Chandigarh, June 27
Panjab University's M.Sc.-1 (Hons. School) botany admission schedule is as follows:

The admission schedule of other departments are as follows:

Department of Gandhian Studies: MA Part-I (Gandhian and peace studies): aptitude test on July 2, at 10 am and interview at 12 noon the same day. Both test and interview are compulsory.

Department of Library and Information Science: First year of Master of Library and Information Science: interview on July 5 at 10 am in the Arts Block IV, PU.

Department of Punjabi: interviews for MA part I Punjabi would be held on July 6, in the Arts Block I. Candidates are advised to bring original documents at the time of the interview.

Department of Physics: interviews for admission to M.Sc (Honours School) I year would take place on July 6 at 9.30 am for all categories.

Interviews for foreign nation/PIO/NRI/NRI sponsored/industry sponsored candidates would be held on July 10.

Last date for receipt of admission forms   June 30
for M. Sc-1 (Hons. School) in botany.

Provisional merit list of candidates        July 4 at
for interview for admission to M.Sc-1    2.30 pm
(Hons School) botany to be put up on
the department's notice board.

Interview of candidates of all categories July 6 at
(general as well as reserved categories, 11.30 am
including sports).

Chandigarh, June 27
Castigating the UT and Punjab Police for “sheer misuse of process of law” in registering two separate cases against the five accused in the infamous Nayagaon minor girl rape case for the same offence at two different places, a Chandigarh court has held that the act was highhandedness on the part of the cops.

The Judge, Additional District and Sessions Judge, Chandigarh, Mr R.S. Baswana, was taking up the bail pleas of the five accused, Kesar Singh, Gurdhian Singh, Ramkesh, Ramgir and Sham Lal.

In his order, while grating bail to them, the Judge held that it was “quite amazing” that after a case had been registered at the police station, Phase I, Mohali, on the basis of the allegations, and challan filed in the trial court, another case for the offence was got registered by the investigating officer at Chandigarh.

“I fail to understand how the petitioner could be tried twice for the offence. In case, the prosecutrix (minor girl) was kidnapped and then sexually exploited by the petitioner at two different places, that does not mean that he has committed the offence punishable under Section 376 of the IPC twice. For the offence, a person cannot be tried twice. Provisions of Section 300 of the Cr.P.C. were given a complete go by the investigating agency in this case,” the Judge observed.

In his order, Mr Baswana also highlighted the fact that the case at Chandigarh was neither registered at the instance of the victim or her family.

“Rather, the IO, who had investigated the case registered at Mohali, opted to file a complaint. Such a procedure is unknown to criminal jurisprudence, particularly in such like cases,” Mr Baswana observed.

He also held that the police also hastened to register the case in Sector 39 and start investigations without bothering to know as to whether a case could have been registered in Chandigarh or not.