CHOHLA SAHIB (TARN TARAN): Satnam Singh Kahlawan, president of the historical gurudwara dedicated to Guru Arjan Dev at Chohla Sahib, and a close political aide and relative of cabinet minister Ranjit Singh Brahmpura on Wednesday was charged with raping a minor girl. Satnam Singh Kahlawan, Brahmpura's brother's son-in-law, is suspected ...

AMRITSAR: Two girls and two boys are charged with raping a minor girl. The case was registered on Friday at sardar police station on the complaint of the victim. Inspector Dinesh Singh, station house officer, sardar, said the complaint’s friend had reached her on telephone on April 16 and called her near ...

CHANDIGARH: Civil society groups simmer in anger as three "influential" men accused of raping a 17-year-old girl in Mansa remain at large after almost two weeks of the crime. Peeved at the pace and manner of the police action, civil society activists plan to hold a dharna on Saturday in front ...

TARN TARAN: A dalit woman has accused a munshi of raping her in an inebriated state on Monday night in the police chowki in village Kacha Pakka under Bhikiwind police station. No FIR has been registered so far. According to sources, in an attempt to shield the accused, an enquiry has ...

HOSHIARPUR: Additional Sessions Judge J.S. Khushdil, on Thursday, sentenced Prem Pal, a resident of Mian village in Dasuya, to seven year of rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl of the same village in June 2006. In another case, the court of Additional Sessions Judge R.L., Ahuja sentenced three residents of ...

AMRITSAR: The Tarn Taran police, who five days ago booked a school principal on the charge of raping a teacher, have now discovered that the two had married in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Following the registration of the case, Sri Guru Angad Dev Study Circle School principal Kulwinder Singh ...

BATALA: The Government Senior Secondary School, Dera Baba Nanak, Gatekeeper has been booked along with another on the charge of raping a woman on the school premises. The woman said she was on her way to her parent's home, when Vijay Kumar from the village offered to drop her. He took ...

PHAGWARA: A ninth standard student has accused a man of kidnapping and raping her. He has been arrested. In her complaint, the girl said she had been staying with her maternal grandparents at Fatahpur village since childhood. "I was going to school on Friday morning when Mangal Singh came on his ...

NAKODAR: The local police have arrested Charanjeet Singh, alias Budhu, and Gurcharan Singh, residents of Gohir village, on the charge of raping two sisters of Mudh village. SHO Surinder Pal Singh said that a case under Sections 376, 323, 506 and 34 of the IPC had been registered against the two, ...

SANGRUR: The Sherpur police on Thursday booked Lakhbir Singh, alias Bittu, of Issapur village on the charge of raping his minor stepdaughter. According to the FIR lodged by the victim's mother, Bittu had married her a few months back - even as she was 10 years older than him as he ...