Abohar
Body found : The Sriganganagar police had finally succeeded in solving the mystery behind the missing of Baba Harbans Singh
Dukhia, heir to the Dera Baba Nirwan, by recovering his body from Ajit Singh Nagar here on Tuesday, sources said in the evening. Baba Birkha
Dass, another contender for the religious seat, with the help of Mana Singh, a resident of Abohar’s Government Seed Farm, and Kala Singh of Pattisadiq village allegedly kidnapped Harbans Singh Dukhia from the Dera on December 8 and after a month of captivity killed him and dumped his body in the heaps of sand, close to Ajit Singh Nagar here.
Barnala
Demanded: President of the Punjab truck operators’ union, Malkeet Singh
Keetu, said he had asked the agencies purchasing foodgrain in the state to settle the transportation rates for the financial year 2008-09 before the arrival of the produce in the grain markets. At a press conference here, the truck union leader said that the truck operators would, otherwise, not provide transportation to them. In the absence of the settlement of transportation rates, only 80 to 90 per cent of the total charges were paid and the remaining 10 per cent of the payment was paid only after several reminders and requests.
Batala
Youth drowns: A youth drowned in the Achleshwar Temple tank, 7 km from here, on the Batala-Jalandhar road on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Surinder Kumar (21). The police sent the body to the local civil hospital for a post-mortem examination. The youth reached the temple on Tuesday evening and jumped into the tank with his clothes on.
Accident death: Newly wed woman Sangeeta died in a road accident on Monday evening. Vishak Seth of Qadian, along with his wife Sangeeta,a nd another person, was returning home from Amritsar in their Indica car (PB-18-J-4156). The car went out of control near Talwandi village and rammed into a tree.
Bathinda
Book release: A book of short stories, ‘Jhooblian wale kaante’, written by Darshan Singh Pritimaan was released by K.K. Yadav, commissioner, MC, Bathinda and Amit Dhaka, IAS (UT) at a function held at Public Library on Tuesday. This is the fifth book by Pritimaan, after ‘First April’, ‘Eh agg kado bujhegi’, ‘Hakk mangdeya nu goli’, ‘Saka Gurdwara Sahib di lok lehar’. Others present on the occasion included Public Library’s general secretary, Jagdish Singh Ghai, senior vice-president, K K Sharma, Dr Satnam Singh, besides many others.
Spiritual discourse: A spiritual discourse will be organised at the Durga Mandir, Model Town phase-I, here on February 7. Subrata Dasaji of the Oneness University, situated at Vardiahpalam under district Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, will deliver the discourse. Similar programme will also be organised at the Jwalamata Mandir, Ajit Road on February 8. Dasaji will explain about the Oneness Movement, its philosophy and its vision which aims to encourage people from all walks of life to pursue their own manifested faith in the manner they desire to enhance the flow of divine grace in them through their own manifested beliefs and bring together all mankind to oneness.
Jalandhar
Old man charred to death: An old and infirm person was burnt to death in a fire incident which took place at Gandhi Camphere on Tuesday evening. The victim, Bihari Lal (70), was lying beside a burning “angithi” at his house. All of a sudden his quilt caught fire. He could not save himself as he was sick and was burnt to death. However, a fire engine extinguished the fire immediately.
