Missing lawyer yet to be traced
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22-year-old girl goes missing from Pinjore
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Kalka, February 22
A 22-year-old girl went missing under mysterious circumstances from her house in Bitna Colony, Pinjore, here on Thursday. The police said that mother of the victim has lodged a complaint with the Pinjore police station that her daughter has been missing since yesterday, when she (mother) had gone to market from 3.00 pm to 4.00 pm. When she returned, she found her daughter missing from home. She repeatedly tried to contact her daughter on phone but in vain.

In her complaint Jasbir (mother) alleged that Mani and his mother Kanchan, residents of Pinjore, have kidnapped her daughter, as they had been offering proposal to marry her for more than one year.

The Pinjore police has registered a case under Sections 363 and 366 of the IPC and has started the investigations. The police has formulated a team in this context, which also raided at the residence of Kanchan at Mani Majra, which yielded no result.

Two snatchers held in Ambala
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Ambala, February 22
The local police has arrested two youths for allegedly snatching a purse of a woman in Sarafa Bazar at Ambala City this evening.

According to information, Charu Chawla, a resident of Mahender Nagar, was going on a rickshaw when three motorcycle borne youths came. One of the youths tried to snatch her purse but their motorbike skidded and the alleged snatchers fell down.

The passers-by nabbed the other two snatchers while another one managed to escape. Later, the snatchers were handed over to the police.

The police has registered a case against the snatchers under Sections 356 (Assault or criminal force in attempt to commit theft of property worn or carried by a person), 379 (theft) and 511 (attempting to commit offense punishable with imprisonment for life) of the IPC.

Man gets life term for killing wife
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Ambala, February 22
Special judge of Ambala Fast Track Court Vimlesh Tanwar has sentenced life term imprisonment to Gulshan, a resident of Ambala Cantonment, for killing his wife. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on the accused.

According to prosecution, the deceased, Indu, was married to Gulshan. The couple could not beget any child after several years of their marriage. She was harassed by her husband for not bearing any child. On January 17, 2012, Indu sustained serious burn injury and was referred to the Civil Hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries on February 3, 2012.

On her statement she had held Gulshan responsible for her condition. The police has then registered a case under Section 302 of the IPC against Gulshan.

Nirmal Yadav case: Hearing adjourned to March 21
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Chandigarh, February 22
The hearing of the bribery case involving former Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Nirmal Yadav was adjourned to March 21 today. The court has to decide on two applications.

The first is: Former Haryana Additional Advocate General Sanjeev Bansal, an accused, on February 19 applied for his discharge from the case. CBI special public prosecutor Anupam Gupta today sought time to file a reply to the application, saying the agency had only two days to study Bansal’s application.

The CBI will strongly oppose the application moved by Bansal on the next date of hearing on March 21, sources said.

In the second application, the CBI sought permission to place on record evidence against Bansal in a document, which was not attached with the chargesheet.

Sanjeev Bansal had made a false alibi at the time the case came to light in August 2008 that the packet containing Rs 15 lakh, which his munshi delivered to Justice Nirmal Singh, instead of Justice Nirmal Yadav. Nirmal Singh, on being contacted, had denied knowing Bansal.

This particular one-page statement that contained his alibi was not attached in the chargesheet.

The CBI declared since their was a discharge application filed they wanted to get to the root cause of the issue and also see how the application was never attached in the chargesheet.

Extortion bid: Second accused in police net
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Mohali, February 22
The local police today arrested the second accused in the case of issuing threats for extortion to a local contractor Gurjit Singh by two miscreants posing themselves as fake terrorist of Babbar Khalsa group.

The accused, identified as Rahul, alias Ricky, is cousin of Vinod Kumar, alias Gattu, alias Soni, who was arrested yesterday in this connection. Giving details, DSP (City I) Rajinder Singh Sohal said Ricky (22) along with his cousin was issuing threats to Gurjit Singh through SMSes in the name of Babbar Khalsa group, asking him to pay Rs 1 crore or ready to face consequences.

“They had stolen a SIM card, which was used for the crime. They were at Mohali when they sent the SMSes and made a call to Gurjit Singh,” said Sohal.

The miscreants had also fired a shot with a country-made revolver on the car of the contractor. “During interrogation, the accused have confessed that they had a country-made revolver, which they bought from Uttar Pradesh. We are yet to recover the weapon,” said DSP Sohal.

Patti resident Ricky, a class 12 passed out, was an accountant at a shop there. He had also worked for two years at Kharar.

Gattu was arrested yesterday in this connection and has been sent to two days remand under police custody. Ricky has also been sent to two days remand by the court today.

DSP Sohal added that both Gattu and Ricky were drug addicts and notorious criminals. “Both had already been registered in two cases of causing grievous hurt under Sections 326 of the IPC at Patti,” said DSP Sohal. The Mohali police has registered a case under Sections 386, 506, 120B, 66, 67, of the IPC against the duo at Phase VII police station.

Companies booked under highway Act
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Zirakpur, February 22
Following the complaint of the National Highway Authority of India, the police has registered a case against some companies for having illegal accesses near the Ambala-Chandigarh National Highway.

A case has been registered under Section 188 of the IPC, 8B National Highway Act 1956 by the police against those companies which have illegal accesses.

The police said that the companies, which have been booked in this case included Mayagarden, Eisher, Marble Zone, Sethi Dhaba, wine shop, Shere Punjab Dhaba. These companies had been violating the rules for having illegal accesses to have a direct approach for national highway.

Thieves target car in Mohali, steal tyres
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Mohali, February 22
In another incident of theft of car tyres, thieves targeted a Polo car (PB65N-0165) parked outside the owners’ residence in Sector 69. The thieves took away all the four tyres of the car and left the vehicle on bricks.

The owner of the car, Saby Anand, said he was shocked to see his car on bricks. “It was parked on the pavement in front of my house, along the main road dividing Sector 69 and 70. As some senior officers and a political leader also reside in the locality, security staff is deployed here. I am surprised how the thieves managed to strike here,” he said.

The police was informed, following which it started investigating the case.

Two similar incidents had occurred on February 5, when thieves had targeted an i20 car in Phase VII and a truck at Raipur Kalan village.

Two drug peddlers arrested
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Chandigarh, February 22
The Operation Cell of the Chandigarh Police has recovered around 900 grams of charas from two passengers travelling on a Himachal Roadway bus. The accused, Atma Ram and Sonu Thakur, both belonging to Kullu district in Himachal Pradesh, were frisked at the ISBT-44.

Sources said during the initial interrogation, the accused disclosed names of some of the city-based drug peddlers, who used to purchase narcotics from them and sell it to youths in small quantities.

Both the accused were produced in court and remanded in one-day police custody.

Two held for murder bid, kidnapping
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Mohali, February 22
The Mohali police today arrested two persons, Mangu and Iqbal, on the charges of attempt to murder and kidnapping.

The accused along with four others—Dalbir, Sonu, Mintu, Makhan and Ishrat—had allegedly attacked Derra Bassi-based Subhash Chand and his 20-year-old son Shubham, before kidnapping the youth.

The police said Mangu was also involved in last month’s incident of damaging the car of Dera Bassi-based property dealer Rajesh Bittu, who was later murdered on February 14.

Man booked for duping car dealer
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Chandigarh, February 22
The police has booked a Dera Bassi resident for duping a city-based Chevrolet car dealer of Rs 5 lakh.

Dharminder Sidhu, senior sales manager at Padam Motors, alleged that Deepak Kumar purchased a Beat car for Rs 5.5 lakh, paying Rs 97,000 in cash and the remaining amount through a fake cheque of Indian Bank. Later, the accused threatened Sidhu and refused to pay the rest of the amount. A case under Sections 406, 420, 506 of the IPC has been registered against the accused.

16 teams to vie for cricket cup
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Vivek High Asian Cricket Academy win by 18 runs

Chandigarh, February 22
Vivek High Asian Cricket Academy Beat Vivek High Asian Cricket Academy Juniors by 18 runs and enter into finals of 2nd Sardar Bhagwant Singh Memorial Cricket Tournament 2013, organised by Vivek High Asian Cricket Academy played at Vivek High School, Sector 38 B, Chandigarh. Vivek High Asian Cricket Academy won the toss and elected to bat first.

Brief scores: Vivek High Asian Cricket Academy: 188 runs for 9 in 30 overs.

Vivek High Asian Cricket Academy Juniors: 170 runs for all out in 27.4 overs. — TNS

100 students participate in annual sports day
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