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The UT Estate Office has been asked to justify the need for reduction of misuse charges.

Estate Office asked to justify proposal to reduce misuse charges

Chandigarh: The UT Estate Office has been asked to justify the need for reduction of misuse charges. A meeting to discuss the issue was chaired by UT Home Secretary Ram Niwas. The Estate Office had mooted a proposal to reduce the misuse charges from Rs 500 to Rs 100 per square feet of area under misuse. The Estate Office was asked to justify the need for reducing these charges. Around 550 notices on account of misuse are pending so far. However,the Estate Office has failed to recover crores of rupees that the residents need to pay on account of misuse charges. It is also likely that if a decision is taken to reduce misuse charges once the justification is given,the decision would not be in retrospective effect. This would imply that the residents would have to pay the charges that have already been levied. The Estate Office would also be required to see if after the levying of misuse charges the violations have gone up. The Estate Office had started levying misuse charges in 2002.

Former bank manager convicted in loan fraud case

Panchkula: CBI Special Court,Panchkula,here on Tuesday sent SL Goel,former bank manager of Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) at Faridabad,to one year rigorous imprisonment for hatching a conspiracy and giving loans on forged documents. Along with him,Gulshan Kumar,loanee,and Anil Shukla,middleman,were sentenced till the rising of the court,with a fine of Rs 2500 each. Earlier,Goel was found guilty along with Viresh Pal,an employee of Escorts,and JS Soni,an assistant with LIC,for fraudulently sanctioning Clean Demand Loan of Rs 60,000 on basis of bogus undertaking certificates,letter of authority-purported to be issued by M/S Escorts Ltd,Faridabad. It is important to mention here that all loans were paid back. The case of fraud was instituted on July 12,2004.

2 held,56 challaned for drunk driving

Chandigarh: While Chandigarh traffic police had been issuing challans for drunk-driving almost every weekend from past few months,the motorists in the city were up for a surprise. On Monday night,Chandigarh police erected barriers to challan those indulged in drunk driving in the city. A total of 56 persons were issued challans for drunk driving. Police also impounded four vehicles as the drunk drivers failed to produce documents of the vehicles. So that drunken drivers are not allowed to go scot free,a lower Court of Chandigarh today yet again imprisoned two persons till the rising of the court. The Court of Deepak Raj Garg,Judge of the special court for traffic offences,awarded punishment to Atul Sharma,a resident of Sector 20,Chandigarh and Tejinder Singh,resident of Anandpur Sahib. The Court also slapped a penalty of ranging between Rs 1,000 and Rs 1,200 on the duo. Both were booked by the Traffic Police,Chandigarh after high concentration of alcohol in their blood,much above the Motor Vehicle Act norm of 30mg/100 ml,was found.

Police investigating fake doctor case

Panchkula: Panchkula police is investigating a case of alleged fake doctor. As per the police,it registered a case under Section 419 and 420 of IPC against Harnek Singh Hari,who was allegedly practising in Devi Nagar village without being registered,on the complaint of V K Bharadwaj,Registrar Board of Ayurvedic and Unanai Systems,Medicine,Haryana. Hari claimed that he was a RMP doctor registered at Kanpur and was practising at James Laboratories,Jawahar Nagar,Kanpur. He added that he had never practiced in Panchkula though he hailed from Devi Nagar village. He has moved an application for anticipatory bail citing that nothing had to be recovered from him and no custodial investigation was required in the case. His application would be heard on Wednesday.

Trader arrested for sexual harassment

Chandigarh: Chandigarh police arrested a trader for alleged sexual harassment of a girl at Sukhna lake on Monday evening. The trader was identified as Teerath Ram Sharma,of Sector 26. Police said that the incident took place on Monday evening,when a girl was jogging at Sukhna Lake and trader allegedly passed obscene remarks. The girl raised an alarm and the trader was apprehended by a police constable. A case under 294 IPC was registered in Sector 3 police station against the trader,who was bailed out later.

17-year-old girl commits suicide

Sas Nagar: A 17-year-old girl,resident of Guru Nanak Colony falling under the Phase 11 police station,committed suicide by hanging herself. The deceased has been identified as Mangesh,a native of Chennai. On Tuesday,at 10.20 pm the girl committed suicide by hanging herself from a saree in her house. The police were informed by the family members of the deceased.

Traffic cops impound 60 autorickshaws

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Chandigarh: The Chandigarh traffic police on Tuesday impounded as many as 60 autorickshaws for plying in the city without valid permit. The autorickshaws were impounded from various parts of the city. The drive against unauthorised auto-rickshaws will continue in the coming days.

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