AMRITSAR: A case of fraud has been registered against the manager and other officials of the East Mohan Nagar Branch of Central Cooperative Bank and VIEC - an agency that was sending students to the UK - for preparing fake bank statements to help aspiring migrants. Certain individuals whose bank accounts ...

AMRITSAR: Harmandar Sahib Head Granthi Jaswinder Singh’s driver Sarbjit Singh was arrested for rash and negligent driving that led to the death of a motorcyclist on Friday. Jaswinder Singh’s red-beaconed white Innova (PB-02-AY-1313) knocked down bike rider Harinder Singh near Plah Saheb on the Ajnala road on Friday morning. The Head ...

AMRITSAR: Sarabjit Kaur, 18, died in custody at a local police station early Saturday morning. Police Commissioner Varinder Kumar has suspended the SHO and five others even as cops at Gate Hakima police station claim suicide by hanging. A judicial probe in underway to bring out facts. Reports say that Joginder Kaur ...

AMRITSAR: The Amritsar police on Thursday again claimed they would soon arrest advocates Pankaj Bhardwaj. Superintendent of Police (II) Makkan Singh said a team was already in Chandigarh to conduct more raids in the case, and it would nab the lawyer. Bhardwaj, the counsel for Ruchika Gurhotra’s family in the molestation case ...

AMRITSAR: Within 24 hours, Amritsar city police traced the youth accused of allegedly kid­napping a 17-year-old girl from her school, on Tuesday afternoon, and put him behind bars. The accused has been identified as Gurlal Singh, who lived in the 'girl Sukhman Kaur's neighbourhood. Her father Rachpal Singh said when he ...

AMRITSAR: The district police have nabbed a German national that was allegedly staying in the city for the past two years without any valid document. Identified as Thomas Froz­ Josef Breits Ameter, he was nabbed by the Intelligence wing and handed over to the district police on April 12, but managed ...

AMRITSAR: Soon after a chowkidar, Onkar Singh, took out a mobile phone from an abandoned bag that also contained two bottles of petrol and a wire, the gadget went off in his hand triggering panic in the Sultanwind area here on Saturday night. Police rushed to the site and also informed ...

AMRITSAR: The Police Department's proposal to convert a community hall into a police station at Verka has been opposed by local Congress. Party leaders have written to Police Commissioner Varinder Kumar to stall the move. The hall was built on the main road during Congress regime and hence, the objections to ...