Chandigarh Police Crime Branch has busted a foreign-backed interstate narcotics syndicate and arrested three accused, including a notorious gangster involved in eight serious criminal cases, including double murder and the killing of a Naib Tehsildar, said a police statement on Tuesday.
Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa stated that this calamity has engulfed 1,018 villages of Punjab, destroyed over 3 lakh acres of crops, and claimed 23 human lives along with numerous dairy and domestic animals. Countless houses, valuables, agricultural equipment, and machinery have been wiped out i
The development came in less than a week after CI Pathankot had averted a target killing by busting a module of the same network with the four members, including two juveniles, and recovered two .30 bore star mark pistols from their possession, a release said.
Heavy rainfall has triggered severe flooding across nine districts in Punjab, including Pathankot, Batala, Gurdaspur, Ferozepur, Fazilka, Kapurthala, Amritsar, Tarn Taran, and Hoshiarpur, prompting large-scale relief operations.
The Indian Army, in response to the massive floods in parts of Punjab, deployed Army Aviation Helicopters for flood relief and rescue operations as part of its Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) efforts, the Additional Directorate General (ADG) of Public Information (PI), Ind
The assault reportedly occurred on August 1, when two police personnel deployed in Batala for law and order duties ahead of Independence Day allegedly attacked Singh after he questioned their presence in the area.
The Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) Punjab has successfully stopped a major terror plot by Harwinder Rinda, a Pakistan-based Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) operative supported by Pakistan's ISI, to disrupt peace in Punjab.
Of the seven accused, three are still absconding, in the grenade attack by BKI terrorists on the Ghanie Ke Bangar police station in Batala of Punjab's Gurdaspur district. The BKI claimed the attack on social media by Harpreet Singh, alias Happy Passia, and Gurpreet, alias Gopi.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted Jatinder Singh, a key aide of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist Lakhbir Singh also known as Landa and dreaded gangster Pavittar Batala in a Punjab terror conspiracy case.