CHANDIGARH: A government official and two militants were among 11 people killed in Punjab on August 9 over the week 76 people were killed.
Four men with a large quantity of arms and ammunition and explosives were arrested while 136, 00 rupees were cooled from a bank.
The official was gunned down by three men in his office in Amritsar Thursday morning.
Police found the body of a youth outside a cinema hall near the Amritsar bus stand.
Two Pakistani intruders were gunned down in the Khem Karan sector of the Indo Pak border in Amritsar district,
Seven people were killed in violence elsewhere in the trouble tom state.
Fifteen people were killed, 16 injured and five men with arms and ammunition arrested in Punjab on Aug 8.
Armed men looted more than 775,000 rupees in three separate incidents in Patiala and Ludhiana districts in the state during the period.
Meanwhile Chandigarh police arrested a former Punjab legislator Bachittar Singh on the charge of hiring assailants to kill Ravinder Pal. Pal was shot at and wounded in an attack in Chandigarh on August 6.
Some incriminating evidence regarding motive behind the firing had been detected and some more arrests were expected in near future, police said.
A long standing dispute was stated to be the motive behind the crime.
Police picked up a bullet riddled body from Tarn Taran district. A cyanide capsule was recovered from his pocket.
Two armed men in police uniforms killed one person in Ludhiana Tuesday night.
Police also recovered two bullet riddled bodies from Majitha district.
Three men robbed a Ludhiana businessman of 168,00 rupees at pistol point.
Two men were killed in an explosion in Tuesday night in Amritsar district. Reports said the two used to make bombs.
Five bullet riddled bodies were recovered from Ranger Nangal area in Batala district Wednesday. Reports said the victims were ordered off a Delhi bound truck and gunned down.
The men, however allowed the driver and the helper of the truck to go. Senior police officers had rushed to the scene and were investigating.
One person was killed and eleven were injured in a bomb explosion in downtown Amritsar.
One person was killed and three were wounded when two men went to Wayside Restaurant in Patiala district and started indiscriminate firing.
Gunmen killed one person each in Tarn Taran and Majitha districts Tuesday night, police said.
Gunmen looted more than Rs 600,000 from two factories in Patiala district. Twenty three people including seven security men, were killed on Aug 7.
Armed men looted Rs 824,000 from factories and a bank in Amritsar and Patiala districts Tuesday.
A sub inspector of the central reserve police force (CRPF) and a professor were among those injured in the bomb blast in Jalandhar district.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 17, 1990
