Articles by Tarsem Singh Deogan
Ldh killings: Fired cop, driver to be declared POs
The troubles of dismissed Machhiwara station house officer (SHO) inspector Manjinder Singh and his driver, Sukhbir Singh, are set to increase, as the police have initiated proceedings to declare them proclaimed offenders (POs) in the case about the September 27 killing of two brothers here.
Updated on Dec 14, 2014 06:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Preliminary medical report fails to confirm Ludhiana girl’s rape
A preliminary medical examination has failed to confirm rape in the case of the 16-year-old girl who died here on Tuesday after being set ablaze by her alleged rapists.
Updated on Dec 12, 2014 12:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
'Reckless' police name clean man a junkie
Making yet another spectacle of themselves, the local police have included a 27-year-old's name in the district's list of drug peddlers, even as there is no case registered against him.
Updated on Dec 09, 2014 12:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
DTO, SDM chopped trees at their residences
In a violation of the laws they are supposed to implement, the district transport officer (DTO) Anil Kumar Garg and sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) KPS Mohi chopped off fully-grown trees from outside and inside their official residences in Officers Colony, Rakh Bagh, on Sunday.
Updated on Dec 08, 2014 01:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Family of local man stranded in Iraq alleges govt inaction
Family of Balbir Chand, a resident of Selkiana village on Rahon road, “kidnapped” by the ISIS in Iraq, on Thursday alleged that the state government was not doing enough to get him back.
Updated on Dec 04, 2014 07:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Website of Ludhiana rural police hacked, recovered
Though Ludhiana police have been claiming to be technologically upgraded and inviting people for filing their complaints online, their claims fell flat on Tuesday when someone hacked the official website of Ludhiana rural police (www.ludhianaruralpolice.in).
Updated on Nov 26, 2014 10:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
11 FIRs filed in drug cases appear identical
It appears those suspected of having narcotic drugs in their possession have developed a proclivity to keep the contraband substance in the right hand pocket of their trousers for reasons best known to them and would rather be frisked by cops than in the presence of a gazetted officer or a magistrate.
Updated on Nov 21, 2014 12:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Transport officers spend public money for offices
Money collected by the transport department from the public in the name of extra services at local offices has been spent by the transport officers to renovate their offices, instead of spending it on making infrastructure for the people.
Updated on Nov 19, 2014 12:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Dept collects Rs 42 cr for non-existent help
The state transport department has been charging money in the name of providing services at the help desk since August 1, 2011, even as no such facility exists in its offices across the state. The collections on providing this non-existent service has now touched Rs 41.93 crore, information provided by the state government to an application under the Right to Information Act has revealed.
Updated on Nov 14, 2014 01:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Locals bought cookies from inmates on Diwali
Cookies that tingled your taste buds this Diwali might have been baked at the Ludhiana Central Jail.Do not get surprised as several city residents had ordered cookies from the jail to distribute among their relatives and friends on the festival. The jail bakery had sold more than 500 kg packed cookies on the occasion.
Updated on Oct 31, 2014 12:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Mishap victim robbed of gold, mobile phones
Making most of the tragic road mishap that claimed the lives of two friends in Sarabha Nagar on late Saturday night, some locals insensitively robbed one of the victims of his gold chain and mobile phones.
Updated on Oct 28, 2014 10:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
42 convicts who jumped parole yet to be caught
Officials at the city's Central Jail have yet to apprehend several prisoners who violated parole by not returning and have also failed to file FIRs against most of the absconders. The convicts were serving sentences from 10 years to life for committing felonies including murder and drug peddling. Moreover, action has not been taken against those who stood guarantors for them.
Updated on Oct 27, 2014 02:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Parents of sexual abuse victim go into hiding
Days after the police booked a woman tutor and her two brothers for sexually assaulting her 14-year-old tenant and making explicit videos of the act, the victim's parents are frantic over the likelihood of the clips going viral.
Updated on Oct 22, 2014 09:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Child labour neglected where Satyarathi started his campaign
Even though Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarathi, founder of the ‘Bachpan Bachao Andolan’, conducted his first ever raid in Punjab, the issue of child labour remains vastly neglected in the state.
Updated on Oct 14, 2014 02:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Posters underline criminal past of slain brothers
Days after the alleged fake encounter killing of two brothers at Jamalpur near here, posters have appeared in the region underlining the criminal past of the two men, Harinder Singh and Jatinder Singh.
Updated on Oct 06, 2014 11:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Police indifference in registering rape cases
Despite the Supreme Court mandating registration of an FIR in cognisable offences, police continue to be defiant and even turn away complainants in grave cases.
Updated on Oct 05, 2014 02:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Ludhiana killings accused was ace shooter
The police are surprised how the Ludhiana killings accused was able to hit two targets in the head without missing a shot. For him, it was “a game”.
Updated on Oct 03, 2014 04:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Ludhiana shooting: SAD leader shot at brothers from close range
Preliminary investigations into the Ludhiana shooting case have shown that it was SAD leader Gurjit Singh who had shot at brothers Harinder Singh and Jatinder Singh from close range.
Updated on Oct 01, 2014 12:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
'Cops had threatened to kill my sons in encounter'
After booking them for attempt to murder and molestation, the police had been raiding the house of Harinder Singh and Jatinder Singh in Bhoapur village near Machhiwara for their arrest.
Updated on Sep 29, 2014 11:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Rs 4 form sold for Rs 30 at suvidha centre
Suvidha centre at the mini-secretariat is charging Rs 30 for the application form for driving licence that actually costs Rs 4.16, including file cover. Moreover, the employees at the suvidha centre have been denying accepting forms available on websites of the Centre and state government.
Updated on Sep 26, 2014 01:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
5 Khanna Verka feed plant officials held for fraud
Ludhiana vigilance bureau has arrested five officials at the Verka cattle feed plant, Khanna, on the charges of embezzlement and producing bogus physical verification certification of the stock. The bureau started investigation in the matter after Milkfed managing director Alak Nanda Dyal lodged a complaint.
Updated on Sep 25, 2014 12:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
DTO to accept medical certificates only from suvidha centre doctors
After the vigilance bureau has tightened grip on district transport office’s working, the district transport officer has asked the officials not to entertain the medical certificates made from any doctors except those at the suvidha centre.
Updated on Sep 24, 2014 05:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Five acquitted MC employees to face music for violating laws
Problems for the five municipal corporation (MC) employees who were acquitted by the additional sessions judge-cum-special judge in a case of violating of laws to give clean chit to a building owner for encroachment have not ended.
Updated on Sep 20, 2014 04:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
System crash cripples PCR operations
If the city police get a threat call at its control room it will not be able to trace the source as the system collapsed 10 days ago. The hi-tech Police Control Room (PCR) system is not also being able to record the calls received and those made.
Updated on Sep 17, 2014 12:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Rs 62-crore Markfed scam in five districts: RTI reply
An official reply obtained under the Right To Information (RTI) Act has revealed a Rs 62-crore scam, allegedly involving Markfed officials during 2012-13.
Updated on Sep 13, 2014 08:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Fake currency notes in market panic shopkeepers
Fake currency notes have hit several markets of the city, creating panic among shopkeepers. The currency notes of `100 denominations having some errors, which cannot be noticed at a glance, are making rounds in the market.
Updated on Sep 01, 2014 09:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Cops ‘make money’ off seized sand
Illegal sand mining seems to have proved a blessing in disguise for some police personnel at Salem Tabri police station. After seizing the illegally mined sand, cops at the station have been allegedly selling off the sand.
Updated on Aug 23, 2014 02:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
7-foot-2 keen to play basketball for India
He is being touted as the Yao Ming — a retired professional basketball star from China — of Indian basketball. At 7 feet 2 inches, 18-year-old Satnam Singh Bhamara of Balloke village in Barnala has many achievements up his sleeves. Currently he is completing his studies and basketball training at IMG Academy in the US. He has come to Punjab on vacations.
Updated on Aug 19, 2014 02:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Police yet to solveloot cases in city
Unable to rein in the increasing cases of loot in the city, the local police have also been unable to crack eight of the nine robbery cases that rocked the city in July.
Updated on Aug 05, 2014 08:59 PM IST
None | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Cyber crime spikes 375% in a year
With a smartphone in every hand and easy access to the Internet through personal computers and hand-held devices, cyber crime cases in 2013 have increased by a whopping 357% from 2012.
Updated on Jul 28, 2014 01:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana