12072025-CT-01.qxd 7/12/2025 12:37 AM Page 1 c m y b Chandigarh tribune KATARIA LAUDS SPIRIT OF SPINE INJURY PATIENTS HC SEEKS MEDICAL RECORDS OF DEVELOPER BAJWA Court takes cognisance of allegations that Bajwa is receiving preferential treatment from police. P5 PARTLY CLOUDY MAX 33°C | MIN 26°C YESTERDAY MAX 34.9°C | MIN 25.7°C SCHOOLS TOLD TO INTEGRATE WITH MONITORING SYSTEM The Administrator interacted with patients and staff at Spinal Rehab Centre in Sector 28. P3 FORECAST Key objective of the initiative is to monitor the implementation of the National Education Policy. P6 » » SUNSET SATURDAY 7.27 PM SUNRISE SUNDAY 5.30 AM » SATURDAY | 12 JULY 2025 | CHANDIGARH /THETRIBUNECHD FACEBOOK/CHANDIGARHTRIBUNE 2 kg gold, 15 kg silver looted Review 24x7 water supply project for city: Tewari in daylight Dhakoli robbery ‘Seek views of residents before taking any decision’ WHAT’S ON APNI MANDI Chandigarh: Sectors 40, 43 & 49 Panchkula: Sector 14 Mohali: Sectors 71 and 82 Please send information about events in tricity at: whatson@tribunemail.com INBRIEF 4 CAUGHT GAMBLING IN PUBLIC TOILET Chandigarh: The police have arrested four persons for gambling in a public toilet near the Grain Market, Sector 26. They have been identified as Sandeep of Bapu Dham Colony, Ashok Kumar, Gulfam of Sector 26 and Jagdish of Saketri. The police seized Rs 5,090 from their possession. TNS CASH, JEWELLERY STOLENFROMHOUSE Chandigarh: A woman from Mari Wala Town, Mani Majra, has reported a theft at her home between July 5 and 9. The thief stole Rs 1.5-lakh cash and gold jewellery. The incident came to light after the complainant returned home from a trip. TNS Two youths tie shop owner’s father, flee spot on their bike Ramkrishan Upadhyay Tribune News Service Chandigarh, July 11 Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari has demanded a thorough review of the 24x7 water supply project. While reacting to the vigilance probe into the pilot project in Manimajra, he said the inquiry is purposeless as it will not solve the serious questions regarding the project. He said the saffron party has demanded the vigilance probe to wriggle out of the situation created due to the failed project ahead of the Municipal Corporation (MC) election. Notably, the vigilance probe had been launched following a letter written by Chandigarh BJP president Jatinder Pal Malhotra flagging alleged corruption in the works and issues plaguing the project. Tewari said he has been raising concerns about the 24x7 water project for a long time. The BJP and the civic body have even put Union Home Minister Amit Shah in an embarrassing situation by inviting him to inaugurate a project that was not even complete, he added. Zirakpur, July 11 Two unidentified youths robbed 2-kg gold and 15-kg silver worth about Rs 2.5 crore from a jewellery shop in Dhakoli here around 12:40 pm today. The shop owner, Govind, said his father Surinder Kwatra was at the shop when two youths arrived there around 11:30 am. They enquired about a gold chain and left the shop. Both came back an hour alter and took the elderly man hostage. They tied him up and dragged him upstairs. The robbers threatened his father with dire consequences, claiming that they had a pistol in the pocket. The youths removed all jewellery from the showcases and the safe within 10-12 minutes and fled the spot on their bike. The shop owner said the youths also took away the CCTV camera recorder. His father managed to free himself and raise the alarm. Local residents said the nearby shops were closed. They informed the police, after which a forensic team reached the spot. The police said they were scanning the footage of the nearby CCTV cameras. Tribune News Service Govind shows the empty safe in his shop at Dhakoli in Zirakpur. PAST INCIDENTS IN ZIRAKPUR ■ April 16, 2025: Four robbers looted Rs 80,000 cash and silver ornaments at gunpoint from a jewellery shop in Shiva Enclave, Pabhat, in broad daylight. They were nabbed later. ■ Oct 15, 2024: Two bike-borne youths looted a jewellery shop in Lohgarh. Sam Soni, owner of Divya Jeweller, alleged that two masked robbers entered his shop around 2:30 pm and pointed a pistol at him. They took away a jewellery box, which contained gold and silver jewellery. ‘Gunshots fired’ at Mohali office Mohali, July 11 In a suspected extortion attempt, a Sector 82 realtor claimed that unidentified youths fired gunshots outside his office in IT City on Thursday afternoon. Sources said two bikeborne youths were seen carrying a weapon. The police have registered a complaint. Teams of the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) are probing the case and verifying if any extortion call was made to the businessman, said the police. IT City filling station worker assaulted In another case, six bikeborne youths thrashed a filling station employee on the Airport Road in IT City on Thursday evening. Baidwan Filling Station owner Jatinder Singh Baidwan said two bikeborne youths had an argument with an employee continued on page 3 ‘Residents not getting clean water even for an hour’ “No due diligence was taken before launching the project. When you have no capacity to provide water round the clock, PARL 'MISGUIDED' The MP said in reality, the people of Manimajra were not getting clean water for even an hour daily. He raised concerns about the project in Parliament, but, in the reply, was told that residents were getting water supply 18 hours daily. “They have misguided Parliament too through these false claims,” he said. why was the project launched in the first place?” he asked. The MP said in reality, the people of Manimajra were not getting clean water for even an hour daily. He raised concerns about the project in Parliament, but, in the reply, was told that residents are getting water supply 18 hours daily. “They have misguided Parliament too through these false claims,” he said. Tewari said he was of the view that the entire 24x7 water supply project should be seriously reviewed, including its financial implications, viability, residents’ choice before any decision is taken. The MC, he said, is going to take a Rs 600-crore loan for the project to cover the entire city, which will have to be repaid with heavy interest. “When the pilot project has failed, why are you taking the loans for the full project? The views of the residents must be taken into consideration, whether they want 24x7 muddy, irregular and insufficient water supply for a heavy price or they are happy with the proper supply of clean water with full pressure for fixed hours a day,” he said. Project inaugurated in haste: Bansal Former Union Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said while the 24x7 water supply project was inaugurated with great fanfare by the Home Minister, the decision-making was hasty. He said the project was launched without actually putting the necessary infrastructure in place — merely as a PR exercise ahead of the elections. One year down the line, far from getting a continuous supply of filtered water, the residents receive muddy water, raising serious questions about Rs 75 crore of public money spent on the pilot project. “The tall claims of the BJP government have evaporated and people continue to suffer,” he added. Cook gets life term for Chargesheet filed in killing elderlywoman BMW hit-&-run case SEC 8 MURDER Chandigarh, July 11 The Court of Additional Sessions Judge has sentenced Kailash Chand Bhatt, a native of Almora district, Uttarakhand, to life imprisonment for the murder of 98year-old Joginder Kaur in Sector 8 here in 2021. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 40, 000 on the convict. The case was registered on a complaint filed by Tejinder Singh, a relative of the deceased. He stated that on August 6, 2021, his wife Sukhdev Kaur received a phone call from Bhavna, who worked as the victim’s caretaker at the house in Sector 8B. They reached the house where Bhavna told them that someone had stabbed Joginder Kaur with a knife. They found that there was blood, a knife and the household stuff lying scattered at the place. Bhawna told the police that as usual, she had gone for a walk at 6:30 pm. When she returned around 7:30 pm, she found Joginder Kaur covered in blood and a blood-stained knife lying nearby. The police cracked the case within a week with the arrest of the accused who lived in the servants’ quarters in the same area. The police said the accused worked as a cook at a house in Sector 15. He was in dire straits after losing his job due to the Covid pandemic. Finding a prima facie case, the court framed charges against the accused under sections 302, 460, 411 of the IPC. During the trial, the Public Prosecutor said the prosecution had proved the case beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt. — TNS Tribune News Service Chandigarh, July 11 A student, Ishan Shankar Roy, who was arrested in a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of a UT police constable, will face charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The police have filed a chargesheet against him in the court under Section 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the BNS. It outlines the punishment for causing death without intention but with the knowledge that the act is likely to cause death. This Section replaces Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code under the new laws. According to the police, the accused fled the scene in his BMW car after hitting constable Anand Dev, who was riding a bicycle, in the evening of May Student to face charge of culpable homicide SAWAN EDIT 11 this year. The accident took place at the Sector 9-10 traffic lights near the Police Headquarters in Sector 9 here. Roy was arrested the next day. The police initially registered an FIR under Section 282 and 106(1) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita on a complaint filed by Ashish Choudhary. He told the police that the speeding BMW car hit the bicycle and fled the scene. The police added Section 105 of the BNS after the victim succumbed to injuries. The bail applications of the accused were dismissed by the local court earlier. Seeking bail, the counsel for the accused, continued on page 5 From Sacred Rituals to Sparkling t Statements 2,500 liquor cases seized after raid at Daria Tribune News Service Chandigarh, July 11 The Excise Department raided an illegal godown in the Daria area late Thursday night and seized 2,090 cases of Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) and 413 of country liquor. The illegal warehouse, which had reportedly been rented about four months ago, was operating without any valid approval or licence from the department. According to a complaint lodged with the Industrial Area (Phase I) police, the excise team found that the liquor stock had no valid transport passes or per- Forensic experts outside the illegal liquor godown at Daria village in Industrial Area, Chandigarh, on Friday. TRIBUNE PHOTO: VICKY mits. The godown itself was not registered with the department. There were two vehicles bear- ing registration numbers of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh — one parked on the premises and the other just outside the boundary wall. The barcodes on the liquor cartons had been deliberately removed, indicating an attempt to conceal the source and legality of the stock. A forensic team collected multiple samples on Friday morning to verify the quality and legitimacy of the seized stock. According to sources, the liquor reportedly bore the markings of four bottling units, raising suspicion of potential brand misuse or unauthorised distribution. The police have launched an investigation to trace the origin of the liquor and to identify those behind the illegal supply chain. c m y b UPTO 25% 25% * OFF ON ALL DIAMOND JEWELLERY T&C Apply* VENUE - JEWELLERY WALK, SECTOR 17C, CHANDIGARH PHONE NO - 887 233 1111