05022023-JTR-01.qxd 2/5/2023 12:17 AM Page 1 c m y b Jalandhar tribune HELD HOSTAGE IN ARAB NATIONS, MALOUT GIRL RETURNS HOME SIDHARTH, KIARA ALL SET TO TIE KNOT IN JAISALMER VIEWERS CAN ENJOY YOUNG ROCK ON COMEDY CENTRAL Back home, a Malout girl has alleged she was physically assaulted for months in Dubai and Muscat. P2 Siddharth Malhotra’s bride-to-be Kiara Advani reached Jaisalmer on Saturday afternoon. P3 Young Rock, based on Dwayne Johnson’s life, is all set to premiere for the first time in India. P4 » » FORECAST CLEAR SKY MAX 24°C | MIN 8°C YESTERDAY MAX 24°C | MIN 8°C SUNSET SUNDAY 6.02 PM SUNRISE MONDAY 7:10 AM » SUNDAY | 5 FEBRUARY 2023 | JALANDHAR Councillor’s son held for buying stolen truck CM Bhagwant Mann attends the shobha yatra to mark the 646th Parkash Utsav of Guru Ravidas in Jalandhar. PHOTOS: MALKIAT SINGH Former CM Charanjit Singh Channi, NCSC Chairman Vijay Sampla and other Congress and BJP leaders in Jalandhar on Saturday. LS bypoll on mind, parties take part in shobha yatra CM revisits city ISukhbir in Varanasi ICong, BJP also mark presence Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service Jalandhar, February 4 With the bypoll to the Jalandhar reserved seat on mind, leaders of all political parties seemed to be taking the mileage during the ongoing celebrations of Guru Ravidas Jayanti here. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann chose to make it to the flagging off a special train to Varanasi, the birth place of the guru, on February 2. On a day’s gap, he was again in the city to flag off the shobha yatra held a day ahead of the pious jayanti. On Sunday, he is likely to be here again for the celebrations. All local leaders of Aam Aadmi Party remained on the centre stage with him. The yatra started from Babu Jagjeevan Ram Chowk, falling in the reserved constituency Jalandhar West represented Two women snatchers held Phagwara, February 4 Two women thieves were caught when they were running away after stealing a woman’s purse. Seema Rani, a resident of Mahilpur, said she was on way back home from Salarpur when these women took her purse out of the bag and ran away. However, people present at the site caught them. Another purse was seized from from them. City SHO Amandeep said the thieves were identified as Aruna and Asha, residents of railway station road in Jalandhar. Further action is being taken after registering a case against them. — OC SAD president Sukhbir Badal with Dera Sachkhand Ballan chief Sant Niranjan Dass in Varanasi on Saturday. by the party’s SC leader Sheetal Angural. Balkar Singh from Kartarpur SC seat and Raman Arora from Jalandhar Central were also present on the occasion. While AAP leaders took mileage locally, SAD leaders reached Varanasi. SAD chief Sukhbir Badal along with MLA Sukhwinder Sukhi and former MLAs Pawan Tinu, Baldev Khaira and BSP leaders, including its state chief Jasvir Garhi, former MP Avtar Singh Karimpuri and BSP MLA Nachhatar Pal Singh visited Seer Govardhan Temple, the site of Guru Ravidass in Varanasi. They got themselves clicked with Dera Sachkhand Ballan chief Sant Niranjan Dass, who heads the seat there too. Former Chief Minister of the Congress Charanjit Singh Channi along with party MLA Pargat Singh and Nakodarbased leader Dr Navjot Dahiya took part in the yatra from Sri Guru Ravidass Bhawan. Since Channi is a Dalit leader, it is being speculated that he is still interested in contesting the Parliamentary polls from here; this despite the party hinting at fielding Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary, the wife of deceased MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary. Chaudhary’s son and Phillaur MLA Vikramjit Chaudhary took along his mother Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary for the programme. Vikramjit exhorted Continued on Page 2 Gang smuggling opium via postal services busted Nawanshahar, February 4 Nawanshahr police claim to have busted a gang of smugglers with an international supply network through postal services by arresting one of the gang members. SSP Bhagirath Singh Meena said on February 1, Sub-Inspector Satnam Singh of the Sadar police station had received a tip-off about Bhupinder Singh of Bainsa village supplying opium in foreign countries through postal services with the help of Barjinder Kumar of Ladhana Ucha village of Banga, PARCELS SENT TO ITALY, CANADA RECOVERED who works at the Postal Department in Nawanshahr. An FIR has been registered under Sections 18, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act against the accused. Upon further investigation, the police arrested Barjinder on February 1. He disclosed that he had sent two parcels, containing 450 grams of opium each, through postal service from the Kahma post office to Canada and Italy at the behest of Bhupinder, who had deposited Rs 60,000 in his bank account for that. Following the disclosure, the Nawanshahr police got both the parcels seized through the Customs Department, IGI Airport in New Delhi. Barjinder is currently in four-day police remand. Raids to nab Bhupinder are on. Notably, Bhupinder has three cases registered against him for various offences. He has been convicted in one of the two cases, and has been out on bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. — TNS Phagwara judge’s house burgled Ashok Kaura Phagwara, February 4 Amid increasing thefts and burglaries in Phagwara, a house where a local judge is residing on rent in New Model Town here became the latest target of miscreants on January 30. Interestingly, the police registered case on February 3. As per an FIR registered under Sections 380 and 457 of IPC on Friday, three LCDs, three cooking gas cylinders, silver jewellery worth Rs 50,000, two room heaters, sanitary goods of bathrooms and kitchen, a DVR, printer, two wrist watches, mobile phone, clothes and two inverters were found stolen from the house on January 30 as Judge Renuka Kalra was on leave since December 22. Chadha, the owner of the The ransacked house in New Model Town, Phagwara. house, told the police that Rash Pal Singh, gunman of Judge Renuka, went to check as a matter of routine and found the house burgled. Both of them then entered the premises and found it ransacked and the valuables stolen. Despite the theft being noticed by the judge’s gunman, the registration of FIR took a couple of days. c m y b Dasuya, February 4 The Dasuya police have registered a case against Rajan Bassi, the son of Aam Aadmi Party leader and councillor Rakesh Bassi, and arrested him for buying a stolen canter truck. Rajan runs a scrap shop near Usman Shaheed on a national highway. The police WAS TURNING IT INTO JUNK suspect stolen ❝Theinto junk.had been allegedly turning theseized vehicle The police conducted a raid, the canter and arrested him. ❞ Bikramjit Singh, DASUYA SHO have recovered a truck stolen from Ajnala. Station House Officer Bikramjit Singh said while patrolling, a team of ASI Bhupinder Singh was informed that the suspect had been turning the stolen truck into junk. On the basis of the information, the police conducted a raid, recovered the canter and arrested Rajan. He said the canter belonged to complainant Mandeep Singh, a resident of Sarangdev, Ajnala. Rakesh Bassi had become a councillor after winning the election on Congress ticket, but he joined AAP on January 26. — OC