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Rs 31 cr to be spent on repairs of link roads
Our Correspondent

DERA BASSI, JANUARY 15
Chief parliamentary secretary NK Sharma today stated that each and every effort would be made for the development of Dera Bassi as a model block.

He said Rs 31 crore would be spent for the renovation work of link roads out of which tenders worth Rs 18 crore had already been called. He said Dera Bassi would be the first constituency of Punjab having continuous drinking water supply.

He added that Rs 25,12,77,000 had been spent for rural water supply schemes in the block. Sharma said, “The schemes assisted by the World Bank have been executed by the Department of Water Supply and Sanitation and have been handed over to water supply and sanitation committees of the village.”

Panchkula, January 15
A local court today convicted three persons in the case pertaining to a dacoity at the house of a financier in Sector 7 Panchkula where they held an eight-month-old baby girl at gunpoint and looted valuables and jewellery from the house.

On March 15, 2012, the three convict, Arun, Deepak and Reepak, entered the financier’s house on the pretext of issuing smart cards and robbed them of cash and jewellery. While the father of the child, Nitin Modi, a financier, was away to his office, the three committed the crime when his wife Sakshi was alone at home with her baby girl.

Counsel Manbir Rathi said the quantum of punishment in the case would be announced tomorrow. The three have been held guilty under section 397 (dacoity with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) of the IPC.

On the day of the incident, while one accused Arun was nabbed by the neighbours when the three were trying to flee, the other two were arrested later.

According to the police, Nitin Modi had gone to a temple when the accused approached his wife, Sakshi, and told her that they had come to issue smart cards. When Sakshi, who was along with her eight-month-old baby girl Raica, refused, the youths asked her for water. When she came back, they held Raica at gunpoint and asked Sakshi to bring all the jewellery and cash lying at the house else they would kill the baby, stated the police.

It was after Sakshi’s neighbour knocked on the door that the robbers tried to flee with the valuables. The neighbours raised an alarm and one of the robbers was caught.

Chandigarh, January 15
Theft of water taps worth Rs 1.5 lakh from women's toilets near the New Bar room in the Punjab and Haryana High Court was reported today. The UT police have registered a case of theft at the Sector 3 police station and begin investigations.

The police received a complaint from Santokhwinder Singh Grewal, honorary secretary, that 16 taps have been stolen from the women's toilets on the court premises. The matter was came to light on January 13 when the guard on duty opened the locks and found the taps (Jaguar brand) missing.

The police is analysing a CCTV camera footage.

"The guard stated that the door was locked from outside, which is a mystery for the police. We are investigating this angle," said Inspector Harjit Kaur, SHO of the Sector 3 police station.

The UT police, too, did not mention the incident of theft in the daily crime chart sent to the media.

Computer hardware worth ~9 lakh stolen

Theft of computer hardware worth Rs 9 lakh was reported from a shop in Sector 34. The complainant, Deep Chand, has alleged he first reported the matter to the police on December 25 but no action was taken then. The police, however, said they received a complaint only yesterday and a case was registered immediately.

Deep Chand reported to the police that nine computers and laptops, 14 LED screens, 90 hard discs, 80 cartirdges, 25 laptop adaptors, 13 processors were stolen from his shop.

Mohali, January 15
In a case of rape of two minor girls, a Mohali court awarded seven-year sentence to two accused while the two others have been acquitted here today.

Mohali Additional District And Sessions Judge Manjot Kaur sent Tajinder Singh and Avtar Singh, both residents of Mote Majra village, to seven years in prison and also imposed a fine of Rs 8,000 each.

The two other accused in the case, Tajinder Singh and his father Amar Singh, have been acquitted by the court.

A case under Sections 376, 363, 366A and 506 of the IPC was registered against Tajinder and Avtar on November 20, 2013, on the complaint of Gurdip Singh, a resident of Bassi Bandia village while the father-son duo was booked for criminal conspiracy (Section 120B, IPC) in the case.

The police said Tajinder and Avtar had allured the minor girls, both students of Class XII and residents of Banur, and taken them along. The police arrested the duo from the bus stand of Rampur village after three days and recovered the girls.

Chandigarh, Januray 15
Rowers Gurvinder Singh and Gurpreet Kaur won top position in men and women single skull events, respectively, during the recently concluded Punjab's Senior State Rowing Championship, held at Sukhna Lake, here. The championship was organised by Punjab Amateur Rowing Association. In the men's single skull event Gurvinder Singh bagged a gold medal while Satam Singh and Sukhwinder Singh bagged silver medal and bronze medals, respectively. In the women's event, Gurpreet Singh won the top honour while Lakhbir Kaur bagged silver medal in the same category. Sarbhjeet Kaur managed to win bronze medal.

Results

Men's double skull: Gurvinder and Satnam; Arvind and Ranjit; Sukhwinder and Kulwant; Men's cox less pair- Gurvinder and Gurjeet; Ramanjeet and Karamjeet Singh; Jatinder Singh and Satnam Singh.

Cox less (4 member) Ramanjeet Singh, Karamjeet Singh, Jatinder Singh and Satnam Singh; Satbir Singh Gurjit Singh, Gurvinder Singh and Harshdeep Singh Dhillon; Ranjit Singh, Simarjeet Singh, Arvinder Singh and Kiran Pratap

Women's double skull: Navdeep Kaur and Prabhjot Kaur; Gurpreet Kaur and Paramjeet Kaur; Lakhvir Kaur and Amandeep Kaur.

Cox less pair: Navdeep Kaur and Prabhjot Kaur; Gurdeep Kaur and Paramjeet Kaur; Kawaljeet Kaur and Baljeet Kaur.

Cox less (4 member): Pranhjot Kaur, Navdeep Kaur, Gurpreet Kaur and Paramjeet Kaur; Manpreet Kaur, Amandeep Kaur, Kawaljeet Singh and Baljit Kaur.

Chandigarh, January 15
Bringing laurels to the City Beautiful, local pugilists won top positions in All India Inter- University Championship for men and School National Games for boys.

Panjab University's men pugilists’ team bagged the title of the All India Inter-University Boxing Championship. The championship was held at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi from January 4 to January12. In the championship, the boxers bagged all the individual bouts and overall trophy securing maximum points.

Team: Channpreet Singh (Captain), Anand, Mansih Kaushik, Rakesh Saharan, Vijay Kumar, Sagar Jhanjotra, Mohan, Lakshya Chouhan, Jaspal Singh and Harmeet Singh, Bhagwant Singh (Coach).

Laurels in school games

Local boxers also won the laurels in the 59th National Boxing Championship for boys (U-17). The team won third spot in the championship. The team members also won bronze medal in the boys (U-19) category. In the boys (U-17) category, Vipin won a bronze medal (46 kg). Sachin (67 kg), Krtshan (81kg), Bhanu Pratap (75 kg) won silver medals (U-17). Aashish bagged a silver medal in 63 kg category.

In the boys (U-19) category, Deepak Singh (51kg), Ashish Rana (54kg), Shankar (64kg), Shubham Singh (69kg), Manjot Singh (+91 kg) won bronze medals. Manju Singh (91kg) won silver medal in the same age group.

Chandigarh, January 15
Team sports continue to face neglect of the Chandigarh Police. On Wednesday, when half of the police squad was participating in the Inter-Unit Police Sports Meet at the Sector 26 police lines, not a single member of the hockey and football teams of the UT police were invited to perform drills, like the other participants.

The team games in Chandigarh police are suffering from apathy. Notably, due to no new recruitment under sports quota was done for quite long. The Police Department was scheduled to recruit sportspersons after June 2011 but no development has been made so far. The team games including hockey, football and volleyball are among the worst hit.

“If the department is organising an inter-unit meet, the officials should have the courtesy to include games like football, hockey, cricket and volleyball. Earlier, police teams used to get special invitations for playing in national-level tournaments but with the change in times and no new recruitment our own department is not inviting us to play in the inter unit meet. There is no young blood and moreover no exposure for police teams. Somehow, due to involvement of senior officials, the cricket team manage to play some tournaments otherwise other games are suffering a lot,” said a football player recruited long time back in Chandigarh Police.

If the Chandigarh Police recruit new sports persons, it will also help the local players. On an average every year, two or three local players, in different disciplines, represent the nation.

Another player added, “We are not opposing but the officials should concentrate in larger perceptive. We have a handful of players, in different units, all are well experienced, and the authorities could have easily conducted a seven-a-side football or hockey match. The ‘team’ games need special attention and motivation to perform. If our own department will not support us how can we come forward and showcase our talent. The athletes, kabaddi players, wrestlers, volleyball players have participated in meet then why not us?” asked a senior hockey player.

On the occasion of National Road Safety Week, the Chandigarh Police organisedan inter-unit sports meet at the Police Lines, Sector 26. Events included, kabaddi, tug-of -war, volleyball and athletics meet were organised d. The event was announced open by VK Singh, former Finance Secretary, UT Administration. Today, the pre-quarters rounds were organised.

Results

Kabaddi: Traffic Police beat South Zone 24-0, Police Line beat East zone 48-17, Other Units beat Center Zone 47-27, IRB beat PCR 32-22.

Volleyball: Crime Cell beat Central Zone 2-0 (25-18, 25-21), Police line beat South Division 2-1(16-5-25-19, 25-18), Communication beat East Zone 2-0 (25-18, 25-19)

Athletics: Ramesh Kumar, IRB(5km) Vikas, IRB(200mts)

Devender Singh, VIP security(800mts), Vinod Kumar IRB (400mts)

Women

400mts: Manpreet Kaur IRB; Anju, Police line

Inspector’s 100mts race : Maninder Singh, Dilbag Singh

Chandigarh, January 15
The Skaters of Rolling Tigers Skating Academy, Panchkula performed well in the national championship and won a total of 7 medals and cash prize of Rs 74,000 during the recently concluded 59th School Nationals held in Mumbai. The skaters represented Haryana in the national championship.

Raghav vashisht of St Xaviers School, Panchkula, won gold medal in the rink race 1 event and also bagged a silver medal in road race for boys (U-11) event. B Pranay Goud of Hallmark Public School, Panchkula, won silver medal in rink race 2 in the same category of boys (U-11). Aryan Pal of St. Xaviers School, Panchkula, claimed gold medal in road race and silver medal in rink race 2 event of boys (U-14) age category.

In the girls (U-14) category, Aakshita Shourie of Little Flower School, Panchkula, won bronze medal in rink race 2. Another skater Anuj Sood of The Gurukul School, Panchkula, also brought laurels for the state by winning a bronze medal in rink race 3 event of boys (U-17) inline category.