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MC teams raze illegal structures
Accused in jeweller murder case surrenders
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Burglars decamp with cash, valuables
Missing boy case
Man gets 7-yr jail in kidnapping, rape case
4 hurt in clash
Youth commits suicide
Sambar strays into city from sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh
UK firm wants to set up waste to fuel plant
International Day for Reduction of Natural Disaster observed
Woman, paramour acquitted in murder case
965 blood units collected
Officials from Consulate-General of Canada visit
NRI Sabha
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MC teams raze illegal structures
Jalandhar, October 14 The teams, led by assistant town planners Ramesh Chhabra and Lakhbir Singh, began razing a house at Ladhewali. They then proceeded towards Model Town where they removed the pillars and shutterings being laid for laying the roof of the basement of an upcoming commercial building adjoining Dera Sat Kartar. Soon after, they went to Green Model Town where they demolished the structure of a new building being constructed by the owners of Prime Ice Cream in the residential colony without getting mandatory approval for the building plan. They then went to Nakodar Road to raze an under-construction building, but the team found that the encroachments were compoundable and the owner agreed to making the payments for the alleged violations. The next spot was Nizatam Nagar where too a commercial building was partly removed. The team then proceeded towards Doaba Chowk where it razed the boundary walls of six houses and shops which had exceeded beyond their boundary line. The drive which began at about 10 am endeed in the evening. There were no major protests. The MC team was not with much security and only partly demolished parts of the irregular buildings using a single JCB before quickly moving onto the next site.
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Accused in jeweller murder case surrenders
Jalandhar, October 14 Although the police had conducted raids at his various hideouts, they had failed to find him. Rakesh Kumar, alias Tony, surrendered before DCP Naveen Singla at the Police Commissionerate office. The police had nabbed one of the assailants, Jasmel Singh, who is a constable in the Railway Police Force (RPF), Jalandhar, immediately after the murder, while the second accused Jaspal Singh, alias Raju, was also nabbed by the police a day after the murder. Vicky was hacked to death by the three miscreants after they had an altercation during gambling at platform No. 1 of the city railway station. Rakesh Kumar had been escaping arrest since the day of the murder. The body of Vinod Kumar, son of Ashok Kumar, a resident of Mahindru Mohalla, was recovered from the open ground of Old Central Mill on the Railway Road on September 28. The victim, who was a BJP secretary of Ward No. 27, was close to Chief Parliamentary Secretary KD Bhandari. The accused, Tony, who surrendered today, was also reportedly running a “parcel mafia” at the city railway station. Sources said Tony was taking commission from traders to take their goods out of the railway station without paying the required tax.
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Burglars decamp with cash, valuables
Jalandhar, October 14 When they returned home late in the evening, they found the whole house ransacked. The burglars, after breaking open the lock of a room, decamped with a pair of gold earrings, Rs 7,000, three mobiles and some valuables lying in an almirah. The police was informed about the incident, the house owner added. The police division No. 5 had started investigation. It is to mention here that the police have failed to solve several past burglaries which have been lying unsolved for long. Though the police claimed that it had appointed a nodal officer to solve the pending theft cases, a majority of the cases are lying unsolved.
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Police under pressure, no call from kidnapper yet
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar October 14 Since no ransom call has been received by the parents from the kidnapper, police investigation is not moving ahead much. A senior police official said until and unless, the kidnapper makes a call, finding his whereabouts would remain a challenge for the police. He, however, said, taht the whole police commissionerate had been put to task and serious efforts were being made to crack the case. Although some suspects were reportedly rounded up by the police, sources said the police couldn’t establish their involvement in the crime yet. The footage of two CCTV cameras, installed near the crime spot, was also scanned by the police which also showed a suspected car, but nothing concrete has been established yet. Sources said Police Commissioner Yurinder Singh Hayer had been personally overseeing the investigation. He had made special teams to crack the case. On October 12, the seven-year-old son of the property dealer was allegedly kidnapped from a locality in the Model Town. The boy, Gurdeep Singh, was playing along with his sister when he was kidnapped by an unidentified car-borne man. The victim is the son of Satnam Singh, a resident of the Model Town locality. The child’s father is the owner of Gurunanak Property Dealer, located in the same locality.
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Man gets 7-yr jail in kidnapping, rape case
Jalandhar, October 14 As per the complainant, Kamaljit Singh, father of the girl, his daughter had gone to school on January 14 last year, but did not return. He had filed a complaint against Ajay Kumar, a resident of Meena Bazar and native of Jharkhand. The girl, who was a student of class XII in a government school, was also raped by the accused. In another judgment, the court also sentenced a smuggler to two months’ imprisonment. The smuggler, who was identified as Deepak Kumar, a resident of Joginder Nagar, was arrested by the police near the Dhilwan level crossing on May 28, 2011. The police had laid a naka near the crossing and on suspicion, it stopped him for checking. During frisking of a polythene bag of Deepak, the police had recovered 1 kg of heroin. In another judgment by the court of the same judge in a kidnapping case, two brothers were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. Arun Kumar and Deepu, residents of Railway Quarter Phillaur, had forcibly kidnapped a girl from Jagatpura village in Phillaur on the night of January 7, 2012. After a complaint by the girl’s father, Husan Lal, a case under Sections 365, 366 and 458 of the IPC was registered against them.
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4 hurt in clash
Phagwara,October 14 The injured Vinod Joshi, his wife Jyoti of one group and Gurminder Kumar and Vishal of the other group were admitted to the local Civil Hospital. Supporters of the Gurminder Group sat on a dharna before the local city police station in support of their demand to book the accused belonging to the other group. DSP Phagwara Sukhwinder Singh pacified the protesters and assured them of early legal action. Later, the dharna was lifted. — OC |
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Youth commits suicide
Jalandhar, October 14 Police sources said he was working as a tailor at Kamldeep Corner. Yesterday, owner of the shop had left, but he remained in the shop. At midnight, he locked the shop from inside and hanged himself to death. He also left behind a suicide note in which he held nobody responsible for his death, the police said. The police said, suspecting no foul play behind the death, inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC were initiated by the Sadar police. |
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Sambar strays into city from sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh
Jalandhar, October 14 The poor animal got so scared that its right horn was broken while it was trying to climb a huge wall of a house near SS Mota Singh Nagar. According to Dr GS Bedi, president, People for Animals, sambars often get spotted in the city as after coming from from Himachal Pradesh, they somehow land in the city. “Mostly they land here in the mid-winter season, but somehow, this one landed much before time.” Gursharan Singh, District Forest Officer, said the animal had been sent back to the sanctuary by late evening. Since it was slightly injured during the chase, we gave it first-aid and later dropped it back to the sanctuary by evening, said Gursharan Singh, District Forest Range Officer. The sambar was first spotted near Kamal Palace. While some of the witnesses said that it had entered the lawns of the hotel, other spotted the animal in front of the hotel. The animal later went to Master Tara Singh Nagar. Hordes of people, clicking its pictures and shouting slogans, ran behind it. They managed to catch hold of it near a house and even tied his three legs, but the animal again set itself free and ran towards a nearby house. It was after much effort that people could catch it from the rear of a house.
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UK firm wants to set up waste to fuel plant
Jalandhar, October 14 The team led by Neil Okshott, senior engineer of the UK-based company, visited the site yesterday and showed its willingness to set up a plant to change waste to fuel using plasma technology that too without the release of any emissions. The team was aghast to see huge mounds of garbage spread all over. Dheeraj Ghai, owner of the Punjab Grow More Fertilizers, who had started the fertilizer plant at the site after a tie-up with Municipal Corporation, has been protesting that the MC has since its inauguration in 1999 failed to support his company for marketing of the manure. “I am hopeful that the UK-based experts could come as a big relief for the Jalandhar MC by clearing it of the massive garbage dump for which the civic body seems to have almost lost all its hope,” he said. Ghai added that the experts had taken along the samples of the garbage from various points to check its chemical viability for the project. The proposal for a probable tie-up, for which only a preliminary visit and discussions has been held, may come as a big relief for hundreds of families around the site residing at Jalandhar Vihar, Jalandhar Kunj and Wariana village. The Jalandhar MC has also so far failed to get its solid waste management project with the private contractor, JITF Urban Infrastructures Limited, started owing to protests by the safai karamcharis for the last nearly two years. Everytime that the company officials, who have since long hired staff and purchased the requisite machinery and equipments, is asked to start the door-to-door lifting, massive protests by the safai employees force the officials to put off the project. The matter has gone to the office of Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal as well who is yet to take a call.
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International Day for Reduction of Natural Disaster observed
Jalandhar, October 14
Training of local people in the disaster prone areas can help better in mobilising the resources and reducing the ill effects of disaster. He further said that floods, droughts, landslides, cyclones are noticeably on the rise, affecting more communities than ever due to human activities that increase vulnerability and change the natural balance of ecosystems. Baldev Singh Bhulana delivered an expert lecture on snake bite on the occasion. He said that the most important thing to do for a snake bite victim is to get him or her emergency medical help as soon as possible. “A doctor will evaluate the victim to decide on a specific course of treatment. In some cases, a bite from a venomous snake could be life-threatening,” he said. |
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Woman, paramour acquitted in murder case
Jalandhar, October 14 It may be recalled here that Asha Rani, a resident of Model House, and her paramour Amit Kumar, a resident of Baba Deep Singh Nagar, had allegedly murdered Chaman Lal. The woman was in a relation with Chaman but she along with her paramour had killed her to usurp the gold. Lal, a former head mechanic of the Punjab Roadways, was missing since January 18, 2013, following which his family had lodged a report at the Division No. 3 police station on January 19. His body was recovered from a nullah near Jamsher Dairy Complex and a case under Sections 302 and 201 of the IPC was registered at the Sadar police station against unknown persons. To usurp the deceased’s gold, on January 18, the woman had invited Chaman Lal to her house and offered him coffee laced with a high dose of sleeping pills. When he (Chaman) he fell unconscious, Rani and Amit took him to the Pholriwal-Jamsher link road and strangled him. After battering his head with a brick, they threw his body into a drain. The duo had then removed a gold chain, rings and other valuables from the body. Sources said the accused were acquitted because the police had failed to establish the evidence that they killed
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Jalandhar, October 14 LPU students and staff members showed great interest in this humane endeavour and donated 965 blood units. Different teams of doctors and paramedical staff members from blood transfusion offices of three civil hospitals in Jalandhar, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur and PIMS, Jalandhar, provided all the support for the blood donation activities. —TNS
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Officials from Consulate-General of Canada visit NRI Sabha
Jalandhar, October 14 "It was a very informative session. We discussed various issues pertaining to the problems our NRIs are facing in Canada. While we took up the matter of NRI deserted wives and illegal migration strongly with the officials and sought their help, they have sought our cooperation in organizing seminar all over Punjab to make the Punjab NRIs aware about their rights in Canada," said Jasvir Singh Gill, president, NRI Sabha, Punjab. The Sabha also took up the matter of the safety of Indian girls studying in various non-affiliated universities and also sought the Canadian Government's help in providing information beforehand about them to save the Indian students from falling into the trap of fake universities. —TNS
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from schools, colleges
A lecture on meditation and yoga was organised at the PCM SD College for Women. Shewtank Anand, a national awardee in Himalyan Yogdeal and Naturopathy from the Indian Embassy, delivered a lecture on the natural bonding of heart, mind body and soul. He spoke on getting relief from various diseases and different asanas. Meditation is a panacea for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. This was followed by an interactive session. Chess tournament The U-19 girls' team of Seth Hukam Chand SD Public Senior Secondary School, Sangal Sohal- Variana, Kapurthala Road, Jalandhar, bagged the second position in north zone chess tournament. The tournament was organised at Himland Public School, Sangrur, by the CBSE. Four girls, Akanksha, Aditi Verma, Prabhjot Kaur and Harshita, participated in the tourney. Harshita won all the six matches and got a board prize. Aditi Verma got 5.5 marks out of 6 and on the whole, the team won 10 mathces out of 12 and bagged the second position. The team was accompanied by Ashok Kumar and team in-charge Pooja Sharda. Principal Manju Arora congratulated the winning team. Spin-a-yarn competition Students gave wings to their imagination and flew in the sky of fantasy in the spin-a-yarn competition held for classes III and IV respectively at the Mayor World School. Children displayed their creativity and excellent thinking skills to articulate the stories around the given situations, like 'My grandma's 70th birthday…' , 'All your toys come to life one fine day' or 'My summer vacation at my uncle's place' etc. Ahana, Sukham, Suvan and Atishay from Keats House won the top position whereas Wordsworth and Shakespeare clinched the second and third positions in class IV. In the competition for class III, Sakhi, Asmi, Sahil and Jaibhav from Keats House won the first position while the second and third positions were grabbed by the Shakespeare and Wordsworth Houses, respectively. Director Jyoti Nagranee emphasised that such competitions prepare the children for this competitive world and give them an extra edge to stand apart in the crowd.—TNS
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Jalandhar, October 14
Jalandhar, October 14
