Nawanshahr, April 25
Three persons were killed and one injured in a collision between a car and a truck on Saturday. According to sources, Pawan Kumar, Davinder Kumar, Amit Kumar, all of New Model Town, Hoshiarpur, died and Anita Rani was injured when their car collided with a truck coming from opposite side, near Pojewal village on the Garhshanker- Anandpur Sahib road. The injured has been sent to Apex Hospital.

Amritsar: Two motorcyclists, Jatinder Singh (35) and Gulzar Singh (52) of Ganganagar, Rajasthan, were crushed to death when their bike collided against a truck laden with sand near Guja Peer village today.

According to information, the duo was on their way to Mohan Bhandarian village after attending a marriage, when a truck coming from Fatehgarh Churian (Ajnala) hit their bike. As a result both died on the spot.

Hoshiarpur: A student of Giani Kartar Singh Government College, Tanda Urmur, Mamta (22), resident of ward No 11, was run over and killed by the Link Express bound from Jammu to Ahemdabad at the Darapur rail-road crossing this noon. According to police sources, Mamta, who was a student of B.Com, was going on a scooter with her father to the college for appearing in an examination. When they reached the Darapur rail-road crossing, they found the gates closed. However, due to hurry, Mamta tried to cross the track, but was run over and killed by the train. 

Phagwara, April 25
Two students of the Lovely Professional University (LPU) --- Atul Shukla and Mayur Yadav --- were among 11 criminals who robbed their several university fellows of their six laptops and 11 mobile phones.

Phagwara DSP Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh stated they came to know about the involvement of two LPU students in robbery when a Phagwara police team, led by ASI Baldev Dutt, nabbed five members of the robbers’ gang at Chahal Nagar on Friday when they were travelling in a white Sumo.

Atul Shukla and Mayur Yadav, students of BTech at LPU, were earlier living as paying guests with several other students, including Jasanpreet Singh at Prem Nagar, said Phagwara city SHO Varinder Singh while talking to The Tribune. Later they stopped living with Jasanpreet and other students and came in contact with criminal Anil Kumar of Rama Mandi, said Varinder Singh, adding that they along with several other criminals made a plan to loot Jasanpreet and others living at Prem Nagar.

As a part of their plan, the robbers reached Prem Nagar with two photographs of a boy and a girl on the intervening night of April 7 and 8 and told the students there that the boy had kidnapped the girl, one of their relatives.

Subsequently they took all the students in a room and forced them to handover their laptops and mobile phones to them. Following which, they fled from the spot.

An FIR under sections 380 and 342 of the IPC was registered against them at Phagwara city police station on the statement of Jasanpreet Singh in this regard on April 8. Following which, several police teams were constituted to nab the robbers and they were keeping an eye on white Sumos as the watchman had told the police that the robbers had come in a white Sumo.

In the meantime, the five robbers --- Tejinder Singh, alias Lucky, of Kaki Pind, Vni, alias Kalu, of Phauji Wali Gali at Rama Mandi, Gaurav, alias Gobanda, of Ekta Nagar Phase I Rama Mandi, Anil Kumar of Bansawali Gali Nangal Shama and Sonu, alias Musa, of Rurka Khurd (all of Jalandhar district) were nabbed at Chahal Nagar on Friday.

Six other gang members, including two LPU students Shukla and Yadav, permanent residents of Lucknow in UP, are still absconding. Interestingly, both Shukla and Yadav did not enter the place at Prem Nagar in Phagwara during the robbing incident as they were afraid of getting identified. Phagwara DSP Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh said the arrested accused have confessed . Three stolen laptops, six mobile phones and Rs 7,900 cash were also recovered from them. 

Gurdaspur, April 25
The Election Commission of India (ECI) swiftly transferred SHO Fatehgarh Churrian, Inderjit Singh, following a complaint of violation of model code of conduct. Ajmer Singh Sibiya, ADC (G), while confirming the development, said the SHO had been sent while no new appointment was made for the vacant post.

Harpreet Sandhu, former Additional Advocate General, put up the case to the district election office on the complaint of former MLA Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa.

Randhawa, in his complaint, stated that Inderjit Singh and Gurinderjit Singh, wireless operators at police Station Shalla Purana, violated the election code by siding with a particular candidate. He alleged in his complaint that the latter was publicly seen campaigning with a ruling party MLA in favour of its candidate Vinod Khanna at Bhattian village on April 8, 2009 and corroborated his claim by referring to a news item along with a photograph which appeared in a Hindi daily.

Meanwhile, Harpreet Sandhu informed that Congress candidate from Gurdaspur Parliamentary seat, Partap Singh Bajwa, had made another complaint to the ECI for taking action against BJP candidate Vinod Khanna for completing the nomination paper. He said Khanna had not furnished the statement of summary of information /particulars in affidavits (Appendix VIA and VIB) in the prescribed format (Appendix VIC). He said as per the rules laid down by the ECI, if for any reason the information was not furnished along with the nomination paper, it must be forwarded in any case, latest by 3 pm on the last date of filing nominations, falling which nominations paper was liable to be rejected by the returning officer.

Jalandhar, April 25
Former Delhi Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Madan Lal Khurana today blamed the UPA government for having failed to check inflation. Addressing a press meet here, he said, “Prices of many products, like milk, sugar and vegetables, have plummeted like never before. The UPA government projects itself as pro-poor but it has only brought misery into their lives.”

Khurana said 70 percent of the country’s population was engaged in the agricultural sector and it is this sector which has seen maximum sufferings, including indebtedness and suicides. “We have made it a point in our manifesto that once the NDA comes into power, we will set up a commission on this which will help us find some solution to reduce the problems of the farming community,” he asserted. He was accompanied by local bodies minister Manoranjan Kalia. — TNS