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Kidnapped LKG girl found murdered, villagers protest
Jalandhar, May 13
A three-and-a half-year-old girl Muskan was found murdered on Monday morning in an open space at her village Talwandi Bhairo falling under Nakodar police station.

Agitated residents at Talwandi Bhairo and surrounding villages protesting against the ‘police inaction’ in the case. Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

Zila Parishad Poll
Fate of 245 candidates to be decided today
Kapurthala, May 13
The fate of 245 candidates trying their luck for 10 zila parishad and 87 block samities seats here will be decided on Wednesday as counting for the votes polled on Monday will be held tomorrow.

Super Bond
Majithia sees no threat to SAD-BJP alliance
Batala, May 13
The alliance between the SAD and the BJP is the kind of a permanent relationship which will continue even in the parliamentary and 2012 assembly elections.

Inter-state smugglers held with 500 gm smack
Amritsar, May 13
In a major breakthrough, the Amritsar police arrested two inter-state smugglers of smack, opium and other narcotic material and recovered 500 grams of smack from their possession. The accused, identified as Farook Mansoor and Shashi Bhushan alias Teja Singh, both hailing from Madhya Pradesh, were nabbed on a tip-off.

Lawyer fails to turn up in court, fined
Hoshiarpur, May 13
The District Consumers Forum, headed by its president P.D. Goel, has directed S.K. Sharma, an advocate of district courts, Patiala, to pay Rs 5,000 to Inderjit Singh of local Indra Colony with interest at the rate of 9 per cent per annum along with Rs 1,000 as litigation expenses.

Food poisoning: 2 die, 6 ill
Hoshiarpur, May 13
Two migrant labourers died and six others fell ill after having dinner on Monday night. The deceased have been identified as Bhag Narain Mukhia and Surat Mukhia.

Kidnapped LKG girl found murdered, villagers protest
Dharmendra Joshi
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 13
A three-and-a half-year-old girl Muskan was found murdered on Monday morning in an open space at her village Talwandi Bhairo falling under Nakodar police station. She was kidnapped when she was playing near her house on the evening of May 2.

The accused tried to bury the body but some dogs took out the body. Some of the villagers noticed the body and informed the police.

As soon as the report of the recovery of the decomposed body of Muskan spread, residents of Talwandi Bhairo and surrounding villagers gathered in Nakodar and blocked traffic by staging a dharna outside Nakodar police station for about one and a half hour after holding a protest march in the Nakodar city.

Meanwhile, talking to The Tribune, Nakodar DSP Kulwant Singh Thiara said the exact cause of the death could only be known after the autopsy report. As the body was decomposed, it was sent to Amritsar Medical College for further autopsy, he added. The police rounded up two persons on suspicion, he added.

Meanwhile, Muskan’s grandfather Bachan Singh told The Tribune that he had no suspicion on anyone as his family had no enmity with anyone.

Bachan Singh said Muskan went for playing outside her house at about 6 pm on May 2 but she never returned after that. He said they searched for her at her school at nearby Uggi village but to no avail.

Subsequently, they informed the police about the missing girl. The police registered a DDR of missing but later converted in into an FIR of kidnapping under sections 363, 363 A and 366 of the IPC. Meanwhile, after the recovery of the body, section 302 (murder) of the IPC was also included in the FIR.

Zila Parishad Poll
Fate of 245 candidates to be decided today
Dharmendra Joshi
Tribune News Service

Super Bond
Majithia sees no threat to SAD-BJP alliance
Our Correspondent

Batala, May 13
The alliance between the SAD and the BJP is the kind of a permanent relationship which will continue even in the parliamentary and 2012 assembly elections.

This was stated by public relations minister Bikramjit Singh Majithia after inaugurating a restaurant here on Tuesday.

Defending the alliance further, he went to the extent of saying that the relationship between the SAD and the BJP was like relationship between a husband and a wife. Minor differences and conflicts might arise during the course of stay but it did not mean that it would cause a break up in their relationship.

However, he evaded the question as to who was playing the role of husband in this alliance.

While attacking the Congress, the minister said it should look into its party problems rather than the survival of the alliance. He said the graph of the Congress was falling day by day as a result of which Congress workers were leaving the party in big numbers.

On the question of sharing panchayat seats in the coming elections, he said it is up to the high command to decide on this issue.

Inter-state smugglers held with 500 gm smack

They were waiting to deliver the consignment to a local drug peddler near Sangam Cinema when the police party, headed by Vavinder Kumar, SHO of Maqboolpura police station, apprehended the duo. During investigations, they revealed that they had delivered various consignments in different districts of Punjab earlier too. A case under section 22/61/85 of the NDPS Act has been registered. — OC

42 bags of poppy husk seized

Kapurthala: The police seized 42 bags of poppy husk from a truck at a checkpost on the Kapurthala-Fattudhinga road in the district on Tuesday. Senior superintendent of police Rakesh Aggarwal told mediapersons that a police party at the checkpost near Fattudhinga village intercepted a truck and on its search recovered 42 bags of poppy husk valued at Rs 20 lakh and arrested two occupants, identified as Balkar Singh and Dinesh Kumar, while their third accomplice Karnail Singh managed to flee. The police said the accused had brought the poppy husk from Madhya Pardesh for selling it in Punjab. The police has registered a case and impounded the truck. — UNI

Lawyer fails to turn up in court, fined

Food poisoning: 2 die, 6 ill

Hoshiarpur, May 13
Two migrant labourers died and six others fell ill after having dinner on Monday night. The deceased have been identified as Bhag Narain Mukhia and Surat Mukhia.

Doctors said the victims complained of nausea and stomach ache due to food poisoning. According to police sources, the victims were Nepalese and resided at Bhani Patwala village. They started vomiting after their dinner and were rushed to the Mukerian civil hospital. — OC