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In Talwandi Sabo, it’s Sidhu vs Harminder Jassi after 17 years
Capt to join campaign on Aug 9
tribune
impact
Govt not doing enough for players: CWG champions’ kin
Navjeet Dhillon’s family elated over her medal-winning feat
State govt fails to update info on grants in Lambi
Kiran Bedi calls on DGP Saini
Tarn Taran plant gets coal linkage
MBBS,
BDS admissions
Govt takes U-turn on free uniform, books
Farmers block traffic over erratic power supply
NGOs protest poor facilities at Fazilka rly station
Traders to hold protest
121 peddlers held in 2 months
Rehabilitate addicts, says Naujawan Sabha
Man killed by wife, daughter; three held
1 held for bid to molest girl
2 arrested with 600 gm heroin
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talwandi sabo and patiala byelection
Sunam (Sangrur), July 27 While noted Punjabi singer Balkar Singh Sidhu has been selected for Talwandi Sabo, former SAD leader Harjit Singh Adalatiwala has been given the ticket for Patiala. AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal made this announcement on the concluding occasion of the party’s three-day national executive meeting here today. While Sidhu is a known figure among Punjabis, Adaltiwala, who remained in the SAD for three decades, joined AAP when Patiala MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi had started his election campaign in the Lok Sabha elections. Kejriwal claimed both candidates had a clean image and no criminal case was pending against them. He said the party held discussions on political decentralisation and police, judicial and electoral reforms. He said the next meeting would be held in the first week of September, though the venue was yet to be decided. Kejriwal said though the party activists were desirous of contesting the Assembly elections in Haryana, J&K, Maharashtra and Jharkhand, the party had decided against it. He said the party as of now wanted to focus only on the Delhi Assembly elections. He exhorted the workers to reach Delhi for campaign whenever the elections were announced. A group of Dalits led by Punjab Youth Congress general secretary Poonam Kangra from Sangrur today showed black flags to Kejriwal. The group was detained by the police for about two hours. The group wanted to protest Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann’s statement in the Lok Sabha that the land controversy of Baopur village’s Dalits had been resolved. Patiala: Sources said there was a close fight between Dr Balbir Singh, Yashwant Sharma and Adaltiwala for AAP ticket. The party had almost finalised Dr Balbir Singh's name, but the latter's in-laws urged Kejriwal not to give him the ticket as he was involved in some family dispute. Adalatiwala is not new to politics. He had remained associated with the Akali Dal since 1982. He joined AAP in April this year. (With inputs from Gagan K Teja)
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Juneja is Akali Dal choice from Patiala
Patiala, July 27 By fielding a Hindu face, the SAD, say analysts, would be trying to polarise the community’s votes in an Assembly segment that had remained with the Congress for the last three elections. Once considered close to the Congress leadership, Juneja had joined the Akali Dal. His son Harpal Juneja, who is also into real estate business, is now a local municipal councillor. He is considered close to state Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia. Juneja has a tough contest at hand as he is expected not only to ensure a fight to the Congress rival Preneet Kaur but also ensure that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Harjeet Singh Adalatiwala is routed. The ruling SAD-BJP alliance had managed only 16,342 votes in the segment, which is not even half of the votes polled by debutant AAP, which managed 35,676 votes. The Congress had got 43,238 votes. With all the three major political parties, the Congress, SAD and the AAP, announcing their candidates, poll pundits are expecting a keen contest in Patiala. Though Adaltiwala has made the fight interesting, many in the Akali Dal and even the AAP feel the Congress has an edge. They argue that Preneet Kaur had been nurturing Patiala (urban) for the last 15 years during her tenure as MP. Reacting to the developments related to her candidature, Preneet expressed gratitude to the party high command for reposing faith in her. She claimed she was confident that the party would emerge victorious with a record margin as the entire rank and file was united.
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In Talwandi Sabo, it’s Sidhu vs Harminder Jassi after 17 years
Chandigarh, July 27 An analysis of village and ward-wise results of the Lok Sabha elections held in April reveal that the Akalis have a clear edge over their rivals. They bagged 11,254 votes more than the Congress and nearly 32,000 more than the AAP when SAD-BJP candidate Harsimrat Kaur Badal had successfully taken on main rival Manpreet Badal, a joint Congress-PPP-CPI candidate. Jeet Mohinder and Harminder Jassi have won one election each against each other. In 1997, Jassi beat Jeet by about 3,000 votes. In 2002, Sidhu returned victorious but by just less than 250 votes. Sidhu went on to win the 2007 and 2012 elections, beating Congress candidate Amarjit Singh Sidhu both times, as Jassi moved on to Bathinda (Urban), winning one of the two elections. In the Lok Sabha elections, while the urban voters gave a thumbs down to the Akalis, venting their anger over the imposition of property tax and the absence of an environment conducive for growth of trade and industry, villagers mainly voted in favour of Akalis despite complaining against the SAD-BJP government for its “failure” to check spread of diseases like cancer and pollution from the Bathinda refinery. This indicates that for Akalis, standing by their supporters in rural areas was important. Out of 13 wards of the Rama Mandi town, Akalis could get more votes from their rivals in three wards only (No. 9, 10 and 11). In Talwandi Sabo, Akalis lost badly from nine of the 14 wards. Rural areas remained the strength of the Akalis. They even got more votes from unexpected areas. Residents of Jajjal and Malkana villages, who have witnessed high incidence of cancer patients and deaths, gave a lead of 689 and 228 votes, respectively, to the Akalis over the Congress. The residents have been squarely blaming the Akali government for their plight. Similarly, the voters of Phulo Khari and Rattangarh (Kanakwal) villages, both claiming to suffer the brunt of pollution caused by the Bathinda refinery and had almost boycotted the elections over government’s apathy to their problem, surprised analysts by giving a lead of 378 to Akalis from Phulo Khari and 596 from Kanakwal. While campaigning, the Congress and the AAP candidates will need to attract the votebank of Akalis as well of its candidate Jeet Mohinder Singh, who showed that he has brought good number of votes with him as well when he left Congress early this year and moved to Akalis, thus resigning from the seat and necessitating the by-poll. The Aam Aadmi Party did not put up much challenge in the Lok Sabha election for Bathinda seat but it can prove to be a dark horse and eventually decide the winner by eating into the votebank of either of the two. The party can even hope of winning it if they succeed in fighting the elections in an organised manner with day-to-day involvement of its national leaders.
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Patiala
Talwandi Sabo
Balkar Singh Sidhu
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Capt to join campaign on Aug 9
Chandigarh, July 27 “The Lok Sabha session, which has been shortened by a few days, will conclude on August 8 and I will reach Patiala the next day”, said Amarinder Singh. He said he would get about two weeks to campaign in Patiala where the bypoll has been necessitated following his resignation from the Assembly. Elected three times in a row to the Assembly, Capt Amarinder’s wife Preneet Kaur is the Congress candidate from the constituency. “I may not get enough time to campaign in Talwandi Sabo constituency because I will have to spare a lot of time to discharge my duty as the deputy leader of the Congress in Delhi,” he said. Besides Patiala, Amarinder has a considerable influence in Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda district. In fact, he was first time elected to the Assembly in the 1980s from Talwandi Sabo as a SAD candidate.
‘Badal undermining federalism’
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HSGMC a legal entity: Bajwa
Chanidgarh, July 27 In a statement issued here, he said Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh had made timely intervention. He said he should now withdraw the excommunication of Haryana sikh leaders HS Chatha, Jagdish Singh Jhinda and Didar Singh Nalvi. He said since the Jathedar had decided to mediate by summoning both the sides, it was necessary that the action taken against the three leaders be revoked. "It is apparent that reality has dawned on Badal that the Akali Dal rank and file were not prepared to launch an agitation against the members of their own community in the neighboring state. The BJP has also realised the far reaching consequences the SAD morcha could have on the region as an earlier Akali agitation in 1982 had turned into a catastrophe," he alleged.
‘Don’t point fingers at HP on drug issue’ Jalandhar: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, who was also in the city on Sunday, advised the Punjab Government not to indulge in “blame game” on the issue of drug trade. He said: "It is not possible for the drug trade to flourish without political patronage. The Punjab Government should stress on curbing the menace instead of pointing fingers at HP. As a neighbouring state, we are also prone to the drug menace and I assure all possible help to Punjab in this fight,” he said. Meanwhile, PPCC president Partap Singh Bajwa has expressed dismay over the ongoing probe into the drug racket by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Addressing a press conference here, he said he would soon write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the matter.
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tribune impact
Chandigarh, July 27 So much so that the orders of the tribunal were flouted when the General Manager (GM) of the corporation chose to be absent in court despite orders being issued ‘dasti’ (by hand). The tribunal observed that the corporation was taking its orders leniently and the one-time settlement (OTS) seemed to be eyewash. The judgement pertains to a case involving Rajiv Paper Mills vs PSIDC wherein the court observed that its orders had been taken casually. “No senior officer was present in the court to present the case even though the case had been called three times.” Subsequently, the GM was ordered to be present on the next date of hearing. The court quoted detailed excerpts of an expose published in The Tribune wherein it was mentioned that due to severe resource crunch, the corporation had sought permission to mortgage its building in Sector 17 for Rs 200 crore. The move came as the corporation had not been able to recover loans to the tune of Rs 2,091 crore extended to influential industrialists. The court went on to observe that dismal recovery of debts was due to the “proximity of industrialists with the leaders in power”. The hard-hitting orders, issued by Harcharan Singh, presiding officer of the DRT, also noted that the tribunal was watchful of the gravity of the situation whereby certain other cases to the tune of hundreds of crores were still pending. Despite no stay from this court, the PSIDC was helpless in recovering the dues “because of reasons best known to it”, the tribunal observed. Interestingly, the court also observed that it was not clear that if the defaulters had availed the OTS, why had they failed to honour the same. A senior functionary of the corporation admitted that all the defaulters were major contributors to election funds of various parties. And as such, the government, however cash-strapped it be, was turning a blind eye to the lackadaisical attitude of its babus in recovering bad loans, he said. The major defaulters include Abhishek Industries (Rs 109 crore); Arihant Mills (Rs 200 crore); RK Garg (Indian Acrylics), who owes Rs 147 crore; his brother VK Garg of Alpha Drug (Rs 27 crore) and industrialist HS Cheema of Cheema Spintex (Rs 103 crore). Official documents show that the cumulative losses of PSIDC as on March 31, 2014, stood at Rs 660 crore. Its liability against the previous floating of bonds to common investors is around Rs 200
crore.
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Govt not doing enough for players: CWG champions’ kin
Jalandhar, July 27 Chana and Rajwinder won silver and bronze medals in judo at the 20th Commonwealth Games at Glasgow in Scotland. While Chana won a silver medal by beating Daniel le Grange of South Africa in the semifinal, Rajwinder Kaur won a bronze by beating Kenyan competitor Esther Akinyi Ratugi. The families of both judokas said the government should provide better sports facilities and suitable rewards to players. "Navjot is a born crusader. Despite having suffered two severe injuries in the shoulder and the left hand, he managed to win a silver medal. This can be called a historic win as India has claimed a medal in judo in the Commonwealth Games after 12 years," said Pal Singh Chana, a retired engineer from an automobile company in the UK. "The government should declare a suitable reward for such players," he added. "Despite being government employees and winning national and international tournaments, there is no provision of diet money for such players in Punjab. In fact, Navjot had to approach the Punjab and Haryana High Court to get the rank of an ASI," said Pal Singh Chana. Even the sports kits provided by the Punjab Sports Department were of inferior quality, he alleged. Navjot scored a hatrick in the Commonwealth Championship by winning it consecutively from 2004 to 2010. He also won gold medals at the South Asian Federation (SAF) Games in Colombo in 2006 and the Junior Asian Championship in Syria in 2002. Kuljinder Singh, husband of Rajwinder Kaur who won a bronze medal in her maiden international participation in the Commonwealth Games, also expressed discontentment over the state government's attitude towards players. "Besides the salary, our players get no financial help. They do not get enough international exposure to improve their game," said Kuljinder Singh, himself an international judo player. However, he applauded the PAP support. Rajwinder had been attending training camps for the past around six months. The department allowed him enough time and support to look after their two-year-old son, he said. Additional Director General of Police Gurdev Singh Sahota said the players would get their due on their return. On being asked about the reason for the players not getting any diet money or financial support from the department, he said everything was being provided to them as per the policy of the state government.
Their grudge Despite winning national and international tournaments, there is no provision of diet money for such players in
Punjab. Besides the salary, our players get no financial help. They do not even get enough international exposure to improve their
game.
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Navjeet Dhillon’s family elated over her medal-winning feat
Amritsar, July 27 Navjeet has become the second Indian to clinch a medal at the World Junior Championships after Seema Antil who won the same medal in the 2002 edition of the event. Her father Jaspal Singh Dhillon, a former international shot put player, mother Kuldeep Kaur, a former international hockey player, and brother Jasdeep Singh, a national shot put player, are elated at the feat of Navjeet. Jaspal Singh, who also coached Navjeet, said it was very encouraging that she bettered her personal record and set a new personal best. He said the 19-year-old covered 56.36 m in her throw at the championship in the US. Her previous best was 53.97 m, which she set while winning the Junior Federation Cup in Chennai in May this year, he said. Navjeet is a BA-II student of the Khalsa College for Women. Jaspal, who won a silver medal in the 1985 SAF Games, said, "She practised for about five hours daily at Guru Nanak Dev University ground." Before the start of this championship, he took Navjeet to Romania for training, he said. "Four to five months of sweltering heat here does not allow athletes to exercise to their optimum level. It also limits their food intake," he said. "Weather conditions, exercise and food play an important in any power game," he added. Navjeet's mother Kuldeep Kaur, who was part of the Indian women hockey team that won a silver medal in the 1986 Asian Games, said both her children Navjeet and her brother Jasdeep adopted individual games as one could display his or her full strength in such games only. Navjeet's first major success came in the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2011 where she won a bronze medal with a throw of 45.27 m. She also took part in the senior category of Asian Grand Prix last year and was placed seventh in the Asian Championships at Pune, she said. Navjeet set a new national junior record in shot put (15.89m) in the Junior Federation Cup this year. Navjeet's parents have approached the Athletics Federation of India with the plea that she should be trained at the best international institute in the world so that she could give her best at the national and international level. They expressed hope that Navjeet would be a new hope for the country at the next Olympics. Navjeet's brother Jasdeep became national shot put champion in 2012. He secured the bronze medal in the senior nationals last year. Now, he is training for the Asian Games. Navjeet is expected to return home on July 31.
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State govt fails to update info on grants in Lambi
Lambi, July 27 Facing flak from the Congress, the CM had ordered that these boards be put in place. He had said the move was aimed at bringing transparency. These yellow and blue coloured boards, which look similar to boards giving information on Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) projects, have been
set up on the outskirts of villages in Lambi assembly segment. In Badal village, the board installed outside the panchayat ghar showed that the state government had spent Rs 3.30 crore on development works from 2008 to 2012. Some of these projects include the construction of new government buildings, houses for the poor, repair of some old buildings, etc. Some locals said the boards had just proved to be a waste of money. Additional Deputy Commissioner ADC Ramvir Singh said, “When these boards were installed, the parliamentary elections were about to be held and that’s why fresh information on development works was not displayed. We will update the information soon.”
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Kiran Bedi calls on DGP Saini
Jalandhar, July 27 She held deliberations on the various aspects related to the drug menace so as to form a comprehensive action plan which will be submitted to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. The meeting was attended by the IG Narcotics Control Bureau, Ishwar Singh, and Jalandhar Police Commissioner Kunwar Vijay Pratap, besides representatives of Amritsar-based drug re-habilitation centre. Addressing the media, Bedi said during her last meeting with Badal, the latter had asked her to prepare a plan to check the drug menace. “We have reached a conclusion that cut in drug supply chain and rehabilitation of addicts hold the key,” she said.
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Tarn Taran plant gets coal linkage
Jalandhar, July 27 Sources said in its meeting on July 24, the committee had conceded to the request of the Punjab Government to the Union Coal Ministry to award tapering coal linkage of 1.2 million tonnes for six months. KD Chaudhri, CMD, Punjab State Power Corporation Limited, said: “The tapering coal linkage has been given for six months. We are hopeful that the thermal plant will start commercial operations by the end of next month.” The annual coal requirement of the thermal plant is 2.4 million tonnes. The sources said it had been made clear by the committee that the supply of coal was subject to its availability without affecting supply to other power units, which had been placed higher on the priority list for coal supply. However, the committee has for the time being turned down the proposals of the Tawandi Sabo and Rajpura plants for the supply of additional coal required for enhanced installed capacity. The capacity of the Talwandi Sabo plant has been increased from 1,800 MW to 1,980 MW while that of Rajpura plant from 1,200 MW to 1,400 MW.
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MBBS, BDS admissions
Faridkot, July 27 After the end of second round of counselling by the university, the latter has failed to update its website on the remaining seats even two days after the counselling. Sources said over 300 eligible students are facing uncertainty on the matter. While the parents of many students today sent a representation to the state government demanding transparency in the admission process, Dr SS Gill, Vice Chancellor, BFUHS, said as there were some cases of overlapping in admissions in several medical colleges, the university was scrutinising its records before making the same public. The BFUHS had last updated its website on July 25. It had stated that a total of 261 MBBS seats, including 100 for NRIs, were vacant.
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Govt takes U-turn on free uniform, books
Mohali, July 27 But the parents have now been asked to arrange for uniforms and books for their wards. Several parents and members of the Government Teachers Union (GTU) are upset with this decision of the Education Department. Karnail Singh Sandhu, president, GTU, said: “The government had earlier claimed to provide all facilities to students in these schools free of cost. Now they have been asked to arrange for uniform and books. Besides, these students will be deprived of annual scholarship of Rs 30,000 under the Dr Hargobind Khurana scholarship scheme.” “The decision will impact several students belonging to poor families,” said a parent of a student who got admission to the residential school in Mohali. Meanwhile, classes in these schools will now start from August 4 instead of August 1. Earlier, the classes were scheduled to begin from July 1, but due to incomplete infrastructure these were delayed by a month.
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Residents lock liquor vend in Moga village, force staff to flee
Moga, July 27 The villagers alleged that the women residents of their village were facing serious problems due to this vend as drunk men often created nuisance and passed lewd remarks against them. “The girl students of the village have to stand near the vend to wait for buses and tempos, which put them in an uncomfortable situation,” the villagers said. Block samiti member Sarban Singh and panchayat member Jaswant Singh Pappi alleged the vend was located close to the bus stop in a thickly populated area. “The people were demanding for quite some time to shift it to some other place but the district administration did not listen to them,” they said. Pappi revealed that the residents of the village had even given a shop to the liquor contractors on the outskirts of the village but the latter did not budge. On Sunday, the villagers, including women, first carried out a protest against the state government, particularly the district administration, and then themselves forcibly locked the vend. They also forced vend employees of the liquor contractors to run away.
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Farmers block traffic over erratic power supply
Morinda, July 27 The farmers had started gathering at the 66-kv substation at Burmajra village since 8 am. Later, they staged a dharna. They said the government had promised six-hour daily power supply for agriculturists, but they were getting electricity for just around 2 hours daily. They got power supply for a little over an hour yesterday, said farmer Gurtera Singh Kang. That was not sufficient to water even one acre of land under paddy. On Friday and Thursday, the power was made available for two hours and that too at unscheduled time, said Harjit Singh of Dulchi Majra. The agitating farmers were joined by local MLA Charanjit Singh Channi while they were holding dharna on the Morinda-Ropar road. In case, the power supply was not improved by tomorrow, Congress workers would stage protests in all Assembly segment, Channi said. XEN (Grid Maintenance) NS Rangi and PSPCL SDO Gurvinder Singh, who reached the spot, told protesters that power could not be supplied properly to their villages due to a technical snag. Now, the fault in power supply line had been rectified and there would be no problem. A meeting of farmers would be arranged with officials tomorrow to address their other grievances, they said. Following this, the farmers lifted the blockade around 1 pm.
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Children traffic park a picture of neglect
Mandi Gobindgarh, July 27 In the absence of any security arrangement, the park has become a safe heaven for drug addicts. Traffic lights and other equipment have also been stolen from the park. Residents said there was no check on drug addicts frequenting the park. The park was inaugurated by former Director General of Police, Punjab, KPS Gill on October 20, 1994. The aim was to create awareness about traffic rules among schoolchildren. The authorities had constructed roads, footpaths and traffic signs to educate children about traffic rules. The Traffic Education Cell of the district provided training to schoolchildren here. Now, the park wears a deserted look as the traffic lights and other items have been stolen in the absence of any security arrangement there. The washrooms constructed in the park are also in poor condition. A former municipal councillor said even the designer steel angles installed around the Agarsain Park had been dismantled. The civic body was not paying attention to the maintenance of these parks, he added. MC Administrator-cum-SDM Rajdeep Kaur said the renovation of the traffic park would start soon. A tender had been already awarded to a contractor to carry out the necessary repair work in the park at a cost of Rs 4.5 lakh, she said.
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NGOs protest poor facilities at Fazilka rly station
Fazilka, July 27 Nearly 21 women members of the union sat on an indefinite fast. Raj Kishore Karla, President of the NGO, Social Welfare Society, said, “No official of the Railways has addressed our grievances even though we have been on a strike for 17 days.” Dr Amar Lal Baghla, convener of Sanjha Morcha, said they would burn the effigy of chairman, Railway Board and Division Rail Manager, Ferozepur Division, every four days from now on. The agitators have been demanding the revival of the washing line at Fazilka, which was dismantled in 1991, when the meter gauge track was converted into broad gauge. They demand that more trains should connect Fazilka town with the National Capital. So far, under pressure from the striking members, the Railways have increased the number of passenger coaches from four to six with DMU trains running between Fazilka, Bathinda and
Amritsar, Ludhiana.
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Traders to hold protest
Fatehgarh Sahib, July 27 Varinder Rattan, district president of the Beopar Mandal, termed the amendment as anti-trader and illegal. He said the traders shouldn’t be made to pay tax on goods that had not been sold. He said the Beopar Mandal was grateful to Local Bodies Minister Anil Joshi for taking a stand against the government in this regard.
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121 peddlers held in 2 months
Fatehgarh Sahib, July 27 Addressing mediapersons, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Gurmeet Singh Chauhan said they seized 5.4 kg opium, 600 kg poppy husk, 71 gm smack, 35,400 narcotic tablets, 1,767 capsules, 221 injections, 568 bottles of syrup, 450 gm heroin and 1.5 kg narcotic powder. He said majority of the drug peddlers were lodged in Nabha jail. He said the police had set up committees at village-level so that drug addicts could be identified and taken to de-addiction centres for treatment. He said the station house officers had been directed to keep a close watch on peddlers and criminals.
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Rehabilitate addicts, says Naujawan Sabha
Tarn Taran, July 27 Jaswinder Singh Dhesi, state president of the Naujawan Sabha, condemned the state government for arresting addicts. He demanded that they be rehabilitated with the assistance of the
government. The youths organised a protest march in the town against the drug menace and the politicians linked with the drug trade.
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Man killed by wife, daughter; three held
Batala, July 27 The police said Amanpreet Kaur, her lover Sukhpal Singh (24) of Veera Kotli village and her mother Balwinder Kaur committed the act since the victim, Sukhdev Singh, objected to her relationship with Sukhpal. The three killed Sukhpal with sharp-edged weapons, the police said. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Bikram Pal Singh Bhatti claimed since it was an open-and-shut case, the police arrested the three within 24 hours of the murder. He said the family had been having arguments over Amanpreet having an affair with Sukhpal. He said yesterday night, Amanpreet called Sukhpal Singh to her house. However, when Sukhdev, who had gone out, returned home and found Sukhpal in her daughter’s room, he got angry. The police said the three accused overpowered Sukhdev, when he started shouting, and killed him with sharp-edged weapons. The accused then threw the body into a drain. “During sustained interrogation, all the three confessed to their crime. We have also recovered the weapon used in the crime,” the SSP said. A murder case has been registered and the accused will be produced before a court tomorrow morning.
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3 killed in mishaps
Abohar, July 27 Meanwhile, Anil Kumar (28), a teacher, died when the Maxima van in which he was traveling overturned near Chak 7NP village in Sriganganagar. In another case, Bhola Singh (27), a small farmer, was killed as a Tata Magic vehicle overturned near Chak 17 MD village in Sriganganagar last night.
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1 held for bid to molest girl
Mandi Gobindgarh, July 27 The girl told the police said that she was on way to Desh Bhagat University along with her sister in connection with her admission. While she was standing in front of the university, Karamjit of her village came on his motorcycle and tried to outrage her modesty. He pulled her by the arm and tried to force her to sit on the rear seat of his bike.
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2 arrested with 600 gm heroin
Tarn Taran, July 27 Cases under section 21, 61, 85 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, have been registered against the accused. The police authorities say ever since the state started cracking down on the drug peddlers, there had been a decline in
drug trafficking. “Besides, we have creating awareness among drug addicts, urging them to shun drugs and avail treatment at the local civil hospitals,” they said.
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