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Chandigarh:

In the tricity

A Jharkhand association was formed last year with an aim to ensure that the rights of the members are not encroached upon. Earlier, there were many splinter groups, however, last year three of these associations: Adivasi Sanskritik Manch, Adivasi Jeevan Jyoti association and Chota Nagpur association floated a new one ‘Sanghra’. The word ‘Sanghra’ means getting together, in the tribal dialect. The association is very important as most of the immigrants from Jharkhand are involved in menial jobs and run a major risk of being exploited by big builders and landowners.

Their festivals

Nearly 75 per cent of the people from Jharkhand, residing in the tricity are Christians. Thus, occasional get- togethers after morning prayers in the church are quite common. However, they also celebrate festivals like ‘Karma’, celebrated by the unmarried. “The unmarried girls observe a week-long fast. They use barley and wheat on the day of the festival. Karma is actually a tree which is worshiped by the community”, said Dewnish Khess, general secretary of ‘Sanghra’.

He added that another important festival of the community ‘Sarhul’. The festival is celebrated in March and is basically a harvest festival. The festivities last for two days. He said, “ The members of the association also distribute traditional dishes and sweets”
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SAS Nagar: The Derabassi police have ruled out any foul play in the death of model Bhanu Verma. The post-mortem examination of the body of the model, Bhanu Verma alias Bano alias Sunita Hira, was today conduced at Civil Hospital in Derabassi. The body was later handed over to her husband Kuldeep Singh, an NRI, and her cousin brother Dinesh Thakur.

Bhanu Verma’s body was found at her flat in Gulmohar Complex, Derabassi, yesterday. Her husband and a servant were also present in the flat at that time. Her husband told the police that she committed suicide as she was under severe depression after the death of her only son, Shaan, on November 1. Her son was only two-and-a-half-years old.

The body of the model, whose new video of a Punjab song is going to be aired soon, was cremated by her cousin Dinesh Thakur instead of her husband.

Sources said Kuldeep Singh came in contact with Bhanu when she took a part of his house in Sector 11 D, Chandigarh, on rent. He was also staying in the house.

Bhanu was from a poor background and was struggling to be a model. Sources added that she soon developed relations with Kuldeep Singh and became pregnant. The NRI later married her and purchased a flat in Gulmohar Complex, sources added.
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Chandigarh: More than two years have passed since the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested an Israeli national, Lior Avi Ben Moyal, for drug trafficking. And all this while Lior’s fiancée Lada Svobodova had been running from pillar to post to collect evidence against NCB officials, who, according to her, had falsely implicated her fiancée in a drug-haul case.

She has appealed to the President of India, Chief Justice of India, Prime Minister, President of Israel, External Affairs Minister, Israel, High Commissioner, Israel and Secretary General, United Nations, New York, seeking justice for her fiancée.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had already arrested two members of the investigation team of NCB officials, Ravi Kant Pawar and Paramjit Singh, for allegedly demanding and accepting illegal gratification to help Lior in his case.

After over two years of devotion and obsession to collect evidence which could prove her fiancée’s ‘innocence’, Lada finally succeeded in catching both NCB officials Ravi Kant Pawar and Paramjit Singh on audio and camera (post their release on bail), while the officials were allegedly

demanding money to leave loopholes in the prosecution’s case, so that Lior could get benefit of doubt and get acquitted.
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SAS Nagar: A Deputation of residents of Mohali village, led by the chairman of Gram Association of the village, Surinder Singh Kaler, met the general secretary of Youth Akali Dal (B), Harsukhinder Singh Babbi Badal, at his residence and handed him a memorandum asking for moving the proposed site of meat and fish market to some other place. It is pertinent to note here that GMADA has a proposal for setting up a fish and meat market near Mohali village.

The delegation appealed to Harsukhinder to talk to GMADA on the issue and shift the proposed market to some other area. Babbi Badal was asked to take the matter to the Chief Minister as the CM is the chairman of GMADA. The delegation said they would like to see a dispensary, community centre or a sports centre to come up at the vacant land instead.

Harsukhinder Singh assured the delegation that he would talk to the GMADA authorities and, if needed, to the CM and would convey the sentiments of the villagers to them. He said that no such market would be set up near the village if the villagers were against it.

Source: ENS

SAS Nagar: The police have not yet made any headway in the murder case of found any clue to Gulshan Kumar Handa, a resident of village Shahi Majra here. Handa was shot at point blank range near his house in the village yesterday.

According to the police sources, as the weapon used in the incident was a country-made .12 bore pistol, they plan to search the rooms Gulshan had let to some persons. They said the weapon is commonly used in UP and Bihar, the places these tenants come from.

According to some villagers Gulshan Kumar had one more house in the village which he had given on rent to some persons who worked as labourers in the area. Speculating on the reasons for the murder, the villagers said the deceased was financially sound and had no enmity with anyone in the village.

In its search for clues, the police has acquired the call details of the phone installed in Gulshan Kumar’s house and also have recorded statements of some village residents, including the family members of Gulshan and his neighbours.

SP (Mohali) Varinderpal Singh, when contacted, said the police were working on different angles in the case and needed time to arrive at any conclusion. He, however, said the murderer would be arrested soon.

Source: ENS

SAS Nagar: Former senior vice-president of Kharar Municipal Council, Gurmukh Singh has levelled allegations on real estate developer J S Bajwa of assaulting him and Balwinder Singh Cheema, his partner in a land deal with Bajwa. He has also alleged that Bajwa used derogatory words targeting his caste.

Gurmukh Singh has filed a complaint with the DSP Kharar against Bajwa, his gunmen and employees for allegedly locking up him and his partner in Bajwa’s office and beating them up.

In a press conference at the Civil Hospital Kharar today, where he was admitted last night, Gurmukh Singh said Bajwa has given a cheque of Rs 10 lakh to them for a land deal but the cheque bounced. He said Bajwa took the cheque back saying that he would pay the money in cash but didn’t keep his promise.

He claimed that a day earlier he, along with Cheema, had met Bajwa at his office to ask for the money, but were refused. He alleged that Bajwa used abusive language with them. “When we objected, he called up his gunmen and his staff and started beating us. They also locked the office, used abusive words against my cast and pointed weapons at us threatening us of dire consequences,” he alleged.
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Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notices to the Punjab government over a regular bail application moved by Jasbir Singh Dimpa, a former Congress MLA. Dimpa has moved the Court seeking regular bail in relation with the firing at Beas during the elections. Dimpa and eight others were booked by Punjab Police.

A case under Sections 302, 407, 148 and 149, IPC, and Sections 25/27/54 of the Arms Act was registered against the accused at the Beas police station.

The FIR relates to an incident when canvassing was in full swing in Beas for the last Vidhan Sabha elections during which an Akali activist Dilbagh Singh was killed.

It may be recalled that Dimpa had earlier moved the High Court seeking anticipatory bail after the same was turned down by the trial court.

While dismissing the anticipatory bail, Dimpa was directed to surrender before the trial court. After the arrest, Dimpa has yet again moved the High Court seeking regular bail on which notices have now been issued.

Source: ENS

Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued notices to the Deputy Commissioner (DC), Mansa, over a petition filed by Pritpal Singh, resident of Mansa.

The petitioner has sought directions to the Punjab government and DC, Mansa, to decide over the application filed by certain Mansa residents wherein they have demanded immediate permission for reconstructing a damaged roundabout in Mansa.

The petitioner has submitted that a roundabout located in Mansa, Shah Satnamji Chowk, which was constructed in the year 2003, was damaged in April 23, 2007 by certain Sikh followers. The roundabout was constructed by the followers of Dera Sacha Sauda. The petitioner has alleged that the partially damaged roundabout was completely demolished by Sikh followers on May 17 this year when a meeting was called at Talwandisabo by the Akal Takht.

The petitioner has sought permission from the Court to the Punjab government to reconstruct the roundabout or allow the followers of Dera Sacha Sauda to reconstruct it.

Source: ENS