05042024-LT-01.qxd 4/5/2024 12:50 AM Page 1 c m y b Ludhiana tribune FIRE BRIGADE FACES STAFF CRUNCH AHEAD OF SUMMER JENNIFER GARNER SET TO MAKE AUDIENCE LAUGH ACTRESS SUNNY LEONE HEADS TO MUSCAT FOR SHOOT Fire incidents rise every year during summer, with staff crunch, employees have to work extra hours. P2 Actor Jennifer Garner is set to make the audience laugh with Mrs Claus, a comedy in which she is set to star. P4 Actress Sunny Leone is heading to Muscat to start shooting for an upcoming untitled film. P4 » » FORECAST PARTLY CLOUDY MAX 33°C | MIN 19°C YESTERDAY MAX 33°C | MIN 18°C SUNSET FRIDAY 6.48 PM SUNRISE SATURDAY 6:09 AM » FRIDAY | 5 APRIL 2024 | LUDHIANA Two travel agent couples dupe residents of ~41 L Ludhiana, April 4 The Khanna police yesterday registered separate cases against two travel agent couples who duped several persons of Rs 41.17 lakh on the pretext of sending them abroad. In the first incident, the Machhiwara police registered a case against a couple, identified as Satwinder Kaur and her husband Kamaljit Singh, residents of Machhiwara, for duping several residents of Rs 34.17 lakh on the pretext of sending them abroad. The complainant, Gurjant Singh, said the suspects had taken Rs 34.17 lakh from various people, including him, to arrange visas of Canada. Despite taking the money, they failed to arrange the same. When the couple was asked to return the cash, initially they made excuses but later they handed over cheques to the complainants. Interestingly, when the cheques were deposited in the bank, the same were bounced due to no funds in accounts. ASI Tarlochan Singh said after registering a case, further investigation was launched by the police. Another travel fraud case was registered by the Malaud police against a couple, Akashdeep and his wife Prabhjot Kaur, of Timbarwal village. Complainant Karanpreet Kaur of Timbarwal village said in 2019, after completing IELTS, she had approached the suspects. After taking Rs 7 lakh in cash, the duo had promised that they would arrange a visa but they failed to do so. The duo also refused to return the money. Following this, she lodged a police complaint in June last year and yesterday, a case was registered by the police against them. They are yet to be nabbed in the case. — TNS 2,334 held with drugs, liquor, Two POs land in police net under special campaign cash worth ~11.79 crore in dist Tribune News Service INDIA VOTES 2024 Nitin Jain Tribune News Service Ludhiana, April 4 Adopting a zero tolerance approach against violators of the model code of conduct (MCC) enforced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) ever since the announcement of the 2024 General Election on March 16, the district administration has cracked a whip against smuggling of drugs, liquor, unaccounted cash and distribution of freebies. In what appears to be a record of sorts, enforcement agencies have arrested as many as 2,334 criminals under various sections of the law and have seized huge cache of drugs, liquor and unaccounted cash worth Rs 11.79 crore across 14 Assembly segments falling under the Ludhiana (9) and Fatehgarh Sahib (5) Lok Sabha constituencies in Ludhiana district. Besides, the district election machinery has ensured prompt action and resolution on almost all substantial complaints and permissions sought within the stipulated time period. Leading the sustained campaign against poll code violators, Deputy Commissionercum-District Electoral Officer (DEO) Sakshi Sawhney has given clear-cut instructions to all enforcement agencies and election staff to ensure that not a single case of MCC violation goes unnoticed and scot-free SAD (Amritsar) to field Amritpal from Ludhiana Shivani Bhakoo Tribune News Service Ludhiana, April 4 The SAD (Amritsar) has finally declared Amritpal Singh’s name to contest for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from the Ludhiana constituency. At the same time, the SAD (Badal) is yet to decide the name from among three front-runners. Party leaders believe that it will take another four-five days to finally decide about the candidate. “My name was declared by party president Simranjit Singh Mann in Chandigarh recently,” said Amritpal Singh, who joined the party in 2019 and remained the youth president, Punjab. At present, he is the general secretary of the party and also the in-charge, Ludhiana. He said as always, the party’s focus would be on issues of Punjabis, in both urban and rural areas. He claimed that rural Sikh voters had extended support to the party, which now was targeting the urban population with its clean agenda to provide maximum jobs to Punjabis, bring best of health facilities and upgrade the education system. Meanwhile, SAD (B), which till now was looking DEO cracks a whip against poll code violators across 14 Assembly segments under Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib Lok Sabha seats SAD (B) TO DECIDE NAME IN FEW DAYS The SAD (Badal) is yet to decide the name from among three front-runners. Party leaders believe that it will take another four-five days to finally decide about the candidate. for a Hindu face from Ludhiana, reportedly did not get a positive response from its lone Hindu candidate and now, three names are making rounds for the same. These include Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, Ranjit Singh Dhillon and Harcharan Singh Gohalwaria. “Since the Hindu candidate did not show much interest, party’s focus shifted towards prominent Sikh faces in the city. The people of Ludhiana are familiar with these names as they have worked hard when the party was in power. We expect that within the next few days, the name would be announced,” said a SAD (B) leader. He added that till now, the party was looking for options for alliance and recently many names in other constituencies were declared. Just a few constituencies are left, these will be done in the next few days. Deputy Commissioner-cum-DEO Sakshi Sawhney leads a flag march in Ludhiana. TRIBUNE PHOTO DISTRICT PROFILE ■ Assembly constituencies 14 ■ Parliamentary constituencies 2 ■ Assembly segments under Ludhiana Lok Sabha seat: Ludhiana East, Ludhiana South, Atam Nagar, Ludhiana Central, Ludhiana West, Ludhiana North, Gill, Dakha and Jagraon ■ Assembly segments under Fatehgarh Sahib Lok Sabha seat: Khanna, Samrala, Sahnewal, Payal and Raikot ■ Polling stations Urban Rural ■ Polling stations under Ludhiana LS seat Urban Rural ■ Polling station locations Urban Rural 2,919 1,460 1,459 1,842 1,204 638 1,410 515 895 while ensuring the implementation of the ECI guidelines in letter and in spirit. Sakshi told The Tribune here on Thursday that as many as 1,069 troublemakers, 448 history-sheeters and 817 ■ Polling station locations 773 under Ludhiana LS seat Urban 365 Rural 408 ■ Electors 26,71,045 ■ Electors for 17,40,969 Ludhiana LS seat (SOURCE: DIST ADMINISTRATION, FIGURES TILL APRIL 2) absconders have so far been arrested under various sections of the CrPC and other relevant law provisions, which was the highest count as compared to the similar action taken during the entire Five booked for attacking cops, two nabbed Tribune News Service Ludhiana, April 4 The Model Town police yesterday registered a case against five persons on the charges of attacking police personnel and trying to tear their uniforms. The suspects were identified as Sourav Bedi of Kartar Nagar, Inderjit Singh, alias Gandhi, of Kundan Nagar, Rohit, Lekhraj and Kirti, residents of Kartar Nagar. Sourav and Kirti were arrested by the police. The complainant, assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Jaspal Singh said on April 3, he, along with his colleague, was patrolling in the Model Town area where they noticed that some miscreants were consuming alcohol in the Tirkona park and they were also creating nuisance in the area by resorting to hooting. When they asked the youths to stop drinking alcohol in public, the latter started abusing them and tried to tear off their uniform. Later, they cornered us and damaged the PCR motorcycle. The ASI said afterwards, he informed the nearby PCR team and asked them to reach the park. The suspects even hurled bricks at us and fled the scene. Later, two of the suspects were arrested by the police and raids were on to nab the other miscreants. c m y b ACTION-TAKEN REPORT ■ Arrests ■ Troublemakers ■ History-sheeters ■ Absconders 2,334 1,069 448 817 Seizures ■ Liquor 2,54,849 litres 114.732 kg ■ Cash ~1,60,57,250 Complaints received 870 ■ Resolved 838 ■ Dropped 19 ■ Pending 13 Permissions sought 170 ■ Granted 127 ■ Cancelled 14 ■ Rejected 8 ■ Pending 21 ■ Drugs process during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and 2022 Vidhan Sabha poll in the district. She disclosed that 2,54,849 litres of liquor, 114.732 kg of various types of narcotic continued on page 2 Ludhiana, April 4 The CIA wing of the Ludhiana Police Commissionerate today arrested two proclaimed offenders (POs) wanted by the police for a long time. The suspects have been identified as Gurdeep Singh, a resident of Satkar Nagar, and Baljit Singh, of Kulal Majra, Samrala. CIA in-charge inspector Beant Juneja in a statement issued today stated that Gurdeep was facing a theft case registered against him at the Jamalpur police station in 2018. He was declared a proclaimed offender by the court in July last year. Baljit was facing a theft and criminal intimidation case registered against him at the Police Division 6 in 2021 and he was declared a PO by court in March 2024. Inspector Juneja said the police recieved a tip-off that Gurdeep was roaming near the Jamalpur chowk, following which a police team was formed and a raid was conducted, which led to the arrest of the suspect. The suspects in police custody in Ludhiana on Thursday. TRIBUNE PHOTO ❝ OTHER ABSCONDERS TO BE ARRESTED SOON Several other absconders who are wanted by the police in various criminal cases are on the radar of the CIA. They too be arrested soon and will be put behind bars. — Beant Juneja, CIA IN-CHARGE He said they got a tip-off that Baljit was roaming near the Sherpur chowk, afterwards a raid was conducted, which led to his arrest. The CIA in-charge said due to the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Ludhiana Commissioner of Police Kuldeep Singh Chahal had issued strict directions to arrest absconders evading arrests ❞ and to nab such criminals, a special campaign was recently launched by the CIA. “Several other absconders who are wanted by the police in various criminal cases are on the radar of the CIA. They too be arrested soon and will be put behind bars. We are also keeping a tab over criminals who are out on bail in heinous cases,” he added. Cop held for misbehaving with artiste Ludhiana, April 4 Three days after the Khanna police registered a case against three persons, including a policeman, the police arrested the official in the case. The trio had misbehaved with a female dancer during a function in Samrala. The policeman has been identified as Jagroop Singh, a head constable, of Ranwa village in Samrala. On April 1, the Samrala police had booked him and two others in the case. The suspects had told the artiste, Simar Sandhu, to get down from the stage and dance with them but when she refused, they turned furious and started abusing her. They even hurled a glass full of liquor at the dancer. Khanna SSP Amneet Kondal said after getting a tip-off, the police conducted a raid and arrested the policeman from Samrala on Wednesday night. Raids were on to nab the other suspects. Notably, the Punjab Women Commission had also sought a report from the Khanna police in the matter and a DSP-level officer was entrusted the task to prepare a report in this regard. — TNS
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