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Mohali, November 18
The Punjab Vigilance brought three accused, arrested in a drug case by the Patiala police, on production warrants here today.

The accused, identified as Randhir Singh, a resident of Gurdaspur, Viney Kumar and Karu Lal, both from Madhya Pradesh, were produced before the local court, which sent them on two-day remand under the police custody.

According to sources, the case has its link with the State Chemical Examiner Laboratory at Kharar, in which four employees identified as Dr Rajwinder Pal Singh, assistant chemical examiner (medical), RK Mishra, junior assistant, Lekh Raj, medical lab technician, and Darshan Singh, Class IV employee, were booked by the Punjab police for tampering with chemical reports of seized drugs and allegedly labelled them as failed samples or having low percentage of drug contents in their reports in exchange for hefty sums.

The sources in vigilance bureau said the samples of opium, recovered from Randhir, Viney and Karu Lal after their arrest last year, were labelled as failed samples by the laboratory officials.

“Officials of the laboratory has also been booked in the case now,” said a vigilance officer.

Notably after involvement of certain officials of the laboratory in a drug-haul case surfaced, the vigilance team had investigated the previous records, of last six years, of the lab.

Chandigarh, November 18
The police have booked the son of a former sarpanch of Hallo Majra for outraging the modesty of a girl on Sunday night. High drama was witnessed after the boy forcibly entered the girl's house.

Panchkula, November 18
A man was arrested by the Panchkula police for allegedly thrashing his wife at a club in Sector 6. The accused has been identified as Naveen Sapra.

According to information, the couple had separated around four years back.

Following a meeting fixed by the couple, the accused had come to the club to meet their eight- year-old daughter, who stays with her mother. After separation, one daughter was residing with her mother, while the other child aged 10, stays with Naveen.

A heated argument took place between the couple following which Naveen thrashed her. — TNS

Panchkula, November 18
Gopesh and Bani Sawhny bagged gold medals in their respective categories of the boys’ (U-4) and Girls (U-4) quads categories, during the 19th District Roller Skating Championship, concluded at Blue Bird High School, Sector 16. Around 250 skaters participated in the competition. Skaters of the Rolling Tiger Club won 23 titles out of 27.

Results

Boys (Under-6) Quads-Chinmay Kansal; Girls (Under-6) Quads-Garima; Boys (Under-6) Inline-Saksham; Girls (Under-6) Inline-Maurvi Malik; Boys (Under-8) Quads-Nitansh; Girls (Under-8)-Aarushi Suri; Boys (Under-8 years) Inline-Sidh Garg; Girls (Under-8) Inline-Tamanna Punchouty; Boys (Under-10)-Aditya Dabas; Girls (Under-10) category-Tarannum Bhandhari and Sakshi; Boys (Under-10) Inline-Ananya Prabhakar; Girls (Under-10)-Harshita Paul; Boys (Under-12)-Aryan Pal Singh; Girls (Under-12) Quads-Akshita Shourie; Boys (Under-12) Inline-Aarsh Mehtani; Girls (Under-12) Inline-Chhaya; Boys (Under-14) Quads-Mukul Kumar; Girls (Under-14) Quads-Karen George; Boys (Under-14) Inline-Ritin; Boys (Under-16) Quads-Ajay and Siddharth; Girls (Under-16) Quads-Akrita Sangari; Boys (Under-16) Inline-Anuj; Above-16 Boys Quads Category-Kunal Bansal.

Chandigarh, November 18
Preparing themselves for the only annual sports competition, the specially disabled students of the tricity are all set to amaze the audiences with their skills and dedication towards sports to be start from tomorrow at the Sports Complex, Sector 46.

A total of around 200 students from across the tricity, representing five institutions, will participate in the event. Like every year, they will participate in the athletics events and will be awarded with prizes, certificates, mementoes, ribbons.

Spreading a message of live life with courage, these students are practicing hard ahead of their annual sports meet. Leaving no stone unturned, all of them regular attend sports activity twice a day during eth school hours. Their teachers are looking after them and like every other coach guiding them to make fame.

“These special children have the ability to prove themselves at any level. They might not perform like a normal player but in their section, they are always in to give a good fight. They are a perfect example of ‘never give up’ and they do follow these lines in all good manner” said Rakesh, coach at SOREM School, Sector 36.

Besides participating in similar gender and age category, these special children will perform under the same ability group and like every other state meets the organisers of these Annual Athletics Meet will also select good bunch of player to further participate in nationals and world games.“The best performer will be selected to represent the city further in the nationals. The event will be organised for two days,” said Anil Sharma, Sports Director of the Special Olympics.

During the opening ceremony of the championship, these special children will also perform a special parade. Besides participating, they will also cheer the other participants.

“The children are preparing well. It takes a lot of time to teach the basics of sports. But the courage and their smiling faces-after winning the medals-make us more proud. They do fall under the special children but their dedication, ability, skills and effort is same as like a normal sportsman. God has gifted them a gesture of spreading happiness and the next two days, the stadium will witness their will,” said a coach of a local institution for special children.

Chandigarh, November 18
The Chandigarh Cricket Association (CCA), affiliated to the Punjab Cricket Association, has selected probable boys (U-16) team to participate in the Inter-District Cricket Championship, to be held later this month.

Selected players: Sagar Saren, Mandeep Singh, Yogesh, Tavleen, Tarun, Ashutosh, Anurakat, Sanyam, Monark Goyal, Aayush, Jagdeep, Shekhar, Mandeep, Arshdeep, Yogesh Aggarwal, Ddanish, Jaspreet, Chiranpreet, Amandeep, Sanchit, Siddharth and Sachin. — TNS

Chandigarh, November 18
The Chandigarh Veterans Amateur Athletic Association will conduct the 34th Chandigarh State Athletics Meet on November 24, at the Sports Complex of Sector 46, here.

During the championship, the organisers will also select local veteran athletes, who will represent the city in the upcoming 34th National Master Athletics Championship to be held from February 6 to 9 at Manglore in Karnataka.

Chandigarh, November 18
A verbal announcement by the Sports Secretary to include roller skating event under the gradation policy has boosted the participation of skaters in the recently concluded Chandigarh State Skating Championship for Boys and Girls.

Organisers of the state skating championship received overwhelming entries, in comparison to that of the last year’s participation. The announcement was made on the National Sports Day 2012 and the event was expected to get included in the next years’ gradation policy.

Last year, a total of 150 participants participated in the skating event of the state roller skating championship while the number went up to 325 participants this year.

Also, the tournament received a total of 50 entries in the roller-hockey event of the same championship whereas the number was around 20 last year.

“We have received a good response after it was announced that it would be included under the gradation policy. The city has a lot of talent in skating and hopefully in coming days the same place would produce some international skaters,” said Harpreet Singh, a local coach of skating. “We are happy that the skating will be included under the gradation policy. It will help our children to perform well and will also motivate the players to win more medals for the country,” said a parent.

Chandigarh, November 18
In the ongoing first Kanwar Bhan Cricket Championship for Boys (U-13), the cricket team of Satluj Public School, Panchkula, defeated Saupin’s School, Sector 32, by 78 runs here today. After electing to bat first, the Satluj School posted a total of 179 runs in the allotted slot of 40 overs.

Sukhraj led the score chart of the team with a 50-run contribution off 52 balls. Aryan Verma was the other good scorer for his contribution of 38 runs off 41 balls while Aryan Verma (38 runs) and Nehal Pajni (32 runs) contributed their share.

For the bowling side, Ujwal 2 wickets for 17 runs and Divyya 2 wickets for 40 runs picked equal number of wickets.

Chasing the target, Saupin’s School bundled out on 101 runs with Ujwal scoring major share of 23 runs off 30 balls. For the Satluj side, Sahil (3 for 20) and Aryan Verma (3 for 11) claimed three wickets each.

Chandigarh, November 18
The cricket team of Punjab defeated Railways by an innings and 205 runs, to garner 7 points in the Col CK Nayudu Cricket Trophy match held at the Dhruv Pandove Stadiumi Patiala. A fine spell by bowlers enabled the team to register a marginal win.

Making most of the damages to Railway’s batting line up, Amritpal Singh Bajwa claimed 5 wickets for 53 runs while Deepak Bansal 3 wickets for 49 runs and Jaskaran Buttar 3 wickets for 33 runs claimed their share. PI Chaudhary for his 35 runs off 45 balls with 6 boundaries and KI Thakur for his 20 runs off 9 balls with 5 boundaries were the only two batsmen to score the most of the runs. With this win, Punjab-A has taken its points tally to 10 points, including 3 points, for the first innings lead against that of Tamil Nadu at Dindigul in their previous encounter.

Brief scores

Punjab (1st innings): 462 all in 145.1 overs (Manan Vohra 132, Mandeep Singh 48, Kunwar Raina 21 Gitansh Kher 82, Amit Prashar 57, Jaskaran 46, Deepak Bansal 20 and Yogesh Kumar 34, KI Thakur 2 for 100 HG Kadam 1 for 93, SI Dua 2 for 84, PI Chaudhary 2 for 76).

Railways (1st Innings): 168 all out in 42.4 overs (YL Panwar 22, PB Awasthi 19 PI Chaudhary 35 KI Thakur 20 not out, Jaskaran Singh 2 for 33, Deepak Bansal 3 for 49 and AR Bajwa 5 for 53).

Railways (2nd Innings): 89 all out in 18 overs (AP Yadav 23, Vignish S 15, YL Parmar 16, KI Thakur 14, Jaskaran Singh 7 for 39, Deepak Bansal 3 for 49).

Chandigarh, November 18
The cricket team of Strawberry Fields World School, Sector 26, defeated Mount Carmel, Sector 45, by 55 runs in a league match of St Kabir Cricket Trophy for Boys (U-12), being 
here today.

After electing to bat first, the wining side piled up a total of 131 runs in the allotted slot of 20 overs. Maurya Mahajan (40 runs) guided the team to achieve a respectable total. He was equally supported by Raunaq Seth (25 runs) and Pransh Gilhotra (25 runs). For the bowling side, Harshpreet Singh claimed 2 for 19.

Chasing the target, the team of Mount Carmel School, Sector 45, bundled out for a total of 76 runs with Jashanjot contributing 18 runs. For the Strawberry side, Suryaveer and Viren took two wickets each.

Brief scores

Strawberry Fields: 131 for 7 in 20 overs (Maurya 40, Raunaq 25, Pransh 24, Harshpreet 2 for 19).

Mount Carmel: 76 for 8 in 20 overs (Jashanjot 18, Harshpreet 15, Viren 2 for 11, Suryaveer 2 for 18). In the second match of the day, Chandigarh Baptist School defeated Yadvindra Public School, Mohali, by 3 runs.