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Admn to start single-window system
Rural police to collect arms at doorstep
Man claims kidnapping case of son hushed up by police
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Seminar discusses ills afflicting cinema, society
1,700 examined at medical camp
Man run over by train
Thieves strike at 2 places
Three injured in land dispute
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Admn to start single-window system
Jalandhar, March 28 While earlier the party leaders had to run around the offices of the respective Assistant Returning Officer, Jalandhar Cantonment, police officials, Fire Department, Municipal Corporation and other officials concerned for taking permission from the various departments, now they will simply have to come to one counter where officials of all departments would issue them notices for the same. District Electoral Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner Varun Roojam said from tomorrow, a room would be allocated for the purpose which would be supervised by a PCS-level nodal officer. There will a DSP-rank officer from the police, a fire officer and an XEN from the MC. For far-flung areas like Phillaur, Shahkot and Nakodar for whom coming to the city is an uphill task, the administration is also mulling to allow the decentralised mode to continue where the party leaders of these areas will be able to approach the SDM-cum-ARO concerned who would, by fax or other means, direct the applications to the Jalandhar office for processing and redirect them to the applicant. Inactive expenditure monitoring committee
The District Election Office seems to have just formed and set up an expenditure monitoring committee as a mere formality of the Election Commission of India. The staff from various banks, Excise and Taxation Department and other offices on duty in the room are not at all aware of the ongoing political functions in the city. Even as the candidates are to start filing their nomination papers from April 2, the expenditure incurred by the party leaders in holding rallies and even small get-togethers is to be monitored constantly by the video surveillance teams for adding the amount to the party’s overall election expenditure. Despite Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal having held a rally at JC Resorts about two weeks ago and BSP having celebrated the birthday of Kashi Ram as a political rally at Desh Bhagat Yadgaar Hall, no such expenditure details have been calculated and sent to the CEO Punjab office. 8,700 government employees on poll duty
With election rehearsals scheduled to begin on Sunday, the District Election Office has dispatched the election duty letters to 8,700 government employees across the district. Having received these letters, many employees have already started making beeline outside the offices of the Deputy Commissioner, AROs concerned and the office of the National Informatics Centre for getting their election duties cancelled. Those who have been assigned duties on the basis of randomisation done by a software largely include government school teachers, bank employees and other government office staff. 25,000 civil, police staff to cast vote by forms
Roojam said the government staff which would be turning up for the first rehearsal to be held on March 30 would be given 12-A forms for casting their vote in their respective constituencies. He said the forms, thus, filled would be put in special boxes and the AROs concerned under whom they would be appearing for poll duty would issue them the election duty certificate. |
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Rural police to collect arms at doorstep
Jalandhar, March 28 Despite issuing strict instructions, only 50 per cent of the weapons have been deposited by residents living in the Jalandhar rural belt till date. The figure stands at 2,874. Superintendent of Police (Detective) HPS Khakh said most of the licence-holders had not paid heed to the deadline set up by the police for depositing arms due to which the police were now mulling to reach the doorstep of the legal weapon-holders. “I have held a meeting with SHOs of every police station, falling in the Jalandhar rural belt, and have categorically told them to scan the number of residents who are yet to deposit their arms. Now our cops will visit the doorstep of each and every household to collect their licensed weapons,” Khakh said. The licence collection will be done in a safe and secure manner just to make residents feel that they are depositing their weapons at the police station. Proper receipt will be issued to the licence-holders. The weapon will be kept in a trunk in front of the holder, he added. Asked when the police would exactly start the exercise, Khakh said a weapon licence-holder record is being prepared at the police station level and in a day or two, the exercise will be started. “If during door-to-door collection, any licence-holder makes lame excuses in depositing weapons, the police may initiate the proceedings to forfeit his/her weapon or may also cancel the same,” the SP said, adding that action would be taken as per the guidelines issued by the Election Commission of India. If licence-holders don’t deposit their weapons, they have to prove before the police that they are facing any threat perception. Otherwise we are also surveying about the weapons holders who can be given exemptions, the SP added. Sources said the police would give exemption to the political leaders, people residing in isolated places or any other person who faced assault in the past. Sources said the rural police had issued arms licence to 6,333 residents, out of which 6,295 licence holders were males, while 38 were females.
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Man claims kidnapping case of son hushed up by police
Jalandhar, March 28 More shockingly, when the parents of the boy reappeared in front of the district administration this morning, claiming that one of the children in the photograph published in The Tribune seen working at Sanga Farms, owned by Gurdev Kaur Sangha, Shiromani Akali Dal leader and ex-chairperson of the Punjab State Women Commission, was their son, the police did not make any effort to raid the farm along with the parents to recover their son. A "mock drill" of the raid was though conducted by the District Task Force without the police force at the Sangha Farms later in the afternoon. “My child was kidnapped from our home on May 16 last year when he went out to close a door. We found one of his sleepers inside the gate and the other on the road outside. We immediately informed the police and told them to register an FIR, but all they did was mark an entry in the daily diary report (DDR),” said Nand Kishore. He also said that the cop at the Nangal Shama police station had also mentioned in the DDR that the child was not kidnapped, but left on his own will. "Since I hail from Madhya Pradesh and could not read and understand the local language (Gurmukhi), I could not make out the contents written in the DDR,”said Nand Kishore. He also said that while writing the DDR, he was not informed about the matter prior to its writing. Although the apex court has given clear directions that a first information report (FIR) has to be filed in all cases pertaining to the kidnapping/abduction/missing persons, the police is just filing FIRs in kidnapping and abduction cases only. The Tribune investigations also revealed that although a DDR No.0740 had been filed at the Nangal Shama Police station, an FIR, till date, has not been registered in the case. “We do not have any record of the FIR lodged under Section 365 in the Krishan Kant kidnapping case” confirmed Darshan Singh at the Criminal Records Office. More surprisingly, the police commissionerate till date has not maintained a separate record of the missing/kidnapped children (under 14 years of age) and only maintains a single missing persons file, which includes men, women and children from 1 year to 90 years. Although, there has been a stupendous increase in the number of missing children cases in the district for the last few years, no separate office or team has been constituted to unearth the child trafficking racket running in the district. According to a recent report published in the Tribune, hundreds of children were found working in various fields spread across the length and breadth of the district in broad daylight some of which are situated just opposite the rural police posts.Rahul S, Deputy Commissioner of Police, accepted the fact that no separate record was presently being maintained by the police commissionerate. He also confirmed that an FIR was being registered in all cases pertaining to missing children in the area. “It’s been two years that the Supreme Court directed to register FIR in all missing cases. For the last three months, we are registering FIRs under Section 365 in all such case,” said Rahul S. According to police records, since January 1, around eight kids went missing out of which 8 were recovered by the police or have come back on their own. Still 2 of them are untraceable. As far as DDRs are concerned, since 2009, 78 DDRs have been registered in the missing persons case, out of which, 63 cases were solved and 15 are still under investigation.
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Seminar discusses ills afflicting cinema, society
Jalandhar, March 28 The inaugural function of the seminar was presided over by Mangal Dhillon, actor, producer, director and writer. Speaking about the ills, which afflicted society and cinema, Mangal said it was in the hands of the audience to make a film hit or a flop. Similar was the case with the problems in society, he added. While talking about his films and the religious and spiritual elements in them, he exhorted the participants to introspect to achieve peace within them as well as address the social concerns through the medium of cinema. He said, “We have a rich treasure of stories and subjects which can be adapted for films.” The papers presented at the seminar dealt with deconstruction of specific films, representation of women in films, relationship between cinema and society. Padamini Jain, Assistant Professor at Indira Gandhi Nation Open University, while presenting her research paper said representation of women in Bollywood had changed very realistically with the passage of time. Very bold and open picture of women was being depicted in Bollywood in the present scenario i.e. they did not shy away from speaking about sexual issues unlike in the previous time. Dr Satish Verma in his keynote address said, “No media dies out because of the arrival of the new one.” He explained about the link between theatre, cinema, poetry and other art forms. The inauguration was followed by two technical sessions. The first was chaired by Dr Manoj Dayal from Guru Jambeshwar University, Hisar. As many as seven papers were presented in the first session by delegates from Punjab and other states. The second session was chaired by Prof Harish Kumar from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. As many as six papers were presented by delegates ranging from analyses of Rituporno Ghosh’s and Madhur Bhandarkar’s auteur, short films and regional cinema. The second day of the seminar was attended by delegates from Delhi, Dehradun, Shimla and other states. The third technical session was chaired by Dr Navjit Johal from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Punjabi University, Patiala. The economics of this industry, bold heroines, depiction of media in films were the subjects dealt with in this session. Valedictory function was chaired by filmmaker, Dr Harjit Singh. He asked the delegates to concentrate on the quality of the films rather than their box office collections, quoting many instances to support his view. A cultural evening was also organised by students for the participants.
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1,700 examined at medical camp
Phagwara, March 28 Dr Hema Saroch, an eye surgeon, said more than 150 eye patients were treated at the camp. Society vice-president Jaswant Singh Sehmbhi said the medical team, which conducted the camp, included Dr Amarjit Chaucer, Hema Saroch, Kulwant Kaur, GN Virdi, Anita Dadra, Jatin Abhi, Mandeep Kaur and Anurag. — OC |
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Man run over by train
Phagwara, March 28 In another incident one unidentified middle aged man was found dead under mysterious circumstances near the local Grain Market here today. The police suspects excessive drinking as the cause of the death. The body was sent to the local Civil Hospital for a postmortem examination. Later, the body of the deceased was kept in the hospital mortuary for identification. |
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Thieves strike at 2 places
Phagwara, March 28 In another incident, some unidentified persons entered the house of Balbir Singh, a local resident, after breaking open the locks. The culprits took away valuables worth lakhs, including three air conditioners and sanitary items. The police have registered cases in both the incidents. — OC |
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Three injured in land dispute
Jalandhar, March 28 The dispute reportedly took place over the ownership of a piece of land situated in the village. The incident took place when
Prabdyal, Bhupinder and Jatinder of the village reportedly started ploughing the land with a tractor. After the second party came to know about this, they reached the spot and attempted the stop the tractor-borne men from ploughing the land. Both parties then indulged in heated arguments, which later tool the shape of a fight. Sources said
Bhupinder, Prabdyal and Jatinder sustained minor injuries in the brawl. Meanwhile the police reached the spot and pacified the disputing parties. Both parties claimed before the police that they were the legal owners of the land. Till the filing of this report, no case had been registered by the police against either of the parties. Efforts were on to effect a compromise between the disputing parties.
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Jalandhar KMV holds online classes
Kanya Maha Vidyalaya (KMV) has become the first women's college in the city to hold live online video classes with Chatham University, Pittsburgh, USA. Students from both Chatham and KMV participated in the online session. The subject of the class was Indian English literature. The topic taken up for discussion was Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story Mrs
Sen’s, introduced at Chatham in order to align the teaching of both the institutions and facilitate collaboration. Professors from both sides, Dr Karen Kingsbury from Chatham and Dr Deepika Anand from the
KMV, discussed various aspects of the story with students. Students exchanged their views about their own understanding and interpretation of the text. Many interesting points came up as the story was analysed simultaneously from the American and Indian perspective. It gave the students a chance to widen their scope of understanding. Students as well as teachers were excited with wonderful exchange of ideas. Principal of
KMV, Dr Atima Sharma, congratulated Dr Deepika Anand from the Postgraduate Department of English for coordinating the video
class. BSc (medical) result
A student of Hansa Raj Mahila Maha
Vidyalaya, Charandeep Kaur, got second position in the BSc (medical, semester-III) exam held by Guru Nanak Dev University by securing 330/400 marks. College principal, Dr Rekha Kalia
Bhardwaj, congratulated the student for her success. |
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Exposing the alleged lackadaisical approach of the police in sensitive matters like child kidnapping and abduction cases, Nand Kishore, a resident of Rama Mandi, has accused the police of hushing up the one-year-old abduction case of his 12-year-old-child Krishan Kant by mentioning that the child was not abducted but had left the home willingly.
