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16 women held for burglary
Nakodar, September 2
The police today foiled a burglary attempt with the arrest of 16 women, who barged into a locked house at Dhadda Lena village here today. SHO Surinderpal Singh said the women were identified as Jeeta, Shanti, Maya, Rajni, Jeetan, Maya, Rekha, Reena, Nanki, Mangla, Gomti, Sunita, Teena, Janglo, Rekha Kumari and Rani.

Cops beat up undertrial mercilessly, booked
Tarn Taran, September 2
An undertrial Balwinder Singh, a resident of village Fatehbad who was brought here from Central Jail, Amritsar, to the court of Smt Asha Condal, Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) was beaten up mercilessly by as many as a dozen policemen in front of the court.

2 killed, four injured in mishaps
Nawanshahr, September 2
A girl, Sonia (17), was killed, while four persons - Paramjit Kaur, Ruby, Swarn Dass and Buta Ram - were injured when the car in which they were travelling rammed into a tree near Khatkar Kalan village on the Jalandhar- Nawanshahr-Chandigarh highway at about 7 am today. They were coming from Amritsar. The injured were admitted to the Civil Hospital and Raja Hospital.

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	16 women held for burglary Our Correspondents Nakodar, September 2 The police today foiled a burglary attempt with the arrest of 16 women, who barged into a locked house at Dhadda Lena village here today. SHO Surinderpal Singh said the women were identified as Jeeta, Shanti, Maya, Rajni, Jeetan, Maya, Rekha, Reena, Nanki, Mangla, Gomti, Sunita, Teena, Janglo, Rekha Kumari and Rani. The house belonged to Jashandeep, who left for a foreign country a few days back. The thieves first broke open the locks at the main gate and ransacked the whole house. They were about to decamp with utensils, clothes, blankets and some other valuable things when a Jashandeep’s neighbour noticed the broken locks. The police reached the house in no time after being informed. The police arrested all the women and recovered the stolen things from their possession. A case under Section 454 and 380 of the IPC has been registered against all accused. The police said that these women were garbage pickers and lived in jhuggis on the outskirts of the city. 4 booked for fraud Hoshiarpur: The police has booked Pritam Singh Numberdar of Talla, Kamla Rani, Lehbar Singh of Allowal, Paramjit Singh of Hejma and others under Sections 419, 420, 465, 467 and 120 of the IPC for preparing a forged power of attorney and selling the land of NRI Smitri Devi of Masat Pal Kot to some unknown property dealer. NRI Smitri Devi's brother Darshan Singh of Kurala Kalan, said her sister had given the power of attorney of her lands to him. Aforesaid persons allegedly prepared fake power of attorney and sold the land to some unknown property dealer. Bike snatched Hoshiarpur: Three unidentified persons snatched a motorcycle from Yogi of Khanura while he was returning to his village last evening. According to police sources, Yogi was returning to his house on the motorcycle belonging to his employer Jaswinder Singh. On the way three persons suddenly appeared before him and forced him to stop the motorcycle. The police has registered a case under Section 382 of the IPC. Woman miscarries after assault Hoshiarpur: A woman, named Baby, miscarried after five men assaulted her at Basti Bajigar on August 25. The Tanda police has booked Raju, Ashu, Pardeep Kumar, Lucky, Sisa Sarup Singh, all of Basti Bajigar, for the assault under Sections 452, 323, 324, 316, 427, 148 and 149 of the IPC. Baby was three-month-old pregnant. Her family was also assaulted. The accused had swords and other sharp-edged weapons at the time of attack. — OC Two injured in gang war Amritsar: Two persons were injured in a gang war, involving Jagtar Boxer and Ankur Likhari groups, at Ranjit Avenue C-block area today. Aman Mota and Surjit Singh, who sustained bullet injuries, were rushed to Guru Nanak Dev Hospital. The police authorities confirmed that it was a clash between Boxer and Likhari gangs. The police is investigating the matter. A case would be registered after completion of inquiry and taking the statement of the injured, the police officials said while taking a round of the spot. According to information received, the Boxer gang fired five shots at the Likhari gang members during the clash, it is learnt. — TNS
	Cops beat up undertrial mercilessly, booked Our Correspondent Tarn Taran, September 2 An undertrial Balwinder Singh, a resident of village Fatehbad who was brought here from Central Jail, Amritsar, to the court of Smt Asha Condal, Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) was beaten up mercilessly by as many as a dozen policemen in front of the court. The proceedings of the court remained suspended for more than an hour. The ADSJ has ordered the police to apprise the court in writing about the sequences related to the incident. A case under Section 186, 353, 506 IPC has been registered against Balwinder for threatening the police party by the city police. The case has been registered on the statement of HC Manjit Pal, who was heading the police party which brought Balwinder here. Balwinder was beaten so ruthlessly that he was rendered unconscious and the policemen had to give him water. The sources said that Balwinder had been facing criminal proceedings in different courts, in as many as 40 cases of criminal including heinous crimes. Balwinder, while showing bruises on different parts of the body, received as a result of the beating, told mediapersons on the spot that he was beaten up for no fault of his.
	2 killed, four injured in mishaps Our Correspondent Nawanshahr, September 2 A girl, Sonia (17), was killed, while four persons - Paramjit Kaur, Ruby, Swarn Dass and Buta Ram - were injured when the car in which they were travelling rammed into a tree near Khatkar Kalan village on the Jalandhar- Nawanshahr-Chandigarh highway at about 7 am today. They were coming from Amritsar. The injured were admitted to the Civil Hospital and Raja Hospital. Car rams into bridge Mandip Singh of Nawanshahr was killed when his car rammed into a small bridge near Bahua village on the Jalandhar-Nawanshahr-Chandigarh highway here on today. As per information, he was coming from Jalandhar in his car and when he reached near Bahua village, he rammed his car into the bridge while overtaking another vehicle.
	Snake charmer held; reptile released in forest Bipin Bhardwaj Tribune News Service Jalandhar, September 2 Cracking down on a group of snake charmers, the forest officials, members of State Board for Wildlife and the Care of Animals and Protection of Environment (CAPE), India, arrested a women along with a python in Nakodar. Receiving secret information that certain snake charmers were roaming in Baba Muraad Shah Mela in Nakodar for the past two days following which a team of the official lead by Nikhil Sengar, honorary Wildlife Warden, Nawanshehar, and Dr Sandeep Kumar Jain, a member of the State Wildlife Board, launched a search to nab the snake charmers. Talking to The Tribune, Sengar, revealed that after getting a go-ahead from the Chief Wildlife Warden, Punjab, he informed the Divisional Forest Officer, Phillaur, and rushed to the spot, on Thursday evening. The team could only nab a woman snake charmer, named Billo, who was displaying an Indian python in the fair. Her other group members, however, managed to give the officials the slip. Mouth of the reptile, protected under Schedule-1 of the Wildlife Protection Act, was tied with a plastic string to prevent it from attacking the onlookers, revealed Dr Jain. He further added it was a male python measuring nearly 6 feet and seemed to have been captured by the snake charmer recently as its fangs were found intact. The woman and the python were today produced before a Nakodar court this evening. The court ordered to release the python in forest while the woman was sent to jail as she failed to furnish a bail bond of Rs 50,000. The rescue team released the reptile in a forest near Garhshankar late this evening.
	Technical snag hits BSNL exchange Nikhil Bhardwaj Nakodar, September 2 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s (BSNL) telephone exchange of Malsian town, at a distance of 5 km from Shahkot, has developed a technical snag and due to that more than 350 landline users have been running from pillar to post to rectify the fault. Even hundreds of mobiles users blamed low connectivity in the area despite presence of a network. According to sources, the alleged technical snag developed due to the unavailability of Air Conditioners (ACs) and the deterioration of electrical batteries available in the exchange premises. The exchange’s technical infrastructure is outdated and needs immediate upgradation. The exchange has four ACs out of which three are almost damaged and the remaining one which is working, is in need of repair. The problem has forced the BSNL landline users to shift to other private operators. Sources revealed that Malsian town had around 1,700 landline users and in the past four months, the number of users has dwindled to around 1000 only. The same was happening with mobile users. “The exchange’s technical infrastructures requires 20 degree temperature throughout the year and if temperature is not stable, Power Card Supply (PSU) and Local Line Card (LLC) often develop a technical snag and as a result the landline connections stop working,” said an official of the BSNL, requesting anonymity. In event of a power cut, the situation worsens as whole exchange goes dead because of the few minutes backup of available electrical batteries. The same is the case with the mobile tower. Shiv Shambu Gupta and Inderjit Gupta, BSNL users, lamented that from the last one year, not even for a single day did their telephone (landline and mobile) work smoothly and now they were planning to shift to other private operators. SDO Shahkot Telephone Exchange, Ram Parsad said he had already written to the higher authority about the situation of the exchange, “Three electrical batteries of Exchange and one of mobile tower has almost turned into scrap and needs immediate replacement”. In terms of manpower, the Malsian exchange has turned into a ‘one-man army’ as one employee oversees complaints and other operations of the exchange.
	Bajwa bats for Sports Bill Tribune News Service Jalandhar, September 2 Senior Congress leader and Gurdaspur MP, Partap Singh Bajwa has lauded the efforts of the Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken in bringing out the Centre’s Sports Bill and said the issues raised by the latter need to be redressed without further delay. Bajwa, also the president of the Judo Federation of Punjab, said that wide-ranging changes need to be brought within the sports set-up in India. Bringing all the federations and sports bodies under the purview of the Right to Information Act is a step in the right direction, he pointed out. Even if many sports bodies, particularly those responsible for lucrative sports in India, are not taking public (i.e. government) funds, they are serving the public purpose of promoting the sport and for that purpose must fall in the ambit of the RTI, he added. Representation of sports persons within the sporting bodies is a must, even if these bodies are currently being run by administrators. I also agree with the proposal to cap the number of tenures that a person can have at the helm of affairs. Since the youth have more dynamism, younger persons should have a chance at running such bodiexs, he added. While some stakeholders want the bill to be modified slightly, for an overhaul of the system, conditions like the RTI, cap on number of number tenures as well as representation of sportspersons are essential and must remain in the final version, he said.