Ludhiana: Despite many untoward incidents in the past and the ban on manual scavenging, sewer cleaners are made to enter manholes in the city. Even as the municipal corporation has the machinery, officials say there are certain areas where manual cleaning is the only option.
“Sewers mostly remain choked in areas with migrant population, like Giaspura, Dhandhari, Prem Nagar, Durga Colony, Vijay Nagar, Muslim Colony, Railway Colony, Punjabi Bagh and Tibba Road, among others. Maximum complaints about sewer blockage come from here. Those who live in vehras here throw in manholes everything, whether plastic carrybags or other garbage,” says an official.
Ludhiana: The Special Task Force (STF), Ludhiana, arrested a 56-year-old man and his son for peddling drugs after 1.7kg heroin was recovered from their car parked outside their house in BRS Nagar J Block on Monday evening. The recovered contraband costs Rs 8.50 crore in the international market.
The arrested are Satish Kumar and his son Suraj Kumar. The cops also recovered an electronic weighing machine, 30 empty packets and two lighters from the car.
Ludhiana STF in-charge inspector Harbans Singh said, “The accused were arrested near their house on a tip-off. They revealed that they procured heroin from Delhi to sell it to addicts in Ludhiana. They are already facing trial in several cases of drug peddling.”
Ludhiana: Following a warning from MC commissioner Pardeep Sabharwal, who had given officials just two days to kick off a cleanliness drive in Buddha Nullah, the authorities resumed the work on Saturday.
Sabharwal had warned the officials concerned of action if the drive was a non-starter. The cleanliness around Buddha Nullah becomes crucial in rainy season, which otherwise results in waterlogging and flooding in localities around the drain.
On Saturday, the officials were on the field at 6am. They checked the sites where garbage was getting piled up. The officials claimed that pile-ups were near Madhopuri, Tibba Road and Peeru Banda area. Heaps of garbage lying at the dumps near the drain or at other locations were also checked.
LUDHIANA: An online friend of a woman of Uttar Pradesh duped her of Rs 2 lakh on the pretext of helping her get her sex reassignment surgery done. When the woman demanded her money back, the accused along with her two accomplices allegedly confined and thrashed her.
The victim said the police did not lodge an FIR on her statement.
The 22-year-old woman, requesting anonymity, said, “I wanted to get my sex reassignment surgery done. I came across a woman on a social networking site a couple of months ago who said she hailed from Himachal Pradesh and lived in Ludhiana. She claimed that she also got her sex changed and offered to help me.”
Ludhiana: As many as 19 residents of Ludhiana died of Covid-19 and 461 tested positive on Tuesday. The positive cases include a healthcare worker and an undertrial.
Chief medical officer Dr Kiran Ahluwalia said the district casualties included a 46-year-old woman of Haibowal Khurd, a 45-year-old woman of Central Postal Office, a 65-year-old man of Shivji Nagar, a 37-year-old man of Haibowal Kalan, a 58-year-old man of Khud Mohalla, a 55-year-old woman of Dadhahoor village, a 60-year-old man of Chakk Kalan village, a 69-year-old man of Civil Lines, a 56-year-old man of Nandpur, a 49-year-old man of Jamalpur Colony, a 55-year-old man of Sirthala, a 34-year-old man of Salem Tabri, a 56-year-old man of Khanna, a 57-year-old man of Baba Deep Singh Nagar, a 60-year-old woman from Gujjrawala, a 51-year-old man of Janakpuri, a 58-year-old man of Issa Nagri, a 55-year-old man of Tibba Road and a 30-year-old woman of Kundanpuri.