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Millers face heat for posing as cops
Police crack murder case
Man booked for using vulgar language on phone
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Residents protest against Gaushala Trust president
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Hospital introduces oxinium implants
Lala Sant Ram remembered
Goods worth Rs 1.5 lakh stolen
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Millers face heat for posing as cops
Bathinda, December 22 The millers in connivance with some workers and friends made repeated phone calls to the District Manager of Food Corporation of India (FCI) to get some work done. The manager, who refused to budge after repeated phone calls by ‘SSP’ and ‘DIG’ the millers, then rang up the manager by posing as a senior SAD leader close to the Deputy CM, Sukhbir Badal. The millers wish to change the delivery point of milled rice from the Budhlada railway station to Boha railway station in Mansa. They believeed that norms in Boha area are relaxed as compared to Budhlada. FCI DM, Rajiv Mishra, complained that he got upset over four to five calls daily by the ‘SSP’ and the ‘DIG’ and suspected that such officers would not call him for such a small work. Then someone posing as a senior SAD leader, who claims to quite close to Sukhbir Badal, started pressurising him to shift the millers delivery point. The ‘SAD leader’ ordered the DM to do the work of rice millers or else next call on his cell phone would be of Sukhbir Badal, the DM complained. Upset over the repeated phone calls, the DM called back to enquire the authenticity of the SAD leader. The caller initially failed to pose as a SAD leader, but when the DM disclosed his identity the caller realised his mistake and became SAD leader. The leader however and disconnect phone by saying that he is sitting with Sukhbir Badal. The DM also complained reprimand from SAD leader who warned him of not doing the work of the millers despite phone calls by DIG and SSP. The FCI manager, suspecting the authenticity of the callers, approached the DIG office and came to know that the DIG, Amar Chahal, was undergoing training in Hyderabad for three months. The reader of the SSP Vigilance too confirmed falsity of Sukhdev Chahal’s cell number. The FCI officials said last year too, a manager of the FCI was harassed by someone who posed as SSP Vigilance, Sukhdev Chahal, and threatened the manager to implicate in a vigilance case for not doing pending work of a rice miller. A case of personating a public servant has been registered against two persons under Sections 170 of the IPC, 506 of the IPC for criminal intimidation and 120-B of the IPC at the Kotwali police station. The accused have been booked in the case and may be sentenced for two to seven years or more by the court. Though the DM named Sanjay Kumar, Deputy and Vicky and two others as the culprits behind the harassment. The police have registered a case against Zakir Hussain and Vicky, both residents of
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Police crack murder case
Bathinda, December 22 The SSP said special emphasis is given on the heinous crimes under which today’s murder was also solved with arrest of both the accused who carried out murder for revenge. DSP (detective), Ranjeet Singh, said Nachhattar Singh, the only son of his parents in Sukhladdi village, was found murdered at his house yesterday. The victim’s father, Joginder Singh, said that his son was battered to death yesterday morning. The father said his son was sleeping in the front room adjacent to the village street. He lamented that his son did not wake up or responded despite repeatedly calls around 6 am. The father when removed the blanket from his son’s face, found it badly smashed. DSP Ranjeet said phone call details of the young boy were scrutinised suspecting some relationship with a girl. The calls were however, of not more than a few seconds to one minute. The DSP added that the boy was found making or receiving phone calls at his cell phone only from his customers wherein he talked pertaining to his work only. During further investigation it was found that the deceased had caught hold of a drug addict who tried to flee after a police raid in the village three months ago. The police raided a house after reports of a female orchestra dancer being brought in a house by some boys. A team of the policemen, including DSP Ranjeet, DSP (Talwandi Sabo) Dev Dutt and CIA in charge, Jagdish Sharma, was formed to question some suspects in the village. The names of Harjeet Singh and Pankaj, both residents of Nai Basti Goniana Mandi, cropped up during the investigation. They were picked up last night and admitted their crime during interrogation by the policemen in the office of the CIA at Bathinda. The accused admitted to have killed the young boy by scaling the boundary walls of the house to take revenge of catching one of them during the police raid three months ago. The accused said they avenged as the incident had brought a bad name to his maternal grandmothers family members in whose house the orchestra dancer was brought by them. |
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Man booked for using vulgar language on phone
Bathinda, December 22 The girl, a resident of Baba Farid Nagar, complained that the accused had been repeatedly calling over her cell phone and used derogatory
language. The police said that a case under Sections 354-D and 506 of the IPC has been registered against the accused. No arrests have been
made so far. NGO to install reflectors
NGO Sahara Jan Sewa has decided to install reflectors on vehicles to reduce the rising number of road accidents to some extent. NGO president, Vijay Goyal, said the work of installing reflectors would be launched with the help of the Bathinda police. He said that SSP Gurpreet Bhullar would install the first reflector in the city tomorrow and then more than reflectors on nearly 100 vehicles would be installed. Goyal said the reflectors would be installed on heavy and loaded vehicles, including tractor trolleys, trucks and buses. Besides, these would also be installed at roadside where motorists fail to decipher road width and edge. |
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Residents protest against Gaushala Trust president
Bathinda, December 22 The protestors, including former SAD councilor, Nirmal Singh Sandhu, Praveen Kalia, Pradeep Gola, Ashwani Bunty alleged that earlier too, the social and religious organisations have protested against the collection of funds in the name of constructing cattle pound that will house stray cattle. They said as per the constitution of the gaushala, the transactions of all funds received for the cattle pound construction and money spent, is to be maintained by the cashier. But despite passing a year, and holding protests, cashier of the organisation has not come into public. The protestors alleged that the president of the committee was grinding his own axe by running the organisation as his own property instead of involving its all office- bearers. They warned that if the president of committee does not come clean with the financial records of cattle pound in next 15 days, they would intensify the agitation against him. Ashwani Kumar Bunty, Yashpal, Praveen Kalia, Abhay Kumar, Hardyal Singh, Ranga Ram, Harvinder Mattar, Ramesh Kali, Raju, Ravinder Rimpy and others were also present. However, Vijay Kumar said the protestors did not want the cattle pound to come into existence. “Those participating in protest want to contest municipal corporation elections and the protest is a mere tool of getting a ticket from respective the political parties. I am committed to my work of constructing a gaushala for which a family donated two acres of land. Only those people can ask me for the transaction of funds who have contributed to it. I am not answerable to just anyone,” he said. |
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Unaided Schools’ Front holds protest march
Bathinda, December 22 The association has named their campaign Lok Jagao, Aided School Bachao. He said similar protests will be held at all the wards in the city telling people about the backtracking of the Punjab government over the promises made at the time of election. Association members will also distribute pamphlets against the government. Leader Chandrakanta said the Chief Minister, does not have time to meet the representatives of these unions that have been putting up genuine demands. “When the CM does not have time to hear the demands of the agitating unions, from where would he have time to listen to the woes of a common man,” she said. She said similar protest marchs will be carried out in front of every SAD leader’s house at every ward to awaken the general public about working of the state government. The agitating teachers demanded that the government should regularise them as per the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court or else it would have to face 10 lakh students and staff members of the unaided schools’ union. |
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Smoke-free status accorded to district
Megha Mann Tribune News Service
Bathinda, December 22 However, little thought was spared on make government jobs more attractive for the medicos that registered a high attrition rate. The year began on an unsavoury note with revised user charges for various facilities in the hospitals and increased rates of blood. While the user charges increase was accepted by the patients, the move of increasing the rates of blood did not go down well with the NGOs who are still agitating against it. Protesting against the mass transfers, done under the rationalisation policy of the government, the doctors went on strike. The medical community also marked its protest pertaining to the post-graduate quota for the PCMS doctors in PG courses admissions. The employees of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) repeatedly went on strike demanding regularisation. The backbone of the health delivery, especially in the rural belt, the NRHM employees have been demanding pay parity with that of teachers working under the SSA and RMSA, who have been regularised. Cancer treatment scam rocked the city with a patient accusing a doctor of fleecing her in the name of cancer treatment. In order to mitigate the sufferings of the cancer affected people and putting an end to such scams, the government has now introduced cashless treatment facilities. This year, Bathinda had the honour of being declared a smoke-free district under the Act that intends to curb passive smoking, public smoking and sale of tobacco and its products to minors. The health authorities also deserved appreciation for containing the dengue spread in the district. To a larger extent, in collaboration with the Municipal Corporation Bathinda (MCB), the health authorities have managed to limit the number of dengue cases, which had taken a toll in the year 2011. The year also saw a number of surprise visits. Health Minister Surjit Kumar Jyani, principal secretary, health, Vinni Mahajan and later CPS Sarup Chand Singla paid surprise visits to government hospital. Jyani and Mahajan’s visit was encouraging for the staff as both dwelt on positive aspects. Singla’s visit remained controversial with Singla claiming that doctors were absent from their designated places, while the doctors said they worked inside the hospital. Also, there was an episode of a man posing as an SGPC official threatening the SMO that exposed the political interference in the working of the government officials. Government health sector now looks forward to early completion of Advanced Cancer Research and Diagnostic Centre in the Industrial Growth Centre, a new hospital for women and children and medicine warehouse and handing over of the de-addiction centre to Baba Farid University. The private sector saw the arrival of quality hospitals and practitioners making an entry into the health sector. While Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (AIMSR) introduced new PhD courses, the medico associations held medical education programmes to upgrade knowledge and provide expertise.
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Gajrela that sells like hot cakes
Megha Mann Tribune News Service
Bathinda, December 22 Serving dessert for the past four years from his van, Sukhmandar Singh's recipe for gajrela is home cooked. Reason: from extracting khoya from milk to grating carrots and sautéing them, Sukhmandar and his wife do everything on their own. In winters, the milk consumption for this food point is 40 to 45 kg per day, which rockets past 100 kg in summers. It takes 4 to 5 hours to prepare around 15 kg of gajrela that is served daily. "In order to get fresh milk supply, we have tied up with a dairy owner at Deon village. We get our daily supply of milk early in the morning, marking the onset of our day," he says. This is followed by extracting khoya from milk, carrot grating, sautéing, simmering and adding dry fruits to the dessert. The gajrela is available at Rs 350 per kg, while gulab jamun is sold at Rs 200 per kg. Sukhmandar starts selling the dessert at around 3 pm and is done by 9 pm. Besides gajrela, gulab jamuns and milk badam are up for grabs. During the summers, gajrela is replaced by ice-cream and loads of milk badam. A native of Hanumangarh in Rajasthan, Sukhmandar came to the city to eke out his livelihood. The son of a farmer, it was not an easy task for him to shift from working at farms to cooking. "But necessity is the mother of invention. As a child, I loved gajrela and hence, decided to share my love with others," he says. Sukhmandar sells his produce in his own van. He is happy with his work and wants to sustain the quality of food served.
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Hospital introduces oxinium implants
Bathinda, December 22 Dr
Brar, who has already conducted a procedure using OI, said the durability of the implant was 25-30 years. Dr Brar further said oxinium was easily tolerated by the body as they were created using bio-compatible elements. Sedentary lifestyle, limited exposure to the sun, poor eating habits and lack of exercise were not just causing lifestyle disorders like hypertension and diabetes but were also a huge contributor towards the early onset of osteoarthritis among Indians. The rising cases of osteoarthritis and other joints related problems are being observed even in Punjab, he said. |
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Lala Sant Ram remembered
Bathinda, December 22 All-India Freedom Fighters' Successors Union unit and Freedom Fighter Lala Sant Ram Memorial Library Bathinda president Yashpal Bansal said the association demanded Freedom Fighters’ Home (Swaraj Bhawan) from the district administration. Books worth Rs 25,000 were also demanded
from the Bathinda district administration. The library management has decided to hold lectures daily, informing about India’s movement for independence. These lectures will be held daily from 11 am to 12 noon and will continu to be held till January 3. Tomorrow's lecture will dwell on British colonisation, Vellore Mutiny, 1857 mutiny, birth of Ghadar Movement, Bengal partition, All-India Muslim League and First World War, among other topics. |
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Goods worth Rs 1.5 lakh stolen
Bathinda, December 22 He reported that costly material, estimated to be around Rs 1.5
lakh was found missing from the house. The police have registered a case under Section sections 457 and 380 of the IPC at the Kotwali
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