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Two Sarpanches among 5 held for corruption
Hoshiarpur, March 13
After a thorough inquiry, sleuths of the Vigilance Bureau today arrested Sarpanch of Sohara Kandi village, Ravinder Sharma, Sarpanch of Sohara Dadial, Madal Lal, the former Panchayat Officer and Panchayat Secretary of Block Development and Panchayat Office, Hajipur, Surinder Kumar and Pyara Ram, respectively, and contractor Anup Kumar of Mukerian under sections 409 and 120 B of the IPC, section 13 (1) (D) read with section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Remand of murder accused extended
Phagwara, March 13
Police remand of all six arrested, including two UKand Canada-based NRIs, accused of killing BJP leader Sudarshan Dhillon, has been extended.

Ganja seized from 2 women
Hoshiarpur, March 13
Acting on a tip-off, the Model Town police yesterday seized 16.2 kg ganja from two women. According to police sources, police seized 8.2 kg ganja from Babita Devi, wife of Shah Narian and 8 kg ganja from Rajni Devi, wife of Babu, both of local Sunder Nagar. Two separate cases under sections 20, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act have been registered against them.

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Two Sarpanches among 5 held for corruption
Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, March 13
After a thorough inquiry, sleuths of the Vigilance Bureau today arrested Sarpanch of Sohara Kandi village, Ravinder Sharma, Sarpanch of Sohara Dadial, Madal Lal, the former Panchayat Officer and Panchayat Secretary of Block Development and Panchayat Office, Hajipur, Surinder Kumar and Pyara Ram, respectively, and contractor Anup Kumar of Mukerian under sections 409 and 120 B of the IPC, section 13 (1) (D) read with section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

According to the Vigilance Bureau sources, contractor Anup Kumar purchased 391 khair trees of Sohara Kandi Panchayat for Rs 9 lakh and 516 of Sohara Dadial Panchayat for Rs 10.6 lakh in an auction held on May 3, 1998.

Anup Kumar deposited Rs 5.3 lakh against Rs 10.6 lakh in Sohara Dadial Panchayat and Rs 7.60 lakh against Rs 9 lakh in Sohara Kandi Panchayat and failed to deposit remaining balance. But he in connivance with the above said Sarpanchs and Panchayat Officers chopped off the entire Khair trees and sold them in the market. On receiving complaints by the inhabitants, the inquiry was conducted and all were arrested.

Remand of murder accused extended

Phagwara, March 13
Police remand of all six arrested, including two UKand Canada-based NRIs, accused of killing BJP leader Sudarshan Dhillon, has been extended.

Meanwhile, Punjab Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia today visited the house of the deceased Dhillon and gave his condolences to the family. Kalia assured that he would take up the matter with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to provide a government job to one family member and adequate compensation to the deceased's family. Kalia also said he would recommend the names of police officers for awards, appreciations and promotions. — OC

Ganja seized from 2 women

Hoshiarpur, March 13
Acting on a tip-off, the Model Town police yesterday seized 16.2 kg ganja from two women. According to police sources, police seized 8.2 kg ganja from Babita Devi, wife of Shah Narian and 8 kg ganja from Rajni Devi, wife of Babu, both of local Sunder Nagar. Two separate cases under sections 20, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act have been registered against them.

Robbery of Rs 5.25 lakh

At least four armed youths robbed a couple of Rs 5.25 lakh last night while they were alone at their house. According to police sources, four youths equipped with revolver, swords and wedges entered the house of Sodhi Singh, son of Faqir Singh of Nangal Thandal, when the latter, along with his wife was alone in their house. After mercilessly beating Sodhi Singh, they decamped with Rs 80,000 cash, one gold bangle and a Skoda car. The Mahilpur police has registered a case under sections 307, 458, 342 of the IPC and sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act in this connection and actively searching robbers.

Cash stolen from car

Two motorcycle-borne unidentified youths decamped with Rs 1.5 lakh cash from a car of Vishal Thapar, salesman of a cycle dealer Shampuri at Gali Dhobian, here today. The robbers smashed the window pane of a car and took out the money kept in a bag. Thapar had withdrawn the amount from HDFC Bank. After parking the car he had gone to meet someone. — OC

Four new police stations come up in Jalandhar
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 13
Four new police stations at Basti Bawa Khel, Rama Mandi, Bhargo Camp and Navi Baradari have been formed for effective and smooth functioning of the recently-established Jalandhar city police commissionerate.

Talking to mediapersons here today, ADCP Crime Rajpal Singh Sandhu said the four new police stations had been created as per the notifications issued by the state government on February 1.

A total of 14 police stations will fall under the jurdisction of Jalandhar police commissionerate.

The existing 10 police stations are Sadar, Jalandhar Cantonment and police stations number one to eight.

The jurisdiction of the police stations of Jalandhar police commissionerate has also been delimited.

Now DSP North Gagan Ajit Singh will look after police station numbers one, three and eight, whereas DSP Central Naresh Sharma will take care of police station two, four, Navi Baradari and Ramamandi.

Similarly, DSP West Harpreet Singh Benipal will take care of police station number five, Bhargo Camp and Basti Bawa Khel, while DSP Cantonment Paramjit Singh will look after Sadar and Cantt police stations. It is yet to be decided which DSP will take care of police station numbers six and seven.

Wadala to meet PM on corridor issue
Dharmendra Joshi/TNS

Jalandhar, March 13
A delegation of an NGO Kartarpur Ravi Beas Darshanabhilashi Sanstha will meet PM Dr. Manmohan Singh for reiterating its demand of constructing a corridor on the Indo-Pak border for facilitating Sikh pilgrims to pay obeisance at Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara. The 12-member delegation, led by NGO chairman Kuldeep Singh Walada, is expected to meet the PM in the first week of April.

The NGO has been spearheading a movement for the construction of the corridor on the border from the Dera Baba Nanak in India to Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan since 2001. It held a first ‘ardas’ (prayer) on Vaisakhi, nine years back at the Dera Baba Nanak Gurdwara for the construction of the corridor. Since then, it has been continuously organising ardas at Dera Baba Nanak every month of “Amavasya”.

The NGO would hold 109th ardas at Dera Baba Nanak on March 15, said Wadala, also a veteran Akali leader. Hoping that the corridor would soon be constructed, Wadala said Dr. Manmohan Singh had already assured to work in the direction of paving way for the corridor during his meeting with the the NGO in 2004. Pakistan had already started constructing the road leading to Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara, Wadala added.