Hoshiarpur: The Mukerian police have registered a case against three persons, including a woman, on the charge of duping a man of Rs 4.80 lakh on pretext of providing a job in a tractor company. According to information, Kuldeep Singh, a resident of Havel Changhan, lodged a complaint with the police that on the promise of providing him a job in Sonalika Tractor Company, Nirmal Kaur, alias Meenakshi, and Vijay Kumar, both residents of Kurukshetra, and Neeraj Kumar, a resident of Ambala allegedly took Rs4.80 lakh from him but neither he got the job nor his money was returned. After investigating the complaint, the police have registered a case against the three. OC

5 arrested with narcotics, liquor

Hoshiarpur: The district police arrested five persons from different places during the last 24 hours and seized a huge quantity of narcotics from them. The Model Town police seized 21 gm of heroin during the search of two bike riders at Singriwala bypass. The accused have been identified as Prabhjot Singh, alias Prabhu, and Jagpreet Singh Ravi, both residents of Piplanwala. The Sadar police station arrested Vinod Kumar, a resident of Bhawani Nagar and seized 11 bottles of liquor from him. The city police seized 9,750 ml of liquor from Ravidas Nagar resident Charanjit Singh, alias Channi, while the Mukerian police stopped a canter and during search 15.5 kg of poppy husk was found from it. The accused canter driver, Nachhatar Singh, a resident of Darali, SAS Nagar, had been arrested. OC

F&CC meeting on July 2 at MC office

Jalandhar: The Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC) meeting of the Municipal Corporation (MC) will be held on July 2 at its office. The meeting will be attended by Senior Deputy Mayor Surinder Kaur, Deputy Mayor Harsimranjit Singh Bunty and members of the committee councillors Gian Chand and Gurwinderpal Singh Bunty Nilkanth. One of the agendas that will be tabled is repair and maintenance of fire brigade building, renovation of park at Rajinder Nagar, etc. TNS

Woman booked for cheating

Hoshiarpur: The Model Town police registered a case of cheating against a woman on the pretext of selling the house. According to information, in his complaint to the police, Dinesh Gupta, a resident of Prahladh Nagar, said that Pushpa Rani, a resident of Kakkon, had allegedly cheated him in the name of buying a house of six marla. The complainant alleged that she entered into an agreement to sell the house but did not comply the conditions. The police have registered a case under Section 420 of the IPC. OC