Chandigarh, Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer K.P. Singh on Friday assumed charge as Director General of Police (DGP) in Haryana.

Singh replaces B.S. Sandhu, whose extended term ended on Thursday.

Chandigarh, Establishing it grip on state politics just ahead of the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, Haryana's ruling BJP won the Jind Assembly seat in a multi-cornered contest on Thursday by 12,935 votes.

BJP candidate Krishan Lal Middha was declared elected after getting 50,566 votes. The winner will have a tenure of only nine months before the next Assembly polls.

This is the first time the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged the Jind assembly seat, making a new beginning in this "Jat" land seat.

Jind Haryana's Jind Assembly seat's multi-cornered by-election registered an over 50 per cent voter turnout by 2 p.m. on Monday, officials said.

The bye-election was necessitated after the death of INLD legislator Hari Chand Middha in August 2018.

There was no untoward incident anywhere in the constituency, District Electoral Officer Amit Khatri told reporters here.

Jind As the electorate in Haryana's Jind Assembly constituency gets ready to vote on Monday in a crucial by-election, they will not only be electing their legislator but also giving an indication about the coming Lok Sabha and assembly elections in the state.

Out of the 1.7 lakh registered voters, Jind constituency has a substantial vote of the Scheduled Castes and backward classes (around 50 per cent) and Jats (around 25 per cent).

Chandigarh, Campaigning for the Jind assembly constituency by-election ended on Saturday evening.

Voting will take place on Monday (January 28) and the result will be declared on Thursday (January 31).

On the last day of the campaigning, all four major political parties held rallies for the one final push with voters before the pollls. Only door-to-door campaigning will be allowed till Sunday evening.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal campaigned for Digvijay Chautala, the candidate of the newly formed Jannayak Janta Party (JJP).

Chandigarh, Haryana INLD legislator Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, passed away on Saturday at the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) after battling cancer for the last few months.

Sandhu, 63, was elected on the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) ticket from the Pehowa assembly seat in the October 2014 assembly elections.

Gurugram Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesady announced 'Shaurya Award' to students in the name of 71 personnel of the state police force who laid down their lives while protecting society and maintaining law and order in the state.

Under this award, a prize money of Rs 11,000 in memory of a police martyr will be given to a student for courageous deeds every year in a village block where the school is located and where a martyr studied during his childhood.

Chandigarh, A special CBI court in Haryana's Panchkula town on Friday convicted Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh for the murder of Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati.

Three others, who were close aides of the sect chief, were also convicted by the court.

Krishan Lal, Kuldeep and Nirmal, who were present in the court, were immediately taken into custody by the police and shifted to the Ambala jail.

Panchkula The son of Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chandra Chhatrapati, who was murdered by aides of convicted Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in 2002, on Friday demanded capital punishment for the disgraced self-styled godman.

After a special CBI court here convicted Ram Rahim and three others in the murder case of the journalist, his son Anshul Chhatrapati told media: "Such a man is not fit to live in our society. We demand that he should be given capital punishment."

Chandigarh, In a relief to former Haryana Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday stayed the report of the Justice Dhingra Commission of Inquiry into the land scam in Gurugram.

A division bench, which saw the sealed copy of the report, said that the Commission's report could not be implemented as such.