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brawl case
25 lawyers, 7 MC employees booked
Mohali, May 5
The Mohali police has registered two separate cases against about 25 lawyers of the Mohali District Court and seven employees of Mohali Municipal Corporation (MC) at the Mataur police station here today. Both parties had been involved in a brawl yesterday.
Taking action on the complaint of Kesar Singh, an employee of the MC, the police registered a case under Sections 353, 186, 323, 332, 147, 149, 342, 506 and 295-A of the IPC against Amarjit Singh Longia, Sunil Attri, Bhupinder Singh and about 22 other unidentified lawyers today. Meanwhile, Longia also made a complaint against the MC employees, including Kesar Singh, Arwinder Bedi and five other employees, on which the police has registered a case under Sections 506, 452, 323, 295-A and 34 of the IPC. Notably, some lawyers had allegedly beaten up Kesar Singh when he went to remove illegal rehris outside the court complex. Kesar Singh was later taken to the Civil Hospital. On the other hand, the lawyers alleged that the MC team attacked them when they objected on asking for bribe from rehriwaalas.
— TNS

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Three booked in snatching case
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 5
Sandeep Singh, a resident of the Industrial Area, Phase I, alleged that three motorcycle-borne youngsters snatched his mobile phone near the church slip road, Hallo Majra, on Friday. The victim managed to note down the registration number of the vehicle. A case had been registered at the Sector 31 police station and an inquiry has been initiated.
Card cloning
An incident of card cloning has been reported by Joypreet, a resident of Sector 32, alleging that Rajesh made a purchasing of around Rs 30,000 from his account after cloning his credit card. A case under various sections of the IPC and IT Act has been registered at the Sector 34 police station and an inquiry has been initiated.
Man commits suicide
A Jharkhand native committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope from a tree in the paddy market, Sector 39, today. According to the police, Lahori Ram, a resident of Jharkhand, was spotted hanging in the evening and the police was informed. The police stated that
the reason behind the suicide could not be established yet.

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Two volunteer home guards thrashed
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 5
Two volunteer home guards were beaten up in different incidents while on duty yesterday.
As per information, youths driving an SUV created ruckus at the Sector 36 market and even manhandled a home guard.
The police stated that the accused were teasing girls in the market and when volunteer Sukhbir Singh objected to it, they manhandled him and later sped away from the scene. The police later managed to seize the car, belonging to a resident of Kharar and are looking for the accused. According to Sukhbir
Rana, SHO, Sector 36 police station, the incident occurred when the volunteer objected to the accused for teasing girls. The police stated that the accused also manhandled the volunteer. In another incident, a volunteer home guard was allegedly thrashed by four persons at Sector 52 on Friday night. His uniform was also torn by the accused, who are absconding. According to the police, the incident happened at about 11 pm when Sector 61 police post in charge Jaspal Singh and volunteer Satish Kumar along with a constable were on a patrolling in the area. The police stated that four persons were pelting stones at a police vehicle and when the constable and volunteer objected to it, the accused ran into a nearby Sector 52 colony. The two chased the accused and on reaching near the transit camp, Sector 52, one of the accused threw stones on the volunteer. He received injuries and was admitted to the GMSH-16. “We have identified the accused as
Banti, Arjun, Rahul, Mogli and are trying to trace them,” the police post in charge said. Meanwhile, cases in both incidents under various sections of the IPC have been registered at the Sector 36 police station.

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Two cops found guilty
Did not file case against accused in rape case
Sanjay Bumbroo
Tribune News Service
Panchkula, May 5
Two officials of the Sector 14 police station were found guilty of dilly-dallying the registration of case and subsequent arrest of two senior officials of the Punjab government in a gang rape case.
According to the information the former DCP Maneesh Chaudhary had marked an enquiry into the case after the police arrested the two XENs on May 1, 33 days after the incident. Sources said that an enquiry was ordered after a Sector 15 resident, Babban Zaidi, provided a CD in which an ASI Iswar, in-charge Sector 15 police chowki was demanding the ransom for hushing up the case. Strictures have also been passed against the SHO Aman Kumar, for not taking up the case in a fare manner. Confirming the same Assistant Commissioner of the Police (ACP) Dheeraj Setia said that two officials were found guilty of not following the case properly. He added that they had also got the suspicious CD and voice sampling would be done by the FSL experts to match the voice of ASI Ishwar. He said further action would be taken by the new DCP. Notably, the police had arrested two officers of the Punjab Government, Jaswinder and Jasveer, both executive engineers with PWD B&R at Mohali, for allegedly gang raping a 19-year-old girl, a resident of Sector 15, on March 25. The girl, in his complaint to the police, had alleged that two unknown persons forcibly picked her up on March 25 who took her to an unknown place where she was raped. The two later dropped near her rented accommodation. The police had registered the case after recording the statement under Section 376-G (gang rape) after receiving the complaint from the victim on March 28. Inspector Aman Kumar, SHO, Sector 14 police station, said that the police was investigation the case.

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world athletics day
Mukesh, Amita bag first position in marathon
Tribune News Service

Athletes take part in Marathon race organised at Panchkula on Saturday. Teibune photo: Nitin Mittal |
Panchkula, May 5
Mukesh Mumar and Amita of Rohtak bagged first position in the senior boys and girls (above) category in the Marathon to mark the World Athletics Day held here this morning.
Tikku Ram and Sarvjeet of Panchkula secured second position while Rakesh and Sushila got third place in the senior event category.
Similarly, in the junior event (5.5 km race) Mukesh (Karnal) and Amandeep (Hissar) secured the first position in the boys and girls category respectively, while Vikas (Karnal) Reenu (Hisar) got the second position. Vijay (Rohtak) and Nanhi bagged the third position. For seniors, both men and women, the first prize was Rs 21,000, first runner-up got Rs 11,000 and the second runner up Rs 5,100. For juniors wing both boys and girls, the cash prize for winner was Rs 5,100, first runner up Rs 3,100 and second runner up Rs 2, 100. For those fourth, fifth and sixth in senior and junior category, a cash award of Rs 1,100 were given to each athlete. The competition was organised by the sports and youth department Haryana to promote physical fitness and sports amongst youngsters in the state. All the arrangement were made by the government for travel of the participating students.

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