Punjab Police embrace mobiles

October 7th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said the controversial issue of sharing of water between Haryana and Punjab should be sorted out through talks. The water sharing has been a thorny issue between both states with Haryana seeking completion of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal and Punjab opposing the move.

October 3rd, 2009 BATALA - An unidentified man assaulted a cashier of the State Bank of Patiala in this north Punjab town Saturday afternoon and looted Rs.23 lakh from him, police said. The Punjab Police immediately set up barricades around this town, 40 km from Amritsar, to nab the culprit.

September 8th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - One person was killed and several others were injured as large number of farmers staging a protest in Chandigarh clashed with the police on Tuesday. The farmers from across Punjab state were protesting against the recent hike in power tariffs by the state's electricity regulatory authority and sought better prices for their produce.

August 31st, 2009 AMRITSAR - The Punjab Police arrested five people here Monday and recovered four kilograms of heroin from their possession, officials said. According to a senior official of Punjab Police, the seized contraband is worth Rs.200 million (Rs.20 crore) in the international market.

August 2nd, 2009 BATHINDA - Son of a former Akali Dal minister of Punjab was found murdered in his car in this Punjab town Sunday, police said. Sandeep Singh Dhillon, son of former Akali Dal leader Teja Singh, was found dead in his car, according to officials.

July 25th, 2009 VARANASI - A year after policemen from Punjab busted a 'Munnabhai' racket in the state Pre-Medical Test (PMT), a police team from Faridkot arrested an MBBS student of the Benaras Hindu University (BHU) medical college here for impersonating a candidate at the 2008 Punjab PMT examination. Manikant, a VII semester student at the BHU medical college, was nabbed by the Punjab police Friday on the basis of leads given by Delhi-based Sanjiv Kumar, who was stated to be the kingpin of the racket.

July 3rd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Jammu and Kashmir cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Paramdeep Singh Gill Friday took over as the new director general of Punjab Police. The Punjab government amended rules to bring Gill, a 1974-batch officer, on deputation from Jammu and Kashmir.

July 3rd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - P.S. Gill Friday became the new director general of Punjab Police, taking charge from his elder brother and acting police chief R.S.

July 1st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Policemen in Punjab now have a highly sophisticated vehicle, which has an adjustable bullet-proof picket, two light machine guns and other modern devices for destroying the positions of terrorists and insurgents. "This is a low carrier vehicle that is designed by the special wing of Punjab police.

June 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Two engineering students of a college in Punjab have alleged physical abuse by seniors and registered a case of ragging in Uttar Pradesh. The two ran away from the college and came to Kanpur a few days ago, police said Friday.

June 10th, 2009 SRINAGAR - P.S. Gill, a Jammu and Kashmir cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, will be the next police chief of Punjab, official sources here said Wednesday.

May 5th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Gun-crazy Punjab has seen over 120,000 licensed weapons being deposited by their owners with the police before the parliamentary elections - a five-times increase over the previous polls. 'An important aspect of this election is that against 21,000 weapons got deposited during the last election, 1.20 lakh (120,000) weapons have been deposited during current Lok Sabha election.

February 28th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - K.K. Attri has been appointed the next director general of police in Punjab, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal announced here Friday.

February 24th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Radical Sikh leader, Simranjit Singh Mann Tuesday demanded that Punjab be declared a 'buffer state' with its own independent government, given its sensitive location between India and Pakistan. Addressing media here, Mann, who also heads the Akali Dal (Amritsar) said: 'We want peace to prevail between India and Pakistan but the present conditions point towards a certain war between the two countries.

December 25th, 2008 CHANDIGARH - Financial problems led a mother of three to club two of her sons to death in Patiala town in Punjab, 90 km from here, the police said Friday. The woman, Amarjit Kaur, 30, was arrested by the police for murdering her two sons, Rakesh and Ramesh.