Four colonisers booked for fraud

Tarn Taran: The police have booked four persons for allegedly defrauding former minister and Congress leader Gurchet Singh Bhullar of crores of rupees in a commercial plot deal at Vrindavan Colony on the Tarn Taran-Amritsar road near Kakka Kandiala village. The police said the colonisers had been identified as Bikramjit Singh, Jaskaran Singh, Jagjit Singh and Balwant Singh of Amritsar. The Congress leader told the police that he purchased a 1,000 sq yard commercial plot at the rate of Rs 10,000 per sq yard.He claimed that full and final payment of the plot was made on May 5, 2014. He alleged the suspects without his consent sold the said plot to Sandeep Singh, a resident of Deep Avenue here. OC

Railways to probe train derailment

Amritsar: The district railways authorities have constituted a committee to probe the derailment of a train loaded with at the Anngarh railway crossing on the night of July 14. The probe is being handled by the engineering wing of the Railways, which has constituted the four-member committee by drawing officials from various departments of the Railways. On July 14, four bogeys of a train loaded with goods had departed from the Bhagtanwala railway station. A few minutes later, some bogeys of the train derailed. TNS

Boy’s body found in distributary

Tarn Taran: The Chohal Sahib police found an unidentified body of around 15-year-old boy from a distributary in Lohar village, 30 km from here on Sunday. ASI Gurmit Singh, investigating officer, said the body had been kept at the Civil Hospital mortuary for identification. There were no injury marks on the body and the exact cause of death would be known after the postmortem, the police said. OC