Jagdeep Singh Deep

People still continue to drink late into the night near the liquor vends. But the police have not been able to stop this practice.

The court directed all parties to file their replies regarding the CBI’s application till July 18, and asked both parties not to delay the proceedings of the case. July 20 was fixed as the next hearing of the case.

Mohali police arrested a Delhi-based camera production person, Durgesh, for providing the high-resolution cameras for live streaming of the two matches of the fake Sri Lanka T-20 league held on June 29.

The ACU also asked the investigators to look into the role of FanCode, a streaming website that live broadcast the Uva T20 League shown as being held in Sri Lanka but actually played at a local club ground in Sawara village close to Mohali.

The Indian Express has done a series of reports on the illegal mining being done in the villages around New Chandigarh (Mullanpur) and the latest report on July 6 had highlighted the possible involvement on certain influential people right under the nose of district officials.

Dandiwal was recently named as the “central figure in an alleged tennis match-fixing scandal related to at least two lower-level tournaments in Egypt and Brazil. He has also been on the radar of the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) anti-corruption unit.

The Indian Express team visited the villages of Abhipur, Mianpur Changar, Kubaheri and Khizrabad and found that despite several news reports highlighting the mining being carried out illegally in these areas, it was business as usual for those involved in such activities.

A police team visited the SCA ground at Sawara village on Friday afternoon. The team was accompanied by two officials from the cyber security wing and collected the mobile data dump to identify the players involved in the matches played on June 29.

The prosecution also pointed to blanket coverage being given to the accused in the interim bail.

The medical college will function in the existing buildings of Civil Hospital and Punjab Health Systems Corporations in Phase VI and former director of PGIMER, KK Talwar has been appointed the director of the institute.

The court said that considering the peculiar circumstances of the case, the applicant is allowed to attend the marriage ceremony of his daughter on June 26 in custody.

It was also found that an attempt made to kill the victim was part of a larger conspiracy hatched by the terrorist organisation Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF), which involved eight incidents of targeted killings/attempted killings and objective of this conspiracy was to destabilise the law and order in the state.

However, some people believe that with the opening of the dine-in services, people would start coming after a few days and the business shall be as usual.

Civil Surgeon, Dr Manjeet Singh, told The Indian Express that the sample collection has been increased in areas where most labourers reside. He added that the spike in the number of positive cases in the last few days was due to the increased number of sample collection.

Sources in the police said the case were registered after the intelligence wing of the state police came to know about the pre-recorded messages sent by Pannu to some Indian Army officers.

Deputy Commissioner (DC) Girish Dayalan told The Indian Express that it is not possible to physically check every person entering the district, which is creating an issue for them.

The court observed that evidence pointed to the accused was active member of pro-Khalistan terrorist gang. The court said it was of the opinion that there was sufficient ground for believing that accusation against the applicant/accused is prima facie true.

Some builders, however, are of the view that with the easing of restrictions, the labourers will return to the district in the next two or three months, following which the work will be able to start in full swing.

“All the samples were collected through random checking. As of now we do not have a need to carry out pool testing. Our method is quite effective."

The NIA said that the network included persons involved in smuggling/ selling of heroin, militant elements and hawala operatives based in Punjab, Delhi and Dubai.

This comes after the district was declared Covid-19 free, after the last two patients were discharged on May 21. The sampling is done at five places, which include Mohali, Derabassi, Lalru, Kharar and Dhakoli, as they are congested areas.

Main accused, his brother sent to 10-day police remand

At present the district has a recovery rate of 90.4 percent, as the number of active cases came down to four on Sunday.

A total of 105 people have been tested positive for COVID-19 in the district till now, of which 95 have been discharged.