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Helping jail inmate
Two doctors in dock
Faridkot, April 20
Using dubious medical grounds to escape the jail landed an inmate and two doctors in a big trouble in Faridkot. Dr Vishavdeep, a medical officer in the Civil Hospital Faridkot, Dr Darshan Kumar, a doctor in the Central Jail Faridkot, and a jail inmate Baldev Singh have been booked for preparing a fake medical record. 

Snatching incident
No headway in case, Pak woman heads for Lahore
Faridkot, April 20
Three days after a Pakistani woman was plundered by some chain snatchers in Faridkot, she and her husband left for her country today even as the police claimed to have recovered some of the looted goods but failed to crack the case.            

Mahila Cong gears up for local bodies elections
Moga, April 20
The president of the Punjab Mahila Congress, Dr Malti Thapar, has asked the women cadre of the party to gear up for the forthcoming elections of local bodies and panchayati raj institutions in the state.

 Helping jail inmate
Two doctors in dock
Balwant Garg/TNS

Faridkot, April 20
Using dubious medical grounds to escape the jail landed an inmate and two doctors in a big trouble in Faridkot. Dr Vishavdeep, a medical officer in the Civil Hospital Faridkot, Dr Darshan Kumar, a doctor in the Central Jail Faridkot, and a jail inmate Baldev Singh have been booked for preparing a fake medical record. 

A case under the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered after the SP (D) Faridkot conducted an inquiry on the directions of the District and Sessions Judge, Faridkot.

The judge had ordered the inquiry after The Tribune on October 12 last year, exposed how some accused in criminal cases avail of hospital’s ‘comfort’ along with their kin by using fake medical grounds in connivance with doctors.

After The Tribune report, earlier there were two independent judicial and police inquiries, which found doctors guilty of helping an accused in a criminal case to escape the jail on ‘frivolous’ medical grounds.

In another inquiry in the case, SP(D) Lakhbir Singh revealed that with ‘migrating’ pain, the treatment given to the inmate to shift him to the Civil Hospital was a bit dramatic.

The inquiry revealed that the jail inmate, Baldev Singh, and the doctors prepared fake medical grounds so that he escape the jail, using the hospital route and enjoy the homely comforts at the hospital in the company of his kin.

 Snatching incident
No headway in case, Pak woman heads for Lahore
Balwant Garg/TNS

Faridkot, April 20
Three days after a Pakistani woman was plundered by some chain snatchers in Faridkot, she and her husband left for her country today even as the police claimed to have recovered some of the looted goods but failed to crack the case.            

Tahira Hidayat Sufi, a resident of Lahore, was in Faridkot for over two weeks to get her seven-year-old mentally challenged son treated at a naturopathy centre. Three days back, when she was returning to her hotel in the evening, some motorcycle-borne miscreants snatched her bag, containing travel documents, some valuable goods and Pak currency worth over Rs 3 lakh.

A day back, police claimed to have recovered some of the looted articles, including a copy of the Koran Sharif and some torn Pak currency notes. Police claimed the recovered articles were lying on the roadside. But it is alleged that though the police have identified the accused and rounded up some of them, they were let off under pressure from a political leader.

Denying such allegations, Faridkot DSP, Gurmit Singh said the police interrogated some youths in the case, but there was no evidence against them. So, they were released.

Sufi said she was disappointed with the police for its failure to arrest the culprits “My husband Khalid Hidayat Sufi reached Faridkot and we decided to leave today,” she said before leaving for Amritsar to catch the train for Lahore.

This was the third visit of Tahira to Faridkot for the treatment of her son.

  Mahila Cong gears up for local bodies elections

Moga, April 20
The president of the Punjab Mahila Congress, Dr Malti Thapar, has asked the women cadre of the party to gear up for the forthcoming elections of local bodies and panchayati raj institutions in the state.

She was addressing a meeting of the state office-bearers along with district and block-level women leaders here today.

The Punjab Mahila Congress has passed a resolution to thank Congress president Sonia Gandhi and All India Mahila Congress chief Anita Verma for supporting the demand of women Congress workers that for all the women reserve seats in the local body and panchayat elections, the recommendation of Mahila Congress be made mandatory. This was aimed at stopping the practice of parachute and dummy leaders in the elections. — TNS