Punjab Police on Wednesday resorted to a lathi-charge on members of the agriculture labour unions who were marching towards Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's residence in Sangrur over their various demands.
Officials of the Punjab Special Task Force (STF) on Sunday apprehended a man and confiscated contraband drugs and unlicensed weapons smuggled from across the border by an unmanned vehicle.
Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav has asked people living in the state to remove any objectionable content from their social media handles within the next three days to avoid any action against them.
Punjab Police on Wednesday arrested two associates of Gangster Rajan Bhatti, during a raid at Sushant City in Bathinda,and recovered two illegal weapons from their possession, officials said.
According to the police, the post-mortem report revealed that the woman died due to asphyxia. The police further said that the woman was a nurse by profession.
The police received information from a reliable source that two persons travelling in a bus were carrying a huge quantity of heroin to Rajasthan and were expected to depart from a bus near Verka Bypass
Punjab Police on Monday arrested gangster Gurcharan Singh Rinka, a close associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldy Brar from Faridkot for allegedly threatening some witnesses in the murder case of Congress leader Gurlal Singh Pehalwan.
Officials of Punjab Police's Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) on Sunday arrested the sixth shooter involved in the targeted killing of Pardeep Singh, after a brief encounter with police teams in Jaipur, Rajasthan, officials said.
Singh, a Dera Sacha Sauda follower, was killed by six shooters outside his shop in Kotkapura on November 10, 2022. The conspiracy to kill him was hatched by Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar, Punjab Police said.
The gangster, Raj Hudda, was wanted in connection with the alleged killing of a man in Faridkot area of Punjab on November 10. A Punjab police personnel Hakam Singh was also injured in the incident.