Chandigarh, December 3
Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court Sanjay Kishan Kaul today emphasised on the need to have trained functionaries in the field of criminal justice system, police, prison and judiciary.

He was speaking on the concluding day of a two-day international seminar on ‘Penal Reforms and Restorative Justice’ organised by the Institute of Correctional Administration (ICA), Chandigarh, in collaboration with the Social Action Foundation for Equity (SAFE), here, today.

During his valedictory address, the Chief Justice said there was a need to have separate wings for law and order and investigation.

The main agenda items for the seminar were restorative justice in the penal estate; and wholly environmentally sustainable estates cognisant of sustaining restorative and therapeutic values.

Dr Brian Steels, Senior Research Fellow, and Dr Dot Goulding, Senior Research Fellow from Curtin University, Australia, were the key resource persons for the seminar. Anil Kumar, IAS, Home Secretary, Chandigarh Administration-cum-Director, ICA, Haryana minister Randeep Singh Surjewala and Dr Upneet Lalli, Deputy Director, ICA, were among those present. — TNS

Chandigarh, December 3
In the final match of junior snooker, Tanurag Gautam outclassed Pulkit Bagla 3-0 to win the title of 29th Chandigarh State Billiards and Snooker Championship.

In the final match of junior billiards Rajwinder managed to win over top seeded Chandan Gulati 2-0. Chandan missed a pot at 53 in the first frame from where Rajwinder finished the frame winning 60-53. Balwinder made 12 break to win the frame and Ranveer of St Stephens School, Sector-45, Chandigarh finished third. In the senior snooker, top seeded Rajat Khaneja overcome Arif Akhtar in a thrilling encounter, to win 2-1.

In senior billiards Arif Akhtar of Indian Oil outclassed Manav Dhawan in straight frames 2-0. The Sr. cueist was seen in good touch with soft play. Controlling the balls at will Arif made breaks of 28, 35 and 44 to easily win 100-41, 100-28. 

Chandigarh, December 3
The sports meet of State Bank of India concluded today at the Sports Complex, Sector 46, here today. Sandeep from Hissar won 400 m, 800 m and 1,500 m races. In the final of 100m race, Nipkesh Birkian of Amritsar attained first spot while in the 200m race Subhash of Rohtak was the winner.

Results

50m race and 100m (Women)- Navdeep; Long jump (Men)- Nipkesh Birkian, Amritsar; Tripple jump (Men) — Mandeep Singh, Tarn Taran; Shortput (Men)- Kranti Rai, Chandigarh; Javelin throw (Men)-Rohit Kataria of Muktsar; Kabaddi- Regional Business Office Hissar. 

Chandigarh, December 3
The Netball team of GGDSD College, Sector 32, won the Panjab University Inter-College Netball Championship for men. In the final match of the meet, the winning team beat SGGS College, Sector 26, 11-8. 

The team of Panjab University Campus defeated DAV College, Sector 10, 34-29. In the semi-finals, the GGDSD College beat PU Campus 22-21 while the SGGS College Chandigarh beat DAV College.

Chandigarh, December 3
Malwa College, Samrala, beat LLR Government College, Dudike, in a match of Panjab University Inter-College Kabaddi Championship (Punjab Style). The team registered a 45-26 win. The team of BBPUCC, Balachaur, beat DAV College, Abohar, 34-18 while Malwa College, Samrala beat GKSM Government College, Tanda, 32-12.

Results: AS College, Khanna, bt PUCC,Guruhar Sahai, 26-11; DAV College, Hoshiarpur bt BBPUC Balachaur 30-15; GHG Khalsa College, Gurusar Sadhar, bt SGGS Khalsa College, Mahilpur, 32-28; SGGS College, Sector 26, bt AS College, Khanna, 26-10. 

Chandigarh, December 3
Ashmita Chaliha and Ningshi of Assam beat Manidipa Dey and Esha Ghosh of West Bengal 21-13 and 21-13, during the match of 38th Junior National Badminton Championship, being held here today. The winning pair defeated the rivals 21-16, 15-21 and 21-19. In another match, Riya Mookerjee and Tapaswini Samantroy from Uttar Pradesh beat Akanshi Baliyan and Akshita Bhandari of Delhi.

Results of quarter finals

Mixed doubles (U-19) Sanyam Shukla and Meghana J bt Kawaldeep Singh and Kailash 21-8, 21-13; Chandrabhushan Tripathi and Anushka Kuvelkar bt Adarsh Binoy and Sruthi KP 21-18, 21-13; Sankeerth BR and Mira Mahadevan bt Vinay Kumar Singh and Pragya Rai 21-19, 17-21, 21-16; Kabir Kanzarkar and Ahillya Harjani bt Santosh Ravuri and Poorvisha S Ram 21-16,14-21, 21-17.

Boys (U-17) Pre-quarter finals- Daniel Farid S bt Aarush Setia 21-9, 21-11; Siril Varma ASS bt Chandra Kumar D 21-9, 21-15; Talar Laa bt Sahil Sipani 21-12, 21-18; Kanishq M bt Aman Kumar 19-21, 21-7, 21-13; Chirag Shetty bt Shubham Prajapati 21-13, 21-12; Chirag Sen bt Lakshya Sen 21-13, 21-13.

Girls (U-17) Pre-quarter finals- Karishma Wadkar bt Rahi Doshi 21-11 21-2; Vrushali G bt Malvika JK 21-16 21-13; Ashmita Chaliha bt Shriyanshi Pardeshi 21-16 26-24; Shikha Gautam bt Riya Mookerjee 22-20 21-12; Mahima Aggarwal bt Kuhoo Garg 21-16 21-19; Mrunmayi Saoji bt Harika V 21-15 21-10; Boys Doubles (U-17) Arjun MR and Chirag Shetty bt Kartik Jindal and Hardik Makkar 21-13 21-9; Kapil Chaudhry and Chandrabhushan Tripathi bt Sanjai Srivatsa D and Sribalaji S. 21-16 21-13; Rohan Kapoor and Saurabh Sharma bt Krishna Prasad G and Satwik Sai Raj R 21-18 21-15; Sankeerth BR and Sahil Sipani bt Sandeep and Himanshu Saroha 24-22 21-18.

Girls’ doubles (U-17) Malvika JK and Ashna Roy bt Ahillya Harjani and Mrunmayi Saoji 21-9 21-15; Pranjal Prabhu Chimulkar and Anura Prabhudesai bt Sanya Sethi, and Gayatri Swaroop 21-17 21-16; Rahi Doshi and Riya Gajjar bt Pinky Karki and Yania Taring 21-14 21-10; Kuhoo Garg and Harika V bt Apeksha Nayak and Nivedha Srinivasan 19-21 21-11 21-14; Kailash and Muskan Sohi bt Somibala Devi M and Purnima Devi N 21-10 19-21 21-11.