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P4 » MAX 13°C | MIN 8°C YESTERDAY MAX 13°C | MIN 7°C SUNSET SATURDAY 5.51 PM SUNRISE SUNDAY 7:29 AM SATURDAY | 18 JANUARY 2025 | AMRITSAR Lobbying starts in AAP Travelagentbooked for ~8.40 lakh fraud for civic body top post 39 mobile phones recovered from Goindwal Sahib jail Tarn Taran, January 17 The recovery of mobile phones and other objectionable articles from the Central Jail complex in Goindwal Sahib goes unabated. Piara Ram, Assistant Superintendent, Central Jail, said the staff during routine checking of wards of different barracks recovered 39 touch screen and keypad mobile phones, besides 19 earphones. He said other objectionable articles recovered from the jail premises, include SIMs, chargers and batteries among other things. The police registered three cases under the Section 52 of the Prisons Act in this connection on Thursday. —OC Drug peddler held with 2kg opium Amritsar, January 17 The Chheharta police have arrested a drug peddler identified as Rajiv Kumar of Azad Road and recovered 2kg of opium from his possession. He was intercepted by a patrolling party in the area. He was carrying a bag and during search, the police found the contraband. A case under the NDPS Act was registered against suspect. He was produced in a court and brought on police remand for further investigation. — TNS Tribune News Service Charanjit Singh Teja Tribune News Service The CCTV grab of the man, who stole ~2 lakh from pocket of an injured person, at a hospital in Amritsar. Man steals ~2 lakh from pocket of victim hurt in road mishap Amritsar, January 17 A man stole Rs 2 lakh from pocket of a blanket trader after he was injured in a road mishap on the Albert road here last night. The incident was captured in the footage of the CCTV cameras of the hospital which later went viral on social media. The victim identified s Ravi Mahajan was returning home from his shop located in the Mahan Singh Gate area. The police have collected the CCTV footage and launched further probe to identify the suspect. The victim sustained serious head injury in the accident. His condition was stated to be serious. According to information, the victim was riding on his scooter on the Albert road when a car coming from behind hit his vehicle. He fell on the road and sustained serious head injury due to the impact of the collision. When people started gathering near accident spot the car driver fled. Onlookers got the trader admitted to a hospital. However, one of the onlookers found cash in pocket of the jacket which Ravi Mahajan was wearing. The onlooker took out cash from the victim’s pocket and fled from the hospital. When the victim’s family reached hospital they found the cash missing from his pocket. “Ravi was taking two days sale From page 1 Amritsar, January 17 The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), with 38 seats in its kitty, is now close to proving its majority in Municipal Corporation (MC) House. Aspirants within the AAP are lobbying for the Mayor’s post. It has been 27 days since the Amritsar MC elections were held on December 21 and result was announced same day. In the elections for 85 wards, the Congress won the maximum 40 seats, and the ruling AAP secured 24 seats. However, both parties are in a race to secure the Mayor’s post. Meanwhile, the BJP , which has eight councillors, and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which has four councillors, have remained silent on their next move. With the addition of an Independent candidate, the Congress, now has 41 councillors. The AAP which ini, tially won 24 seats, added six Independents and one BJP councillor to its tally, bringing its total to 31 councillors and seven MLA members of the MC House. Despite being close to having the majority needed to elect Mayor, the Congress has not yet suc- c m y b The office of the Municipal Corporation in Amritsar. ceeded in this connection. The AAP is making efforts to secure the Mayor’s post. The AAP currently has 38 members in the MC House. Several leaders within the party are eager to become Mayor. Among the contenders are Independents and councillors who joined the AAP after severing their ties with other parties. Priyanka Sharma, twice elected as councillor, hails from the Amritsar (North) constituency. Initially, elected as a councillor on the Congress ticket, she later joined the AAP along with some oth, er Congress councillors, during the term of former Mayor Karamjit Singh Rintu. She is now a strong contender for the post of Mayor. Similarly, Jarnail Singh Dhot, councillor from the Amritsar (East) constituency, is also vying for the top post. He has been a councillor for three consecutive terms. Dhot contested twice as a BJP candidate and won, but around year ago, he joined the AAP and secured a councillor’s seat this time too. Jatinder Singh Moti Bhatia, another contender, got elected as a councillor twice. Initially, close to Navjot Singh Sidhu, Bhatia first won the councillor’s seat on the Congress ticket. Later, he joined the AAP and won the MC elections for the third time. Other names doing rounds for the Mayor’s post include Virat Davgan and Balwinder Singh Gill. From page 1 Amritsar, January 17 The Jandiala police have booked a fake travel agent for allegedly duping two local residents on the pretext of sending their sons to Ukraine. The suspect, identified as Arshpreet Singh, a resident of New Sukhdev Nagar, Dhamia road, Ludhiana, had also assured them to provide the Schengen country visa. The incident came to light when the Jandiala police registered an FIR against the suspect after two years of submitting the complaint. The Jandiala Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) carried out investigations in this connection. The complainant, Sukhwinder Singh, a resident of Dharad village, told the police that the suspect took a total of Rs 8.40 lakh from him and his brother for sending their sons abroad. He told to the police that Arshpreet Singh had his office at Samrala Chowk in Ludhiana. He said they came in contact with the suspect in September 2021. He said the suspect took Rs 3.2 lakh for sending his son Rahuljit Singh and his nephew Amandeep Singh to Ukraine and also prom- ised to provide temporary residence card (TRC) for a Schengen country from there (Ukraine). He said the suspect sent both Rahuljit and Amandeep to Ukraine, but even after lapse of four months, he did not arrange the TRC for Schengen country. He said the suspect again demanded Rs 1 lakh each for arranging the TRC. However, he did not fulfil his promise and due to over stay, both Rahuljit Singh and Amandeep Singh returned to India. Sukhwinder said the suspect then gave in written to bear all the expenses for sending them again to Ukraine within 15 days and further arrange the TRC for Schengen country. Failed to do this, the suspect again promised to send the duo to France or Canada. The complainant alleged that the suspect neither sent his son nor nephew abroad nor returned their money. The Jandiala police booked Arshpreet Singh under Sections 370 (human trafficking) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 13 of Punjab Travel Professions Regulation Act. The suspect is yet to be arrested by the police.