REWARI: SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar rejected Haryana government's action of ordering an inquiry by the divisional commissioner into the reported mass killings of Sikhs in Hond Chillar village of Rewari district in 1984 which was exposed by a Sikh body a few days ago.
Talking to TOI, Makkar who visited the village along with ten surviving members of the families that were allegedly butchered by the mob in an organized attack, demanded a high level probe into the incident.
"Nothing short...
February 23, 2011
February 21, 2011
SGPC panel finds traces of massacre at Rewari in ’84, seeks judicial probe
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THE seven-member fact finding committee, constituted by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) for on-the-spot assessment of the reports of a massacre of Sikhs at Hondh-Chillar village in Rewari district in Haryana, has found traces of the carnage that had taken place in November 1984 following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
The committee spoke to a few people On Sunday and they narrated “harrowing tales of the massacre” and recounted how the village gurdwara was...
February 19, 2011
Haryana wants non-functional weapons for Rewari War Museum
Posted by Anil Kath On 1:22 PM No commentsChandigarh, Feb 18 (PTI) The Haryana government today requested the Centre to allot non-functional weapons of the armed forces for a newly-constructed war museum at Rewari. In a letter to Defence Minister A K Antony, the state Finance Minister Ajay Singh Yadav requested for allotment of non-functional weapons of the armed forces for Rezangla War Museum and Memorial at Rewari so that these could be used for public display, a press release said here. Yadav said during the Chinese aggression in 1962,...
February 17, 2011
After The Indian Express reported anomalies and a gaffe in the draw of lots for the allotment of flats to below poverty line (BPL) families, the Haryana Housing Board issued a statement on Wednesday, saying the exercise scheduled to be held at Gurgaon, Dharuhera, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Ratia, Sirsa, Karnal, Sonepat, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Yamunanagar, Narwana and Rewari from February 14 to 17, “has been postponed due to technical reasons”. A spokesman of the board said now the draw would be held...
February 15, 2011
Rewari, Feb 14 (PTI) Haryana Police today claimed to have busted an inter-state gang of criminals with the arrest of two gang members.Two pistols, six cartridges and a stolen car were recovered from the arrested, they said. Besides these recoveries, two stolen trucks were also seized.Naresh Yadav of Jhajjar district and Manjit of Sonepat district were arrested yesterday and produced before a magistrate, who remanded them in police custody for three days.The duo were apprehended during a raid in...
February 14, 2011
Haryana government has rejected the proposal of state police department to have commissionerate system of policing in Rohtak and Rewari. Sources said the police department had recently submitted a proposal requesting the government to introduce police commissionerate system in Rohtak and Rewari on the lines of Gurgaon and Faridabad.
The proposal stated that there was a need for a commissionerate system of policing in both Rohtak and Rewari, which have sufficient population for the new system,...
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