Ludhiana: Four men thrashed an ASI and vandalised his PCR van when he stopped them from consuming liquor in a car in Dugri main market on Monday night.
After the assault, all four fled. Later, the police traced and arrested two of them, Bobby Singh of Nehri Colony, Dugri, and Gurpal Singh of New Janta Nagar. Gurjinder Singh of Daba and Dilbar Singh of Satguru Nagar are at large.
PCR cop ASI Rajinder Singh said, “I was on duty at Dugri Phase 1 market with constable Jagtar Singh. I saw four men consuming liquor in a car in the market. When I objected to it, they started arguing. They then manhandled me and started beating me up in an inebriated condition.”
Ludhiana: The police on Friday arrested a woman financier and her accomplice for culpable homicide after her 24-year-old employee died a day before. The financier’s son, who too has been booked, is on the run. The kin of the victim alleged that the accused murdered him by injecting him with poison.
The deceased has been identified as Parkash Singh, of Daba. The accused are: Reeta Rani of Azad Nagar, her son Ajay Kumar and her aide Poonam of Friends Colony, Jassiyan Road.
Parkash’s father Lakhvir Singh, 52, of New Satguru Nagar, said in his police complaint, “Parkash had been working with Reeta for the past few years. He lived in a room at her house. Parkash was earlier a drug addict. He wanted to leave the job, but Reeta was not letting him quit and harassing him.”