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Tanbir Dhaliwal is a correspondent at Chandigarh. She covers health and business.

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Chandigarh man gets life term for killing farmer whom he owed ₹9L

A local court on Friday awarded life imprisonment to a Chandigarh man convicted of murdering a 31-year-old man, whom he owed ₹9 lakh

An agriculturalist belonging to Parol village in Mohali’s Mullanpur, Jass is survived by his wife and a daughter. The court of additional sessions judge Jaibir Singh awarded him life imprisonment and imposed a fine of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>40,000. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Chandigarh

Updated on Feb 03, 2024 09:46 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh: Sector 19 resident held guilty of killing Mohali man in 2021

The injured was taken to Civil Hospital, Manimajra, where he was declared dead and police was called; a case was registered at Industrial Area police station on November 13, 2021

An agriculturalist belonging to Parol village in Mohali’s Mullanpur, the victim is survived by his wife and a daughter. (Getty Images/Purestock)

Chandigarh

Updated on Feb 02, 2024 09:58 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh: Man to spend life in jail for killing co-worker in Sector 27

Convict had bludgeoned his co-worker to death with a brick and dumped his body outside a booth in the sector in April 2020 amid the Covid lockdown

Hailing from Attari, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, Budhi Lal, alias Golu, aged 23, was convicted under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The court also fined him <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>13,000. (Getty Images/Purestock)

Chandigarh

Updated on Feb 02, 2024 09:44 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh drug control officer surrenders in bribery case

Sent in three-day police custody after being booked for demanding ₹25,000 bribe from a Dhanas-based chemist to issue a drugs licence

Chandigarh

Published on Feb 01, 2024 03:37 PM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal

Chandigarh district court acquits gangster in 2018 criminal intimidation case

The complainant, Mohammad Kalam, a 51-year-old hotelier from Burail, had told police that he had filed an extortion case against an associate of Kali Rajput, a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi group

Chandigarh

Updated on Feb 01, 2024 05:28 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh resident gets 10-yr jail for possessing banned medicines

The public prosecutor argued that similar cases were registered against Singh, making him a habitual offender

The defence pleaded that he was innocent and had been falsely implicated in the case. (HT File)

Chandigarh

Published on Jan 31, 2024 11:34 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh: Insurer fined for giving retired Col the runaround

The complainant, Colonel Yogesh K Sharma (retd) of Chandigarh, had filed the case against Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance Company, Chandigarh, while a similar complaint had also been filed by his daughter Pooja Sharma against the company

The insurer was directed to pay <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>17,000 to each complainant on account of mental agony, physical harassment and litigation cost. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 28, 2024 08:06 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Salon owner gets 5-year RI for outraging teen’s modesty

The convict, Murshid alias Monu, 32, of Daddumajra, has also been told to pay a fine of ₹21,000. The victim, an orphan who stays with her uncle and aunt, had told the police that she had started training at one of the salons owned by Murshid in August 2021.

A special POCSO court awarded five-year rigorous imprisonment to a salon owner who had outraged the modesty of a 15-year-old girl undergoing training at his facility in 2022. (Shutterstock)

Chandigarh

Published on Jan 27, 2024 05:33 PM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

23-yr-old convicted for stabbing man in Mauli Jagran

First Information Report was registered by the Mauli Jagran police under Sections 308 (attempt to culpable homicide), 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code. On June 22, 2019, Vikas was arrested and a few days later, the juvenile was arrested.

A 23-year-old was convicted for stabbing man in Mauli Jagran. (HT)

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 05:38 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh: 20-year jail for youth for repeatedly raping minor

The Chandigarh court held the accused, Ritik Sharma, 22, a resident of Mauli Jagran, guilty and was also fined ₹20,000

Chandigarh

Published on Jan 24, 2024 05:34 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

20-year jail for teen who raped 4-year-old girl in Chandigarh

A special POCSO court in Chandigarh convicted him under Section 6 of the POCSO Act, and Sections 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage), 363 (kidnapping), 354 (assault), 354-A (outraging the modesty of a woman) and 323 (voluntary causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code

In court, the convict prayed for leniency, claiming innocence. He said he was a very poor person, who had parents to maintain and sustain. Whereas, special public prosecutor for the state argued that the convict should be dealt sternly by the court. (HT)

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 20, 2024 10:20 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh: Coaching institute fined ₹20,000 for not refunding fees

The commission observed that the institute could have retained the proportionate fees to the tune of ₹6,069 because the complainant’s son attended classes for 21 days; besides, he received the study material worth ₹10,000 from the institute

The complainant pleaded that he paid <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>1,04,000 against the total tuition fee for one year of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>1,41,300. His son attended the classes for just one week and was not satisfied with the methodology of the coaching. (Getty Images/Purestock)

Chandigarh

Published on Jan 19, 2024 07:35 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh: Car insurer fined 15k for rejecting claim

The forum also directed the firm to pay lumpsum compensation of ₹15,000 to the complainant on account of mental tension, harassment, agony as well as litigation expenses

The woman pleaded that her car was insured for <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>10 lakh from February 15, 2019, to February 14, 2020. It was stolen in February 2020, while it was parked in a mall in Rohini, Delhi, by her driver. (Getty Images/Purestock)

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 18, 2024 09:22 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

FCI scam: CBI court frames charges against three

The accused are Rajeev Kumar Mishra, deputy general manager, FCI, regional office, Chandigarh; Satish Verma, manager (QC), FCI, divisional office, Chandigarh, and Ravinder Singh Khaira, owner of Guru Kripa Rice and Agro Industries, Lubhangarh, Kharar, Punjab

CBI got information that FCI officers in conspiracy with rice millers were covering up shortages in stocks and were accepting low quality foodgrains, which were being transported to across the country. (Getty Images/Purestock)

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 17, 2024 09:52 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh: Youth jailed for 20 years for kidnapping, raping minor girl

The Chandigarh court also imposed a ₹40,000 fine on him; it ordered that he should be kept at a place of safety till he attains 21 years of age

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 17, 2024 09:24 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh: Duo to spend 7 years in jail for robbing college student at knife-point

The duo, Nitesh Sharma, 22, hailing from Bihar, and Rajwinder Kaur, 35, a native of Gurdaspur, Punjab, was convicted under Section 397 (robbery or dacoity, with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) read with Section 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code on Thursday

Pleading leniency, both convicts submitted that they had never been involved in any other criminal case or convicted before. (Getty Images/Purestock)

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 13, 2024 09:22 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

7-year jail for four men who robbed a home-alone woman in Chandigarh’s Sector 27

The ultimate goal and purpose of sentence ought to be deterrent or reformative, remarked the Chandigarh court of additional district and sessions judge Dr Rajneesh while handing out the sentence

The convicts, Prem, Sunil Kumar, Arjun and Arjun Shresth, all from Mohali, were also fined <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>50,000 each. (Getty Images/Purestock)

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 12, 2024 10:56 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh court awards 20-year jail to teen who raped 8-year-old girl

Stating that the 17-year-old convict will stay in a place of safety till he attained 21 years of age, the Chandigarh court observed that the punishment was not in violation of the Juvenile Justice Act

In August 2023, the boy lured the child by giving her <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>10 and took her to a jungle, where he raped her. When she started bleeding and crying, he fled the spot. (Stock image)

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 11, 2024 09:36 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Former DGP Bhawra case: CAT judicial member recuses from case

In November, CAT issued a notice to the Punjab government, Union government, Union Public Service Commission and DGP Yadav.

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 10, 2024 09:24 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Charges framed against gangster Sampat Nehra in 2018 extortion case

On Tuesday, the case was listed at the district courts, Sector 43, Chandigarh, and the gangster was produced in person amid tight security from Bathinda jail

Nehra was also produced in another court of JMIC, where another case of 2018 against him is going on. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 10, 2024 09:02 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chittaranjan Locomotive Works bribery case: CBI submits supplementary chargesheet

Seventh accused was added in the supplementary chargesheet, the preliminary chargesheet was filed against 6 accused

During further investigation, CBI got to know that Ramesh Chand Dhiman joined M/s Kuteer Equipments Pvt Ltd, a sister concern of M/s TC Blades and Tools Pvt Ltd at Panchkula in July 2005 as office assistant and worked till February 2022. After registration of case, he did not join the company and was terminated. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 10, 2024 08:34 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh: Coaching centre fined for failing to refund student’s fee

Observing that the institute cannot retain unused money of the complainant in the absence of availing of any services from them, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has penalised an institute.

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 04, 2024 08:30 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh-based health insurance firm penalised ₹25,000 for rejecting mediclaim

The forum directed the firm to pay ₹15,000 as compensation for causing mental agony and harassment and to pay ₹10,000 as costs of litigation

Parminder Singh, of Nawanshahr, Punjab, had submitted in a complaint that he had taken a mediclaim policy namely a “family health optima insurance plan” for himself and his wife, Baljit Kaur, from Star Health and Allied Insurance Co. Limited, Chandigarh. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Chandigarh

Updated on Jan 03, 2024 07:16 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh: Files pile up as consumer forums reel under staff crunch

Advocate Nitin Thatai, former secretary of the Tricity Consumer Courts Bar Association, said: “District commission takes three to four years to decide one case and the period is even longer in the state commission Haryana. One of my cases is as old as 2016 and I am still awaiting its judgment.”

Talking about the pending cases, the president of the Tricity Consumer Courts Bar Association, IP Singh, said: “Currently, 1,800 cases are pending with the district commission of Mohali, nearly 2,000 cases are pending before DC-I and 1,400 before DC-II of Chandigarh. The pendency is too high, as the numbers should not be more than 500 per bench.” (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Chandigarh

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 08:58 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Woman, live-in partner ‘manhandled’ by cops: Panchkula Police to hold inquiry: ACP

HT had on Saturday highlighted the plight of the 22-year-old woman who has been under treatment at the civil hospital for the past five days after the suicide bid

Before taking the extreme step, the woman had submitted a written complaint to the Haryana State Commission for Women, DCP office and at the CM Window about their alleged manhandling and mistreatment at the hands of cops posted at the Sector 25 police post. (Getty image)

Chandigarh

Updated on Dec 24, 2023 08:20 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Panchkula

Bizman’s bail plea dismissed : Non-disclosure of info, refusal to come court reasons why bail plea scrapped

The court, however, clarified that the dismissal shall not empower the police to arrest the accused in violation of the directions as given by the Supreme Court of India.

The non-disclosure of the information by Chaittnya Aggarwal, about the investment of the MP Kirron Kher’s money and direct refusal to come to the court are the circumstances which went against him, as the court dismissed his anticipatory bail application today. (HT FILE)

Chandigarh

Updated on Dec 23, 2023 09:26 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Alleging police torture, 22-yr-old Panchkula woman tries to end life

A 22-year-old woman attempted suicide after allegedly being tortured by the police in Panchkula, India. She had submitted a complaint to the Haryana State Commission for Women detailing her ordeal. The woman is currently receiving treatment at a hospital.

The woman had also submitted a written complaint, narrating her ordeal, to the Haryana State Commission for Women on December 19. (HT File)

Chandigarh

Updated on Dec 23, 2023 09:16 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Panchkula

₹130-crore bank fraud : CBI court frames charges

Charges have been framed against two bank officials, Ravi Rashmi Dhar, the then DGM of Punjab National Bank (PNB), and Naresh Kumar Jain, the then chief GM, PNB, CA Vinod Garg; and directors of Delhi-based Shri Vishnu Overseas Private Limited Sat Narain Mittal, Yogesh Mittal

Chandigarh

Updated on Dec 19, 2023 09:26 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

Chandigarh: 60-year-old jailed for 12 years for raping mentally disabled girl

The case was registered on the complaint of the girl’s father, who said he had seven children; the victim was one of his six daughters, who cannot speak, was hearing impaired and had severe intellectual disability

Bablu Mandal was convicted under Section 376 (2) (l) of the Indian Penal Code and also fined <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>20,000. (Getty image)

Chandigarh

Updated on Dec 19, 2023 08:54 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

2020 protest case: Chandigarh court issues bailable warrants against Meet Hayer

The warrants were issued as they did not appear in the court for their hearing last Saturday. During the previous hearing on December 2, an application seeking exemption of personal appearance was filed on behalf of the minister and other accused and exemption was granted for a day. But the minister did not appear in the last hearing as well, following which, bailable warrants have been issued.

The police registered a case against Hayer and other leaders on a complaint filed by a constable, wherein he alleged on October 24, 2020 many AAP leaders, led by then MLA Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, reached the office of the Punjab BJP to protest farmers’ bill in Chandigarh. (File)

Chandigarh

Updated on Dec 19, 2023 07:34 AM IST

ByTanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh

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Tanbir Dhaliwal is a correspondent at Chandigarh. She covers health and business.

A local court on Friday awarded life imprisonment to a Chandigarh man convicted of murdering a 31-year-old man, whom he owed ₹9 lakh

The injured was taken to Civil Hospital, Manimajra, where he was declared dead and police was called; a case was registered at Industrial Area police station on November 13, 2021

Convict had bludgeoned his co-worker to death with a brick and dumped his body outside a booth in the sector in April 2020 amid the Covid lockdown

Sent in three-day police custody after being booked for demanding ₹25,000 bribe from a Dhanas-based chemist to issue a drugs licence

The complainant, Mohammad Kalam, a 51-year-old hotelier from Burail, had told police that he had filed an extortion case against an associate of Kali Rajput, a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi group

The public prosecutor argued that similar cases were registered against Singh, making him a habitual offender

The complainant, Colonel Yogesh K Sharma (retd) of Chandigarh, had filed the case against Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance Company, Chandigarh, while a similar complaint had also been filed by his daughter Pooja Sharma against the company

The convict, Murshid alias Monu, 32, of Daddumajra, has also been told to pay a fine of ₹21,000. The victim, an orphan who stays with her uncle and aunt, had told the police that she had started training at one of the salons owned by Murshid in August 2021.

First Information Report was registered by the Mauli Jagran police under Sections 308 (attempt to culpable homicide), 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code. On June 22, 2019, Vikas was arrested and a few days later, the juvenile was arrested.

The Chandigarh court held the accused, Ritik Sharma, 22, a resident of Mauli Jagran, guilty and was also fined ₹20,000

A special POCSO court in Chandigarh convicted him under Section 6 of the POCSO Act, and Sections 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage), 363 (kidnapping), 354 (assault), 354-A (outraging the modesty of a woman) and 323 (voluntary causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code

The commission observed that the institute could have retained the proportionate fees to the tune of ₹6,069 because the complainant’s son attended classes for 21 days; besides, he received the study material worth ₹10,000 from the institute

The forum also directed the firm to pay lumpsum compensation of ₹15,000 to the complainant on account of mental tension, harassment, agony as well as litigation expenses

The accused are Rajeev Kumar Mishra, deputy general manager, FCI, regional office, Chandigarh; Satish Verma, manager (QC), FCI, divisional office, Chandigarh, and Ravinder Singh Khaira, owner of Guru Kripa Rice and Agro Industries, Lubhangarh, Kharar, Punjab

The Chandigarh court also imposed a ₹40,000 fine on him; it ordered that he should be kept at a place of safety till he attains 21 years of age

The ultimate goal and purpose of sentence ought to be deterrent or reformative, remarked the Chandigarh court of additional district and sessions judge Dr Rajneesh while handing out the sentence

Stating that the 17-year-old convict will stay in a place of safety till he attained 21 years of age, the Chandigarh court observed that the punishment was not in violation of the Juvenile Justice Act

In November, CAT issued a notice to the Punjab government, Union government, Union Public Service Commission and DGP Yadav.

On Tuesday, the case was listed at the district courts, Sector 43, Chandigarh, and the gangster was produced in person amid tight security from Bathinda jail

Seventh accused was added in the supplementary chargesheet, the preliminary chargesheet was filed against 6 accused

Observing that the institute cannot retain unused money of the complainant in the absence of availing of any services from them, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has penalised an institute.

The forum directed the firm to pay ₹15,000 as compensation for causing mental agony and harassment and to pay ₹10,000 as costs of litigation

Advocate Nitin Thatai, former secretary of the Tricity Consumer Courts Bar Association, said: “District commission takes three to four years to decide one case and the period is even longer in the state commission Haryana. One of my cases is as old as 2016 and I am still awaiting its judgment.”

HT had on Saturday highlighted the plight of the 22-year-old woman who has been under treatment at the civil hospital for the past five days after the suicide bid

The court, however, clarified that the dismissal shall not empower the police to arrest the accused in violation of the directions as given by the Supreme Court of India.

A 22-year-old woman attempted suicide after allegedly being tortured by the police in Panchkula, India. She had submitted a complaint to the Haryana State Commission for Women detailing her ordeal. The woman is currently receiving treatment at a hospital.

Charges have been framed against two bank officials, Ravi Rashmi Dhar, the then DGM of Punjab National Bank (PNB), and Naresh Kumar Jain, the then chief GM, PNB, CA Vinod Garg; and directors of Delhi-based Shri Vishnu Overseas Private Limited Sat Narain Mittal, Yogesh Mittal

The case was registered on the complaint of the girl’s father, who said he had seven children; the victim was one of his six daughters, who cannot speak, was hearing impaired and had severe intellectual disability

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