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With his 12-day police remand expiring, gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was brought to Bathinda on Saturday to be produced in court.

Raqib Khan, a 32-year-old tailor from Dausni village, has been arrested by Bathinda police for alleged suspicious activities, prompting his family to assert his innocence. They believe his limited education led him to unknowingly befriend a foreign national, resulting in scrutiny after sensitive information was allegedly found on his phone

The anti-narcotics cell of Bathinda police on Monday arrested an Army jawan and his accomplice - a tailor in Bathinda cantonment - on charges of heroin smuggling and for possessing the banned substance worth Rs 5 crore.

After a search for four days, police here finally succeeded in recovering a self-loading rifle (SLR) which had been taken away from a cop posted at bathinda cantonment police station.

BATHINDA: A station house officer (SHO) of the Cantonment police station, Bathinda, has been accused of torturing two Dalit youths who were arrested over a property dispute on Saturday.

BATHINDA: The arrest of a Bathinda resident by the Rajasthan CID police on May 25 for his alleged involvement in spying has sent shockwaves among the military and police establishments here.

After playing hide and seek with the police for over a week, Kulbir Singh Naruana was finally nabbed on Sunday along with two other gang members for allegedly firing at a police constable at the cantonment on January 10.

Gangster Saraj Sandhu, who has been named in late Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu aka Sidhu Moose Wala killing case, has now been booked for uploading a photo in social media from inside Bathinda jail on September 2.

The activists of farm organisation BKU Ekta Ugrahan on Sunday started an indefinite protest outside bathinda cantonment police station to urge them to register a case under charges of abetment of suicide against two partners of a commission agent firm of Bhucho town in Bathinda.

BATHINDA: An unsavoury controversy shrouded Sant Baba Baljit Singh Daduwal, a renowned preacher of the area, after he was arrested by the Bathinda police on Sunday evening for murder and abduction.

Farm organization BKU Ekta Ugrahan on Monday evening said it would intensify its protest over what it described as the police’s attempts to favour two commission agent brothers who were booked for abetting the suicide of a farmer who they allegedly owed money

A SAD candidate for the Bathinda Municipal Corporation elections has accused a station house officer (SHO) of searching his house without warrants during polling day on Sunday and trying to frighten his family members.

BATHINDA: The alarming rise in the number of 'sadhus' in Bathinda town is keeping the police and intelligence authorities on the tenterhooks.

Notorious gangster Kulbir Singh Naruana was nabbed on Sunday along with two associates here for allegedly firing at a cop on January 10.

Even as security forces were fighting to neutralize the remaining terrorists holed up at Pathankot air base on the second day of the attack on Sunday, 247 km away in Bathinda, shopkeepers in the vicinity of the Cantonment continued to merrily sell Army uniforms, no questions asked.

PANJGRAIN (Faridkot): Seven persons, including four teachers, were killed and 18 injured, three of them seriously, in a head on collision between two vehicles on the Kot Kapura-Moga road near Panjgrain village of the district, on Wednesday night.

Accusing the NDA government of running away from implementing "one-rank one-pension" (OROP), hundreds of ex-servicemen gathered under the aegis of the Indian Ex-Servicemen League (IESL) on Wednesday and blocked the Bathinda-Chandigarh highway near the Bathinda cantonment for nearly three hours.

Three inmates, facing a Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act case, have been booked for allegedly stealing 2,000 tablets of buprenorphine from the outpatient opioid assisted treatment (OOAT) clinic within the premises of Bathinda central jail.

Police in Bathinda have decided to seek legal opinion whether to register a case or not in a case of dog bites.

Police here have arrested four members of a gang that stole motorcycles and snatched mobile phones.

BATHINDA: The Bathinda police have booked three cops, including a head constable and two constables for corruption charges.

The Pakistani spy had 11 e-mail IDs in his name and was spying from Dabwali under the garb of a rickshaw puller.

Shopkeepers in the vicinityof Bathinda Catonment continue to sell Army uniforms without any check on the person they are selling them to, a reality check by The Times of Indian has revealed.

Sepoy Sukhjinder Singh was cremated with full military honours at his native village of Alike in Bathinda on Saturday.

BATHINDA: About 100 transporters and truckers, on Saturday, gheraoed Ferozepur regional transport officer accusing him of collecting money from them in an illegal manner.