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Trial conducted on laser operated speed radar
Jalandhar, October 7
ACP (Traffic) Daljinder Singh Dhillon looks at the demonstration of the laser-operated speed radar with camera in Jalandhar on Friday. The Punjab police has initiated a trial on laser-operated speed radar equipped with digital camera to tighten noose around the traffic violators.

ACP (Traffic) Daljinder Singh Dhillon looks at the demonstration of the laser-operated speed radar with camera in Jalandhar on Friday. Tribune photo: Sarabjit Singh

Online visa racket busted
Mohali, October 7
An Amritsar-based couple, Sukhdev Singh (44) and Gurmeet Kaur (35), have been arrested by the crime branch of the Punjab Police for cheating a woman on the pretext of arranging work permit for her in the USA. Tractor-trailers’ entry banned in mandis
Nawanshahr, October 7
The Deputy Commissioner, Shruti Singh, has prohibited the entry of tractor-trailers loaded with paddy in the mandis of the district.

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	Trial conducted on laser operated speed radar Nikhil Bhardwaj Jalandhar, October 7 The Punjab police has initiated a trial on laser-operated speed radar equipped with digital camera to tighten noose around the traffic violators. The equipment, which is to be launched soon, will be the first ever in the state. The Jalandhar traffic police has been given the opportunity to test the viability of this equipment and later, depending upon the report of the traffic police, the equipment will be launched in other big cities of Punjab. The traffic police here has already conducted trials of this demo machine at different places of the city. Diljinder Singh Dhillon, ACP Traffic, said they had initiated trials as they had been asked to submit report in a day or two about the viability or any alterations needed in this equipment. He said in coming month or two the equipment will be launched in the big cities. He said this technique would help to identify traffic violators as the laser video digital camera of this machine can record images between 35 to 100 meters and can recognise the rule breakers. Its perfect zooming facility with higher resolutions can even penetrate into the glass of vehicles, hence, can capture real images of the driver. Overall, its camera can records images up to the range of 1400 meters, He added. “Though the demo equipment is good but we will ask the company to make bit alteration in the equipment so that the cameras can clearly record images from 10 meters to 250 meters, which means perfect zooming without any pixel problem,” he said. This equipment will have an edge over the old speed radar, which could record speed of a single vehicle and was unable to record speed of vehicles in traffic.This equipment can even single out one vehicle from the traffic and can record exact speed of that vehicle.
	Online visa racket busted Rajmeet Singh/TNS Mohali, October 7 An Amritsar-based couple, Sukhdev Singh (44) and Gurmeet Kaur (35), have been arrested by the crime branch of the Punjab Police for cheating a woman on the pretext of arranging work permit for her in the USA. To dupe the unsuspecting woman, Harjeet Kaur of Kot Khasla village, Amritsar, the couple created a fake email ID of a non-existing person George Fernandis (claming him to be an American citizen) and sent work permit visa from the same fake email ID. The couple was arrested and a case was registered under Sections 66A, 66D of the Information Technology Act and Section 420, 465, 468, 471 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code. SSP Crime Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh said the online visa racket came to light when the couple duped the woman from Amritsar. They took Rs 20 lakh from her and sent the fake visa of the USA through e-mail georgefernandis.2011@rediffmail.com. The accused were remanded in police custody after being produced before a Mohali court today. The couple has duped many other innocent people. The SSP said the couple used to collect huge money in the name of George Fernandis. They themselves sent e-mails on behalf of the said George Fernandis to deceive the people.
	Tractor-trailers’ entry banned in mandis Our Correspondent Nawanshahr, October 7 The Deputy Commissioner, Shruti Singh, has prohibited the entry of tractor-trailers loaded with paddy in the mandis of the district. Following the prohibitory orders, the District Mandi Officer has deputed officials at the entry points of the various mandis to check the moisture content of the paddy. So far, as many as 55 tractor-trailers loaded with paddy and having moisture content more than 17 per cent have been sent back by the officials at different mandis. As many as 20,684 metric tonnes of paddy has been procured out of which 6,362 metric tonnes of paddy has been lifted from the different mandis. Payments amounting to Rs 3.55 crore has been made, informed Magal Dass, DFSC.
	Three killed, 8 injured in road mishaps Ashok Kaura Phagwara,October 7 Three persons were killed while eight others sustained injuries in separate mishaps in Phagwara. In the first accident, a cyclist, identified as Ashwini Kumar of Mehtan village, was killed on the spot when his cycle was hit by a speeding Santro car on the National Highway between Phagwara and Chiherru. In the second mishap, a moped rider was killed in a collision between his moped and a three wheeler on Phagwara-Mukandpur road.The deceased was identified as Sat Pal. In the third incident, a rickshawpuller, identified as Jog Raj of Nawanshahr, was found dead under mysterious circumstances near Phagwara railway station. In two separate road accidents eight persons sustained injuries here yesterday
	Youth found murdered Our Correspondent Nawanshahr, October 7 A 24-year-old boy, identified as Kamal, alias Kaka, Mohalla Aranhali, Rahon, was found murdered near Surajkund on the Nawanshahr-Rahon road here today. The deceased was a painter and alleged illicit relation is stated to be the cause behind the crime. Rakesh Kumar, a relative of the youth, said that Kaka was missing since yesterday. They got information from some sources that he was detained at a house in Rahon. They immediately reached the place to enquire where the members of the house said that the youth came at their home with a sharp-edged weapon and even slapped a lady in the house and then left. Rakesh alleged that they were evading queries regarding Kaka’s whereabouts when they kept insisting on the point that the youth had not returned home. Later, Rakesh was information that Kaka’s body was lying along the main road. He suspected that Jaswinder and Laddi of Rahon had masterminded the crime. Dr Narinder Bhargav reached at the site to have firsthand information. Two persons have been rounded up in the case and the police has been working on different theories to solve the case.
	Earning laurels for college Amritsar, October 7 A student of Khalsa College, Gurdial Singh, a budding national Kabaddi player has earned laurels not only for the college but for the whole state as he is the sole representative in the National Junior Kabaddi team, which has won a gold medal in the Junior Asian National Style Championship, held at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia recently. He is a student of BA I at the College. — TNS