Three abducted, one freed
Gwalior: The police freed a youth, Ankit, from the clutches of his kidnappers after a brief encounter on Monday night. Ankit had been kidnapped from Dabra here about a month back. Confirming the incident, Gwalior SP Santosh Kumar Singh Ankit stayed with his family at Preeti Colony and that his father was a wheat trader. The family had received several phone calls for ransom during the period of Ankit’s confinement.
Meanwhile, the case of kidnapping of a Sikh toddler, Amrit Pal Singh from Phool Bag Gurudwara on Sunday, remains as yet unresolved. Tyill now the family members have not received any ransom call.
In another case, a youth kidnapped a woman on the false pretext of marrying her.
According to police Geeta, sister of Manoj, a resident of Kunj Vihar Colony in Gola Ka Mandir police station area was enticed by a neighbor, Deepak with a promise that the latter would marry her. later, however, this turned out to be a case of kidnapping. Police have registered a case of kidnapping and conducted raids, but have failed to trace Deepak out.
HC accepts plea against IAS
Bhopal: The Gwalior branch of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has accepted a plea against Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer Gyaneshwar Patil. In her complaint, data entry operator of Sheopur district - Shabnam Khan alleged that district Collector Gyaneshwar B Patil pressurised her to have illicit relations with him. In her complaint, Khan, ex-wife of IAS officer Suhel Akhtar alleged that a notification regarding her removal from the post has been filed. In this regard, the High Court has issued notices to five officials including the district Collector seeking reply within 16 days.
HCI extends application submission date
Bhopal: The Haj Committee of India (HCI) has extended the Haj 2013 application submission date by 10 days from March 20 to 30. The Madhya Pradesh State Haj Committee (MPSHC) in a statement here on Tuesday informed that observing the difficulties faced by the intending pilgrims the HCI has decided to accept the application now up to March 30.
The Haj application forms could be downloaded from the websites of MPSHC at www.mphajcommittee.com and HCI website www.hajcommittee.com.The MPSHC also clarified that from this year onwards it is mandatory for the Haj aspirants to submit their passports with the application form. The passport should be valid till March 2014. The Haj aspirants need to clarify to the passport office while applying for the passport that it is required for proceeding on the Haj pilgrimage, the MPSHC added.
RTI activist alleges Govt of failing duty
Bhopal: Right To Information (RTI) activist from the State capital - Ajay Dube has alleged that the State Government has failed to bring up State level citizen charter commission under pressure from the bureaucracy. Dube while talking to media persons here on Wednesday said that the information obtained through an RTI revealed that while implementing the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Guarantee Act (MPPSGA) in 2010, there were provisions in it that the State level citizen charter commission would also be set up. But the State Chief Minister under pressure from the bureaucracy finished these provisions making the MPPSGA helpless. Due to this, despite tall claims of the State Government the MPPSGA failed to curb corruption in the State, he added. Dube further said that the Central Government has also included similar provisions of national and State level commission in its proposed law. The need of the commission arises because it is only the commission that could provide impartial justice to the masses, he added.
74 breakers handed over to Goyal
Bhopal: SB Hedaoo Sr Manager (Manufacturing) BHEl, Bhopal the other day in a simple function organised at BHEl, Bhopal handed over 74 breakers after refurbishment to SK Goyal of Traffic department in presence of Customer representative Ramesh Kumar, Manager M/s NAlCO, Angul. DK Thakur GM (SCR), Santosh Kumar AGM (SCR-M), MS Kinra AGM (SCS), Ravi Shingwekar (AGM-MWX), Neelam Bhogal (AGM, Switchgear Engineering), Alok Gupta AGM (Quality Control SCR), VK Jain AGM (SCR- P) and other employees were present on this occasion. VK Jain (AGM-SWM) appreciated the effort made by Executive, Supervisors and Workers from Manufacturing, Engineering, QC, MM, Sales, Feeder, CRX, Stores, Machine Shop and by all others involved in achieving the milestone. The record production of 3,650 breakers could only be surpassed with the joint effort of the employees. M/s NAlCO is a government organization committed in serving the nation making the country self sufficient in Aluminium products by getting these breakers refurbished by BHEl
3-day-old infant abandoned
Gwalior: Three days after her birth, an infant girl was thrown in the heap of garbage alive. The local people seeing the live girl informed the police. Jhansi road Police admitted the girl in Kamla Raja where the doctors have kept her on ventilator. The police in-charge said that the girl is three days oldand a case was registered against her mother.
2 more cases of swine flu in Bhopal
Bhopal: Two more patients from State capital were confirmed of swine flu on Tuesday. This has increased the number of positive cases of swine flu to 16 in Bhopal. Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr Pankaj Shukla said that the swab samples of both the patients were sent to the Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals (RMRCT) laboratory in Jabalpur on Monday. Total six samples were sent to the laboratory for testing, among them two have been confirmed positive of swine flu. He further said that both the patients are females and are admitted in Kasturba and National hospitals of State capital. Condition of one of the patient, admitted in Kasturba hospital, is critical as she is suffering from Tuberculosis along with swine flu. Dr Shukla said that it was considered that may be the swine flu confirmed patients had visited cities where swine flu is prevailing but it was found that both the patients were in Bhopal for long time. Two more samples were sent to the laboratory for testing of swine flu on Tuesday.