Man arrested for having unnatural sex with wife
Nakodar, November 19
The police has arrested a resident of Dheena village for allegedly having unnatural sex with his wife. The police has also booked his mother and brother for criminal intimidation and dowry torture. In her complaint to the police, Ajrina, a resident of Sharkpur village, said she got married to Robet last month and her parents also gave dowry according to their financial reach.

roadways employee’s murder
Police still groping in dark
Jalandhar, November 19
Even over a week, the city police has failed to make any headway in the Pritam Singh murder case. Though the police claims that the recovery of a motorcycle and the details of telephone calls of the deceased have helped them get some clues, they are still groping the dark.

Fails to nab murder convict
Kapurthala, November 19
The police has failed to make any headway in arresting the murder convict who escaped from the high-security modern jail at Theh Kanjla. The murder convict, Karan alias Ghuba, of a village in Ludhiana had escaped from the jail on November 11.

All's well that ends well Jalandhar, November 19 A day after the spat between Chairman of Jalandhar Improvement Trust (JIT) Baljit Singh Neelamahal and Mayor Rakesh Rathour, the duo met at the Mayor's house projecting their cordial terms before the media and the public. Friends again! Chairman of Jalandhar Improvement Trust Baljit Singh Neelamahal and Mayor Rakesh Rathour hug each other in Jalandhar on Saturday. Tribune photo: Sarabjit Singh

Class XII student assaulted, 10 booked
Jalandhar, November 19
The police has booked 10 youths for assaulting a Khalsa College student this afternoon who sustained injuries on his head and limbs. The clash took place between the students outside the Khalsa College where a group of 10 youths arrived and started beating up a Class XII student, Gurvinder Singh.

Rs 25,000 reward on city-based criminal
Jalandhar, November 19
The Delhi Police has announced a reward of Rs 25,000 on a city-based person, who is wanted in various cheating and forgery cases. The accused has been identified as Amandeep Singh, alias Navdeep Singh, a resident of Basti Mithu locality of the city. The information in this regard has been put on a notice board of the New Baradari police station of the city.

Students showcase their technical skills Jalandhar, November 19 More than 20 technical and 25 non-technical events were held on the first day of tech fest - Gyan Manthan - at Lovely Professional University (LPU) today. Some of the competitions included pragya parnali, Vishva Karma, chakravew, sangram, karyashala, multiple choice questions round, ashwamegha, bizzwizz, prashnotri, sanjeevni, L.E.S.T, saras and others.

Girls participate in a fun game during the tech fest at the LPU on Saturday. Tribune photo: Sarabjit Singh

A student displays stunts on his bike; and (right) students enjoy go-karting during Gyan Manthan at the LPU on Saturday. Tribune photos: Sarabjit Singh

EVMs trail run begins
Jalandhar November 19
Ahead of assembly polls, the trail run on electronic voting machines (EVM) began today in the city. Representatives of various political parties visited to have a look at the machines. The Election Commission of India have sent around 2,200 EVMs for the district where the EVM engineers have been conducting trail run on the machines at Women’s Polytechnic College.

City police gets ready to check drunk driving
Jalandhar, November 19
The RS 10 Road Safety Project was formally announced at the Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences here yesterday. India is among 10 countries where the United nations, along with consortium partners, is implementing the Road Safety Project (RS 10) to reduce death and disability through road traffic injury prevention projects.

Man arrested for having unnatural sex with wife
Victim's in-laws booked for criminal intimidation, dowry torture
Nikhil Bhardwaj

Nakodar, November 19
The police has arrested a resident of Dheena village for allegedly having unnatural sex with his wife. The police has also booked his mother and brother for criminal intimidation and dowry torture. In her complaint to the police, Ajrina, a resident of Sharkpur village, said she got married to Robet last month and her parents also gave dowry according to their financial reach.

Ajrina alleged that since the day of her marriage, her husband had been forcing her for unnatural sex and was making forcible physical relations with her. When she objected to it, she was physically and mentally tortured by her in-laws. "I even complained to my mother-in-law about my husband's abusive sexual practices, but she ignored saying that her son was a foreigner and he was habitual to these practices," Ajrina alleged.

The complainant alleged that her brother-in-law, Michael, also passed sexual remarks at her and many times tried to rape her in the presence of her mother-in-law, Agness, and her husband, but nobody objected to it.

She told the police that a few days ago, her husband and her mother-in-law took her to Jaipur and booked a room at a five-star hotel. "When I entered in the hotel room, a stranger was already present in the room and he made forcible physical relations with me. I told my mother-in-law about it, but she ignored," the complainant alleged.

The victim alleged that she was being tortured by her in-laws who were demanding Rs 5 lakh as dowry.

SHO Surinderpal said a case under Sections of 376 (2), 377, 511, 498-A and 120-B of the IPC has been registered against the victim's husband, her brother-in-law and her mother-in-law. Two accused have already been arrested while the mother-in-law is still at large, the SHO said raids were on the nab her.

roadways employee’s murder
Police still groping in dark
Bipin Bhardwaj
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, November 19
Even over a week, the city police has failed to make any headway in the Pritam Singh murder case. Though the police claims that the recovery of a motorcycle and the details of telephone calls of the deceased have helped them get some clues, they are still groping the dark.

Sources in the police, however, revealed that the immoral turpitude of the deceased is said to be the cause of his murder.

RK Sharma, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (City-I), revealed that during investigations, it has come to fore that Pritam Singh was a habitual drinker and used to call women to his government accommodation.

The ADCP also said that findings showed that the victim had been calling girls to his place, which was objected by his neighbours.

The police has also got the details of telephone calls that he made the day he was found murdered and some persons have also been questioned in this regard, Sharma added: “We are also working on various other theories to crack the case,” he added.

Employed with the Punjab Roadways as senior assistant at Jalandhar Division No-I, Pritam Singh was found murdered in his official accommodation at Chhoti Baradari on November 11.

His body was found on a cot with slit windpipe and stab marks on his neck. He was looking after the bus pass counter of the roadways at Inter State Bus Terminus, Jalandhar. The murder came to light when some girl students reached his place for getting their monthly bus passes signed.

A case under Sections 302 of the IPC was registered against unidentified assailants at the New Baradari police station.

He was a habitual drinker

During investigations, it came to fore that Pritam Singh was a habitual drinker and used to call women at his government accommodation. The findings showed that the victim had been calling girls at his place, which was objected by his neighbours.

— RK Sharma, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (City-I)

Fails to nab murder convict
Dharmendra Joshi
Tribune News Service

Kapurthala, November 19
The police has failed to make any headway in arresting the murder convict who escaped from the high-security modern jail at Theh Kanjla. The murder convict, Karan alias Ghuba, of a village in Ludhiana had escaped from the jail on November 11.

DSP Kulwant Singh Heer said raids had been conducted at various possible hideouts of the escaped convict but to no avail. However, he expressed hope that the police would solve the case and arrest the convict soon.

Kotwali SHO inspector Bhupinder Singh said the district police had written to jail authorities to provide CCTV footage to make a breakthrough in the case.

Jail authorities were of the view that the convict might have escaped on Friday under the guise of a labourer as some construction work was on in a portion of the jail and several labourers are working there. They tried to find him at their own on Friday.

When jail officials lost every hope of finding the prisoner on their own, a complaint was submitted to the Kotwali police station of Kapurthala by Deputy Jail Superintendent KS Teji and an FIR was registered on Saturday.

Karan was lodged in the Jalandhar Central Jail located near Basti Adda from where he along with other prisoners was shifted to the modern jail in Kapurthala a few weeks ago. He had killed a person in the area falling under the Jalandhar cantonment police station. An FIR was also registered against him two years ago at the Jalandhar Cantonment police station. A city court sentenced him to life term and he was undergoing the sentence at the jail.

Inaugurated by the CM just nine days ago on November 3, the modern jail was termed at that time as one of the high-security jails of the country.

All's well that ends well
JIT Chairman gives cheque for Rs 5 crore to Mayor
Deepkamal Kaur
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, November 19
A day after the spat between Chairman of Jalandhar Improvement Trust (JIT) Baljit Singh Neelamahal and Mayor Rakesh Rathour, the duo met at the Mayor's house projecting their cordial terms before the media and the public. The former also presented two cheques to the latter of the total amount of Rs 5 crore for executing various development works in the city.

The duo hugged each other and got their pictures clicked. Councillor-cum-trustee Shiv Dyal Chugh, who represents both the local bodies was also present.

Even as the JIT Chairman and the Mayor claimed that there were no differences between the two, they openly discussed quite a few issues on which they differed. The Mayor maintained his stand that he should have got at least Rs 10 crore at one go for there was no time left for assembly elections.

"An amount of Rs 5 crore is still being withheld as you want to use it yourself for works in illegal colonies in the city. Why is this money being blocked when the contractors do not have to be paid before eight months or till their work is over?" the Mayor questioned.

Neelamahal wanted to cover it up all as he laughed and said, "You are talking of Rs 5 crore, we will give you Rs 50 crore. Since morning, I have been getting calls from people as well as my top bosses. I do not want to take the matter further." He claimed that he was in a hurry and left soon after sipping a cup of tea.

Class XII student assaulted, 10 booked
Our Correspondent

Jalandhar, November 19
The police has booked 10 youths for assaulting a Khalsa College student this afternoon who sustained injuries on his head and limbs. The clash took place between the students outside the Khalsa College where a group of 10 youths arrived and started beating up a Class XII student, Gurvinder Singh.

The SHO of New Baradari police station said the victim has been able to identify one accused, Ravi, and the remaining nine were still to be identified.

The victim told to the police that he had no enmity with the assailants.

Rs 25,000 reward on city-based criminal
Our Correspondent

Jalandhar, November 19
The Delhi Police has announced a reward of Rs 25,000 on a city-based person, who is wanted in various cheating and forgery cases. The accused has been identified as Amandeep Singh, alias Navdeep Singh, a resident of Basti Mithu locality of the city. The information in this regard has been put on a notice board of the New Baradari police station of the city.

A case under Sections 420, 68 and 71 of the Indian Penal Code and 12 of the Passport Act has been registered against him at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi. The accused has been absconding since November 2010.

The Station House Officer (SHO) of the New Baradari police station said: “The accused is wanted by the Delhi Police in various criminal cases. We they have put details of the accused on the notice board on the request of the Delhi Police authorities as the accused is a resident of the city.”

Students showcase their technical skills
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, November 19
More than 20 technical and 25 non-technical events were held on the first day of tech fest - Gyan Manthan - at Lovely Professional University (LPU) today. Some of the competitions included pragya parnali, Vishva Karma, chakravew, sangram, karyashala, multiple choice questions round, ashwamegha, bizzwizz, prashnotri, sanjeevni, L.E.S.T, saras and others.

To uphold the "Go Green" philosophy, a special area as "Harit Gram (Green Village)" was developed for green events like Aaveden, Jal Shodhan, Jeevan Sanchay, Urja Yantra and Paristhik Shahar in which the students put up their projects related to energy saving and use of renewable energy sources.

There were interesting events like aquaholic, where students competed with their before-hand programmed aquatic-robots. Also there was the foot-loose-the dance at sunken stage for enjoyment and fun. Along with these, there were many stalls of attraction concerning games, recreation, eatables etc.

To add to the grandeur, a great performance of world famous Euphoria Band has also been scheduled on the concluding day for more than four hours to uplift the techno-minded students to the transcendental ecstasy, said pro-chancellor Rashmi Mittal.

EVMs trail run begins
Braille feature incorporated
Our Correspondent

Jalandhar November 19
Ahead of assembly polls, the trail run on electronic voting machines (EVM) began today in the city. Representatives of various political parties visited to have a look at the machines. The Election Commission of India have sent around 2,200 EVMs for the district where the EVM engineers have been conducting trail run on the machines at Women’s Polytechnic College.

EVM engineers claimed the machines had been incorporated with some advanced features and special care of visually impaired voters had taken by permanently incorporating the Braille feature.

Earlier, temporary plastic symbols were installed in the machines for visually impaired voters. “But now, a permanent Braille feature for visually impaired have been incorporated in the machine and the visually impaired can vote for their favourite candidate after just knowing the candidate number,” Ashok Kumar, an EVM engineer said.

Detailing about the other advanced features of EVMs, Ashok said that a printing facility have also been incorporated in these new machines as after giving a simple print command, complete details of number of votes, date of voting and time of voting could be availed.

If any voter raise doubts about his voting time with the Election Commission, he/she can easily recheck his/her voting status and reaffirm details like to whom he voted and at what time engineer said that here voter must know at what time he did voting only then he can recheck his voting status.

Out of the 2,200 machines brought for trial run from West Bengal, around 20 machines had some technical fault and they have been returning to the Election Commission for replacement.

City police gets ready to check drunk driving
RS 10 Road Safety Project announced
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, November 19
The RS 10 Road Safety Project was formally announced at the Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences here yesterday. India is among 10 countries where the United nations, along with consortium partners, is implementing the Road Safety Project (RS 10) to reduce death and disability through road traffic injury prevention projects.

Andhra Pradesh and Punjab are the first states in the country where the project will be launched. The project was launched in the country in April 2011.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Ashok Nayyar, Director Health, Punjab, said based on the observations so far, most accidents in the country occur due to drunken driving and over-speeding.

Dr Amit Arora of WHO said the activities under the project also include collection of baseline data to analyse the gravity of drunken driving, training of doctors, nurses, paramedics, drivers, police personnel to deal with victims with utmost care and professionalism to counter mortality.

Other expert speakers on the occasion included Jalandhar Divisional Commissioner Anurag Verma, Police Commissioner Gaurav Yadav, Civil Surgeon HK Singla, Medical Superintendent Avtar Chand and Prof Lakhbir Singh, director PAHAL.

On the international level, the project has seen the collaboration of the World Health Organisation, The Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), the International Injury Research Centre from the John Hopkins University, EMBARQ (the World Resource Centre) and the World Bank.

Backed by the national partners - the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Surface Transport, the Joint Commission of Traffic Police, the National Highways Authority of India, the Indian Council of Medical Research and the WHO Collaborating Centres - its local stakeholders include the Department of Health and Family Welfare, the Traffic Police, the Transport Department, the Local Government and NGOs.