85,000 looted from postal employee
Ludhiana, May 22
In a daring daylight robbery, four armed youths snatched a bag containing about Rs 85,000 from an employee of a post office near Baddowal this afternoon when the employee was on his way to deposit the amount.
XEN caught
red-handed
Ludhiana, May 22
An Executive Engineer (XEN) of the PSEB, Sohinderjit Singh, posted at Jagraon was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 from a dhaba owner. According to sources, the premises of Parminder Singh, owner of Raja Dhaba situated on the Ludhiana-Ferozepore road, were recently raided by a team of the board.
Woman, servant murdered
Ludhiana, May 22
A woman and her servant were found murdered in a house at Shastri Nagar today late evening. Both seemed to have been clubbed to death. However, there were no signs of robbery in the house.
3 kg of gold seized, 4 held
Ludhiana, May 22
The Customs Department has seized around 3 kg of gold and has arrested three persons in the golden bricks case that had rocked the city during the past many days.
Three booked
Ahmedgarh, May 22
The local police has booked three persons including a woman, under Section 109 of the IPC.
According to sources, a police party caught Pala Singh of Nangal village and Surinder Kaur of Malerkotla from a deserted tubewell in a compromising position.
98 cylinders confiscated
AirTel braces for competition
Ludhiana, May 22
Punjab is the largest and the fastest growing market for cellular services in the country after Delhi and Mumbai. Cellular operators are working on the presumption that in Punjab mobile phones will far exceed landlines in the near future.
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