| |
3 arrested with Rs 15 lakh hawala money
Our Correspondent
Hoshiarpur, July 14
The district police arrested three persons of a family, including a woman, and seized Rs 15 lakh hawala money from them.
Talking to mediapersons here this afternoon, SP (H) Amrik Singh Dhami said the police was tipped-off about the hawala racket operating in the area. To nab the culprits, the police laid a naka at Adda Nasrala and intercepted a car bearing registration number PB-08BD-Temp. 2232. During the search of the car, the police recovered 2,910 Indian currency notes of Rs 500 denomination and 45 notes of
Rs 1,000 denomination packed in a black colour bag. The occupants of the car, identified as Surjit Kaur, his son Gurpreet Singh and husband Gurmit Singh, son of Mann Singh of Bakarpur village, presently residing at C-44, Basti Sheikh Road, near old Pritam Cinema, Jalandhar, were arrested. During their personal search, the police also recovered Rs 35,300. During preliminary interrogation, they revealed that they were in the hawala trade for about last 10 months and the money, which was delivered to them by Bittu of Jalandhar, was sent through German. They got the telephonic message to whom the money was to be delivered. They had to deliver Rs 13 lakh to a person at Nasrala who telephoned them and the message for delivering Rs 2 lakh was yet to be ascertained.
|
| |
Two contract killers held
Hoshiarpur, July 14
The Garhshankar police last evening arrested two ‘supari’ killers, Satinder Kumar, son of Vakil Mahanto, and Sanjay Kumar, son of Kishan Kumar of Patna (Bihar), under Sections 115, 119, 195, 120 B and Sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act. The police also recovered one .32 bore pistol, along with Rs 22,000 cash, from them. According to police sources, following a bullet injury Sanjay Kumar was admitted to Civil Hospital, Nawanshahar, on July 12, 2012. Sanjay told the police that he, along with Satinder Kumar, went to Nangal Dam for excursion. While returning, two unidentified robbers snatched Rs 2.5 lakh from them and before fleeing, they fired a shot in his foot. While investigating the case, the police became suspicious about the statement of Sanjay Kumar. During preliminary interrogation, Satinder Kumar revealed that Rakesh Verma, son of Madan Lal Verma of Sital Nagar, Jalandhar, was in love with Baljit Kaur, daughter of Dilbag Singh of Garhshankar. Baljit was married with someone else and she had gone to Australia, which enraged Rajesh Verma and he gave a ‘supari’ of Rs 2.5 lakh to both of them for murdering Dilbag. When Sanjay and Satinder went to Dilbag’s house, they came to know that he died a natural death. To grab the ‘supari’ money, they concocted a story of robbery.
— OC
|
| |
153 persons get aid for cancer treatment
Our Correspondent
Hoshiarpur, July 14
The Punjab Government has sanctioned financial aid of Rs 15,30,8488 from the Mukh Mantri Punjab Cancer Rahaat Kosh Scheme (Cancer Control Cell) to 153 patients of Hoshiarpur district.
The district administration has recommended the cases of all 153 patients for financial aid from the Mukh Mantri Punjab Cancer Rahaat Kosh Scheme. Disclosing this here today, civil surgeon Avtar Singh Jrewal said any cancer patient could get application form for seeking monetary help from the office of the civil surgeon and these forms could also be downloaded from www.pb.health.gov.in. The form was to be filled by treating doctor of the hospital which was empanelled by the government and then the form should be submitted to the office of the civil surgeon with tentative expenditure on treatment. All government medical colleges of Punjab, government district and sub-divisional hospitals and 26 private hospitals in the state had been empanelled for the treatment of cancer patients. Out of 26 private hospitals, six are in Amritsar, seven in Ludhiana, four in Bathinda, five in Ajitgarh and one each on Shri Muktsar Sahib, Chandigarh, Patiala and Ropar. Cancer patients, along with their attendants, could travel free of cost in the buses of Punjab Roadways and PRTC. For availing the facility, they should contact the office of senior medical officer in the district and sub-divisional hospitals to get coupons meant for free travelling, added Dr Jrewal. The civil surgeon further said: “If the documentation is completed, the entire procedure of getting the financial aid sanctioned takes less than a month. Under this scheme, the money is being directly paid to the hospital where the patients are getting treatment”.
|
