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CBI inquiry sought into Dalit’s murder
Dalit’s murder
Land ‘royalty’ to farmers does not impress Chautala
Case registered for assaulting public servants
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Heavy rain lashes Bhiwani
Teachers under pressure to go on deputation
Chetna rally for formation of separate HSGPC
State panel reverses forum’s order
State gets Rs 447 cr for roads
Govt decides to launch green campaign
Five held for attacking police
Case of cheating against truck owner
Woman commits suicide
4 held for rioting
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CBI inquiry sought into Dalit’s murder
Sonepat, August 30 Most of the opposition leaders who visited the family of Rakesh alias Lara blamed the Hood government whereas no minister or senior leader from the ruling Congress party visited the township to pacify the agitated Balmikis. These leaders termed the incident as an act of atrocities on Dalits and supported their demand for a CBI inquiry into the murder. The Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Kumari Selja urged the Haryana Government to ensure safety of the people in the Balmiki colony in Gohana. She said the Monday night incident clearly indicated that Balmiki basti was targeted indeed. Following complaints by the basti residents of ‘exodus’ by a few families from the area, she assured them of peace and justice. Talking to reporters at the rest house at Gohana after visiting the family of Lara, she assured to take up the people's demand for probe by CBI inquiry with the Chief Minister. She also advocated of setting up of a CRPF post near the colony. Another delegation of BJP and Akali Dal MPs led by Satya Narayan Singh Jatiya, the BJP, MP today visited the bereaved family. Addressing a press conference in the evening, Ratan Lal Kataria, chairman of SC/ST cell of the BJP, too described the murder as pre-planned attack on Dalits and demanded CBI inquiry. Supporting the demanded of the aggrieved family, he said that Rs 11 lakh as compensation and government job should be given to a member of the victim's family. On the ‘worsening’ state of Dalits in Haryana, he demanded to declare Gohana as ‘atrocities-prone’ zone. He said BJP President Rajnath Singh had formed a team led by former union minister Satya Narayan Jatia, MPs Avinash Rai, Narain Singh Kesari, Krishan Lal Diler and Kanwar Singh, Paramjit Kaur and Sukhdev Singh, both MPs of the Shironmani Akali Dal and Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha Charanjit
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Dalit’s murder
Chandigarh, August 30 Talking to mediapersons here, chief secretary Prem Prashant said the inquiry would also look into the role of the police and the local administration in dealing with the situation. It would also fix the responsibility on the part of any official for any lapse in the entire episode. Kaushik has been asked to submit the report within 15 days. Yesterday the government had announced that the Gohana incidents would be inquired into by the local SDM. Later it was decided that a higher officer should be entrusted with the responsibility. Lara, who was one of the main accused in the Baljit Siwach murder case but acquitted by a CBI court later, was shot dead by three unidentified persons in Gohana, leading to violent protests by the Dalits in Gohana and other parts of the state. |
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Land ‘royalty’ to farmers does not impress Chautala
Chandigarh, August 30 Talking to newspersons here after a meeting of the political affairs committee of his party, Chautala said to call the Hooda government as a “government of property dealers” was an insult to the property dealers. Quoting instances, Chautala alleged that the government first issued land acquisition notices and then withdrew them after the owners sold their land to colonisers for a song. The INLD leader also alleged grave irregularities in the recruitment for government jobs. He said recently assistant secretaries were selected for appointment in the Agriculture Marketing Board through the Subordinate Services Selection Board. A majority of the successful candidates, he alleged, were relations of influential persons. Similarly, he alleged, either wards of influential persons or those who paid hefty amounts had been recruited in other departments also. He said the payment of royalty to the farmers whose land would be acquired for 33 years was a sham and it would not help ordinary farmers. Appealing to the people for maintaining communal harmony in the wake of the Gohana incidents, Chautala accused administrative officers of making political statements that certain members of the opposition were behind these incidents. He said the nuclear deal with the USA should be a subject of a national debate. He said in view of the current political situation in the country, the possibility of a mid-term Lok Sabha poll could not be ruled out. The allegations levelled against the Hooda government by Chautala today resebled those allegations which used to be levelled against the INLD government by the Congress when it used to be in opposition.
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Case registered for assaulting public servants
Fatehabad, August 30 A case under Sections 332, 353, 186, 436 and 506 of the IPC has been registered against Ved Jain, his sons Sanjiv and Rajiv, all partners of the firm, Raja Seeds, and eight to 10 other unidentified persons. According to a complaint by agriculture authorities, a kisan club of the area had complained to the director, Agriculture Department, Haryana, alleging sale of spurious Bt cottonseed by the firm. The director deputed joint director, Cotton, Sultan Singh to raid the firm situated on the local Sirsa road. Joint director along with his deputy director and two subdivisional agriculture officers found 400 bags of fake seeds lying in the godowns. As the team was counting the bags of spurious seeds for taking those in its custody, the firm owner and some of his accomplices allegedly roughed up the raiding party. The firm owners allegedly sprinkled petrol on the bags and set them on fire. |
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Heavy rain lashes Bhiwani
Bhiwani, August 30 A large number of vehicles went out of order because of the accumulated water on the main roads. Two-wheeler owners were seen kicking their vehicles in order to cross the water. Earlier, two days back when the same situation had occurred due to rain, the deputy commissioner while visiting the effected areas along with Public Health and Public Works Department had directed to make arrangements to drain out water immediately. But today things worsened when power failed and water from sewerage and manholes started coming out on the roads. Foul smell added to the woes of residents. Because of heavy rain, the Circular Road got waterlogged and the department concerned had to stack bricks pieces to cover the potholes. Though a sum of Rs 4 crore is with the PWD for the construction of roads but the work could not be started because of the
rainy season. Deputy commissioner Mohinder Kumar said he had directed the Public Works Department to construct the RCC Road from Dinod gate to Devsar Chungi Point and also to dig a big nullah on the road to drain out the water. The work would soon be started, he assured. |
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Teachers under pressure to go on deputation
Rohtak, August 30 The college teachers were asked to give their option for deputation, but even those teachers who opted against going on deputation were relieved by the university authorities. Strangely, while many of their colleagues have been adjusted in the university teaching departments, these nine lecturers are not being accommodated despite vacancies. According to university norms, no employee can be sent on deputation against his or her will. Even the Supreme Court has ruled that there can be no deputation without the consent of the employee concerned and no employee can be transferred to a different employer without his consent. However, in a letter sent to a lecturer not willing to go on deputation, the university administration has categorically stated that the teacher had “no option but to join Pt N.R.S. College” as they “had not been sent on deputation in ordinary sense of the term”. Teachers say they will be left with no other option but to take the legal recourse. On the other hand, the university officials either remain tightlipped or pass the buck regarding the crucial issue. The issue began when the Haryana Government decided to take over the reins of the erstwhile University College last year, later named as Pandit Neki Ram Sharma Government College. All university-appointed teachers serving at the college were subsequently relieved from the college and told to join MDU. While some were adjusted in the university teaching departments, nearly 50 were rendered without any work and without even any place to sit. Finally, the state authorities ultimately decided to send them back to the college. Following the orders in this regard, all these teachers were automatically relieved. However, those lecturers who had specifically stated that they did not want to go on deputation were also relieved after the university received a letter from the Education Department of the state government in this regard. |
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Chetna rally for formation of separate HSGPC
Kurukshetra, August 30 Six villages comprising Padlu, Madhipur, Kalsani, Nalvi, Jhansa and Mohanpur were covered under
the march. The rally was organised under the leadership of Didar Singh Nalvi, a member of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and general secretary of the HSGPC (ad hoc). While addressing the gathering at his native village, Nalvi urged upon the Haryana government to enact a law for the formation of a separate HSGPC before November 1 as it has already been overdelayed by 41 years. Baldev Singh Khalsa, SGPC member from Hisar, urged upon the Congress party to honour its commitment regarding the formation of a separate management committee on the pattern of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee. Joint secretary Sohinder Singh asked why the Chattha Committee, formed two years back to look into the issues of formation of a separate HSGPC, was not submitting its report to the Hooda government though lakhs of Sikhs of Haryana had submitted their affidavits in its favour. Vice-president, HSGPC, Nawab Singhra and other speakers expressed their resolve to fight for this cause till the very last. The rally started from Gurdwara Manji Sahib, Shahabad, performing prayer before Guru Granth Sahib for the formation of a separate committee in accordance with Section 72 of the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966. |
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State panel reverses forum’s order
Yamunanagar, August 30 The forum on June 21, 2006 had ordered local doctors Dr Raj Kumar Garg, Dr P.K. Garg and Dr Harsh Garg and Raj Hospital to pay Rs 9, 25,448 with 12 per cent interest (as per the Motor Accident Claim Tribunal Schedule) and Rs 1 lakh, amount spent on medicine, and other expenses to Chader Parkash Sharma of Professor Colony, here, whose wife Pushpa Rani was operated upon in the hospital. Later, she died on June 23, 2003. Pushpa Rani was an employee of the Haryana Education Department and was taken to the hospital after she had complained of pain in her stomach. She was operated upon her abdomen and uterus, but her condition did not improve even after the operation. Dr Raj Kumar Garg and Raj Hospital had moved the commission against the order but it rejected the appeal. |
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State gets Rs 447 cr for roads
Chandigarh, August 30 Parliamentary secretary, PWD (B&R), Paramvir Singh here today said the union ministry of rural development had cleared the upgrading of 108 roads in the state. He said after upgrading the roads, better infrastructure would be available to 324 habitations covering 20 districts. He said about 39,000 metric tonnes of bitumen, 55,000 metric tonnes of cement, 550 metric tonnes of steel would be used for upgrading these roads and it would generate employment of 20.71 lakh man days. Paramvir Singh directed the officers of the department that quality of the work should be maintained at all costs. He also directed them to maintain quality in design and construction while upgrading these roads.
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Govt decides to launch green campaign
Ambala, August 30 Saplings were planted in the Main Bus stand complex of Ambala cantt today. DC said the forest department has supplied 39 lakh saplings free of cost to farmers. General manager Haryana Roadways M.R. Dhulla said 500 saplings have been planted in the bus stand premises and 500 saplings will be planted in Naraingarh bus stand complex. Meanwhile, Murlidhar DAV senior secondary school principal Reena Nagrath alongwith the NSS unit of the school planted saplings in Baraut village. The saplings were planted in the premises of St Sawan Middle public school, Baraut.
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Five held for attacking police
Sonepat, August 30 Sonu and Navneet from Gohana were arrested today for their alleged involvement in forcing the shopkeepers of Gohana to close their shops yesterday. A case under various sections has been registered. They have been sent to judicial custody. The police staged a flag march in some parts of Sonepat. SP Navdeep Singh Virk said Jaswinder of Khanda village and Deepak and Akash of Gohana were arrested for their involvement in attacking and injuring the police personnel on duty and damaging other public and private property on the intervening night of August 26-27.
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Case of cheating against truck owner
Rewari, August 30 The case has been registered on a complaint filed by Deepak Kumar of Bansal Sales Corporation here. The complainant alleged that they had hired a truck from a transport company of Jhajjar for transporting 25 tonnnes of sarson, worth about Rs 5 lakh to M/S Sohan Mustard Oil Mill, Behrampur ( Kolkata ). After that Hari Sharma, along with his men, duly took the truck, loaded with sarson, to Behrampur where it was expected to reach in a week. However, enquiries revealed that consignment had not been delivered to the firm till date, as such they made a complaint to the police in this regard. |
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Woman commits suicide
Rewari, August 30 Her brother Jagdish Kumar, who has lodged a complaint, alleged that constant harassment for dowry by her in-laws compelled her to end her life. The police has booked her husband, father-in-law Jagdish and eight others.
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Yamunanagar, August 30 The police is taking the help of photographs and video takes of the incident to identify antisocial elements. The police has arrested Ramji Lal, Jaipal, Ravinder Kumar and Rahul. — TNS
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