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A local court on April 16 refused to provide bail to 3 suspects in the Patiala land scandal.
Additional sessions judge NS Gill rejected the bail appeal of the Devinder Sandhu, Yashpal Aggarwal, and Jaswant Singh, who are in prison since the Punjab vigilance department caught them.
Devinder Sandhu, Yashpal Aggarwal, and Jaswant Singh, all from Chandigarh, were caught from Rajpura during the month of February and accused with selling and purchasing the administrative property, the sale action of which depicted it as private property.
Patiala land, approximately 6,000 sqare yards, boasts 5 administrative offices.
The local court already has disregarded the bail appeal of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and ex- deputy commissioner Vikas Garg in the case.
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The police officials on April 16 detained Bathinda’s Devinder Singh “Happy” as adviser of global drug smuggler and fired Punjab DSP Jagdish Singh Bhola.
From “Happy”, who is the resident of Thermal Colony at Lehra Mohabbat near Bathinda, the police officials claim to have grabbed 8.50 kg ephedrine, a chemical substance for heroin. In the former heroin seizure scam, thus far, Bhola and fired sub-inspector Sarabjit Singh continue to be absconding.
Senior superintendent of police HS Mann stated, “The Fatehgarh Sahib station house officer, Devinder Attri, headed the group that grabbed Devinder Singh on the Chandigarh road on April 16 after looking for his white Toyota Quails car and finding the heroin raw material inside. The ephedrine was in a bag.”
The Toyota Quails detained from Devinder Singh belongs to fired sub-inspector, who had sent him to distribute the ephedrine batch.
The police officials also detected two driving licenses on Devinder Singh, one of which was counterfeit. They filed a case under Sections 420 (betraying), 465 (penalty for falsification), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (falsification for purpose of betraying), and 471 (utilizing a forged document as genuine) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sections 21 (punishment for breaking in relation to manufactured drugs and preparations) and 61 (confiscation of goods used for concealing illicit drugs or substances) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act at Fatehgarh Sahib.
During police questioning, Devinder Singh had consented that that he had close ties with Anoop Singh Kahlon, Jagdish Singh Bhola, and Sarabjit Singh and had been engaged with them in narcotraffic and hawala racket, said the SSP.
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Rural Development Minister Surjit Singh Rakhra, who had to confronted discomfiture for announcing the termination of all 12,775 village panchayats in Punjab to pave the way for new polls, has held a Deputy Director placed in the Rural Development and Panchayats Department in Chandigarh accountable for the goof-up.
The minister reportedly did not bother to consult the Election Commission on the subject and took it upon himself to dissolve the panchayats.
The state administration had to forward an explanation, leaving Rakhra red-faced.
The minister was reportedly advised by certain functionaries to hold a press meeting and declare the termination of panchayats.
When met, Rakhra stated that the panchayats would carry on functioning generally till the Election Commission forwarded a notice.
“I have forwarded a charge sheet to Deputy Director Jaspal Singh for briefing me with mistaken data,†the minister added.
Rakhra declared that the panchayats stood dissolved and that the authorities of the panchayats had been forwarded to certain functionaries to accomplish growth projects.
The minister had even declared that the election procedure for the novel panchayats would be finished before May 31.
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Rajpura: Agriculturists coming to mandis in the city of Patiala are up in arms against administrative functionaries. They stated that delayed lifting of wheat has left the mandis worried.
Weighing, cleaning and packing of wheat in jute bags is being carried out on roads. With the climate turning dull, the agriculturists are eager that their wheat gets lifted well in due course.
Lots of agriculturists at the local grain market sounded off that they had been awaiting their stock to be lifted for the past 2-4 days in order that they could raise additional stock.
A worried Harpreet Singh stated: “The climate is bad and the lifting of wheat is sluggish, in spite of the government assurance that they would speed up work.”
When met, the Rajpura Market Committee secretary, Som Pal, admitted some postponement in the lifting procedure.
“The tendering for trucks that carry the wheat was again done today after the earlier bidder denied lifting wheat. We are confident that things will shortly be sorted out,” Pal said.
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Amritsar Parliamentarian and senior BJP head Navjot Singh Sidhu should become part of PPP.
This announcement has been made by Manpreet Singh Badal, president of the PPP.
While talking to press persons at the Desh Bhagat Yaadgar Hall, Badal stated that both he and Navjot are of the identical philosophy of aspiring Punjab a financially sound, affluent, urbanized and corruption free place and to work for the same, he must make entry in the fold of the PPP.
Manpreet said that the inputs made by Navjot Singh in the growth of Amritsar could not be disremembered.
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As per latest reports, the Punjab administration has transferred and posted 11 District Revenue Officers and 2 Tehsildars in Punjab with immediate effect.
Disclosing this, a representative of the Punjab administration stated that in revenue officers Daljit Singh Chhina sent to MEO HQ Chandigarh, Varinder Singh sent to Bathinda, Shiv Kumar at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, Gurnam Singh Raipuri has been sent to Pathankot,  Sukhwinder Singh Dhillon sent to Moga, Aatam Singh at Hoshiarpur, Kala Ram Kansal sent to Patiala, Jatinder Singh sent to Gurdaspur, Rohit Gupta sent to Mohali, Jivan Jagjot sent to Fatehgarh Sahib and Arvind Kumar sent to Ropar.
In the same way, Rajinder Obroi positioned as Tehsildar On Special Duty Ferozepur and Manjit Singh Rajla positioned as Tehsildar Guru Har Sahai.
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When the wheat-procurement period is scheduled, the jute bags provided for packing the grains are short in both number and superiority
Punjab state civil supplies corporation (Punsup), a key wheat-procurement organization, allegedly has been cheating arhityas (commission agents). Regulations want it to provide standard-size jute bags to arhityas to pack wheat in; but crosswise grain markets in the city of Patiala, 50 to 70 jute bags are absent from each bunch of 500.
Ultimately, the packaged wheat is delivered to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for the national pool. In Patiala only, about each of the 139 bundles of jute bags that Punjab state civil supplies corporation has delivered, thus far, is short of multiple bags. In the gigantic grain markets of Nabha, Rajpura, and Samana too, the tale is similar.
“In Nabha,” stated arhitya association president Ishe Singh Mann, “over 30 bags are absent from each pack.”
Even the quality of the jute bags coming in from Punjab state civil supplies corporation is substandard.
Harjit Singh Sheru, president of the arhitya association of new grain market in Patiala stated, “First, the Punsup functionaries refused playing a trick on us but when we calculated the bundles before them, they had no words.”
Every jute bag is valued at Rs. 30 and if 50 are absent from every bundle, it signifies a scam of Rs. 1,500 for every bundle. In the city of Patiala last year, Punjab state civil supplies corporation (Punsup) procured wheat in over 35.64 lakh bags (7,129 bundles). By that old measure, the existing scandal would be worth over Rs. 1.06 crore in Patiala only by the end of this period. This time, owing to the bumper crop, the volume of procurement is expected to boost.
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It’s a progress that can strain the SAD-BJP kinships in the city of Patiala.
Mr. Rameshwar Sharma, BJP district president (rustic), had a case registered against him on April 15 for taking part in a blockade against the police officials to seek the solving of a female’s slaughter in Sanaur.
The Sanaur police officials charged Sharma along with eleven other individuals with blocking the road to Devigarh and producing troubles for commuters.
Local heads had staged the protest to criticize the police failure to mark out the female’s killers.
Mr. Surinder Singh, Bharti Kisan Union (Dakaunda) head, Mr. Kala Singh, farm-union head, along with Mr. Madanjeet Dakala, ex sarpanch of Dakala village, also got their names listed in this case together with Mr. Rameshwar Sharma.
“The registration of case is ill-fated,” said Mr. Sharma. “We were raising an authentic matter, to look for integrity for the murdered girl. We were not playing any political game. We have been targeted for opposing a police failure.”
Mr. Sharma stated that before the objection, the group had informed the police duly; and before filing the case, no local government administrator had asked the group to lift the blockade.
Deputy Superintendent of police (rustic) Jagjit Singh stated that he was ignorant of the development as he was on leave.
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The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has been digging into the possibilities to lodge a review appeal in the SC after the latter refused Khalistani terrrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar’s appeal to transform his death sentence.
SAD secretary general and Rajya Sabha member Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa stated, “We are researching all remedies possible in the case. The matter is tied with the responses of Punjabis. Party’s senior advocates have commenced weighing the alternatives and lodging a review appeal in the apex court seems highly likely.”
The core group of party has already settled that Punjab CM and SAD chief and deputy chief minister together with other senior heads will meet PM and union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde in this regard.
“The SC judgment is ill-fated. Even some judges who gave the decision had raised doubt over death sentence being granted to Bhullar,” the SAD secretary general said.
A delegation of senior SAD heads will also meet Mukherjee and will tell him the “seriousness” of the matter.
“The SAD stand is very clear. It’s an issue relating with the sentiments of public and party will make all-out efforts to save Bhullar from gallows. Playing with emotions of people can create law and order problem,” the SAD leader said.
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The police have detained a married woman and her lover for allegedly murdering her mother-in-law and annihilating her hubby, a few months later.
In a statement, the Mulepur police on April 14 stated that Kulwant Singh, an inhabitant of Naleena Kalan village, told police officials that Paramjit Kaur, a resident of Rorewal tied the knot to Naleena Kalan village dweller Gurjant Singh on November 20, 2009.
Before wedding, she was in a relationship with Bahadur Singh of Guneke village in the city of Patiala.
Bahadur kept on meeting her after marriage. Paramjit’s mother-in-law Gurdev Kaur came to know about their illegal link and the two made a plan to end her.
They gave her milk mixed laced with sleeping tablets during night of January 30, 2011. Later they strangled her to death with a quilt.
After Paramjit’s hubby got to know of her illegitimate relationship, the two made a plan to murder him additionally with the intention to grab his land.
The police have filed a case against Paramjit Kaur and her lover under Sections 302, 201 and 34 of the IPC.
According to police statement, during questioning they have confessed to the offense.
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He is active observing his elevation to the position of mayor at just 34, but a hard road lies in front for Amarinder Bajaj with the Patiala Municipal Corporation is not having funds to shell out salaries to its staff, leave aside seizing on expansion works.
With a mutual debt of over Rs. 100 crore pending against the civic body, which has the total twelve-monthly budget of Rs. 140 crore, the Patiala Municipal Corporation was going through grave financial load and the installments have not been paid for the last few months.
In contrast, the civic body was still to gather over Rs. 10 crore as house tax for the previous fiscal.
Notably, funds gathered from house tax is the single source of proceeds with which the civic body has to run its affairs all through the year, in addition to the share of value-added tax, which it obtains from the state administration.
Big loans taken by the civic body comprise Rs. 23 crore from HUDCO for fulfilling sewerage works, Rs. 25 crore from Patiala Improvement Trust, Rs. 14 crore for constructing roads where sewerage has been laid in recent times, Rs. 10 crore from PUDA in addition to other arrears.
A few senior functionaries in the corporation stated that the only choice left to manage the financial disaster was the sale of land accessible with the civic body.
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Cricketer-turned-BJP Parliamentarian from the city of Amritsar Navjot Singh Sidhu may move back to Patiala accompanying his latest argument with the party management.
Even though Navjot and his wife, chief parliamentary secretary Dr. Navjot Kaur Sidhu, have been at pains to stress that they have now settled down at Amritsar, which has become his ‘karambhoomi’ after his poll to the Lok Sabha, first in the year 2004, after that in the year 2007, and again in the year 2009, his disturbed relations with Punjab revenue head Bikram Singh Majithia, who is also the brother-in-law of deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, have turned life hard for Navjot Singh Sidhu.
His ignorance in the BJP power arrangement accompanying substitution of Nitin Gadkari by Rajnath Singh as BJP national president may prove to be the proverbial deciding factor, which hit the camel’s back hard. Though Rajnath Singh has set up contact with Navjot and has attempted to pacify him accompanying the public exposure of his grudges by Sidhu’s wife, it is doubtful that Sidhu would be reinstated to the place of supremacy he basked under Gadkari.
It is also notable that over the years, Navjot’s status has been waning in the city of Amritsar.
With BJP management ‘defecting’ him, Sidhu will find it a mounting task to replicate his performance in the city. Hence, the mounting talks of his shifting back to his home town, Patiala where he may be picked out against union minister of state for external affairs Preneet Kaur.
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Kauli, Patiala: Accepting the verdict of a Delhi Court to reopen case against senior Congress head Jagdish Tytler for motivating the crowd during anti-Sikh riots of 1984, Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal stated that at last a ray of hope has evoked among the Sikhs generally and grieved families of the riot sufferers especially, for obtaining justice.
While talking to the presspersons after attending an occasion to mark the death anniversary of ex- Akali MLA Jathedar Jasdev Singh Sandhu in Kauli, Patiala, Badal stated that it was inopportune that even after passing of over 30 years fairness alluded to the sufferers of these riots that were headed by senior Congress heads.
He said, “It is absurd that the national Congress management in place of punishing the blameworthy accountable for this cold-blooded and barbaric act was protecting them for reasons best known to itâ€.
The CM added that it was the height of indifference that the Union administration has always upset the emotions of the Punjabis on the whole and that of Sikhs especially by inconsequentially meddling in their communal, financial, political and even religious matters.
Lashing out at the Congress led UPA administration for its anti-Punjab deportment, Badal stated that because of the incorrect plans of the Union administration the agriculturists of Punjab who had played a key role in making the nation self-directed in food fabrication was on the brink of economic failure adding that owing to its adverse plans even the business of Punjab has also been ruined.
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More than 20,000 devotees are paying obeisance at Maa Kali Temple in Patiala daily in Navratras.
The Chetra Navratas will be celebrated from April 11 to April 19.
Long queues of Kali Maa followers were also witnessed in the temple since early morning, with people thronging temples to offer prayers.
Tight security arrangements have been set up for Navratras in order to guarantee a protected and secure Yatra with added units of paramilitary forces being roped in to preserve a close watch.
Devotees are being checked at a number of checkpoints and police officers in plain clothes have also been deployed to keep an eye on doubtful movements.
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Patiala: With the President’s office clearing two hangings in just 5 month period and 12 death row offenders locked in Punjab jails among those waiting for execution orders, the state administration requires pulling up its socks.
It still has no hangman on its rolls.
Death sentence offenders including Balwant Singh Rajoana, Saleem, Gurmukh Singh, Judge Singh Vikram Singh, Gurnayab Singh, Jasbir Singh, Jasbir Singh also known as Jaswinder, Suraj Ahluwalia, Resham Singh, Kulbir Singh, and Gurwail Singh have all registered mercy appeals.
A court in Hoshiarpur during September last year addressed the Patiala Jail Superintendent to make preparations to carry out the demise warrants of Vikram Singh Walia and Jasvir Singh.
Vikram Singh Walia and Jasvir Singh got convicted of abducting a Hoshiarpur gold-worker’s son, Abhi, for money and afterward killing him.
Beant Singh killer Balwant Singh Rajoana was given the death punishment by a Chandigarh court. However the jail functionaries denied hanging him.
Amid pressure for mercy for Rajoana, the Punjab CM and the Deputy CM met the President and forwarded a petition looking for mercy for Rajoana.
A jail functionary stated: “Last year the Jail Superintendent had refused to execute the court orders in the Rajoana case, citing technical reasons.
“But once the President clears the file for hanging, no such excuse will work.â€
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A large number of followers’ visited Gurudwara Dukhniwaran Sahind in Patiala to mark the holy festival of Baisakhi.
Baisakhi honors the commencement of Khalsa panth by Sikh’s 10th Guru Sahib, Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji at Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib in the year 1699. It also links to the start of the period in which wheat gets reaped in north India.
The devotees offered prayers at Gurudwara Dukhniwaran Sahind.
Lots of individuals took holy dips in the Sarovar (sacred tank).
‘Akhand Path’ (48-hour non-stop recitation of Sikh scripture), ‘kirtan’ (singing of hymns) and katha (religious discourses) were undertaken to mark the celebrations.
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Utilizing a latest trick to recuperate money from tax cheaters, the municipal corporation has brought out an “amnesty” plan.
The civic body will ignore the rate of interest, if residents pay the house-tax duties and imminent sewer and water bills at the same time by May 31.
“The purpose is to make well-timed collection of dues,” said new Patiala mayor Amaninder Bajaj.
“Funds recovered in the amnesty plan will be used in the city’s growth projects,†Bajaj added.
In general process, house-tax nonpayers has to pay 12 to 18% rate of interest over the base sum. The municipal corporation now has dues of Rs. 10 crore to recuperate in form of house tax, out of which Rs. 4 crore has to be paid by diverse administrative offices and Rs. 6 crore by the citizens.
Big tax defaulters were predicting like scheme and counting on it to shun paying the heavy interest.
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Navjot Singh Sidhu, BJP MP from Amritsar, will not take part in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as he has been ‘ignored’ by his party members, his spouse and the doctor-turned-politician Navjot Kaur Sidhu stated.
“Everyday, I hear discussions and read in local media that Sidhu has gone out of Amritsar. It is being stated that he is disregarding the electorate for television shows and other tasks. That is not the reality. After being ignored by his party associates, Sidhu has preferred to dedicate time to television shows and other tasks. As things stand today, he will not take part in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls,” Navjot Kaur, BJP Chief Parliamentary Secretary stated.
She also said that his husband, a three-time Parliamentarian, was not in loop while picking out party leaders for Punjab and even Amritsar region bodies. ”
He has already made up his mind not to fight the elections after being overlooked. That’s why, he is working on other tasks,” she added.
“While adopting projects you lose out on funds and the whole lot, comprising giving time to the family members. And then the party does not realize your hard works,” Kaur said.
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There is news of fire at Head Office of Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (P.S.P.C.L) due to short circuit. Fire occurred at two different sections of the same office within 12 hours with the same reason of short circuit.
Timely measures were taken & there is no news of any big incident. The first incident occurred late night at around 2 o’clock in computer section of the head office. One of the Powercom employee told that there were only non working & expired computers in that section & all the other computers in working condition have already been shifted to the new section.
He further told that in the old computer section, some repair work was going on due to which short circuit & fire occurred. But, the security guard noticed the mishap on time & called fire brigade & they controlled the fire.
He told that due to fire some old computers were destroyed. The second incident occurred today at 2 o’clock in the afternoon in the Bills section of Head office. Some female employees had kept their tiffins in the hot case. With the light of Bulb, the upper most tiffin box catched fire. There is no major harm due to both the fires.
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Yesterday late night, a shocking accident took place between a truck & auto rickshaw near Bahawalpuria Bhawan on Patiala-Rajpura Road.
Around 8 people including driver of auto rickshaw got injured badly.
Relative of the dead & the injured, Gian Dev, the resident of Rajpura told, accident happened when 7 member group reached Rajpura by Jan Nayak train from Bihar & they hired a 3-wheeler to reach Cheeka (Harayana) where they were called up by a farmer as laborers for harvesting.
As soon as auto rickshaw reached Patiala road, near Bahawalpuria Bhawan, it got clashed with a truck very badly.
All the passengers in the auto rickshaw were residents of Dist Supol, Bihar.
Ram Prasad (50), his son Mohinder (32) & Jatinder & their partners Sita Ram, Balki Ram, Ram Avtar, Arjun Kumar & the auto rickshaw driver Satnam Singh were injured badly.
Ambulance 108 was called & Dr Baljinder Singh & Pilot Kuldeep reached on the spot & all the injured were rushed to Civil Hospital.
As per reports, Ram Prasad passed away & both his sons were serious & were referred to Sec 32, Chandigarh. At Sec 32, Mohinder Singh died & his brother Jatinder is still in critical position.
