More than two decades after veteran journalist Dalbir Singh of Ganna Pind, who was declared a “bad character†and implicated in five murder, attempt to murder and National Security Act cases by police, a Phillaur court has issued “non-bailable†warrants against the police officer who failed to provide details on why cases were registered against him. Dalbir Singh had been exonerated of all...
PATIALA: Jagjit Singh Dardi, Editor-in-Chief of Chardikala Group of Newspapers on Monday alleged that a Congress leader and his partner in TV Channel Newstime had attacked his office and threatened to eliminate Dardi, Jatinderpal Singh Managing Editor and Raminder Singh Babbal Manager of Chardhikala Newspaper. In a statement issue dhere Monday Dardi said that Labh Singh accompanied by miscreants...
SAS Nagar, December 27: Mohali Police today finally withdrew the false criminal case registered against senior photo journalist of Hindustan Times, Samuel N Dass, after finding that the allegations in the complaint lodged by two policemen were not based on facts. In addition to this, the two Punjab Police personnel, Head Constable Hardarshan Singh and Constable Harjinder Singh, were found not...
CHANDIGARH: In a show of solidarity, journalist fraternity of the city and surrounding areas Thursday registered their strong protest against Punjab government's inaction against assault by Kharar police on HT lensman Samuel on November 30. Meeting at the Chandigarh Press Club at 11.00 am, large number of print as well as electronic media journalists moved to the Sector 17 plaza in a cavalcade of...
SAS Nagar, November 30: IN yet another instance of police high-handedness, a photo journalist discharging his professional duty was assaulted, dragged to a police station and booked for allegedly misbehaving with and manhandling a police personnel. A shocked Samuel, who is a staff photographer with the Hindustan Times, an English daily published from Mohali, said he was beaten up and humiliated by...
Amritsar, Apr 20: Three policemen, including two Head Constables, were today suspended for allegedly indulging in an immoral act with a woman in a car with tinted glasses in a posh area of the city, police said. Senior Superintendent of Police Sudhanshu S Srivastava said that the incident came to light after a team of a private news channel reached the spot on the Mall Road here on Monday. The SSP...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, today condemned the highhandedness of Punjab police in a midnight action reminiscent of the days of militancy when the police took law into their own hands. On the night of August 28, a police team, reporting directly to inspector general of police (IGP), Sumedh Saini...
CHANDIGARH: "Certain officers run amok." This was how Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday sought to explain the manner in which the Punjab police picked up Gautam Dheer, a principal correspondent with this website’s newspaper, hours after his report on a complaint against IGP Sumedh Singh Saini to the state human rights commission. Later this evening, Dheer was released on bail...
Chandigarh, August 29: Buckling under mounting pressure, Punjab police on Monday released The Indian Express correspondent Gautam Dheer on bail, a day after he was arrested from his residence in connection with a case. The scribe was released on bail on furnishing a personal and surety bond of Rs 10,000 each, Ropar police chief S.P. Singh said. Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh...
Chandigarh, August 29: Hours ahead of his production in a local court, Punjab government on Monday ordered an inquiry into the arrest of a correspondent of The Indian Express by police allegedly in connection with a rape case. "An inquiry by Home Secretary A.K. Dubey has been ordered into the case and the prosecution will not oppose the bail plea of the correspondent in the court," Chief Minister...
