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Police to issue lookout circulars against runaway NRI grooms
Jalandhar, October 21
The Punjab police will issue look-out circulars (LOCs) against those NRI husbands who have flown out of the country after deserting their wives in Punjab.

A deserted NRI wife narrates her tale of woes to senior police officials at a public hearing in the Police Lines in Jalandhar on Friday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh

44 quintals of poppy husk seized
Nakodar, October 21
The Nakodar police today have seized a large of quantity of poppy husk which was to be smuggled in the nearby areas of Nakodar, Shahkot and Mehatpur. It is said to be one of the biggest seizures ever. The value of the contraband is said to be in lakhs.

ASI ‘thrashes’ Punjab Roadways employee, booked
Jalandhar, October 21
Assistant Sub-Inspector Baljinder Singh was today booked by the Jalandhar Police Division No 8, on the charges of thrashing the driver of a Punjab Roadways bus on Thursday.

Cops all set to present a ‘citizen-friendly’ face
Jalandhar, October 21
In an effort to be more citizen-centric, the Punjab police launched its Facebook page for the Jalandhar Police commissionerate at a formal function organised, here today. This is for the first time that the Punjab police has come up with a noble idea of providing online service to the general public. People can post their complaints and suggestions online now onwards.

DGP Anil Kaushik launches the Facebook page of the Jalandhar Police Commissionerate. A Tribune photo

Police to issue lookout circulars against runaway NRI grooms
Bipin Bhardwaj
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, October 21
The Punjab police will issue look-out circulars (LOCs) against those NRI husbands who have flown out of the country after deserting their wives in Punjab. The unfortunate women, termed as “holiday wives” have reason to cheer as the LOCs will be issued against the NRI husbands immediately after the registration of criminal cases against them at various police stations by the victims and their family members.

The LOCs will be sent to all points of disembarkation, including airports and sea ports, leading to the arrest of the persons as soon as they land there, said the Inspector General of Police, (NRI affairs), Gurpreet Deo.

Deo, who was in the city to redress the grievances of the deserted women from Jalandhar, Nawanshahr and Kapurthala districts, said that this will help in tightening noose around the errant NRI grooms who desert their innocent wives barely a month after their marriage.

In an effort to provide relief to the victims and mete out justice to them, Deo also claimed that all such cases, relating to such affairs, will be shifted from local police stations to NRI police stations shortly. The officer admitted that the Department does not have a database of the NRI “Honeymoon Riders” and asked the abandoned wives to come forward and lodge complaints with the police against absconding husbands.

IG Deo said revealed that the NRI wing of the Punjab police has got 159 cases registered at different NRI police station on the complaint of abandoned wives in the last three years. The number of complaints against the “runaway” husbands is, however, in thousands.

Cautioning the police officer handling such cases, IG Deo said that if any officer was found deliberately not issuing the LOC, where it is required, stringent action will be taken against him.

She asked the women police officer appointed by the government to handle such matrimonial cases more sympathetically. 

44 quintals of poppy husk seized
Nikhil Bhardwaj

Nakodar, October 21
The Nakodar police today have seized a large of quantity of poppy husk which was to be smuggled in the nearby areas of Nakodar, Shahkot and Mehatpur. It is said to be one of the biggest seizures ever. The value of the contraband is said to be in lakhs. The Station House Officer (SHO) Surinderpal Singh said that they had received a complaint that some miscreants were to smuggle the huge quantity of poppy husk in the surrounding areas of Nakodar and the assignment was to come from Rajasthan. The police received the information that a truck (HR 37 C 3941), containing a huge quantity of poppy husk was standing near Pandori village.

Acting on the complaint, the SHO, along with other cops, raided the spot and after intercepting the registration number of the vehicle, the cops immediately surrounded the truck containing the consignment standing near village Pandori. The Station House Officer claimed that the truck was lying abandoned and the accused had already escaped from the scene.

There were six accused and out of this, three have been identified as Narinder Kumar, Raju and Avtar Singh, all residents of the nearby areas in Nakodar and all were still at large, the SHO added.

After impounding the vehicle, a case under Sections 15, 25, 61and 85 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against the six accused and the police has been conducting raids to nab them. 

ASI ‘thrashes’ Punjab Roadways employee, booked
Our Correspondent

Jalandhar, October 21
Assistant Sub-Inspector Baljinder Singh was today booked by the Jalandhar Police Division No 8, on the charges of thrashing the driver of a Punjab Roadways bus on Thursday.

The incident occurred on Thursday late evening when the ASI was travelling to Jalandhar from Chandigarh. He entered into a scuffle with the driver of the Punjab Roadways bus, Gurdev, over some issue and also allegedly thrashed him. Later, the Punjab roadways union also blocked the national highway against the police highhandedness and demanded strict action against the cop.

On the complaint of Gurdev Singh, a case against ASI, Baljinder Singh, who is presently posted in Kapurthala, has been registered under Sections 352 and 186 of the IPC, according to SHO Satinder Singh of Jalanhdar Division No. 8. 

Cops all set to present a ‘citizen-friendly’ face
Bipin Bhardwaj/TNS

Jalandhar, October 21
In an effort to be more citizen-centric, the Punjab police launched its Facebook page for the Jalandhar Police commissionerate at a formal function organised, here today.

This is for the first time that the Punjab police has come up with a noble idea of providing online service to the general public. People can post their complaints and suggestions online now onwards. Available at the web address “www.jalandharpolice.com/facebook” the Facebook page was launched by the Director General Police Anil Kaushik at a Sanjh Kendra, police station Division No 3. The DGP also dedicated the online services on the commissionerate web portal“www.jalandharpolice.com” to the citizens. The DGP was accompanied by Gaurav Yadav, City Police Commissioner, Rajpal Singh Sandhu, ADCP (crime), R.K Sharma, (ADCP-I) and other senior police personnel.

With the launch of the Facebook page, the efficiency of the police services and redressal of public grievances would be enhanced. There will be lesser possibility of police officers required for providing an online forum for suggestions and complaints to the complainants, the DGP said.

He added that the facility will provide an opportunity to the citizens to use this social networking site to post their complaints, suggestions, comments, photographs and other material on the Facebook page which would be addressed to the officer concerned of the Jalandhar Police Commissionerate. Time-bound replies and action taken would be provided as the feedback.

Keeping in view the public convenience, the page has been designed in a simple, user-friendly and interactive mode. The web portal will also offer facilities like police services such as passport verification, status of personal conduct certificate (PCC) verification and the PCC forms (downloading), status of arms license application (downloading), migrant/tenant/servant verification form (downloading).

For online access to the PCC, the forms could be downloaded from the web portal, filled up and physically submitted to the office or at the Community Policing Suvidha Centres. After their verification, the scanned copies of the certificates could be uploaded to the web portal within the stipulated time.

DGP Kaushik also launched the facility of online payment of compoundable traffic challans at the Community Policing Suvidha Centres via a software "Traffic Challan Pro".

The facility is available at the Traffic Offences Compounding Branch and the police stations. With this, the Jalandhar Police Commissionerate has become the first police district of the state to provide such a facility.