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Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Coming down heavily on the drug smugglers/suppliers, Under the supervision of Harjeet Singh, DIG Bathinda, the district police have claimed that it has arrested two persons and recovered a very large quantity of Pregabalin capsules and Tramadol tablets. The police claimed that it had arrested one Bathinda resident, identified as Sanjeev Kumar during the checking of vehicles and recovered about 9000 capsules of Pregabalin 300 mg besides seizing his scooter. “On his further interrogation, the police arrested of a chemist and recovered about 737600 capsules of Pregabalin 300 mg and 20000 tablets of Tramadol from his possession ,” said Jyoti Yadav, SSP Bathinda in a press release to the media on Tuesday. No case has been ever registered against t...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Bohar Singh Rupian Wala, district president of BKU Sidhupur Ekta on Wednesday said that the party workers are all set to welcome its state chief Jagjeet Singh Dallewal when he enters Faridkot on March 6. “The hundreds of the farmers would welcome him with tractor-trolley loads of the kissan union activists when he enters the district on Friday,” said Bohar Singh who convened a meeting of party workers and the office bearers in Faridkot today. Jagjeet Singh Dallewal, the head of the Punjab of BKU Sidhupur-Ekta is on an awakening of farmers tour across the country. “Earlier, the East India company had entered India for the purpose of the trade, but later on, it set up an empire in India. To get the British defeated and buy independence for India, co...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The district police have claimed to have recovered a commercial contraband of heroin of about 2 kg from a resident of Preet Nagar of Amritsar, who has been identified as Akash alias Mann. The accused has been arrested from near village Chand Baja of Faridkot district, said Jogeshwar Singh Goraya, SP investigation Faridkot in a press conference today. The accused ,according to the police have already about 7 cases registered against him regarding the drug pedaling, arms act and other serious offences at various police stations of the state. A case against the accused has been registered at police station Sadar Faridkot under the sections of NDPS and further investigation is on. “The police are investigating his forwards and backwards links as th...

Thrown into the bin. The arrest is not automatic. In the crimes with punishment less than 7 years of jail term, a notice must be given to the accused. Otherwise, the police can arrest an accused with cognizable offences like murder, rape or happening in the sight of the police or where there is a threat of the furtherance the crime. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot When the police have to arrest a person, there are some procedural guidelines which must be followed, but they are usually thrown in the bin. According to the section 35 of BNS, the police can arrest a persons with cognizable offence like murder, rape or other serious offence, but in the offences under less than 7 years of imprisonment, the police are supposed to serve a notice to the alleged accused for appeance.He wo...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Now the farmers, if they want to avail any kind of subsidy on fertilizers, farm machinery or incentives under the PM Kisan Yojana,they must get their digital ID. “The centre government has launched this project that all the farmers must get their digital ID to avail all kinds of the subsidies.It aims to ensure that the subsidy goes to the beneficiaries only. For example, Urea may be used for some other purposes as well, but it is highly subsidised by the government,” said Dr Kulwant Singh,CAO Faridkot. “But the farmers can buy as much as fertilizer they need.There is no provision of any capping. The project was in the pipeline for some time, but the farmers were reluctant to come forwards, apprehending that there may be some caps and controls over th...

It would enable the vaccinator to register the animals on the govt portal. Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot If you have any dairy or other kinds of animals,remember that you must give the vaccinator the OPT(One Time Password) to ensure that your animals have been vaccinated. Dr Surjeet Singh Mall,deputy director of animal husbandry department Faridkot has confirmed the move. “Yes,to ensure that all the vaccinations are done timely and effectively, the centre government has mandated that the OTP is must for vaccinations.Earlier, it was to be implemented from February 15, but due to some pending work, the date was extended upto March 1.Now we have got PPR(Peste des Petitis,for sheep and goat plague) and then there would be Foot and Mouth Disease(FMD), then we get HS(Hemorrhagic...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today announced that cleaning up the Sutlej and Beas rivers would be a top priority of the next SAD government and that he would not allow one drop of polluted effluents from either factories or sewer lines to flow into the State’s rivers.  Addressing a mammoth rally as part of the Punjab Bachao movement spearheaded by him at Bhai Rupa,Sukhbir Badal said “polluted water is the reason for the spread of cancer in the Malwa region. I am committed to ending this scourge once and for all”.  Addressing a sea of blue along with senior leader Sikandar Singh Maluka, the SAD president said the SAD was also committed to ending gunda raj and the drug mafia. Stating that as if extortions and targete...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot Barnala Sports and Social Welfare club, an NGO promoting sports and education has honoured two students,Akshnoor Kaur, a resident of village Landhe and Jashanpreet Kaur Gill, a resident of village Sirsari in an impressive show today. Both the girls, who had topped the PSEB class 10th examination held in March 2025, are the students of Sant Mohan Das Senior Secondary School village Kotsukhia in district Faridkot. The girls were awarded mementoes,shawls and other useful material to promote their education. The awarding ceremony,held in Barnala, was attended by Meet Hayer,MP from Sangrur,MLA Kuldeep Singh and chairman of CTC group Charanjit Singh Channi besides many others. “I am highly thankful to the club for honouring our students who ...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot In about 2014, Yogendra Yadav, then a prominent face of the newly emerging AAP said ,”The people of Punjab have lost one generation to the militancy, the second one  are losing to the drugs.The SAD-BJP government is pushing this generation into the drugs which is a sin,.”   Yadav, who was then a prominent member of the newly emerging AAP, might have been  much optimistic of having his share in the birth of the AAP  in India.  His tone and tenure was touching to upset the then SAD-BJP ruling alliance and a very large number of people assembled to hear him in Kotkapura and Faridkot town. But Yadav might not have anticipated that the state was yet going to lose some part of its third generation on study visa to abroad, drugs ...

Raghbir Singh Brar Faridkot The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing drive against corruption in the state, has apprehended Manjot Singh Patwari posted in the revenue office of Kot Shamir, district Bathinda, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs. 10,000/-. Disclosing this here today, an official spokesperson of the state VB said the above-mentioned accused has been arrested based on a complaint lodged by a resident of village kot Shamir district Bathinda. He said that the complainant met the accused Patwari regarding executing the mutation of inherit property of his relative. In this regard, complainant alleged that accused Patwari demanded bribe of Rs. 10,000/- in lieu of execution of mutation of his relative property. The entire conversation regarding the demand...