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Chandigarh: Chandigarh Police Crime Branch claimed to have busted a gang of Direct Marketing Associates with the arrest of one of the proprietors of a DMA company of HDFC Bank. Joginder Singh, proprietor of M/s Credit Partners had defrauded Joshi Auto Zone Private Limited of more than Rs 6 lakh, said police officers.

Police said the DMA company had purchased a Tata Safari Lx by furnishing forged documents. The main accused in the case, Satnam Singh, another proprietor of the company and brother of Joginder Singh, is still at large. The vehicle in question is yet to be traced, said police.

“It is a nexus of various DMA companies which defraud auto dealers. We have found that some prominent auto dealers in Chandigarh, Amritsar and Ludhiana have also faced similar problems. As far as our knowledge goes, there are more than a dozen vehicles which have been fraudulently obtained by certain DMAs. Joginder Singh was remanded in police custody by a local court today. We are yet to interrogate him,” said an investigating officer.

According to the FIR registered against Singh, the accused had got a loan approved from the bank in the name of a Ludhiana resident, Arjinder Singh, for purchasing a Tata Safari Dicor Lx.
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Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has stayed the demolition of shops along the Kalka-Shimla highway till December 20. The stay may spell relief for owners of 24 shops on the road.

Earlier, the HC had said that the shops on the highway were hindering smooth flow of traffic and had to be removed. Immediately after this, the shopkeepers had moved the High Court.

The petition today came up for hearing before Justice J S Khehar as the Chief Justice is on an official visit to China.

The shopkeepers’ counsel told court that they were owners of the property and not encroachers. He said the shopkeepers possessed the property.

Challenging the demolition orders, the counsel argued that Kalka had come into existence in 1880-1890 along with the then Kalka-Shimla cart road.

This road was later renamed National Highway 22, said the counsel.

The counsel submitted that the shopkeepers had set up their shops on the other side of the drains, which were constructed more than a 100 years ago.
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Chandigarh: Worried over the fate of hundreds of its mandis facing threat from private players, the state government is likely to recommend setting up of a regulatory body.

The regulator clause is likely to be incorporated in the amendments proposed to be made in the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Act. The draft Act so far does not talk about a regulator, an official said.

A meeting in this regard, chaired by cabinet minister S S Langah, was held recently. The minister, who was apprised of the draft, wants some time to deliberate on the subject. “If the ministers clear it well in time, only then will this go to the meeting of the state cabinet,” an official said.

The government is in the process of amending the APMC Act as suggested by the Centre. The amendments will open doors for the non-public sector to set up private markets in Punjab.

At present, the prospects of such a market have remained confined to the domain of the Punjab Mandi Board. Corporate major Bharti has already presented its case for a similar venture. However, the company will have to wait till the Act is amended in the state.
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Parwanoo: The Kalka Bazaar remained closed for the 5th consecutive day today and even private clinics and chemists had pulled down their shutters in a show of support for the strike. The Councillor of Kalka, Ujala Bakshi, and seven others including R K Vaid, Kulvinder Shuntty, Satish Batt, Ashok Kumar Kalu, Anil Jain and Gurnam Dass sat a hunger strike from 10 am to 8 pm today.

The shopkeepers, however, felt relieved after the arrival of the Punjab and Haryana High Courtfs order to stay the demolition of encroachments along the National Highway till December 20. According to the chairman of the Kalka Beopar Mandal, Vinod Gupta, the market would be opened from Saturday onwards and a future plan of action would be decided after December 18 court hearing.

According to sources, the shopkeepers were ready to demolish the encroachments along the highway, but were unhappy with the wrong measurements and a very short notice by the administration to demolish the structures.

Source: ENS

Chandigarh: One of the smallest communities in the tricity, the Kannadigas number around 250 families here. The common platform that keeps them connected with each other is — Chandigarh Kannada Sangh, the only association of the community. Unfortunately, the Sangh does not have a place of its own and the community would very much like the administration to give them a small piece of land where they can anchor their association.

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Most of the Kannadigas are resident in the southern part of Chandigarh with sectors 44, 45 and 46 housing most of them. There are around 10 to 15 families in Panchkula and around 12 in Mohali. Interestingly, a majority of the community in the city is employed in the banking sector. With no specific place of its own, Chandigarh Kannada Sangha operates from the Radha Krishna temple in Sector 47, Chandigarh.

“Most of over functions and get-togethers are held at the temple. We had requested the temple priest to let us hold our monthly meetings and other get-togethers here,” said the secretary of the Sangha, Shankar Rao.
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Chandigarh: A housewife, Mamta Sharma in her mid-twenties was taken to GMCH-32 in serious condition after she was found hanging from the ceiling her parental house of in Hallomajra village here this evening.

She died in hospital. The police said it had found a suicide note in which Mamta has held no one responsible for her death.

A few years ago she was married to a widower after her first cousin died leaving an 11-year-old boy and a seven year girl behind. Mamta had met with an accident and was not keeping sound health.

Source: TNS

Chandigarh: Lightning damaged electrical gadgets in government houses in Sector 22 here early this morning. Kanwal Jot Sharma, a resident of the sector, said about 4 am, lightning struck and damaged gadgets.

Due to poor earthing, the lightning damaged two television sets, fans and light points in the house. Household gadgets in a room of a neighbour were completely burnt.

Residents said they were woken from their sleep due to a deafening sound that preceded the lightning.

Source: TNS