National Lok Adalat on July 10 in Hoshiarpur district court complex

Hoshiarpur: A National Lok Adalat is being held in the district court complex on July 10. Cases pertaining to civil matters, rent matters, motor accident claims, criminal compoundable cases, revenue matters, Section138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, family matters, labour matters, bank matters, telecom firms, electricity and water bills (excluding non-compoundable), public utility services, traffic challans and other matters, pending and pre-litigation shall be taken up for adjudication. Aparajita Joshi, CJM-cum-Secretary District Legal Services Authority, appealed to the litigants to get their cases settled in the Lok Adalat as it saves both time and money. She said the decision of the Lok Adalat is recognised as a final civil decree and no appeal lies against the decision. OC

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Wadwa XI wins cricket tourney

Hoshiarpur: A cricket tournament was organised by Nandan village youths in collaboration with Sukhraj Super Cricket Academy (SSCA). The final match was played between Wadwa XI and the SSCA. Wadwa XI won the toss and decided to bowl. Displaying fine bowling, Wadwa restricted Sukhraj Super at 119 runs. Chasing the target, Amit of Wadwa team scored 45 runs in 35 balls. Wadwa team won the match. Shubham of SSCA was declared the man of the match, he took 4 wickets and scored 30 runs in 10 balls and Kapil Rana of SSCA was declared man of the series. OC

Thieves decamp with gold, cash

Hoshiarpur: Thieves entered into a house and decamped with gold and cash on Thursday. Gurmesh Singh, a resident of Kakkon village, in his complaint to the police said that he, along with his family, had gone to attend wedding of a relative on Thursday. When in the evening, he returned home, he found that the locks and almirahs were broken and gold ornaments and cash were missing. The Model Town police have lodged an FIR under Sections 454 and 380 of the IPC. OC

Batteries stolen from Jio tower

Hoshiarpur: The Hariana police on Thursday lodged an FIR after more than two months of theft of batteries from a telecom tower of Reliance Jio. The company’s legal manager, Sachin Kumar, had complained to the police on April 25 that technician Mohammad Irshad informed him that unidentified thieves had stolen three batteries from the company’s tower installed near the Handa two-wheeler agency in Hariana. On the basis of said complaint, the police registered an FIR under Section 379 of the IPC against unidentified thieves. OC

Sewa Kendra timings changed

Hoshiarpur: DC Apneet Riyait on Friday said that the working hours of the Sewa Kendras in the district have been changed by the Administrative Reforms Department. She said till July 10, all service centres in the district would be open from 8 am to 2 pm. She said air conditioners would not be used in the Sewa Kendras during this period. OC

Eight booked for attacking police

Hoshiarpur: Cops at Garhdiwala police station booked eight persons, including three women, for allegedly manhandling and stopping a police party that was on the way to the police station arresting a smuggler. According to information, ASI Nirmal Singh of the Garhdiwala police station said in his complaint that after secret information, the police had arrested Arun Kumar, alias Doctor, and seized sedative pills from him. When cops were bringing him to the police station, his relative Surekha Devi, Arvind, Anmol Kumar, Anjala Devi, Ashok Pal, and his wife, all residents of Dadiana Kalan and Sonu, a resident of Mastiwal village stopped the police jeep and got into a scuffle with the police personnel. The police have registered a case against the said accused under Sections 323, 341, 353,186, 148 and 149 of the IPC. OC

DC reviews flood control measures

Nawanshahr: In the wake of the coming rainy season, Deputy Commissioner Dr Shena Aggarwal on Thursday reviewed the arrangements at Dhusi Bandh along with the river Sutlej in the district. The DC visited the villages near Dhusi Bandh and inspected the arrangements in place for flood control. She directed the officials to strengthen flood prone sensitive places to minimize damage in the rainy season. The DC asked the officers to ensure that the residents of villages did not have to face any sort of problem and also interacted with the villagers and assured fulsome support and cooperation to them from the district administration. She said that in case of floods, the evacuation plan has already been finalised and the sensitive places have been identified. TNS

One arrested with sedatives

Hoshiarpur: The Mahilpur police have arrested Hussain Gujjar, a resident of Sakruli village from near Harbans Gate. The police party had laid a naka there when a youth tried to flee seeing the police party. He was nabbed by the police and on search 20 sedative injections were seized from him. An FIR under the NDPS Act has been registered against him. OC

Three arrested with narcotics

Hoshiarpur: The district police arrested three persons and seized narcotics from them. According to information, the Mahilpur police arrested Jagjit Singh, alias Jassi, of Morawali village and Tajinder Bhanot, a resident of Kittna village, and seized sedative capsules from them. Meanwhile, the Dasuya police arrested Bodal village resident Iqbal Singh and seized 25 gm of intoxicating powder from him. The accused have been booked under the NDPS Act. OC

Visually-impaired given laptops

Jalandhar: On the occasion of 141th birth anniversary of Helen Keller, Saksham Punjab, an NGO dedicated for the visually-impaired students, distributed laptops to blind students from Class X to Class XII. The task was accomplished with the support of Neerza Mayor, Namrata Sethi, Parveen Bhatti and VK Sud. Deepika Sood, who runs the NGO, said the main objective of giving laptops was to make the visually-impaired students independent in reading and writing with the help of screen-reading software. TNS