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Hello Jammu News at 4:15:00 PM 0



Panchkula, Jan 11 : A CBI court Friday held Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and three others guilty of murdering journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati in 2002.

All the four accused have been convicted, CBI counsel HPS Verma told PTI after special CBI Judge Jagdeep Singh pronounced the verdict here.

The sentence will be pronounced on January 17.

The three others accused are Kuldeep Singh, Nirmal Singh and Krishan Lal.

The 51-year-old sect head appeared before the court through video conferencing from Rohtak's Sunaria jail.

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is currently serving a 20-year prison term in jail for raping two of his followers.

Chhatrapati was shot in October 2002 outside his house after his newspaper 'Poora Sach' published an anonymous letter narrating how women were being sexually exploited by Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh at the Dera headquarters in Sirsa.

The case was registered in 2003 and handed over to the CBI in 2006.

Ram Rahim was named the main conspirator in the case.                PTI
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Chandigarh, Jan 11 : Cold weather conditions continued in most parts of Punjab and Haryana even though there was slight improvement in night temperature in some areas, the weather department said Friday.

Gurdaspur in Punjab was the coldest place in the region with a minimum temperature of 3.9 degrees Celsius, an official said.

In Punjab, Amritsar, Ludhiana and Patiala braved cold weather conditions at 9.2 degrees Celsius, 7.2 degrees Celsius and 8.6 degrees Celsius respectively.

While, the minimum temperature in Pathankot settled at 7 degrees Celsius, it was 9.1 degrees Celsius in Halwara, 5.5 degrees Celsius in Adampur, 9 degrees Celsius in Bathinda and 9.2 degrees Celsius in Faridkot, the weatherman said.

The Union Territory of Chandigarh recorded a low of 8.2 degrees Celsius.

In Haryana, Ambala recorded a low of at 8.7 degrees Celsius, Hisar 6.2 degrees Celsius and Karnal 6.6 degrees Celsius.

Rohtak, Bhiwani and Sirsa recorded their minimums at 5.8 degrees Celsius, 6.3 degrees Celsius and 8.8 degrees Celsius respectively.

Commuters faced inconvenience due to low visibility caused by fog at a few places, including Ludhiana, Hisar and Ambala.            PTI
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Hello Jammu News at 12:52:00 PM 0

Punjab and Haryana braved cold weather conditions Saturday, with the Met Department recording Adampur the coldest place in the region at 3 degrees Celsius. Bathinda (3.5), Pathankot (5), Amritsar (5.6), Ludhiana (7.9) and Patiala (8.6) districts of Punjab had a cold start to the day. Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, recorded a minimum of 6.8 degrees Celsius.


Chandigarh, Dec 15 (PTI) Punjab and Haryana braved cold weather conditions Saturday, with the Met Department recording Adampur the coldest place in the region at 3 degrees Celsius.

Bathinda (3.5), Pathankot (5), Amritsar (5.6), Ludhiana (7.9) and Patiala (8.6) districts of Punjab had a cold start to the day.

Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, recorded a minimum of 6.8 degrees Celsius.

In Haryana, Hisar and Karnal recorded the minimum temperature at 7 and 6.4 degrees Celsius. Ambala had a low of 8.3 degrees Celsius and Narnaul 4.6 degrees Celsius.

Fog reduced visibility at several places including Ludhiana, an official said.


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Hello Jammu News at 12:26:00 PM 0

The temperatures dropped at many places in Punjab and Haryana Thursday, a day after rains lashed the two states. Bathinda in Punjab was the coldest place in the two states recording a minimum temperature of 4.3 degrees Celsius. Rains lashed several places in the two states, including Chandigarh, Wednesday, a Meteorological (MeT) Department official said here.


Chandigarh, Dec 13 (PTI) The temperatures dropped at many places in Punjab and Haryana Thursday, a day after rains lashed the two states.

Bathinda in Punjab was the coldest place in the two states recording a minimum temperature of 4.3 degrees Celsius.

Rains lashed several places in the two states, including Chandigarh, Wednesday, a Meteorological (MeT) Department official said here.

He said many places in Haryana and Punjab received rains during the night too.

Halwara 5.3 degrees Celsius, Faridkot 6 degrees Celsius, Adampur 6.5 degrees Celsius, Amritsar 6 degrees Celsius and Ludhiana 6.2 degrees Celsius too experienced a cold night.

However, the minimum temperatures in Patiala 9.6 degrees Celsius, Pathankot 11.2 degrees Celsius and Gurdaspur 8 degrees Celsius settled within the normal limits, he said.

In Haryana, Hisar experienced a cold night recording a low of 7.9 degrees Celsius, Sirsa 7.2 rees Celsius and Narnaul 7.2 degrees Celsius also recorded below normal minimums.

Ambala 10 degrees Celsius, Karnal 9 degrees Celsius, Bhiwani 10.4 degrees Celsius and Rohtak 11 degrees Celsius recorded above normal minimums.

Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, recorded a minimum temperature of 9.7 degrees Celsius.

Meanwhile, after the rains, the maximum temperatures at most places in the two states dropped sharply Wednesday.

Patiala in Punjab had recorded a maximum temperature of 13.6 degrees Celsius, eight notches below normal limits. 

Karnal in Haryana had registered a maximum of 18 degrees Celsius, down four notches while Chandigarh's maximum had settled at 16.3 degrees Celsius, six degrees below normal limits.


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The Supreme Court Wednesday allowed the Director Generals of Police (DGPs) of Punjab and Haryana to continue in office till January 31.


New Delhi, Dec 12 (PTI) The Supreme Court Wednesday allowed the Director Generals of Police (DGPs) of Punjab and Haryana to continue in office till January 31.

The police chiefs -- Suresh Arora (Punjab) and B S Sandhu (Haryana) -- were due to retire on December 31.

The Punjab and Haryana governments moved the apex court recently, seeking modification of its earlier order directing states to mandatorily take the assistance of the UPSC in shortlisting the names for appointing DGP. 

The states had said they have enacted separate laws for the selection and appointment of police chiefs.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it will hear their pleas seeking modification of the January 8 order and allowed the current DGPs to continue in office till January 31. 

The top court had on July 3 this year passed a slew of directions on police reforms in the country and chronicled the steps for appointment of regular DGPs. 

It had said the states will have to send a list of senior police officers to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) at least three months prior to the retirement of the incumbent. 

The commission will then prepare a panel and inform the states, which in turn will immediately appoint one of the persons from that list, the apex court had said.


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Chandigarh, Oct 12 (PTI) In a major crackdown on drug peddlers, the Haryana Police Friday arrested one person and seized 100 kg cannabis leaves allegedly being smuggled in a car in Jhajjar district, officials said. 

On a tip-off, a police team signalled a car bearing Delhi registration number to stop. On checking, the team found five bags of cannabis leaves weighing 100 kg, a spokesman of the state police department said.

Police arrested the driver who was later identified as Rajesh, a resident of Basai Enclave in Gurgaon, he said.

During preliminary investigation, it was revealed that Rajesh and his accomplice were also engaged in illegal trade of liquor smuggling, he said.

"A case under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act had been registered against them in city police station, Bahadurgarh," he said.

The accused was produced before the court from where he was sent in judicial custody.

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Rewari (Haryana), Sep 19: Traders in Kosli town of Haryana's Rewari district observed a bandh on Wednesday to protest against the alleged gang rape of a 19-year-old woman.

A protest march was taken out by some social organisations and residents to protest against the incident. They demanded immediate arrest of the two key accused on the run -- an Army man who has been identified as Pankaj and Manish, and exemplary punishment for the culprits.

The 19-year-old woman, a school topper hailing from Rewari who had been felicitated by the government, was abducted at a bus stop in Kanina town in neighbouring Mahendragarh district on September 12 while she was on the way to a coaching class, police said.

She was allegedly drugged and gang-raped at a room housing a tubewell for irrigation.

The protesters also demanded all necessary help and support from the government to the woman.

Shops were closed and markets in the town wore a deserted look.

Earlier, a 'Mahapanchayat' of 25 villages had resolved to observe a bandh in Kosli town in protest against the incident.

The gang rape case has prompted opposition parties to demand Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar's resignation on moral grounds, alleging the state had failed to protect its daughters.

The police have so far arrested three accused in the case.

Besides one of the key accused Nishu, the two other men arrested in the case have been identified by the Haryana Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) as Sanjeev, a medical practitioner who attended to the woman first after the crime, and Deendayal, the owner of the property where the woman was allegedly gang-raped. (PTI)
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Hisar, Sep 15: The Haryana Police claimed to have seized demonetised currency worth Rs 1.43 crore from three persons.

The seizure was made after police conducted a raid at a house in Navdeep Colony in the town on Friday night.

Police spokesperson Harish Bhardwaj said on Saturday that the accused were identified as Guriqbal Singh, resident of Vikas Puri in New Delhi, Sunil of Girawar village in Rohtak district and Praveen Kumar of Samar Gopalpur village, Rohtak.

During investigation, the accused admitted that they had procured demonetised notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 from a property dealer in Delhi by making a payment of Rs 7.50 lakh in the new currency.

The police were yet to ascertain the purpose behind the purchase of the scrapped currency while the interrogation of the accused was underway, police spokesman said.

A case has been registered in this regard, the spokesperson said. (PTI)
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Chandigarh, Sep 11 :  A police officer has been suspended following reports that those injured in accidents were allegedly sent to a private hospital instead of government ones in Karnal district of Haryana, officials said Tuesday.

Ramba police post In-charge Jagbir Singh has been placed under suspension, police said.

The action was taken after a video went viral on social media, showing an ambulance of a private hospital parked on the premises of police post located on Karnal-Indri state highway.

There were reports that there was allegedly a nexus between police and the private hospital for ferrying patients injured in accidents on the highway to a particular private hospital for treatment.

"An inquiry has been marked in this regard," Karnal Superintendent of Police Surinder Singh Bhoria said.PTI

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New Delhi, Aug 24: The Delhi High Court today dismissed the appeal of 15 persons belonging to the dominant Jat community against their conviction and sentencing in a case of burning alive a 70-year-old Dalit man and his physically-challenged daughter at Mirchpur village in Haryana's Hisar district in 2010.

A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta said even after 71 years of Independence atrocities on Scheduled Castes community has shown no signs of abating.

The court also directed the Haryana government to rehabilitate families belonging to the Dalit community who were displaced after the 2010 incident.

The high court pronounced the verdict on the appeal of 15 persons challenging their conviction and sentence by a trial court in the case.

The victims and the police had also appealed in the high court seeking enhancement of punishment awarded to the convicts and acquittal of others.

The trial court had on September 24, 2011, convicted 15 of 97 men belonging to the Jat community.

The house of Tara Chand was set on fire resulting in burning alive of the father and daughter on April 21, 2010 after a dispute between Jat and Dalit community of the village.

On October 31, 2011, the trial court had sentenced Kulwinder, Dharambir and Ramphal to life imprisonment for committing unintentional killing under Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code.

Five others -- Baljeet, Karamveer, Karampal, Dharambir and Bobal -- were handed down jail term of five years for their offences including rioting, voluntarily causing hurt, mischief and putting ablaze victims' houses and provisions of SC/ST (POA) Act.

Seven others, convicted under milder penal provisions, were released on probation by the trial court, which had earlier acquitted 82 out of 97 accused in the case. (PTI)
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Chandigarh, Aug 23: Jat community members in Haryana have planned to hold peaceful protests at public functions attended by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his ministers for not implementing quota in government jobs and education and not withdrawing cases filed in connection with the 2016 quota stir.

In June this year, the All-India Jat Aarakshan Sangarsh Samiti (AIJASS) had announced that it would be holding dharnas from August 16.

The members of AIJASS claimed that Khattar himself had assured them of withdrawing all the cases registered against the community leaders except for 45 cases.

However, they said, the state government later went back on its promise.

After the deadline lapsed, the community members have now decided to hold protests at public functions of the chief minister and Finance Minister Capt Abhimanyu in nine districts -- Sonepat, Rohtak, Hisar, Panipat, Jind, Kaithal, Dadri, Bhiwani and Jhajjar, said AIJASS president Yashpal Malik.

The protests will later be extended to six other districts, he said.

Accusing the BJP-led Haryana government of betraying the community, Malik said, "We gave them enough time, we have been holding peaceful protests and dharnas for several months. However, they have failed to meet our demands, which the government itself has already accepted in previous rounds of talks. We are left with no other option now. As our fresh deadline has expired, we will be holding protests now."

Meanwhile, at a high-level meeting here last week, Haryana DGP B S Sandhu had said that all the divisional commissioners and superintendents of police would keep a tab on security arrangement.

"Discussions would be held with sarpanches and members of Panchayat Samiti. If any untoward incident takes place, then the administration would strictly deal with it," Sandhu had said in the meeting, according to an official release.

"Nobody would be allowed to disturb the law and order in the state and strict actions would be taken against those who would do so," he had said. (PTI)
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New Delhi, Jul 30: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that illegal agents have started using asylum seeking as a means to traffick people from India to other countries.

She said Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat report the highest number of such cases where agents traffick people to other countries and they seek asylum on political grounds in those countries.

"The illegal agents take Rs 20-25 lakh from these people and some of them have to cross five countries to reach Mexico and upon reaching the US, they seek asylum," she said while addressing a conference of state women commissions on the issues of NRI Marriages and Trafficking of Women and Children on Friday.

However, when embassy officials go to meet these asylum seekers they refuse as the agents have told them that if they meet the officials it would appear that they are being helped by the Indian government and their request for seeking asylum would be rejected, said Swaraj.

"What these agents are doing is also a form of trafficking which mostly trap people falling in the age group of 20-22 years," she said.

Swaraj said the number of people seeking asylum has been climbing. It increased from 52 to 101 to 340.

"We have launched a campaign to spread awareness about such fraudulent agents, advising people to avail the services of only government-authorised agents," she said, noting that there is a need to break the circle of trafficking run by these agents.

Over 7,000 people from India filed applications for asylum in the US last year, according to a report by the UN refugee agency which said America was the largest recipient of new asylum requests in 2017. (PTI)
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Chandigarh, Jul 13: Ending a week-long dry spell, rains lashed many parts of Punjab and Haryana today.

Chandigarh received heavy downpour and the mercury dropped by a few notches, a Meteorological Department official said here.

In Haryana, Panchkula, Ambala, Yamunanagar, Hisar, Sirsa and Narnaul were among other places that received rains.

Mohali, Ropar, Ludhiana and Gurdaspur in Punjab were also lashed by rains.

The Southwest monsoon had advanced into Punjab and Haryana, including Chandigarh, on June 28 but had turned weak in less than a week after its arrival.

"The situation has improved considerably in comparison to what it was over the past few days. Although rains are scattered, we are expecting more showers over the next couple of days," Chandigarh MeT Department Director, Surinder Paul said today.
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Chandigarh, Jul 3: Several parts of Punjab and Haryana today received rains, bringing relief to the people from sultry weather conditions.

Chandigarh received light showers in the morning and the mercury dropped by a few notches, a Meteorological (Met) Department official said.

In Haryana, Panchkula, Ambala and Yamunanagar were among other places that received rains.

Mohali, Ropar and Patiala in Punjab were also lashed by rains.

The Southwest Monsoon had advanced into Punjab and Haryana, including Chandigarh, on June 28, a day before of its scheduled arrival in the two states.

The Met department here has issued heavy rain warning for isolated places in the two states until tomorrow. (PTI)
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Chandigarh, Jun 28 :  The southwest Monsoon was likely to further advance into Punjab and Haryana where widespread rains today led to a drop in the mercury.


"Conditions are favourable for further advancement of monsoon into Punjab and Haryana including Chandigarh. It is likely to enter these two states and the Union Territory later today," Director of the Meteorological Department, Chandigarh, Surinder Paul told PTI.

Last year, monsoon's arrival in the two states was delayed by over a week and it was only around July 12 that it had fully covered all parts of Punjab and Haryana.

Paul said moderate to heavy rains lashed most places in Haryana and Punjab today.

The maximum temperature continued to hover few notches below normal for the second day today.

The MeT Department here yesterday had issued heavy to very heavy rain warning for isolated places in Haryana and Punjab for June 28-29.

Haryana's Revenue and Disaster Management Department had also issued an alert in view of MeT's heavy rain warning, and said the intensity of rainfall would be more in Kaithal, Karnal, Jind, Panipat, Hisar, Fatehabad, Yamunanagar and Ambala with one or two spells of heavy rainfall.PTI

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Chandigarh, Jun 23 : Hot weather conditions prevailed in Punjab and Haryana with Narnaul at 44.2 degrees Celsius, the hottest place in both states.

After Narnaul, the maximum in Hisar in Haryana was recorded at 43.1 degrees Celsius, three degrees above normal while Bhiwani experienced hot weather at 42.6 degrees, as per MeT department report.

Karnal's maximum was 38.4 degree Celsius.

Union territory Chandigarh, joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, recorded maximum temperature at 39.0 degrees Celsius, one degree above normal.

In Punjab, Amritsar recorded maximum at 38.4 degrees Celsius. Ludhiana, which witnessed rains, recorded maximum at 35.7 degrees Celsius while maximum temperature in Patiala was 38.5 degree Celisus.

According to the MeT department forecast, rain/thunder showers are likely at isolated places in Haryana and Punjab in next two days.  PTI

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Chandigarh, Jun 23 : The Congress' youth wing will take out a cycle yatra against the "increasing unemployment" under the Manohar Lal Khattar regime in Haryana, an official said today.

"Members of youth Congress will take out a cycle yatra in Haryana in September against the state government functioning especially increasing unemployment," Indian Youth Congress (IYC) chief Keshav Chand Yadav said.

"This yatra will also enlighten people about the anti-people policies of the Khattar government," Yadav added.

People will also be educated about policies and programmes of the Congress, he said.

Yadav, who was appointed the national president of the IYC last month, accused the BJP governments, both at the Centre and state, of having failed on all fronts and going back on poll promises.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi made hollow promises of generating two crore jobs every year in the country."

"The Khattar government had promised to pay Rs 9,000 per month as unemployment allowance to the youth, but till date no action has been taken on this issue," Yadav said.

"Khattar government also reduced employment avenues for youth," alleged Yadav.

He further alleged that people were fed up with the policies of the BJP government.

The "misrule" of the government at the Centre led to unemployment, communalism and inflation in the country, he said.  PTI

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Chandigarh, Jun 19 : Haryana Police said today they have arrested two people, including a parole jumper, from a car on Meerut road in Karnal for allegedly plotting to kill a man.

The police seized two country-made pistols, two live cartridges from them and the car, a police spokesman said.

He said the police had received a tip-off that two men carrying weapons were coming towards Karnal in the white car.

The accused have been identified as Naresh alias Nitin, a resident of C-Block, Sultanpuri, Delhi and Manish alias Billu.  PTI

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Chandigarh, Jun 19 : The Haryana Police today arrested two criminals, siblings of a dreaded gangster, in a raid conducted in the state's Nuh district, police said.

Acting on a tip-off, the police raided the hideout in Badli village in the hopes of catching Mushtaq, who is wanted in over 20 criminal cases in different states including the murder of an assistant police sub-inspector in 2011, they said.

A police team reached the house in Punhana area at around 5.30 am but were fired upon by the criminals present on the first floor.

In the shootout that ensued, two police personnel including head constable Krishan and constable Chanderpal were injured.

While Krishan was shot in the head, Chanderpal sustained bullet injuries in the stomach.

Both are being treated at a private hospital in Gurgaon. However, police managed to catch two criminals -- Adil and Hafiz-- both residents of Badli village and siblings of Mushtaq.

"Adil and Hafiz are siblings of Mushtaq and engaged in criminal activities like theft and robbery in the area. Adil was recently released on bail. The siblings are involved in criminal activities and several cases are registered against them," spokesperson of Haryana Police said.

Police teams were conducting search operations to hunt for the other criminals who were present at the hideout but managed to escape.

Cases under various sections of Indian Penal Code were registered against them, the spokesperson said.

All the offenders would be nabbed soon, he added. PTI

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Chandigarh, Jun 18 : The maximum temperatures in Punjab and Haryana, including Chandigarh, today hovered below normal limits, a day after the two states were lashed by rains. 

Chandigarh recorded a maximum of 33.6 degrees Celsius, down five notches against the normal, a Met department report said.

In Haryana, Ambala recorded a high of 33.3 degrees Celsius, down five notches against the normal, while Karnal's maximum settled at 32.6 degrees Celsius, five notches below the normal.

Hisar recorded a high of 35.5 degrees Celsius, down five degrees, while Bhiwani's maximum settled at 34.8 degrees Celsius.

In Punjab, Ludhiana and Patiala recorded maximum temperatures of 33.3 and 33.4 degrees Celsius, down four and five notches, respectively.

The report said Amritsar's maximum settled at 32.8 degrees Celsius, six degrees below normal limits.

Light to moderate rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at a few places in Punjab and Haryana tomorrow, according to the Met department forecast.PTI
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