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6-month-old kidnapped child rescued
Ministerial staff’s strike on July 14, 15
Leaders, villagers oppose setting up of distillery
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Smuggler held with heroin, fake currency
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6-month-old kidnapped child rescued
Amritsar, July 11 Sukhdip Kaur, resident of Gali Uttamgarh of the locality, had complained to the police that about 25-year-old Hindu youth, who identified himself as her cousin, called her up on the phone and said her mother and aunt had come to meet her and they were standing at Baba Bhori Wala Chowk. She alleged that as soon as she arrived at the chowk, the youth snatched her baby and fled in an auto-rickshaw. A case under Sections 364 and 120-B of the IPC was registered. Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Police Satpal Joshi said as soon as the C-Division police station received the information it swung into action and traced the phone call. It turned out to be a PCO number. As per the description of a woman and a youth given by the PCO owner, the investigation team zeroed in on Hardish Kaur, who is a cousin of complainant Sukhdip Kaur. The youth was identified as Rajbir Singh. While detailing the case, the investigation officer, Manjit Singh, SHO C-Division police station, revealed that Hardish Kaur, a widow, had entered into a “contract marriage” with one Balbir Singh, an already married man. The basis of the contract was that she would bear him a child, as Balbir did not have any child from his first marriage. After staying with Hardish for three months Balbir had to go to Gujarat due to his professional commitments. Meanwhile, Balbir lied to him that she was pregnant. Manjit Singh said when Balbir returned after one year he demanded his child from Hardish. To avoid any confrontation, she kidnapped Tanvir to give him to Balbir. “Since the kidnapping, her phone had been switched off. After four days when her mobile phone was switched on, the police investigating team tracked her location and found her near Beas last evening,” revealed the ADCP. The police handed over the rescued child to his family.
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Ministerial staff’s strike on July 14, 15
Jalandhar, July 11 A massive dharna would be held in Chandigarh on July 20 in which the ministerial staff from across the state would take part. Acting president of the union Sukhjit Singh said they had earlier called off the strike on an assurance by the state government in this regard. “The government has again adopted dilly-dallying tactics, which would not be accepted and tolerated by the ministerial staff,” he added. He said earlier Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had agreed to announce a Rs 100-crore package for the ministerial staff during a meeting held on January 12 this year. “Instead of giving the Rs 100-crore package we were given a minimal allowance. This time the government will have to fulfil our demands and we will hold a statewide protest,” he added. |
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Leaders, villagers oppose setting up of distillery
Nawanshahr, July 11 Congress leaders, including Chaudhary R.P.Singh, Rajwinder Singh Lucky, Surjit Singh Bhatia and Prem Chand Bheema, raised slogans against the state government for the move to set up a distillery there to appease a senior SAD leader’s son. Terming the “public hearing for environment clearance” as merely a drama, the Congress leaders said the Punjab Pollution Control Board had not made the people aware of it by making announcements in the area through the public address system or pasting public notices at public places. Chief Parliamentary Secretary Chaudhary Nand Lal, Chairman, Zila Parishad, Darshan Lal Mangupur and SAD leader Chaudhary Bimal Kumar also opposed the proposed setting up of the distillery there. Political, social and religious leaders, while echoing their objections, virtually in one voice, said the proposed setting up of a distillery would not only be an environmental hazard for the area, but also hurt the sentiments of the devotees of the Bhuriwale sect as their “Supreme Dham” (place of worship) was situated quite near the proposed site of the distillery. “Besides the religious place of the Bhuriwale sect, which devotees from different parts of the country as well as from abroad visit to pay their obeisance, a number of educational institutions are also situated near the proposed site,” said Tirath Ram Bhumbla of the Maharaj Brahmanand Bhuriwale Education Trust. The irate leaders demanded the copy of the technical report from the officials of the Punjab Pollution Control Board so that they could submit their objections properly after studying the report. “If anyone wants to set up an industry there, they have no objection rather they would extend their cooperation, but the move to set up a distillery at the proposed site would be opposed tooth and nail,” said the leaders and the residents of nearby villages, while adding that they would not hesitate to launch a stir against it, if the state government went ahead for setting up the distillery.
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Smuggler held with heroin, fake currency
Amritsar, July 11 4 booked for snatching jeep
Hoshiarpur: Four unidentified persons snatched a Balero jeep (HP-57-2027), Rs 2,500 and a mobile phone from Sudesh Kumar of Nurpur, Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, last night. According to police sources, Sudesh Kumar was coming to Hoshiarpur in the Bolero, loaded with mangoes. A tyre of the vehicle got punctured near PSPCL office, Hariana. After changing the tyre of the jeep, as he got up to leave, the four youths in an Indica car appeared before him. After taking hold of his jeep, two of them bundled him into their car and took him to Adda Bikhowal. After snatching Rs 2,500 and his mobile phone, they left him there and fled in the vehicles. The Hariana police has registered a case under Section 382 of the IPC. Man held with 70 kg poppy husk
Nawanshahr: Dr Narinder Bhargav, SSP, in a press note issued here on Monday said the Banga police during a naka near Mallupota village arrested a drug trafficker, Sucha Ram, alias Raja, resident of Lakhpur village and seized 70 kg of poppy husk from him. His brother Avtar Ram, however, managed to escape. The police had registered a case. Illicit liquor seized
Hoshiarpur: During a naka at Dasuya town, a police party on Thursday night intercepted a scooter and seized 75 litres of illicit liquor from it. The occupant of the scooter, who has yet to be identified, fled under the cover of darkness after leaving the vehicle behind. A case under Sections 61, 1 and 14 of the Excise Act has been registered at the Dasuya police station. Woman kills self, husband held
Hoshiarpur: Following her regular torture and maltreatment by her husband and mother-in-law for bringing more dowry, a young housewife committed suicide by consuming poison at Khera village on Thursday. According to police sources, Sukhwinder Kaur of Attowal stated that her daughter Jagdip Kaur was married to Lubhaya Ram of Khera on January 14, 2010. Soon after the marriage Jagdip Kaur’s husband Lubhaya Ram and mother-in-law Ram Piari used to torture and maltreat her daughter for dowry. Under frustration her daughter consumed poison and died. The Mehtiana police has booked Lubhaya Ram and Ram Piari under Sections 306 and 34 of the IPC and arrested Lubhaya Ram. |
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With the arrest of two persons, the city police has solved the kidnapping case of six-month-old child Tanvir from Baba Bhori Wala Chowk on July 6.
