4 booked for possessing banned items

Ludhiana: The police have registered a case under Sections 52-A, 42 and 45 of the Prisons Act against four undertrials, Gagan Vij, Shubham Bhalla, Neeraj Kumar and Ranjit Singh, all lodged in the Central Jail here for possessing banned items. The action has been taken on a complaint, filed by Tarsem Pal, Assistant Superintendent of Central Jail, as per which during a surprise checking, four mobile phones, 38 sachets of tobacco and two abandoned mobile phone handsets were recovered from them. OC

Five arrested for gambling

Ludhiana: The police have arrested five persons for gambling on a vacant plot near 32 quarters in Bhai Randhir Singh Nagar and recovered Rs 1,430 in cash from the spot. They were identified as Bhagirath, a resident of BRS Nagar, Umesh Kumar, Subhash Kumar, Kallu and Radhe Sham, a resident of Sham Nagar. All of them have been booked under the Gambling Act. OC