Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) on Friday accused the state government of adopting "criminal negligence" towards the quake-affected people of the region and asked the Centre to rush a relief team. "The situation in erstwhile Doda district is highly alarming because of earthquake and aftershocks going on since May 1, 2013 and due to criminal negligence of the state government to provide adequate and immediate relief to thousands of families living in most insecure conditions," JKNPP president, Balwant Singh Mankotia, said in a statement in Jammu.
"Central government should immediately send relief teams to save human lives from the wrath of nature," he said adding that the entire administration has collapsed and life has come to stand still in the area. The JKNPP president along with four other members visited the quake-hit areas of Doda, Bhaderwah and Kishtwar on Friday.
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12:37 AM, May 18, 2013
Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict on death row in connection with the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, has said that he did not want anyone to defend him. Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president and former IPS officer Simranjit Singh Mann had recently sought stay Rajoana's hanging. ...
11:50 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict on death row in connection with the assassination of the former Punjab Chief Minister, Beant Singh, has expressed his desire to be hanged. Rajoana, a Babbar Khalsa International terrorist, has in a four-page open letter said he had neither appealed for mercy nor asked anyone to do that for him. ...
12:01 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Following the hanging of Afzal Guru, Congress MP and grandson of Beant Singh, Ravneet Singh Bittu, has demanded the execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana - the convict on death row for assassinating the former Punjab chief minister. He also demanded the hanging of Delhi blast convict Devinder Pal Bhullar. ...
12:09 PM, Feb 12, 2013
New Delhi: As many as 24 mercy petition cases have been disposed of since 2009 while 13 are still pending with the government, Parliament was told on Tuesday. Among the 24 mercy petitions that have been disposed of is that of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab - the last 26/11 terrorist who was executed on November 21 in Pune's Yerwada Prison - Minister of State for Home M Ramachandran told the...
08:42 AM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi resident Balwant Singh Tokas has filed a police complaint after getting Income Tax notices over Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari's firms. A complaint has been filed against against five investor firms that used Tokas's address. Tokas, a resident of Munirka in Delhi, got I-T notices as five investor firms showed his address. This comes amidst allegations against Gadkari's firms being run as shell companies with...
01:38 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: Once again the team of Satyamev Jayate was on target. It might be a hard fact to digest for urban Indians that the practice of untouchability is still prevalent in a nation that eyes to become one of the super-powers by the end of current decade, but shows like Satyamev Jayate is a reality check for them. The debate regarding the caste system is not a new thing;...
02:14 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Chandigarh: The Akalis have sparked off a controversy on the 28th anniversary of Operation Blue Star by raising a memorial for militants killed in the operation and honouring former chief minister Beant Singh's assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana. The memorial inside the Golden Temple complex glorifies militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and Maj Gen Shabeg Singh, among others, killed in the operation. The Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) dominated by the...
11:50 PM, Jun 06, 2012
Fatehgarh Sahib: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday defended the state government's seeking clemency for death convict Balwant Singh Rajoana saying since the mercy plea of the other co-accused was pending in courts it was not at all justified to hang him till the outcome of these appeals. Badal said that the state government had taken this stand "keeping in view the sentiments of the people and in...
12:36 AM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass any order on a plea for clemency to Balwant Singh Rajoana, awarded death penalty for assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. A bench of justices TS Thakur and Gyan Sudha Misra said it cannot pass any direction as the convict has not filed any petition before it and the petitioner Abhinav Ramakrishna has no locus standi to plead...
02:32 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Gurdaspur will continue to remain under curfew on Friday after communal clashes that broke out in the city on Thursday over the issue of Rajoana execution that left one dead and one injured in police firing. Two groups clashed on Thursday over clemency for Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict in the assassination case of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. Curfew was clamped following tensions between Shiv Sena...
08:00 AM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has criticised the Punjab government on the Balwant Singh Rajoana clemency issue. The court called the stay on the hanging of Rajoana, a drama by the state government. Rajoana is one of the assassins of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh and was to be hanged on Saturday. However, the Centre stayed his hanging after Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal met President Pratibha Patil...
01:03 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Bowing to the pressure from Punjab government, the Centre on Wednesday stayed the hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was sentenced to death for the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh in 1995. The decision to stay Rajoana's hanging, which was to be carried out on March 31 at the Patiala Central Jail, was announced after the Sikh religious body, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, filed a...
06:50 AM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday stayed the hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana, the co-assassin of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. The decision to stay Rajoana's hanging, which was to be carried out on March 31 at the Patiala Central Jail, was announced after Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal met President Pratibha Patil seeking clemency for him. "We had appealed to the Centre asking for clemency for Rajoana....
07:40 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Chandigarh: Clashes have been reported from Patiala and some other regions of Punjab as tension escalates over the hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. Sikh groups have also taken out protest marches in Jammu in support of Rajoana, putting pressure on the Punjab government. Security forces have been put on high alert across Punjab and 60,000 Punjab Police personnel along...
02:51 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Chandigarh: A day-long bandh called by radical Sikh outfits to protest the proposed execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the Beant Singh killing case, disrupted normal life in parts of Punjab on Tuesday. A report from Patiala said the call for bandh evoked a total response in the city where Rajoana is lodged in the local Central Jail awaiting his execution on March 31 as per the orders of...
10:43 AM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly 60,000 Punjab police personnel and 15 companies of para-military forces have been put on alert after a Chandigarh court ordered that Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh's killing, be hanged as scheduled on March 31. Prohibitory orders under Section 144 banning assembly of five or more persons were clamped at various places as a state wide bandh has been called on Wednesday...
07:40 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Chandigarh: The execution of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's co-assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana has run into a solid wall, with both the state government and even Balwant's jail superintendent flatly opposing the court order. "I shall meet President Pratibha Patil tomorrow (Wednesday)," said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. "If the President decides to grant clemency or commutes the sentence from death to life, and in the mean time if...
11:56 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Chandigarh Sessions court on Tuesday ordered execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana on March 31 and also issued a showcause notice and contempt of court against Patiala Jail Superintendent for not carrying out the orders. The Court has returned Rajoana's hanging order to Patiala Jail "for compliance" in the Beant Singh assassination case of 1995. Anupinder Singh Grewal, Additional Advocate General, Punjab, said, "Court has asked to carry...
04:21 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab police and paramilitary forces on Tuesday conducted a flag march in various places apprehending violence in the wake of possible execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict in the assassination of former Chief Minister Beant Singh. Security forces have been conducting repeated flag march at various places in the state including Moga, Jalandhar and Ludhiana, to instill a sense of confidence among residents. Punjab's DGP Sumedh Singh Saini...
01:13 PM, Mar 27, 2012
