The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) has arrested three absconding accused agents, who colluded with Motor Vehicle Inspector (MVI), Jalandhar, Naresh Kaler for issuing or receiving fitness certificates by taking huge bribes without conducting inspection of commercial and private vehicles.
Throwing norms to the winds, vendors in the industrial hub have put up firecracker vends at various markets in the city. As per the orders issued by the district administration, cracker vends can only be set up at places designated by the administration.
City residents on Monday woke up to reports of two murders at separate locations. While a half-burnt body of a man was found dumped in the fields of Jalbhay village of Adampur, another blood-stained body was found along a canal at Singha village falling under the Lambra police station.
The CIA-2 wing of the Ludhiana police today claimed to have foiled a dacoity attempt and arrested five miscreants in the case. The accused had planned to commit a dacoity at a big sanitary store here.
A day after the mysterious death of a 15-year-old domestic help, native of Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, whose body was found hanging from the ceiling fan on the top floor of a house in Upkar Nagar, here, yesterday, the Ludhiana police on Tuesday registered a murder case against the employer.