Articles by Tarsem Singh Deogan
Rs 2.5 lakh robbery: cops identify gang, give clean chit to victim
Police have identified the gang that had robbed Rs 2.5 lakh from the employee of a distributor of a mobile service providing company on Thursday.
Updated on Jul 20, 2014 11:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
City police stations getting a facelift
The city police stations are being spruced up and the beautification work was kicked off on Tuesday. The Punjab government had granted funds for the same to the police department last week.
Updated on Jul 16, 2014 12:13 PM IST
Hindustantimes.com | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
City police stations to get a facelift
The city police stations will get a facelift as the beautification work on it kicked off on Tuesday. Last week, the Punjab government had granted funds to the police department in this regard.
Updated on Jul 15, 2014 10:05 PM IST
None | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Family loses contact with man stranded in Iraq, goes to admn
Family of Balbir Chand of Selkiana village who is stranded in Iraq has lost contact with him. Till a month ago, the family was in contact with Blabir through phone, but after that some stranger started picking up the phone and spoke in some foreign language that the family didn’t understand.
Updated on Jul 15, 2014 11:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Did police jump the gun in arresting minor for rape?
Did police jump the gun in arresting a minor on the charge of raping his minor classmate? This is the question being asked by people in connection with the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl, a student of class 7 at Government High School, Sunet.
Updated on Jul 12, 2014 12:43 PM IST
None | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Six months on, police grope in the dark
Time has stopped for the family of Rahul Verma, 25, who was murdered, while his sister, Priyanka Verma, was brutally attacked at their house at South City in January. But the police have failed to crack the case.
Updated on Jul 09, 2014 12:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Relief for MLA Bains as SC orders CBI to conduct inquiry
Hearing a plea filed by MLA Simarjit Singh Bains, a Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) rebel, regarding the 2009 case of assault on sub-registrar GS Benipal in which Bains is an accused, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate the matter.
Updated on Jul 09, 2014 12:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Six months on, murder victim's family waits for headway in case
Time has stopped for the family of Rahul Verma, 25, who was murdered, while his sister, Priyanka Verma, was brutally attacked at their house at South City in January. But the police have failed to crack the case.
Updated on Jul 08, 2014 09:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
‘No govt help, borrowed money from Ambala native to flee Iraq’
Returned back from Iraq two youths of Village Tanda Kushal of Machhiwara of Ludhiana said Indians working in Iraq have been treated as bonded laborer.
Updated on Jul 05, 2014 10:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Centre trying its best to rescue Indians trapped in Iraq: Harsimrat Badal
Union minister for food processing industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Saturday said there was no government in Iraq and because of the lack of system in the war-torn country; it was getting difficult to rescue the stranded Indians from there.
Updated on Jul 05, 2014 10:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Owner’s contact number on RC to deter vehicle lifters, say cops
The traffic wing of the local police has come up with a new idea to verify vehicle ownership and deter vehicle-lifting incidents. While the government has been banking upon highsecurity registration number plates to deter such incidents, the local traffic wing is advocating the vehicle owner’s mobile phone number and email id as two tools to verify ownership.
Updated on Jul 05, 2014 11:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Owner's mobile number on RC to deter vehicle-lifting
The traffic wing of the local police has come up with a new idea to verify vehicle ownership and deter vehicle-lifting incidents.
Updated on Jul 04, 2014 10:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Parents hopeful of getting justice as CM seeks CBI probe
Nine months after 11-year-old Malerkotla boy Vidhu Jain was set ablaze in broad daylight, the Punjab government's decision to seek a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has given the parents the hope of getting justice soon.
Updated on Jul 03, 2014 10:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
‘Most rape accused known to victims’
In all 109 rape cases that took place in the year 2013 in Ludhiana, known persons or relatives were involved in the crime, highlighting the vulnerability of women even at their homes.
Updated on Jul 02, 2014 02:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Stern action against parking staff, as victim suffers fracture in ribs
Stern action against the aides of parking contractor, who thrashed a 43-year-old trader and his 13-year-old son on June 18, is likely, as the doctors at the civil hospital have diagnosed a fracture in trader’s left ribs.
Updated on Jun 29, 2014 12:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
City juvenile home reeling under acute staff crunch
The juvenile home in Ludhiana is reeling under the acute shortage of staff. At least six more caretakers were recommended by the juvenile home to take care of the inmates lodged here for their involvement in various crimes, but to no avail.
Updated on Jun 28, 2014 12:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Juvenile home reeling under acute staff crunch
At least six more caretakers were recommended by the juvenile home to take care of the inmates lodged here for their involvement in various crimes, but to no avail.
Updated on Jun 27, 2014 10:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Deceased LLB student’s father alleges he was murdered
Two days after Abhishek Banerji, 22, a law student, was found dead in his car near SCD Government College, his father, Dr AK Banerji, has claimed that he was murdered.
Updated on Jun 25, 2014 10:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Naked couple clicked during raid on brothel; cops in a tight spot
Nearly two weeks after cops raided a house being used as a brothel in the Miller Gunj locality, pictures of a couple without their clothes on imploring the person behind the camera not to click their photos have surfaced, putting the police in a difficult situation.
Updated on Jun 21, 2014 08:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Airplane ‘hijacking drill’; police, fire brigade unreachable
Dial 100 when in need of help is what people in India have been told for years. However, the Ludhiana police are now out to give the lie to this belief.
Updated on Jun 20, 2014 10:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
2 Ludhiana families have sleepless nights
The disturbance in Iraq has given sleepless nights to the families of people stranded there. The details of people from this district settled in Iraq have started pouring in after deputy commissioner Rajat Aggarwal ordered the officers to get announcements done in village gurdwaras and streets.
Updated on Jun 20, 2014 09:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Police help junkies in going clean
Under fire for arresting drug addicts instead of the big fish, the local police have come forward to lend a hand to families of the addicts to encourage them to undergo rehabilitation.
Updated on Jun 19, 2014 10:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Caught driving rashly, court orders teenager to regulate traffic with cops
Cracking the whip on rash drivers, a court ordered a 16-year-old boy to learn traffic rules and helping police in traffic regulation for 20 days, as punishment.
Updated on Jun 18, 2014 11:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Court orders teenager to manage traffic with cops
A court ordered a 16-year-old boy to learn traffic rules by helping traffic police in traffic regulation for 20 days, as a punishment
Updated on Jun 17, 2014 07:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan
220 challaned for drunken driving
After taking over the reins of Ludhiana police, commissioner of police RK Jaiswal had promised to deter drunken driving. Doing just that, the traffic wing of Ludhiana police has slammed challans to 220 people for drunken driving in the first two weeks of June.
Updated on Jun 16, 2014 12:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Rape and murder of 7-yr-old: police suspect ‘psycho serial killer’
The brutal murder of the 7-year-old girl after being raped has put the local police in a tizzy. Even after three days, the police have been groping in the dark. They have linked the rape and murder with two similar cases, in which minor girls were murdered after being raped and the cases are still unsolved.
Updated on Jun 13, 2014 10:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Keeping history alive through philately
A 43-year-old city resident, Narinder Pal Singh, who has been collecting stamps from the age of 13, is now a proud owner of extraordinary stamps. Mechanical engineer by profession, Singh has a range of extraordinary stamps made up of gold, silver, silk, plastic, leather and khadi with him.
Updated on Jun 08, 2014 12:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Woman ‘ordered’ to live as second wife with man who ‘raped’ her
A self-styled ‘court’ has ordered a medieval version of ‘justice’ for a woman who was sexually exploited by two men for the past two years. The 24-year-old woman from Himachal Pradesh has been told to live as a second wife with one of the tormentors.
Updated on Jun 05, 2014 11:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Cops apprehend peer educator mistaking him as drug peddler
In case of a mistaken identity, police apprehended a peer educator registered under the Needle Syringe Exchange Programme initiated by the Punjab State Aids Control Society on late Friday.
Updated on Jun 01, 2014 06:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Sand miners turn villages into dumping grounds
Miscreants indulging in illegal sand mining have turned the villages on the banks of Sutlej river into dumping grounds, in absence of any check by the police.
Updated on May 31, 2014 10:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana