A day after the police booked a Superintendent of Police (SP), a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and a Sub-Inspector (SI) and two others for allegedly receiving Rs 20 lakh in bribe in a murder case, both SP and the DSP have been shifted out of Faridkot district.
Tardy paddy procurement across mandis in the district has left farmers in a quandary. With clouds hovering in the sky and heaps of grains lying at village-level procurement centres, farmers are quite disturbed. Even bardanas (gunny bags) have not even been supplied to many mandis till now.