Hindustan Times (Jalandhar)

Ludhiana woman abducts NRI husband for money

- letterschd@htlive.com

A woman, along with her accomplice­s, kidnapped her NRI husband from Indira Gandhi Internatio­nal Airport, New Delhi, on November 3, soon after he landed in India, and took him to Dakoha village in Jalandhar. The NRI, Pritpal Singh Palah, 64, was allegedly beaten up in confinemen­t and taken to State Bank of India’s NRI branch near Fountain Chowk on Thursday where he was asked to withdraw ₹15 lakh from his account.

FARIDKOT: A day after a Dera Sacha Sauda follower, Jatinderbi­r Arora, was arrested, the Special Investigat­ion Team (SIT) probing the sacrilege cases made three more arrests on Friday.

The accused have been identified as Sukhmander Singh, Kuldeep Singh and Daljit Singh, residents of Bhagta Bhai Ka village in Bathinda district. The fresh arrests have been made with regard to the sacrilege incident at Gurusar Bhagta village.

SIT chief deputy inspector general Ranbir Singh Khatra confirmed the developmen­t, adding that the accused will be produced in court on Saturday.

The SIT has made breakthrou­gh in sacrilege cases that took place at Bargari (Faridkot), Mal Ke (Moga) and Gurusar Bhagta (Bathinda). It has emerged during the investigat­ion that all the prime accused arrested in the cases were part of the 45-member state committee of Dera Sacha Sauda.

Earlier, Mohinder Pal Bittu of Kotkapura was arrested in June this year for Bargari sacrilege, while Pirthi Singh of Baghapuran­a in Moga was arrested for sacrilege at Mal Ke village in November 2015. Both were members of the said committee, which is dera’s decision-making body in Punjab.

The pages of Guru Granth Sahib found scattered at Gurusar village were from the holy book stolen from a gurdwara in Burj Jawahar Singh Wala village in Faridkot in June 2015. The SIT is investigat­ing two cases of sacrilege — at Mal Ke village in Moga district in November 2015 and the other one at Gurusar (Bhagta) village in Bathinda district in October the same year.

ACCUSED ARE DALJIT SINGH, SUKHMANDER SINGH AND KULDEEP SINGH, ALL RESIDENTS OF BHAGTA BHAI KA VILLAGE IN BATHINDA \

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