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CHANDIGARH: Following directions of Punjab and Haryana High court, the central bureau of investigation (CBI) has registered a fresh case in the Moga sex scam involving politicians, senior police officials, bureaucrats and others. Meanwhile, the investigation agency has also taken possession of previous records including FIRs and statements recorded under Section 164 of CrPC by two girls.

A division bench of justices Mehtab Singh Gill and Harbans Lal on Tuesday had observed that the probe couldn’t go further if the case stayed with the Punjab police because names of influential individuals, including Barjinder Singh, son of former minister and senior SAD leader Tota Singh and former Moga SSP Devinder Singh Garcha had come up during the probe. The HC also directed accused Raman Kumar, suspended SHO of police station, City-I Moga to surrender before SP/DSP special crime branch, CBI.

While sources maintained that Kumar did not yet surrender before the investigation agency, a senior CBI official said a fresh case had been registered under various sections and investigation was started. Informing that two-three teams had been constituted for investigation, the official added, “We will also scrutinise the investigation conducted by IO Bhupinder Singh of Punjab police.”

The scandal was unearthed in April this year after Moga police booked many persons for immoral trafficking and a rape case on the complaint of two girls. In the next three months, a large number of persons were named in the case, but most of them were given a clean chit after they allegedly paid a great deal of money to the police.

Source: The Times of India News Service

Chandigarh: Ten vehicles, including six cars, were stolen from the city while a house was burgled at Raipur Khurd village.

Robert Sesslor of Sector 35-C has reported to the police that his Bolero car was stolen from his house on Monday night while Gurpreet Singh of Sector 36-A said his Esteem car was stolen from his house last night. A.K. Bhardwaj of Sector 36-B also said his Maruti car was stolen last night.

The Maruti car of Surekha Gupta of Sector 36-D was stolen from near Guru Nanak Public School, Sector 36-D, on December 7 while the Maruti car of Anu Mujal of Sector 33 was stolen from the PGI parking yesterday.

In another incident, Ramesh Musafir of Sector 43 has filed a complaint with the police that his Alto car was stolen from his house on December 10.

Similarly, Balkar Singh of Sector 40-C reported that his Scorpio vehicle was stolen this morning and Angrej Singh of Balongi, Mohali, said his Toyota Innova was stolen from the parking in Sector 17 on December 6.

Meanwhile, Raj Kumar of Sector 35 said his Hero Honda motorcycle was stolen from his house on November 19 and Archana Sharma of Sector 23 lodged a complaint that her Kinetic Honda scooter was stolen from Sector 19 yesterday.

Nine cases of theft have been registered.
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Chandigarh: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) arrested two ticket agents from Sector 17 on the charges of selling railway tickets illegally.

Chandigarh post sub-inspector Sukhdev Raj said following information a raid was conducted at the railway tickets reservation counter at the Sector 17 ISBT. The sleuths nabbed Raj Kumar and Santosh Chauhan while selling tickets illegally.

Santosh Chaudary runs a travel agency in Sector 17.

The raiding team found 11 tickets in Santosh’s office and other record while six tickets were found with Raj Kumar. A case under the Railway Act has been registered.

Source: TNS

Mohali: The Nayagaon police has finally laid hands on Sunil Kumar, a Lucknow resident, who allegedly duped hundreds of students here of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of sending them abroad for higher studies. The accused was running a centre in Nayagaon for the past two years.

According to Nayagaon SHO Gurjeet Singh, the accused had been running the racket in Fatehgarh Sahib also. On the complaints of some students, he was arrested by the Fatehgarh Sahib police.

Sunil was in judicial remand at Nabha jail from where he was brought to Mohali today on transit remand. A local court has remanded him to three days in police custody.

Gurjeet Singh added that the Nayagaon police had received almost a dozen complaints against him in which he had duped students of Rs 2-3 lakh. The accused used to tell the students that in case they did courses at his centre, they would be able to go abroad.

Sunil Kumar has been booked under Section 406 and 420 of the IPC.

Source: TNS

Chandigarh: A highly decomposed body of a man was found hanging in the wilderness behind the Sector 42 hockey stadium here this evening.

According to the police, the body was spotted at around 5.15 pm. It was hanging from a height of about 10 feet and was emitting foul smell. The body was decomposed beyond recognition.

The DSP (South) K.I.P. Singh,who visited the spot, said no document or any other article was found which could help in the identification of the victim.

The body has been sent to the Sector 16 Government Multi Speciality Hospital for a postmortem.

Meanwhile, the police has initiated inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC in this connection.

Source: TNS