Even as the state government sent selected principals of schools to Singapore for training, 650 headmasters recruited by the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) are upset over the alleged step-motherly treatment being meted out to them. They said despite the Director of Public Instructions (DPI)
One of the two gangsters shot dead in New Town on Wednesday was the son of a retired assistant sub-inspector of Punjab police.
Jaipal Singh Bhullar, police said, had been a champion hammer thrower in college before becoming a dreaded criminal wanted in several states.
Bhullar had more than 25 criminal cases pending against him, including robbery, murder, extortion and arms and drugs smuggling. He had allegedly entered the crime world with the kidnapping of a child in Punjab, the police said.
He and his associates Jaspreet Singh, alias Jassi Kharar, Baljinder Singh and Darshan Singh were wanted in the killing of two assistant sub-inspectors of police, Bhagwan Singh and Dalwinderjit Singh, at a grain market in Punjab’s Jagraon on May 15.