15092024-JTR-01.qxd 9/14/2024 11:34 PM Page 1 c m y b Jalandhar tribune CONFERENCE DWELLS ON WATER CRISIS, WORSENING ENVIRONMENT ACTRESS NAYANTHARA’S X ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED Deteriorating environment and water crisis in Punjab discussed at a conference organised by the Kirti Kisan Union. P2 “Account has been hacked. Please ignore unnecessary or strange tweets being posted,” read Nayanthara’s post. P4 » ACTOR-PRODUCER SOHUM SHAH RECALLS HIS MUMBAI JOURNEY Back when he first came to Mumbai, Sohum Shah wanted to be the guy insouciantly ordering a cappuccino. P4 » » FORECAST PARTLY CLOUDY MAX 35°C | MIN 24°C YESTERDAY MAX 36°C | MIN 23°C SUNSET SUNDAY 6.33 PM SUNRISE MONDAY 6:12 AM SUNDAY | 15 SEPTEMBER 2024 | JALANDHAR Hoshiarpur, September 14 A woman was killed when a car overturned and rolled over into a ditch here on Saturday. A case has been registered at the Sadar police station against driver of the car. According to information, Mukesh Chand, a resident of Kataru Chakk village, told the police that he was returning to his village in a car with his daughter Tripta Kumari (47) from a condolence meeting in Sarkaghat, Himachal Pradesh. The complainant alleged that car driver Balveer Singh was driving the vehicle at high speed and recklessly. He said when they reached near Chak Sadhu village, the driver lost control over the car and it overturned and rolled over into a ditch. The complainant said his daughter died on the spot. The police registered a case against car driver Balveer Singh, a resident of Sukhiyabad village, on the basis of the complainant’s statement. — OC INBRIEF THREE BOOKED FOR SNATCHING Phagwara: The Shahkot police have booked three miscreants for snatching a woman’s earrings. Investigating officer (IO) Gurnam Singh said suspects were identified as Labha, a resident of Bajwa Kalan village, Happy, a resident of Bagga village, and Jiti, a resident of Mulewal Araian village. Surinder Kaur, a resident of Mianwal Araian village, complained to the police that she was sitting in a street on August 18 when three bikeborne persons snatched her earrings. The IO said that a case under Sections 304 (snatching) and 3(5) (committing a crime with the common intention) of the BNS had been registered against suspects. OC Residents furious as MC ignores heaps of garbage in key areas, seek NGT intervention Avneet Kaur Tribune News Service Jalandhar, September 14 Heaps of garbage have left unattended in some of Phagwara’s most frequented areas are causing frustration among residents. Key locations, such as the front of the shopping complex on GT Road and near the defunct sewage treatment plant (STP) in Urban Estate, have become dumping grounds for waste. Residents say though these prominent spots witness heavy flow of traffic every day, the municipal corporation (MC) authorities have taken no action to address the growing health and environmental risks posed by garbage piled up here. They said the Urban Estate Residents Welfare Association had made numerous complaints to the Phagwara Municipal Corporation (MC), but their pleas had been ignored. The association, after exhausting all local options, has now appealed to the National Green Tribunal (NGT), and sought its intervention to Phagwara: The Nurmahal police have arrested a man on the charge of assaulting a villager. Investigating officer (IO) Omesh Kumar said the suspect was identified as Balkar Singh, a resident of Shampur village falling under the Bilga police station. Gurwinder Singh, a resident of Umarpur Kalan village, complained to the police that the suspect assaulted him on September 5 at the Nurmahal taxi stand causing injuries on his mouth and left eye. The IO said a case under Section 117(2) (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) of the BNS was registered against the suspect. OC SIX BOOKED FOR THRASHING COUPLE Phagwara: The Nakodar Sadar police have booked six persons, including a woman, on the charge of assaulting a couple. Investigating officer (IO) Harjit Singh said the suspects were identified as Ranni and Kaku of Thablke village, Babu and his sons Sharif and Mango of Samrai village and Nurdeen of Samrai village. Shaukat Ali of Thablke village complained to the police that he along with his wife Asha was grazing their cattle in village fields on August 23 when the suspects attacked them with weapons leaving them injured. The IO said a case under relevant sections of the BNS was registered against six suspects in this regard. OC compel the MC authorities to remove garbage dumped at key locations. They also submitted complaints on the Chief Minister’s grievance portal and other platforms, but the problem still remained unsolved. “The situation has become unbearable,” said Pankaj Gautam, a member of the welfare association. He said, “We’ve visited the MC office a number of times and demanded that the garbage be removed, but nothing has been done. The land where the garbage is piling up belongs to the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA). Though the Jalandhar Development Authority has sent letters to the Phagwara MC asking its officials to remove garbage, no action has been taken.” He said neglected garbage had become a serious health hazard with pests, vermin and stray animals frequently seen at the sites. “We fear that the piled up waste could spread diseases and raise health concerns among residents. Besides posing a direct threat to health, garbage also has a detrimental effect on the environment as it damages the local ecosystem,” he added. Residents said garbage tarnished image of the city, Victims chase suspects, get 2 arrested Jalandhar, September 14 Incidents of looting are being reported daily from several areas of the city. One such incident was reported from Beas village in the Bhogpur area where looters waylaid a truck and took away Rs 50,000 cash and a cellphone from its driver. The incident occurred yesterday evening wherein three bike-borne looters assaulted the driver and cleaner of the truck. Despite receiving injuries on their heads, the victims chased the assailants with the help of a dhaba owner and managed to alert the Sadak Surakhya Force (SSF) teams. It helped the SSF teams’ arrest two of the three suspects. The driver identified as Raj Kumar was reportedly driving an empty truck on the road heading from Kathua to Jalandhar when the incident happened. Kumar said he had stopped the truck at a dhaba to have dinner when the assailants jumped into the vehicle from both sides and took away all the cash and the mobile phone that he was carrying. “Since we resis- ted, the assailants hit me and my cleaner on our heads with a sharp weapon leaving us injured,” Kumar said. Kumar said the owner of a dhaba at Beas village came to their rescue. “He made us sit in his car and chased the looters. We spotted them near a filling station. We quickly managed to nab one of the suspects, who had got off his bike, while the other two managed to flee. We handed him over to the police and returned to dhaba to have dinner. Almost an hour later, we again spotted two looters passing on a bike near the dhaba. We again chased them. In a jiffy, they left the bike in sugarcane fields and ran away. The police teams arrived on the spot. The police impounded the bike and managed to arrest another suspect,” Kumar said. Bhogpur SHO Yadwinder Singh said, “Two suspects identified as Lovepreet Singh and Bhajan Singh of Rastogi village have been arrested. An FIR has been registered against the suspects on the basis of statement of the truck driver and cleaner.” — TNS Police continue crackdown on traffic rule violators Cash looted from chemist shop Store owners pull down shutters to protest rising crime A cop challans a traffic rule violator; and (right) policemen remove banned film from windowpanes of a vehicle in Jalandhar. Tribune News Service ONE ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF ASSAULT Heaps of garbage lying unattended near a defunct sewage treatment plant at Urban Estate in Phagwara. especially of Urban Estate. “These areas are gateway to posh localities. One can imagine what would be visitors’ first impression on seeing piles of garbage. It’s an eyesore and a serious reflection of the municipal authorities’ neglect,” they said. In their letter to the NGT, residents requested immediate action to address the issue. They asked the tribunal to direct local authorities to clear garbage and conduct an inspection of the key areas to ensure that there was no negligence on their part in lifting waste regularly. Besides, a permanent solution to the city’s growing waste management crisis should be chalked out, they said. When contacted, Phagwara MC Commissioner Anupam Kaler said they had plans to develop material recovery facility (MRF) plants at the key spots. However, due to residents’ protest these plants couldn’t be established, she said. “In a recent meeting, we decided to lift garbage from the key spots within a week or two and convert the sites into green belts,” she said. Truck driver, cleaner waylaid, robbed of ~50k Jalandhar, September 14 As part of the ongoing drive against traffic violations, the Jalandhar Commissionerate Police intensified its efforts with the launch of a special campaign led by Harjinder Singh, ACP Model Town, on , Friday evening. The drive was held from 5 pm to 9 pm during which the police checked vehicles at Manbro Chowk and Chunmun Mall. The drive, conducted by the SHO, police station Division No. 6, in collaboration with the Emergency Response System (ERS) team, aimed to crackdown on motorists breaking traffic rules. Special checkpoints were set up to ensure immediate action against violators. During the drive, 100 vehicles were inspected. Fifteen vehicle owners were challaned for various infractions, including illegal black films on four-wheelers, missing registration number plates, riding without helmets, jumping red light and driving Bullet motorcycle with modified silencers causing noise pollution. “This continuous effort underscores the Commissionerate Police’s dedication to ensure road safety and enforcing traffic laws across the city,” the Model Town ACP said, while adding that such drives would continue in the coming days too. He appealed to residents to follow traffic rules. Phagwara, September 14 Owners of chemist shops in the city pulled down shutters of their stores to protest over a looting incident at Sethi Medical Shops located in Hargobind Nagar, a congested locality, in the evening here today. After receiving information, Jaspreet Singh, DSP Phag, wara, along with Inspector Aman Kumar rushed to the spot. As per reports, two unidentified youths came to the shop and took away all the money kept in the cash box in the presence of shop owner Paramjit Kaur around 4 pm today. The exact loss at the shop was yet to be estimated. This is second such incident reported in Phagwara. Earlier, robbers had looted Bansal Medical Hall in August end. Phagwara Chemists Association chairman Vipin Arora and its members Rashpal, Mukesh Bansal, Tarun Aggarwal and Paramjit Kaur at her medical store in Phagwara on Saturday. Neeraj Gupta announced that all medical store owners would observe an indefinite strike to protest against increasing incidents of crime in Phagwara. Representatives of several traders associations also came out in support of the protesting medical store owners. When contacted, Phagwara SP Rupinder Kaur Bhatti said teams of cops headed by DSP Jaspreet Singh had been formed to investigate the looting incident. She said the police were scanning footage of the CCTV cameras installed in the vicinity of the chemist shop to find clues about perpetrators of the crime. — OC NRIwoman receivesdeath Hockey c’ship: Punjab, Haryana teams reach quarterfinals threatoverpropertydispute Karnataka beat Kerala 6-1; match between Andhra Pradesh and Delhi ends in 5-5 tie Jalandhar, September 14 An NRI woman, residing at Jawahar Nagar locality here, has received a death threat over an ongoing legal battle regarding a property. An FIR has been registered at the Division No. 6 police station in this regard. The case has been filed against unidentified persons and an investigation initiated into the matter. According to the police, the woman received a phone call demanding that she withdraw her legal cases. The caller threatened to harm her and her family if she refused to comply. The case was registered following the victim’s complaint on Friday. The police are trying to trace the source of the call. The woman received the threatening call on her UK cellphone number. The unknown caller instructed her to withdraw all seven cases currently pending in a court while warning that failure to do so would have HOUSE SOLD WITHOUT VICTIM’S CONSENT The victim, who is in her mid-40s and a mother of two, told the police that she was embroiled in a property dispute with her family. She claimed that her parents and sister-in-law sold her ancestral home in Chandigarh without her consent, which prompted her to take legal action. The dispute escalated over the years with seven cases now pending in the court. deadly consequences. The victim, who is in her mid40s and a mother of two, told the police that she was embroiled in a property dispute with her family. She claimed that her parents and sister-in-law sold her ancestral home in Chandigarh without her consent, which prompted her to take legal action. The dispute escalated over the years with seven cases now pending in the court. — TNS HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP Jalandhar September 14 Punjab and Haryana teams reached the quarter finals of the 14th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship 2024, which is being organised by Hockey Punjab at Olympian Surjit Hockey Stadium here. Punjab defeated Mizoram with a margin of 7-1 and Haryana routed Rajasthan with a margin of 6-1. The teams from Andhra Pradesh and Delhi were tied at 5-5 while Karnataka beat Kerala 6-1. In the first match, Navraj Singh scored two goals, Rohit Rana, Sunil Mann, Sahil and Amit Khasa scored one goal each for the Haryana team while one goal from Rajasthan was scored by Anurag. In the second match, Karnataka beat Kerala 6-1. For Karnataka, Aryan Uthappa scored two goals, Sunil scored two, Vivek Soni and Dhanush scored one c m y b TRIBUNE PHOTO: SARABJIT SINGH 47-year-old woman dies in road accident A match in progress during the 14th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship in Jalandhar on Saturday. goal each. The third match between Andhra Pradesh and Delhi ended with 5-5 tie. For Andhra Pradesh, Boney Prasath scored two goals, Kumar Mita scored two goals and Patan Asad scored one goal. While for Delhi, Harsh Sharma scored two goals, Bhanu scored two goals and Yuvraj Singh scored one goal. In the fourth match, Punjab defeated Mizoram by 7-1. Ujwal Singh, Harshdeep Singh, Japneet Singh, Om Rajneesh Saini, Lavnur Singh, German Singh and Abhishek Gorkhi scored goals for the Punjab team while one goal was scored by Akash Yadav for Mizoram. — TNS