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Time of India
9 hours ago
- Time of India
Man wanted in rape case arrested from Gurgaon after 4 yrs
Jaipur: A man wanted for rape charges under the POCSO Act was arrested by the city police Thursday after being on the run for four years. The accused, Mohan Singh (27) was hiding in Gurgaon under a fake identity and working at a glass factory. To track him down, police officers posed as labourers, scouring several factories in the area before finally locating and arresting him. According to DCP (East) Tejaswini Gautam, Mohan Singh, a resident of Neem Ka Thana in Sikar, was initially arrested in 2019 after a case was filed against him at the Pratap Nagar police station. Although he was produced in court, he managed to escape and went underground. A warrant was issued for his arrest, and a reward of Rs 20,000 was later announced for any information leading to his capture. The breakthrough came when police received a tip-off that he was hiding in the Delhi-Haryana region. A team from Jaipur began searching factories in Gurgaon, pretending to look for jobs. After five days of searching, they located his roommate, who provided key details about Singh's whereabouts. Police said Singh assumed a new identity using his brother's Aadhaar card and took up work at the glass factory. He recently returned home due to an injury, and based on information from his roommate, the police conducted a raid and arrested him. The Pratap Nagar police are currently interrogating Singh.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Nabha village cries foul over land transfer to waqf board, says meant for farming
PATIALA: A controversy has erupted in Boran Khurd village of Patiala's Nabha sub-division after the transfer of 37 acres of village panchayat land to the Punjab Waqf Board, with villagers claiming that the land was transferred without the mandatory consent of the local panchayat. Boran Khurd village, which comprises around 60% Dalit population, is now left with just 15 acres of common village land for farming. According to officials in the revenue department, the land in question was originally registered under the waqf board, though it remained under the panchayat's control for decades. The present transfer, they say, is part of a nationwide drive - in compliance with central govt directions - to identify and correctly record waqf properties in official records and online portals. Residents of Boran Khurd said the land was always managed by the panchayat. Sarpanch Baljit Kaur said generations of villagers could testify to the land being auctioned annually by the rural development department. "Even the water supply department constructed a building on an acre of this land," she added. Panchayat member Mohan Singh cited historical records, stating that in 1977, the panchayat allotted four-marla residential plots to landless families from two acres of the same land. "All documents are available in the Chandigarh office," he said. The issue surfaced when the revenue department refused permission this year to the village panchayat to auction 323 kanals of land (around 37 acres) by saying that it belonged to the waqf board. The panchayat reviewed old records and found a similar attempt to transfer the land in 1994, which was eventually nullified. Contradicting these claims, local revenue official Jagdish Bawa, who is a patwari, said the land legally belonged to the waqf board, as per the 1971 Gazette of India. He clarified that the disputed land included the site of the water supply department's building, but the plots allocated in 1977 were from separate panchayat land. He acknowledged that the 1994 transfer was indeed rejected, though he said he was unaware of the reasons behind that decision. "The panchayat has every right to file an appeal with the sub-divisional magistrate," he added. Villagers started finding ways to challenge the transfer. They have staged protests against the Punjab govt, accusing it of undermining local governance and transparency. Sources reveal that similar ownership changes in favour of the waqf board are taking place in other villages of Nabha, including Faizgarh, Saholi, and Ramgarh, intensifying the debate around land records and community rights. "We will fight a legal battle against this and if need arises we will also hold protests," said panchayat member Mohan Singh.
