A jewellery shop on Garha road here was robbed in the wee hours of Wednesday after thieves entered by cutting a hole into a wall and made away with gold and silver ornaments worth lakhs.
Hundreds of farmers having their agriculture land across the barbed fencing along the International Border (IB) are likely to benefit in a big way if the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) goes ahead with its “proposed decision” to shift the fencing to within 200 metres of the zero line.
Farmers, peasants and labourers — under the banner of the ‘Latifpura Mur Waseba Morcha’ — staged a dharna at PAP Chowk here today, demanding action against the displacement of 50 families at Latifpura. Traffic remained held up on the Jalandhar-Amritsar highway for three hours
Nine days have passed since the Jalandhar Improvement Trust (JIT) carried out a major demolition drive at Latifpura here; however, the families who lost their dwellings continue to spend their nights in the tents surrounded by rubble and garbage dump.
The Jalandhar Commissionerate Police on Friday arrested an accused who was a proclaimed offender in at least three cases of theft and robbery and an attempt to murder for the past over 12 years.