Amritsar, August 22
Twelve-year-old daughter of a migrant labourer from Uttar Pradesh was allegedly gangraped by five persons after keeping her in illegal custody for three days.

Girl’s father Jagjit Singh, who migrated from Bareily about two years back, in his complaint to SSP Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh urged him to get medical examination of the girl conducted and register a case against those responsible for the heinous act, including two women who allegedly acted as pimps, and provide them justice.

Addressing mediapersons here today, Jagjit said his family was thrown out of the rented accommodation in the Chowk Parag Das area about 15 days back after which they had to take shelter in a sarai of a religious place.

He said, “The family was searching for a house when they met one Nisha (the alleged pimp), who used to come to the shrine and mingle with his family members.”

Nisha took his wife Rajinder and daughter to the residence of her mother-in-law in the Johra Phatak area from where Rajinder and the old lady went to another area to check a house available on rent.

However, when Rajinder returned she found her daughter and Nisha missing from the Johra Phatak residence. The mother-in-law said Nisha had taken her daughter for some work and she would be dropped at their house as soon as they return.

He alleged even after two days when his daughter did not return they informed the Galliara police which failed to take any action on their complaint.

In the mean time, when the alleged culprits came to know about this, they dropped the girl near the shrine who later told her miseries to the family.

Meanwhile, SP (Headquarter) Surinder Singh Sidhu said the case has been referred to Harmanjit Singh, in charge, Galliara police station, for necessary action.

When contacted, Harmanjit Singh said the family was yet to file any complaint to the police. As soon as he would receive the complaint, necessary action would be taken only after thorough investigation, he added.

Tarn Taran, August 22
Seven unidentified persons today injured two employees of the Government Secondary School, Tur, 22 km from here, after forcibly entering into the school.

The injured have been identified as laboratory attendant Karamjit Singh and teacher Satnam Singh, who have been admitted to Community Health Centre, Kairon, where their condition is said to be out of danger.

SP (Detective) Malwinder Singh Sidhu said a case under sections 452, 323, 148, 149 of the IPC has been registered and the accused would be arrested soon.

According to the information, during recess hours a Scorpio entered the school premises without permission. Armed persons in the Scorpio came out and attacked Karamjit Singh injuring him badly. Satnam Singh a teacher when tried to intervene was also roughed up by the armed persons. 

Hoshiarpur, August 22
The state Labour Department will make registrations of daily wage labourers for issuing them smart cards, for which it would charge Rs 55 each from them, said Tikshan Sud, Punjab Minister for Medical Education and Research, Labour and Employment, Forest and Parliamentary Affairs, while addressing a gathering after the planting saplings at the Municipal Library-cum-Public Park on the Railway Road here today.

Each card holder would be entitled to an amount of Rs 30,000 for his annual medical treatment. In case of natural death of a card holder, his kin could get Rs 30,000 and in case of accidental death, they would get Rs 75,000.

Besides, help of Rs 5,100 each would also be given to them on the marriage of their daughters.

The Labour Department would soon arrange camps at different places for registering and issuing smart cards to daily wagers in the state.

The minister also instructed the President of the Municipal Council to renovate the parks and libraries for the benefit of the senior citizens who regularly visit the place.

Jalandhar, August 22
A sub-divisional engineer (SDE) of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) was allegedly held captive for about an hour for allegedly leaking information of a mobile phone subscriber in the premises of the BSNL’s main office here this afternoon.

The incident occurred when the SDE, posted at Kapurthala, moved an application to the Public Relation Officer (PRO) seeking call details of a phone number owned by Indu Puri, a local subscriber. A woman employee of the PRO office was quick to inform the subscriber that someone wanted the call details of her mobile phone.

Receiving the information, the subscriber, along with a dozen men, reached the venue and ‘detained’ the officer and his driver for almost an hour.

Talking to The Tribune, SDE Mehanga Singh claimed that he had forwarded the application that had been handed over to him by his colleague, named Veena. He claimed that Veena had sought his help in getting the details of her friend’s mobile phone.

“I was not aware of the fact if Veena had sought the details of the mobile phone with wrong intention. I moved the application to the PRO in good faith,” he claimed.

Meanwhile, Ashwani Puri, brother-in-law of Indu Puri, who has been using the mobile phone, claimed he had moved an application to the office of the PRO on August 8, apprehending that someone was either trying to tap his phone or seek details from the office of the BSNL with a bad intension.

Puri claimed that the officer was seeking details of his phone on a fake application, having forged signature of the actual subscriber. He claimed an application has been moved to the top officials of the BSNL and the police authorities, seeking legal action against the erring officer.