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Missing BBMB employee’s body found
Hoshiarpur, February 4
The body of Madan Lal (56), who was employed as a superintendent with the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB), Talwara, was fished out from Mukerian power house gate number-2 on Sunday evening.

Peddler held with 90-kg poppy husk
Nawanshahr, February 4
The police has arrested a drug peddler, Davinder Singh, alias Bindu, of Khoja village, after recovering 90 kg of poppy husk from his possession. The police said the accused, who has been booked under sections 15, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act at Rahon police station, was arrested while patrolling near Bazidpur village on the Rahon- Mattewara road.

2 held in petrol pump double murder case
Gurdaspur, February 4
With the arrest of two persons, the police claims to have cracked the Warsola village double murder case in which two petrol pump employees were shot dead on January 8.

Missing BBMB employee’s body found
Out Correspondent

Madan Lal’s body was handed over to his family after getting conducted its postmortem.

Two booked for demanding dowry

The police has booked a father-son duo of Tanda Ram Sahae area for allegedly demanding dowry. In her complaint, Paramjit Kaur alleged that her husband Kamaljit Singh and father-in-law Malkiat Singh had been torturing her over dowry since her marriage in 1999. She claimed that her husband had been demanding money from her parents for going abroad. A case has been registered under sections 498-A and 506 of the IPC.

Rape accused arrested

After being on the run for about eight months, Kasturi Lal, an accused in a rape and abduction case, finally landed in the police net on Sunday. A case under sections 366, 376, 342 and 318 of the IPC was registered against Kasturi Lal on May 15 last year. He was charged with abducting and raping a girl of Ahema Jattan village.

Peddler held with 90-kg poppy husk
Our Correspondent

Nawanshahr, February 4
The police has arrested a drug peddler, Davinder Singh, alias Bindu, of Khoja village, after recovering 90 kg of poppy husk from his possession. The police said the accused, who has been booked under sections 15, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act at Rahon police station, was arrested while patrolling near Bazidpur village on the Rahon- Mattewara road.

2 held in petrol pump double murder case
Tribune News Service

Gurdaspur, February 4
With the arrest of two persons, the police claims to have cracked the Warsola village double murder case in which two petrol pump employees were shot dead on January 8.

Addressing mediapersons here today, Inspector-General (border range) RP Mittal said the accused had been identified as Rakesh Kumar and Ibrahim Masih. Their third accomplice, Younis Masih, however, was still at large, he said. The accused tri belong to a village near Warsola.

Robbery was the motive behind the crime, the Inspector-General said.

Mittal said a team led by Senior Superintendent of Police Raj Jit Singh was assigned the case. He, however, failed to give any satisfactory reply as to why the police took nearly a month to track down the accused.

“It was a blind murder case. We traced nearly 8,000 calls and half the area police force was put on duty to hunt down the murderers,” Inspector-General (border range) RP Mittal said.

The twin murders had sent shock waves through the city when cousins Manohar Singh and Vinod Singh were gunned down by a few unidentified persons, all in their mid-thirties. Another worker had sustained serious injuries in the shootout.