PATIALA: A five-member team of police officers from West Midland, UK, on Thursday "interviewed" the two persons accused of the murder last year of Rashtriya Sikh Sangat (RSS) Punjab chief Rulda Singh. The team visited Patiala central jail and the high-security Nabha prison, where Jagmohan Singh and Darshan Singh, respectively, are ...

PATIALA: Six convicts lodged at Patiala Central Jail got burn injuries when a fire broke out in the jail kitchen Tuesday, afternoon. The injured were shifted to the Government Rajindra Hospital. One of them, Rahul (27), is said to be serious. The other injured are, Sukhdev Singh (35), RashpaI (23), Amarjit ...

PATIALA: Eight Under trials were injured as two groups brawled in Patiala Central jail on Wednesday night over a trivial issue. All right were lodged in Barrack numbers 5 and 6. Yadvinder Singh and Baghael Singh. Both facing trial in a murder case, and Kamalpreet Singh, facing charges under Section 307 ...

PATIALA: A prisoner undergoing life term at Patiala Central Jail since August 1998 was found murdered on Thursday. Ajay Kumar (26), who is in jail since October 2008, has been arrested for the murder. The victim is Nirmal Singh (36) of Chajli village in Sunam. Jail officials said Ajay had hit ...

PATIALA: The District administration has decided to build a memorial and preserve the cell of the Patiala Central Jail in which Praja Mandal Movement chief Sewa Singh Thirkiwala was lodged for five years from 1930. Deputy Commissioner Deepinder Singh has asked the district town-planner to come up into with a proposal ...

PATIALA: A Patiala court on Monday sentenced a couple to life imprisonment for the murder of a retired school teacher in August 2005. Navdeep Kaur and her husband Dharamvir Singh were also fined Rs 1,000 each. The couple murdered Shiv Charan, who had retired from Kumar Sabha School. The two - who ...

SANGRUR: An under trial facing attempt to murder charges escaped from police custody in the local court complex here on Tuesday. Gurvinder Singh alias Viki alias Vikramjit Singh fled when the police was taking him and other accused to its van after producing him in the court of Additional District and ...