To help security personnel keep an eye on the movement of any suspicious items including arms concealed in luggage, Punjab Police on Friday set up a high-tech 3D X-Ray baggage scanner at the interstate Madhopur check post bordering Union territory Jammu and Kashmir.
The Cyber Crime Cell was keeping tabs on their activities for over a month. Investigations said the duo was given the task to revive terrorism in Punjab and they received foreign funds too.
According to the police, a man identified as Jagga Singh died in the firing. Two policemen Kamal and Sukhdev were also seriously injured in the incident, they said.
GPS-fitted drones capable of lifting up to 10 kg flew in from Pakistan seven to eight times to airdrop the cache of arms, ammunition and fake currency seized in Punjab's Tarn Taran district, a police probe revealed on Wednesday.
Three policemen and a home guard jawan were dismissed for failing to intervene as their team leader, a sub-inspector, was brutally assaulted during a raid at the house of an alleged drug peddler in Amritsar.
An elderly rickshaw-puller who reached at a platform of Jalandhar railway station, on the rickshaw to drop a physically challenged passenger, thrashed by policemen.
Punjab police on Sunday arrested a man, who was suspected of spying for Pakistan-based Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The man was arrested in Punjab's Faridkot on charges of passing secret military information to ISI.
The 2016 Nabha jailbreak in which gangsters freed six hardcore prisoners showed the mess and how convicts and others have been forced to live in inhuman conditions.
Bargari sacrilege case prime accused was reportedly killed in Patiala's Nabha jail on Saturday.
After the 2016 terror attack, Pathankot and its adjoining areas continue to be under a strict vigil.
Three persons including a preacher were killed and over 20 injured in the attack by two-motorcycle borne men which the police treated as a “terrorist act”.
Police commissioners and district police chiefs have been put on alert following the input, according to a letter issued by the Punjab Inspector General of Police (Counter Intelligence) office.
The DGP said the arrests followed the development and corroboration of various leads/inputs about the presence and activities of certain militant organisations/individuals operating in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.
Actor Gul Panag took to her Twitter and praised the two policemen for their brilliant work even when nature was not supportive.
Punjab chief minister had offered the post of a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) to Harmanpreet Kaur, who hails from Moga district of Punjab.
The Chief Minister warned that no political interference would be tolerated in the matter and instructed officials to initiate the crackdown without delay.
Rajnath congratulated Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh for his government's success against gangsters and criminals in the state, particularly in the context of the recent gunning down of most wanted gangster Vicky Gounder.
The police claimed it was an accidental fire. However, he is seen in a video pointing the pistol at his own head.
Gounder was evading arrest since November 2016 when he made a sensational escape from the maximum-security Nabha Central Jail in Punjab along with five other prisoners, including two terrorists.
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