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JCB officials accused of record tampering
Jalandhar, April 24
In what could be termed as a major blunder on part of the Jalandhar Cantonment Board (JCB) officials, that clearly indicates the shady working of the board, 
an agenda that was presented in the meeting carried only 32 items as against the 33 listed in original  agenda prepared by the authorities.

MC staffers stage dharna

Kapurthala, April 24 Employees staged a dharna in front of the office of the municipal council today to protest against the alleged misbehaviour of a DSP with some of MC employees.

MC employees stage dharna against DSP in  Kapurthala on Tuesday. A Tribune photograph

Mango Moods

With the onset of summers, the king of fruits, mango, has started arriving in the markets. Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

Man ends life
Batala, April 24
Rakesh Kumar, resident of Daoula Nangal, committed suicide by consuming celphos, said police here today.It is learnt that the victim had a quarrel with his wife, Jyoti, last night. Jyoti is working as a pharmacist at Primary Health Center, Bhuller village near Batala. They have child aged two years. Sham Dass, father of Rakesh Kumar, took him to Nayyar Hospital on the reference of civil hospital

Petrol station staff duped

Three armymen handed over to military police
Jalandhar, April 24
Railway Protection Force (RPF) at Jalandhar Cantonment railway station handed over three armymen to military police after detaining them for allegedly thrashing a co-passenger travelling in Jammu bound Swaraj Express from Mumbai, here today. The three armymen identified as Ashish Kumar, Vishram Singh and Ramesh Chander reportedly posted with Bihar Regiment in Pathankot thrashed their co-passenger Raj Kumar Rajput, who boarded the train alongwith his wife and two children at 
Bandra.

2.7 lakh looted from BJP leader’s clerk
Kapurthala, April 24
Some unidentified robbers looted Rs 2.7 lakh from BJP Kapurthala city chief Sham Sunder Agarwal’s employee Srikant near Mansoorwal village here today.

JCB officials accused of record tampering
Dharmendra Joshi
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, April 24
In what could be termed as a major blunder on part of the Jalandhar Cantonment Board (JCB) officials, that clearly indicates the shady working of the board, 
an agenda that was presented in the meeting carried only 32 items as against the 33 listed in original agenda prepared by the authorities.

Taking a serious note of the act the Jalandhar Cantonment press club has sent a complaint to the secretary of ministry of defence against CEO, Cantonment Board Sumitra Mishra and its president Brigadier 
BB Patil.

In its complaint the club has levelled serious allegations of forgery, fabrication, tampering of public records, and manipulation with view to cheat press and general public.

The agenda provided to the press (bearing number JCB/7/19/41/C) after the board’s meeting held on April 11, under the chairmanship of by its chief executive officer (CEO) Sumitra Mishra, carried 32 items as against the 33 items listed in the original agenda (bearing number JCB/7/19/ 38/C).

The Tribune has in its possession copies of both 
the agendas. The missing item that bore issue number 22 in the original list pertained to the cheating and mass copying during examinations in the Cantonment Board School for boys.

Levelling allegations of misguiding the media and public at large, general secretary of press club of the board, Ravinder Singh Sabharwal, told The Tribune that the aforesaid issue was deliberately concealed from the press.

Sabharwal said that the board officials had intentionally done so in order to prevent the issue of mass copying during examinations from getting published in the news papers and to avoid any any action against the school principal SC Arora.

When contacted, the president of Cantonment Board, BB Patil asked to talk about theis matter to the CEO as she would provide the official information.

However when CEO was contacted at her residential number, she refused to say anything about the missing of item number 22 in the agenda provided to the press. All she could say was “this is my residential number and for any official matter call me on my office number at 3.30 pm”.

When called upon at the given time an employee of the board, Sham Sunder said that Madam was not available.

Meanwhile, the complainants have also requested to register an FIR against Mishra, Patil and other erring officers for tampering with the public records.

MC staffers stage dharna
Tribune News Service

Kapurthala, April 24
Employees staged a dharna in front of the office of the municipal council today to protest against the alleged misbehaviour of a DSP with some of MC employees.

The dharna started in the morning and continued till afternoon.

The MC employees agreed to lift the dharna only when the DSP publicly apologised for his alleged misbehaviour.

Man ends life
Our Correspondent

Batala, April 24
Rakesh Kumar, resident of Daoula Nangal, committed suicide by consuming celphos, said police here today.

It is learnt that the victim had a quarrel with his wife, Jyoti, last night. Jyoti is working as a pharmacist at Primary Health Center, Bhuller village near Batala. They have child aged two years. Sham Dass, father of Rakesh Kumar, took him to Nayyar Hospital on the reference of civil hospital.

Postmortem of the body was conducted today at civil hospital and funeral took place in the evening at Purian Cremation ground, Batala. The police have registered a case under Section 306 of the IPC.

Petrol station staff duped
Tribune News Service

Kapurthala, April 24
Two persons travelling in a car bearing Ludhiana registration number gave two Rs 500 fake currency notes at a Reliance petrol station locate on the Sultanpur Lodhi road. SHO Sukhwinder Singh said the features of the two persons matched with those of robbers who had looted a man on Kala Sanghia road.

Three armymen handed over to military police
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, April 24
Railway Protection Force (RPF) at Jalandhar Cantonment railway station handed over three armymen to military police after detaining them for allegedly thrashing a co-passenger travelling in Jammu bound Swaraj Express from Mumbai, here today. The three armymen identified as Ashish Kumar, Vishram Singh and Ramesh Chander reportedly posted with Bihar Regiment in Pathankot thrashed their co-passenger Raj Kumar Rajput, who boarded the train alongwith his wife and two children at 
Bandra.

A heated argument over seat started between them at Kota, which allegedly resulted in thrashing. Rajput also alleged that the armymen threatened to throw him out of the running train.

2.7 lakh looted from BJP leader’s clerk
Tribune News Service

Kapurthala, April 24
Some unidentified robbers looted Rs 2.7 lakh from BJP Kapurthala city chief Sham Sunder Agarwal’s employee Srikant near Mansoorwal village here today.

Srikant was coming from Phagwara on a motorcycle to Kapurthala after withdrawing the amount from a Punjab National Bank branch.

When he reached near Mansoorwal village, the robbers chasing him in a car snatched the bag containing the amount and fled from the spot. SSP Rakesh Agarwal along with other police officers reached the spot. The number of the car is found to be a fake one, he said adding, several nakas had been laid at different place around the spot and hoped that the robbers would soon be nabbed and put behind bars.