Two booked for Rs 1.23-lakh fraud

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Hoshiarpur: Dasuya police have booked two suspects for allegedly cheating an amount of Rs 1.23 lakh on the pretext of sending aspirants abroad. Dharmendra Masih, a resident of Changla village, told the police that the suspects Mandeep Singh and Maninder Singh alias Sunny, residents of Guru Nanak Nagar, Jalandhar, had allegedly cheated him of Rs 1.23 lakh on the pretext of sending him to Dubai. The police have registered . TNS

Tractor-trailer catches fire

Talwara: A tractor-trolley coming from Mukerian carrying bales of stubble suddenly caught fire. In the accident, all the bales of stubble were burnt. Balvir Singh, a resident of Bharpur Kalan village, Khanna, was going from Talwara-Hajipur-Mukerian road towards the industrial centre Sansarpur terrace in Himachal Pradesh carrying bales of straw on his Mahindra tractor-trolley. One of the straw bales loaded in the trolley suddenly caught fire as soon as it reached Dheer Poultry Farm on Hajipur-Mukerian road. Hajipur Police and Fire Department Talwara employees reached the spot but were too late. The cause of the fire could not be determined. TNS

Five held with drugs, liquor

Hoshiarpur: The district police recovered drugs from various locations and arrested five suspects, including a woman. The police, acting on a tip-off, arrested two smugglers and recovered 233 gm of intoxicants from them. The suspects have been identified as Amanpreet alias Mani and Karan Singh alias Karan, residents of Islamabad. Meanwhile, Garhshankar police have arrested Balvinder Singh, a resident of Sujanpur and recovered 36 bottles of liquor from him. Hajipur police have arrested Jagan Bhandari alias Sunny, a resident of Talwara, recovering 4 gm of heroin from him. Tanda police have arrested Sukhwinder Kaur alias Babbi, a resident of Darapur and recovered 18,750 ml of liquor from her.

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