Scindia urges State Govt to tender apology
Gwalior: Expressing deep shock over the stampede tragedy which claimed dozens of lives of Sunday, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday urged the State Government to tender an apology to the people of the State. Speaking to reporters while visiting Ratangarh and Seondha of Datia district, the Union Minister said the incident was not a natural but an administrative calamity caused by the State Government. He further said during the last 7 years many accidents have taken place in religious places and hundreds of people have died, but the State Government and its administration have failed to take any action to make a solid strategy. Alleging that the police have thrown dead bodies and injured persons into Sindh River to hide their mistakes he further said his late father Madhav Rao Scindia put his paper when such incident took place. It was a cruel jock with the people killed in Ratangarh tragedy. There was no politics in my statement, he added.
Excise dept sleuths conduct raid in Jalalpur
Gwalior: The field staff of State Excise department conducted a raid on illegal liquor manufacturing centre in Jalalpur and found 300 litre raw liquor and material in drums on Tuesday. The staff also arrested four woman - Puja Kanjar, Rajesh Kanjar, Anita Kanjar and Richa Kanjar and registered a case against them under Excise act. Sources said the excise department has decided to curb illegal wine transactions in view of the assembly election. On the orders of the Collector P Narhari the district excise department under the leadership of Assistant Excise Commissioner Pramod Jha raided the illegal wine centres recovering raw wine in large number from the cottages of Kanjars. The staff included control room in charge R.K., G.S. Sharma, Jitendra Bhadauria, Nidhi Gupta, D.D. Jadon, Monica Pathak, GP Kewat and Monika Batham. The deputy commissioner of divisional flying squad Prakash Pandey took seriously the issue of inactivity of district excise staff even after enforcement of code of conduct in assembly election. He ordered that regular action should be taken and strengthens the intelligence machinery.
Four miscreants held with two revolvers
Gwalior: The police claimed to have arrested miscreants planning to commit dacoity in Thatipur police station area. The police received tip of that some miscreants were hiding near Satydev Nagar based rivulet. Acting on the information the police rounded up Vijay, son of o Kalyan Sharma, Sanjeev, son of Ranveer Sikarwar, Gaurav son of Nirpat Rathore, Brijesh son of Baldev Bhadauria and lavkush son of Rambaran Singh Gurjar and with two 315 bore revolver, four live cartridges, one knife and one stick and registered case against them.
Stampede: Probe team to be announced
Gwalior: The State Government on Tuesday also announced of a judicial probe into the incident. Official sources said the State Government was likely to release the names of the probe team evening. It further said the commission would complete the enquiry within two months and submit its report within 15 days. It may be mentioned such tragic incident also took place in Ratangarh some seven years ago. At that time the state Government took action against the administrative and police officers but than Collector M Geeta and SP Pramod Verma were spared. A Judicial enquiry was also conducted at that time but the report did not see the light of the day.
UN Day to be observed on Oct 24
Bhopal: like previous years, United Nations Day will be observed on October 24 this year, in which United Nations flag along with national flag will be hoisted on all Government buildings of State capital. The United Nations flag will not be hoisted on buildings of Raj Bhavan, Vidhan Sabha and High Court. According to Indian Flag Act, when United Nations Flag is hoisted along with national flag, it can be hoisted on either side of the national flag.
1,26,000 banners, hoardings removed
Bhopal: So far, 1,26,000 banners, hoardings, including wall writings etc have been removed in Madhya Pradesh following promulgation of model code of conduct. The action is being taken in all districts under Prevention of deforming to Public Property Act to prevent misuse of public and private property by people of political parties. So far 22,401 wall writings, 37,428 posters, 21,987 banners and 31,483 other materials, have been removed. As many as 64 cases have also been registered regarding above-mentioned material from public property. Similarly, 12,761 materials of various kinds have been removed from private property. These include 3415 wall writings, 3029 posters, 2109 banners and 4208 other materials. All these things were put up without permission of owners of private buildings. It is noteworthy that all political parties have been asked under model code of conduct to direct their followers not to put up or paste banners, posters of any political party or candidate and write slogans on land, building, Ahata, wall etc. without permission of land owner.