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P4 » » » FORECAST PARTLY CLOUDY MAX 27°C | MIN 15°C YESTERDAY MAX 25°C | MIN 14°C SUNSET THURSDAY 6.35 PM SUNRISE FRIDAY 6:22 AM THURSDAY | 23 MARCH 2023 | JALANDHAR INBRIEF WOMAN BOOKED ON FRAUD CHARGE ATP, two accomplices caught taking ~8L bribe Tribune News Service Phagwara: Following a complaint from Parminder Singh, a resident of Sahni village, Phagwara, the police have booked a woman under Sections 420 and 406 of the IPC and Section 13 of the Punjab Travel Professions Regulation Act on the charge of duping the complainant of ~1,93,000. The suspect, identified as Harkiran Kaur, a resident of Kular village, is still at large. The victim told the police that he gave the amount to the woman to send him abroad on May 7 last year. Despite repeated assurances, the woman neither sent him abroad nor returned his money. The complainant alleged that whenever he demanded his money back, the suspect started threatening him. No arrest has been made so far. OC UNIDENTIFIED CAR DRIVER BOOKED Phagwara: The Nakodar city police have booked an unidentified car driver on the charges of causing death by negligence and rash driving. Punit Kaur, a resident of Rama Mandi, Talwandi Sabo tehsil, Bathinda, in her complaint to the police, alleged that her father Om Parkash was returning after purchasing some eatables at Nakodar on March 21 when an unidentified car driver hit him, leading to his death. Investigating officer Bhajan Singh said a case under Sections 304-A, 279, 337 and 338 of IPC had been registered against the unidentified car driver. OC WOMAN PO LANDS IN POLICE NET Phagwara: The Nurmahal police have arrested a woman proclaimed offender (PO). Station House Officer (SHO) Bhushan Kumar said the accused had been identified as Gurmit Kaur, a resident of Bundala village. The SHO said Phillaur Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Gur Mehtab Singh had ordered that the accused had been declared a proclaimed offender and should be booked under Section 174-A (non-appearance in response to a proclamation under Section 82 of Act 2 of 1974). A case was registered against the accused. OC Jalandhar, March 22 Aiming to curb the menace of corruption in the state, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) arrested Ravi Pankaj Sharma, Assistant Town Planner (ATP), Jalandhar, and two of his accomplices, Kunal Kohli and Arvind Sharma, both private individuals, for allegedly accepting a bribe of ~8 lakh. The fourth suspect, Ashish Arora, in the case is yet to be nabbed. The VB has formed teams to arrest him. The suspects were produced before a court, which sent them to five-day police remand. Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson for the VB said Narinder Singh, director of Castle Heritage Company, a resident of Bath Kalan village, had constructed “Bath Castle”, a marriage palace, in 2005, after the approval of the building plan from the Municipal Corporation. The complainant informed the VB that he received a letter in January from the ATP mentioning that the MC had received a complaint that the “Bath Castle” had been constructed illegally without the approval of the Jalandhar MC. So, the company was asked to submit the approved building plan and completion certificate of the palace with- FOURTH SUSPECT YET TO BE NABBED A police spokesperson said after the preliminary investigation, the VB’s Flying Squad-1 team from Mohali laid a trap and arrested Ravi Pankaj Sharma, Assistant Town Planner (ATP), Jalandhar, along with two of his accomplices, Kunal Kohli and Arvind Sharma, while accepting a bribe of ~8 lakh. The ATP tried to flee from the spot, but the VB team overpowered him. The fourth suspect, Ashish Arora, is yet to be arrested. in three days. He said the director of Bath Castle, Narinder Singh, met the ATP who , showed him a copy of the complaint filed by Kunal Kohli, Ashish Arora and Arvind Sharma. The ATP allegedly advised the complainant that these persons would not withdraw the complaint without taking money and he would have to pay a sum of ~15 lakh to settle this matter. The spokesperson said the ATP later arranged a meeting of Narinder Singh with Kunal Kohli, who sought ~20 lakh to withdraw the complaint. The complainant informed the VB that the deal was settled for ~10 lakh and Sharma had already taken ~2 lakh from him in two installments and was demanding the remaining amount of ~8 lakh from him. The spokesperson said after the preliminary investigation, the VB’s Flying Squad-1 team from Mohali laid a trap and arrested Sharma, along with the two suspects, while accepting a bribe of ~8 lakh. The ATP tried to flee from the spot, but the VB team overpowered him. The fourth suspect, Ashish Arora, is yet to be arrested. A case has been registered under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 120-B of the IPC at the Flying Squad-1 police station, Vigilance Bureau, Mohali. Further investigations were on into the matter. The spokesperson said after the arrests, the Vigilance team searched the house of Kunal Kohli. During the search, they recovered ATMs of several banks, two Press identification cards, five live cartridges and a revolver from his house. Apart from this, files with fake complaints to be made against several persons were also recovered. CRACKDOWN ON WARIS PUNJAB DE Akali leadership seeks release of ‘innocent’ youths, hands over memorandum to DC Tribune News Service Jalandhar, March 22 Senior leadership of the Shiromani Akali Dal today met the Deputy Commissioner in Jalandhar and handed a memorandum to him demanding the release of ‘innocent’ Sikh youths detained by the government. The Akali leadership including former MLAs Gurpartap Singh Wadala, Pawan Tinu and other senior leaders, issued the memorandum in the wake of arrests of his aides following the police’s operation against Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh since March 18. Expressing concern over the use of National Security Act (NSA) in some of the arrests, the Akali leaders termed it a ‘deep conspiracy’ against the image of the Sikhs in the state and failure of the AAP government. The memorandum to the DC said, “Through this demand letter of our party, we want to bring to your attention that there has been an atmosphere of fear and insecurity in the state for the past some days. The SAD leaders submit a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner in Jalandhar on Wednesday. TRIBUNE PHOTO: MALKIAT SINGH action against Amritpal Singh and youths of Waris Punjab De by the Punjab government had raised questions in people’s minds. The way in which Punjab police arrested Amritpal Singh and his aides has caused confusion. The state government has proved unsuccessful in tackling law and order situation in the state in the past one year.” It said, “Sikh youths are being targeted by the AAP government and their arrests after levelling false allegations on them in a planned manner is condemnable. Arrest of Amritdhari (turbaned and baptised) Sikhs and sending them to jails outside the state is a deep conspiracy to malign the image of Sikhs. The AAP government has also caused an atmosphere of fear by placing restrictions on basic rights of the people like freedom of expression. The slapping of very strict laws like the NSA on Sikh Ensuring normalcy Man awarded 10-year jail in murder bid case Speaker ‘biased, puppet in hands of AAP govt’ says Phillaur MLA , Tribune News Service Jalandhar, March 22 The Budget Session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha resumed on a stormy note today as members of the principal opposition party walked out of the Assembly after their adjournment motion on law and order situation in the state was disallowed. The question hour saw aggressive sloganeering by the Congress MLAs against Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. Phillaur MLA Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary today termed Kultar Singh Sandhwan “a puppet in hands of the AAP government”. Terming the Vidhan Sabha Speaker ‘biased and partial’, Phillaur MLA Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary said the office of the Speaker deserved utmost respect from every member of the Assembly, but Sand- Our Correspondent ‘VOICE OF OPPOSITION BEING SUPPRESSED’ Phillaur MLA Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary said the Speaker should be neutral, but here he was working on the orders of the government, adding that nobody was being allowed to raise the question against the government and the voice of the opposition was being suppressed. hwan had become a puppet in the hands of the AAP government and had lowered the dignity of the chair. He said the Speaker should be neutral, but here he was working on the orders of the government, adding that nobody was being allowed to raise the question against the government and the voice of the opposition was being suppressed. He said it was regrettable that during the sitting of the Vidhan Sabha, Kultar Singh Sandhwan did not accept the opposition’s demand to raise the burning issues of Punjab and gave them no time to speak. “We will not let the AAP government’s efforts to suppress the voice of the people of Punjab succeed and will continue to raise the voice of Punjabis both in the Vidhan Sabha and on the streets,” he said. Chaudhary said: “It is not Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan, but AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal’s handpicked people brought from Delhi such as Aniket Saxena, who are running the affairs in Vidhan Sabha. It appears that Speaker Sandhwan has no independent authority and is working under the thumb of the government. By his outright biased conduct, he has not only lowered the dignity of his chair, but also brought disrepute to the entire House.” Police and paramilitary forces take out a flag march in Jalandhar on Wednesday. The flag march started from Ram Chowk. It went through Shastri Market, Alaska Chowk and Ladowali Road before culminating at the BSF Chowk. ACP (Central) Nirmal Singh, who led the march, said the situation is peaceful and under control in the city. TRIBUNE PHOTO: SARABJIT SINGH Daughters light mother’s pyre Our Correspondent Phagwara, March 22 Though daughters do not perform the last rites of their parents as per the old Hindu tradition, but in a surprising way, two daughters lit the pyre of their 96-year-old mother Parkash Kaur at the local crematorium here on Tuesday. The two girls, Davinder Kaur and Satwinder Kaur, said their 96-year-old mother breathed her last at her residence in local Preet Nagar. The deased was the mother of six children, including three sons and three daughters. Her sons were abroad and had no communication with their mother. One of the daughters was living in the UK and two were living here. Keeping in view the situation, both the daughters came forward and performed the last rites of their mother and lit the pyre in the presence of several residents. Judge visits Hoshiarpur Central Jail, inspects kitchen Gold ornaments stolen Hoshiarpur, March 22 Dilbagh Singh Johal, District and Sessions Judge-cumchairman of the District Legal Services Authority, Hoshiarpur, visited the Central Jail here today. He went to the barracks of inmates in the Central Jail and listened to their problems. He also inquired about their health. He inspected the kitchen and the food provided to prisoners inside the jail. Aparajita Joshi, CJM-cum-Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, was also accompanying Dilbagh Singh Johal. Visits barracks of inmates, listens to their problems A medical camp was organised at the Central Jail here today. A team of doctors from the Civil Hospital examined undertrials and prisoners in the jail free of cost. Medicines were also given free of cost to those who were not well. Aparajita thanked the team of doctors. She also informed about the National Lok Adalat to be held at the district-level and sub-division level courts on May 13. — OC << District and Sessions Judge Dilbagh Singh Johal inspects the kitchen at the Central Jail. c m y b youths has reminded people of the previous Congress regimes in the state.” The memorandum further stated that such measures were used by the Congress previously and the present state government by adopting the same measures was pushing the state toward social instability. The entire Akali leadership of Jalandhar has demanded the release of ‘innocent’ youths and restoration of peace. Amritsar, March 22 Two armed robbers looted a jeweller’s house in broad daylight in Ajnala yesterday. Aatish Dhawan of Ajnala said he along with other members of the family was present in the house when two bikeborne persons entered the house. He said his wife was working in the kitchen when one of the suspect pointed a “datar” and a pistol at her and entered the room. They took the entire family hostage. He said the accused claimed himself to be a member of the Jugnu gang. He said they broke open the lockers of the wardrobe and took away Rs 2 lakh and gold ornaments worth lakhs. He said the accused knew about him and family members. He owns a jewellery shop in the main bazaar in Ajnala. Ajnala DSP Sanjiv Kumar said investigation was under progress to identify the suspects. The police teams were analysing the CCTV cameras in the locality to find clues about the perpetrators. He said a case has been registered and further probe was on. — TNS Hoshiarpur, March 22 The court of District and Sessions Judge Dilbagh Singh Johal today convicted a person in an attempt-tomurder case. The court sentenced him to undergo 10 years of rigorous imprisonment. It also imposed a fine of ~17,000 on him. According to information, Bhupinder Singh had lodged a complaint with the Dasuya police on December 22, 2015 alleging that he, along with his cousin, was going to Garna Sahib from Jandore village on his bike. He alleged that the accused, Balraj Singh, alias Balle, a resident of Khun Khun Sarki, and Harprit Singh, alias Sahbi, a resident of Gondpur, along with their other accomplices, came in two cars and stopped them on the way. They reportedly attacked him with sharp weapons. The court sentenced Balraj Singh alias Balle, to undergo five years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of ~10,000 on him under Section 307 of the IPC. In case of default of payment of fine, he would have to undergo additional imprisonment for three months. He has also been sentenced to undergo three years of imprisonment and fined ~5,000 under Section 326 of the IPC. In case of default in payment of fine, the accused would have to undergo additional imprisonment for two months. The accused has also been sentenced to undergo two years of imprisonment and fined ~2,000 under Section 335 of the IPC. In case of default in payment of the fine, he would have to undergo additional imprisonment for one month. Another accused, Harprit Singh, has been absconding and was declared a proclaimed offender on May 13, 2022.