Kurukshetra
Police custody for murder accused: The district police has brought Ajay, a professional criminal having a prize of Rs 1 lakh on his head, in the Virender Kakdod murder case from Gurgaon on transit remand. He was produced in the court hereon Wednesday and was remanded in police custody for two days. District police chief Rakesh Kumar Arya said Seel Kumar of Bandowal in Jind district lodged a complaint with the police on October 17, 2011, that Virender Kakdod was sitting in Kurukshetra University market where some persons riding three motorcycles came and opened fire killing him on the spot. 

Sonepat
Woman commits suicide: Meenu (25), mother of two children, committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance in her in-laws’ house at Dodua village under Gohana sadar police station late last night. On the complaint of the victim’s brother, Vinod, the police has registered a case of dowry death against her husband, Somvir, and nine others, including Somvir’s father, mother, uncle and sister. After a postmortem in the local civil hospital, the victim’s body was handed over to her family members. 

Office-bearers elected: Dr Har Bhagwan Dass Arora, president of the Senior Citizens Council, Sonepat, on Wednesday announced the names of office-bearers of the newly constituted executive committee of the council as under: OP Ellabadi and Manohar Lal Chawla — vice-presidents; BLKakkar — general secretary; Harbhagwan Raheja-- secretary; Lajpat Rai Munjhal — accounts inspector; and Harbhagwan Chawla — treasurer. JL Chaudhary, Narain Singh Dahiya, BR Ahuja, Lajpat Rai Dudeja, Prabha Aggarwal, Chander Kanta Batra and Sudershan Sethi are members of the executive committee of the council.