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threat over lack of promotions Save paddy stocks, urge millers Narrow gender gap: expert Row over funds for cultural nite Traders sore at broken promises Anti-encroachment drive an
eyewash? Siti Cable resents PSEB move USA ‘influencing’
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Draft Sikh Shrines Bill JALANDHAR, Oct 3 (PTI) — In a move likely to stroke a controversy over brinking about certain changes in the legislation governing Sikh gurdwaras, the Punjab Government has asked the SGPC to give a detailed critique of the draft Sikh Shrines Bill prepared by Chief Commissioner of Gurdwara Elections Justice (Retd) Harbans Singh. Nothwithstanding the stance taken by the Chief Minister and the ruling Akali Dal supremo Mr Parkash Singh Badal and SGPC Chief Jagir Kaur, who had challenged Justice Harbans Singh’s authority to send the draft Bill to the Centre, the State Election Department has asked the SGPC to submit a critique "after a thorough examination". "The copy of the All-India Sikh Gurdwara Bill draft 1999 is being sent to you and you are requested to submit your critique so that a suitable response can be sent to the Union Home Ministry, a communication received by the SGPC on Wednesday from the local bodies wing of the state Election Department said. So far, the Union Home Ministry had asked the SGPC for comments on the draft amendments notification proposing certain changes in the Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1925, and no official communication from the Central or State Government ever referred to the draft Bill which seeks to replace the 1925 Act in its entirety. The draft amendments notification has drawn strong opposition from the Sikh Thinktank and the ruling Akali Dal and SGPC. The move will add a new dimension to the ongoing row. Justice Harbans Singh, who had earlier proposed disenfranchising Sehajdhari Sikhs for the purpose of gurdwara poll and changing the definition of Sikh besides ending reservation for women and Scheduled Castes in the SGPC, has also prepared the draft of the Sikh Shrines Bill, 1999, which seeks to bring gurdwaras across the country under the purview of a central board. The 1999 draft Bill also, for the first time in the over 400-year-old history of the supreme temporal seat of the Sikhs, codifies the appointment procedure for the Jathedar of Akal Takht as also Jathedars of other Takhts. A provision making it mandatory for the Jathedars of the Takhts to take an oath before the President of the board has already drawn sharp criticism from top Sikh leadership. Justice Harbans Singh
has so far maintained a silence over the controversy
though he defended his draft of the Bill in separate but
identical communications to Mr Badal and Bibi Jagir Kaur
last month. |
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Father's search for son's
murderers TARN TARAN, Oct 3 — Mr Mohinder Singh (70) is moving from pillar to post to bring to book those behind the murder of his son, Manjeet Singh, whose body was found five months ago from the Harike canal in a car. Mr Mohinder Singh said his son, a patwari, was married to Ms Inderjit Kaur, alias Babli, daughter of Mr Naranjan Singh, a resident of Ludhiana, about seven years back. Their relations were strained. Mr Mohinder Singh said on the evening of April 18, his son along with wife and her brother Karamjit Singh and Charanjit Singh left for Ludhiana in his Maruti car (no DL-2C-8458). None reached Ludhiana that night and a report was lodged with the local city police station by Mr Naranjan Singh the following day in this regard. On the evening of April 21, Mr Mohinder Singh was asked by an anonymous caller to search for the body of his son in the Harike canal. Mr Mohinder Singh with the help of the local police recovered his son's body on April 22 from inside his Maruti car submerged in the canal waters. Curiously, the car was locked. A case under Sections 302, 201 and 34 IPC, was lodged in the Makhu police station in Ferozepore. Mr Mohinder Singh, talking to this correspondent here today, said though five months had lapsed after the incident, the police had made no headway in the case. He alleged his daughter-in-law and her brothers were alive even though a body recovered from the Rajasthan canal was identified as that of Karamjit Singh by his family members. He said this was only to
‘mislead’ the police and he would approach the
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Brutal instant methods CHANDIGARH, Oct 3 — On September 18, a young driver, Devinder Singh, was picked up along with two other youths from Hassanpur village near Kharar by dreaded CIA staff from the Ropar police. The charge was that they had been dealing in illicit arms. As if the CIA staff was incompetent, the police hired the services of a retired Sub Inspector, Sant Singh, a notorious thrasher. Evidently Devinder Singh, a frail youth of 21, could not stand to the alleged brutalities and died while in hospital. This case would have remained hushed up but for the loud protest by the villagers and later an alert media forced the government to register the case and arrest not only those from the CIA staff, but also Sant Singh. But this is not an isolated case where an accused, much before being tried by a court of law, falls a victim to instant justice by brute force created to enforce law. Almost each thana has its own brand of Sant Singhs. They apply third degree methods. Spread legs wide enough sometime even to tear the ligaments. Apply wooden roller on the body that tears each limb to pieces. Hang upside down and also give electric shocks, sometime killing the accused instantly. "Old hands knew how to use these brutal methods to take confessions. But these new breed of cops care two hoots for life. They want instant and quick confessions, false or true, and show to their seniors that they have produced results. Earlier the technique was ‘garm karo, thanda karo’. Allow time to a person to make admissions and then leave at that. Some did die earlier also, but now the number is frightening". Some fallout from the days of terrorism, a senior police officer at the police headquarters here explained and gave several instances in his long career when he too faced a similar situation when some subordinates had done the dirty thing. But Devinder Singh is not the only hapless alleged victim. A week later Jadish Rai was summoned to an elite post at civil lines Bathinda. The purpose was to sort out a business dispute. Harassment and torture later allegedly lead to the death of Jagdish Rai in a private nursing home. The law provides no authority to the police to settle trade or other civil disputes. But people invariably rush to the police for easy and quick solutions. Evidently for some consideration, the police is quick to respond. There is a plethora of instructions from the headquarters. But then who cares when officers themselves violate the rules. These are not just two isolated cases. In the present regime of the Akalis, who were never short of swearing to stop these practices and provide protection to life and honour to the citizens, this year alone three cases are reported in the police files. On Independence Day, Lakha Singh, a resident of Rajoki under Sirhali police station in Tarn Taran fell a victim to the third-degree methods. Again, there was just a small case. This poor farmer leaves behind a wailing family. Another case relates to Kaka Singh in the Patra area of Patiala. The police sadism does not end here, Jagroop Singh, a 13-year-old, was picked up by the Sudhar police in Jagraon police district in May. The boy was allegedly sodomised by cops and later thrown in the fields in an unconscious state. The frightened father, Gurmeet Singh, alleged that the boy was asked to bring his teenaged sister also. Tarsem Jodha, a former CPM MLA, who fought this case, alleged that another accused, Ram Dayal had died in police custody in Sahnewal police station. This year alone the police records show that at least nine accused persons escaped from police custody. It is a standard practice with the police to torture and kill and later show that the accused has escaped. This, of course, may not be true in all cases. And what was the track record of the police in 1998. At least six persons had died in police custody and 10 others escaped. In all these cases of death in police custody, the cases have been registered and many cops are facing courts. But there are cases where no one has been booked and no case has been registered. In Bathinda district in November last, a helpless Raj Kumar, another youngman charged with small crime, died of torture. He belonged to Rampura. Only intense pressure forced the police to act and register a case. In the same year in October, Bhagwan Singh, son of Amar Singh and a resident of Sadar area in Ferozepore, met a similar fate. Here too an alert public forced the officers to register a case. In August last year, two persons, Karnail Singh of Jagatpur village under Jhabal police station, and Satnam Singh Saida, son of Pakhar Mal, a resident of Khurd village in Adampur area of Jalandhar, lost their lives while in police custody. The same fate awaited Ranjit Singh, son of Nath Singh of Bay Dhillawn village in Mansa police district. In February Malkiat Singh, son of Didar Singh of the Rai Kot area in Ludhiana district, died while in custody of the Sangrur Police. These could be cases of simple theft, some simple village dispute or even some who are habitual offenders of small nature, and they are an easy prey to the police atrocities. "When journalists and other privileged persons cannot escape the wrath of the police, the poor have no cause of complaint," goes the common refrain in Punjab. In all these cases the police had to register first information reports against its own cops, and in many cases under Section 302 of the IPC and had to make arrests too. But then many cases go unregistered, particularly where the police are not vigilant or officers involved are powerful. While registering cases does lead to sensitisation of the force, the police top brass has to look into training and other aspects, home department officials feel. Interestingly, the
Akalis of all hues have been vehement opponents to the
police atrocities at least when they were out of power.
They would condemn, lead demonstrations, gherao thanas
and demand judicial or CBI probes. And, the cases are
legion when they lead the mass protest. And, they
promised that their rule would protect people's honour
and life. Their manifestos declared it loudly. |
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Anti-encroachment drive an
eyewash? ABOHAR: The campaign to remove encroachments to comply with the instructions issued by the Punjab and Haryana High Court may prove to be an eyewash exercise in this subdivision. Activists of the Yuva Morcha, affiliated to the BJP, created an ugly scene at the Municipal Complex here on Friday afternoon as the BJP-run council dared to serve notices to 90 shopkeepers on the Circular Road giving them time to voluntarily vacate the footpath allegedly encroached by them for the past so many months. The activists along with the shopkeepers grilled the municipal staff and even tried to beat an employee who had issued the notices. The activists alleged that the council, run by their own party, was adopting a partisan attitude in initiating action against the guilty. Encroachments on the Abohar-Malout road were removed, but there too the staff had to face criticism. The affected kiosk and rehri owners alleged that neither PWD officials nor the municipal staff had taken action against those who had raised pucca commercial buildings near the road in violation of the set norms but temporary encroachments were being removed. No agency had bothered to remove meat sellers' kiosks although these had not been given permission to sell meat without verification from the Department of Animal Husbandry. The animals were butchered near the roadside. The Health Department had also never taken action against fish sellers, they said. The situation was worse in the crowded Sadar Bazar and bus stand market. Shopkeepers had encroached almost three-fourth portion of the road by placing wooden tables and even almirahs in front of their shops. It had become difficult to pass through these markets. Not a single footpath in the city was free of encroachment, but the municipal authorities had not taken any action. The council had resolved to remove encroachments from the old Fazilka road and other parts of the town by filing cases under Section 94 of the Public Premises Act in 1997, but the progress was not made known. The council had recently legalised the illegal construction of a marriage palace on the College Road. There were reports that some other marriage palaces had also been constructed in violation of the building bylaws without taking permission of the council. A large number of kiosks and rehris had come up during the past one and a half year. Most of the rehris were arranged by the shopkeepers themselves. Last year when the High Court took a serious view of the encroachments on highways, the Central Works Division of the PWD had served notices to the illegal occupants of the government land on the national highways which linked Abohar with Sriganganagar, Fazilka, Malout and Hanumangarh, but action was dropped for some consideration. A large number of commercial constructions on the edge of the highways were visible outside Khuiyansarwer, Gidderanwali, Maujgarh, Kallarkhera and Sappanwali villages. Nearly 90 per cent of the road accidents were caused due to the fast growth of encroachments on the Abohar-Sriganganagar road. The situation was not different on the other roads, but no anti-encroachment drive had been launched. There were encroachments galore on the state highway, better known as the College Road now. The old landlords had got the sale deeds legalised in connivance with the revenue staff for the construction of commercial buildings on both sides of the road. All colleges and half a dozen model schools were located on this road. Many students had been crushed to death by speedy vehicles in the past. Every police and civil officer on their visit from the district headquarters had promised to take drastic steps, but not even a mild step had been taken. The same was the situation on the PWD-owned Sadar Thana Road. Pucca constructions had come up in a big way congesting the road which had heavy traffic due to the existence of the main Bus Stand. The police authorities
had launched a campaign against two-wheelers, but cars
with tainted glasses, illegal gharukas marutas and
overloaded three-wheelers could be easily noticed in the
subdivisions. Pressure horns and stereo players were
freely being used by bus operators. Road markings outside
educational institutions had yet to be done. Eve-teasers
as usual violated the speed limit fixed for the vehicles
on the busy roads. |
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Stir threat over lack of
promotions HOSHIARPUR, Oct 3 — Resentment prevails among government employees of various departments on account of promotions not being given since long due to which even important posts have been lying vacant for the past so many years. In a press note here today, Principal Kuldip Kaur Chaudhry, President, and Mr Surinder Kumar, general secretary of the General Category Employees Welfare Association, Punjab, said the state government had imposed temporary bar on all promotions for the past two years. On account of this bar, unlimited posts of even heads in various government departments and lecturers in schools were lying vacant. They said out of 29 class I posts in the Education Department, 11 were lying vacant whereas more than 400 posts of class-II and about 500 posts of headmaster in the same department were waiting for their successors. They said the state government had given temporary officiating charge for various posts in different departments to the related officers. The government had not even provided officiating charge to any one in the Education Department. They further said all nine posts of Deputy Secretary of the Punjab cadre in the civil secretariat of the state government at Chandigarh were also lying vacant. Besides, out of 23 posts of Under Secretary, 15 were vacant in the secretariat. Similarly, 30 posts of Superintendent and posts of other categories in the secretariat were also vacant. Many posts of Deputy Director and other ranks in the Health and Family Welfare Department were also lying vacant. Dr Balkaran Singh had been given temporary charge of the Agriculture Department. They warned the state
government that if it failed to make promotions soon
employees of various departments would launch a statewide
agitation. They pointed out that many government
employees retired from service without getting any
promotion. They alleged the government had already done
injustice to employees of the general category for not
implementing the decision of Mr Justice Ajit Singh Janjua
of the Punjab and Haryana High Court of March 1, 1996. |
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Save paddy stocks, urge millers PHAGWARA, Oct 3 (UNI) — The Punjab Rice Millers Association has urged the state government to take immediate steps to save paddy stocks worth crores of rupees in the interests of millers and farmers. The association’s president Tarsem Saini and its legal cell chairman Joginder Paul, while talking to newsmen here yesterday, expressed dissatisfaction over the announced price of rice milling rate of Rs 913 per quintal set by the Union Government. They urged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to take up the matter of rice millers’ demands like increasing the milling price with the Union Government after the completion of election process. Meanwhile, a report from Muktsar said licences of five commission agents have been suspended in the mandis of Muktsar, Malout and Gidderbaha following surprise raids conducted by authorities concerned at different paddy procurement centres in the district. According to Deputy Commissioner B.S. Soodan, over 10 purchase centres and mandis of Muktsar, Gidderbaha, Malout, Chibranwali, Panniwala, Munda, Virk Khera, Madheer, Lalbai, Badal, Mahuana and Lambi were raided yesterday by a team led by him and it was found that all bags containing procured paddy were overweighed from 400 gram to 700 gram. Mr Soodan said he had also ordered an inquiry into the complaints against the Markfed inspector at Paniwala purchase centrre who had been reportedly harassing farmers. Earlier, the Deputy
Commissioner at an official meeting with the senior
officials of various procurement agencies expressed
satisfaction over the procurement arrangements of paddy. |
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Narrow gender gap: expert PATIALA, Oct 3 — A middle-aged educated housewife barges into the consultation room of a doctor, seeking termination of her pregnancy for the 14th time. She has two children and has undergone 13 pregnancy terminations. She is visibly upset and full of anger for her husband and wants the doctor to admonish him. This is not a solitary case. "It has happened with my other colleagues also," according to Dr Ashi R. Sarin, former head of the department at the local Medical College and President of the Patiala chapter of the Obstetrics and Gyanaecology Society. Dr Sarin said women invariably complained that their husbands did not cooperate with them with regard to family planning. Delivering the presidential address at the 11th Patiala FOGSI Conference of Obstetrics and Gynaecology held here today, she said a survey by her had shown that the attitude of men towards sexuality and reproductive health had a strong bearing on the female’s reproductive health. Men, excluding those from higher socio-economic strata, did not by and large want to regulate their fertility and also blamed their wives in case of infertility. Even use of contraceptives depended on the man’s perception about the method and willingness to use it. Any attempt by the female partners to influence their men had an adverse impact. Many men thought that a condom was meant to be used for sex workers and not their wives and that vasectomy reduced sexual potency and had side-effects. However, Dr Sarin said the lack of involvement of men in the reproductive health of women could also stem from ignorance and wrong beliefs. Most of the family planning programmes were women-oriented. The family planning programmes must target men explicitly, she said. The ultimate challenge
lay in bringing about a behavioural change in men
belonging to diverse social and cultural backgrounds
besides incorporating them in existing health structure.
For this, the policy makers must adopt a gender sensitive
agenda that addressed the role of both men and women and
succeeded in narrowing the gender gap, she added. |
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Row over funds for cultural
nite RAMPURA PHUL, Oct 3 — The cultural nite organised by the Rani Chand Kaur Kar Sewa Society at the historic sarovar site here under the patronage of the SDM, Mr Harcharan Singh Sandhu, late last night has created a controversy over the collection of money from the public. Mr S.R. Ladhar, Deputy Commissioner, who lighted the candles to inaugurate the nite, left the function midway when he came to know that funds had been collected from the public without the prior permission of the district administration. Mr Ladhar even did not deliver his speech when Mr Sandhu requested him to do so and left the venue in a huff. The other district officers, however, kept on watching the performance of Sufi singers Puran Chand Wadali and his brother, folk singer Hakam Sufi, Balbir Chottian and Maggar Ali Khan. Mr Ladhar claimed that he was kept in the dark about the collection of funds by the kar sewa society and he left the venue without taking dinner when he came to know about this. Mr Satpal Garg, President of the Bar Association, Phul, while talking to TNS alleged that members of the Bar were maltreated by the SDM even though they had donation passes worth Rs 500 each. He added that the Bar Association would decide the future course of action at its meeting to be held tomorrow. He alleged that liquor was served to selected persons and when the Bar members were maltreated, they boycotted the function. He claimed that the SDM had asked them to buy donation passes at a meeting held by him on Friday. Mr Ladhar pointed out that only the Red Cross Society could collect funds from the public and that too for a specific project. Fund collection in any other way had been banned by the Punjab Government, he said and added that he would inquire into the matter and take necessary action. Mr Sandhu, however, denied that the funds were collected forcibly from the public. He added that people donated the money voluntarily for the development of the historic sarovar. The function was organised by selling donation passes to his personal contacts. He also denied that any member of the Bar Association was maltreated. How could Bar members be maltreated when they were considered a part of the SDM’s office, he asked. When asked whether the
collection of funds for this cultural nite was in the
knowledge of the Deputy Commissioner, he said that funds
were collected to dispose of the economic liabilities of
the kar sewa society, of which he was a patron. |
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Traders sore at broken promises JALANDHAR, Oct 3 — The president of the Jalandhar Beopar Mandal, Mr Dhani Ram Gupta, in a statement said the Punjab Government had assured traders and the urban population of the state that they would positively consider not auctioning octroi collection to private contractors in future and would take a serious note of cases of atrocities committed by octroi contractors. Mr Gupta alleged the Badal government had forgotten the promises made by Shiromani Akali Dal immediately after the elections got over. Traders, he said, were now repenting they had voted these leaders to power in the last general election. He alleged SAD had promised to abolish octroi as per its election manifesto. He alleged the wrong policies of octroi contractors were having an adverse effect on trade in the district as most of the small traders of the adjoining towns had started going to other states to avoid this situation. He said the Beopar
Mandal had cautioned the Punjab Government to change the
wrong policies towards the mercantile community otherwise
the traders would be compelled to launch an agitation. |
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Cheating case against teacher HOSHIARPUR, Oct 3 — The Hoshiarpur police has registered a case against a local primary school teacher, Ms Surjit Kaur, her adopted son Karamjit Singh, alias Sonu, and her brother Amarjit Singh, residents of Bahadurpur under Sections 420 and 406 of the IPC for defrauding the public of lakhs of rupees in the name of monthly saving committees. According to police sources, the aforesaid accused disappeared from the city with the money. People, especially women, who used to deposit money with her, are searching for them helplessly. When they failed to locate them, 70 to 80 persons reported the matter of cheating to the police authorities. Police sources said Surjit Kaur was serving in a local government primary school and her brother Amarjit Singh was an employee of Punsup and performed kirtan. She was doing monthly savings committees' business for the past several years and people of Hoshiarpur and its surrounding areas, especially women, were her regular depositors. Sources said all police stations and airports of the country had been informed in this connection. According to an estimate, she had collected more than Rs 1 crore from the people. Meanwhile, the victims
have constituted a sangharsh samiti to get back money. |
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Siti Cable resents PSEB move AMRITSAR, Oct 3 — The Siti Cable network, part of Zee Telefilm Ltd, which has emerged as the leading news and entertainment medium here, has strongly resented the move by the Punjab State Electricity Board and the local municipal corporation by allowing unauthorised operators to use their electric poles without any payment of their charges. The Managing Director of Siti Cable, Mr Hari Om Dhanuka, in a press note issued here yesterday claimed that under the agreement with both the PSEB and the corporation against regular payment of charges had the exclusive right to fix cable network on these poles throughout the city but illegal and small-time operators had been damaging their expensive equipment by hanging their cables, thereby ruining their media. Mr Dhanuka pointed out that despite repeated complaints the PSEB and civic authorities had been blatantly ignoring them and were allowing these unauthorised operators clandestine access to their respective boards and also causing damages to their poles and cables. The Siti Cable
management had urged the Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh
Badal to intervene in this matter, keeping in view the
sensitive nature of operation and order the PSEB and the
corporation to desist from allowing illegal operators
from using their poles. |
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USA ‘influencing’
India’s opinion AMRITSAR, Oct 3 — The former Minister of State for External Affairs, Mr R.L. Bhatia has said the India’s opinion was being considerably influenced by recent US policy in South Asia. In a press statement issued here today, Mr Bhatia said issues of Osama-bin-Laden and proliferation of nuclear weapons in the South Asia region were the main questions bothering the US Administration. He said they had become soft towards India and were discouraging Pakistan. Mr Bhatia pointed that the USA in its bid to control the Asian affairs had advised Pakistan to withdraw forces from Kargil and open dialogue with India. Mr Bhatia said before responding to American overtures, India must bear in mind the present complex international situation. The world was no longer
bipolar. The USSR had disintegrated, the non-alignment
movement has weakened so the world today had to check the
balance of power and there was an vacuum, he said. The
USA had emerged as a sole super power. Policy makers in
White House were conscious of the situation and were
taking full advantage to fashion their policies for the
global strategy, he added. |
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Bridge over Ghaggar near
Mubarakpur demanded CHANDIGARH, Oct 3 — Residents of several villages, including Sanauli, Nagla, Gajipur, Kishanpura, Piramchaila, Dhakauli, Himmatgarh and Baltana, have urged the Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal to get a bridge constructed over the Ghaggar near Mubarakpur for linking Sanauli village with the main route. Pleading their case, they said they had to go to Dera Bassi and Mubarakpur for visiting various government offices. As there is no link road in the absence of a bridge over the Ghaggar. They have to go Dera Bassi via Zirakpur and have to cover 15 km extra oneway. There is only one bridge over the Ghaggar at Bunkarpur between Ambala and Chandigarh and for carrying out repairs this bridge is often closed and traffic is diverted via Mubarakpur-Ramgarh-Panchkula, resulting in an extra journey of 45 km. Residents have demanded
that funds should be allocated for constructing the
bridge immediately as it was of great necessity for the
people of the area. |
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Dalit ‘hangs himself in
jail’ LUDHIANA, Oct 3 — An aged Dalit, Manfool Ram, who was arrested by the Dakha police in connection with a dowry case, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the iron bars of the window in a police station bathroom early this morning. According to information available from Mr Jatinder Singh Aulakh, SSP, Jagraon, Manfool Ram and Jasvir Ram were arrested yesterday by the police under Sections 306 and 34 of the IPC following a complaint by Mr Ram Krishna, whose daughter, Sunita, died by consuming a poisonous substance. The police claims that
while Jasbir Ram was kept in lock-up, Manfool Ram was
made to sit outside under inspection of a police sentry
owing to his old age. In the morning, when the police
sentry went to get tea, Manfool Ram allegedly hung
himself with his turban. |
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Families of three martyrs adopted HOSHIARPUR, Oct 3 — JCT Ltd, Chohal, has adopted three families of Kargil martyrs of Hoshiarpur tehsil in three different forms to make them self-sufficient for earning their livelihood. An STD PCO for the widow of Late Havildar Kamal Dev of Sandhra village and a sewing centre for the widow of Lance Naik Rajinder Singh of Goraya village were inaugurated by Mrs Renu Maheswari, president of Prerna, a social welfare organisation. Similarly, an amount of
Rs 20,000 has been deposited as fixed amount in the name
of an unmarried sister of late Lance Naik Krishan Mohan
of Dandoh village for her marriages. |
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Gurbani recitation enters 18th
day CHANDIGARH, Oct 3 — The Recitation of Gurbani, started at Namdhari headquarters Bhaini Sahib, 50 km from here, for world peace, has entered its 18th day. Mr Gurbhajan Singh Sanyasi, a spokesman of the Namdhari Darbar, said under the patronage of the Namdhari head drug de-addiction camps were being organised along with the recitation of Gurbani. People visiting the
Namdhari headquarters were being motivated to spread the
message against the use of drugs, especially among youth. |
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Police to interact with public LUDHIANA, Oct 3 — As an extension of the programme ‘Dastak’ initiated by the police, a public interaction week is being organised from October 4 to October 9. Senior police officers
and SHOs and NGOs will sit together at prominent places
in the city and hear complaints from the public and
attempts will be made to redress complaints same day. |
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Minor raped LUDHIANA, Oct 3 — A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a factory worker, Sangeet Kumar, in the Focal Point area here yesterday. The police has
registered a case under Sections 376 and 511 of the IPC
against the accused, who has absconded. |
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