Danger drives on 10 black spots in city, find traffic copsDeepak.Yadav@timesgroup.com

Chandigarh: Better slow down or look twice, maybe even thrice, before crossing a few light points! For, there are 10 accident-prone intersections in the city. And, these have been officially identified by the police.

A rise in the number of accidents at par-ticular roads spurred the traffic police to conduct a detailed study. The cops finally declared transport light point in Sector 26, railway light point, Shastri Nagar light point, Manimajra, airport light point, Hallomajra light point, Sector 46-47-48-49 light point, Sec-tor 45-46-49-50 light point, Sector 25-38 light point, Sector 44-45-50-51 light point and Dhanas-EWS flats crossing as risky. They have submitted the details to the engineering wing of the UT administration, asking them to make necessary arrangements.

Maneesh Chaudhary, SSP (traffic and se-curity), said, "Teams prepared the list of black spots or intersections after visiting the sites. We have submitted the list to the engi-neering wing to look into the aspect and take steps to turn them safe and secure."

Some of these intersections were found located on key roads like Madhya Marg, while a few linked Chandigarh with neigh-bouring states. Besides bikes and cars, heavy vehicles too ply on some of these roads dur-ing day and night hours.

UT chief engineer S K Chadha said, "We have received a list of the intersections. It has been sent to the Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi. Their experts will visit the spot and tell us what problems lies with these spots due to which they have turned accidental and suggest remedies."

Till June 28, the traffic police have re-ported 208 accidents in the city, out of which, 58 were fatal.

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Mohali: Two Delhi residents were killed and their friend seriously injured when their car collided with an unidentified vehicle in the wee hours of Sunday on the Kura-li highway.

The victims were Jai Raj, 35, and Dinesh Singh, 30. The sole survivor, Gurbachan Singh, 30,

sustained life-threatening inju-ries. All three were government employees in New Delhi. They had come to Kurali for settling a prop-erty-related matter, said police.

All of them were rushed to PGI, where Jai and Dinesh were de-clared brought dead.

The three friends were return-ing to Delhi when the vehicle rammed into their car. Its driver

fled. Police officials said there were no CCTV cameras at the ac-cident spot. Raj was driving the car that after the collision rolled into deep ditch before striking trees, said police.

Sources said the condition of Gurbachan Singh, who was rushed to PGI, was stabilizing. He was sitting next to the driver.

Kurali SHO Dharampal Singh

said a police team rushed to the spot and victims were taken to a nearby hospital, from where they were referred to PGI.

The police have registered a case against under sections 304A (death due to negligence), 279 (rash driving), 427 (mischief caus-ing damage) and 337 (causing hurt by act endangering life or person-al safety of others) of the IPC.

Car crash kills 2 Delhi friends in Kurali Transport, Sec 26

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Sec 44-45-50-51 2 accidents in Dhanas-EWS flats crossing and 1 at Shastri Nagar light point, Manimajra** data till June

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After a detailed study, traffic police declare city has 10 accident-prone intersections

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CRASH, BOOM, BANG: Police believe accidents can be reduced if engineering wing considers some changes on these points

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Chandigarh: A lathichargeon aggressive protesters de-manding cancellation of ademolition drive on Kachi Col-ony, Dhanas, triggered a vio-lent clash between them andthe police just outside Govern-ment Multi-specialty Hospital,Sector 16, leaving 13 persons,including children, womenand policemen, injured.

The area adjoining the hos-pital turned into a police campwhen about 200 police person-nel, including heads of all thewings and all SHOs, were sum-moned to control the protes-ters.

Inspector Uday Pal, stationhouse officer of Sector 17, andhis gunmen were chased andattacked by the men and wom-en holding slippers and bricks.

The injured included eight-year old Lavit Kumar, PreetSingh, 15, Dilip Kumar, 32, Ash-ish Kumar Pathak, 37, MamtaPathak and Sarjudhin Khanamong others.

The protest began outsidethe office of deputy commis-sioner (DC) in Sector 17 whenabout 100 persons attempted tostop official vehicles around11.30 am. The police resorted tolathicharge and fired tear gasshells to disperse the crowd,leaving about 12 protesters in-jured.

The situation took a violentturn when the injured wererushed to Government Multi-specialty Hospital, Sector 16.

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Chandigarh: Four days af-ter an incident of sexual ha-rassment was reported by aPanjab University (PU) hos-teller, students on Mondaydemanded better securityand a ban on entry of out-siders inside the PU cam-pus.

Two different groups –Students for Society (SFS)and Hindustan Students As-sociation (HSA) -- protestedagainst the incident, withthe key demand being moni-toring of vehicle movementaround the girls’ hostels oncampus.

Both groups demanded aban on entry of outside vehi-cles inside the campus, as allsuch incidents had reported

the involvement of outside-rs. “The authorities havefailed to take any strict mea-sures to counter such inci-dents. We demand immedi-ate and strictest actionagainst all the four ac-cused,” said SFS presidentArishdeep.

“The university shouldbe divided into securityzones, with different offi-cers responsible for each sothat they can respondpromptly to any complaintand nab the culprits beforethey leave the campus. Out-siders shouldn’t be allowedto enter without submittingtheir licences at the gate,which they can collect whileleaving the campus,” saidKrishn Sheoran, HSA presi-dent.

PU chief security officerJatinder Grover said vari-ous measures were beingundertaken in this regard

PU studentsdemand ban onoutsider entry

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Mohali: Though Sunday’sgas leak from a pharmaceuti-cal unit in Lalru did not doany serious harm, lack oftimely response by Mohaliadministration has put aquestion mark over its effica-cy and preparedness to han-dle similar incidents.

As hydrogen chloride(HCL) gas leaked in the areaaround 5.30 am on Sunday,people in nearby areas start-ed complaining of breath-lessness and nausea, but nohelp came from the adminis-tration. Local residents saidneither medical teams weresent nor any officials visitedthe area even hours after theincident.

There are over 30 facto-ries, mostly pharmaceuticaland chemical units, along theDerabassi-Ambala highway,and the population of nearbyvillages, including Dappar,Hasanpur and Lehli, was es-timated to be over 50,000.

Panic spread to sur-rounding areas but still therewas no response from the ad-ministration.

While most of these units

have safety equipment andstrategies in place in case ofsuch incidents, the adminis-tration was hardly prepared.

According to experts, inorder to tackle such inci-dents, quick response fromthe administration should bethe top priority. “The disas-ter management unit of anyadministration should beequipped with safety gearlike masks and suits andhave a stock of medicines forfirst aid,” they added.

Jaskaran Singh, chair-person of department of de-fence and national securitystudies, Panjab University,said, “Equipment likemasks, gloves, detectors andsufficient medical staffshould be available at alltimes. In case of a gas leak,people should first be evac-uated to a safe location. Theaim should be to minimizethe damage.”

Gas leak exposes Mohali’s preparednessSEXUAL

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The pharmaceutical factory from where hydrogen chloride gas leakednear Lalru on Sunday morning

Diljot Singh TNN

Mohali: A day after hydro-gen chloride (HCL) gas wasleaked from a pharmaceuti-cal factory in Lalru, Punjab,the industries departmentand Mohali administrationofficials said on Mondaythat an investigation intothe incident was under way.

The gas had leaked fromthe pharma unit of PunjabChemicals Crop ProtectionLtd (PCCPL) in Samleri vil-lage of Lalru.

Sucha Ram Ladhar, di-rector-cum-secretary (in-dustries and commerce),Punjab, said, “A probe intothe incident will be con-ducted, but we also need tofind out whether it was anaccident or negligence onpart of the factory.”

Mohali deputy commis-sioner TPS Sidhu said ac-

tion would be taken in caseit was a case of negligence.

“We are probing the inci-dent and also consultingtechnical experts. Actionwill be taken in case if it is acase of negligence,” he said.

According to factory of-ficials, the gas had leakeddue to a technical snag.

PCCPL vice-presidentRavinder Chandha said,“The gas leakage was con-trolled within a few min-utes and the leak was notharmful. It only caused mi-nor infection and irrita-tion.”

There were about 150workers in the factory at thetime of the incident.

Though the gas leak wasplugged within 5 minutes,residents of the nearby ar-eas continued to complainof breathlessness and nau-sea for at least two hours.

Accident ornegligence?

(Clockwise from left to right) A cop tries to control a protester after she hit him with a slipper and colony dwellers throw stones at police outside GMH-16 in Chandigarh on Monday

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Drive put off

Kaachi Colony at Dhanas has around 1,500 houses and all

occupants have electricity and water connections. Local residents argued that the land, on which the colony existed, was not under the jurisdiction of the Chandigarh administration. The administration had issued notices to colony residents for vacating their houses before the demolition drive that has now been postponed.

8 yr-old hurt

Lavit Kumar, an eight-year-old boy received stitches on his

legs , while Preet Singh received fractured his right leg. Lavit said, “I was only raising slogans when suddenly several

policemen lashed out on us. I along with other children was unnecessarily thrashed.”

Death rumours

Rumours about the death of one of the women

protestors during the lathicharge aggravated the tension. Police claimed some mischievous elements spread the false news, complicating the situation. Police officials claimed they have identified some persons who egged on the protesters and vanished when the violence broke out outside the hospital.

On June 25, two PU hostellers along with

four other friends were leaving Kasturba Hostel around 8.30 pm. A jeep parked inside the main gate of hostels 3, 4 & 6 with four people inside started turning its headlights on and off. When confronted, they are said to have turned abusive and passed offensive remarks. The girls’ car was also stalked by the guys from the hostel to Sector 15 market where they surrounded it and made obscene gestures. The complainants demanded that the complaint should go to the police through PUCASH, which has been done. The cell has now asked the police to trace the jeep and hand over all details to the university.

INCIDENT

DEMANDSComplaint from PU to police

over incident

Restricted entry for visitors’ vehicles, submission of driving licences at entry gate

No entry of outsider vehicles after office ours

No entry of any vehicle toward girls’ hostels after office hours

Division of campus into security zones, with an officer responsible for each zone

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