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Abohar
Bodies recovered: The bodies of two teenagers who were last week reported missing from village Dhaba Kokrian of this sub-division have been found in the same sub-canal at different locations, police sources confirmed today.
The body of the boy that was found on Friday could not be initially identified while that of the girl was spotted on Tuesday and identified, sources said.
Twenty-20 cricket tourney: The Harry Pasricha National Twenty-20 cricket tournament will be held at the Nehru Stadium here from January 1-17, Dr Rajinder Girdhar, coordinator of the Chander Cricket Club informed. Rs 1 lakh will be awarded to winners and runners-up would get Rs 40,000. The man of the series will be given Rs 11,000. The prizes will be distributed by MLA Sunil Jakhar.Fazilka
Check-up camp: Leading NGO Social Welfare Society (SWS) organised the 15th free monthly sugar check-up camp at the Freedom Fighter Lala Sunam Rai MA Memorial Welfare Centre this week. According to the SWS president Raj Kishore
Kalra, blood sugar samples of 122 persons were checked. SWS members Shashi Kant, Surain Lal
Kataria, Dr Manohar Lal Sukhija, Rakesh Gilhotra, Bhagwan Dass Sehgal, Ajay
Thakral, Sandeep Sachdeva, Ashok Kumar, Girdhari Lal Monga, Rattan Lal Grover, Parmod Juneja offered their services. Panana Laboratory and City Lab provided free services. The camp was sponsored by Teja Ram Khrait
Lal, commission agents. Hanumangarh
Arms seized: The district police confirmed on Tuesday that 3 pistols, 240 live cartridges, 14 bottles of whisky and 150 grams of opium were recovered during raids carried out at the Kataria Gun House and residence of its owner Pawan Kataria at Hanumangarh last night. Vicky Kataria son of Pawan Kataria has been arrested. Preliminary investigation conducted by police indicated that license of the gun house had not been renewed, sources said. There was information that the gun house was involved in illegal sale of fire arms. Mansa
Poppy husk seized: Joga police on Tuesday recovered 24 quintals of puppy husk from a truck and car. Three persons were arrested in this regard. SSP Hardayal Singh Mann today informed at a press conference that the police had set up a naka near Ralla village on the basis of a secret information. A truck and car that were carrying 65 bags of puppy husk were caught by the police at this naka,, the SSP said. The truck and car carrying puppy husk bags were coming from Bhikhi side and going towards Moga. Police registered a case against Sukhwinder Singh and Lakhvir Singh, both of Bhandour (Barnala), Jatinder Singh of Moga and Balvinder Singh, a resident of Mallanwala, also in Moga, under the NDPS Act. Balvinder Singh was still absconding while other three accused were arrested. According to the police, the arrested persons are part of an inter-state gang that was involved in puppy husk smuggling from Rajasthan to Punjab.
Nawanshahr
IMA unit: The following have been elected office-bearers of the district unit of the Indian Medical Association
(IMA): President - Dr Paramjit Mann; vice-president - Dr Harinderpal Singh; secretary - Dr
J.S. Nannuan; joint secretary - Dr Neelam Saini; finance secretary - Dr Davinder
Dhanda; and executive members - Dr Mandip Kamal, Dr Shalini Sudan, Dr
K.S. Pahwa, Dr Dilbagh Singh, Dr Rajesh Bhatia and Dr Deepinder Sandhu.
Pathankot
Bat smuggling, one held: The police arrested Nirmal Singh of Lari Babeya village and seized a truck (HP-38-B-1549) with smuggled cricket bats and wood on Jammu-Jalandhar road near Sarna, 10 km from here. On a tip-off, a naka was laid at Jamalpur adda when a truck coming from J&K side was intercepted for search. The police recovered cricket bats and wood worth Rs 2.25 lakh which was alleged to be brought from Jammu illegally. He said the driver of the truck failed to produce any document of the goods. He said during preliminary interrogation the driver revealed that he was going to Jalandhar to deliver the goods. The police has registered a case under sections 379 and 411 of the IPC.
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