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Sachin Sharma

Sachin Sharma is a senior staff correspondent, who covers crime, politics, rural civic issues and health in the Malwa region of Punjab.

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Four suspects nabbed under rape and murder charges

Acting after three years of the gang rape and murder of a minor girl, Sunaina, the police have arrested four young men as suspects. Sunaina was about 16 when assaulted and killed on November 10, 2009.

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Updated on Jul 10, 2012 06:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Assault on African student: SP's son surrenders

Hours after being booked in the case of assault on an African student, Romi Uppal, son of a Punjab superintendent of police, surrendered before the local police in Jalandhar today. Rajeev Bhaskar and Sachin Sharma report.

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Updated on Jul 07, 2012 11:05 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRajeev Bhaskar and Sachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Assault on Burundi national: SP's son booked on attempt-to-murder charge, surrenders

After media spotlight on the brutal assault on a Burundi national Yannick Nihangaza, a student of a private university near Jalandhar, more than two months ago, city police on Saturday finally booked a son of a serving SP-ranked officer on charge of attempt to murder in the case. A later report said that accused Romi Uppal surrendered before police and was formally arrested. A cheque of Rs five lakh would be delivered to hospital authorities in the morning.

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Updated on Jul 08, 2012 12:22 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByRajeev Bhaskar & Sachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Zardari can still do it: Sarabjit's sister

Despite Pakistan's U-turn on Sarabjit Singh's release, his family members have called President Asif Ali Zardari a kind-hearted man and are hopeful that he would do the needful soon.

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Updated on Jun 27, 2012 08:13 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Burlton Park project gets Rs 130-crore loan from HUDCO

Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) Limited, a central government body, has sanctioned Rs 130 crore loan to the municipal corporation for the development of Burlton park into a sports hub.

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Updated on Jun 16, 2012 06:25 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Admin defies orders, deploys cops in uniform at orphanage

Women police constables in uniform were deployed on the premises of Unique Home orphanage here despite the orders issued against it by director (social security, women and child welfare) Gurkirat Kirpal Singh.

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Updated on Jun 15, 2012 01:10 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Shital factory collapse: Kin of deceased await govt compensation

Relatives of workers killed in Shital Fibres factory building collapse on April 15 are yet to receive the compensation announced by the Punjab government, even as two months have passed since the tragedy. The state government had announced compensation of Rs 3 lakh each to the relatives of the 23 deceased workers.

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Updated on Jun 14, 2012 09:15 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Admin's action angers inmates at Jalandhar orphanage

Girls living at the orphanage 'Unique Home' here have complained of being made to stay indoors by the district administration, which had on Tuesday taken over the functioning of the home. This is allegedly affecting their studies, as they are not allowed to leave the campus.

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Updated on Jun 14, 2012 05:52 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

No trace of plaint on pre-natal sex test

More than two months after a woman had accused two scanning centres of indulging in sex determination, the affidavits she had submitted with her complaint have gone missing.

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Updated on May 17, 2012 05:27 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Ruckus at grant distribution event

An event to distribute grants worth Rs 410 crore to local urban bodies of the state turned into a political battle. Some SAD councillors from Malerkotla Nagar Council dragged its president, Mohammad Sardar Dara (Congress), out of the hall

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Updated on May 14, 2012 07:16 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Vij gets bail as police fail to prove charges

Shital Fibres owner Shital Vij was granted bail on Monday, a week after the city police claimed that they had enough evidence to nail him under sections 304 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

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Updated on May 07, 2012 08:11 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Security tightened at IOC depot

Police on Friday conducted a security drive to check arrangements at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot at Suchi Pind village. Heavy police force reinforced by commandoes from the Punjab police and personnel from border security force were deployed in and outside the depot.

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Updated on May 05, 2012 07:17 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

A snatching every two days in Jalandhar

Residents of the city are feeling increasingly insecure. In April, 15 snatchings were reported to the police and only one has been solved. Three suspects have also been reported. Despite police claims, there seems to be no let-up in the snatchings.

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Updated on May 04, 2012 12:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

For some, relief money elusive

Satinder Kumar, 40, and Mukesh Kumar, 20, rescued from the debris of the collapsed building and admitted at the Devi Talab Charitable hospital are yet to receive the compensation announced by the government.

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Updated on May 02, 2012 12:42 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Unwell, Vij gets private room in hospital

Allegations of VIP treatment to Jalandhar factory collapse’s main accused Shital Vij during his 6-day police remand at the Navi Baradari police station seems to have had no impact on the police administration.The police allegedly recommended a ‘private’ room for the industrialist.

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Updated on Apr 26, 2012 11:23 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Panel: cancel MLA Sadique's SC certificate

Casting a cloud over noted Punjabi singer Mohammed Sadique's election as MLA, the Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes (SC) has directed the Ludhiana deputy commissioner to cancel the certificate which mentions that he belongs to the SC community.

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Updated on Apr 24, 2012 01:29 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Sachin Sharma

'Get aside, I will find my brother myself'

It's been a week that the factory-collapse in Jalandhar occurred, but the human heart refuses to desert hope. This became apparent on Sunday when a crying man reached the disaster site and rushed towards the debris, desperate to find his brother.

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Updated on Apr 23, 2012 12:03 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma

Jalandhar factory collapse: Three workers still missing

With rescue workers using heavy machinery to remove the debris of the collapsed factory building, the kith and kin of three workers still missing have been anxiously watching the whole operation for any news on their loved ones.

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Updated on Apr 22, 2012 12:32 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

18-year-old worker rescued after 72 hrs

Entombed under heaps of concrete and iron, Sanjay Yadav crawled along the dark floors of the four-storey Shital Fibres factory—which had collapsed late on Sunday night—in the hope of getting out. Sachin Sharma reports.

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Updated on Apr 20, 2012 11:25 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Under the debris, he treated money like dirt

He had Rs 10,000 in his pocket but no hope in his heart. Awaiting death under the debris of the factory building, he tore all the currency notes.

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Updated on Apr 20, 2012 12:03 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Patients shifted to Vij's hospital

Call it the generosity of the Devi Talab Charitable Hospital or something more sinister, the hospital has shifted two patients undergoing treatment at the civil hospital to its premises.

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Updated on Apr 19, 2012 12:35 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

‘Didn’t have a mobile so couldn’t call anyone’

Entombed under heaps of concrete and iron, Sanjay Yadav crawled along the dark floors of the four-storey Shital Fibres factory — which had collapsed late on Sunday night — in the hope of getting out.

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Updated on Apr 19, 2012 02:18 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

I had lost all hopes: Sanjeev

Sanjeev Yadav had abandoned all hopes of surviving, after he was buried under the rubble of collapsed factory building. However, fate had other plans for the 18-year-old youngster from Bihar, who was found by the rescue team and pulled out alive after an ordeal of more than 50 hours.

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Updated on Apr 18, 2012 06:42 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Jalandhar: Survivors speak of horrors beneath rubble

Stuck in the rubble for more than 30 hours, two terrified workers called out to each other after the four-storeyed building they were working in collapsed at around 11.30pm on Sunday near Jalandhar. Sachin Sharma and Rajeev Bhaskar report. Rescue work at Jalandhar factory collapse

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Updated on Apr 18, 2012 01:14 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma and Rajeev Bhaskar, Jalandhar

Police going slow on land grab case?

In a case of alleged land grab in Nahl village, the police administration allegedly seems to have decided to let the accused roam free, despite the fact that the offence committed is non-bailable.

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Updated on Apr 15, 2012 05:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Industrialists deploy pvt patrol teams to curb snatchings

With growing incidents of snatching and looting of migrant workers, Jalandhar's industrialists have started deploying private patrol parties to keep a check on the menace.

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Updated on Mar 02, 2012 10:28 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Army to conduct nuclear warfare mock drill on March 7

A nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) warfare drill will be carried out in Jalandhar on March 7 to assess preparedness of Army and civil authorities in such an eventuality.

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Updated on Mar 02, 2012 10:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

Residents, police clash over ‘inaction’ in rape case

A protest over alleged police laxity in arresting three persons accused of abducting and raping a minor girl from Shekhonwala Khu village on Monday took a violent turn as relatives of the victim and residents of the area clashed with the police on National Highway 1 here yesterday.

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Updated on Feb 29, 2012 12:40 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Kartarpur

Vehicle thieves on the prowl

Even as the local police are struggling to check snatchings and thefts, carjackers and vehicle thieves have compounded their problems. Armed robbers took away the Toyota Fortuner of Bhupinder Singh Makkar

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Updated on Feb 25, 2012 04:14 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

.32-bore revolver on top among arms deposited by candidates

The .32-bore revolver seems to be the favourite of several candidates in Jalandhar district. The good news is that these licensed weapons have been deposited at various police stations as per the Election Commission’s directions in view of the January 30 Punjab polls.

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Updated on Jan 20, 2012 08:14 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySachin Sharma, Jalandhar

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Sachin Sharma

Sachin Sharma is a senior staff correspondent, who covers crime, politics, rural civic issues and health in the Malwa region of Punjab.

Acting after three years of the gang rape and murder of a minor girl, Sunaina, the police have arrested four young men as suspects. Sunaina was about 16 when assaulted and killed on November 10, 2009.

Hours after being booked in the case of assault on an African student, Romi Uppal, son of a Punjab superintendent of police, surrendered before the local police in Jalandhar today. Rajeev Bhaskar and Sachin Sharma report.

Despite Pakistan's U-turn on Sarabjit Singh's release, his family members have called President Asif Ali Zardari a kind-hearted man and are hopeful that he would do the needful soon.

Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) Limited, a central government body, has sanctioned Rs 130 crore loan to the municipal corporation for the development of Burlton park into a sports hub.

Women police constables in uniform were deployed on the premises of Unique Home orphanage here despite the orders issued against it by director (social security, women and child welfare) Gurkirat Kirpal Singh.

Girls living at the orphanage 'Unique Home' here have complained of being made to stay indoors by the district administration, which had on Tuesday taken over the functioning of the home. This is allegedly affecting their studies, as they are not allowed to leave the campus.

More than two months after a woman had accused two scanning centres of indulging in sex determination, the affidavits she had submitted with her complaint have gone missing.

An event to distribute grants worth Rs 410 crore to local urban bodies of the state turned into a political battle. Some SAD councillors from Malerkotla Nagar Council dragged its president, Mohammad Sardar Dara (Congress), out of the hall

Shital Fibres owner Shital Vij was granted bail on Monday, a week after the city police claimed that they had enough evidence to nail him under sections 304 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Police on Friday conducted a security drive to check arrangements at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot at Suchi Pind village. Heavy police force reinforced by commandoes from the Punjab police and personnel from border security force were deployed in and outside the depot.

Residents of the city are feeling increasingly insecure. In April, 15 snatchings were reported to the police and only one has been solved. Three suspects have also been reported. Despite police claims, there seems to be no let-up in the snatchings.

Satinder Kumar, 40, and Mukesh Kumar, 20, rescued from the debris of the collapsed building and admitted at the Devi Talab Charitable hospital are yet to receive the compensation announced by the government.

Allegations of VIP treatment to Jalandhar factory collapse’s main accused Shital Vij during his 6-day police remand at the Navi Baradari police station seems to have had no impact on the police administration.The police allegedly recommended a ‘private’ room for the industrialist.

Casting a cloud over noted Punjabi singer Mohammed Sadique's election as MLA, the Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes (SC) has directed the Ludhiana deputy commissioner to cancel the certificate which mentions that he belongs to the SC community.

It's been a week that the factory-collapse in Jalandhar occurred, but the human heart refuses to desert hope. This became apparent on Sunday when a crying man reached the disaster site and rushed towards the debris, desperate to find his brother.

With rescue workers using heavy machinery to remove the debris of the collapsed factory building, the kith and kin of three workers still missing have been anxiously watching the whole operation for any news on their loved ones.

Entombed under heaps of concrete and iron, Sanjay Yadav crawled along the dark floors of the four-storey Shital Fibres factory—which had collapsed late on Sunday night—in the hope of getting out. Sachin Sharma reports.

He had Rs 10,000 in his pocket but no hope in his heart. Awaiting death under the debris of the factory building, he tore all the currency notes.

Call it the generosity of the Devi Talab Charitable Hospital or something more sinister, the hospital has shifted two patients undergoing treatment at the civil hospital to its premises.

Entombed under heaps of concrete and iron, Sanjay Yadav crawled along the dark floors of the four-storey Shital Fibres factory — which had collapsed late on Sunday night — in the hope of getting out.

Sanjeev Yadav had abandoned all hopes of surviving, after he was buried under the rubble of collapsed factory building. However, fate had other plans for the 18-year-old youngster from Bihar, who was found by the rescue team and pulled out alive after an ordeal of more than 50 hours.

Stuck in the rubble for more than 30 hours, two terrified workers called out to each other after the four-storeyed building they were working in collapsed at around 11.30pm on Sunday near Jalandhar. Sachin Sharma and Rajeev Bhaskar report. Rescue work at Jalandhar factory collapse

In a case of alleged land grab in Nahl village, the police administration allegedly seems to have decided to let the accused roam free, despite the fact that the offence committed is non-bailable.

With growing incidents of snatching and looting of migrant workers, Jalandhar's industrialists have started deploying private patrol parties to keep a check on the menace.

A nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) warfare drill will be carried out in Jalandhar on March 7 to assess preparedness of Army and civil authorities in such an eventuality.

A protest over alleged police laxity in arresting three persons accused of abducting and raping a minor girl from Shekhonwala Khu village on Monday took a violent turn as relatives of the victim and residents of the area clashed with the police on National Highway 1 here yesterday.

Even as the local police are struggling to check snatchings and thefts, carjackers and vehicle thieves have compounded their problems. Armed robbers took away the Toyota Fortuner of Bhupinder Singh Makkar

The .32-bore revolver seems to be the favourite of several candidates in Jalandhar district. The good news is that these licensed weapons have been deposited at various police stations as per the Election Commission’s directions in view of the January 30 Punjab polls.

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