Chandigarh: A man has been reported to have been shot dead late last night at Road town Mananwala on Jalandhar-Amritsar highway.

Police Station Chatiwind, SHO Manmeetpal Singh said that Charanpreet Singh, Jagdev Singh and Sukhdeep Singh, who are relatives, were on their way to Jandiala Guru from Amritsar in their car late last night when they stopped on the side of Mananwala road on the way, after which unidentified persons in a black coloured car shot Charanjit Singh in the head and Jagdev Singh was attacked with rods by Sukhdeep Singh due to which Charanjit Singh died on the spot.

He said a probe has been initiated by the police and the culprits will be nabbed soon.

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BHUBANESWAR:A ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) functionary in Odisha Bolangir has been shot dead by two unidentified assailants here on Tuesday.

Loknath Biswal, 65, was a popular leader of the area and at time of crime he was with his wife Binita, a member of Belpada Panchayat Samiti, outside their home in Banmal village.

According to the police, accused came on a bike and opened fire at Biswal. Locals rushed him to government community center but he succumbed to his injuries.

Police said that they are investigating the case at different angles but no accused has been identified as of yet.

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New Delhi: In a horrific incident, a woman police constable has reportedly gang-raped by three men in Madhya Pardesh’s Neemuch district, police said on Saturday.

Accused had also filmed the act and threatened to kill the victim, the police said.

According to the information, the incident took place early this month but 30-year-old filed a complaint on September 13 after which investigation was conducted into the matter and a case was registered against five people into the matter.

The accused included the mother of the main accused.

In her complaint, the woman told the police that she was raped by three people including main accused, his brother and another man at a birthday party and main accused’s mother also blackmailed her and a relative also threatened to kill her and tried to extort money from her.

“Main accused had befriended me on Facebook and had been interacting with me on WhatsApp since April. He invited me to his younger brother’s birthday party there he along with two other men raped me,” she told the police.

Anuradha Girwal, in-charge of the women police station that a case has been registered and further investigation is underway into the matter.

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Chandigarh: Punjab police have involved the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in the first-information report (FIR) against the accused for smoking inside premises of Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib at Anandpur Sahib on Monday.

Accused has been identified as Paramjit Singh of Ludhiana.

Earlier, he was booked under Section 295A (hurting religious sentiments) of IPC.

The volunteers (sewadars) of the gurdwara had caught Paramjit, when he was smoking inside the premises, after he had taken permission for staying overnight in the main hall of the place of worship.

SSP Vivek Sheel Soni said Section 18 (punishment for conspiracy) of the UAPA has been added after a preliminary investigation into the matter. Police are investigating the case from all angles.

Akal Takht acting jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh had claimed that the accused, Paramjit, was a follower of Dera Sacha Sauda, his father was part of seven-member team of this dera.

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Chandigarh: Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Tuesday nabbed Kanungo Om Parkash posted at tehsil Nawanshahar, district SBS Nagar red handed accepting bribe of Rs 5,000.

Disclosing this here an official spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said accused Kanungo was arrested on the complaint of Gurmukh Singh of village Mahal Khurd, SBS Nagar district. The complainant has informed the VB that the accused Kanungo was demanding bribe to forward enquiry report regarding his Numbardari case. He further informed that he had already paid Rs. 15,000 to the accused Kanungo and now he was demanding Rs. 5,000 more from him.

After verifying his information, a vigilance team laid a trap and the accused Kanungo was arrested on the spot while taking bribe of Rs. 5,000 more from the complainant in the presence of two official witnesses.

He informed that a case under section of prevention of corruption act has been registered against him at VB police station, Jalandhar and further investigation is under progress.

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Jalandhar: The Commissionerate Police have arrested a Congress leader Lovepreet Singh of Friends Colony in a connection with over one year old double suicide case, here on Friday.

A couple committed suicide and allegations were levelled on the local Congress leader that he was harassing Ashima Rana (35), a former lecturer at APJ College and her husband Vikas Rana (38).

Ashima hanged herself in the house while her husband Vikas committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train on the Goraya-Phillaur railway track a day later. The couple was residing at Friends Colony. The couple was survived by two minor daughters.

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Jalandhar: The rural police have arrested a son and his wife on the charge of murdering his mother in Nurmahal here on Friday.

The Station House Officer (SHO) of Nurmahal police Gurindarjit Singh Nagra said that the accused have been identified as Gagandip alias Gagi, a resident of Mohalla Ravidass Pura Nurmahal and his wife Gurprit Kaur .

SHO said that the accused murdered 52 years old Vidiya. They murdered her with a sharp-edged weapons on Thursday night.

Narindar Bhandal a resident of Bhandal Himmat village and close relative of the deceased complained to the police that he received a phone call on early morning that Vidiya died after being beaten by a poisonous insect.

He said that when he reached at home the body was lying in a pool of blood and there were deep wounds on her neck and he felt suspicious following which he informed the police who reached on the spot recovered the body.

SHO said a case under section 302 (murder) of the India Penal Code has been registered against the accused and recovered weapons of murder.

Police said that further investigations are underway and motive behind the crime would be ascertained after throughout investigation.

This incident has created a sense of fear and insecurity among resident as this is second murder within one month. Rohit(22) son of Ram Lubhaya a resident of Mohalla Khatikan was shot dead on August 10 in his house and the accused is still absconding .

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