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Drive Against Drug Addiction
Drugs worth Rs 4 lakh seized
3 councillors, office-bearers resign from BJP
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2 teenage girls among 4 killed
5 robbers arrested
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Drive Against Drug Addiction
Nawanshahr, July 1 A chemist, whose own son fell prey to drug addiction, made this emotive speech to his fellow chemists at a district-level meeting of chemists convened by SSP Narinder Bhargav here today. The meeting was organised with a view to seeking the active cooperation of chemists in the drive against drug addiction launched in the district by DGP P.S. Gill recently. Bhargav, while exhorting chemists to follow a self-imposed discipline to curb drug addiction, said though there were laws for the purpose, self-imposed discipline would prove more effective. “Though most of the chemists plead that they are not involved in selling habit-forming drugs, I have a list of a number of drug addicts who openly name chemists from where they usually procure drugs,” said the SSP while citing a recent example of the arrest of a drug addict who had stolen the camera of a Rahon and Ludhian-based chemist to whom the drug addict had sold the camera for buying drugs. He asked the District Chemists Association to set a worth-emulating example by participating actively in the drive against drug addiction. Civil Surgeon Dr Rakesh Gupta and District Drug Inspector Dr Jasbir Singh asked the chemists to follow the norms and ethics associated with the trade. SP (HQ) Jagjit Singh Gill, SP (D) Kuldip Singh Dehal, SP (Operation) Dharam Singh Uppal, and DSPs Satpal Singh Bhangu, J.S. Sidhu, Satinderpal Singh, Pushap Raj Kalia, Tejinder Singh Rathore, Ravinder Gautam and Varinder Ummat, among others, also spoke on the occasion. District Chemists Association president Harmesh Kumar Puri in his address assured the authorities of the district police and the Health Department of their wholehearted cooperation in the drive against drug addiction.
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Drugs worth Rs 4 lakh seized
Phillaur, July 1 The raiding teams seized medicines worth Rs 4 lakh, including routine medicines worth Rs 3.30 lakh and banned drugs worth Rs 70,000 from the medicine shop. Though the Phillaur police has registered a case under section 188 of the IPC against the shopkeeper, it hesitated to give details. The police has taken one person into its custody. The Phillaur SHO cncerned could not be contacted.
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3 councillors, office-bearers resign from BJP
Tarn Taran, July 1 However, the leaders who quit the BJP have not disclosed their future course of action. The municipal councillors include Anita Tejpal (Ward 19), Kulwinder Kaur (Ward 3) and Baldev Singh Billa (Ward 2). The other office-bearers of the party who quit were Karan Tejpal, former local president of the youth wing, Surjit Singh Mahal, president of the local unit of the SC Morcha, Ranjit Singh Rana of the SC Morcha and others. Baldev Singh and Karan Tejpal, while addressing newsmen here today, alleged that they were feeling suffocated in the party as they were being ignored by senior leaders of the party. Billa and Kulwinder Kaur, who belong to the Dalit community, alleged that partial behaviour was being meted to them as they were not invited to party meetings for the past much time. The BJP had nine of its members in the local 19-member council and at the time0 the BJP was a claimant for the post of the president of the council which went in favour of the alliance partner, the SAD. According to information collected by this correspondent, a prime land in the town situated in the old grain market had become a bone of contention between the ruling partners BJP and SAD which became the root cause of today’s happenings of the BJP. A year back, at a meeting of the Municipal Council, a resolution regarding giving the land of the old grain market to the Improvement Trust had been discussed. Interestingly, while a SAD member is the council’s chief, the Improvement Trust is headed by the BJP. Hence, the three councillors opposed the resolution, revolting against the party, but the other BJP councillors voted in favour of the resolution.
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2 teenage girls among 4 killed
Hoshiarpur, July 1 The dead were identified as Qualis van driver Malkiat Singh, Deepika (15) and Monica (14) of Dhada Kalan. The girls were traveling in the Qualis which was hit by a private bus (No PB 7Q 5979). Malkiat Singh was going to drop both the girls to Doaba Public School, Parowal, where they were studying. In another accident, the driver of a steel sheets-laden truck (PB 08 AY 9595) got drowned in Shah Nehar near Jheer-Di-Khui village and another occupant of the truck got washed away in the strong currents of the canal today. Sources said the truck driver identified as Jaswinder Singh of Panjawar lost control over the steering due to which it plunged into the canal. The body of Jaswinder Singh was fished out and efforts were going on to locate the body of another occupant, who could not be identified yet.
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Nawanshahr, July 1 The Banga police nabbed two miscreants, identified as Kulwinder Singh, alias Sonu, of Pandori Ganga Singh village in Hoshiarpur, and Ranjit Singh, alias Happy, of Naggadipur village in Hoshiarpur, and recovered two .12-bore pistols, two cartridges and a stolen motorcycle from them. A case under sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act and section 411 of the IPC has been registered at Banga police station. The city police arrested three miscreants, identified as Paramjit Singh Pamma of Katpalon village, Nitin Kumar of Ladheran village and Ricky, alias Bunty, of Garha village, near Phillaur, and recovered a camera and cash snatched by them and a motorcycle used by them in the crime. — OC
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