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‘Challan bharo’ software for speedy disposal of challans
Now compound your challan same day
Dharmendra Joshi
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 26
If your vehicle is challaned for a traffic violation, you need not wait for weeks for compounding it from now onwards. The computerised traffic offences compounding branch of the Jalandhar Police Commissionerate, set up at traffic police thana, near the Police Lines here, makes the job simple for you.

DGP P.S. Gill formally inaugurated the traffic offences compounding branch today. He also handed over badges to volunteers under the traffic marshal scheme.

The challans can be paid at the single-windowed compounding branch the same day.

A new software named “challan bharo” has been set up at the branch which would help create a data bank of all traffic offenders, enable searches for subsequent offenders for enhanced fines and offer speedy resolution of traffic challans for the convenience of citizens.

Gill also inaugurated the arms licensing and registration branch which has been entrusted with the functions of issue of new arms licences, renewal of arms licences, issuance of duplicate licences, endorsements of weapons on licences, issue of transport licences, inheritance of licences, issue of NOCs to licensees, change of address of licensees, registration of outside licences and creation of master database of earlier issued licences.

The branch is headed by an officer of the rank of inspector with eight supporting police personnel working under the supervision of the ADCP (HQ) and the DCP.

Crime: Four arrested in abduction, rape case
Tribune News Service

Amritsar, May 26
A 16-year-old girl of the Faizpura locality here was allegedly beaten up and raped by a youth of the same area after abducting her from in front of her house last night.

The victim somehow escaped in the morning and lodged a complaint at the Majitha Road police station. The police has arrested four persons in this connection.

Gurinder Singh, father of the girl, stated that she had gone to lock the doors of haveli adjoining the residence when the main culprit, Banti, along with his three accomplices, Nanak, Chhinda and Satta, all residents of the same area, abducted her.

“It was midnight when the girl had gone to the haveli as several guests who had come to the house had left at that time,” he said.

The girl in her statement alleged that as the four accused had covered her face she could not cry for help. She alleged that the culprits took her to the house of Banti where they beat her up. She said she was repeatedly raped by Banti.

Majitha Road police station SHO Harish Behal said, “All the accused have been nabbed after completing the formalities and getting the medical examination conducted by the doctors.”

Abductor held, girl recovered
Tribune News Service

Amritsar, May 26
A 17-year-old girl, who had been kidnapped yesterday, was today recovered by the police and the accused, identified as Gurlal Singh, was arrested.

A resident of the Shareef Pura area, she was abducted from the school gate in Tung Bala on the Majitha road. The accused pushed her into his car. The girl’s father, Rachpal Singh, who was there to pick her up, tried to resist him but in vain.

In his complaint, Rashpal had alleged that he attempted to stop the car bearing number PB-31-E-0037, but the accused turned the vehicle and fled away.

4 city boys make it to IIT
Deepkamal Kaur
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 26
It was a day of reaping fruits for four city lads for all the hard work that they had done for the past two years. The boys did everything from burning midnight oil to total isolation from the family and the reward for all the efforts that they had made came their way this morning.

Ramandeep, Maninder, Navdeep and Jaspreet have managed to crack the IIT-JEE-2010 seeking their claim for admission to the country’s best engineering colleges and got a rank of 170, 379, 396 and 785, respectively.

Interestingly, the top three scorers are friends and had been taking private coaching from the same centre at Kapurthala Chowk.

A student of Guru Amar Dass School, Ramandeep had barely scored qualifying marks in the 10+2 results of the CBSE this year. He had got 81 per cent marks. His mother is working as a mathematics mistress in Government Junior Model School, Ladowali Road, while his father is a Custom Officer posted in Ludhiana. The boy aims to do computer science engineering from an IIT in Delhi or Kanpur.

Call it a sheer coincidence or use of a common study material, Maninder and Navdeep, who share a close rank are in fact neighbours. Both of them reside in the Shanti Vihar colony, near Maqsudan. The elder sisters of Maninder as well as Navdeep are doing B.Tech from the NIT, Jalandhar. Now there are chances that they too get into the same college.

A student of Swami Sant Dass School, Maninder had even obtained 355 marks out of 450 qualifying marks for the BITS Pilani entrance test. Both his parents are government schoolteachers. While his father is posted in Kartarpur, his mother is a mathematics mistress at Wariana school. Unlike his pals who want to take a career with some MNCs, Maninder is aiming to make it to ISRO. He aims to take up aeronautical engineering and engage himself in research in areas of defence or aviation. His dad is in the Customs Department in Ludhiana.

Navdeep of Dayanand Model School, who had scored 94.3 per cent in the CBSE result, is also an NTSE scholarship holder. The boy wants to take up computer science engineering and alongside prepare for IAS entrance.

Jaspreet is the son of Kulbir Singh, Additional SE at BBMB, Talwara. Like his father, he too aims to take up mechanical engineering.

Govt spending Rs 1,100 cr on repair of roads
Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, May 26
A sum of Rs 1,100 crore is being spent by the Punjab Government on strengthening and repairing major and link roads in the state during the current financial year.

This was stated by Chief Parliamentary Secretary Arunesh Shakar after inaugurating the link road from Hardokhundpur to Pandori Musa, about 65 km from here, today. He said Rs 17 lakh had been spent on the construction of the link road which would benefit the residents of 15 villages and the adjoining areas of Himachal Pradesh.

He said repair of 150-km-long roads in the Mukerian segment was being done and construction of 20-km-long link roads was in progress.

The road from Mukerian to Uchi Bassi via Dhanoa had been widened from 10 feet to 18 feet at a cost of Rs 7.50 crore. Besides, the road from the national highway, Dasuya, to Hajipur via Bishanpur had also been widened from 10 feet to 18 feet at a cost of Rs 4 crore.

The railway flyover bridge on the Mukerian-Gurdaspur road would be constructed, for which Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal would lay the foundation stone shortly. He would inaugurate the tehsil complex at Mukerian.

Efforts were on to restart the Mukerian paper mill which had been lying closed since long..

Shakar gave cheques worth Rs 80 lakh to 290 families of the area for construction of pucca houses.

Body recovered from UDBC
Our Correspondent

Pathankot, May 26
The Sujanpur police fished out the body of an unidentified male aged between 35 and 40 years from the UBDC along the Pathankot-Madhopur road near Ferojpur Kalan village, 14 km from here, today. According to the police, the body was floating in the canal and noticed by a passer-by. The police fished out the body from the canal this morning. The clothes suggested that the man could be an Army personnel.

The body has been sent to the Civil Hospital for identification and completion of other legal formalities. A case has been registered in this connection.

Sunstroke claims 2 lives
Our Correspondents

Tarn Taran, May 26
Two persons died due to sunstroke, one person was killed in a road accident and in another case one farm labourer died while spraying insecticide in the fields.

An unidentified mentally retarded person of about 65 years died due to heat wave at Verowal adda, 30 km from here, last evening.

Karnail Singh (29), a sevadar of Gurdwara Baba Bir Singh, Chuslewar crossing, 30 km from here, died of heart failure due to scorching heat. Gurpal Singh (22) of Lauhka village was killed on the spot when he fell from his motorcycle near Aladinpur village, 4 km from here, this morning. The Sadar police has lodged a report.

In the fourth case, Gurnam Singh (35) of Kot Datta village falling under Patti subdivision died due to inhaling of insecticide while spraying it in the fields. He was brought to the hospital where doctors declared him dead.

Nawanshahr: While Biker Singh of Mazara Dhingerian village was killed, Malkeet Singh of Khanpur was seriously injured when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a car at Behram village on the Nawanshahr-Jalandhar highway today.