20042024-ATR-01.qxd 4/20/2024 12:12 AM Page 1 c m y b Amritsar tribune FORECAST MAINLY CLOUDY SKY MAX 35°C | MIN 24°C YESTERDAY MAX 30°C | MIN 21°C MAN ATTACKS DOCTOR IN ESI HOSPITAL, ARRESTED SALMAN SPOTTED AT MUMBAI AIRPORT WITH TIGHT SECURITY JUNAID KHAN COMPLETES HIS SECOND UNTITLED FILM A factory worker was held for allegedly assaulting a doctor posted at the ESI Hospital in Hoshiarpur. P2 Days after a firing incident outside his residence, Salman was spotted at Mumbai airport. Back page Junaid Khan has completed filming for his upcoming second film following an intensive 58-day shoot. Back page » » » SUNSET SATURDAY 7.03 PM SUNRISE SUNDAY 5:54 AM SATURDAY | 20 APRIL 2024 | AMRITSAR INBRIEF 16 MORE MOBILES SEIZED FROM JAIL Amritsar: A day after seizure of 30 mobile phones, Amritsar central jail authorities today confiscated another 16 cell phones from the high security complex. Seven chargers, two data cables, an air phone and 30 bundles of bidies were also seized from the premises. The prohibited material was found abandoned. Following a complaint by Ajmer Singh, Assistant Superintendent of Jail, the police have registered a case under the Prison Act against unidentified people. TNS 3 MORE WEAPONS RECOVERED Amritsar: The city police today recovered 3 more weapons from two snatchers, who were arrested with a country-made pistol three days ago. Police Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said the police have seized three more pistols of .32 bore calibre along with an air pistol and four bullets from the possession of Kanish Kundra and his accomplice Gurpreet Singh Nihala who was also nabbed in the case. He said they used to sell stolen vehicles to unscrupulous elements after forging documents. Kundra alias Bhalwan was the mastermind behind the gang, he said. TNS Rain, hailstorm, strong winds 2,633 MT wheat arrives in grain markets in district flatten matured wheat crop Tribune News Service Tribune News Service Amritsar/Tarn Taran, April 19 A short spell of downpour coupled with strong winds and hailstorm today in isolated areas of the district damaged matured wheat crop ready for harvesting. The farmers claimed that up to 20% of crop have been flattened in some of the areas. “The wheat crop is almost mature and harvesting has been started on Baisakhi (April 14). But the weather conditions are uncertain that led to delay in the harvesting. Today, high velocity winds and hailstorms damaged the crops in periphery areas of the city. The winds are not favourable for mature crop as plants get flattened,” said Gurpeet Singh, a farmer from Khankot. Satnam Singh, another farmer from Pandoori village, said: “We are fearing the cloudy weather and rain. The grains containing moisture would not be procured in the market. The unfavourable weather conditions are delaying the harvesting that would affect the yield of crop.” Flattened wheat crop in Rasulpur village, and (right) a farmer inspects damaged wheat crop at Kathunangal village near Amritsar on Friday. PHOTOS: GURBAXPURI AND VISHAL KUMAR The rain filed all the potholes and low lying areas on the city roads, causing inconvenience to the commuters. The residents are demanding to conduct patch work to fill the potholes from government. “Almost all the major roads in the city needed patch work as water accumulation in potholes can be seen in the city everywhere. The MC should conduct patch work on priority,” said Surinder Kumar, a resident of Majitha Road. In Tarn Taran, heavy rain and hailstorm damaged the wheat crop. In the afternoon, there was heavy rain in Tarn Taran, Patti, Khadoor Sahib, Khemkaran areas of the district. The wheat crop in grain markets got damaged as most of the crop was lying under open sky in Tarn Taran, Chabal, Sarai Amanat 33 vehicles challaned under ‘Safe School Vehicle’ campaign on Day 1 Tribune News Service Amritsar, April 19 The Traffic Police and District Child Protection Unit today inspected school buses across the district under the “Safe School Vehicle” drive, and issued challan to 33 school vehicles that were found unfit to ply. The inspection was launched on a directive from Deputy Commissioner Ghansham Thori. RTA secretary Arshdeep Singh said with the support of SDMs, the School Education Department and Police Department efforts were being made to implement the safety norms to ensure the safety of schoolchildren. “We will continue to carry out regular inspections of school vehicles, keeping in mind safety of the children. The drivers, essential equipment, documents and other facilities were checked and wherever lapses were found, the challan was issued,” Singh said. School heads will be booked for any accident due to unfit vehicles, says Transport Dept Traffic police and District Child Protection Unit officials inspect a school vehicle in Amritsar on Friday. TRIBUNE PHOTO He said 33 school buses violating the safe norms have been challaned on the day 1 of the drive. Out of the total 33 vehicles, 17 challans were issued by the RTO office, while the rest challans was issued by the District Child Protection unit. He said before this, a spe- Man arrested for killing, burning body of his pregnant wife in Beas Tribune News Service Amritsar, April 19 A six-month pregnant woman was killed allegedly by her husband in Bullenangal village in Beas here today. The accused identified as Sukhdev Singh burnt her body inside the house in order to dispose it of. However, the local people informed the police which reached the spot and sent the half-burnt body for a post mortem examination. Gurwinder Singh, SHO, Beas police station, said the accused was arrested in this connection. Jyoti, a resident of Kaler Deceased Pinky Ghuman village and the victim’s mother, told the police that Pinki got married to Sukhdev, a daily wager, around four years ago. She said he used to physically assault her daughter over one issue or other. Pinki had told about her woes to her family over phone a number of times. She said she along with her family and relatives asked Sukhdev to desist from this, but in vain. Jyoti said Pinki was six months’ pregnant, while Sukhdv was not going to his work for days now. She said he had kept pigeons on his roof and was involved in pigeon flying competitions. He hardly used to take her daughter (Pinki) to doctor for checkup. She said today the couple had a quarrel over some issue following which he murdered her daughter and later burnt the body. cial meeting was also held with the SDS, DEO, District Child Protection Officer, Traffic Police officers, in which it was decided that the Education Department should take it in writing from every school head that the buses or vehicles transporting students from schools meet all safety standards. “Under the safe school vehicle policy, it is important that school heads must enforce all the terms and conditions of vehicle safety. If any kind of accident happens, then a police case will be registered against the school head/principal,” the RTA secretary said. Referring to the same, he said a police case has been registered against the school principal, school traffic in-charge and the driver regarding the recent road accident in Mahindergarh, Haryana in which eight schoolchildren died a few days back. Amritsar, April 19 Grain markets in the district witnessed today arrival of 2,633 MT wheat, with this total arrival reached 3,570 MT. Officials said 1,409 MT crop was procured by government and private agencies, while 2,161 MT remains unsold due to more moisture content in the grains. Even though the government had initiated procurement from April 1, the grain markets in the district has not seen much arrival of the wheat crop until yesterday as harvesting in the region usually begins a week after Baisakhi. Arrival of wheat is yet to pick up pace at grain markets of the district as cloudy weather conditions and rain in isolated areas disrupted harvesting. District mandi officials said the harvesting season has begun as the mandis in the district recorded an arrival of 3,570 MT with fresh arrival of 2,633 MT today. The district officials appealed to the farmers to bring fully ripened crop in which moisture content is less than 12% so that they do not have to wait for pro- Arrival of wheat crop started at Bhagtanwala market. SUNIL KUMAR curement by the government agencies. On Thursday, Deputy Commissioner Ganshayam Thori visited Bhagatawala grain market and asked the officials of various departments to ensure that the farmers face no trouble in selling their produce. Thori said all arrangements at 57 grain markets in the district were in place, and the farmers were yet to bring any produce in many markets. Thori said arrival of 7.50 lakh MT wheat was expected in district. He also asked the officials to ensure that all commission agents have sufficient number of tarpaulin sheets so that these could be used to protect the crop from untimely showers. Besides, the DC appealed to the farmers to refrain from burning crop residue in the fields. Cops stop agitating farmers from approaching BJP poll rally venue Debt-ridden farmer dies by suicide Khan, khadoor Sahib and other areas. Dilbag Singh, a farmer from Lalu Ghuman, and Sukhwinder Singh, another farmer from Rattoke villages, said hailstorm has caused heavy loss to matured wheat crop. Harpal Singh, chief agriculture officer, said wheat fields were dry as a results there was no loss to the crop and the yield. Tribune News Service Amritsar, April 19 Activists of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) and Bharti Kisan Union gathered at Majitha today to ask questions to BJP candidate Taranjit Singh Sandhu, but the police didn’t allow them to reach the venue of a BJP programme. The farmers led by Sarwan Singh Pandher staged a protest near the venue and raised slogans against the BJP and its candidate. The farmer unions had asked cadre to question representatives of all political parties, including the BJP regarding their demands. On this occasion, Pandher alleged that the AAP government in state was stopping the farmers from questioning the BJP He said the farmers . were there to ask questions in a peaceful manner. “Heavy restrictions were imposed and attempts were made to stop us, but the farm- KMSC members protest near Majitha in Amritsar on Friday. ers broke the restrictions and reached near the venue of BJP function. Then heavy police force has been deployed in front of Majitha-Fatehgarh Churian Road. Then farmers and labourers started protesting by sitting on road and shouted slogans against the government,” said Pandher. He said if someone does not think it was necessary to answer people’s questions even before getting a vote, then how they will listen to the people’s after holding some post in government. District secretary KMSC Gurlal Singh Maan said asking questions was a fundamental right of the people in a democracy and this process would continue in the coming days. Today, BJP representative from Khadur Sabha constituency Manjit Singh Manna was also supposed to be questioned under the leadership of district president Ranjit Singh Keller, but Manna cancelled his programme. Tarn Taran, April 19 Sukhraj Singh Sukh (45), a farmer from village Shukarchak Cheema Khurd who was under heavy debt, committed suicide by strangulating himself in the cattle-room of his house. The family saw the body hanging from the girder in the early hours on Thursday. The deceased left a suicide note on the basis of which Gurwinder Singh, a resident of Chhina Bidhai Chand, a commission agent of Khalra grain market and an unidentified employee of the Khalra branch of HDFC Bank, have been booked under Section 306 of IPC by Sarai Amanat Khan police. A case has been registered on the statement of the deceased’s wife, Harwinder Kaur. The deceased had taken a loan of Rs 2.5 lakh from the commission agent which was increased to Rs 13 lakh. He was also to pay Rs 30 lakh on the loan taken from the HDFC Bank. He was under heavy mental stress over the debt and committed suicide by hanging himself from the girder. —OC Doctor booked for ‘sexually BJP leader arrested in ‘assault’ case Party writes to EC harassing’ woman patient PK Jaiswar Tribune News Service Tribune News Service Amritsar, April 19 The police have booked a doctor for sexually allegedly harassing a woman patient in Khandwala area here. The accused identified as Rakesh Sharma was absconding since the incident took place. The victim alleged that she went to Rakesh Sharma for taking medicine for stomach ache on April 13. He diagnosed swelling the uterus and advised to administer drip. She said he sent her husband outside and started the treatment. She alleged at that time there was no staff in the clinic. She alleged that taking c m y b the advantage of this, the accused started teasing her by passing objectionable and vulgar remarks. She also alleged that the accused touch her inappropriately and proposed her for friendship. She said she got afraid and started crying. On this, when her husband came inside the clinic, the accused slipped away from there. She said due to this her health deteriorated and she could not lodge a complaint with the police at that time. She lodged a complaint with the Chheharta police yesterday, prompting the police to registered a case under Section 354A of the IPC against the accused. Amritsar, April 19 Hours after BJP leader Neeraj Rajput was arrested in connection with an alleged assault case, the party today accused the Punjab Government and city police of acting under political influence. BJP Punjab unit general secretary Jagmohan Singh Raju also wrote to Election Commission of India and Chief Electoral Officer, alleging that the sole purpose behind the arrest was to disrupt campaign of Taranjit Singh Sandhu, BJP candidate from Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency. Besides, he alleged that the officers did not respond to repeated calls after the Mohkampura police picked up Neeraj Rajput late last evening. He said BJP district president Harvinder Singh Sandhu had gone to the police station over the issue, but the SHO refused to meet him. "I called police commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar while his personal security officer picked up the phone, but he refused to connect to the police commissioner while speaking rudely. I had also tried to reach concerned assistant commissioner of police, but there was no response. Then I called the SHO, but he too disconnected the call," he said. He said this compelled him to lodge a complaint with the Election Commission, seeking its immediate intervention. The police officers, however, refuted the allegations, and added that Rajput was arrested following investigations in the murderous assault case happened three days ago. Several people had allegedly attacked at a shop and inflicted sharp weapon injuries to the victim. The police carried out an investigation and arrested the suspects and their interrogation revealed that they were sent by Rajput. Both the victim and the accused were migrants. "Neeraj and his brother were arrested by the police yesterday. Nobody is above law and no one would be allowed to deteriorate law and order in the city," said Harpreet Singh, SHO of Mohkampura police station.
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