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Haryana’S shame
Dabwali journalist ends life
Selection of Info Commissioners
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State to enact motor vehicles Act
International Child Cancer Day
Dr SS Sangwan, Vice- Chancellor of Pt. BD Sharma Health University, Rohtak, with children and doctors at a function organised to mark the 12th International Child Cancer Day at the PGIMS, Rohtak, on Sunday. Tribune photo
Dera volunteers sweep Rohtak clean
Volunteers of the Dera Sacha Sauda engaged in a cleanliness drive in Rohtak. Tribune photo
Missing ammo boxes found in Delhi
Free martial arts classes for women
Mullana supports reservation on economic basis
Serious Ailments
A youth drives his newly acquired battery-driven auto-rickshaw with MP Ashok Tanwar and DC J Ganesan on the back seat in Sirsa on Sunday. Tribune photo
Baba Ramdev’s party to contest LS poll
Work for development of nation: Guv
Death in Firing
Free health camp held in Rewari
Three boys crushed under train
Bhuna trader dies of swine flu
2 held on fraud charges
One killed as earth caves in
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Girl’s grit sees molester teacher behind bars
Tribune News Service
Fatehabad, February 17 “The police has registered a case under Sections 354 (assault to outrage the modesty of a woman), 506 (criminal intimidation) and Section 10 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012,” said Shamsher Singh Dahiya, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Headquarters), Fatehabad. The victim is a student of Class IX of the village school. On February 12, the accused asked the girl to bring rose saplings from his motorcycle parked in a room of the school. When the girl went to the room to bring the saplings, the teacher followed her and molested her. When the girl protested against the teacher’s conduct, he, allegedly, threatened to eliminate her if she dared to narrate the incident to anyone. The girl left the school immediately and came back to her house. However, she could not narrate the incident to anyone as her mother had gone to her paternal village. The victim narrated the incident to her mother when she returned home on February 14. The family approached the police for action against the teacher. However, when the victim’s father gave his complaint to the police, the accused started pressuring the family through village elders. The victim’s father alleged that village elders advised him to settle the matter at the panchayat level rather than take it to the police. Accused Subhash Chander wanted to get away by apologising for his conduct through the village panchayat. “At one stage, even I agreed to settle the matter at the panchayat level. But my daughter barged into the panchayat and threatened to commit suicide if no action was taken against the teacher,” the victim’s father told The Tribune. “This man does not deserve any leniency. His rightful place is behind the bars and not a girls’ school,” the girl said in the panchayat. When the villagers realised that the victim could end her life if they persisted in settling the dispute through compromise, the villagers finally got the case registered against the accused teacher.
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Dabwali journalist ends life
Sirsa, February 17 In his three-page suicide note, journalist Satish Modi held a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), a Station House Officer (SHO), a sub-inspector and a head constable among others responsible for his death. He accused the policemen of “forcing him, his wife as well as both his sons to shed tears of blood.” He alleged that the Sirsa police “connived” with the family of his deceased brother in a property dispute for which a civil case was pending in a court. The police allegedly booked him, his wife and both his sons in a false case of trespass and theft on the complaint of his niece and then demanded Rs 5 lakh from him for settling the matter in his favour, he stated in the suicide note. He alleged that DSP Puran Chand Panwar, SHO Ravi Kumar Khundia, Sub-Inspector Anil Kumar and head constable Pritam Singh unleashed a reign of terror against his family, branding him, his wife and two teenaged sons as criminals. Besides these policemen, Modi had named Deepak, Ashok and Naresh, all sons of Roshan Lal and Ajay and Jitender, sons of Gopi Ram for driving him to take the extreme step. Modi had alleged that he met Senior Superintendent of Police Raj Shri Singh with his representation against the FIR, who again sent him to DSP Panwar for its inquiry. He alleged that DSP Panwar demanded Rs 5 lakh from him as a bribe to favour him in the FIR registered against him and his family members. The victim said when he expressed his helplessness to pay such a hefty amount, Panwar, through Khundia and the other two policemen named in the suicide note, unleashed a reign of terror raiding houses of his relatives by branding them as criminals. Denying the allegations, Panwar said, “He met me only once in connection with the case registered against him and his family members. I did not even know him well.” “You can inquire about Modi’s own reputation from local people,” the
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Selection of Info Commissioners Sunit Dhawan/TNS
Gurgaon, February 17 In response to an application under the RTI Act, the state authorities have admitted that the Punjab and Haryana High Court had directed the government to constitute a search committee and advertise the posts of Information Commissioner vide C.W.P. No. 11846/2011. The RTI reply revealed that the government did constitute a search committee but the posts were not advertised despite the court directions. The Department of Information, Public Relations and Cultural Affairs categorically stated that it had not been asked to insert any advertisement(s) in this regard. "The exercise (of selection) was carried out secretly obviously to favour certain persons. As per the government's own admission, only 17 candidates applied for the three coveted posts," says Subhash, state coordinator of the Haryana Soochna Adhikar Manch, who had sought the said information from the office of the Chief Secretary. The search committee comprising Chief Secretary PK Chaudhery, Kurukshetra University Vice-Chancellor DDS Sandhu and Financial Commissioner-cum-Principal Secretary Sarban Singh held a meeting to consider the candidature of 17 aspirants for the posts. As per the RTI reply, the committee recommended the names of nine of the 17 applicants to the selection committee. These included Jagbir Singh Kundu, Manik Sonawane, Sajjan Singh, Hemant Kumar Sharma, Shyama Dogra, Gurjot Mallahi, Rajiv Sharma, M.P. Bansal and Rajesh Jindal. Most of these happen to be former IAS, IPS or defence officers. At a meeting of the selection committee held on August 30, 2012, Haryana Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal proposed the name of PR Meena, IPS, who was retiring the very next day. Leader of the Opposition Om Prakash Chautala, also a member of the selection committee, objected to the move, stating that Meena's name had not even been recommended by the search committee. However, Chautala's objection notwithstanding, Meena was appointed Information Commissioner. The third member of the selection committee was Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
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Extension
fee waiver for women Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, February 17 They have also been asked to dispose of the petitioner’s representation “by passing a reasoned order within three months from the date of receiving the order’s certified copy”. The contentious issue was raised before a Division Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice RP Nagrath after Raj Bala filed a petition in the high court against the HUDA Chief Controller of Finance and another respondent. Raj Bala was seeking directions to HUDA and its authorities to waive the extension fee up to 90 per cent as per the instructions-cum-policy dated January 29, 2007, for non-construction of a plot in Panipat. The waiver, as per the instructions, can be ordered if the allottee is a woman. The petitioner said the plot was allotted in September, 1993, to her husband Ram Singh, who passed away in February, 2000. Since the plot was transferred in Raj Bala’s name after her husband’s death, she asserted that the instructions were fully applicable in her case. As such, she was entitled to 90 per cent rebate on the extension fee. The petitioner also told the court that she submitted a representation in this regard to the HUDA authorities on February 10, 2011. But apparently the authorities concerned did not take action on her plea.
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State to enact motor vehicles Act
Chandigarh, February 17 The Haryana Transport Department has finally decided to come out with its own Haryana Motor Vehicle Taxation Act, 2013. The new Act will be tabled in the coming Haryana Vidhan Sabha Session. Sources said the main idea of the state in bringing this new Act, however, was to simplify tax collection and enable better compliance, which in turn would add the revenue generated by the department. While the new Act would have a separate section on the liability to pay additional tax, it would also authorise the department officials to stop and check vehicles and prescribe action against those found guilty. The new Act would also allow the court to try the offenders, which was not specified by the Punjab Act. The sources said as per the blueprint of the Act worked out by the department, the maximum road tax that could be levied on various categories would be laid down. With a whole new range of vehicles plying on the road, we can't be expected to charge a uniform rate from all those of different makes. If there are all kinds of heavy machinery, there is medical equipment, which was non-existent in times gone by. We need to identify this category and specify taxes accordingly, an official said. The new Act will also list out the maximum rates of tax for non-personal vehicles, cars and two-wheelers. “We will introduce flexibility in payment and define the periodicity, enabling systematic and hassle-free collection, “the official said. So far, cars and two-wheelers are permitted one-time tax payment and other vehicles have to pay quarterly, making the process very time-consuming for the public and keeping the staff busy with collections all year through.
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International
Child Cancer Day
Rohtak, February 17 A painting competition for the children suffering or who had recently recovered from similar diseases was also organised. “The PGIMS, which started the paediatric cancer unit in 2009, receives over 100 such patients in various OPDs, including eye and orthopaedics, each year,” said Dr Pankaj Abrol of the Eye Department. He said the number of patients suffering from such diseases in the country could be over 50,000 but facilities and awareness regarding diagnosis and treatment were limited to only urban areas. According to doctors, children could be prone to eye cancer and any extra shine in the eyes of children could be a sign of such a disease, which is normally known as cataract or glucoma. Dinesh Gujral of the local Rotary Club and Poonam Bagai of Cankids, said the main aim of the programme was to help in creating awareness and extend a helping hand to the children who were the victim of cancer or related diseases at such an age. Pt BD Sharma Health University Vice-Chancellor urged the parents to avoid smoking in front of their children.
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Dera volunteers sweep Rohtak clean
Rohtak, February 17 Donning a particular dress, the volunteers swept the streets and roads and removed the garbage and cleaned sewerage lines at various spots. Describing it as a ‘Maha Safai
Abhiyan’ (Mass Cleanliness Drive),a spokesperson of the dera said such campaigns had been carried out at
Hisar, Sirsa and Gurgaon earlier in the state. He said Rohtak was the 4th town of the state and the 15th city in the country where cleanliness had been carried out by the
organisation. While Dera Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim inaugurated the drive formally, thousands of volunteers, both local and outsiders, spared time for the social cause. He said the volunteers had removed all the garbage and waste lying in the open within three or four hours. With no pick-up trucks or vehicles to shift the garbage out of the town, the waste products were either burnt or dumped at the designated spots of the Municipal Corporation, whose officials had advised the dera officials not to burn the waste at public spots. He said the aim of the drive was not only to create awareness among the residents about the importance of cleanliness, but to ensure a check on the spread of epidemics like dengue, swine flu and malaria. |
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Missing ammo boxes found in Delhi
Ambala, February 17 During checking of the train at Ambala, three boxes containing arms and ammunition were found missing. Officers informed the Army Headquarters. A team of three senior Army officers reached Ambala and sought the help of the Government Railway Police Force (GRPF) and the Haryana Police that launched a search operation in and around the Ambala Railway Station lasting more than eight hours. However, it was later learnt that the missing boxes had been found at an isolated place near the railway station in Delhi by the Indrapuri police. Sources said the train was carrying 523 boxes of weaponry guarded by 23 army personnel. As the train arrived at Ambala Cantt Railway Station at 4:30 am on Saturday morning, the Army carried out a routine check of the wagons and found the locks of the wagon number 71041 broken and three boxes missing. Local GRPF officials said investigations had been shifted to the national capital where both the Army and GRP officials had started parallel investigations. |
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Free martial arts classes for women
Panipat, February 17 Inaugurating the camp, DSP (Traffic Police) Pradeep Sheokand said considering the present scenario such camps for women protection would instill confidence among females. The free classes for martial arts training would be held on every Sunday at DAV Police Public School, Police Lines,
Panipat, from 10 am to 12 pm and a counselling centre would be established at the venue to aware the women about their rights and response at the time of crisis and 24X7
helpline. The training would be imparted to the students of Class VI to VIII on February 24, college girls on March 3, working girls on March 10, working women on March 24 and housewives on March 31 follow-up course. All interested girls and women can register themselves for training at the Indian Institute of Technical Health Education on the Sambalka-Hatwala road, DAV Police Public School, Police Lines,
Panipat, and SP, PRO office Panipat. |
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Mullana supports reservation on economic basis
Karnal, February 17 Mullana said reservation in jobs and education would help poor people of upper castes and help them become economically
self-reliant. Claiming that the government and the party are working in unison, he said the government was ensuring uniform and balanced development of the entire state and allegations of discrimination with any area were baseless. He refused to be drawn into any controversy on remarks of Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on saffron
terrorism. Mullana criticised INLD leaders for alleging Congress hand in the conviction of former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala and Ajay
Chautala. He said the inquiry into the JBT recruitment scam was conducted by the CBI on the directions of the Supreme Court and the Chautalas had been convicted by the CBI court. |
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Govt to bear treatment cost of poor, says CPS
Tribune News Service
Bhiwani, February 17 The Chief Parliamentary Secretary, who was on a visit to Chaudhary Bansi Lal General Hospital, Bhiwani, said in case any poor suffered from renal problem, the government would bear the expenditure of the treatment. In case such a treatment is not possible at institutions like the PGIMS, Rohtak, the patient could get himself treated at a private hospital at the expenses of the government. The Chief Parliamentary Secretary, who holds charge of the Health Department, went around the hospital and interacted with patients in various wards. The Chief Parliamentary Secretary instructed doctors to maintain sanitation in the hospital and ensure regular supply of medicines to the patients.
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Eco-friendly autos hit Sirsa roads
Sirsa, February 17 Sirsa Deputy Commissioner J Ganesan said the authorities had provided these auto-rickshaws to unemployed youths against a non-refundable security deposit of Rs 10,000. Though the auto-rickshaws have cost the authorities Rs 80,000 per unit, these have been given to rickshaw pullers for a security deposit of Rs 10,000 facilitated to them through a nationalised bank as loan. The youths, who benefited from today’s distribution, will have to make a monthly payment of Rs 300 as EMI to the bank and Rs 600 per month to their own self-help group, so that the amount could be used for replacement of batteries after a year, he said.Once the pilot project succeeds, we plan to phase out all 200 manual rickshaws from Sirsa town, he added. |
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Baba Ramdev’s party to contest LS poll
Sonepat, February 17 Giving slogans of "Swadeshi Lao- Videshi Bhagao" and "Gai (cow) Bachao- Desh Bachao", Baba Ram Dev said around 10 lakh persons were being infected every year with cancer due to imported fertilisers and pesticides. About the helicopter purchase scam, Baba Ram Dev said though the CBI had registered a case, this investigating agency worked like a puppet of the government in power at the
Centre. The CBI should disclose the names of those who had received commission in this deal.
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Work for development of nation: Guv
Kurukshetra, February 17 While addressing representatives and followers of various religious organisations after inaugurating the Sarv Dharam Peeth at Barna village today, Pahadia said service to humanity was the real religion and keeping in view the changing social scenario when a lot of bloodshed was being done in the name of religion, it had become necessitated that the people of all religions should become united and work for the national
interest. Sarv Dharam Peeth founder Saint Balwant Singh said complete arrangements had been made for research on literature of different religions on the peeth premises and the followers and research fellows of different religions could come here for their research work. |
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2 YC leaders suspended
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, February 17 President of the Haryana Youth Congress Amit Sihag said Sunil Dahiya and Devender Sharma, presidents of the Rai and Sonepat assembly constituency units, respectively, had been suspended from the party following the registration of a criminal case against them. They had allegedly fired in a marriage. Sihag also expressed his condolences towards the grieved families.
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Free health camp held in Rewari
Rewari, February 17 As many as 500 patients from the Kosli region were examined for eye ailments by Dr Edwin and other eye specialists of Kishan Lal Jalan Government Eye Hospital, Bhiwani. As many as 110 cataract patients were detected who would now be operated upon at the above hospital . About 450 others were examined for ear, nose and throat ailments by Dr Lavlish Jain and other ENT specialists from Jaipur (Rajasthan).
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Three boys crushed under train
Yamunanagar, February 17 According to some eyewitnesses, even some passersby raised an alarm asking the boys to get off the railway track. But they refused to listen and by the time they realised that the engine had come really close to them, it had already got too late for them. Railway Police Official Brij Pal said the three boys, who could not be identified, were in their teens. He said efforts were being made to identify the boys. Meanwhile, the bodies have been sent to the Civil Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
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Bhuna trader dies of swine flu
Fatehabad, February 17 The victim suffered from fever, cough and cold a week ago and was shifted to Hisar in a serious condition. Doctors at Hisar sent his samples for testing. He was shifted to PGIMS, Rohtak, when his condition deteriorated. After his condition did not improve, the victim was shifted to a super-specialty hospital in Delhi, where he died on Sunday morning. The victim’s brother said the doctors confirmed that the victim suffered from swine flu. Fatehabad Civil Surgeon Dr Suraj Bhan Kamboj denied having any knowledge of the death due to swine flu.
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2 held on fraud charges
Hisar, February 17 The police took Ravinder Singh Mann of Bathinda and Bhupinder Singh of Bhagwangrah in custody. The two accused confessed to their role in duping the SBI by fraudulently withdrawing money from its ATM. Sources said the two youths had the expertise of hacking the software of ATMs and then they used to hike the value of currency note at their
will. — TNS |
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One killed as earth caves in
Rewari, February 17 The police has treated it as a case of incidental death. |
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