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Amritsar, July 20
The newly-appointed president of Punjab Congress, Navjot Singh Sidhu, was given an overwhelming welcome by the Amritsar unit of the party at the Golden Gate the entrance of the holy city.
Amritsar: Newly appointed Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Navjot Singh Sidhu being welcomed by his supporters during his visit to Amritsar, Tuesday. PTI Photo
However, a set of prominent Congress leaders, aligned to CM Capt. Amarinder Singh kept away from the reception.
Sidhu’s supporters, the majority from the East constituency he represented as a lawmaker, eagerly awaited his arrival at 1 pm despite the inclement weather conditions till he finally arrived at around 3 pm.
PK Jaiswar
Amritsar, July 17
The police have finally booked three ASIs in the Jandiala Guru ‘encounter’ case in which a Hoshiarpur resident was shot dead in an ‘encounter’ by the CIA staff on December 8, 2020.
The CIA staff was holding a naka at Jandiala Guru toll plaza following snatching of a car from a DSP-rank officer in the Putlighar area here when they received the information from the Ambala police that a man had snatched an SUV from there and was heading towards Amritsar via Ludhiana and Jalandhar.
He was shot dead by the cops near Jandiala in an ‘encounter’. Fingers were raised over the police theory following the encounter. A magisterial probe was ordered that gave a clean chit to the cops.
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Amritsar: The Amritsar (rural) police have nabbed seven persons for illegal mining on Saturday. The police confiscated eight tractor-trailers. The accused have been identified as Bikramjit Singh of Miandia Kalan, Lovepreet Singh of Dharamkot, Daljit Singh and Karamjit Singh of Miadian Khurd village, Daswinder Singh of Awan village, Angrej Singh, Surinder Singh and Dharam Singh of Miadian Kalan village. Amritsar (rural) Senior Superintendent of Police Dhruv Dahiya said the police got a tip-off regarding illegal sand mining following which a checkpoint was laid near gurdwara Morcha Sahib. The police intercepted eight tractor-trailers with sand. Drivers of these tractors could not produce any document regarding excavation of sand from Ravi river bed. The police have registered a case under Section 379 of the IPC and Section 21 of the Mining and Mineral Act against them. He said further investigations were under progress to identify their accomplices and spots from where the sand w