3 bare at safai karamcharis’ rally
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 19
About 200 retrenched safai karamcharis of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), took out a semi-nude rally, here today. Accusing the hospital authorities and the contractor of misleading the UT Administration about their demands, the retrenched safai karamcharis stripped as they marched from the GMCH to the Sector 17 Health Department office and later to Matka Chowk.

The move evoked police action and a case was registered at the Sector 19 police station. According to the police, Ranbir, Sakyi Ram and Sonu were booked under Section 294 of the IPC for performing an obscene act at a public place. While Ranbir and Sakyi Ram were arrested and later released on bail, Sonu gave the police a slip.

The workers’ union threatened to stage a protest rally in front of the office of the President and Prime Minister in New Delhi. They said the indifferent attitude of the contractor and the hospital authorities had compelled them to take this extreme step.

All 188 safai karamcharis of the GMCH have been on strike since May 26 in protest against the retrenchment of about 40 of their colleagues by the Praheri Security and Detective Services.

Ankita upsets second seed Anushka
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, June 19
Ankita Singh, a class VIII student of Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, Sector 26, Chandigarh, today created a flutter when she upset the apple cart of second seed Anushka Kapoor of Delhi in three gruelling sets to sail in the last eight of the under-14 section of the Fort St. Soldier’s Tennis Championship at the St. Soldier’s Divine Public School, Panchkula, here today. Ankita will face Navjot Saini of Punjab in the quarter-final tomorrow.

In the boys under-14 section, unseeded Pulkit Mishra downed third seed Lakshit Sood of Uttar Pradesh.

Results: under-14 (boys): Vijayant Malik b Bharat Bhardwaj, 6-2, 6-1; Vidhan Vyas b Lakshay Tanwar, 6-0, 6-2; Rahul Jain b Shikhar Kapur, 6-3, 6-4; Kush Jagga b Chandril Sood, 6-1, 7-5; Pulkit Mishra b Lakshit Sood, 6-4, 6-3; Deepinder Singh b Parul Verma, 6-7(7), 6-3, 6-1; Mandeep Yadav b Sohael Verma, 6-1, 6-0; Navinder P. Singh b Saneesh Mishra, 6-0, 6-2.

Girls: Garima Vatwani b Quadrat Paul, 6-1, 3-6, 6-0; Taruka Srivastava b Priyanka Bajaj, 6-0, 6-0; Tanya Kapoor b Garima Raj Sonkar, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2; Navjot Saini b Sanchi Verma, 6-1, 6-1; Ankita Singh b Anushka Kapoor, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1.

MES beat Panchkula in cricket
Our Sports Reporter

Patiala, June 19
The MES cricket club beat Panchkula Coaching Centre by 4 wickets in a league match of the Janta Sports Cup tournament played at the Army School Grounds here today.

Brief scores: Panchkula CC: 144 all out (Karan Goel 35, Ashish Sharma 28, Abhishek 10, Gaurav 2 for 9, Ujwal Sharma 1 for 35, Kulwinder Singh 1 for 34)

MES CC: 145 for 6 ( Manveer Singh 44, Kunal Grover 32, Ujwal Sharma 17, Amanjeet Sandhu 16, Ashish 2 for 17, Prabhal 2 for 2).