Youth injured in police firing while trying to escape custody in Jalandhar
Jalandhar, Sept. 13 -- A youth, who was arrested in an illegal arms case, was injured in police firing after he tried to escape from custody in Jalandhar on Saturday. Commissioner of police Satinder Singh said accused Sukhjinder Singh was nabbed with two illegal pistols on September 10. On Saturday, police took him to Jamsher area for another weapon's recovery. "But upon reaching there, he pushed the cop and took out a concealed pistol and opened fire at an ASI," Satinder said. The team retaliated in self-defence, during which one bullet hit him in the leg.
Chandigarh Congress MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Saturday wrote to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman seeking a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and income tax department into allegations that gangsters were spending crores of rupees at weddings and distributing cash in Punjab villages.
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Saturday alleged that the AAP government in Punjab had used its proxy, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), to divert public attention from a Dalit man's "suicide", which he alleged was abetted by finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema. He also questioned the credentials of the CJP in praising the "failed" education system in Punjab which he alleged had collapsed under the AAP government....
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