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Rewari
Child crushed to death by bus: A two-and-a-half-year-old girl, Sakshi, was crushed to death by a private bus at the Dharuhera bus stand yesterday. Her mother, Sangeeta Devi, sustained injuries.
The mishap took place when Sangeeta and Sakshi were alighting from the bus and the driver suddenly started the bus.
Sonepat
Couple commits suicide: A couple allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a train near the Sonepat Co-operative Sugar Mill last night. The deceased have been identified as Sumit Chhabra (25) of Garhi Ghasita and Ankita, a Class XI student of Shyam Nagar. The SHO of the GRP station at Sonepat, inspector Bhim Singh, said they had not recovered any suicide note from the site.
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Batote
9 kg charas seized, 1 held: The police here claimed to have recovered 9 kg of charas from a Kashmir-bound passenger. Acting on a specific tip-off, a police party, led by the
SHO, Ramban, laid a naka near Shan Palace on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Friday. The police party intercepted a Kashmir-bound taxi and while frisking its occupants apprehended Abdul Rashid Kasana of
Panggam, Kukarnag, and recovered 9 kg of charas from him, the police said.
Srinagar
‘Reopen Pathribal case’: An organisation, seeking whereabouts of missing persons in the state, protested the closure of Pathribal fake encounter case by the Army on Saturday. "Our demand is that the Pathribal fake encounter case, in which five innocent Kashmiris were killed in 2000, should be re-opened," said Parveena Ahanger, chairperson, Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons.
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Dehradun
Case registered: Vivek Agarwal, the owner of a toy store, registered a complaint against his employee Mohamad Gani for creating a ruckus inside the shop and threatening to kill him. According to the complaint, Gani damaged toys worth lakhs and allegedly threatened to kill Vivek and his wife who was also present at the shop. Reportedly, Gani who works at the toyshop in Astley Hall had an argument with the owner of the shop after which he allegedly misbehaved with the owner and damaged the toys kept in the shop. The Kotwali police registered a case.Illicit liquor seized:
As part of its crackdown against trade of illicit liquor, the Rishikesh police held a person and recovered ten cartons of country made liquor from his possession. Liquor smuggler Naresh was arrested during a checking near the forest barrier at Dehradun Road when he was about to sit in his car. He
was presented before the court and remanded to police custody. BSP leader demands security:
BSP leader Manoj Sharma has claimed threat to his life and demanded security from the Dehradun SSP after Lalit Yadav, who was arrested for firing six gunshots on Manoj Sharma in 2012, failed to turn up in the Suddhuwala jail after his parole ended on February 12. It is to be noted that Manoj was seriously wounded in the firing incident. Yadav was arrested by the police for firing at
Manoj.
champawat Temperature plummets:
Temperature dipped below 1°C on Saturday following continuous heavy snowfall and rain in Champawat, Pithoragarh, Nainital and Almora districts for the last 48 hours. “The lowest temperature of the winter season was recorded in Champawat and Munsiyari towns where more than 12 mm of rainfall was followed by about three feet of snowfall in the hills,” said Dr HS Kushwaha, in charge of the Weather Department at Pantnagar University.Pithoragarh Engg college upgraded:
Congress workers expressed their gratitude to Chief Minister Harish Rawat and local MLA Mayukh Mahar for upgrading the local engineering college as a government college. The party workers held a meeting under the chairmanship of Rishendra Singh Mahar and passed a resolution demanding that other pending projects like that of the base hospital be completed soon.
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