Sangrur court orders 2-yr jail for Bajrangi Bhaijaan actor Alka

SANGRUR: A Sangrur court has upheld the two years’ jail term awarded to television actress, Alka Kaushal and her mother in a cheque bounce case by a lower court. Alka essayed the role of Kareena Kapoor’s mother in Salman Khan-starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015).

She also played Kangana Ranaut’s mother in Queen (2014). Alka and her mom had borrowed Rs 50 lakh from a farmer, Avtar Singh, a resident of Langrian village, to make a serial, but did not return his money. When Singh demanded his money, they handed over two cheques of Rs 25 lakh each which were reported for bounce, Avtar’s advocate Sukhbir Singh Punia said.

Singh, who ran a floriculture business and befriended the actress during a shooting, then moved a local court in Malerkotla in 2015, which sentenced the two to two years’ jail. NEWDELHI: India on Sunday said Pakistan’s support for terrorism should be condemned by all as it criticised the neighbouring country’s army chief for glorifying Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on his first death anniversary. Burhan was killed in a gunfight with security forces in south Kashmir on July 8 last year. His death triggered months of violent street protests in Kashmir that left 100 people, most of them civilians, dead.

Ministry of external affairs spokesperson Gopal Baglay tweeted on Sunday: First @ForeignOfficePk read frm banned LeT’s script.

Now Pak COAS glorfs Burhan Wani. Pak’s terror suprt&spnsr’p need 2b condmnd by 1 & all. He was referring to Pakistan army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa’s remarks that Wani’s sacrifice was a “testimony” of his and his generation’s “resolve” against “Indian atrocities”.

Not just Bajwa, even Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif paid tributes to Wani, saying his death “infused a new spirit in the struggle for freedom” in Kashmir Valley.

Sharif’s eulogy came a day after PM Narendra Modi accused Pakistan of using terror as a tool to achieve political objectives and pressed for “deterrent” action against such nations.