20032024-CT-01.qxd 3/20/2024 12:34 AM Page 1 c m y b Chandigarh tribune LARGE-SCALE ILLEGAL MINING IN GHAGGAR NEAR ZOO BREACH IN BHAKRA CANAL AT CHANARTHAL VILLAGE EX-CONGRESS COMMITTEE DIST PRESIDENT JOINS AAP Apart from a Patiala-based religious sect, private persons are also engaged in illegal mining. P3 MP Amar Singh and former MLA Kuljit Singh Nagra visit the village to take stock of the situation. P3 Zila Parishad chief Mandeep Kaur; ex-Cong Committee district president Subhash Sood join AAP. P3 » » AIR QUALITY INDEX CHANDIGARH 136 PANCHKULA 58 MOHALI 124 401-500 301-400 201-300 101-200 51-100 0-50 SEVERE VERY POOR POOR MODERATE SATISFACTORY GOOD INBRIEF TWO ARRESTED WITH HEROIN Chandigarh: A team of the Sector 31 police station nabbed Gautam Kumar Jha (20), a Ram Darbar resident, with 10.40 grams of heroin at Hallo Majra. A case under the NDPS Act has been registered against him. Arvind, alias Pathi (23), of New Indira Colony, Mani Majra, was nabbed by the IT Park police with 3.50 grams of heroin. TNS WHAT’S ON CHANDIGARH Environmental Film Festival & Forum on LiFE: Law Auditorium, PU APNI MANDI: Sectors 15, 40, 46 and 52 MOHALI APNI MANDI: Phase 11 PANCHKULA APNI MANDI: Sector 25 TWITTER/THETRIBUNECHD MAINLY CLEAR SKY MAX 30°C | MIN 14°C YESTERDAY MAX 30°C | MIN 12.5°C SUNSET WEDNESDAY 6.34 PM SUNRISE THURSDAY 6.25 AM » WEDNESDAY | 20 MARCH 2024 | CHANDIGARH FORECAST FACEBOOK/CHANDIGARHTRIBUNE Panel clears 3 names, High Court calls for compassion in Kharge to take call delivery of justice, shift in perspective Saurabh Malik Bansal, Tewari, Lucky in race for city Lok Sabha ticket INDIA VOTES 2024 Sandeep Rana Tribune News Service Chandigarh, March 19 Congress Central Election Committee (CEC) today unanimously decided to leave the decision on party president Mallikarjun Kharge to select the candidate for the city parliamentary seat out of the three shortlisted names put up before the panel at the party headquarters in Delhi. Former Union ministers Pawan Kumar Bansal and Manish Tewari, who is Anandpur Sahib MP; and city Congress president HS Lucky were earlier shortlisted for ticket by the party. Sources said the name of actor and party leader Raj Babbar was also taken up during the meeting, but eventually, it was unanimously decided to pick the candidate from the three shortlisted names only. Apart from these three names, the party is also seriously considering a new A meeting of the Congress Central Election Committee underway in Delhi. MANISH TEWARI KEEN ON CITY SEAT BANSAL LOST IN LAST TWO ELECTIONS The sources shared Manish Tewari was interested in the Chandigarh seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections also, but was given ticket from Anandpur Sahib. Former MP Navjot Singh Sidhu was also seeking ticket for his wife Navjot Kaur in the last poll. Four-time MP Pawan Kumar Bansal was picked as the Congress Lok Sabha nominee from Chandigarh in 2019 and 2014. He lost both times to BJP’s Kirron Kher. The party is also seriously considering a new face for the city this time, said sources. Tribune News Service Chandigarh, March 19 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that absolute impartiality devoid of compassion often results in fairness becoming a casualty. The assertion came as Justice Harpreet Singh Brar called for a renewed perspective in the application of justice driven by compassion and understanding. The ruling came in the case of a “girl” who visited the Gov- WHAT COURT OBSERVED a ❝While justice in itself isof dynamic concept, directlyit can influenced by the morality an ever-evolving society, be said with certainty that absolute impartiality and lack of compassion often claims fairness as a casualty. In a welfare State, it is important the vulnerability of the disadvantaged is recognised and the application of justice is viewed from a renewed perspective. — Justice Harpreet Singh Brar ❞ ernment Multi-Speciality Hospital-16 with her husband when she was eight-month Elderly man duped of ~2.28 cr CYBER FRAUD Tribune News Service face for the city this time, said the sources. They said it was the final meeting to decide on the candidature, which is expected to be announced in a day or two. “Though Kharge has been entrusted with deciding on it, ultimately, top two-three leaders will take a decision in consultation with him. Two former Union ministers are in the race, so they cannot let them down by announcing the name like this,” said a party leader. Lucky spoke for about eight minutes and presented the whole picture of the Chandigarh Congress. He confirmed Kharge had been requested to pick the candidate from the three shortlisted names. The Congress nominee will be the INDIA bloc (CongAAP) candidate for the seat. However, the sources said local AAP leaders were unhappy with the decision to leave the MP seat for the Congress. In the MC elections, Mayor Kuldeep Kumar Dhalor from AAP was elected as a candidate of the alliance. c m y b pregnant. At that time, there was no way she could have realised that it was the begin- Panchkula, March 19 A 72-year-old resident of Chandimandir has been duped of Rs 2.28 crore on the pretext of investing money in stock market. Col Tejinder Singh said he received a message on his phone in January after which he joined an online WhatsApp group that was run in the name of stock investments. A man, who identified himself as Ajay, asked him to download a mobile application. Later, with the guidance of the Ajay, Colonel Singh transferred Rs 5 lakh, Rs 10 lakh and Rs 98,730 in the former’s account in a bid to purchase 12,400 shares of a particular company. Colonel Singh went on to invest Rs 40 lakh, Rs 25 lakh from separate bank accounts for the purchase of stocks of another company. In his complaint to the police, he said he kept on transferring money, including Rs 65.47 lakh and Rs 40.47 lakh in two transactions, into the bank accounts of the fraudsters till March. In the meantime, he was contacted by a woman who used to explain to him the returns he had got on his investment. He got to know about the fraud when Ajay asked him to pay Rs 60 lakh to collect Rs 7.86 crore that he had made from his investments. He lodged a complaint with the police. The police have registered a case at the cybercrime police station under Sections 406, 420 and 120-B of the IPC. ning of a traumatic experience for her and the family. Her husband was arrested even though there was no complaint by the girl’s family. Her child died soon after delivery. The matter was placed before Justice Brar’s Bench after the husband sought the quashing of the FIR registered on February 20, 2023, for rape under Section 376(2)(n) of the IPC and the provisions of the POCSO Act at the continued on page 3 Two killed in road accident Chandigarh, March 19 A motorcyclist and a pedestrian were killed in an accident. Ravi Kumar, a resident of Burail village, reported that a rashly driven motorcycle hit his brother Ashwani Kumar at the Sector 20/30 light point. Ashwani and motorcyclist Sawan, a resident of Dhanas, suffered injuries and both were rushed to the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32. However, the doctors declared both dead on arrival. The police have registered a case at the Sector 19 police station. — TNS