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Head constable arrested for ‘robbing’ migrant labourer
Jalandhar, September 12
A Punjab Police head constable landed in police custody when he allegedly made a bid to loot a migrant labourer and his family at pistol point outside the Jalandhar city railway station on Monday night.

One held for cheating
Phagwara, September 12
The Phagwara police headed by ASP, Dr Sukhchain Singh Gill, today arrested a travel agent Avtar Ram of Paddi Jagir village for cheating a Phagwara resident Sat Pal on the pretext of sending his son Gurdip Raj  abroad.

PTU college declared best B-school of region
Jalandhar, September 12
For the third consecutive time, the Punjab College of Technical Education, an affiliated college of Punjab Technical University at Ludhiana, has been ranked as the best in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan in a survey conducted by Outlook, a weekly news magazine.

Exporters seek CM’s intervention
Phagwara, September 12
Though the Union Government  has declared exports as the national priority, and the Punjab government had abolished octroi with retrospective effect from September 1, the Jalandhar Cantt octroi posts are still charging transit pass fee at the rate of Rs 40 per vehicle carrying export goods on the National Highway No 1.

Head constable arrested for ‘robbing’ migrant labourer
Varinder Singh
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, September 12
A Punjab Police head constable landed in police custody when he allegedly made a bid to loot a migrant labourer and his family at pistol point outside the Jalandhar city railway station on Monday night.

A 9 mm pistol, along with as many as seven live cartridges, was recovered from him. The head constable, identified as Onkar Nath, a

resident of Basti Khwaja locality of Hoshiarpur city, was said to be attached as a personal security officer with an important person of Jalandhar.

Onkar Nath’s three accomplices, who allegedly tried to rob Raju, a resident of Jharkhand, and his family, however, managed to escape the GRP dragnet.

The head constable was arrested by officials of the GRP when a farmer reported the matter to them and told the police that a person claiming to be a senior GRP official had robbed an amount of Rs 4500 from Raju and his family members after making them undergo ‘checking’ at pistol point.

Onkar Nath, however, denied the allegations levelled against him and alleged that there was a conspiracy against him.

A case under Sections 382, 506 of the IPC and Sections 54, 59 and 25 of the Arms Act has been registered against him.

One held for cheating

Phagwara, September 12
The Phagwara police headed by ASP, Dr Sukhchain Singh Gill, today arrested a travel agent Avtar Ram of Paddi Jagir village for cheating a Phagwara resident Sat Pal on the pretext of sending his son Gurdip Raj  abroad. He was arrested under Sections 420 and 406 of the IPC and Section 24 of the Immigration Act 

The ASP said the complainant had alleged in his complaint lodged with the police that the accused had charged Rs 3.5 lakh for sending his son  abroad on February 15, 2005. The complainant further claimed that he had given the money and the passport of his son to Ram Avtar. But since then the accused had neither sent his son abroad nor returned his amount.

The police official added that after the victim knocked the doors of the panchayat of Paddi Jagir village, the accused had returned only Rs 60,000. — TNS

PTU college declared best B-school of region
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, September 12
For the third consecutive time, the Punjab College of Technical Education (PCTE), an affiliated college of Punjab Technical University at Ludhiana, has been ranked as the best in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan in a survey conducted by Outlook, a weekly news magazine.

PCTE has been ranked 36th among the top 50 private business schools of India. The college has moved four ranks up in the list as compared to the last year when it stood on 40th rank in a survey conducted by the same magazine. In 2004, it was ranked as 44th among the top 50 B-schools of the country.

PCTE has scored 455.3 marks in the survey that was based on parameters such as intellectual capital, placement performance, industry interface, infrastructural facilities, international linkages and recruiters’ satisfaction. Dr K.N.S. Kang, director of the college, claimed that the college had been “achieving” hundred per cent placements with an average package of Rs 2.89 lakh.

Exporters seek CM’s intervention
Tribune News Service

Phagwara, September 12
Though the Union Government  has declared exports as the national priority, and the Punjab government had abolished octroi with retrospective effect from September 1, the Jalandhar Cantt octroi posts are still charging transit pass fee at the rate of Rs 40 per vehicle carrying export goods on the National Highway No 1. This was alleged by the Federation of Jalandhar Industrial and Traders’ Association leader, Mr Gursharan Singh, and Mr Ashwini Kohli,  senior vice-president, Punjab Chamber of Small Exporters, while talking with media persons here this evening.

The exporters urged the Punjab Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, to intervene in the matter to stop the “undue harassment” of the exporters. They added that this was the need of the hour.