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Short Supply PM urged to raise Kartarpur corridor issue at Indo-Pak meet
Heroin worth Rs 60 cr seized; 2 held
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Notorious smuggler nabbed
3.5 lakh looted in broad daylight
3 snatchers arrested
Acid attack on 2 women
Car-jackers’ gang busted
Gujjars block traffic for over 2 hrs
Arrangements in place for MC poll
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Short Supply
Jalandhar, June 2 The oil companies are not releasing diesel as per the requirement and just 40 per cent of the total order was being supplied, the owner of a Bharat Petroleum petrol station said on condition on anonymity. The condition of petrol stations of Hindustan Petroleum was more worse as they were not getting even the 40 per cent of their requirement, he said, adding that the Indian Oil Corporation, the main supplier of diesel, had restricted supply through its pipelines which created shortage of diesel. The Indian Oil Corporation was interested in continuing its supply to its own dealers by putting a cut on the supplies to other oil companies, he alleged, claiming that 45 per cent of petrol outlets on the outskirts of the city went dry and even inside the city also the situation was not better. Several attempts were made to contact Bharat Petroleum manager Rajinder Kumar to know the exact cause of the shortage of diesel, but he was not available for his comments. — PTI
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PM urged to raise Kartarpur corridor issue at
Jalandhar, June 2 “We are disappointed that in spite of the repeated requests Mukherjee had not raised the corridor issue during his recent visit to the neighbouring country,” Wadala complained, adding that very soon a delegation led by him would meet the Prime Minister and the external affairs minister to apprise them of the sanctity of the issue and urge them to include it for the forthcoming meeting. Wadala, under whose leadership a group of devotees would perform the 88th “ardas” at Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district tomorrow, claimed that the Pakistan authorities were always sympathetic to the demand of devotees regarding corridor and if the Union government seriously took up the issue at the meeting, positive results on the issue could be obtained. Wadala revealed that Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal also raised the issue seriously with the Prime Minister during his recent meeting with the latter. While hailing the Prime Minister’s recent announcement that three buses from Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan would be operational soon, Wadala alleged that the UPA government had indulged in discrimination against the Sikhs as in spite of repeated requests, no new announcement was made regarding increase in the fleet of buses for the historic gurdwaras in Pakistan. Even the Minority Commission did not take up the issues of the Sikhs and always pleaded for the Muslims, he alleged. — PTI
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Heroin worth Rs 60 cr seized; 2 held
Amritsar, June 2 The consignment was to be delivered to an unknown person near the Chandigarh bus stand but the accused were nabbed during the routine checking of vehicles. The accused were identified as Ranjit Singh (23) and Shamsher Singh (24) of Muhawa and Paropal villages, respectively. The accused were in a white Maruti Car without number. A case under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act has been registered at Lopoke police station against them. Iqbal Singh, SSP Amritsar rural police district, disclosed that the two accused used to deliver the consignment @ Rs 50,000 per packet. The police recovered 12 such packets concealed in two bags from them. He said the unknown person, to which they had to deliver the consignment, was to arrive in a vehicle with sticker numbering 307 and would have worn a black trouser and white shirt. The accused had earlier too on number of occasions smuggled the narcotics, said the SSP. Iqbal Singh said Ranjit jumped into the illegal trade after his father Dilbagh Singh was caught by narcotics branch with 300 grams heroin. He is currently lodged in Amritsar Central Jail. Since Ranjit’s father was the sole bread-winner of the family, the former had no other option but to enter drug trade. Similarly, Shamsher Singh belonged to a poor family and he found the ‘narcotics business’ a lucrative option, the SSP added.
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Notorious smuggler nabbed
Amritsar, June 2 During investigations it was found that he had brought the consignment from Kangra district of Himachal
Pradesh. A case under sections 20, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act has been registered against him. The police said the accused was arrested near Hussainpura Chowk by the CIA staff after a tip-off when he was coming from the Shivala Phatak side. Earlier too he was arrested on similar charges and the cases are pending in court. Meanwhile, 120 gm of opium was seized from Dilbagh Singh of Patti Behniwal. He was nabbed from Sultanwind village. |
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3.5 lakh looted in broad daylight
Batala, June 2 Sandeep and his cousin Kartar Singh
withdrew Rs 3.5 lakh from the G.T. Road branch of Allahabad Bank to purchase a tractor from the nearby Mahindra Tractors Agency. Both of them started for the tractor agency on their motorcycle with Sandeep riding pillion with the cash. At about 1.30 pm, six clean-shaven persons on three motorcycles encircled them and snatched the cash from Sandeep by putting a pistol on this chest. The dacoits
escaped on their motorcycles and also took away with them the keys of Sandeep’s motorcycle. After coming to know about the dacoity, SSP Naresh Arora along with other senior police officers reached the spot and took stock of the situation. A case has been registered. |
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3 snatchers arrested
Batala, June 2 This was stated by Dr Naresh Arora, chief of Batala police district, while he was talking to mediapersons here today. Rajinder was coming from Sant Mahavir Singh High School, Langerwal on a rickshaw with Minakshi, a teacher at the school, when three youths came on a motorcycle (PB-18H-9589) and snatched her hand bag containing Rs 8,500 and a Nokia mobile. A case has been registered at the Civil Line police station, Batala. The accused - Karamjit Singh of Sekhwan, Balwinder Singh of Sekhwan and Rana of Sekhwan Patti Nagra - were arrested on Sunday and the cash Rs 8,500, mobile phone and hand bag were recovered from them. Dr Arora further disclosed that during interrogation they confessed that they had also snatched a gold chain from a lady at Ranjit Nagar, Qadian and a gold chain from a lady at Urban Estate, Batala. They had also stolen a cycle near Shekwan village, a hand bag containing Rs 2,700 and a mobile phone at Kahnuwan Chowk, Gurdaspur.
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Acid attack on 2 women
Jalandhar, June 2 The victims in their police statement said a youth threw two glassful of acid on them at a deserted place and ran away. The victims have been identified as Jasbir Kaur and her mother Harbhajan
Kaur. While the victims were admitted in a private hospital, the police has registered a case of attempt to murder. |
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Car-jackers’ gang busted
Jalandhar, June 2 In a press note issued here today, SSP Arpit Shukla stated that on specific information from in charge of special staff sub-inspector Angrej Singh, a special naka was put up near octroi barrier 1 on the Jalandhar-Nakodar road on May 29. A case was registered under sections 379, 411 and 420 of the IPC at Nakodar police station on May 23, the SSP added. An Indica car was signalled to stop at the
naka. When the car-borne youths were questioned, it came to light that the car had been stolen some time back. The two youths, Gurmel Singh, alias Kala, and Gurmeet Singh of Amritsar, were arrested on the spot. During the investigation of the case, three of their accomplices, Jasvir Singh of Maqsoodan in Jalandhar, Nishan Singh of Jandiala Guru in Amritsar and Jaswant Singh of Patiala, were also nabbed. Shukla said 18 cars - 15 Marutis, an Indica and two Scorpios - were recovered from the car lifters’ possession. The car lifters used to steal cars from big cities and used to sell them after preparing fake documents. |
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Gujjars block traffic for over 2 hrs
Hoshiarpur, June 2 They were agitating to support the quota demand of the Gujjar community in Rajasthan. The activists staged dharna and blocked traffic for about half an hour on the Banga road. They burnt the effigy of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. Later, they took out a protest march in the town to the PWD Rest House and staged dharna blocking traffic for more than two hours. The speakers condemned the BJP government in Rajasthan for not providing the ST status to Gujjars which was promised to them during the last assembly elections. Condemning the police action of killing 63 Gujjars in Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, they demanded a CBI inquiry and strict action against
the guilty. “Every Indian citizen has the right to demonstrate and protest peacefully against injustice to them. The Gujjars were also doing so just to get ST status for their community on the pattern of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir,”
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Arrangements in place for MC poll
Hoshiarpur, June 2 This was revealed by deputy commissioner-cum-district electoral officer N.K. Wadhawan. He said 14 polling stations had been set up in 13 wards of Garhshankar, whereas there were 93 booths for 31 wards in Hoshiarpur. Similarly, 11 booths each in Hariana and Garhdiwala, nine booths in Shamchaurasi, 13 in Tanda, 15 in Dasuya and 17 booths in Mukerian were set up. He said candidates could file their nominations from June 12 to 17 and scrutiny would be on June 19.
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