11102024-LT-01.qxd 10/11/2024 12:24 AM Page 1 c m y b Ludhiana tribune BAR ASSN EXTENDS SUPPORT FOR BUDDHA NULLAH CAUSE LORD HANUMAN RETURNS ON DISNEY+ HOTSTAR FILM INDUSTRY PAYS TRIBUTE TO RATAN TATA Decision was taken at a meeting of executive committee of Bar Association and environmentalists. P2 Disney+ Hotstar has announced The Legend Of Hanuman Season 5. It will begin from October 25. P4 Prominent cinema personalities mourned the death of Tata Group’s chairman emeritus Ratan Tata. P4 » » FORECAST MAINLY CLEAR SKY MAX 34°C | MIN 20°C YESTERDAY MAX 34°C | MIN 21°C SUNSET FRIDAY 5.56 PM SUNRISE SATURDAY 6:22 AM » FRIDAY | 11 OCTOBER 2024 | LUDHIANA MC chief conducts surprise inspection at Zone B office Ludhiana, October 10 Municipal Corporation (MC) Commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal conducted a surprise inspection at the MC’s Zone B office near Shingar Cinema here on Thursday. The aim was to encourage officials and staff to serve the public with transparency and efficiency. Dachalwal inspected the building and issued directions to staff to ensure cleanliness. He also inspected the zonal suvidha kendra and directed staff to serve the public on the ‘first come, first served’ basis. Dachalwal directed the staff to ensure public dealing and their grievances, if any, should be resolved at the earliest. Earlier in the day, he also inspected the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) of the MC established under the Smart City Mission at the MC’s Zone D office in Sarabha Nagar. Directions were issued to the staff concerned for proper monitoring through CCTV cameras across the city to check encroachments. — TNS Two held under Gambling Act Ludhiana, October 10 The Crime Branch 2 has arrested two persons under the Gambling Act. Ashok Kumar of Mohalla Amarpura was arrested by the Moti Nagar police and Rs 4,600 in cash, two pens and empty slips were seized from him. Three other cases under the Lottery Act were registered against him. Rakesh was arrested and a case was registered against him. The third suspect, Gurpreet was absconding.— TNS Court Commissioner takes stock of solid waste management in city Appointed by NGT, he will submit report before one week of next hearing Manav Mander Tribune News Service Ludhiana, October 10 The Ludhiana Municipal Corporation (MC) has often drawn flak for management of garbage in the city. Putting the civic body on its toes, Court Commissioner Bhanwar Pal Singh Jadon, an advocate appointed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), is in the city to inspect arrangements made by the civic body for solid waste management in Ludhiana. In a petition filed by engineer Kapil Arora and Kuldeep Singh Khaira regarding poor condition of solid waste management in the city, the NGT had appointed Court Commissioner Bhanwar Pal Singh Jadon to verify factual condition of Ludhiana. On his two-day visit, Bhanwar Pal inspected over 20 places around the city to assess the waste management system. The Court Commissioner has been inspecting the sites since yesterday and visited Model Town Extension, Gill village pond, Bachan Singh Marg, GT Road, Wholesale Vegetable Market, Jamalpur, Suffian Chowk, EWS flats in Giaspura, etc, and has completed the inspection today. Bhanwar Pal will submit his report before one week of the next hearing, which will prove crucial for the next course of action. Meanwhile, on Wednesday at the Model Town Extension site, a portion of a green belt area was on fire and it was lit- Court Commissioner Bhanwar Pal Singh Jadon along with officials in Ludhiana. tered with garbage. Biomedical waste was found at the static compactor site near Lakkar Bridge while garbage was burning on 200-ft road in the GLADA area. The petitioner, Kapil Arora, said the Joint Committee comprising the Ludhiana DC, MC and PPCB had submitted one report, claiming that all impugned sites had been cleared and no garbage was being dumped on them. “To this, we had filed our objections and contested for action against the DC, MC and other members of the committee for submitting a false report before the NGT. Therefore, to verify the actual and factual condition of sites, the NGT appointed the Court Commissioner to visit the locations and submit the report before one week of the next hearing,” he said. Khaira said the Court Commissioner found huge heaps of garbage and demolition waste at various locations. The condition of Model Town Extension, Gill village pond, Bachan Singh Marg, plot on GT Road and Vegetable Market was worst. “The condition of garbage adjoining the EWS flats was pathetic and we informed the Court Commissioner that huge quantity of waste is buried there, which is wrong and causing major damage to the environment. During a visit to Bachan Singh Marg, the Court Commissioner asked about the dumped garbage and demolition waste, but GLADA officials had no answer. He also pointed out the working of the PPCB as the regulatory authority too had failed to keep a check on the situation in the city,” Khaira said. Arora said residents from Model Town Extension as well as Bahadur Ke Road told the Court Commissioner that they were living in miserable conditions and their family members were suffering from various problems due to garbage being dumped adjoining to their houses. They said they could not allow their children to play on terrace or in streets due to problem of flies and mosquitoes. Members of the Punjab Action Committee had filed an application with the NGT in 2023, highlighting violations at 23 locations regarding handling of solid waste in the city. The applicant alleged that garbage was still present in large quantities and had been buried at various sites after which the tribunal appointed the Court Commissioner to know about the ground reality. The next hearing is scheduled for December 9. Man kills wife after she refuses to accompany him to wedding Ludhiana, October 10 The Police Division Number 7 have registered a complaint against Gagandeep Chopra, a resident of the Tajpur Road area, for killing his wife Reena as she refused to accompany him to a wedding. RajKumar, brother of Reena, said his sister was married to Gagandeep for the past 12 years. But her in-laws and husband started torturing the woman after two years of the wedding. Her husband used to beat Reena. On Wednesday, he asked her to accompany him to a wedding, which was reportedly refused by her. The woman told the suspect since she was fasting during Navratri, she would not go. Her husband got furious due to her refusal. Afterwards, he took his belt and started beating her badly. The family of Reena came to know about the incident through her neighbours. When Rajkumar, along with others, reached her house, they found the victim lying in a pool of blood while Gagandeep fled the scene. The woman’s family took her to a hospital, where she was declared dead. On Thursday, her kin gheraoed the Division Number 7 police station, following which a written complaint was lodged and the police started a probe into the matter. — TNS Man nabbed in firing incident Tribune News Service Ludhiana, October 10 The Khanna police have arrested Pritpal Singh, a resident of Amritsar, for allegedly firing gunshots at Baldev Singh, when he was travelling in his Toyota Fortuner vehicle in Machhiwara. On September 30, when Baldev reached near a cold storage, two youths in a Hyundai i20 car came from the rear and the person sitting next to the driver seat fired shots at him, which hit his neck. Both unidentified persons fled the scene. A case was registered at the Machhiwara police station. Pritpal was arrested in the case. He informed the police that he along with his acquaintances, who were staying abroad, had planned the attack. They wanted to take extortion money from Baldev. Investigation was on in the case. No building construction without plan approval: Civic body chief Tribune News Service Ludhiana, October 10 Municipal Commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal has issued strict instructions to building branch officials to act against illegal constructions in the city. Apart from building inspectors, Assistant Town Planners (ATP) have been directed to move to the field and ensure strict action against illegal constructions. The directions were issued during a meeting held by MC Commissioner Dachal- Directs officials to take strict action against illegal structures wal at the Zone D office of the MC on Thursday. MC Additional Commissioner Paramdeep Singh, Superintending Engineer-cumMunicipal Town Planner Sanjay Kanwar, Assistant Town Planners (ATP) and building inspectors, among others, were present in the meeting. Dachalwal also directed the officials to expedite the recovery of dues and unassessed challans. Weekly targets have also been fixed for recovery. The building branch officials have been directed to ensure that no one is allowed to raise constructions without a sanctioned plan. The MC chief also appealed to residents to stop illegal constructions and start construction works only after getting a building plan sanctioned from the civic body, failing which strict action would be taken. Mother, son die as truck hits scooter 4-yr-old child crushed to death by bus Doraha, October 10 A mother and her son were reportedly killed in a road accident which occurred on a flyover here early this morning. A case has been registered under various sections of the BNSS against the unidentified driver of the truck, which hit the scooter on which the family was travelling from Ludhiana to Zirakpur to attend the marriage of a relative. The bodies will be sent for postmortem examination tomorrow, after which they would be handed over to their kin. Ramu Verma of Ludhiana was travelling with his wife Mani Verma and their two sons on a scooter when a truck driver hit their vehicle on the flyover in Doraha this morning. As a result, Verma lost control over the scooter and his wife and one of the sons fell down. Following which, some vehicles passed over the bodies. Verma said he asked for help from motorists but nobody stopped. Finally, he took his other son aside and watched helplessly for help to arrive. The police reached the scene after getting information and registered a case against the unidentified driv- er of the truck. Investigating officer Satpal Singh said: “The truck driver managed to flee the scene and we are trying to nab him. He will be in the police net soon. The bodies will be handed over to the relatives tomorrow after the autopsy, which was not conducted due to unavailability of doctor at the CHC, Payal, after 2 pm. The family was going to Zirakpur to attend a marriage there.” — OC Ludhiana, October 10 Rishabh, a four-year-old boy, was crushed to death by a bus. The inconsolable mother of the child said she had gone to meet her relatives at Bachan Market on Baloke Road. When the victim was playing with other children near a scooter, a bus hit the twowheeler and the child. He fell down and his head got crushed under a tyre of the vehicle. People started screaming to save the victim while the driver of the vehicle tried to flee the scene. But was caught by them. Nisha, the mother of the boy, said Rishabh was born after seven years of her marriage and he was their only child. Later, the Haibowal police reached the scene. The victim’s kin, natives of Bihar, reside in the Block E of Rishi Nagar. The police have registered a case against the bus driver and the vehicle is taken into police custody. Woman dies in mishap An unknown vehicle hit two women on Wednesday night when they were trying to cross a road at Jalandhar Bypass near Greenland School. The speeding vehicle hit the duo, following which they fell on the road. Balbir Kaur, a resident of Jassian village, died on the spot while Reena Devi was critically injured in the hit-andrun incident. Passers-by reported the matter to the police and both of them were taken to the Civil Hospital. SI Kashmir Singh from the Salem Tabri police station said the Civil Hospital referred the injured woman to a private hospital. A case has been registered against the unidentified driver of the speeding vehicle. — TNS Industry remembers visionary, legend Ratan Tata Couple dies of asphyxia Nitin Jain Tribune News Service Ludhiana, October 10 Industry tycoons of Ludhiana, the industrial and financial capital of the state, on Thursday mourned the demise of Padma Vibhushan industry legend Ratan Tata, while remembering him as a “true visionary”, “icon”, and “leader par excellence”. The chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, one of India’s largest conglomerates, died at a Mumbai hospital after a prolonged illness late on Wednesday evening. He was 86. Punjab Industries Minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond, who is the MLA from Khanna, said the country had lost a “real ratan”. “Ratan Tata has made a special contribution to the strengthening of the country’s economy and the work done by him in various fields will always inspire the young generation. He will always remain in people’s minds for his simplicity, hard work and honesty. Ratan Tata’s love and compassion towards animals will always be remembered,” he said. Rajya Sabha MP and business magnate Sanjeev Arora said: “A great light has dimmed today. A leader whose quiet strength and unwavering values transformed industries and uplifted countless lives has left us. His influence will resonate far beyond his time. Farewell to a true visionary.” “In the demise of Ratan Tata, India has lost an icon who blended corporate growth with nation-building, and excellence with ethics. His legacy will inspire future generations of Indians to pursue success with integrity,” said Onkar Singh Pahwa, CMD, Avon Cycles. Sidharth Khanna, Director, Arisudana Industries Limited, Ratan Tata said: “Ratan Tata is widely regarded as a visionary leader and philanthropist who embodies the values of hard work, honesty and extraordinary vision. What’s remarkable about him is that he has not only built a business empire but also inspired countless entrepreneurs to follow in his footsteps, leaving a lasting legacy that will continue to inspire future generations. His philanthropic efforts through the Tata Group have also made a significant impact on education, healthcare, and rural development in the country.” “For me, he was a true patriot and nationalist. He taught the real meaning of the CSR, much before the law. He always put people before anything else and will be remembered for generations,” said Amit Thapar of Ganga Acrowools Limited. “Ratan Tata was indeed the perfect example of a leader, a global entrepreneur and a noble soul,” said Sanjeev Garg, MD, Garg Acrylic Limited. Deepak Dumra, MD, Greatway Limited, said: “It is a sad day for India, we have lost a great man. A kind soul, a visionary, an industrialist and a genuine philanthropist. Usually such characteristics are not present in one man, but he truly was an exceptional human being.” “Ratan Tata was an iconic personality and a true leader. c m y b He always talked of welfare of the nation,” said Upkar Singh Ahuja, president, Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU). Gurpreet Singh, president, Garments Machinery Manufacturers and Suppliers Association (GMMSA), said, “The nation has suffered a great setback with the death of Ratan Tata. He was a great industrialist and a person dedicated to the nation and humanity. People will always remember the services rendered by him.” “Ratan Tata’s extraordinary life was a shining example of leadership, innovation, and kindness. His legacy will endure through the countless lives he touched and the institutions he built. A model personality followed by millions, he will always be remembered,” said Pankaj Sharma, president, Association of Trade and Industrial Undertakings. Shivani Bhakoo Tribune News Service Ludhiana, October 10 A couple died of asphyxia as a fire broke out at Royals Guest House near the bus stand here today. Smoke filled in the room due to which they died of suffocation. The identity of the couple has not been disclosed by the police. According to information, the manager of the guest house observed smoke emanating from the hotel. After which, he, along with some others, raised the alarm and informed the fire brigade. Some of the occupants at the guest house came out while the couple was sleeping in the room. It took 20 minutes to control the fire. When the door of the room where they were sleeping was broken, staff found them lying unconscious. The The guest house that was sealed after the fire incident in Ludhiana. police have sealed the guest house. A short-circuit is cited to be the reason for the blaze. The police have arrested the manager of the guest house. Documents of the establishment are also being checked. The fire occured in the wee hours of Thursday. After dousing the blaze, when the staff found the couple unconscious, the victims were taken to a hospital where doctor declared them brought dead. The bodies have been sent for a post-mortem examination and relatives of the couple are informed about the incident.