Tribune News Service
Amritsar, December 25. Sikh hardliner Baba Baljit Singh Dadduwal was detained after his flight from London landed at Sri Guru Ram Dass International Airport here today.
He is wanted in a case registered in Sirsa (Haryana) in 2007. Immigration officials said Dadduwal would be handed over to the Haryana police. Dadduwal’s private secretary Rajpal Singh the leader had gone to England on December 3 and had returned on a Turkmenistan flight to Amritsar.
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, December 25. Ever since the High Court asked Mohali and Ludhiana district administration to allot accommodation to riot victims, people affected by the riots in other districts have also begun to demand the same.
The accommodation would be provided on the basis of a lottery system. Adhering to the Court orders, the authorities in the two districts have begun to make lists of the victims. Moreover, the highest number of Danga Peerats is registered in these districts.
But Punjab has 22 districts and there are riot victims in almost every district. On this issue, a civil writ petition was filed by the riot victims in the High Court.
An official in the Revenue Department, Chandigarh, said the riot victims from Jalandhar and Amritsar had been approaching the Ludhiana District Administration to accommodate them as well.
The official said a letter, inquiring as to what should be done in this matter, was also sent to the Financial Commissioner, Revenue, from Ludhiana District Administration recently.
“A meeting on this issue should be held with all the district heads. At the same time, the riot victims in other districts should also be considered in the allotment process in Ludhiana and Mohali districts,” said the official.
Pramod Kumar and Abhishek Anand, Asian Age Correspondents
New Delhi, 26 December 2012. Delhi chief minister Sheila Diskhit and city police commissioner Neeraj Kumar have locked horns over the handling of the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old woman fighting for her life for the past nine days.
The chief minister, who has been seeking removal of the police chief, has now complained to the Centre about “interference” by police officers while recording the 23-year-old victim’s statement.
In a letter to Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday, she said the charges against the police by subdivisional magistrate Usha Chaturvedi during recording of the victim’s statement were “alarming and serious”. The home ministry is learnt to have taken serious note of Ms Dikshit’s letter, and Mr Shinde ordered a probe into the charges levelled against the police on Tuesday.
Hitting back, the police commissioner, Mr Kumar, not only denied the charges on Tuesday, but the police also demanded a probe into the “leakage” of the CM’s letter to the home minister. Delhi police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said it would demand a high-level probe into the “leakage of the chief minister’s top secret letter”.
Following the controversy, a fresh statement by the victim was recorded on Tuesday by the metropolitan magistrate.
“The victim recorded the statement before a judicial magistrate today. This has more evidentiary value”, the police chief said.
He then went on to target the SDM by alleging that this “particular magistrate had earlier tried to create trouble for the force” by “giving (soundbites) to TV channels when the police was trying control a riot-like situation at Khoda Colony (East Delhi) in September this year”.
His other accusation was that the SDM again “interrupted police work when a fire broke out and a mob turned violent near Karkardooma Metro station in November this year”.
But while levelling the allegations, the police chief seemed to be unaware of the fact that the SDM had been given a “clean chit” by the home ministry in both cases after the Delhi police had raised objections.
It may be recalled that while the home ministry and Delhi lieutenant-governor Tejendra Khanna had been backing the police commissioner, the Delhi CM and her son, Congress MP Sandeep Dikshit, have questioned the performance of the police in the gangrape case.
In her letter to the home minister on Monday evening, the chief minister said the charges by the SDM were “alarming and serious”. The chief minister forwarded a copy of the complaint lodged by the SDM in which she accused the police of trying to “mount pressure on her to record a statement as per their convenience”.
In her complaint to the deputy commissioner (east district) on December 22, the SDM alleged the police “tried to pressure” her to record a statement as “per their convenience”. It further alleged that when she refused to do so, the police “misbehaved and tried to intimidate” her. The SDM said this had happened on December 21 when she had gone to Safdarjung Hospital to record the victim’s statement.
She claimed the DCP (South), ACP (Vasant Vihar) and ACP (Defence Colony) were present with a huge contingent of police personnel. The SDM wrote: “They showed me a copy of a questionnaire which was prepared by them, and asked me to record them as facts in the presence of the investigating officer.
That brief was far from the actual events of the night of the crime as discovered by me while recording the statement of the victim later.”
The SDM said “a huge amount of time was wasted over the issue of videography during recording of the statement of the victim, as the police was trying to dissuade me from doing this”. The SDM said that the “videography was not carried out as the mother of the victim refused”.
In her letter to DC (east district), she claimed: “Finally, I was able to start recording of the statement of the victim at around 8 pm after forcibly evicting police personnel from the ICU.”
Refuting these charges, the police chief said his men “never forced any questionnaire on the SDM”. The police commissioner argued it was the police which had “insisted that the statement of the girl be recorded as her condition (was) deteriorating rapidly”.
He said the SDM, Ms Chaturvedi, was assigned the job by the divisional commissioner. The police chief then argued: “If the SDM felt that something was wrong, then why did she record the statement?”
http://www.asianage.com/india/delhi-s-cm-top-cop-tussle-over-rape-case-726
Sint-Truiden – Brussel Zuid – St Pancras – Baker Street – Paddington – Bristol Parkway
27 September 2012
Baker Street – Metropolitan Line
New rolling stock
Baker Street – Metropolitan Line
New rolling stock
Bakerstreet – Bakerloo & Jubilee lines
Down the stairs for the Bakerloo to Paddington
Paddington Station
Crossrail is hiding behind this door !
Paddington – Heathrow Express and First Great Western
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Harjinder Singh
Man in Blue
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, December 25. A thick blanket of fog enveloped most parts of North India, disrupting normal life and hitting air, rail and road traffic, while the relentless cold wave pushed up the death toll to 11. The Met office has forecast a further drop in minimum temperatures in the region and said that poor visibility due to foggy weather would continue over the next 24 hours.
The IMD forecast said dense fog (visibility less than 100 m) would continue over many parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal during next 24 hours and there would also be no significant change in minimum temperatures over Northwest, Central and West India during the next two days.
Apart from the North, Central and East India also woke up to a foggy Christmas. According to the Met office, dense fog was observed over many parts of Jammu division, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, northeast Rajasthan, north Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and parts of Assam and Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura.
Cities where visibility was less than 50 m were Jammu, Amritsar, Patiala, Chandigarh, Bhiwani, Narnaul, Delhi, Pantnagar, Meerut, Agra, Ganganagar, Churu, Pilani, Bharatpur, Sawai Madhopur, Tikamgarh, Khajuraho and Kailashahar.
Schedules of over 100 flights were badly affected at Indira Gandhi International Airport here while seven were diverted and 10 cancelled. The delays ranged from half an hour to five hours, causing inconvenience to the passengers, airport officials said.
According to reports, Narnaul was the coldest in the plains of Punjab and Haryana with a low of 3°C while Hisar shivered at 3.4°C and Bhiwani at 5°C. Amritsar registered a low of 6°C followed by 7.1°C at Ludhiana and 7.5°C in Chandigarh.
The situation may change when a fresh western disturbance affects western Himalayan region from December 27 onward. In the meantime, rain or snow would occur at one or two places over Jammu and Kashmir during the next 48 hours and increase thereafter. Rain or snow would also occur at one or two places over Himachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand after 48 hours while cold day conditions would continue to prevail over some parts of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar during the next 24 hours, said the Met office.
Islamabad, 25 December 2012. The Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz sees a conspiracy behind the ‘launching’ of Dr Tahirul Qadri just before elections and believes that he has been brought back to the country to target the PML-N and block its way forward.
The allegations were levelled by PML-N leaders, including its chairman Raja Zafarul Haq, at a function held at the party’s central secretariat to mark the birth anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, birthday of Mian Nawaz Sharif and Christmas on Tuesday.
Almost every speaker criticised Dr Qadri and accused him of working on the agenda of some internal and external forces to derail the democratic process in the country.
Without naming Imran Khan, the PML-N chairman said that after his failure to deliver, the forces which had supported the referendum of former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf had now introduced a “new pawn” on the political chessboard. He said he was surprised by the amount of money used by Dr Qadri for the success of his Sunday’s public meeting in Lahore. He said Dr Qadri should tell the nation that from where he had got this amount of money to organise such a big show because “such resources are not available even to governments”.
Commenting on Dr Qadri’s slogan “save the state, not politics”, PML-N Senator Zafar Ali Shah said his party would save both the state and politics, adding that the PML-N believed that a state could not survive without politics. “The very existence of the state will be at stake if you exclude politics from it.”
MNAs Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry and Anjum Aqeel Khan and the party’s former information secretary Siddiqul Farooque also spoke on the occasion.
Talking to Dawn, Zafar Ali Shah said he saw “international intrigue, internal conspiracy” behind the move to bring Dr Qadri to the country to create chaos.
When asked why the PML-N was feeling threatened, he said the party did not consider him a political threat, but he could be a threat to the democratic system in the country. Dr Qadri had said that elections could be delayed, if necessary, but the PML-N and other democratic parties believed that any delay could prove disastrous for the country, he added.
http://dawn.com/2012/12/26/pml-n-sees-conspiracy-behind-qadris-return/
