RECOVERY AGENTS ROBBED OF ₹5L AT GUNPOINT

MOGA: Five unidentified people have been booked for looting Rs 5 lakh, at gunpoint, from two recovery agents of a financier at Kot Ise Khan village in the town on Sunday about 1.30pm. The victims, Ram Singh and Bachittar Singh, worked for a financier Tarsem Lal, and they had collected the cash from Khosa Kotla village.

The miscreants, who were on a Swift, intercepted their Tata Indigo at the village link road en route Kot Isse, alighted and snatched the bad containing the cash from Bachittar. Kot Ise Khan SHO Bhupinder Singh said, “We have scanned the CCTV footage and teams have been formed to crack the case.”

A case has been registered for snatching and criminal conspiracy at Kot Ise khan police station in Moga. SINGAPORE: Pritam Singh, a Punjab-origin lawmaker in Singapore, was on Sunday elected unopposed as the new secretarygeneral of the city-state’s main opposition Workers’ Party.

Singh, 41, a lawyer, took over from veteran member of parliament (MP) Low Thia Khiang, 61.

Elected to Parliament in May 2011, Singh moved up from the assistant secretary-general post unopposed when cadres elected their party chief at the biennial Central Executive Council elections, in the first change of leadership in 17 years. Singh is also a town council chairman.

He is an MP for Aljunied Group Representation Constituency, a five-member group representation constituency in the north-eastern and eastern region of Singapore.

Low, who held the party’s top