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Police party attacked; six of family booked
Our Correspondents

Tarn Taran, May 29
Manjit Singh, an ASI posted at Chohla Sahib police station, was beaten up brutally and his uniform was torn by a family of Kambo Dhai Wala village, 35 km from here, late last evening.

A case under Sections 307, 332, 353, 186, 279, 427, 148, 149 and 506 of the IPC was registered.

According to information here today, besides Baljinder Singh, the main accused, the other accused are his father Jarnail Singh, mother Ninder Kaur, brother Nirvail Singh, sister Jasbir Kaur and wife Ninder Kaur.

Police sources said the ASI had gone to the house of the accused with two other policemen regarding an inquiry related to Baljinder Singh. The accused attacked the police party with weapons. Baljinder Singh made an attempt to crush ASI under his car.

The accused managed to fled away after committing the crime.

7 booked for dowry, domestic violence

Tarn Taran: Four members of a Jalandhar-based NRI family have been booked in a dowry case by the Patti police, whereas in another case three persons have been booked under the Domestic Violence Act by the Chabal police.

According to information, the NRI family members have been booked under Sections 498A and 406 of the IPC by the Patti police for demanding and torturing woman for dowry.

The accused are Mandeep Singh, the husband of the victim, Sarabjit Kaur, her mother-in-law, and two sisters-in-law, namely Narinderjit Kaur and Gurninderjit Kaur.

The victim, Amandeep Kaur, resident of Patti township, was married with Mandeep Singh in November, 2008, in the UK. Some of the marriage ceremonies were performed in Jalandhar also, the victim said.

The victim alleged that her husband came back to India without informing her in September, 2010, and started demanding dowry and torturing her for it.

No accused has been arrested as yet.

In the second case registered under the Domestic Volence Act by the Chabal police, the accused are Manpreet Singh, his mother Rajwinder Kaur and younger brother Gurpreet Singh, residents of Ludhiana.

The victim in the case, Harpreet Kaur, resident of Chabal township, was married with Manpreet Singh in March, 2006. The accused had been demanding a car from her parents, for which they were torturing her.

Teenager abducted

Tarn Taran: Babba, a youth of the town, and his father Jawahar Lal Syal and mother Kiran Syal abducted a teenaged girl, daughter of a policeman, from the Police Lines here and also stole gold ornaments and cash from the residence of the girl.

The city police has registered a case under Sections 363, 366, 380 and 34 of the IPC.

The father of the victim girl in his statement to the city police said the accused lured his daughter with marriage with Babba and abducted her from his residence.

The accused took away gold ornaments and cash from his residence.

Couple booked

Pathankot: The police today booked two persons for allegedly duping innocent persons of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of providing them government jobs.

The SP, Bhupinderjit Singh Virk, said Kapil Gupta in a complaint to the police stated that Kewal Krishan and his wife Anantna, resident of Abrol Nagar, took Rs 15 lakh from him on the pretext of providing him job in a government organisation in Punjab. But after taking money, they failed to provide him the job and also refused to return the money. Further investigation were on, said the SP.

Immoral trafficking

Nawanshahr: The local police, on a tip-off that a brothel was being run by Jyoti along with her accomplice Sukhwinder Kaur of Banga at her residence situated at Street No 2, Vikas Nagar here, nabbed her along with another girl Jyoti of Alawalpur village and an alleged customer Satinder Singh of Rahon.

A case under Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, has been registered at city police station against them.

2 held with heroin

Nawanshahr: The SSP, Narinder Bhargav, in a press note issued here on Friday said the CIA staff during separate nakas at Barnala Gate and Gujjarpur village had nabbed two drug peddlers, Rakesh Kumar, alias Keshi, resident of Ranjit Nagar, and Ankush, alias Sandy, resident of Guru Angad Nagar, and seized 20 gm of heroin each from them. Cases under Sections 21, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act were registered against them.

Man held with rifle

Batala: The police arrested Amandeep Singh with a .315-bore rifle here on Saturday. But his accomplice Chaindeep Singh escaped.

A case under Sections 279 and 411 of the IPC and Sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act has been registered against the duo.

Sale Deed
Man booked for fraud

Nawanshahr, May 29
The local police has registered a case under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC against Bhupinder Singh, resident of Kulam Road here, for committing a fraud in the sale deed of his 15-marla house, situated at Kulam Road, on a complaint lodged by Pran Nath.

In his complaint, the fraud victim had stated that Bhupinder Singh had entered into an agreement in January, 2005, with him regarding the sale of his house for Rs 20 lakh and had received Rs 10 lakh as earnest money. But Bhupinder Singh refused to execute the sale deed.

He filed a civil suit against him for getting the sale deed executed. Meanwhile, it came to light that Bhupinder Singh had not only received earnest money from another person against the same property earlier, but also kept the original sale deed as guarantee with the local branch of Canara Bank for taking a loan.

As the loan was not repaid, the bank authorities affixed a notice on the wall of the house in November, 2009. The Economic Wing of the police conducted an inquiry and submitted its report to the SSP, Narinder Bhargav, who directed the SHO, city police station, to register a case. — OC

571 cases settled in lok adalats
Tribune Reporters

Jalandhar, May 29
As many as 440 cases out of total 601 presented in the monthly lok adalats in Jalandhar, Nakodar and Phillaur were settled here on Saturday. Stating this in a press note issued, Additional District Judges Amarjot Bhatti and B.S. Sandhu said a total of 17 Benches — 13 at Jalandhar and two each at Nakodar and Phillaur — were set up for the lok adalats.

The cases which were settled in the lok adalats included matrimonial disputes, civil and less serious criminal cases.

A total of Rs 3.46 crore were awarded to the aggrieved parties during the lok adalats.

Hoshiarpur: As many as 226 cases of various nature were reported in the monthly lok adalats organised at Hoshiarpur, Dasuya, Mukerian and Dasuya courts yesterday, of which 131 were settled amicably. Rs 62,98,354 have been awarded to the aggrieved parties.

District and Sessions Judge Ashok Kumar Singla said 44,762 cases in 156 lok adalats had been settled in Hoshiarpur district and Rs 1,07,38,62,487 as claims had got been released to the aggrieved parties amicably.

He said free legal aid to 3,067 persons had been provided and 238 legal awareness camps had been organised.

DAV ROB opened for public
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 29
The DAV railway overbridge (ROB) has been opened for public at a simple function here today. There was a plan to inaugurate the ROB with pomp and show, but was made a simple affair due to the death of Surinder Kaur, wife of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and mother of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Newly appointed Chief Parliamentary Secretary K.D. Bhandari, Mayor Rakesh Rathour, Senior Deputy Mayor Kamaljit Singh Bhatia and MC Commissioner Vinay Bublani were present on the occasion.

The DAV College railway crossing has been closed with the inauguration of the ROB. This will create problems, especially for thousands of students of various education institutions located on both the sides of the rail track.

Mismanaged show by BJYM
Marathon turns out to be ‘torture’ for kids
G.S. Paul
Tribune News Service

Amritsar, May 29
It was torturous experience for the children who turned up to take part in a marathon organised by the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) this morning.

The event, more of a publicity stunt but for a cause, made the children wait for over two hours under extreme the scorching sun. The children were called in at 6.30 am, whereas the meet commenced at about 8.30 am from Kichlu Chowk to SSSS Chowk, a stretch of about 2 km.

The marathon was a competitive run wherein children of all age groups from the school-level to university-level were put to compete against each other for the prizes Rs 5,100, Rs 3,100 and Rs 2,100 for the top three positions. There was a scant arrangement for water, refreshments or medical aid for the participants, which the children and parents complained about.

To make the things worst, someone from the organisers’ side blew the whistle mischievously, and misdirected the children, resulting in a stampede-like situation on the injury prone road track.

Rahul Maheshwari, the organiser, when asked about these lapses admitted that some notorious persons tried to disgrace the occasion by adopting such mischievous acts.

“The motive behind organising the meet was to raise voice against corruption and inflation. I had tried my level best to make the event successful, but some lapses might have remained, which would be well taken care of in future,” he said.