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COURTS

New India Assurance told to pay claim on lost iPhone
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 3
The New India Assurance Co. Ltd. has been penalised for rejecting a claim of Rs 26,400 against a stolen mobile phone. The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has directed the company to pay Rs 26,400, as assessed by the surveyor, along with interest thereon to the Ropar-based complainant.

Besides, Rs 7,000 has to be paid as compensation for the mental agony caused to the complainant.

According to the case details, Parminder Singh, the complainant, had purchased an Apple iPhone 4S on May 23, 2012, from the City Portraits, Chandigarh, for Rs 48,990 and got it insured from the The New India Assurance Co. Ltd.

The complainant stated that he lost the mobile while he was travelling in a bus on May 6, 2013, following which he lodged a police complaint regarding the missing mobile.

However, the opposite partly rejected the claim on the ground that “only housebreaking, burglary or theft were covered under the policy and hence, the cause mentioned in the DDR was not applicable.” The opposite party admitted that the mobile in question was insured. “A surveyor was deputed, who assessed the loss to the tune of Rs 26,400 after considering the market value of the handset. However, it was learnt that the mobile phone was misplaced by the complainant while going to Anandpur Sahib and was not a case of theft, burglary or housebreaking,” the company stated.

The Forum ruled: “The fact that the word “stolen” must have been mentioned in then DDR instead of the word “misplaced” cannot be treated as a willful act of misplacing the mobile phone. Therefore, legally, the claim of the complainant could not be repudiated.”

Two convicted in NDPS case
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 3
The Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Shalini Nagpal today convicted two persons in an NDPS case. The court convicted Parminder Singh and Balkar Singh, residents of Tarn Taran, for possessing one kg of heroin. The quantum of sentence will be pronounced on June 5.

As per the prosecution case, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), on June 3, 2011, had received a secret information that Parminder and Balkar were travelling from Jalandhar to Chandigarh in a Punjab Roadways bus and were in possession of heroin.

The NCB sleuths arrested them as they alighted from the bus at the Inter State Bus Terminus in Sector 43 here.

On interrogation, the duo revealed that the consignment was meant to be delivered to someone in Chandigarh.

CRIME

Man’s body fished out of lake
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 3
The body of a man, appearing to be 50 years of age, was found floating in Sukhna lake here today. A police patrolling party noticed the body at around 11 am. The police said the body fished out of the lake did not have any visible injury marks. The police have ruled out foul play and believes it to be a case of suicide.

The body could not be identified as the police did not recover any document from the deceased’s pockets.

The body has been kept in the Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector 16, mortuary.

The post-mortem examination will be conducted after identification of the body.

The police have initiated inquest proceedings.

Chain snatchers target woman
Tribune News Service

Mohali, June 3
Two chain snatchers, who came to see a paying guest accommodation at Nayagaon village, targeted the owner of the house today afternoon. The victim, Sushma Pandey is wife of Fazilka Tehisldar DP Pandey.

In her complaint to police, Sushma Pandey alleged that two youngsters came to see a room in the house for PG accommodation. “While seeing the room, they snatched my gold chain all of sudden and ran outside the house,” alleged Sushma Pandey.

The police said a case in this connection has been registered against unidentified persons.

SPORTS

‘Bloopers’ all the way at CHFA
Like previous year, this time too, Chandigarh Hockey and Football Academy inducts over-aged players
Deepankar Sharda
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 3
What to believe and what not to believe, is the phrase that suits the 14-year-old state Chandigarh Hockey and Football Academy and functioning of the UT Sports Department, these days.

In yet another blooper, investigated by Chandigarh Tribune team, the players inducted in the Chandigarh Hockey and Football Academy’s (CHFA) 2014 batch are found ‘overaged’- as per the documents prepared by the panel of doctors of Government Multi-Speciality Hospital, Sector 16 (GMSH-16).

Since past 14 years, the management- advisor to the administrator, sports secretary, director sports, joint director sports of state-run hockey and football academy- is struggling hard to follow the rules framed by them. Today’s revelation, also hinted the blind trust or non-seriousness of high level officials, who are running academies from the sports complex of Sector 42.

As per the documents (available with the tribune team), issued by the Digital X-ray Department of GMCH-16, 10 hockey players out of selected 13 and 13 football players out of selected 16, are overage as per the record. The Chandigarh Administration, in their trials conducted in the month of March, had asked players born after January 1, 2004, to appear for the trials. And the selected players should fall to be of 10 years after the age verification test.

However, contradictory, these ‘mentioned’ players were declared to be of between 12 years to 15 years as per the official records of the hospital, initiated by the panel of expert doctors.

It is worth mentioning that these trials were conducted by visiting various cities of the region and using public money.

Highlights

Sources revealed that bribe offered by parents or organisations led the authorities to select these players.

The previous batch of the academy was also found overage and its contract was reduced to six years.

Questions are being raised over the competent authority’s approval over such bloopers.

Unawareness of top officials of the UT Administration and no check led the authorities to supervise these academies free hand.

If the whole range of bone age band is taken, all the players are falling to be of 11 to 15 years, which makes them to be of more than 10 years as of 2014.

If the advantage of + or – two years is given to players, even then the players are believed to be more than 11 years as of present date.

Fact-finding report

Followed by a series of stories in Chandigarh Tribune on over-aged players, former finance-cum-sports secretary asked for a fact-finding report. In the report, SDM (south) Kashish Mittal found loopholes in the functioning of authorities along with bad condition of the facilities being provided in the academy. The matter was even brought to the notice of the advisor to the administrator, KK Sharma, who is also the president of Chandigarh Sports Council. However, nothing worthwhile has been done in this regard.

Recommendations of the report (January 12, 2014)

As per the opinion of the medical experts, bone age test is still one of the best age determination test and it has also been recommended as the benefit of whole range of bone age band, as reported by medical authorities, be given while carrying out the final selection instead of present practice of median reported band for determination of the candidate, against the age for selection, as advertised

Note: The above recommendation has been accepted and shall be implemented w.e.f. next selection trials in 2014.

Tennis tournament: Dikshita Rana, Gaurav clinch titles
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 3
Tennis players Dikshita Rana and Gaurav clinched titles in their respective categories, during the concluding day of the 3rd Total Tennis Academy’s Circuit Tournament at YMCA courts of Sector 11, here today.

In the finals of girls’ (U-12) category, Dikshita Rana outclassed her rival Jyotsna Yadav 9-3 to win the finals of the championship while in the boys (U-12) final, Gourav defeated Pranav Chopra 9-4 to claim the top spot. In the finals of boys (U-14) category, in form player Sahaj Punj faced some resistance from Akshit Chabbra before naming the finals 7-6 (0) and 6-4.

Meanwhile, in the senior category, Rahul Seth defeated Parmeet Deol 7-5 and 6-2 to win the boys (U-18) category. He also claimed men’s title by defeating Sahaj Punj in straight sets 6-0 and 6-0.

Results (previous round)

Men’s first round : Shekhar bt Harmeet 6-2; Quarter-finals: Rahul Seth bt Aadish 6-0 and Parmeet Deol bt Shekhar 6-2; Boys U-18 first round: Sumer bt Mitesh 7-5, Sahil Yadav bt Harmeet Singh 6-3, Parmeet Deol bt Jaideep 6-4, Sahaj Punj bt Bhalinder Oberoi 6-4 and Rahul Rana bt Nikhil 7-5; quarter-finals: Rahul Seth bt Aadish 7-2, Sahil Yadav bt Sumer 7-3, Parmeet Deol bt Sahil 7-0 and Sahaj Punj bt Rahul Rana 7-5.

Fourth Tourney

Total tennis academy will organise its fourth tournament of the circuit from June 8 to 10 at Manav Mangal Smart School, Phase X, Mohali. Interested players can enroll themselves on phone numbers 9888892752, 8872648853 and 8146022022.

PK Cricket Academy beat Mount Abu by 89 runs
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 3
PK Cricket Academy and Yuvi Shakti Cricket Academy registered thumping win in their respective matches of the ongoing North India Summer (U-14) Cricket Tournament at SD School Cricket Academy, Sector 24, today.

In the first match, riding high on Tanishak Bhatia’s 57 off 72 balls, PK Cricket Academy registered 89 runs against Mount Abu Cricket Academy. The winning side posted 196 runs for 6 in allotted 30 overs. Besides Tanishak Bhatia, Aryan Tyagi (43 runs), Aryan Pathak (35 runs) and Sohail Khan (28 runs) remained the main scorers for the team. Chasing the total, Mount Abu Cricket Academy batting line-up fumbled on 107 with Sameer Khan scoring 31 runs.

In the second match, Yuvi Shakti Cricket Academy defeated Outer Delhi Cricket Academy by 41 runs. After putting to bat first, Yuvi Shakti Academy scored 193 runs with Lakshay Garg contributing 43 off 38 balls. In reply, to the healthy total, Delhi’s outfit scored 152 run in the allotted slot of 20 overs. Lakshay again hogged the limelight by claiming 3 wickets for 15 runs.

Brief scores

PK Cricket Academy: 196 for 6 in 30 overs (Tanishak Bhatia 57, Aryan Tyagi 43, Aryan Pathak 35, Sohail Khan 28 not out); Mount Abu Academy: 107 all out in 22.4 overs (Sameer Khan 31, Dhruv Batra 3 for 16, Sameer Ahmed 3 for 16, Sarthak Vij 2 for 30); Yuvi Shakti Academy: 193 for 7 in 30 overs (Lakshay Garg 43, Divyansh Singla 47, Lalit Chikkara 41 not out, Kamal Singh Barwa 4 for 24, Samarth Madan 2 for 30); Outer Delhi Cricket Academy: 152 for 8 in 30 overs (Abhishek Shokeen 35, Aaryash Malik 34, Karthik Gill 4 for 25, Lakshay Garg 3 for 15).