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2 boys drown in sarovar at Muktsar gurdwara
BSF seizes heroin worth Rs 8.75 cr in Fazilka sector
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Vigilance team reviews Abohar sewerage system
Students end stir as colleges raise number of seats
Real estate developer robbed of Rs 30 lakh, car
Woman succumbs to burn injuries
Man kills friend for not lending him money
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2 boys drown in sarovar at Muktsar gurdwara
Muktsar, July 20 The deceased were identified as Harnadar Singh and Danishbir Singh. They were regular visitors to the gurdwara but apparently did not know how to swim. The incident took place at about 7:40 pm when the boys went inside the pond to take a holy dip. Some devotees who were performing the 'parikarma' of the sarovar saw them drown and raised an alarm. Meanwhile, the gurdwara management called the police, which in turn, called a private diver and started a rescue operation. The diver managed to locate them and brought them out quickly. They were immediately taken to a private hospital nearby where the doctor on duty declared both of them as brought dead. Till that time, the boys had not been identified. Later, some regular visitors to the gurdwara identified one of them as Harnazar Singh, son of Ekonkar Singh, the owner of Nishaan Academy in village Aulakh. The other boy was identified as Danishbir Singh, son of Raghubir Singh, a mechanic near the Ajit Cinema here. The bodies were shifted to the mortuary at the local Civil Hospital, where the parents of the deceased also arrived. ADC Baldev Singh, SDM Dalwinderjit Singh and DSP Kamalpreet Singh were also present on the spot and they tried to console the bereaved family members. An eyewitness, Naseeb Kaur, who works in the District Administrative Complex (DAC), said, “First, one boy went inside the pond and called his friend to join him. But within a few seconds, they disappeared. Then we people raised an alarm and called the police.” At the time of filing this report, the father of Harnadar Singh was seen requesting to the officials of the district administration to allow them to take away the body without getting the postmortem done. However, the parents of Danishbir were yet to arrive. Speaking over the phone, Deputy Commissioner Parmajit Singh, who was out of station, said, “As of now, we have not announced any compensation but we will see if the rules allow it.” |
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BSF seizes heroin worth Rs 8.75 cr in Fazilka sector
Fazilka, July 20 The heroin weighed nearly 1.750 kg and its cost is stated to be `8.75 crore in the international market. It is learnt that during a search operation, sleuths of the 51 Battalion, BSF, led by their commandant Girdhari Lal Meena, recovered two packets of heroin wrapped in yellow polythene bag. The bag was found buried under the barbed wire fencing falling in the area of
Border Observation Post (BOP) GG 1, near the pillar number 242. |
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Vigilance team reviews Abohar sewerage system
Abohar, July 20 After reviewing the situation, the Chief Vigilance Officer, BP Singh, observed that the sewerage system was in workable condition but the sewerage pipes were lying blocked as none had bothered to remove the silt for the last one year or so. Singh has issued necessary instructions to the MC officials and asked to arrange for technical staff from neighbouring towns to put the sewerage system back in order within 10 days. It is learnt that the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board (PWSSB) used to take care of the maintenance of the sewerage system. However, the MC forced the PWSSB to pack off by not approving the annual budget for maintenance of water works and sewage disposal system last year. A few days ago, the leader of the Congress Legislature Party, Sunil Jakhar, led a dharna on the Seetogunno road to express anguish over the choked sewerage system. He spoke to the Minister for Local Bodies Bhagat Chuni Lal over the phone and the latter had directed AK Sinha, the director of the department, to initiate action. Some BJP councillors had also staged a dharna against the MC, which is run by their own party. During the stir, it was alleged that the MC president had not been visiting the office for the last couple of weeks; the executive officer seldom attended his office; and that the MC had not been provided engineers or technical persons to run the sewerage system. |
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Students end stir as colleges raise number of seats
Faridkot, July 20 Following the district administration’s intervention, the Barjindra College authorities agreed to increase the number of seats in BA degree course from the existing 616 to 900. At the government-run Shaheed Bhagat Singh College in Kotkpaura, the number of seats has been raised from 600 to 750. Students were protesting for over a week after the college authorities started admitting students on merit basis. The number of applicants was many times more than the number of seats available in degree courses at these government-run colleges. The students demanded that the number of seats should be raised and the merit criterion for admission be waived. “The colleges have increased the seats but the admission will be made strictly on the basis of merit,” said Deputy Commissioner Ravi
Bhagat. |
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Real estate developer robbed of Rs 30 lakh, car
Abohar, July 20 The complainant Satish Sharma is the director of a posh colony developed by razing a textile mill and labour quarters. The colony had courted a controversy recently as the PUDA informed an RTI activist that it had not been given approval while the developers claimed that the colony was approved by the Punjab Government. Satish Sharma informed the district police chief about the incident over the cell phone around midnight and later, he informed DSP Raj Kumar Jalhotra, SHOs Darshan Singh and Surinder Pal Singh. The complainant stated that the incident occurred near a beer bar located on the Hanumangarh-Seetogunno bypass last night. He was accompanied by Bahawalbassi village sarpanch Harcharan Singh "Charna", a panchayat member Gurbux Singh "Gachhi" and one Ranjeet Singh of Mohali. Sharma stated that while they were waiting for Harcharan Singh, who had gone to the bar, five persons came in a Swift Desire car. Two of them, who were armed, allegedly forced Sharma and others to come out of their car by pointing a revolver at them. They also fired two shots in the air to scare their victims. The miscreants fled with the car, which had a bag containing `30 lakh, Sharma claimed. The police has registered a case under Section 392 of the IPC against five unidentified persons. Sources said that during a search this morning, the police did not find any empty cartridge at the site. |
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Woman succumbs to burn injuries
Abohar, July 20 The victim, Manpreet Kaur of street number 11 in Dharam Nagari here, was on Wednesday night admitted to the Nehru Memorial Civil Hospital here with more than 90 per cent burns. Her condition being critical, she was referred to a Faridkot hospital. She had alleged in her statement that her husband Damanpreet Singh along with five other masked men intercepted and set her afire when she was returning home after escorting her mother to a clinic. The police today added Section 302 to the FIR registered yesterday under Sections 307,148 and 149 of the IPC. The police said the culprits would be arrested soon. — OC |
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Man kills friend for not lending him money
Muktsar, July 20 The police said the deceased, Nacchatar Singh (60), and the accused Jassa Singh were good friends. Jassa stabbed Nacchatar Singh with a ‘kirpan’ when the latter refused to lend him money, the police added. A case has been registered at Sadar Muktsar police station. Till the filing of report, the accused was at large. — TNS |
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