Hoshiarpur
CASE REGISTERED: The Tanda police has registered a case under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC against travel agents Ghasita Singh of Daburji, Kuldip Singh of Vishnu Garden Delhi and Satnam Singh of Talwandi Chaudhrian for cheating Shingara Singh of Pul Pukhta and Mohinder Singh of Bains Awan of Rs 13.50 lakh. Shingara Singh told the police that Satnam Singh took Rs. 7.25 lakh from him for sending his son to Canada. The travel agents also took Rs 6.25 lakh from Mohinder Singh for sending his son abroad.

SEVADAR MURDERED: Some unidentified assailants killed gurdwara sevadar Jagjit Singh (55) by hitting bricks on his head at the Gurdwara in Rara village on Saturday night. Later, they threw his body outside the boundary wall of the gurdwara. They broke open the locks of rooms and stole the cash in the gurdwara. The police has started investigations.

Pathankot
Two booked: The Shahpur Kandi police has booked two persons on the charge of abducting a minor Dalit girl of Basa village. The girl’s mother told the police that on returning from her relatives house on the evening of June 17, she found her elder daughter missing from home. She accused Jeevan Singh of Sahrti village and Jarnail Singh of Gunera village of abducting her daughter.

CASE REGISTERED: The Shahpur Kandi police on Sunday registered a case against two persons, including a factory owner, for negligence leading to the death of two persons during the construction of a building. The accused were arrested and later released on bail.

Phagwara
One killed: Man-mohan Singh of Rajasansi in Amritsar district ,died on the spot when a bus in which a marriage party was travelling from Mangoowal village in Nawanshahr district met with an accident near Bahua-Bahar Majara village on the Phagwara-Banga road on Sunday right. Twentyfive members of the marriage party were injured. The occupants of the car, which was involved in the accident were also injured.

Tributes paid: Tributes were paid to the octogenarian NRI philanthropist Lakha Singh Bahra, the Founder-chairman of Bahra Charitable Trust and Partap Singh Bahra Charitable Hospital, at Chachoki village, here on Sunday evening. Bahra’s services to rural medicare and needy, meritorious students were lauded by speakers.It was stated that the Trust had so far given “merit-cum-means” scholarships to about 1,300 students of various Ramgarhia institutions.

Samrala
Office-bearers: The following have been elected office-bearers of the Rimpy Memorial Sports Club, Mehdoodan: president — Mr Tehal Singh Gurm; vice-president — Mr Satwant Singh; secretary — Mr Sapinder Singh; general secretary — Mr Randhir Singh; finance secretary — Mr Balwinder Singh; ground in charge — Mr Manwinder Singh; storekeeper — Mr Gurpreet Singh. Mr Jagroop Singh, Mr Raijit Singh, Mr Avtar Singh and Mr Randhir Singh are the executive members of the club.

dead: Akali leader and former Panchayat Secretary Baldev Singh Grewal (56) died following a heart attack at his native town Machhiwara on Sunday.

Car recovered: The police arrested Birbal, alias Billu, of Machhiwara and Om Parkash of Sarabha Nagar Ludhiana at a check-post near Sherpur village on Sunday evening and recovered a stolen car (DL-ICB-6050) from their possession. The third accused, however, managed to run away.

SENIOR CITIZENS: The local (MP), Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, on Monday assured senior citizens that he would persuade the government to adopt policies that would ensure “high levels of returns for their life-long savings invested in different institutions”. Addressing a gathering, the MP added that the services of senior citizens would be usefully availed by involving them in ward committees and other social activities. The MP was felicitated by the senior citizens’ wing of the Servants of the People Society at a function organised at Lajpat Rai Bhavan in Sector 15.