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A marriage of claims, counter-claims Ludhiana, July 3 A resident of Jamalpur, Alka claims that she was working in a local company where she came across Balveer. The two fell in love and decided to get married. The marriage was solemnised at a local gurdwara on August 15, 2002. It was a simple affair with only the parents of the girl attending it, she added. Alka alleged that the groom had told them that he had lost his parents and none of his relatives were alive. But soon after the marriage, the groom disclosed that his parents were alive and residing at Shankar village, near here. After Alka’s insistence he took her to meet them but they refused to accept her as their daughter-in-law. “They even misbehaved with him and asked us to leave the house. We both returned and started living together in Jamalpur. Whenever we used to go there they used to misbehave with us. They had even disowned Balveer. Due to some misunderstanding we even fought a case in the court where a compromise was reached and we started living together,” she added. Alka further said everything was going well till June 1 when she had a miscarriage and her husband left her. She searched for him and came to know that he had married another girl in February this year. She recalled that Balveer had gone on an official tour to Mumbai for 10 days and during this time he got married again. “He may have thought that being a poor woman I will not raise voice against him,” she added. Alleging that the division No. 8 police was shielding him and not registering a case against him, Alka said she had been making rounds of the police station and the women’s cell but no FIR had been lodged in this regard. Meanwhile, the SHO concerned, Mr Gurpreet Singh, said he had marked an inquiry into the case. He said Balveer had married the girl out of sympathy as she was being tortured by her former husband. “She had asked Balveer to take her out of the muck by marrying her,” he added, saying that Balveer was a very good boy. “You meet him and you will find how generous the boy is. He was lured by this girl who does not enjoy a good reputation.” He added he had not remarried as Alka had already talked to the girl’s parents in this regard and they did not solemnise their
Balveer Singh has denied all allegations. He said he was made to pose for a picture under
pressure by some criminal-minded persons after he was allegedly kidnapped by them. He said he had not remarried and was only engaged to the girl. He alleged that Alka was demanding Rs 3 lakh from him and when he refused she cooked up a story to malign him. She was married earlier and had a daughter from it. She had not even sought divorce from her first husband.” His colleagues, however, said he had married in February and some of them had even gone to his village to attend the marriage. |
Revolt brewing among Cong councillors on Mayor issue Ludhiana, July 3 It is learnt that some of the Congress councillors a actively lobbying in support of Mr Gill and a trying to prevail upon the party high command not to replace Mr Gill. It is learnt that Mr Gill enjoys the confidence of a good number of party councillors who are strongly opposed to the idea of an outsider as the Mayor. Taking advantage of the situation, the opposition councillors are keeping their cards close to the chest. They are learnt to be contemplating the idea to get their own Mayor elected in case Mr Gill is asked to resign. It is believed that the opposition councillors are confident that they can either win over the support of 10 or 12 Congress councillors or can at least make them abstain from voting, which will obviously ensure the defeat of the Congress candidate. The Congress is faced with the stupendous task in case it needs to change the Mayor. If Mr Gill refuses to resign, the party will need two-thirds support to get a vote of no-confidence passed against him. Right now the Congress has 38 councillors in the house of 70, besides the support of five legislators, which takes the total figure to 43 only, while it will need 51 votes. But with some of the councillors openly supporting Mr Gill, it may not even manage a simple majority for getting its own candidate
Almost a similar situation had emerged in 1999 when Mr Apinder Singh Grewal was the Mayor. However, the reasons were different. Mr Grewal who supported Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra when he (Mr Tohra) parted ways with Mr Badal could not be removed although he enjoyed the support of a limited number of councillors only. At that time, the Congress had played a similar game like the opposition is trying to play now by declaring its support for Mr Grewal. At that time also the SAD-BJP could not move no-confidence motion against the Mayor.
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Pirated cassettes seized Ludhiana, July 3 The seized Cds included blue films and pirated copies of latest Bollywood and Hollywood releases. DSP Mohan Lal, who led the team, revealed that pirated CD business was mushrooming in the city and Bhadaur House market was the nucleus of the illegal work. The police has arrested Shankar, an employee at the video shop, and has booked him along with the shop owner Varinder Kumar under various Sections of the IPC besides the Copyright Act. |
Save Pak
gurdwaras, city lad asks PM Ludhiana, July 3 Bikramjit has written to the Prime Minister, saying that “the upkeep of the Sikh shrines in Pakistan should be made part of the agenda during the Indo-Pak dialogue.” He adds that a corridor should be constructed to Kartarpur near Dera Baba Nanak. Talking to the Ludhiana Tribune, he said he had a chance to see the ancestral house of his maternal grandfather Rajinder Singh. Bikramjit adds that he was disturbed over the lack of coordination between the Indian and Pakistani rail authorities that leads to a lot of hardships to pilgrims who have to wait at the Attari railway station in the scorching heat for the train to arrive from the Pakistan side. |
Rotary awards function Ludhiana, July 3 Rajat Deep Kaur, who has headed the young wing (age 18 to 35) of Rotary for the year 2003-04, is from Ludhiana. She was the only girl DRR from South Asian countries and first-ever DRR from Ludhiana. Former general secretary of the Government College for Women informed that 19 delegates attended the Multi district convention of South Asian countries at Mahbleshwar under her leadership. Two rotaractors from district visited Dubai, Hong Kong and Australia as goodwill messengers. A special programme under the Rotary Youth Leadership awards was organised at Amritsar in which 194 delegates learned the technique of leadership. New Rotaract leader DRR Mandeep Pujara from Jandiala took the charge of the district from her on July 1, and Rajan Rai from Phagwara will be DRR Elect for year 2005-2006. |
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