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Gaga abduction: Half of ransom money recovered
Angry students raise slogans against admn, disrupt traffic
Spl drive against AIDS
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MCI team inspects GMC records
12 days after, no headway in KMV murders
Commuters fret as labourers block traffic after clash
Cops bust three gangs of snatchers, arrest seven
National theatre fest to take off tomorrow
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Gaga abduction: Half of ransom money recovered
Jalandhar, January 17 SSP Arpit Shukla said the police recovered Micky’s revolver and Rs 25 lakh from the possession of a ward 26 congress councillor Sukhmeet Singh alias deputy, the kingpin of the kidnapping. Micky’s revolver was also seized from his custody, he added. Deputy, along with three other accused, had surrendered before the police the previous day, the SSP said, adding Rs 11 lakh were seized from Gurwinder Singh Kind and 10 lakh each from Jasbir Singh and Jatinder Singh Sabhi. Answering a query, SSP said partial amount of the ransom had been recovered from different places where the accused had kept it. However, despite repeatedly being questioned about it, he refused to name the persons with whom the money had been kept. He merely said this was part of further investigation. Shukla said action would also be taken against the people who had helped the acccused in any way. Legal action would be taken against all the people whose name figured during the investigation, he added. Replying to a question, the SSP said the city Honda car used for kidnapping had yet not been recovered. The car belonged to one of the four accused, Prabhjit Singh, reportedly the son of slain police personnel. Efforts were being made to nab the four absconders, he added. |
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19-yr-old’s Death
Hoshiarpur, January 17 Earlier, the students assembled at Government College from where they took a procession to the Prabhat Chowk. They were raising slogans against the district administration and general manager, Punjab roadways, Hoshiarpur, for not accepting their demands. After blocking traffic for fifteen minutes, they lifted the blockade for the convenience of the public. But, due to exchange of harsh words with the police, they blocked traffic again. Later, SDM, Hoshiarpur, Karnail Singh came there and received a memorandum from them, only then they lifted the blockade and normal traffic was resumed. In the memorandum, they demanded arrangement of government bus service from schools/colleges and other educational institutions to the bus stand, permission for bus pass holders to travel in private buses also, issuance of instructions to bus drivers and conductors to stop their vehicles on all the bus stops, arrangement of compensation of Rs 5 lakh for the family of the deceased, filling up of all the vacant posts by discontinuing privatisation/contractorship system in all the government offices and rolling back of the hike made in fees of school and colleges. All the union leaders warned the administration that their agitation would be intensified if their demands are not accepted. |
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Spl drive against AIDS
Amritsar, January 17 A ten-day workshop on ballet, fashion designing and street theatre was organised earlier this month by the school. Dr AF Pinto, founder, chairman of St Xavier’s and Ryan Group of Institutes said youth are the decision makers of tomorrow and can turn the tide against AIDS. —
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MCI team inspects GMC records
Amritsar, January 17 The team comprising, Dr Naresh Gupta of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Dr Anand Kannan, Shankar Netralaya Chennai and Dr Saini from Government Medical College, Vadodara, visited various departments, including gynaecology, cardiology, orthopedic, pediatric, skin and burn and interacted with the patients, faculty and medical students. They also gathered information about the facilities being provided to the patients. However, the team members refused to divulge any details stating that they have been told by the higher-ups not to talk to the media. The information, regarding the report, could be gathered from the secretary, MCI, New Delhi, they added.
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12 days after, no headway in KMV murders
Jalandhar, January 17 Admitting this, SSP Arpit Shukla said four teams headed by two SPs and two DSPs had been trying their level best to solve the mystery behind the blind murders committed right before midnight on January five. Answering a query, Shukla said the police was working on every possible theory but had failed to get any specific lead so far. Shukla said the police had also taken the help of an RBI team to ascertain the source of huge amount of Rs 37 lakhs found near the principal’s body. The money which was found in a briefcase lying near the Bawa’s body on the floor of her bed-room had raised suspicion. The SSP said her two confidants, including cook Kishore Mandal and her security guard Shamsheedin, had been working with her for over 12 years but unfortunately they were also stabbed to death. Their deaths also made the work of the police more difficult to solve the blind murder, he said, expressing hope the hard efforts of the four teams would bring results in the near future. The police suspected, from the gathered evidences that contract killers from outside Punjab had been hired to commit murders and at least one person who came with the killers, was very well known to Bawa. Police sources further said no entry in the register at the college gate was made as the principal might have directed the security guard at the gate to let the visitors come without making any entry. The recovery of Rs 37 lakh found near her body indicated that the motive of the killers was not robbery.
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Commuters fret as labourers block traffic after clash
Hoshiarpur, January 17 According to police sources, some persons, including women and girls, belonging to the faction of Ram Singh went to the fields of Rajinder Singh to defecate on Thursday. The labourers of Rajinder Singh, present in the fields, allegedly teased some women and girls for which persons of Sikligar community, led by Ram Singh, raised objection. Meanwhile, Rajinder Singh along with some others came there and after a heated exchange, they had a scuffle with each other due to which Ram Singh got injured. He was taken to the local Civil Hospital. Rajinder Singh also alleged that the persons led by Ram Singh opened fire on his labourers due to which all of them fled. Sikligars first blocked vehicular traffic near the milk plant located on the Mehngorwal link road and later shifted it to red light crossing, Banjar Bag, where they blocked traffic for more than an hour. Later, DSP Bakhshish Singh intervened and on his assurance for providing justice, they lifted the blockade. After that the group led by Rajinder Singh also blocked traffic on the Hoshiarpur-Dharmshala road for about half-an-hour, but police got it lifted. Sadar police has registered a case under sections 354 and 149 of the IPC against Rajinder Singh and four others
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Cops bust three gangs of snatchers, arrest seven
Kapurthala, January 17
The accused are members of three separate gangs operating in Kapurthala and its surrounding areas and were involved in several cases of snatching purses, chains and mobile phones, according to the SSP Rakesh
Aggarwal.
The accused include two young models, also part of dance troupes based in Chandigarh, the SSP added.
The police has also recovered 17 mobile phones, two purses, an ATM card and bank passbooks from their possession, Aggarwal told mediapersons here today. The accused have been identified as Babu, his accomplices Ashu and Neeraj Bali, Amit Kumar and his accomplice Mandip Singh, Kulwant Singh, alias Jagga, and Ravi Kumar all residents of
Kapurthala. Some more recoveries were expected from the accused after getting police remand for the accused, the SSP added.
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National theatre fest to take off tomorrow
Amritsar, January 17
Addressing a press conference, Kewal Dhaliwal, director of Manch-Rangmanch, said the festival would feature groups like Natraj from Jammu, Alternative Theatre, Kolkata, Asmiti, Delhi, The Company, Chandigarh and Theatre Repetory Company, Patiala.
Besides, Ajoka, a theatre group from Lahore, will also stage the play, “Burqavaganza”, which is directed by Shahid Nadeem, a veteran theatre artist from Lahore.This year’s festival is dedicated to renowned theatre personality Harbajan Jabal. —
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