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High drama outside IG Lokpal’s house Revenue officials outside the residence of IG (Lokpal) SL Gakhar on Monday. A Tribune photograph
In run-up to polls, CM’s village becomes the new protest capital
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High Court comes to rescue of girl shunted out of NIS
No House session today
Legislators’ report card
Bhattal warns against complacency
Khaira taken into preventive detention
Lure for extra bucks sees parents pushing kids into drugs
Badals giving ads to own channel: Capt
Golden Temple plaza work finally begins
Construction work on outside the Golden Temple. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Capt Amarinder examined on 2007 poll advertisements
2 students die in road mishap
Power plants heap miseries on residents of Malwa belt
Gursharan’s ashes immersed into Sutlej
Sidhu’s no to TV show Bigg Boss
Awareness campaign to check stubble burning
Three missing Mansa youths traced
Workers’ unions seek amendment to ID Act
Farmers block traffic, seek early paddy procurement
Farmers led by Kuljeet Nagra blocking the traffic on GT Road in Sirhind. A Tribune photograph
Three held with hawala money Income Tax and police officials count hawala money seized by Rajpura Police on Monday. A Tribune photograph
2 notorious
peddlers held with 400-kg poppy husk
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High drama outside IG Lokpal’s house
Patiala, October 3 Sources said Gakhar was away when the officials reached his residence and tried to take possession of the house. However, they were stopped by policemen at Gakhar’s house. PWD Estate Officer Amarjit Singh claimed that the officials were only complying with the warrants of possession issued by the court of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate as Gakhar had overstayed in the house. “Gakhar has not vacated his Patiala residence since his transfer from the town on September 29, 2010. Hence, it was decided that he be charged commercial rent. Now, rent arrears amounting to Rs 10 lakh are pending against Gakhar”, claimed Estate Officer Amarjit Singh. “Gakhar failed to vacate the house and a vacation suit was filed under the Punjab Public Premises Land and Eviction Rent recovery Act: 1973, which was accepted by the Collector-cum-SDM on June 27, 2011, and subsequently eviction orders were issued ”, explained PWD officials. However, Gakhar said: “I was transferred to Chandigarh as IG Lokpal in 2010 but am yet to be allotted a house in Chandigarh which is why I have not vacated my Patiala residence.” Gakhar further claimed that he had not received any notice from the PWD or the Revenue Department to vacate the house. “I have already filed an appeal with the Patiala administration for extending my stay in the house till some residential accommodation is allotted to me in Chandigarh. While my appeal is pending, how can the authorities try to take possession of my house”, he asked. Significantly, Gakhar is holding a probe into the alleged illegal operation of buses by private transporters in the Union Territory of Chandigarh on the orders of Punjab Lokpal Daljit Singh Dhaliwal.
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In run-up to polls, CM’s village becomes the new protest capital
Badal (Muktsar), October 3 While the village lies fortified since the past several months, the protesters have been keeping the cops on their toes. Therefore, various unions, particularly those of unemployed youth or non-regular employees, have been making a beeline to the village, in a last ditch effort to get their demands approved. Among the organisations that have already staged protests are those of unemployed youth demanding jobs, contractual employees seeking regularisation of their services and employees demanding hike in emoluments. Besides, anganwadi workers and landless khet mazdoor unions are in row to take their turn to make headway to Badal village to register their anguish. Today as well, over 350 assistant system mangers, accountants and office executives working on contract basis in the Punjab Land Record Society reached the village demanding regularisation of their services. These employees were engaged on contract basis six year ago for the computerisation of land revenue record. The policemen tried to stop these "unwanted guests" at a 'naka' on the Bathinda-Badal road, but a few of them sneaked inside the village. Over 80 of them were women. And in the absence of women constabulary, the police faced a tough time. Though stopping the protesters at nakas put up on the entry of Badal village was a routine for the police, the police was taken by surprise when several of them reached near Badal's house. A special team from Lambi, led by a DSP and a SHO, reached the village and bundled the protesters in jeeps. Harpreet Singh, state president of the protesting Punjab Land Record Society, accused the policemen of misbehaving with the women protesters, though Lambi DSP Bhupinder Singh denied the allegations.
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High Court comes to rescue of girl shunted out of NIS
Chandigarh, October 3 Coming to the girl’s rescue, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has now quashed the orders cancelling her admission. Taking up the matter, Justice Surya Kant also directed the Union of India and other respondents to hold supplementary examinations in accordance with the rules and regulations to prevent her career from being adversely affected, in case the semester exams had already been held. In her petition placed before Justice Surya Kant, the girl - her name is being withheld to protect her identity - had earlier claimed that her admission to 2011-12 session was cancelled vide order dated July 18 on the ground of her being medically unfit for the weightlifting course. Elaborating, the petitioner had contended that the order was passed after the pregnancy test was found to be positive during her medical examination. The petitioner had added the respondents had apparently mixed up her medical report with that of someone else. In an attempt to substantiate her contentions, she relied upon medical certificates of July 7, July 8 and July 13, wherein the doctors had categorically specified that her pregnancy report was negative. Throwing a challenge to the admission cancellation orders, the petitioner had contended that she was willing to undertake another medical test, if so required by the authorities concerned. Allowing her petition, Justice Surya Kant not only quashed the impugned orders, but also made it clear to the respondents to allow her to pursue the diploma. Before parting with the orders, Justice Kant granted the respondents the liberty to get a fresh medical examination of the petitioner conducted at Patiala’s Rajindra Hospital, if so required. Setting it right *
The petitioner's admission was cancelled after she was declared pregnant due to mixing up of reports *
The HC has quashed the orders cancelling her admission at the NIS, Patiala *
Government directed to hold supplementary examinations to prevent her career from being affected
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Chandigarh, October 3 After obituary references, Sahni got up to request the Speaker not to hold the session tomorrow. He insisted on his demand, saying holding the session would amount to disregarding the sentiments of the Hindu community. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal intervened and urged the Speaker to consider the request. The Speaker rescheduled the session for October 5 morning. Later, on the request of Congress legislators, it was made an afternoon session. With Dasehra falling on October 6, the second session is likely to be held on October 7. Earlier, the House paid tributes to deceased members, prominent personalities and freedom fighters, including Jatinder Singh Kariha, Lehna Singh Tur, Daya Singh Sodhi, Harbans Singh Sidhu, Chaudhary Darshan Singh, Karnail Singh and Sheela Gujral. — TNS
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Legislators’ report card
Bathinda, October 3 Congress legislators OP Soni (Amritsar West), Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria (Amritsar), Tej Parkash Singh (Payal) and Rana Rajbans Kaur (Kapurthala) chose to remain mum. Akali MLA from Banur Jasjit Singh Bunny and Congress MLA from Malerkotla Razia Sultana, BJP legislator from Ludhiana North Harish Bedi Congress MLA from Sangrur Surinderpal Singh Sibia, Budhlada MLA Mangat Rai Bansal and Panj Garain MLA Joginder Singh asked ony a few questions. It is to be seen how the legislators fare this assembly session. Mum MLAs * Congress : MLAs OP Soni (Amritsar West), Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria (Amritsar), Tej Parkash Singh (Payal)and Rana Rajbans Kaur
(Kapurthala) * SAD-BJP: Gurbachan Singh Babehaali (Gurdaspur), Harmeet Singh Sandhu (Tarn Taran), Rajwinder Kaur Bhullar (Nurmahal) and Ujagar Singh Wadali (Morinda) of the SAD-BJP have remained mute spectators so far *
It is to be seen how they fare this session Most
Vocal * With 141 questions (120 starred), Cong MLA Makhan Singh raised the maximum number of questions *
Independent MLA Ajit Singh Shant from Nihal Singh Wala, Congress MLA from Sardulgarh Ajit Inder Singh Mofar and Akali MLA from Valtoha Virsa Singh Valtoha posed 125 queries each *
Congress MLA from Bholath Sukhpal Singh Khaira asked 121 questions * Congress legislator from Kharar Balbir Sidhu 118
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Bhattal warns against complacency
Chandigarh, October 3 Sources said Bhattal, addressing CLP members in the party office after the first session of the assembly, said there was a feeling that the party’s popularity had gone down with some Congress men becoming complacent in the belief that Congress victory was a certainty. Bhattal said she had talked to Pradesh Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh and discussed ways to take on the SAD-BJP combine in the assembly. Earlier, Baghapurana legislator Darshan Singh Brar said bureaucrats, unlike a few months ago, were not attending calls from Congressmen. This tilt towards the SAD was ominous. Bhattal, when contacted, denied she had made a statement on the party’s popularity graph. She said more could be done and one should not under-estimate one’s rivals (SAD-BJP). The CLP has reportedly decided to force adjournment motions on the manner in which the public distribution system was being run as well as the transport policy. Talking to mediapersons, Bhattal said the party would release a “ white paper” on how central funds for social welfare schemes had been used to finance Sangat Darshan programmes. Bhattal said the changes made in the transport policy owing to which 600 PRTC buses were lying idle would also be brought up in the assembly. Cong MLAs walk out of House panel meeting Two Congress members of the Business Advisory Committee, Avtar Singh Brar and Brahm Mohindra, on Monday walked out of a committee meeting in protest against the “majority decision” to curtail the assembly session. They said the Akali committee members wanted only three sessions, as the House would now meet on October 5 afternoon. Bhattal claimed this decision proved the Akalis wanted to shun any discussion.
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Khaira taken into preventive detention
Kartarpur (Jalandhar), October 3 As they began moving towards Jalandhar, they were stopped by the police.The were told in the presence of SDM Babita Kaler that they were being taken into preventive detention.The protesters were taken to the local police station where they were detained for over two hours. “It is undemocratic to stop a peaceful protest. The government was afraid that we would expose its misdeeds,” said Khaira. He alleged that that the norms of the transport policy were relaxed by the government to benefit the Badal family. “This is just the tip of the iceburg. Further investigations will expose more shady deals,” he added. Capt condemns police action Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief Capt Amarinder Singh, condemning the detention of party legislator Sukhpal Singh Khaira, said the entire party supported the protest as it was necessary to expose the “misdeeds” of the Badal family.
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CM must come clean: PPP
Chandigarh, October 3 “It seems that benefits have been doled out by the Badals to leaders of all parties, to please his alliance partners as well as his political enemies,” the PPP leader said. Manpreet said he had faith in the judiciary. “Each time a wrong has been committed, the courts have come to the rescue of the poor man. Though the court has not issued notices to Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Badal, the duo should themselves come forward and clarify their stand. Let them prove that they have committed no wrong,” he added.
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mean parenting
Kotkapura (Faridkot), October 3 The District Red Cross Society, Faridkot, came across these children 40 days back following a tip-off. "The informer disclosed that a group of small children in the railway station area of Kotkapura were hooked to some dangerous synthetic drugs and they were indulging in various crimes like pick-pocketing and purse snatching," said Roshan Lal Goel, secretary of the DRCS. The information was shared with Deputy Commissioner Ravi Bhagat. Following this, the administration sent a van to Kotkapura and 11 such children were brought to Faridkot on August 16. The kids underwent treatment at the Red Cross De-addiction Centre. Addicted to various synthetic drugs, these children told the counsellors that they were encouraged to start taking drugs by their own parents and some adult drug addicts. Once addicted, they were given the drug dose only after they met certain demands of the adults. The demands were to bring more and more money, indulging in pick-pocketing, rag-picking or purse snatching, said DC Ravi Bhagat. "We summoned the parents of these children and warned them of serious legal action if they pushed the children back into drugs or any other crime. We have also written to the district police to identify and arrest the drug addicts and chemists who were providing and supplying drugs to such children," said the Deputy Commissioner. After their treatment at the de-addiction centre, the DC met these children on Friday. "We have handed over the custody of these children to their parents and asked them to send the children to schools," said the DC. Sources said the DRCS and the district administration would keep a constant watch on these children and the activities of their parents. The parents of these small children were poor migrants from Bihar and some of them also indulge in rag-picking.
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Badals giving ads to own channel: Capt
Chandigarh, October 3 Capt Amarinder also claimed that the Badal family had shares in the Fastway cable network, which, he alleged, had monopolised the airing of TV channels. He said the party would bring the matter to the notice of the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry as well as the Election Commission. Amarinder said PTC was owned by Gur Baz Media Private Limited, which had 74.99 lakh shares, constituting 99.9 per cent of its total equity. He said Rabindra Narayan and Rajiee Meher Shinde owned 500 shares at the rate of Rs 10 per share. Gur Baz Media was fully owned by Orbit Resorts, which was owned by the Badals. Amarinder said during the past four years the SAD-BJP government had paid Rs 66 lakh to PTC and Rs 63 lakh to Fastway Cable. The former CM claimed that exclusive commercial telecast rights of all important sports and cultural events were given to PTC by the Sports Department, which was directly under Sukhbir Badal. He said contract stipulations were tailor-made for PTC. Referring to the Gurbani telecast rights, he said for the past 11 years, the SGPC had allowed to the channel exclusive telecast of Gurbani from the Golden Temple without inviting tenders or following any other procedure, causing a huge loss to the Sikh community’s exchequer. He said during the 11-year period, mandatory payments (first by ETC and then PTC since their inception in 2007) had not been made. These included Rs 2 crore as one-time signing amount, Rs 50 lakh annual charges and 10 per cent of the advertising revenue in India and abroad.
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Golden Temple plaza work finally begins
Amritsar, October 3 The entire area where the work is on has been encircled with tin sheets. The agencies engaged in the work have also constructed two “jora ghars” (shoe keeping facility), one each on the either side of the shrine’s main gate to facilitate the devotees while the construction work is on. Deputy Commissioner Rajat Aggarwal said a deadline of 15 months, starting last week, had been set for construction work of the prestigious project, which means the plaza will take final shape by December 2012. In the upcoming plaza, apart from a spacious ‘jora ghar’, all amenities would be underground, including a state-of-the-art interpretation and information centre for tourists. As there is a lot of VVIP movement at the Golden Temple, the plaza will have a separate lounge to accommodate dignitaries and their entourage. An auditorium with a seating capacity of 100-150 persons would be built so that a visiting dignitary could address the media. A bank, ATM, airport and railway inquiry booth would also be set up. The plaza, spread over 1.75 acres, will have a flooring equipped with radiant cooling and heating system so that devotees could walk barefoot without any discomfort during extreme weather conditions.
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Capt Amarinder examined on 2007 poll advertisements
Chandigarh, October 3 He was appearing as a witness before Justice Rajive Bhalla in connection with an election petition, challenging his victory in the elections. The former CM was examined by petitioner Sukhbir Singh’s counsel-cum-senior advocate Satya
Jain. Captain replied in negative to the query on payment being made to his election agent M P
Pandav. He also expressed ignorance about money being spent on the advertisements in response to a query about huge amounts being spent by Khalsa Panchayat and Friends Club,
Ropar, on advertisements in favour of Captain and other publications against Badals during the Assembly Elections. During his two-hour long examination, Captain said expenditure on advertisements was mostly made by Pradesh Congress
Committe. His examination is expected to continue on Tuesday. The election petition against his victory was filed by a voter Sukhbir Singh alleging his corrupt practices. The petitioner has alleged Captain incurred expenditure beyond the permissible limit on his poll campaign. Moreover, he was allegedly responsible for incorrect filing of election expenses and had, thus, indulged incorrupt practice attracting the provisions of the Representation of the People's Act.
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2 students die in road mishap
Sangrur, September 3 According to information, the students of Baba Fareed School, Barnala, were returning along with their four teachers after a picnic tour to Chandigarh when the accident occurred near Verka milk plant in Sangrur. The injured were rushed to the local Civil Hospital where Raghuveer Singh (12) was declared brought dead while another student, Sukhjinder Singh (13), died at a Patiala hospital this morning.
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Power plants heap miseries on residents of Malwa belt
Faridkot, October 3 As five super thermal power plants in the Singrauli area are found to be responsible for 10 tonne per annum of the total mercury pollution through power generation, the environmentalists in the state are concerned about the hazardous impacts of the six thermal plants within 50-km radius of Bathinda. While two thermal plants, Guru Nanak Dev and Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant, are functional in the Bathinda area, the work on four new thermal plants is also in progress. While two functional coal-based thermal plants in Bathinda were already emanating a huge quantity of fly ash, which contains high mercury concentration, four more thermal plants in the region would make the life miserable for the people of the area, said Dr GS Dhillon, a consultant engineer of the Water Resources Development Projects, Punjab. The five thermal plants in Singrauli had turned the region into one of the 22 critically polluted areas identified by the Central Pollution Control Board, so would be the fate of this region also, said Dr Dhillon. While there was never any study on mercury emission in the thermal plants of the Bathinda area, Singrauli’s thermal power plants released about 10 tonne of mercury per year, Dhillon said. So far the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) was measuring nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide and suspended particles matter in the thermal plants, said KS Pannu, chairman, PPCB. But the PPCB had no hitch in checking the release of the highly-toxic mercury to ensure the safety of the residents of the area, said Pannu. “Besides Singrauli, we will also get inputs from the thermal plants in Jharkhand and Bihar to take further action,” said the PPCB chairman. In his paper on “Mercury Emission form Thermal Plants”, Dr Dhillon quoted a report from the United Nations Environment Programme, telling that three-fourth of the global mercury emissions were from the coal-fired thermal plants and the total volume was about 199 tonne annually and 56 per cent of the above was contributed by the Asian countries. “Six thermal plants with 9,280 MW power generation capacity will need over 1.625 lakh tonne of coal daily and that will release a large volume of mercury and other toxic metals,” Dhillon said.
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Gursharan’s ashes immersed into Sutlej
Ferozepur, October 3 Thousands of people, including the familymembers, friends, litterateurs and fans from over the state, besides representatives of various arts, cultural and social organisations, were present on the occasion. Bhaaji’s daughters, Navsharan Kaur and Areet Kaur, immersed the ashes amidst an emotionally charged atmosphere as his followers raised slogans like “ Gursharan Singh Amar Rahe”. — OC
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Sidhu’s no to TV show Bigg Boss
Chandigarh, October 3 “To me, the party and the people of Amritsar come first though it will be a big financial loss for me”, said Sidhu. A few months ago when the offer was made to Sidhu, he had announced that he would take part only if his party gave him permission to do so. Sidhu said the party high command had made him in charge of the party election campaign in the state. “I am preparing the campaign schedule. It will be launched at the appropriate time”, he said. The BJP, a coalition partner of the SAD, is preparing to contest 23 assembly seats in the state. Sidhu, who is considered close to Gadkari, has made Sidhu in charge of the campaign because of his popularity with the youth.
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Awareness campaign to check stubble burning
Patiala, October 3 Speaking to The Tribune, Pannu said: “Month of October witnesses high pollution in the entire state because of the paddy stubble burning. Hence, we have decided to spread awareness among farmers about the ill effects of burning the paddy stubble. With an aim to convey the farming community that burning of the paddy stubble pollutes the environment, the PPCB will undertake a campaign through print and electronic media, with eye catching couplets, exhorting the farmers to discard paddy stubble burning.” Giving further details about the campaign, Pannu said he had already spoken to the state Education Department functionaries about the October 13 awareness rally and had got an assurance that the students from all the government schools of the state would take out the march in their respective villages, mentioning the adverse effects of the paddy stubble burning on the environment and subsequently on health. “I would also speak to the head of the CBSE Punjab region, so that students studying in the CBSE schools also do the same on October 13,” Pannu stated. The timings of the awareness rally would be from 11 am to 1 pm, he added. Replying to a query that why only October 13 has been chosen for the awareness rally, Pannu said: “As per our data, the maximum pollution, like concentration of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM), on account of the paddy stubble burning is recorded on October 13. I am hopeful that the month-long campaign will yield desired results.” Meanwhile, Pannu also said he had prepared a draft of the bill against paddy stubble burning and had sent the same to the state government for its consideration. Notably, it was Pannu who drafted the bill that paddy sowing should not be started before June 10, which was later enforced in the form of an Act by the then Punjab government in year 2008.
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Three missing Mansa youths traced
Mansa, October 3 “Mansa police has no knowledge of Jalandhar police picking up the youths from its area,” said Gursewak Singh Jawarke, the national general secretary of SAD (Amritsar), who is supporting the affected families. Mansa SSP HS Parmar said parents of one of the missing boys approached him saying their son had gone to gurdwara and did not return. “Neither of the boys are wanted in Mansa nor we have any role in detaining them. We do not know that the Jalandhar police had arrested the boys,” said
Parmar.
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Workers’ unions seek amendment to ID Act
Patiala, October 3 Talking to The Tribune, Advocate Anil Sood said as per the Industrial Disputes (Amendment) Act, 2010, the purpose of the amendment was to empower the Labour Courts or the Tribunals to execute the awards and orders of settlement. He said the Government of India had passed the Industrial Disputes (Amendment) Act, 2010, and the amended Act had been made applicable from September 15, 2010. Some of the amendments made were inconsistent with the main Act and were also against the interests of the working class, he said.
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Farmers block traffic, seek early paddy procurement
Fatehgarh Sahib, October 3 They raised slogans against the government and said the government had claimed to start the procurement process from October 1 by giving advertisement in newspapers, but till today, not even a single grain had been purchased. On the other hand, Lakhvir Singh Sondha, district president, Arhtiya Association, in a press release issued here today, strongly criticised the state government for its failure to start the procurement process. He warned that if the government did not start the procurement process by October 5, the commission agents, farmers and labourers would block the roads for indefinite period. Meanwhile the strike by the procurement staff of the four major procurement agencies have badly hit the procurement process at all the 33 procurement centres in the district. Only Pungrain has purchased nominal paddy, where as the FCI entered the market to make purchase but the commission agents boycotted the FCI and refused to sell paddy to it. The private players and rice millers have started procuring the paddy in the absence of the government agencies but they are procuring at their will. The farmers and commission agents urged the government to end the strike of procurement staff and to start procurement process, otherwise they have to face the consequences in the coming Assembly Elections.
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Three held with hawala money
Patiala, October 3 Giving further information, SP Rajpura Manmohan Kumar Sharma said the accused were to handover the money to someone in Hoshiarpur. Police personnel have set up a special naka at the Shambu border, Rajpura- Ambala road. During the checking of the vehicles, they spotted an SUV Fortuner with sticker of Press on the front and the rearview mirror, said Sharma. He further said the accused had identity cards of some Karnataka based printing press. During the search, the cops recovered Rs 3.47 crore from the Fortuner, he said. Police officials said the accused had confessed that they were employees of the Samrood Jiwan Food Agro Company in Karnataka and they were to handover the money to someone in Hoshiarpur, as per the instruction of their boss. The Rajpura cops have handed over the seized money to the Income Tax department for further investigations.
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2 notorious peddlers held with 400-kg poppy husk
Parmod Bharti According to information, the accused, Kuldip Singh of Mahalon village here and Daljit Singh of Mandiala Kalan village in Ludhiana, had already been sentenced to 10-year imprisonment under the NDPS Act in separate cases. Both were out on parole. The duo met in Ludhiana jail and planned to join hands in the illegal trade of smuggling poppy husk and opium from Rajasthan while out on parole, said SSP Dr Narinder Bhargav. On seeing the police party, the accused turned their truck towards a link road and accelerated the speed too. The police followed the vehicle and succeeded in overtaking it. A case under Sections 15, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act has been registered. During investigation, it has come to light that nine cases were already pending against Kuldip Singh and two were against Daljit Singh under the NDPS Act at various police stations in the state.
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Patiala, October 3
As the assembly elections are drawing closer in Punjab, Badal, the native village of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, is in the spotlight not only due to the increasing political activity but also on account of the growing number of protests taking place here.
Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira and his 218 supporters were today stopped from marching towards the Jalandhar ISBT with the objective to gherao luxury buses owned by the Badal family. The police took them into preventive detention for over two hours. Carrying placards, Khaira and his men assembled at White Spot Resort here where they raised slogans against the
SAD-BJP government.
Chandigarh, October 3
Amritsar, October 3
BJP’s big boss Nitin Gadkari has told Amritsar MP Navjot Singh Sidhu not to take part in Bigg Boss TV reality show.
Sidhu, a former international cricketer-turned-politician, was offered Rs 7 crore to participate in the show. He has reportedly declined the offer as dorected by the party top brass.
Fatehgarh Sahib, October 3
Patiala, October 3
Ever heard about parents pushing their children into drug addiction? Eleven kids of Kotkapura, all below 13 years, were made to take synthetic drugs by their parents and some adults so that they don't face any inhibition in begging, stealing, snatching or rag-picking. It is probably the worst form of child labour.
Prior to this, the pre-construction activities like shifting of underground cables and pipelines from the construction area consumed a lot of time. However, the construction work has begun on a swift note with JCB machines and trucks being pressed into service for digging and shifting earth at the green belt right in front of the main gate of the Golden Temple.