The matter came to light in the second week of July when very dirty water with a stench of alcohol had come out while digging a bore in Gurdwara premises of Mainaiwala village.
The illegal mining was allegedly taking place in the fields of Harjinder Singh Baggi, who is the Bathinda district general secretary of BKU Ugrahan.
Gajjan Majra is a legislator from the Amargarh assembly constituency. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab unit had on Thursday called the raids a "political vendetta".
Bharat Bhushan Ashu, who was Punjab's food and civil supplies minister in the previous Congress government, was arrested by the state vigilance bureau on August 22 and is currently lodged in Patiala jail.
Earlier, two other co-accused in the case were granted bail in the case
The cop allegedly said that “not even the DGP can dare to ask him his belt number.”
Some local jornalists alleged that police including Inspector Sukhdev Brar, SHO division number 3 police station, “misbehaved” with them. Some videos went viral in which the SHO and his gunmen were captured while manhandling the crowd.
The ministers said that Ludhiana had 0.42 per cent, pendency rate of 'send back files' which was the highest in the state and a matter of concern.
Talking to the media in Sangrur, the SAD president said it was ironic that the CM continued to swear by the Delhi Model even though the quality of school education in Punjab was ranked better than Delhi in repeated national surveys.
The AAP alleges a political vendetta behind the raids on the MLA, who runs three schools and a college and has several business interests.
The Public Action Committee, the organisation which fought against Mattewara textile park, had filed a petition before NGT on which hearing took place on August 30. The petition was filed by Kapil Dev, a member of PAC.
Sidhu had filed the revision petition challenging the lower court's order which declined his both applications seeking expungement of being called as a witness in the case.
The results show that in three common subjects – Maths, English and Hindi – Delhi has a higher percentage of students lacking the basic knowledge and skills compared to Punjab.
Ashu, who was Punjab's food and civil supplies minister during the previous Congress government, was arrested by vigilance on August 22 in connection with the grain-lifting tenders scam.
Muktsar DSP Jagdish Kumar said that Kulwinder's service carbine fired accidentally outside the court complex.
One person died and six others were injured in a blast inside the Ludhiana District Court Complex on December 23 last year
Child suffers 60% burns, woman yet to be arrested
Police said that a speeding Honda City car rammed into a divider on Chandigarh Road, and then into an electricity pole, killing five people on the spot
On the occasion of 37th National Eye Donation Fortnight, Punjab Health Minister Chetan Singh Jauramajra, while presiding over a state-level event at Government Dental College Auditorium, Patiala, asked the public to come forward voluntarily and become an eye donor.
Dr Kang, who was recently nominated for the World Food Prize by the Borlaug farmers Association for South Asia, is a stalwart in genetics and plant breeding. He was the vice-chancellor of PAU from April 2007 to April 2011.
The court of chief judicial magistrate Sumit Makkar adjourned the matter as a revision petition filed by former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was summoned in the case as a witness, is scheduled for hearing in the sessions court on September 7.
Last week, Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said that the commission of arhtiyas will be reduced from 2.5 per cent to 1 per cent on the sale of cotton, which received widespread criticism from the state’s commission agents.
CM publicising it, plazas had to close as term ended: SAD
However, Bathinda DC’s office said that nobody would be restricted from going inside the gaushala and that the pass was to keep a record of people who enter and also to keep in view the health and safety of animals.
Manpreet Badal made multiple visits to Delhi to discuss setting up a drug park in Bathinda


