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PUNJAB

Activists of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Committee and SGPC employees show seized Sikh religious books in Amritsar. Photo: Vishal Kumar

Amritsar
Sikh religious material seized: Activists of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Committee on Sunday seized four gunny bags containing Sikh religious literature. They claimed that the books were being transported in a disrespectful manner. They later handed over the seized material to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, which took it to the Golden Temple. The SGPC would hand over the books to Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh on Monday.

Fatehgarh Sahib
Proclaimed offender woman among 2 held: A proclaimed offender-woman was among two persons arrested in separate cases by the police. Parmjit Kaur, a resident of Ramdas Nagar in Sirhind, who was declared a proclaimed offender by the court in a check bounce case, was arrested following a tip-off. She was produced in the court, which remanded her in 14-day judicial custody. In another case, the police arrested Raj Kumar, a resident of Pasiya Gorva village in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, after recovering a huge consignment of habit-forming drugs from him.

Ludhiana
Man commits suicide:A 25-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his house in Daba today. The deceased has been identified as Dharminder Singh. He was alone at his home when the incident took place. It came to light this afternoon. Soon the police reached the spot and sent the body to the civil hospital for postmortem. Dharminder, who worked in a factory, was reportedly in depression after his wife deserted him.

Tarn Taran
Rape case against four brothers: Four brothers of Chhapri Sahib village have been booked for allegedly raping a married woman of the same village. A case has been registered against Karaj Singh, Kuljit Singh, Rana and Kala at Goindwal Sahib police station. In another case, an unknown person abducted a teenaged girl of Chabal town. The victim was a Class IX student. A case has been registered.

Eight booked for detaining power staff: Police has booked eight Kisan Sangarash Committee leaders for allegedly detaining power officials who had gone to disconnect an illegal connection. Paramjit Singh, owner of a wheat mill in Booh Hevelian village, 35 km from here, where the illegal connection was to be cut, has also been booked. Powercom employees were on protest for the last four days and were demanding action against the accused. In his complaint, an Sub-Divisional Officer alleged that the accused detained him and his three team members for four hours.

HARYANA

Kurukshetra
Two arrested: The police supporters have arrested two boys, Manoj of Faridabad and Ajit Singh of Gori village in Faridabad, for allegedly passing indecent remarks on some schoolgirls near Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Thanesar, on Sunday.

Smack seized: The police has arrested Verender of Pehowa and seized 5-gm smack from him near Gurdwara Chowk here on Sunday. He was produced in a court, which remanded him to judicial custody.

6 boooked: In a complaint lodged with the police, Labh Kaur of Guldera has alleged that her daughter, Gurvinder Kaur, was married to Gurvinder Singh of Gaadli in this district on February 9, 2010, and since then her husband and his family members had been demanding dowry. She has also alleged that her daughter had been beaten up by them. The police has registered a case against six persons in this connection.

Police custody: The police has arrested Satish Kumar of Shahabad for allegedly stealing jewelry from the residence of Surender of Shahabad. Satish Kumar was produced in a court here on Saturday, which remanded him to two-day police custody.

Three held:The police has arrested three persons for allegedly beating chowkidars and snatching their mobile phones and cash at Shahabad on July 26 night.