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Panel says Dalits treated badly in Haryana Blue bulls, wild boars destroy farmlands Man dies in illegal police custody Prisoner escapes from custody, 2 cops held Nain transferred to Hisar jail Sugarcane
growers call off stir BKU chief seeks bail in sedition case Additional District and Sessions Judge D.S. Sheoran here yesterday set December 10 for hearing the regular bail petition of Bharatiya Kisan Union (Haryana) President Ghasi Ram Nain, in a case of sedition slapped on him last year. |
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High Court Tributes paid to Dr Ambedkar Five youths get life term for murder, rape Five youths of Sisai village in this district have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court today on the charge of murdering an unidentified girl after gang raping her in the village on October 24, 2001. Bhaniarawala
appears in court Dharna by Power Corporation workers Student killed in clash Sirsa villages to be linked with computers Employees hold
protest meeting Two killed in road mishaps
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Panel says Dalits treated badly in Haryana Pharal (Kaithal district), December 6 “While travelling inside Haryana, whichever direction I looked at, I saw giant pictures of Mr Chautala only. It appears no other worthwhile person lives here but Mr Chautala”, Ms Ali said. She added that she would like to ask the Haryana Chief Minister whether he had taken steps to fulfill the backlog in the vacancies reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates in the state government. Mr Ashok Bharti, National Coordinator of NACDOR, Mr Mukul Sharma, Director of Henrich Bal Foundation, Professor Gopal Guru, an academician who specialises on Dalits, also spoke in the rally held in this picturusque village today on the death anniversary of late DR B.R. Ambedkar. Mr Bharti said the Dalits could not expect their aspirations to be fulfilled by the present governmental set up and by the politicians claiming to espouse the cause of Dalits. The Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP), which claimed itself to be the champion of Dalits, had also exposed itself by its short-lived alliance with the BJP in UP, Mr Bharti said and added that a new movement for the Dalits was the need of the hour. Claiming that the Dalits in Haryana were in a miserable condition, Mr Bharti said that suspension of a Dalit officer by the state government at Jakati village recently, the incident of abduction of a Dalit Sarpanch from Rohtak village and attack on Ramchandra Dahiya by hoodlums at Hisar were pointers to how the Dalits were being treated by the state government. Mr Mukul Sharma, said that one of the objectives of the rally was to mobilise people for the World Social Forum meet in Mumbai in January. In the meet, a special discussion under the World Dignity Forum would be organised where the case of Dalits in India would be compared with threatened people like Maoris of New Zealand and Gypsies of Europe, he said. Prof Gopal Guru said that Dalits must check the prevalent trend of seeking dowry by Dalit boys. Mr M. Parmar, a representative of the All India Christian Council, said that they had decided to open 1000 new schools for the Dalits so that Dalit children did not have to face any trouble as far as knowledge of English was concerned. Representatives of Dalit outfits from Gujarat and Maharashtra and one representative of a Dalit organisation from Nepal also took part in the meeting. |
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Blue bulls, wild boars destroy farmlands Panchkula, December 6 The havoc caused by the two animals in thousands of acres of farmland, in the districts of Panchkula, Ambala and Yamunanagar in North Haryana, and, Hisar, Rohtak, Sirsa, Bhiwani and Jhajjar in southern part of the state, is causing serious concern to the farming community in the state. The animals descend from the lower Shivalik hills and nearby forest areas in south Haryana, during the crop season and attack their fields at night. Officials in the Forest Department, Haryana, say that though the forest cover in Haryana is 3.5 per cent of the total area in the state (1.5 lakh hectares), the tree cover (including the tree cover outside the notified forest areas) is 7.8 per cent of the total area. However, say Forest officials, wastelands have reduced by almost 60 per cent in the past three decades. Even panchayat lands in the state (which are categorised as wasteland) are being leased out to the farmers for cultivation. This is disturbing the natural habitat of blue bulls (neel gai) and wild boars, and thus they are entering the fields near the forest areas. The animals descend on the fields in herds, making it easy for them to damage large areas of farmland within a matter of minutes. These animals have been frequenting for the past many years and often destroy their standing crop of maize, wheat, sugarcane, fodder like barseem as well as seasonal cash crops. As winter advances, the fodder in the forest area becomes scarce, and these two species are forced to come out of the forests for food. Thus, the damage to the fields is maximum in the winters. It is thus that the Wildlife Department, Haryana, taking a cue from the Wildlife Departments of Punjab and Rajasthan, decided to allow regulated hunting of blue bulls since 1997. Since then, the power to issue hunting licence for blue bull was delegated to the Deputy Commissioner of each district. However, as the problem has worsened, the department has now allowed the Panchayat of the village affected by blue bull menace to approach the Divisional Forest Officer, after passing a resolution to allow hunting of blue bulls, who in turn can issue a permit. However, the DFOs have been instructed to be very selective while issuing the permits, so as not to endanger this species, which is found only in India. Senior officials in the Wildlife Department, however, say that they cannot allow for regulated hunting of wild boars as the animal does not go far away from the forest. In case permits were to be issued for the hunting of wild boars, these could be misused by poachers, who could hunt for other animals also. |
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Man dies in illegal police custody Panipat, December 6 The 60-year-old victim was allegedly picked up by the police on charges of smuggling narcotics on specific information. Within few hours after he was taken away by the police, the body of the man, who allegedly died in illegal police custody, was dumped near the village school spreading panic and shock among the residents of the district. In another development today, the police, virtually conceding charges against police personnel, booked five unidentified police personnel, for their alleged involvement in custodial death. As the news of death of Shiv Charan, who reportedly did not have any criminal background, reached the village, scores of agitated villagers, held a noisy dharna near the body. When a police party, led by the Samalkha SHO, tried to remove the body for a post-mortem examination, three policemen, who had allegedly tortured the old man to death, were recognised by the villagers, who gave them a severe beating. With the situation getting out of control, top police officials, including the SP, Dr Suman Manjari, visited the village in the wee hours of today, and tried to reason with the agitators. However, the irate agitators stuck to their demand of the registration of criminal cases and arrest of the guilty cops. Since the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, was in Panipat today efforts to hush up the case were renewed by the police. Meanwhile, the Cooperation Minister, Mr Kartar Singh Bhadana, who represents the Samalkha constituency in Haryana Assembly, prevailed upon the agitators today to lift the dharna. Ultimately it was agreed upon that the post-mortem would be done by a panel of doctors of the Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak. Flaying the “jungle raj” in Haryana, the senior general secretary of the youth wing of the HVP, Mr Surinder Ahlawat, threatened to launch an agitation if the guilty cops were not punished. He also criticised the role of the local MLA, Mr Bhadana, in affecting a “compromise” between the police and the residents. This was not for the first time that an illegal custodial death case has been reported from the district. About four months back, Jagphul, a resident of Garhi Chhajju village, had died under mysterious circumstances in the police custody. An inquiry was ordered into the case but the fate of the inquiry was not known. |
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Prisoner escapes from custody, 2 cops held Kurukshetra, December 6 Prisoner Satnam Singh, a resident of Gumthla Garhu village near Pehowa, in this district, was being brought on Thursday from an Amritsar jail in Punjab to Pehowa by Head Constable Saaheb Singh and Constable Harbhajan Singh. The two cops hired a taxi from Ambala and reached Pehowa along with the prisoner on Thursday night. On reaching Pehowa, Satnam Singh enticed the cops with a bribe and asked them to allow him to stay at his native village for the night. The cops accepted his offer and took him to his native village. Before going to bed at night Satnam Singh offered them drinks. Next morning, when the cops woke up, they found Satnam Singh missing. They immediately informed the Pehowa police. The Pehowa police also conducted a raid at Satnam Singh’s residence but in vain. Both the police personnel have been arrested under Sections 224, 223 and 120B of the
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Nain transferred to Hisar jail Ambala, December 6 Mr Nain had been lodging in Ambala jail since November 25 last after the denial of bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the case in which he was arrested by the Ambala police under Sections 332, 353, 148, 149, 323, 341, 353A, 188, 307, 436, 511 and 506 of the IPC at Shahjadpur. The Supreme Court has granted him bail in the case recently. The supporters of Mr Nain had gathered outside the Ambala central jail last evening following the release order of the Supreme Court in the case as they were expecting that their leader would be released today but they were disappointed when the Ambala central jail authorities informed them that Mr Nain was being transferred to the Hisar jail. According to information, a case was registered against Mr Nain on February 26 under Sections 147, 149, 224, 511, 332, 353 and 120B of the IPC at Hisar police station in which he has still to seek bail from the court. |
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Sugarcane
growers call off stir Indri (Karnal), December 6 The private mill had remained closed due to the non-supply of sugarcane by the farmers for the past 10 days. In the morning, a large number of farmers from the nearby areas gathered to attend the “maha-panchayat” called jointly by the Bharatiya Kisan Union and the agitating farmers. A police force under the command of the Subdivisional Magistrate, Mr Bhupinder Singh, was deployed so as to avoid any untoward incident. Today’s agitation remained peaceful. The president of the Ganna Action Committee, Mr Rampal Chahal, who had led the agitation, told TNS that the talks between the farmers’ coordination committee and the management continued for more than five hours. Finally, the management released cheques for Rs 30 lakh to the farmers and gave an assurance that the pending payments would be made within 30 days. In the next three days the mill would release cheques for Rs 1.20 crore. |
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BKU chief seeks bail in sedition case
Hisar, December 6 The court asked the Haryana police to reply to the petition by the next date of hearing. The sedition case was registered by the police here on the complaint of a police official. The official had alleged that while Mr Nain was being escorted to a court, he had instigated his followers to violence. Mr Nain was released from the year-long detention following apex court’s direction on December 2. He was arrested on November 25 last year while spearheading the agitation of sugarcane growers at Naraingarh in Ambala district against non-payment of arrears of their produce. Later, he was slapped with the sedition case. Mr Nain, earlier last year, had also sprearheaded a strong agitation in Kandela of Jind district against alleged forcible recovery of arrears of power bills from farmers. Indian National Youth Congress President, who had contested the case of Mr Nain in the apex court has hailed court’s directive of release. He said Mr Nain was victim of the political vendetta of the Om Prakash Chautala government. — UNI |
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High Court
Chandigarh, December 6 The victim's body was found from a pond near a temple adjoining Pundri police post in Kaithal district. In her petition, Surinder Kaur claimed that her husband, Gurpreet Singh, was allegedly murdered by police officials.
Going into the background of the case, the petitioner claimed that on November 3 a complaint was made to the Superintendent of Police, Kaithal, about her husband being subjected to third-degree torture by an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI). The official threatened him with false implication in a drugs case if Rs 5,000 was not paid, the petitioner claimed. She added that the ASI again took him on November 5. He remained missing for a few days till his body was recovered from a pond. |
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Kurukshetra, December 6 The chief guest, acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof Madhu Bala Saxena paid tribute to Dr Ambedkar and called upon the young generation to get inspired from the principles and teachings of Baba Saheb. In his presidential address, Dean of Academic Affairs of KU, Dr V.K. Aggarwal, described Dr Ambedkar as a champion of social justice and chief architect of the Constitution of India. Earlier, a former professor of Political Science Department of KU and Member Advisory Committee of the Centre for Dr B.R. Ambedkar Studies Centre, Mr Ranbir Singh, said that Dr Ambedkar was a leader of masses and not of a particular caste and fought against injustice and exploitation. Dr Mahi Pal of Haryana Institute of Rural Development, the Director of Centre for Dr B.R. Ambedkar Study of KU, Dr Naresh Kumar and Dr J.S. Kadian, Registrar of the KU, also spoke. |
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Five youths get life term for murder, rape Hisar, December 6 Additional District and Sessions Judge of a fast-track J.D. Chandna held the accused Charat, Krishan and Rajbir guilty of murdering the girl after raping her. Two youths Vinod and Anil however, who had acquitted of the murder case but were found guilty of raping, were also sentenced to life imprisonment by the court. Besides the life imprisonment, all the accused were ordered to pay a fine of Rs 25,000 each and in case of default of payment of the fine they would further undergo imprisonment for two years. Chowkidar of Sisai village, Prithvi Singh had lodged a complaint with the Sadar police Hansi against some youths of the village-Vinod, Anil, Pala, Guddu, Mahabir, Bhim Singh Balwan, Charat Singh, Krishan and others and the police had registered a case under various sections of the IPC against them.
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Bhaniarawala
appears in court Ambala, December 6 The counsel Rohit
Mahajan, Gurvinder Kaur and Jaspal Singh who appeared on behalf of Baba filed an application in the court in which they requested the proceeding of all cases should be conducted in camera. This application would be heard on the next hearing.
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Dharna
by Power Corporation workers Karnal, December 6 The union workers raised voice against the contract system in the recruitment of employees transfer of employee leaders and proposed retrenchment. A memorandum of the demands was also submitted to the Superintending Engineer. The union has warned that if its demands were not met they would intensify the stir against the state government. |
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Student
killed in clash Ambala, December 6 According to information, the two groups of students clashed near the Capital cinema with swords and lathis. A student of SD College, Jitender, alias Sunu, was attacked by some students. He sustained serious injuries on his head. He was taken to Civil Hospital by some of his friends. The friends disappeared from the hospital after getting him admitted there. Jitender succumbed to his injuries after a short time. The deceased was the student of B.A. I and belonged to Dau Majra village. |
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Sirsa villages to be linked with computers Sirsa, December 6 Mr Chautala, informed that the e-health care system would help in maintaining the health history of the patients. This history card would have all vital information about the patient. The system would be launched in all 178 health centres of the district, he added. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr D. Suresh, gave detail about the e-health care project and said this would help patient and doctors to know the previous history anywhere as this would be made available on the website. This would also ensure transparency in the Health Department. |
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Employees
hold protest meeting Sirsa, December 6 The organising secretary of the mahasangh, Mr Ramesh Sharma, alleged that contrary to his claim of being a pro-farmer leader, the Chief Minister had been taking anti-farmer steps.
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Two killed in road mishaps Ambala, December 6 He sustained serious injuries and was taken to the local Civil Hospital which referred him to the PGI, Chandigarh, but before leaving for Chandigarh he succumbed to his injuries. The police has registered a case against the driver of Tata-407 in this regard. In another accident, a cyclist died in the Ambala cantonment area when he was hit by a tractor trolley. The deceased has been identified as Chaman
Mehra.
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2 convicted for poppy smuggling
Fatehabad, December 6 |
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