Justice Mittal to be chairman of rights panel

CHANDIGARH: Justice Satish Kumar Mittal, retired Chief Justice of the Rajasthan HC and at present working as Lokpal of Punjab, will be the new Chairman of the Haryana Human Rights Commission. Justice Karam Chand Puri, a retired judge of the Punjab and Haryana HC and at present Claims Commissioner to assess damage caused to private and public property during the Jat agitation, will be the new member (judicial). Their appointment was cleared on Wednesday by a committee, comprising Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Speaker Kanwar Pal Gujjar and Leader of Opposition Abhay Chautala. The panel did not approve any name for member (non-judicial) and asked the state government to seek more applications for the post. TNS

Rs 14 lakh looted from ex-DGP house

Mahendragarh: Four armed miscreants looted Rs 14 lakh, gold jewellery and silver coins from former Orissa DGP Drigpal Singh Chauhan’s house in the district’s Kaanti village on Wednesday. Four persons were booked in this regard. Chauhan said miscreants barged into his room after breaking a window around 2 am. One of them put a gun on his ear and decamped with cash and ornaments. TNS

Clerk arrested for taking bribe 

Karnal: A team of the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) arrested an employee for allegedly accepting bribe in lieu of giving passage to an overloaded truck at Manglora check post on the Haryana-UP border on Wednesday morning. The accused, Rampal is employed with UHBVN as lower division clerk (LDC) and was a member of the multi-department team posted at Manglora check. The team arrested Rampal while accepting Rs 500 as bribe from the decoy driver. A sum of Rs 39,000 was also recovered from him. TNS

35-year-old woman found hanging 

Sonepat: A 35-year-old woman was found hanging from a ceiling fan in her house in Sector-12 here on Wednesday. Sources said before her second marriage with Manish of local Braham Colony on March 18, she had been staying alone in the house for the last about one year after her divorce with her first husband. The police gained entry by breaking iron grill and found her body hanging from a ceiling fan. The police registered a case against her second husband for abetment to suicide. OC

Two get 6-yr jail for snatching 

Kurukshetra: A local court has sentenced to two city residents to six-year jail for snatching the purse of a woman tourist. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 each on the convicts Jaswinder Singh and Avtar Singh. TNS

328 bus stops to be built in Gurugram 

Gurugram: The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) is all set to construct 328 bus queue shelters on 11 city bus routes at a cost of Rs 10.5 lakh in the next 10 months.  According to the Administrator, Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran, Gurugram, 164 bus queue shelters each would be constructed in group-I and II. Besides, the Gurugram Municipal Corporation is also constructing 125 bus queue shelters out of which maximum have been completed. Advertisement rights would also be given on these sites to generate revenue. TNS