates in the Indo-Pak train which claimed the lives of 68 people, mostly Pakistanis. The charge sheet was filed against Chauhan, alias Bhai Saab, alias Badrinarayan, alias Lucky, alias Vijay, and Amit, alias Ashwani Chauhan, alias Prince, alias Hakla, alias Ashok, alias Tutalla, in a special court at Panchkula charging them with murder, conspiracy and other offences. — TNS

Chandigarh, October 23
A local court today convicted a man and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment in a drug haul case. The court convicted Vijay Kumar under various Sections of the NDPS Act and also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on him.

Mohali, October 23
Vigilance sleuths today nabbed an assistant sub inspector, Shingara Singh, deputed at the Kharar police station (City), red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a resident of Ambala.

The ASI was trapped on the complaint of Avtar Singh, a resident of Lohgarh village (Ambala). In his complaint, Avtar Singh alleged that his sister, Tejwinder Kaur, who was married to Kuldip Singh of Bhukhri village near Kharar, had died on October 14 under mysterious circumstances.

“The Kharar police had booked Kuldip Singh, his father Mohinder Singh and mother Malkit Kaur. We came to know that Tejwinder’s sister-in-law, Charanjit Kaur, alias Babli, was also involved in the incident but her name was not there in the FIR. ASI Shingara Singh, who was investigating officer in the case, was demanding Rs 30,000 to add Charnajit Kaur’s name to the FIR but later settled on Rs 20, 000,” alleged the complainant.

On getting complaint, the vigilance team laid a trap and nabbed Shingara Singh while accepting the bribe from Avtar Singh. Shingara Singh was ‘munshi’ at the police station and recently got promoted.

An official of vigilance bureau said a case has been registered against Shingara Singh. He would be produced before the court tomorrow.

Chandigarh, October 23
A 35-year-old man created a ruckus at his Sector 18 residence this morning by hitting himself with a sharp-edged weapon and then putting the blame on his estranged wife.

Ashwani called up the police and alleged that his wife had attacked him with a sharp- edged weapon. Ashwani had hit himself in the arm with the weapon.

The accused, Ashwani was earlier booked for theft after his wife, Vijay Laksmi had alleged that her husband had stolen her cheque.

Vijay Laksmi, a resident of Sector 19, had complained that her husband Ashwani had stolen a cheque of Rs 75,000 and a gold chain and an earring on October 17.

Following the complaint, the police had booked Ashwani for theft but he was yet to be arrested.

After he was taken for medical examination, it was revealed that the injuries were self-inflicted.

The police then arrested him in the case of theft registered against him.

Mohali, October 23
The Mohali police has arrested four snatchers, active in the area for past few months.

Mohali SSP Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said the arrested persons were Deepak Joshi from Kumbhra village, Jatinder Singh, alias Kaddu, from Amritsar, Rahul, alias Happy, from Daun village and Kishan from Muradabad (UP).

“These miscreants have been arrested at a naka following a tip-off. The police has several cases received against Kaddu and Deepak”, said SSP Bhullar.

The CIA in charge, inspector Gurcharan Singh, said during preliminary interrogation the miscreants have confessed that they were planning a strike during the festival season. “They have also confessed that they were involved in several thefts and snatchings here. We are hopeful of solving several cases of theft and snatching with their arrest,” said inspector Gurcharan Singh.

The police has already arrested one of their accomplices Sarabjit Singh, alias Raja, for snatching a gold chain last week. A case under Sections 382, 379, 34 of the IPC has been registered against the accused at the Phase VIII police station, Mohali.

Patiala, October 23
On the 1st day of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan National Meet, ninematches were played on four grounds under the supervision of KV-2 DMW, Patiala. In a match between Varanasi and Ernakulum, Ernakulum won by 5 runs. Taufique of Varanasi region took 4 wickets for 11 runs with a hatrick. Nandgopan (Ernakulum) scored 41 runs. In the second match, between Jaipur and Raipur, Jaipur won by 5 wickets. Vijendra Jutt and Akash Tomar scored 19 runs each, while Asif Khan and Harshal Chauhan remained the best bowler taking 2 wickets each, giving11 and 14 runs respectively. In the third match, between Bhopal and Silchar, Bhopal won it by 3 wickets. Ashish Sinha (Silchar) scored 35 runs while Naveen Kumar (Silchar) took 3 wickets for 15 runs in 3 overs.

At KV No.2 Patiala, in a match between Kolkata and Agra, Agra won the match by 48 runs in 16 overs. Lakan Pratap Singh of Agra scored 67 runs in 52 balls while Mohit Sharma took 2 wickets for 6 runs in 3 overs for Agra. In another match between Delhi and Ahmedabad, Delhi scored 88 runs for 8 wickets in 16 overs and won the match. Vishal Singh Yadav snatched 4 wickets in 4 overs for 16 runs while Abrar Mansuri scored 25 runs in 36 balls for Delhi.

At Atma Ram Kumar Sabha Ground, Hyderabad defeated Dehradun by 19 runs Hardeep of Dehradun took 3 wickets for 7 runs in 3 overs while Abhishek of Hyderabad was the best batsman by scoring 34 runs in 6.1 overs. In another match, Chandigarh defeated Jammu region by 9 runs. Suneh of Chandigarh snatched 2 wickets for 2 runs in only 1 over. Lakhwinder of Jammu and Kunal of Chandigarh region scored 32 and 24 runs in 5.3 & 3 overs respectively.

Two matches at Multipurpose High School Ground were played between Ranchi and Lucknow, Ranchi scored 137 runs for 4 wickets and defeated Lucknow by 17 runs. Zishan Anwar and Faraz Ahmed took 3 wickets for 20 runs and 3 wickets for 23 runs respectively. Zishan Anwar established himself as the best batsman by scoring 95 runs and remained not out.

In a match played between Banglore and Chennai, Chennai defeated Banglore by 7 wickets scoring 118 for 3 wickets in 16 overs.

Chandigarh, October 23
Students of Saupin’s School, Sector 70, Mohali, won gold medals at the Punjab Zonal Inter-School Athletics Meet. Kunal Vishwa, Utkarsh Juneja and Guneetinder Singh bagged first prize in 800m under-17 boys, 600m under-14 boys and 100m under-14 boys category, respectively. Khushi Sharma won first prize and Nandita Sharma won third prize in long-jump.

In high-jump Nitish Laroia, Mandeep Kaur and Ishika Chopra won first, second and third position, respectively. They have been selected for district athletic meet.

In football, Nandita, Khooshi Sharma, Ishika, Lipika, Jasmeet, Sarvnoor, Vanshita, Arshpreet, Seerat, Deepneet, Agamnoor, Aprajita, Gurneet, Mannat, Onam and Sanya representing under-14 girls category won first position in Zonal Football Tournament.

Headmistress Goldie Kapany congratulated the winners and appreciated their sincere and active participation.

Chandigarh, October 23
Carmel Convent School, Sector 9, beat GMSSS-56 in under- 19 girls category of Table Tennis Inter-School Tournament held at DAV Public School, Sector 8, Chandigarh.

In another match of the same category, Sacred Heart beat Moti Ram Arya School, Sector 27 by 3-1. St Joseph, Sector 44 on the other hand defeated New Public School, Sector 19.

Under-19 boys, the host school DAV beat GMSSS-33 by 3-0. In other matche, St Soldiers, Sector 28, defeated St John’s, Sector 26, and AKSIP School, Sector 41, beat Moti Ram by 3-1 score.

Four league matches were held in under-17 boys category.

Sri Aurobindo, Sector 27, beat AKIPS, Sector 41, by 3-1. St Joseph, Sector 44, beat DPS by 3-1. Manav Mangal, Sector 21, defeated Ryan by 3-0 and host DAVP school beat St John’s 3-0.

7 matches were held in under-14 boys. In that category, St Kabir won by 3-0 over AKIPS-41. GMSSS-56 beat DPS 3-0. Ryan International-49 beat St Xavier’s 3-0. Apart from this, St Soldiers-28, Sri Aurobindo-27, MMHS-21 and Bhavan Vidyalaya, Sector 27, advanced to next level.

Chandigarh, October 23
In under-19 girl’s category of Inter-School Lawn tennis Tournament, DAV-8 beat DPS-40 by 2-0. Preet Nain and Gayatru of DAV-8 beat Charvi and Prabhneet of DPS-40 in their individual matches.

In another match, Sacred Heart, Sector 26, beat Carmel Convent 2-0. Naemat Aulakh and Bhavya of Sacred Heart-26 beat Aanndit Tandon and Kartishma of Carmel Convent School. — TNS