Chandigarh |Β Ahead of Independence Day, Punjab Police on Monday said they foiled a major terror bid as they recovered a double-decker tiffin box carrying an improvised explosive device (IED) weighing two to three kilos along the Indo-Pak border in Amritsar that could be used for a high-value target. State Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar […]
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Punjab Police recover AK-47 rifle, magazine – part of consignment dropped by Pakistani drone in Gurdaspur district
Chandigarh:Β Less than 48 hours after recovery of 11 Arges 84 hand grenades, Punjab Police on Tuesday recovered an AK-47 rifle and a magazine with 30 cartridges, evidently a part of the same consignment that was dropped by the Pakistani drone in the border Gurdaspur district. The seizure comes amid concerns raised by Chief Minister Amarinder […]
Punjab Police, BSF shoot Pak drone; dropped grenades seized
Chandigarh:Β Five days after busting a drone module, Punjab Police have seized 84 hand-grenades dropped on the night of December 19 by a drone launched from Pakistan, which was engaged and shot at jointly by police and Border Security Force (BSF) close to the border in Gurdaspur district. The shocking seizures came even as a police […]
Punjab Police bust pro-Khalistan terrorist module
Chandigarh:Β Averting a major terror incident in the state, the Punjab Police has busted yet another pro-Khalistan terrorist module, with the arrest of two persons allegedly operating in connivance with five criminals, including a KZF operative currently languishing in Amritsar jail. The Pakistan-backed module was busted on the basis of inputs about the nefarious designs of […]
17 Punjab Police personnel test Covid-19 positive
Chandigarh: Seventeen Punjab Police personnel had tested Covid-19 positive in a random sampling of 7,165 cops doing frontline jobs as part of a special coronavirus testing drive, Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta said, here on Saturday. It translated to around 0.9 per cent positive cases of total samples for the police force against […]
Punjab to provide PPE kits to policemen: CM
Chandigarh:Β The Punjab government planned to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) also to the police personnel in the battle against Covid-19, said Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, here on Tuesday. Addressing the media via video link, Singh said the state had 16,000 PPE kits and top priority would be given to the healthcare workers. The government would […]
After 8 hours of surgery, PGI doctors successfully re-implant Punjab Police officer’s severed hand
Chandigarh:Β After nearly eight hours of surgery, a team of doctors at the PGI on Sunday successfully re-implanted the left hand of Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of Punjab Police that was chopped off in a clash by Nihang Sikhs in Patiala. The 50-year-old patient had an amputation through the proximal wrist of left hand, said the PGI. […]
Punjab Police officer’s hand chopped off, 7 Nihangs held
Chandigarh: In a bloody clash in Punjab, an Assistant Sub-Inspector’s (ASI) hand was chopped off and three others got grievous injuries on Sunday when a group of Nihang Sikhs attacked them in Patiala town on being asked about curfew permission, police said. A group of seven armed Nihangs, who were travelling in a vehicle, were […]
WATCH – Punjab: Police thrashes elderly rickshaw-puller, video goes viral
Chandigarh (1 MIN READ): A video on social network site of an elderly rickshaw-puller being thrashed by policemen has come to fore. The incident took place at the railway station in Jalandhar city. His only fault was that he reached the platform on the rickshaw to drop a passenger, who as per the social media […]
Punjab Police questions actor Akshay Kumar in Sacrilege Case
Chandigarh : Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar was questioned by a Punjab Police special investigation team (SIT) on Wednesday in connection with an alleged deal mediated by him between jailed Dera Sachha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim and former Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, police sources said. The questioning began around 9.45 a.m. and […]