A 35-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stalking a TV actor, a senior police official said on Wednesday.
Abdul Sheikh, the accused, allegedly followed the woman actor in his car in suburban Khar area. He also allegedly abused her using filthy language the actor said in her complaint.
Sheikh was arrested under IPC sections 354 (D) (stalking) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), said DCP Paramjit Singh Dahiya.
Burning effigies of Ravana is a common practice on Dussehra, but some "harassed" husbands celebrated the festival here in a slightly different way — by burning an effigy of Surpanakha, sister of the mythical multi-headed demon king.
A suspected pro-Khalistan group member, who was involved in a plot allegedly to kill former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, was arrested in Shamli district, police said on Friday.
While Punjab is reeling under a financial crisis, resulting in low salaries and high fuel prices, the state government has approved the entitlement of “high-end” luxury vehicles for the Chief Minister, ministers, MLAs and bureaucrats.
SGPC spokesperson Diljit Singh Bedi said the resignation was received this morning in a sealed envelope addressed to SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal.
So far in 2018, the state has recorded 1,212 cases of paddy stubble burning as against 3,141 and 6,733 in the corresponding periods in 2017 and 2016 respectively.
Working on an input from the Canadian police, the fake call centre operating out of Sector 63 was busted, the police said.