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Mystery shrouds man’s death
Hoshiarpur, October 1
Sarabjit Singh (43), son of Sewa Singh of Dhamina Kalan village, was found murdered in the village fields. Following the recovery of his body Bulhowal police has registered a case under Section 302 of the IPC. According to the police, Sarabjit Singh along with his family went to sleep after taking his dinner on the night of September 29. In the morning, his wife Kamaljit Kaur went to wake him up but found him missing. She tried many times to contact her husband on his mobile phone but all her efforts were in vain. Later, his body having several marks of injuries was found from the fields of Bahadur Singh, son of Munsha Singh of the same village. — OC

Minor abducted, 2 booked
Phagwara, October 1
The Phagwara Police yesterday booked a Phagwara resident Rajinder Kumar, alias Ruby, and his mother Manjit Kaur under Sections 363/366/120B of the IPC on the charges of abducting a 14-year-old girl on the pretext of marriage. Parwinder Kumar, uncle of the victim, told the police that her niece, who was residing with her grandmother Bimla Rani in local Subhash Nagar after the death of her divorcee father for the past six years, was missing from her residence since September 14 and he along with other family members had doubts that the accused with the connivance of his mother had abducted the minor girl who could not be traced till now. The police said no arrest had been made so for. — OC