Illegal liquor seized

Residents told about Sanjh Kendras

Dera Bassi, December 8
The Dera Bassi police has organised a function at a police station to inform the people about the services of Sanjh Kendras.

The function was organised to mark the week, which was being organised by Altus Global alliance in Punjab from December 3 to December 9. During this week, people are being informed about the services of police suvidha centres.

Gurdyal Singh, SHO, Dera Bassi, informed the people about the services being provided by Sanjh Kendras.

He said the works carried out at sanjh kendras included passport verification, arms licence service, FIR copy and resolution of complex cases with the consent of concerned parties, cases of unclaimed dead bodies and missing persons and things. — OC

CRIME

4 more fraudsters land in police net
Used to dupe copper, brass and aluminium dealers in six states
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 8
The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of the UT Police has arrested four members of the gang that used to dupe copper, brass and aluminium dealers. All accused, who are scrap dealers operating from Jalandhar and Jagadhri, were arrested on the information provided by the key accused, Gurpreet Singh, who was arrested on December 6.

Those arrested have been identified as Sunil Kumar (26) and Ravi Kumar (32), both brothers hailing from Uttar Pradesh and running their scrap business in Jalandhar. The other two, also scrap dealers in Jagadhri and Haryana, have been identified as Naresh Kumar (45) and Sanjay Sethi (24).

The key accused in the case used to surf Internet and identify dealers in Gujarat, Ratlam, Indore, and Raipur. After the dealers fell in his trap, he used to ask for consignments in trucks to be delivered in the outskirts of Chandigarh. He then used to dupe truck drivers either by giving them fake demand drafts or shifting the consignments to his own truck.

DSP (EOW) Anil Joshi said Gurpreet during the interrogation disclosed the names of his other gang members, who were helping him in the crime and had cheated traders of around six states.

“The accused revealed that the gang members never disclosed their addresses to each other and only used to contact on mobile phones,” the DSP said.

He added that a team was constituted to nab the other remaining four gang members, who acted as decoy customers.

A police team posing as steel and brass dealers contacted the accused, Sunil and Ravi, for selling 1,000 kg of copper and asked them to come to Chandigarh. The accused struck a deal of Rs 4 lakh with the policemen and fixed a hotel in Burail as the meeting point.

“As soon the accused came here, we arrested them and asked them to call the remaining two gang members to finalise the deal,” the DSP said.

A similar trap for scrap dealers from Jagadhri was laid, who also reached Chandigarh with Rs 6 lakh to purchase copper from the scrap dealers arrested earlier.

The police has recovered Rs 10 lakh cash, laptops, SIM cards, mobile phones and a car from their possession.

Man arrested for making fake driving licences
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 8
The Crime Branch of the Chandigarh police has arrested a resident of Attawa village, Chandigarh, for making fake driving licences. The accused used to charge Rs 500 per driving licence and deliver it the very next day to customers.

Inspector Ranjodh Singh, in charge of the Crime Branch, said they got a tip-off that the accused, Sheetal Prashad, was involved in making fake driving licences.

“The accused used to run a racket of fake driving licences of the neighbouring states. He used to make driving licences in a day’s time. All he required was the particulars of customers,” Singh said.

Police officials said the source, who gave the information about Sheetal, had provided them with a fake driving licence of Mohali made by the accused.

The police recovered a computer and a printer from his possession. During investigation, the format of the driving licence was also found in his computer.

The police said the number of fake driving licences made by the accused was yet to be established.

The accused was produced in the court and sent to two-day police remand. A case under Sections 420, 465, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC has been registered against him at the Sector 36 Police Station and an investigation has also been initiated.

SPORTS

Coaching Centre-42 win kabaddi championship
Tribune News Service

Jagjit Singh wins athletics meet
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 8
Athlete Jagjit Singh of DAV College, Sector 10, secured first place in the the 400mt event of the ongoing Panajb University Annual Athletic meet today. The meet is being held at the PU grounds. He won the race with a timing of 51.92 seconds while Gulsher Singh of SGGS College, Chandigarh, finished second with 52.05 seconds. Satnam Singh of SGGS Khalsa College, Mahilpur, attained third place after completing the event in 52.26 seconds.

5000 mt- Umesh Sharma, SSG PU RC, Hoshiarpur (16:07.48 sec.); Jagdev Singh, AS College, Khanna (16:10.89 sec.);Ravi Kumar, DAV College, chandigarh (16:14.77 sec.).

Punjab post 277 in first innings
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