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P4 » » SUNSET TUESDAY 5.29 PM SUNRISE WEDNESDAY 6:45 AM » TUESDAY | 11 NOVEMBER 2025 | LUDHIANA CONCRETE LINING ALONG BUDDHA DARIYA NGO accuses civic body of contempt of Tribunal orders Public Action Committee says ongoing construction poses serious ecological, civic risks Manav Mander Tribune News Service Ludhiana, November 10 The Public Action Committee, a Ludhiana-based civic association, has accused the Municipal Corporation of violating clear directives of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) by initiating concrete lining along the Buddha Dariya near Shivpuri Bridge. It has shot a letter addressed to the District Magistrate, Regional Office of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Chandigarh, Punjab Pollution Control Board, and Department of Water Resources, the association alleged that the ongoing construction amounts to contempt of court orders and poses serious ecological and civic risks. The association reminded the authorities that in the case of the Public Action Committee and The concrete lining work along the Budha Dariya in progress. others vs Punjab and others, the NGT had directed the formation of a joint committee comprising officials from MoEF&CC, Water Resources Depart- ment, Punjab Pollution Control Board and the District Magistrate, who was designated as the nodal agency. The Tribunal had explicitly ordered that no illegal construction should take place in the Buddha Dariya till the committee’s report was submitted. “Despite these directions, the Municipal Commissioner allegedly began concretisation of the natural water body’s sides, which the association claims violates not only the NGT orders but also the Supreme Court guidelines against altering natural water bodies,” said Kapil Arora and Jaskirat Singh from the PAC. Photographs dated November 8, with GPS location, were attached with the complaint as evidence. The members of the association said they had alerted the District Magistrate via WhatsApp on November 5 and 8 but the construction continued, added members of the PAC, Dr Amandeep Singh and Bains Kuldeep Singh Khaira. The PAC members said the narrowing of the Buddha Dariya had already led to overflow into hundreds of homes, particularly in Chander Nagar, causing severe hardships to residents. The association had argued that concretisation would further disrupt the natural flow and ecology of the water body, worsening flood risks. The committee has urged the authorities to halt the construction along the Buddha Dariya and initiate legal action against violators for contempt of the NGT orders. Despite repeated calls and messages seeking his version, Municipal Commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal remained unreachable. Firing at house in Lakhowal village suspected to be mistaken identity case Nikhil Bhardwaj Tribune News Service Ludhiana, November 10 The investigation in the case involving indiscriminate firing at the house of a cold storage manager at Lakhowal village suspected to be the case of mistaken identity. The suspect who fired at the main gate of the house was reportedly heavily drunk. Preliminary investigation by the police found that the suspect had reportedly come to target another house and he mistakenly targeted a wrong house. The police said once the suspect was arrested, truth will come out. The police probe also found that only one suspect came in the car and after firing indiscriminately at the house, he fled the scene in the vehicle. The car of the suspect was also captured in CCTV cameras, which also helped the police in identifying the suspect. The incident occurred around 9 pm on November 8 when the assailant came in a Maruti Swift car and rained bullets at the main gate of the house belonging to Satwant Singh. Occupants of the house were Suspect belonging to neighbouring village identified INCIDENT OCCURRED ON NOV 8 The incident occurred around 9 pm on November 8 when the assailant came in a Maruti Swift car and rained bullets at the main gate of the house belonging to Satwant Singh. Occupants of the house were inside during the incident. However, Satwant’s minor son Jobanpreet, who came behind the main gate suffered minor injury on his leg as a bullet brushed past the boy’s leg. LICENSED WEAPON SUSPECTED TO BE USED had alone come the ❝The suspecthe fled the scene.inEvencar and after opening the fire a licensed weapon was suspected to be used in the incident. ❞ Inderjit Singh, ACP inside during the incident. However, Satwant’s minor son Jobanpreet, who came behind the main gate suffered minor injury on his leg as a bullet brushed past the boy’s leg. Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Inderjit Singh said the police had already identified the suspect, who belong to a neighbouring village, and even his whereabouts was also identified. The suspect had been hiding at some undisclosed location and a police team was continuing a search operation to nab him. “Initial investigation of the police has found that the suspect had no enmity with the house owner. It could be a case of mistaken identity as the suspect might had to target some other house but as he was in an inebriated state, he opened fire at the wrong house. Let the police arrest the suspect and truth behind the incident would come out,” he said. The ACP said the suspect had alone come in the car and after opening the fire he fled the scene. Even a licensed weapon was suspected to be used in the incident. Four nabbed, suspect opens fire at cops Open garbage dumping: Night during weapon recovery, CIA chief hurt patrolling continues in city areas One of suspects too suffer bullet injury as police retaliate against assault MANKI MURDER CASE Nikhil Bhardwaj Tribune News Service Ludhiana, November 10 Almost a week after four armed assailants had opened fire at four friends leaving one of them, Gurvinder Singh Ginda (21), dead and Dharampal, alias Dharma, injured at Manki village in Samrala, the Khanna police had arrested the four suspects from Tarn Taran on Sunday. On Monday when the CIA took the suspects to a defunct toll plaza building in Samrala where the suspects had concealed weapons, one of the suspects fired at police officials. CIA in-charge Narpinderpal Singh suffered a bullet injury in the thigh. In retaliation, the police also fired shots and one of the bullets hit a suspect. Senior Superintendent of Police, Khanna, Jyoti Yadav, confirmed to The Tribune that on Sunday morning, Khanna police had arrested four suspects from Tarn Taran. They were identified as Harkaran Singh Karan, a resident of Madpur, Gurtej Singh Teji of Chak Sarai, Jaspreet Singh Jassu, a resident of Chak Sarai, and Rajveer Singh Lalli of Madpur. During questioning of the suspects, they confessed that after committing the murder, they had concealed weapons at defunct toll plaza building in Samrala. Karan and Gurtej were taken to the first floor of the defunct toll building from where one weapon was recov- ered. As Karan was taken to another room to recover a weapon, he found a weapon and fired shots at the police officials, during which the CIA in-charge was injured. In self-defence, when police personnel also fired shots, Karan suffered a bullet injury in his joints. During the firing, Gurtej jumped from the first floor of building and suffered injuries. The policemen caught hold of both suspects and shifted them to a hospital. “Now, further questioning of the suspects is on. Their links with gangster Anmol Bishnoi’s aide Ravi Rajgarh are being inquired. Ravi was also brought on production warrant from jail last week and he admitted his links with the nabbed suspects but he admitted that he had not ordered killing of Gurvinder. Their group, led by gangster Anmol Bishnoi, had took responsibility of the murder just to spread terror of the Bishnoi group,” the SSP said. She said personal enmity of one of the murder suspects, Karan, with deceased Gurvinder’s friend Dharampal became the cause of the murder. The suspects had gone to kill Dharampal but Gurvinder had died while the other person escaped with a bullet injury. Karan’s father was reportedly beaten up by Dharampal during a blood donation camp and Karan wanted to take revenge, which led to the killing of Gurvinder and bullet injury to Dharampal,” revealed the SSP . Tribune News Service Ludhiana, November 10 Tightening noose around violators, Municipal Corporation (MC) teams continue night patrolling in the city and challans are being issued to residents for open dumping of garbage. Stop dumping, burning waste to avoid action, violators told Working on the directions of Mayor Inderjit Kaur and MC Commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal, the teams have been keeping check day and night and over 100 challans had been issued to violators in different parts of the city. Challans were also issued to over 16 violators on the Ferozepur road, near Pavilion MC officials issue a challan to a violator against open dumping of garbage in Ludhiana. mall, Middha chowk, among other areas on Saturday night. The Mayor and MC Commissioner have appealed to residents to stop dumping waste in the open, otherwise strict action would be taken against the violators. Urging the residents to stop burning waste, the officials said challans of up to Rs 25,000 would be issued to the Spl DGP hints at major action against illegally modified vehicles in state Nikhil Bhardwaj Tribune News Service Ludhiana, November 10 Now, if you are caught plying modified vehicle on road, be it for private or commercial purpose, the traffic police are not going to spare you. Depending upon the extent of violation, your vehicle either can be impounded by the police or the offender can be made to pay heavy penalty. In this regard, the Punjab Police are set to begin a special drive. All types of vehicles, including two- wheelers, threewheelers or four-wheelers, defying the norms of the Motor Vehicle Act will face action. The Special Director General of Police (Spl DGP), Traffic and Road Safety, Punjab, Amardeep Singh Rai, convened a statewide high-level meeting of the Gazetted Rank Traffic Nodal Officers, including ADCPs, ACPs, Holds statewide meeting of traffic nodal officials in city Special DGP, Traffic and Road Safety, Punjab, Amardeep Singh Rai, interacts with other police officials in Ludhiana on Monday. TRIBUNE PHOTO: HIMANSHU MAHAJAN DSPs, SPs at the Police Lines, Ludhiana. From the Ludhiana police, ADCP (Traffic) Gurpreet Purewal and ACPs Jatin Bansal and Gurdev Singh attended the meeting. DGP Rai said the meeting was attended by six officials of the rank of the superinten- dent of police (SP) and 21 deputy superintendents of police (DSP) from across the state. The primary agenda of the meeting was to convey and implement the directions of the DGP Punjab, regarding , action against modified vehicles in compliance with the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Addressing the officers, the Special DGP emphasised that illegal and unapproved modification of vehicles was strictly prohibited under the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. He instructed all c m y b field officials to ensure strict enforcement against such violations and to take appropriate action in accordance with law. Reiterating a zero-tolerance approach, he directed that no dereliction of duty will be tolerated in this regard. He further advised the officials to intensify field checking and awareness efforts to ensure compliance and promote road safety across the state. “All types of modified vehicles that may include use of wide alloy wheels, modification in body, high beam lights, noise emitting modified silencers or any kind of extra fitment that defy the rules of the MV Act will come under the scanner of the traffic police. Immediate action as per law will be taken against the offenders,” Rai said. He specifically mentioned the use of rehras, gharuka or jugaad vehicles (rehris fitted behind motorcycles), which are being used to transport goods would also face strict action. Even use of passenger vehicles for transporting goods would also come under the ambit of law and might face serious legal action. Entities carrying out illegal modification may also face legal action When asked if shops who do illegal modification will also face action, DGP Rai stated that such entities resorting to illegal modification will definitely face action. Like shopkeepers modifying cars or fitting noisy silencers on bullet motorcycles should also stop the practice immediately, else they may also land in legal trouble. “Once a modified vehicle is caught, besides taking action against the owner of the modified vehicles, the police will verify links and action will be taken as per the norms,”he claimed. violators, if anyone was caught burning the same. Dachalwal said besides issuing challans, strict legal action, including FIR, would also be lodged over repeated violations by residents. Dachalwal said the civic body would soon launch a helpline number with the help of which the residents would also be able to submit complaints regarding open dumping of garbage. Meanwhile, the Mayor and the MC Commissioner again appealed to the residents to support the authorities in keeping the city clean and green. The residents should own their responsibility and support the authorities in making Ludhiana the best city. 13 booked for assault, outraging woman’s modesty Tribune News Service Ludhiana, November 10 The Sadar Jagraon police registered a case against 13 persons for attacking and outraging the modesty of a woman at Sohian village in Jagraon. The suspects were identified as Dilpreet Singh, Karanpreet Singh, Harvinder Singh, Narang Singh, Surjit Singh, Bablu, Kulwant Singh, Gurpinder Singh, Hakam Singh, Ranjit Singh, Harmel Singh, Amritpal Singh and Arshdeep Singh, all residents of Sohian. Complainant Manpreet Kaur told the police that on the evening of November 7, she went to collect fire- wood from a storage area in front of her house when the suspects, who were standing at Mana Wala Chowk in the village, came and abused her. They also made obscene gestures. The complainant alleged that the suspects told her that they had let her go earlier but this time, they would not let her go and she had to face consequences. “The suspects continued to abuse me and even made obscene gestures at me. They also assaulted me before fleeing the scene,” he said. Investigating officer ASI Manjit Singh said after registering a case, further investigation was launched.