Five cell phones seized from Amritsar Central Jail

Amritsar: The Amritsar Central Jail authorities confiscated five mobile phones from three prisoners inside the high-security jail complex here on Sunday. Ajmer Singh, Assistant Superintendent of Jail, told the police that during checking of room number 2 of barrack number 1, the jail staff seized a keypad phone from prisoner Vinod Sahota, alias Shally Sahota, of Mustafabad on Batala Road, two keypad phones from inmate Gurpreet Singh, alias Gopi, of Muhawa village and a keypad and a touch phone was recovered from Kuldeep Singh, alias Judge, of Kot Mit Singh lodged in room number 5 of barrack number 1. All were booked under Section 42, 52-A of the Prison’s Act. TNS

Mobile snatched from trader

Amritsar: Manohar Lal, a shopkeeper at National Shopping Complex was looted by armed robbers from outside his shop on late Sunday evening. The accused decamped with his bag containing 10 mobiles including three new ones besides clothes and documents. The victim has returned from Delhi after procuring the mobiles. He told the police that he runs a shop Sahil Enterprises at National Shopping Complex. He said he returned on Sunday from Delhi, from where he had procured three new and seven old phones. He said he, along with his son, had gone to check the shop, when the accused came and snatched the bag on weapon point. A case was registered. TNS

Three held with intoxicants

Amritsar: The Majitha police have arrested three persons for allegedly possessing sedative pills, heroin and drug proceeds. They were identified as Karambir Singh of Majitha, Malkeet Singh of Dadupura village and Charanjit Singh of Majitha. According to the police, the accused were travelling in a car (PB-02-DU-6032) from Amritsar to Majitha. The police got a tip-off that the accused could be possessing drugs and therefore a checkpoint was installed near Majitha Dharam Kanda. The police team signalled the car to stop and during search, found the intoxicants wrapped in a polythene bag in the dashboard of the car. When the police team searched the accused, it recovered 10gm heroin from Charanjit and Rs68,000 of drug proceeds from them. He said no contraband was recovered from Karambir and Malkeet Singh. Sam Nath, investigating officer, said a case under the NDPS Act was registered against them. TNS