Complaint against cops lodged
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Aug 17 — A city resident has lodged a complaint with the police that his wife was molested and harassed by policemen near the Sector 28 petrol pump here this morning.

According to sources, Mr Nirmal Singh of Kishangarh village said his wife was working as a lecturer in the Longowal Institute of Engineering, Sangrur. At about 4.30 am, she was on her way from the village to board a bus from the Tribune roundabout, when the rickshaw on which she was travelling was stopped by some policemen. She was reportedly harassed and molested by them.

Shaken by the incident, she returned home and brought the matter to the notice of her family, following which a complaint was lodged. The police is investigating and efforts are on to ascertain identities of the accused.

Dead
Bikram Singh of Mani Majra, who was seriously injured when he was hit by a truck (PB-10-Z-4709) near the Sukhna lake bridge last night, succumbed to his injuries at the PGI.

Efforts are afoot to arrest the driver of the truck who fled from the spot, leaving the vehicle behind. A case under Section 279\304-A of the IPC has been registered at the Police Station East.

Illicit liquor
The police arrested Pappu of Sector 38 for carrying nine bottles of illicit liquor near the Shahpur village roundabout. A case under Section 61-1-14 of the Excise Act has been registered against the accused at the Sector 39 police station.

Stolen
Ashok Kumar, a conductor of the Himachal Road Transport Corporation, reported to the police that his bag containing tickets worth Rs 15,000, Rs 1,350 in cash, an identity card and other documents was stolen from the Sector 17 ISBT. A case under Section 379 of the IPC has been registered at the Central Police Station.

12 arrested
The police arrested 12 persons in the city for committing various offences.

Six persons were arrested under preventive action. four persons were arrested for roaming under suspicious circumstances. One person was arrested for driving under the influence of liquor.

SOPU dharna enters second day
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Aug 17 —The dharna of the Students Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) in front of the Vice-Chancellor's office here entered its second day.

Mr Dyal Pratap Singh Randhawa, President, sitting on an indefinite dharna said there were certain flaws in the admission policy of the university particularly in case of B Sc(honours) and M Sc classes which needed to be sorted out. The Haryana Students' Association (HSA) has also extended support to the cause of the science students.

Delay in results
The office-bearers of the Haryana Students' Association ( HSA) have at a meeting held today under the presidentship of Mr Bhupinder Singh Bhupi deliberated on the problems arising out of the delay in the declaration of results. They highlighted the resentment that prevailed among students as results of nearly 750 students of BCA, hundreds of students of BA II, MA I and II have not been declared till date. They flayed the university authorities for causing a delay in the commencement of the new session, first by starting the annual exams late and then for the slow declaration of results. They have also threatened to start an agitation if the results are not declared in time.

Extra seats
Government College, Sector 11, has been sanctioned 10 per cent extra seats in bachelor of commerce for the session 1999-2000, Dr S.N.Singla, Principal, said in a press release here today.

Only candidates who had submitted their applications earlier are eligible for the admissions. Admissions will be held on August 20.

Seminar
Bhai Vir Singh Chair for Modern Literature, in collaboration with Authors Guild of India will organise a seminar on "Advent of new technology and literature" on August 21 and 22, a press release said here today

The inaugural session will be held in the English auditorium Seats filled

All seats in the reserved categories of Scheduled Castes and tribes, sports, handicapped, terrorist victims ,freedom fighters and paramilitary have been filled in all the three institute of engineering and architecture courses here today

In the open category, both in the UT pool and general pool, all seats in electronic and computer science branches have been filled till the rank of 500. The admissions tomorrow will be held for students placed between 501-1500 CET position in the engineering course and from 1-600 position in the architecture course.

Prices of fruits stable
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Aug 17 — Barring a few, there has been no change in the prices of a majority of commonly used fruit in the local market during the past four days.

During a survey of markets it was found that the price of mango was rising with each passing day due to shrinking arrivals in the market, the reason of which was that the crop was almost over down in the south and in Uttar Pardesh. A kg of the 'chausa' variety of mango, which is the only available mango variety, priced at Rs 40 just four days ago, could be purchased today for Rs 50. The wholesale price has increased from Rs 180 to Rs 200 per 7 kg pack.

On the other hand, the price of 'baggugosha' has come down during this period. A kg of the fruit, priced at Rs 50 last week, could be purchased today for Rs 40. The wholesale price of the same has dipped from Rs 240 to Rs 200 per 12 kg pack. According to traders, the decrease in the price was due to higher arrivals of the fruit from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

Guava, another major summer fruit, could be purchased at its old price of Rs 20 in the retail market and for Rs 12 a kg in wholesale market. Similarly, one could purchase plum for Rs 40 a kg, the price which is prevailing in the market for the past one month as there was no change in the quantum of arrivals in the market from Himachal Pradesh during this period.

Even as the royal variety of apple could be purchased for Rs 40 a kg in retail and for Rs 500 per 18 kg pack, apple lovers could buy the golden variety of the fruit for Rs 25 a kg in retail and for Rs 250 per 18 kg pack.

There was no change in the price of papaya as it could be had for Rs 20 a kg in retail and for Rs 15 a kg in the wholesale market. The same was the case with banana, as these were available in the retail market for Rs 20 a dozen and in the wholesale market for Rs 130 per 100 pieces.

If the local variety of pomegranate could be purchased for Rs 40 a kg in retail and for 130 per 4 kg pack in wholesale, the 'kandhari' variety of the fruit could be had for Rs 80 a kg in retail and for Rs 140 per 2 kg pack in the wholesale market.

'Mausambi' was priced at Rs 40 a dozen in retail and for Rs 110 per 4 dozen in the wholesale market. The fruit was priced at Rs 70 a dozen during last fortnight but arrival of fresh crop has eased the situation, resulting in dipping of the price.

Black slam by Charukh Goel
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Aug 17 — Charukh Goel scored the black slam while playing his junior boys singles match with Harsukhman Singh Nagra today on the fourth day of the 9th Chandigarh state Carrom championship, in progress at St Stephen's school, sector 45. Tejinder Harry, the top seed, and Mohd Tanveer, the second seed, had easy wins over Paramdeep Oberoi and Deepak Kumar, respectively.

The results of the fourth day are:

Men's singles — Tejinder Harry b Paramdeep Oberoi 25-1, 18-17; Rozerio Sampson b Gurinder Singh 25-5, 6-19, 21-5; Gagandeep Singh b Dhruva 25-6, 23-22; Sanjay Negi b D.S. Aithani 25-0, 25-10; Mohd Tanveer b Deepak Kumar 17-2, 25-0; Charukh Goyal b C.M. Sharma 23-8, 25-10.

Men's doubles — Mohd Tanveer and Tejinder Harry b Dhruva and Sumit 25-9, 25-0; Sudhir Sidh and S.P. Janjua b G. Roy and D. Das 14-12, 15-18, 25-0; M. Piplani and Vinod b Manoj Gulati and C.M. Sharma 10-25, 21-15, 25-11; Ravinder Sharma and N.K. Arora b E. Arthur and Ashok 8-22, 25-11, 16-5; Gagandeep and Charukh b Rozerio and Sanjay Negi 20-11, 6-20, 25-5; Anu Papneja and Gurinder Singh b Varinder and G. Singh 25-12, 25-10; K.S. Patwal and B.S. Negi b Om Prakash and Ajay Gupta 20-15, 6-22, 23-10; Ramanpreet and Baninder Singh b Devinderjit and Paramdeep 24-5, 18-8.

Sub-junior boys' singles — Ramanpreet Singh b Rajat Sachdeva 25-2, 25-0; Rahul Nanda b Vijay Garg 25-13; Taranpreet b Rishab Khurana 25-4, 25-3; Aniket Kalsi b Sunil Yadav 22-5; Money Bansal b Gurpreet Singh 25-6, 25-8; Ramanpreet Pahwa b Taranpreet 13-14, 25-10, 24-11; Gurinder Singh b Money Bansal 25-16, 25-10; Nitesh Kapoor b Jasgaurav Gill 12-0.

Junior boys' singles — Devinderjit Gill b Mohit Dhir 25-0, 25-0; Ramanpreet Pahwa b Anu Papneja 24-10, 16-13; Baninder Singh b Sanjay Negi 25-6, 10-25, 18-15; Sumit b Money Bansal 25-8, 25-6; Randhir Kalsi b Deepak Bishnoi 1-24, 21-13, 19-15; Charukh Goel b Harsukhman Nagra 25-0, 25-0.

Veterans (men) — Ramesh Chander b Suraj Kohli 25-0, 25-0; Subhash b S. Chakarvorty 23-11, 24-0.

St Stephen's win
St Stephen's school, sector 45, and Government senior secondary school, sector 15, moved up in the Shivalik Football trophy for under-17 boys, being played at the sector 17 football grounds.

St Stephen's school blanked Government Model senior secondary school, sector 35, 4-0, with Sahil, Sameer, Harsukhman and Arpan scoring one goal each in the 12th, 13th, 39th and 47th minute, respectively.

Government senior secondary school, Sector 15, defeated Government Model senior secondary school, sector 33, 1-0, Rahul being the lone scorer.

In other matches, GMSSS, Sector 22, defeated GHS, Sector 37, 3-1, with Parampreet Mann, Inderpreet and Sandeep converting one goal each for the winners. GSSS, Sector 20, downed GMSSS, Sector 40, 2-0, with Gulab Singh and Arun Kumar scoring the goals in 8th and 19th minutes, respectively. GNPS, Sector 36, whipped GMSSS, Sector 35, 4-0.

Ball badminton tourney
Chandigarh Mini Ball Badminton championships began at Government Senior secondary school, sector 37, here today. The hosts defeated Government high school, sector 37, 29-13, 29-8 in the opening match in the girls section.

Other results are:

Girls — Shivalik Public school, Sector 41, b GHS, Sector 41, 29-7, 29-6; GHS, Sector 37, b GSSS, Sector 38, 29-4, 29-6; GMS, Sector 37, b GMSSS, Sector 21, 29-7, 29-4; GHS, Sector 41, b Coaching centre, Sector 41, 29-5, 29-7; GMSSS, Sector 37, b Manav Mangal school, sector 21, 29-4, 29-4.

Boys — GSSS, Sector 38, b GHS, Sector 37, 22-29, 29-26, 29-17; GMSSS, Sector, b GMSSS, Sector 28, 27-29, 29-21, 29-8; CC, Sector 41, b Chandigarh B academy 29-6, 29-10; MDAV, Sector 22, b GHS, Sector 41, 29-18, 29-16; GHS, Sector 37, b MM, Sector 21, 29-22, 29-18; GMHS, Sector 28, b GHS, Sarangpur, 29-19, 29-21.

Karate trials
The trials to select the UT men's and women's karate teams for the National karate championship, to be held at Pune from August 24 to 26, will be conducted at MDAV School, sector 22, at 6 p.m. tomorrow, according to Mr Ashwani Kumar, secretary, Amateur Karate Association of Chandigarh.