6 held in assault case

A meeting of the INDL leaders held under the chairmanship of district general secretary Nasib Singh Nangoli, however, expressed dissatisfaction over the registeration of the case under section of the IPC and wanted that the section 120 B and 307 of the IPC should have been added with sections 148, 149, 341 and 506 by the police. They alleged that the police had acted under pressure from the Minister to make the case weak, as one of the assailants – Ravinder – was a close relative of Krishan Lal Joshi, who was his close confident. They also alleged that one of the two scooters used by the assailants belonged to a rightman of the Minister. They demanded that the Minister’s henchmen who instigated the assailants to attack Gurpal should also be apprehended.

Earlier, the Lok Dal leaders had met SDM S.S. Saini and handed over a memorandum demanding registering the case under sections 120B and 307. The SDM assured them that no leniency would be shown to take action against the defaulting persons. ABSENT OFFICERS: The majority of the officials including officers were found absent when the Haryana Revenue Minister Suraj Pal Singh made a surprise inspection of the offices of Tehsildar and District Revenue Officer located in the Mini Secretariat, Ambala City today. The Minister who had reached at around 9.30 a.m. on the opening of offices found that none of the officers of these offices had come. However, the Tehsildar reached in the presence of the Minister.

The Revenue Minister is learnt to have taken serious note of the incident and marked the absentees absent. Later, he proceeded to Kaithal to preside over the monthly district grievances removal meeting.

Similarly, the officials were found absent during a casual checking of offices by the SDM Naraingarh last week. He had conducted inspection following complaints of habitual absentism by officials of several offices particularly of public relations office. there were complaints that the incharge of the PR office attended the office twice or thrice a month and marked presence of the days the official remained absent. the practice of the office incharge is learnt to have been practised by the subordinate staff who remain absent in bulk. the SDM marked such officials absent who had not reached their respective offices. the deputy commissioner navraj sandhu under whose directions, surprise inspection was made, took serious note of absentees and proposed disciplinary action for dereliction of duty.