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Sunday,
June 24, 2001, Chandigarh, India  
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CM’s challenge to
Cong CM’s directive on
welfare schemes Rs 100 crore for solid waste
management No breakthrough in Jhattipur murder
case Private tuition: 4 college lecturers
suspended Market fee worth lakhs
outstanding Withdraw order on NRI seats: JD
(U) Traffic disrupted on
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Army nabs young impostors HCS officer’s post
sought for widow Rape case: 2 cops remanded
in judicial custody Advocate
arrested for trespassing Cops accused of harassment Two killed in multiple
collision Land dispute leaves 6 injured Doctor booked for
negligence PWD union to hold rallies from July 7 CM adopting ‘gotra-based’
politics: HVP
30 Haryana delegates for Congress camp
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CM’s challenge to
Cong Rohtak, June 23 Addressing a gathering organised by the brotherhood gotra of Suhag, Maan, Deshwal and Dalal Khaaps to felicitate the Chief Minister, he said he was prepared to convene another session of the Vidhan Sabha if the Congress wanted to bring in a no-confidence motion. The Congress, he said, had in the past moved no-confidence motion twice against his government but it failed to muster the strength required to get them admitted by the Speaker. He said Congress leaders were fighting among themselves and holding rallies to challenge one another. He said his government would try to provide necessary infrastructural facilities to village which would be on a par with those available to residents of other metropolitan cities. He said his government had introduced the “kanya-daan” yojana for the Dalits and the poor so that they could get their daughters married. Mr Chautala claimed that during the Bhajan Lal regime, Haryana had contributed only 20 lakh tonnes of wheat to the central pool. It had contributed over 65 lakh tonnes in the current season. The Chief Minister said sufficient power was being provided to people and there was no shortage of electricity. The state would generate 3000 MW of electricity in the coming few years, he claimed. He said following the implementation of the new industrial policy, at least 61 big and 2,500 small industries had been set up in the state. Over 750 new buses have been added to the existing fleet of the state transport. |
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CM’s directive on
welfare schemes Chandigarh, June 23 Mr Chautala also told the officers that the financial assistance being given under the ‘Kanyadaan Scheme’ should be given to the beneficiary girl before her marriage. Referring to the proposal of the Rehabilitation Council of India to set up a Rehabilitation College in Haryana, Mr Chautala said land for the college would be allotted near New Delhi by the Haryana Government. He said Non-Government organisations should be given liberal assistance to undertake welfare projects to mitigate sufferings of the poor and downtrodden. He also advised that the backlog of vacancies reserved for the members belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes be cleared at the earliest. The Secretary, Social Justice and Empowerment Mr Bhagwati Prasad, informed the Chief
Minister that at present 9.55 lakh people were being benefited by the Old Age Pension Scheme. Referring to the ‘vridh ashram grah’ being set-up in the state, he said 39 such grahs had already been completed with 11 in Rewari district alone. He said 122 vridh aashram grah were under construction and likely to be completed soon. The meeting was told that Rs 326.12 crore would be spent on the implementation of various schemes by the department during the current year. Moreover, Rs 36.30 crore would be spent for the implementation of the schemes of the Department of Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes in the current financial year. |
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Rs 100 crore for solid waste
management Yamunanagar, June 23 He said the government had decided to beautify the urban areas of the state. Under this scheme, steps had been initiated for the disposal of solid waste, strengthening of fire services and shifting of milk dairies. The scheme would be completed in the next two years. Twentysix towns of the state had been identified for solid waste management. These were: Gurgaon, Bahadurgarh, Sonepat, Palwal, Rewari, Rohtak, Panipat, Samalkha, Gohana, Gannaur, Jhajjar, Sohana, Nuh, Hodal, Meham, Bawal, Yamunanagar, Jagadhri, Thanesar, Karnal, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar Hansi, Bhiwani and narnaul. According to Mr Kaushal, the government had also decided to spend Rs 7 crore on strengthening fire services in Gurgaon, Bahadurgarh, Sonepat, Palwal, Rewari, Rohtak, Panipat, Samalkha, Gohana, Gannaur, Jhajjar, Sohana, Nuh, Hodal, Meham and Bawal. Mr Kaushal said Rs 31 crore would be spent on shifting milk dairies from the congested areas in the cities to the outskirts. It had been decided that there would be a separate town planning cell in the department. Earlier, Mr Kaushal addressed the executive officers of the municipal councils of Ambala range. |
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No breakthrough in Jhattipur murder
case Panipat, June 23 Even after one month of murder of a local industrialist, Pritam Ahuja, the Panipat police has failed to nab the main alleged suspect Rohtash of Sewah village. Though police parties have raided suspected hideouts in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Muzaffarnagar but without any
success. According to police sources, it was suspected that Rohtash had fled to Nepal. A police party had gone to Nepal recently also but failed to nab the alleged murderer. It may be recalled that Pritam Ahuja was shot dead in daylight at his residence in Babarpur Mandi by two armed assailants on May 23. One of them identified as Kuldeep Kalwa was arrested 10 days after the murder. Kuldeep was produced in the court on Friday and remanded in Karnal police custody. According to police investigation, a countrymade pistol which was allegedly used by Rohtash in a daylight looting from the Binjhol Canal rest house, about four months ago, was purchased from Muzaffarnagar. According to police sources, in Jhattipur case, an FSL team of the crime branch of the CID, had visited factory premises where industrialist Banarsi Dass and his wife Shimla Devi were murdered. The police had assured the relatives of the victims that the alleged criminals would be identified and nabbed soon. |
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Private tuition: 4 college lecturers
suspended Chandigarh, June 23 The Minister of State for Education, Mr Bahadur Singh, said it was appreciable that public in general and Principals and Management of privately managed Government-aided institutions had started disclosing names of lecturers doing in tuition work, property dealing and running distance education institutions. He revealed a party comprising officers of the Higher Education Commissioner’s Office and the Hisar district administration made a raid last evening (June 22) at the residence of Mr M.S. Sharma, Lecturer in Commerce, presently posted at the Adampur
Government College. The raid was videographed and Mr Sharma was found running an institute called Indian Institute of Management Technology supposedly recognised by the All-India Council of Management Education. |
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Market fee worth lakhs
outstanding Sonepat, June 23 Sources said market fee worth lakhs of rupees had not been recovered from some arhtiyas who were alleged to have connived with some officials of the market committee for getting their files shelved. Nearly Rs 60,000 has been outstanding against a wholesale arhtiya. The non-recovery of the fee has led to the shortage of funds for various development purposes. The market committee is also suffering a revenue
loss. It is reported that several truckloads of vegetables and fruits are being imported daily by some traders and sold without being entered in registers. Some officials of the market committee are allegedly receiving huge sums regularly from them. These officials show less arrivals and low sale of vegetables and fruits in the
record. It is alleged that the arhtiyas never present their account books and the
officials feel helpless to verify the complaints against them. Meanwhile, members of the Retailers Association and representatives of various farmers’ organisations have sent a memorandum to the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, and the Chairman of the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board demanding a probe into the irregularities and action against the erring arhtiyas and officials. |
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Withdraw order on NRI seats: JD
(U) Faridabad, June 23 In a statement here today, the state party unit chief, Mr Ved Prakash Vidrohi, described the move as shortsighted and unjust. He said if the government wanted to raise the income of the college, it could have increased the seats. He said while the medical college and hospital at Rohtak, which was the only medical institution owned by the state government in Haryana, had been upgraded to the postgraduate level, the total number of seats for medical courses had been static for the past several years. He claimed that reserving 17 seats for the NRI category from the available seats would mean a direct loss to the local candidates as eight, six and three seats (out of the total 17) had been taken from the general, backward class and Scheduled Caste categories, respectively. He demanded an immediate withdrawal of the order. He also criticised the policy of the Chautala government on education. Commenting upon the decision to take away plus one and plus two classes from private-aided colleges, he said it would affect the growth of the educational infrastructure. Calling it an arbitrary decision, he said the private colleges should have been taken into confidence. Mr Vidrohi also condemned the decision to withdraw postgraduate courses from various colleges. |
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Traffic disrupted on
Sonepat-Meerut route Sonepat, June 23 Residents said they informed the authorities of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam at Fazilpur immediately after the incident, but nobody had reached the site till today morning. They also alleged that the supply of electricity was not cut off in the hanging wires during the night which could lead to some mishap. Meanwhile, the police has registered a case against the tractor driver and further investigations are in progress. |
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Army nabs young impostors Ambala, June 23 The youths were nabbed by Army men earlier this week when they approached a local Army unit for giving demonstration of acupressure equipment. The duo claimed that they were from a Delhi-based firm and sold acupressure equipment. The Army men here became suspicious when the duo expressed familiarity with different cantonments located in North India. The duo, Nadeem and Ajay, were then nabbed by the Army personnel. Sources said that on questioning, the duo said that they had already visited the cantonments in Amritsar, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Bareilly, Dehra Dun and Raiwali and they were now planning to sell their ware at Ambala cantonment and then move on Ferozepore cantonment. The duo stated that they were from a Delhi-based firm which specialised in acupressure and magnetic therapy equipment. Preliminary investigations had revealed that the address cited by them of the firm had turned out to be a residential address. Also, it had come to light that at least there cousins of Nadeem were based in Faisalabad in Pakistan. The seizure of a number of telephone numbers of officers, including senior Army officers based in different cantonments, has raised many eyebrows in the Army. The duo was also reportedly carrying eight recommendation letters of Army officers who had apparently benefited from the acupressure therapy. The Army also found that the prices of the acupressure equipment being sold by the two persons were several times higher than the actual prices. The Delhi Police is also believed to be making inquiries into the antecedents of the two individuals. The two youths were later handed over to the police by the Army. A police official said that the duo would approach the commanding officer of an Army unit and explain the benefits of the acupressure therapy. “They would even provide a sample for use so that the officer would know how beneficial it was. The duo would then seek permission for a demonstration and hope to sell the equipment,” he said. The Superintendent of Police, Mr Sandeep
Khirwar, said that inquiries were being made into the case.
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HCS officer’s post
sought for widow Faridabad, June 23 In a statement issued here today, Dr Lal Singh, chairman of the
parliamentary board of the party, said Commandant Ahlawat, one of the seniormost officers from Haryana had set a precedent by leading a cordon and search operation against militants in Anantnag sector on the night of June 3 last with himself as the officiating commanding officer of the battalion. Dr Lal Singh said keeping in view the status of Commandant Ahlawat the government should offer the post of HCS officer to his widow on compassionate grounds. He said the Chautala government in Haryana and the Badal government in Punjab had offered posts on such basis in the recent past. He said the Chief Minister had also offered to nominate Mrs Sudha Yadav, MP from Mahendergarh, about two years ago when her husband who was a deputy commandant died during the Kargil operation, two years ago. |
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Rape case: 2 cops remanded
in judicial custody Ambala, June 23 The policemen, Rajiv and Dharma, were remanded in judicial custody till July 5 by the Duty Magistrate, Mr R.K. Yadav. A forty-five-year old widow, who is a resident of Mahesh Nagar, in a complaint had stated that the incident took place on the intervening night of June 16 and 17 when these two policemen took her brother-in-law into custody. The victim, in a complaint, which was handed over to the Ambala cantonment MLA, Mr Anil Vij, said that the cops entered her house to arrest her brother-in-law. She then followed the cops back to the police station to get her brother-in-law released. One of the policemen, Dharma, then told her to return home and when the woman refused, he took her back home. She was then allegedly raped by the policeman. The woman claimed that when she went to the police station next morning to lodge her complaint, the officials present there asked her to go back. She stated that the policemen did not register her complaint. Later, on the intervention of Mr Anil Vij, a case was registered against the policemen and the policemen were arrested late last night. Mr Anil Viz said, “I am going to write to the Director-General of Police, Haryana, to demand an inquiry as to why a case was not registered by the policemen on duty at the police station when the victim had approached them.” “The question is why was no case registered. This puts a question mark on the functioning of the police. There are several instances where policemen are reluctant to register a case at the police station,” he said. |
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Advocate arrested for
trespassing Kaithal, June 23 According to a complaint lodged by Ravi
Datt, who is a truck driver and resident of Mata Gali here, Virender Kumar had allegedly abducted the complainant’s daughter last year and was arrested by the police. He had then threatened him to make a compromise in the case or face the consequences. On Thursday night when the complainant, along with some of his friends, was sitting in the home, the accused allegedly entered his house and besides abusing also assaulted him. The suspect was, however, overpowered and handed over to the police. The suspect was later sent in Judicial remand for one day by the Chief Judicial Magistrate. It may be recalled that the suspect was arrested last year by the police and was booked for abducting and raping a minor girl. |
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Cops accused of harassment Ambala, June 23 The Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr Uday Shankar, who has been named in a telegram sent to senior police officials, said there was no question of his being part of any raid last night. “I was on duty in Mahesh Nagar at the time this ‘raid’ is supposed to have taken place. I have neither met the complainants nor do I have any idea about what they are referring to,” the DSP said. Ms Rita Malhotra, in the telegram, has alleged that a police party led by DSPs Mr Deep Ram and Mr Uday Shankar raided her residence, ransacked the cabinets, misbehaved with her mother-in-law, and abused her when her husband was out of station.
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Two killed in multiple
collision Faridabad, June 23 According to police sources, a truck coming from the Ballabgarh side crushed an unidentified cyclist near the YMCA chowk. A police jeep chased it. However, the truck driver kept dodging it. Near the Bhadkhal crossing, the jeep managed to overtake it but the truck did not stop and hit it causing a collision between a tractor and a Tata 407 which were in front of the jeep. Two policemen received serious injuries as the jeep overturned. Ram Rattan, driving the tractor, was killed after he fell from the tractor. A Tata 407 also got damaged due to the accident. A case has been registered against the driver of the truck. The truck has been impounded. |
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Land dispute leaves 6 injured Sonepat, June 23 According to a report, all injured persons were rushed to Community Health Centre at Gohana town from where they were shifted to the medical college hospital, Rohtak, for further treatment. A land dispute is stated to be the main cause of the assault. The police has registered a case but no arrest has been made so far. According to another report, one person was seriously injured when he was allegedly attacked with lathis by his brother at Pinana village, about 25 km from here, yesterday. A long-standing dispute over land was believed to be the main cause of the attack. |
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Doctor booked for
negligence Faridabad, June 23 According to a complaint lodged by her husband Raju residing near Palla village, his wife Juhi had been admitted to the clinic a few days ago. He alleged that while the condition of his wife deteriorated, the doctor demanded Rs 1,000 for “proper” treatment. The police has registered a case under 304-A, IPC, and under Sections 13, 7, 49 and 88 of the Prevention of Corruption Act against the doctor.
The DSP (Headquarters) has been asked to investigate the case. |
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PWD union to hold rallies from July 7 Sonepat, June 23 According to a press note, the union will hold rallies on July 7 at Hisar, Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Rohtak; on July 11 at Sirsa; on July 14 at Sonepat and Rewari; on July 15 at Bhiwani, Jind, Karnal and Ambala; on July 21 at Panipat and Yamunanagar; on July 22 at Fatehabad, Mahendragarh, Jhajjar and Faridabad and on July 23 at
Gurgaon. Meanwhile, on a call of the All-India Rajya Sarkari Karamchari Maha Sangh, various government employees unions will join the nationwide strike on July 25 to press their demands. |
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CM adopting ‘gotra-based’
politics: HVP Rohtak, June 23 This was alleged by Mr Kultaz Singh, general secretary, state youth wing of the Haryana Vikas Party (HVP), while talking to mediapersons here yesterday. He said every section of the society had been fed up with the anti-people policies of the government. He alleged that education and health services in the state had been out of reach of the common man. Chandigarh, June 23 He said the delegates after attending the camp would fan out in the state to organise training camps at district and block level. The camp, named as Rajiv Chetna Shivir, will be inaugurated by the Punjab Congress President, Capt Amarinder Singh, who is Chief Coordinator of the camp. The inaugural session will be presided over by AICC’s political training department Chairman, Mr Mani Shankar
Aiyar. |
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