08022023-JTR-01.qxd 2/7/2023 11:56 PM Page 1 c m y b Jalandhar tribune COPS YET TO FILE CASE IN ~21L IMMIGRATION FRAUD PRAKASH RAJ CALLS PATHAAN BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN A HOAX WHEN VICKY CORRECTED SHEHNAAZ GILL’S PUNJABI The Jalandhar rural police are yet to lodge an FIR in an immigration fraud of ~21 lakh that took place in 2021. P2 The actor-director has spoken at length about those who were threatening to boycott the flick. P3 Vicky had graced her chat show, Desi Vibes with Shehnaaz Gillahead of release of Govinda Naam Mera. P4 » » FORECAST CLEAR SKY MAX 22°C | MIN 08°C YESTERDAY MAX 24°C | MIN 09°C SUNSET WEDNESDAY 6.05 PM SUNRISE THURSDAY 7:08 AM » WEDNESDAY | 8 FEBRUARY 2023 | JALANDHAR Warm February has farmers worried about low wheat yield Game on Aakanksha N Bhardwaj Tribune News Service Players in action in the inaugural match of the 9th Inter-Services Hockey Championship at Katoch Stadium in Jalandhar Cantt. TRIBUNE PHOTO REPORT ON PAGE 2 Ex-mayor dies after prolonged illness Jalandhar, February 7 Sunil Jyoti, a former mayor of the Jalandhar Municipal Corporation, passed away at a private hospital this afternoon following a prolonged illness. He was unwell since he suffered a cardiac arrest in October last in Himachal Pradesh, where he was campaigning for the party ahead of the Vidhan Sabha elections. He could not recover properly since then. Family members have said that his last rites would be performed at Kishanpura cremation ground tomorrow. Jyoti was the fifth mayor of the city between 2012 and 2017. He twice remained ward No.5 councillor and fully supported his previous term BJP mayor Rakesh Rathour. His term remained mired in controversies as then senior deputy mayor Kamaljit Bhatia Phagwara: The Nurmahal police have booked two persons for dowry harassment. Harjinder Kaur daughter of Tarsem Singh of Shamsabad village had filed a complaint with the police that her in-laws had been demanding dowry and she was also being tortured physically and mentally. A case under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code has been registered in this regard. OC Tribune News Service Ex-mayor Sunil Jyoti kept on levelling allegations of corruption against him. He remained quite active even after completion of his term, taking on his successor Jagdish Raja over civic issues. After the report of his demise, party leaders cancelled their meeting at Circuit House. BJP state chief Ashwani Sharma and other party leaders visited his place to offer condolences to his family members. — TNS Jalandhar, February 7 A father-son duo was injured after two miscreants broke into their house at Guru Ravidass Nagar and opened fire at the family, following a fight on Monday night. Those injured have been identified as Satnam Singh and his son Navjot. The reason behind the incident is said to be an old rivalry. According to the complainant, Satnam Singh, who works at a petrol station in Maqsudan, he returned from his work along with his son at around 10 pm. He was having dinner with his family when the doorbell rang, following Satnam Singh and his son Navjot, who were injured in the firing, at Guru Ravidass Nagar in Jalandhar on Monday night. TRIBUNE PHOTO which he opened the door, two armed youngsters broke into the house and started fighting with his son. He said during the fight, one of the youngsters took out his gun and pointed it at his son. He added that to save his son from bullet injury, he came in between and held the hand of the accused to stop him from firing. However, two or three bullets were fired, of which one bullet grazed past his son’s shoulder and one bullet hit his hand. They were immediately rushed to the civil hospital. SHO Division No.1 Jatinder Kumar said, the accused had some personal enmity with Satnam Singh’s son Navjot. “The investigation in the case is underway, and police are looking for the accused. We have named six persons in the FIR under relevant sections of the IPC and Arms Act. Raids were being conducted to arrest them”, he added. Scribe attacked with sharp weapons The proclaimed offenders in the custody of Jalandhar police. 2 absconders nabbed Jalandhar, February 7 The city police on Tuesday arrested two proclaimed offenders. Salim, a resident of Jalandhar Cantt, was wanted in a case registered against him under Section 3 of the ED Act at police station Jalandhar Cantt in 2020. He had been absconding for more than two years. Hari Chand, a native of UP , who was currently residing in a rented accommodation at Ranjit Nagar, was wanted in a case registered against him under Sections 13, 3 and 67 of the Gambling Act at the police station Navi Baradari in 2018. — TNS Jalandhar, February 7 Rajesh Thapa, a senior journalist, was attacked by some unidentified miscreants who broke into his shop based at JP Nagar here on Tuesday evening. In his complaint to the police, Thapa alleged that he was attacked by seven or eight youngsters with sharpedged weapons. He said the miscreants brandishing swords entered his shop, and started beating him. He alleged that one of the youngsters who was involved in the incident was a Dilbagh Nagar resident, Rhydham Sharma. He claimed in 2019, Rhydham and some other people attacked Mother Mary School situated in his neighbourhood and burnt the vehicles parked outside. An injured Rajesh Thapa at a hospital in Jalandhar. TRIBUNE PHOTO He said a case in this regard was already being heardin the court, and Rhydham was allegedly pressuring him to get the case closed anyhow. He said as he refused to help him, he attacked him with his friends and even took away his mobile and some cash from the shop. Meanwhile, the cops of Basti Bawa Khel who reached the spot, said they have registered a complaint and further investigation in the case was underway. — TNS City shuttler bags silver in Khelo India Games CAR STOLEN FROM PHAGWARA HOUSE Phagwara: An Alto car bearing the registration number PB08DR-8159 was found stolen in Baba Gadhia locality here last night. The car owner Samson told the police that he parked his car before his house last night but found it stolen this morning. The police have registered a case. OC of high temperature. “I am hoping that in a day or two, there should be nip in the air again. Then only the crop will be protected,” he says. Singh grows wheat on 50 acres. Old rivalry behind incident IFIR against 6 IRaid on to nab accused COUPLE HELD FOR SELLING HEROIN 2 BOOKED FOR HARASSMENT GRAIN SHRANK The early onset of summer last year took a toll on wheat production as the grain shrank due to intense heat. Man, son hurt as miscreants open fire in residential area INBRIEF Phagwara: The Lohian Khas police have arrested a couple on the charge of selling heroin. The police said 11-gm heroin was recovered from the possession of Gurmit Singh, alias Kala, a resident of Toti village in Kapurthala, and his wife Reetu. A case under the NDPS Act has been registered against the couple. OC Jalandhar, February 7 With continuous warm afternoons these days, a fear has again gripped farmers’ minds that they might suffer the same problem of low wheat yield just like last year. The early onset of summers last had taken a toll on the wheat production and the grain had shrunk due to intense heat in 2022. Farmers in some areas had also demanded compensation then. Agriculture experts say this time again, the temperature is higher than it should be. Tarsem Singh from Ucha village in Jalandhar says last year the yield had reduced because Chief Agriculture Officer Jaswant Rai says last year, the mercury rose suddenly when the crop got matured. “If such conditions remain for the coming days, there will be yield loss,” he adds. The officer further informed that since Jalandhar is known as the potato belt in the region, wheat gets sown late in this belt, resulting in late maturing and thus the crop remains protected here. Another farmer, Buta Singh, who grows wheat on 35 acres, says he was worried of the consequences if the temperature continues to rise like this. “Sometimes it’s the government; sometimes it’s the weather, but we always suffer,” he asserts. Abhinav Thakur Jalandhar, February 7 City lad Abhinav Thakur has added another feather to his cap by winning a silver medal in the boy’s singles (U-19) badminton after defeating Haryana’s Bharat Raghav in the semifinals at the 5th Khelo India Youth Games 2023 being held in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. Over 6,000 participants from all across India are participating in 27 different sports events at the Khelo India Youth Games. Raghav RECENTLY WON MEN’S SINGLES City badminton player Abhinav Thakur won the men’s singles title at the Punjab State and Inter-District Championship held here recently. Besides, he is a member of the Indian Junior Badminton team. was selected to represent the state in the boy’s singles badminton. He had also won the men’s singles title at the Punjab State and Inter-District Championship recently held at the Raizada Hansraj Stadium here in Jalandhar. Besides, he is also a member c m y b of the Indian Junior Badminton team. Sudarshan Singh Thakur, father of Abhinav, who works in the Railways, said his son is a dedicated sportsman. He said his son is All-India first rank holder in badminton in U-19 doubles category and ninth rank holder in U-19 sin- gles. “After winning the men’s singles title in the recently held state-level championship, he will now represent Punjab at the national championship to be held in Pune”, he added. He said his son is very much passionate about badminton, and wants to make a career in the same. He said he has been playing badminton for the last over 10 years and has won numerous medals at the state and national championships. — TNS SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal interacts with party leaders and workers during his visit to Adampur in Jalandhar. MALKIAT SINGH Ahead of LS bypoll, Sukhbir visits city, targets Mann govt Tribune News Service Jalandhar, January 7 Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday condemned the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for lying that “it did not owe PSPCL any money when the truth was that the state power utility was owed Rs. 7,475 crore as per the government records”. The SAD chief was on a daylong tour of Jalandhar, Kartarpur and Adampur Assembly constituencies, ahead of the Jalandhar parliamentary bypoll. He visited more than a dozen families along with party leaders Pawan Kumar Tinu, Gurpartap Wadala, Kulwant Manan and Jagbir Brar. Alleging that PSPCL could be owing much more as the AAP government was a master at fudging financial figures, the SAD president said “the PSPCL website discloses that the utility owed Rs 4,870 crore in unpaid subsidy and Rs 2,605 crore on account of unpaid bills of government departments. This clearly proves that Finance Minister Harpal Cheema has lied by claiming that the Punjab Government does not owe any due to PSPCL ”. Stressing that the AAP government had created a manmade financial and power crisis in Punjab, Sukhbir said the state had borrowed Rs 45,000 crore this year, but had defaulted on paying dues to PSPCL. “It has also not done any capital investment by not taking up even one development project. It has wasted hundreds of crores on gimmicks like Aam Aadmi Clinics and advertisements”. He said dereliction of duty by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann would cost Punjabis dearly. “We are sitting on a FM LIED ON PSPCL ❝The PSPCL’s website discloses that the utility owed ~4,870 crore in unpaid subsidy and ~2,605 crore on account of unpaid bills of government departments. Finance Minister Harpal Cheema has lied by claiming that the Punjab Government does not owe any money to PSPCL. Sukhbir Badal, SAD CHIEF ❞ time bomb. PSPCL has been bankrupted and does not have funds for routine repair works. Demand is overshooting supply even in winter. This trend could have devastating results as the entire paddy crop could be in danger in summer. So will be the industrial sector”. He added: “Bhagwant Mann is a puppet in the hands of AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal and had left governance of the state to MP Raghav Chadda. This is also the reason behind the deteriorating law and order situation and drug menace in the state.” During his tour to Adampur, he inspected the JalandharHoshiarpur flyover where the construction work has been suspended since 2017 and interacted with the local people. He disclosed that the construction work was started in 2016 during the SAD government but it came to a halt the very next year when the Congress took over the reins of the state. He promised people that the party would raise the issue and force the government to complete the project.