News portal owner booked

Phagwara: On a complaint lodged by Sunil Kumar, senior security officer of LPU, the police have registered a case against a news portal and its owner Vinod Kumar for allegedly publishing a fake news and spreading rumours against LPU. Kapurthala SSP Satinder Singh said here on Tuesday that the LPU authorities had complained to the police that the news portal was spreading rumours on social media against the university that LPU officials were Covid positive. The SSP said the police were investigating the matter. OC

Youth consumes poison, dies

Nurmahal: A youth died on Tuesday after consuming some poisonous substance. Victim Armjit Singh was a resident of Cheema Kalan village. His father Gurnam Singh said his son went to fields on Tuesday, where he consumed some poisonous substance by mistake and died on the way to Jalandhar hospital. Inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC were started and the body was handed over to the family after postmortem. OC

Gold chain snatched

Phagwara: Two unidentified persons snatched a gold chain from Harinder Kaur of the old Sabzi Mandi area, on Tuesday. She was going to Gurdwara Sukhchain Sahib to pay obeisance when the miscreants committed the crime and managed to flee. A case was registered. OC

Vatsala Gupta appointed ADCP-1

Nakodar: The government appointed Nakodar Assistant Superintendent of Police Vatsala Gupta (IPS) as the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) -1, Jalandhar Commissionerate, after her promotion. She is a 2016 batch IPS officer of the Punjab cadre. OC