Garhshankar: The Mahilpur police claimed to have solved the murder case of an elderly farmer, who sleeping in the cattle shed on the night of May 26. According to the police, he was murdered by one of his sons over a property dispute. The police arrested the accused and produced him in a Garhshankar court, which sent him to two-day police remand. Inspector Satwinder Singh, in-charge, Mahilpur police station, said on May 26, Harbhajan Singh (79), a resident of Tutomjara village, had gone to sleep in a room built in his fields on the katcha road of Dandewal. On the morning of May 27, he was found dead. During the investigation, it came to light that in the property dispute, it was Harbhajan’s son Bhupinder who had killed his father by hitting him on the head with a thick wooden stick. The police had seen blood stains on the accused’s clothes. Bhupinder confessed of murdering his father for property. The police have also recovered the log used in the murder. OC

Two missing boys found

Hoshiarpur: The two boys, who went missing from the Children's Home at Ram Colony Camp, Hoshiarpur, on May 31, were traced by the district police and handed over to the Children's Home management. SSP Navjot Singh Mahal said superintendent, Children’s Home for Boys at Ram Colony Camp, Reena Uppal had lodged a complaint with the Sadar Police Station on May 31 that two boys Karan and Sachin had gone missing from the Children’s Home. A police team, led by SP (Investigation) Ravinder Pal Singh Sandhu, was formed under DSP Jagdish Raj Attri and Sadar police station SHO Bhushan Sekhri. The team found both of them in 24 hours and handed them over to the Children's Home authorities. The police team found Sachin from Hoshiarpur bus stand and Karan from bus stand in Amritsar. OC