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Phagwara ‘double murder’: Probe hits a wall as police find key accused tough nut to crack

Phagwara’s superintendent of police (SP) Rupinder Kaur said the investigation is on and the accused has been in their custody for nine days from May 2 onwards.

Harvinder Singh, 35, was arrested from Gujarat in connection with a ‘suspected’ double murder of a lawyer and his woman companion in Phagwara, the Kapurthala police are yet to recover the bodies. (Representational image)

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Published on May 06, 2025 08:48 AM IST

ByNavrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar

Punjab: Phagwara lawyer, friend missing: Cops suspect ‘murder’, prime accused arrested from Gujarat

History-sheeter Harvinder Singh, who jumped parole on April 23, was caught in Kutch. He is serving a life term for the 2012 murder of then Moga DSP and his woman friend

Deputy inspector general of police, Jalandhar Range, Naveen Singla said that Harvinder, who had jumped parole on April 23, was being brought back on transit remand after he was caught in a joint operation with Gujarat Police. (HT File)

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Published on Apr 30, 2025 05:58 AM IST

ByNavrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar

2 Tanzanian nationals held in drug trafficking case from Phagwara

The accused have been identified as David (22) and Aatuka (21), both students at private university in Phagwara. The Kerala police have nabbed two Tanzanian nationals from Phagwara in a drug-related case on Saturday.

The Kerala police have nabbed two Tanzanian nationals from Phagwara in a drug-related case on Saturday. (Representational image)

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Published on Mar 16, 2025 05:38 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Jalandhar

NRI returning home after 10 years dies in Phagwara road crash

Two people, including NRI Dilpreet Singh, were killed in a Phagwara accident involving a tractor-trolley. His mother is critically injured; driver fled.

The mangled remains of the car in Phagwara.

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Updated on Dec 21, 2024 08:46 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Phagwara

Punjab municipal polls: AAP launches campaign for Jalandhar, Phagwara, comes up with 5-point agendas

After meeting Dera Beas head Gurinder Singh Dhillon, AAP’s state president Aman Arora and state vice-president Amansher Singh Sharry Kalsi held meetings with the local leadership of Jalandhar and Phagwara, before making formal announcement of the party manifesto.

AAP state president Aman Arora at the launch of party campaign in Jalandhar on Saturday. (HT File)

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Updated on Dec 15, 2024 06:58 AM IST

ByNavrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar

Punjab civic body polls to be held by December-end

A few wards of Bathinda, Batala (Gurdaspur), Hoshiarpur and Fazilka (Abohar) municipal corporations in which by-election was scheduled because of various reasons will also be held by December-end.

A notification in this regard was issued by additional chief secretary, local government, Tejvir Singh on Thursday evening. The notification did not mention any specific date for the elections. (HT File)

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Updated on Nov 23, 2024 08:04 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Punjab: Phagwara mill MD booked for firing at protesting employees

The mill employees were protesting over non-payment of salaries, allowances, bonus, clearance of provident fund and other dues that were pending for the last six months

The accused mill MD has been booked under Section 125 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. (HT File)

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Updated on Nov 14, 2024 05:34 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Jalandhar

Punjab: 4 injured as bike-borne men open fire in Phagwara village

The victims were sitting in an open area at the village on Wednesday night when the six assailants came on two motorcycles and opened fire on them, the SP said.

The police have found 12 empty shells from the spot. (HT File)

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Updated on Oct 11, 2024 05:18 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Cop attacked during vehicle checking drive, accused held

A 30-year-old Phagwara resident, Sunny, was arrested for assaulting a police officer during a vehicle check, tearing the cop's uniform. Charges were filed.

A caseunder Sections 221 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public duty) and 132 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita has been registered against the accused. (HT File)

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Updated on Aug 25, 2024 05:32 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Jalandhar

Bharat Bandh fails to evoke much response in Punjab, Haryana

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Updated on Aug 21, 2024 03:22 PM IST

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Phagwara illegal tractor race: FIR lodged as 6 injured

Police said Jaspal Singh, who was driving the tractor, three children and two others were injured in the accident. They are presently under medical observation.

The race was being organised without any official permission. (HT File)

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Updated on Jun 17, 2024 06:32 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Jalandhar

Vote for GP if you want your voice to reach Parliament: Bhagwant Mann

In Fatehgarh Sahib, where he held a road show in favour of AAP nominee Gurpreet Singh GP, the Punjab CM said that GP is a down-to-earth person, he hails from a poor background and if elected to power, he will take the voice of the poor to the Parliament.

Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann with AAP’s Fatehgarh Sahib nominee Gurpreet Singh GP during a roadshow on Friday. (Photo:X)

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Updated on May 03, 2024 08:02 AM IST

ByTarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana/phagwara

Bhagwant Mann to meet AAP volunteers in Moga, Phagwara today

Chief minister Bhagwant Mann, who is also the state unit president of AAP, will be accompanied by AAP national general secretary, organisation, Dr Sandeep Pathak at the ‘Volunteers’ Milni’.

Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday held separate meetings with the AAP candidates and MLAs from Anandpur Sahib and Amritsar Lok Sabha constituencies to take feedback from them regarding the prevailing political situation and discussed the election strategy based on their feedback. (HT File)

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Updated on Apr 06, 2024 08:32 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Punjab tourist beaten to death in Dharamshala,5 held

The owner of the coffee shop said that he mistook a cold drink the tourist was carrying for a bottle of alcohol, after which an altercation took place,” a police official said

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Updated on Mar 23, 2024 08:50 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Dharamshala

Six women from Uganda, Tanzania held for looting Rajasthan bizman in Phagwara

The complainant said that he was travelling on the Amritsar-Ludhiana national highway and had stopped at a dhaba in Maheru village on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday when one of the women asked him for a lift.

The complainant handed over <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>2,000 to them and later reported the matter to the police, Satnampura police station SHO Gaurav Dhir said. (HT File)

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Updated on Mar 04, 2024 08:04 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Kapurthala

Punjab sacrilege cases: 14 murders in 8 yrs, the perils of ‘jungle justice’

Punjab has seen a series of incidents where suspects in sacrilege incidents have been shot or lynched by people out to mete them ‘instant justice’.

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Updated on Jan 23, 2024 05:08 PM IST

ByHT Correspondents

Punjab: Nihang kills ‘sacrilege suspect’ at Phagwara gurdwara

One of the senior officials, privy to the probe, said the deceased has been identified as Vishal Kumar, who as per the documents found in his possession, was a resident of an orphanage in Haryana’s Sonepat.

Police at Gurdwara Chaura Khooh in Phagwara, where a Nihang Sikh murdered a youngster early on Tuesday. (HT)

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Updated on Jan 17, 2024 08:54 AM IST

ByNavrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar

Nihang sikh kills youth at gurdwara in Punjab's Phagwara over alleged sacrilege

Senior police officials rushed to the spot as the accused has locked himself inside the Chaura Khooh gurdwara premises.

Nihang, identified as Ramandeep Singh, uploaded the video and took responsibility for the murder.(File)

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Updated on Jan 16, 2024 09:18 AM IST

ByHT News Desk

Punjab MC polls: HC terms delimitation exercise at three civic bodies illegal

The court said procedures were ignored in municipal corporation, Phagwara, and 2 councils of Dera Baba Nanak, Dharamkot, to give undue advantage to a select few

The commission is at liberty to conclude the revision/finalisation of the electoral rolls and issue appropriate notification for conducting elections.

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Updated on Oct 19, 2023 07:50 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

32-year-old man stabbed to death in Phagwara

The deceased has been identified as Harpreet Singh, alias Happy, who owns a juice corner near the university campus on the Phagwara-Jalandhar national highway. He stabbed to death in Phagwara. Harpreet belonged to Sangrur but was residing in the Jalandhar Cantonment.

A 32-year-old man was stabbed to death, while one received multiple injuries during a clash between two groups near a private university in Phagwara on Friday late night. (Representational image)

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Updated on Sep 09, 2023 07:12 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Jalandhar

Days after 2 brothers jumped into Beas: SHO among three policemen booked for abetment to suicide

The decomposed body of one of the brothers was recovered from Dhundha village in Kapurthala district on Saturday; Navdeep Singh, who was posted as the SHO in Jalandhar commissionerate’s division number 1, was accused of physically and mentally harassing one of the brothers on the police station premises

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Updated on Sep 04, 2023 12:44 AM IST

ByNavrajdeep Singh, Jalandhar

Punjab’s Bhagwant Mann government keen on holding civic body polls in September

In the absence of the elected body and its head -- mayor in the corporations and the president in the smaller civic entities-- the state government has appointed administrators to run the operation

There are 13 municipal corporations in Punjab out of which eight, Fazilka, Bathinda, Mohali, Pathankot, Moga, Batala, Abohar and Hoshiarpur, went to polls in February 2021.

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Updated on Jun 30, 2023 12:46 AM IST

ByGurpreet Singh Nibber, Chandigarh

Man arrested on suspicion of ‘links’ with Amritpal released

The Hoshiarpur police on Saturday arrested Jaswinder Singh Pangli of Jagatpur Jattan village of Phagwara to question him over his suspected links with Waris Punjab De outfit’s head Amritpal Singh, who is on the run ever since a crackdown was launched against him and his aides on March 18

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Updated on Apr 10, 2023 12:52 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Kejriwal, Mann to launch ‘CM di Yogshala’ in Patiala

Punjab health minister Dr Balbir Singh said they had also launched a helpline number, where they could give a missed call and the government would provide them with a free yoga teacher.

The pilot project was planned for four districts — Amritsar, Phagwara, Ludhiana and Patiala. (ANI Photo)

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Updated on Apr 05, 2023 01:19 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Patiala

37 portable Aam Aadmi Clinics in five poll-bound MCs of Punjab soon

In the absence of space and land for construction of permanent buildings for health services, portable cabins will be used to house Aam Aadmi Clinics

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Updated on Apr 03, 2023 12:18 AM IST

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Man driving Amritpal’s car during Hoshiarpur police chase nabbed

The arrested driver told the police that Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh handed him his own mobile phone in a bid to throw off the teams chasing them

Police are said to have arrested the driver of the car ferrying Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh during the police chase in Hoshiarpur. (HT File)

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Updated on Mar 31, 2023 04:25 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Hoshiarpur

Punjab cop who kicked vegetable vendor’s basket suspended

Navdeep’s behaviour was condemned even by Kapurthala’s senior superintendent of police Kanwardeep Kaur who said that such behaviour lends a bad name to the entire police force.

SHO Navdeep Singh seen kicking a vegetable vendors' basket. (brarkhushh/Twitter)

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Published on May 05, 2021 10:55 PM IST

Byhindustantimes.com | Written by Shankhyaneel Sarkar | Edited by Avik Roy, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

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Phagwara’s superintendent of police (SP) Rupinder Kaur said the investigation is on and the accused has been in their custody for nine days from May 2 onwards.

History-sheeter Harvinder Singh, who jumped parole on April 23, was caught in Kutch. He is serving a life term for the 2012 murder of then Moga DSP and his woman friend

The accused have been identified as David (22) and Aatuka (21), both students at private university in Phagwara. The Kerala police have nabbed two Tanzanian nationals from Phagwara in a drug-related case on Saturday.

Two people, including NRI Dilpreet Singh, were killed in a Phagwara accident involving a tractor-trolley. His mother is critically injured; driver fled.

After meeting Dera Beas head Gurinder Singh Dhillon, AAP’s state president Aman Arora and state vice-president Amansher Singh Sharry Kalsi held meetings with the local leadership of Jalandhar and Phagwara, before making formal announcement of the party manifesto.

A few wards of Bathinda, Batala (Gurdaspur), Hoshiarpur and Fazilka (Abohar) municipal corporations in which by-election was scheduled because of various reasons will also be held by December-end.

The mill employees were protesting over non-payment of salaries, allowances, bonus, clearance of provident fund and other dues that were pending for the last six months

The victims were sitting in an open area at the village on Wednesday night when the six assailants came on two motorcycles and opened fire on them, the SP said.

A 30-year-old Phagwara resident, Sunny, was arrested for assaulting a police officer during a vehicle check, tearing the cop's uniform. Charges were filed.

Bharat Bandh fails to evoke much response in Punjab, Haryana

Police said Jaspal Singh, who was driving the tractor, three children and two others were injured in the accident. They are presently under medical observation.

In Fatehgarh Sahib, where he held a road show in favour of AAP nominee Gurpreet Singh GP, the Punjab CM said that GP is a down-to-earth person, he hails from a poor background and if elected to power, he will take the voice of the poor to the Parliament.

Chief minister Bhagwant Mann, who is also the state unit president of AAP, will be accompanied by AAP national general secretary, organisation, Dr Sandeep Pathak at the ‘Volunteers’ Milni’.

The owner of the coffee shop said that he mistook a cold drink the tourist was carrying for a bottle of alcohol, after which an altercation took place,” a police official said

The complainant said that he was travelling on the Amritsar-Ludhiana national highway and had stopped at a dhaba in Maheru village on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday when one of the women asked him for a lift.

Punjab has seen a series of incidents where suspects in sacrilege incidents have been shot or lynched by people out to mete them ‘instant justice’.

One of the senior officials, privy to the probe, said the deceased has been identified as Vishal Kumar, who as per the documents found in his possession, was a resident of an orphanage in Haryana’s Sonepat.

Senior police officials rushed to the spot as the accused has locked himself inside the Chaura Khooh gurdwara premises.

The court said procedures were ignored in municipal corporation, Phagwara, and 2 councils of Dera Baba Nanak, Dharamkot, to give undue advantage to a select few

The deceased has been identified as Harpreet Singh, alias Happy, who owns a juice corner near the university campus on the Phagwara-Jalandhar national highway. He stabbed to death in Phagwara. Harpreet belonged to Sangrur but was residing in the Jalandhar Cantonment.

In the absence of the elected body and its head -- mayor in the corporations and the president in the smaller civic entities-- the state government has appointed administrators to run the operation

The Hoshiarpur police on Saturday arrested Jaswinder Singh Pangli of Jagatpur Jattan village of Phagwara to question him over his suspected links with Waris Punjab De outfit’s head Amritpal Singh, who is on the run ever since a crackdown was launched against him and his aides on March 18

Punjab health minister Dr Balbir Singh said they had also launched a helpline number, where they could give a missed call and the government would provide them with a free yoga teacher.

In the absence of space and land for construction of permanent buildings for health services, portable cabins will be used to house Aam Aadmi Clinics

The arrested driver told the police that Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh handed him his own mobile phone in a bid to throw off the teams chasing them

Navdeep’s behaviour was condemned even by Kapurthala’s senior superintendent of police Kanwardeep Kaur who said that such behaviour lends a bad name to the entire police force.

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