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Dhillon, others apply for bail
Liquor case: Cong MLA’s name in FIR
Barnala, April 17
PPCC vice-president and Barnala MLA Kewal Singh Dhillon has come under the scanner of the local police as it is investigating an old case against him pertaining to recovery of huge quantity of liquor. Apprehending his arrest Dhillon has moved an application in local court for seeking anticipatory bail. The bail application will be taken on April 19.

Four Nihangs expelled from Dal
Followers asked to boycott them
Talwandi Sabo, April 17
In a significant development, which could initiate a war of succession in the Shiromani Panth Akali Budha Dal (Panjwan Takht), four Nihangs belonging to the sect, who allegedly attacked another follower Balbir Singh on April 15 with fire arms, have been expelled from the Dal by its head Baba Santa Singh.

CLU issue: Crucial meeting today
Amritsar , April 17
The crucial high-level meeting, convened by Som Parkash, Chief Administrator, PUDA, will be held at Mohali tomorrow to assess the change of land-use (CLU) approvals, granted to promoters of mega-housing projects in the state by the previous government.

Contempt: Chahal not coming to court today
Chandigarh, April 17
B.I.S. Chahal, media adviser to former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, will not be present in the Punjab and Haryana High Court when a Full Bench resumes hearing of the contempt case against him.

COURTS

Death for triple murder convict
Jalandhar, April 17
A city court today awarded death sentence to a person who had killed his wife and two children in March 2005.

high court
PIL seeks special tribunals for poll petitions
Chandigarh, April 17
A PIL seeking directions to the Union government and others for setting up special election tribunals to exclusively deal with election petitions came up for hearing in the Punjab and Haryana High Court today.

ADMINISTRATION

Inside Babudom
New regime: Will IAS officers be reverted?
Chandigarh, April 17
The bureaucracy in Punjab is abuzz with happenings in the past. Questions are being raised if half a dozen-odd IAS officers, who had been promoted into the IAS from the Punjab Civil Services cadre, may face the embarrassment of being reverted ?

Licences of 19 ration depots cancelled
Rampura Phul, April 17
The district food and supply controller (DFSC), Bathinda, has got registered criminal cases against two licence holders of ration depots apart from cancelling the licences of 19 depot holders of this subdivision on the directions of the director, Food and Supplies, Punjab, after they were found guilty of making bunglings in the distribution of subsidised food and other items to the beneficiaries.

CRIME

Sex racket: 9 cops get notices
Abohar, April 17
Nine policemen, including two ASIs, have been issued notices under Sections 16 and 17 CC (service code of conduct rules) for their alleged involvement in the sex racket that had rocked the region on the arrest of two girls from the girls hostel run by the Department of Social Welfare at Sriganganagar, 40 km from here, on June 25, 2006.

Man booked for raping daughter-in-law
Hoshiarpur, April 17
A father-in-law has been booked for raping his daughter-in-law and torturing her for bringing more dowry.

Opposed, lovers commit suicide
Moga, April 17
Faced by opposition from parents, two lovers committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance here today. Their bodies were found on an abandoned piece of land near Kotkapura bypass.

Two killed in accidents Rajpura, April 17 Two persons, including a minor girl, were killed in separate road accidents on the Patiala-Chandigarh road today. The driver of an Indica car (HP-62-0673) was killed on the spot when the vehicle collided head-on with a PRTC bus coming from Patiala. The identity of the deceased could not be ascertained immediately. The mangled remains of a car that collided with a bus on the Rajpura-Patiala road on Tuesday. — Photo by J.S. Virdi

EDUCATION

Slapping: Girls resent GND varsity inaction
Amritsar, April 17
Resentment is brewing up among girl students of Guru Nanak Dev University over yesterday’s incident, in which a boy had slapped a junior girl student, as the varsity authorities were yet to take any action against the accused.

Entrance test dates clash
Chandigarh, April 17
The combined entrance test (CET) of Panjab University, scheduled to be held on May 20, is clashing with the medical entrance test of Delhi University. Students who have applied for both tests have requested the Panjab University to change the date of the CET so that they can appear for both tests.

PTU merit list
Kharar, April 17
At least eight students of GGS College of Modern Technology, here, have made it to the merit list of B.Tech computer science (seventh semester) of Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar. These students are Harleen Kaur, Simerpreet Kaur, Gaurav Bakshi, Sandeep Kaur, Neha Dogra, Nalini Thakur, Kavita Chaudhary and Sugandha.

BUSINESS

Poultry farmers up in arms against mega projects
Chandigarh, April 17
Poultry farmers in Punjab are up in arms against the integrated poultry projects being sanctioned by the previous Congress government. Demanding a rollback in these projects, these farmers have threatened to take an agitational recourse.