The Shahi Imam of Indian Punjab, Maulana Habib-ur-Rehman Saani Ludhianvi, has threatened to issue a fatwa (diktat) excommunicating Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Mr Nawaz Sharif from Islam.

Former Haryana DGP S.P.S. Rathore will spend another sweltering month in jail consequent to the Punjab and Haryana high court deciding to defer a decision on his bail petition until June 29 without interim relief.

Amritsar police officials, who raided the Chandigarh office-cum-residential premises of Mr Pankaj Bhardwaj, the lead counsel representing Ruchika Girhotra’s family and friends in their legal battle against former Haryana DGP S.P.S. Rathore, said the lawyer is wanted in a multi-crore real estate scam.

Disclosures made by Brigadier Devinder Singh, commander of the Batalik-based 70 Infantry Brigade during the 1999 Kargil War, have caste a cloud on the role of several Indian Army generals, including three officers who subsequently went on to become chiefs.

In what could be a landmark decision, the Punjab Information Commission on Thursday ruled that a candidate appearing in a competitive examination for employment in government service has the right to access evaluated answer scripts after declaration of results.

Former Haryana DGP Shambhu Pratap Singh Rathore is finally in jail for molesting 14-year-old schoolgirl Ruchika Girhotra in August 1990 after a Chandigarh court on Tuesday confirmed his conviction by the trial court and enhanced his original jail term from six to 18 months.

“He is actually being arrested and sent to jail!” an unbelieving Subhash Chander Girhotra exulted when additional sessions judge Gurbir Singh read out the operative portion of the verdict in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.

The Canadian high commission in New Delhi may have sparked off a major diplomatic row by rejecting a former BSF head constable’s application for immigration and terming the Indian border force a notoriously violent paramilitary unit responsible for attacks on civilians and torturing suspected criminals.

A sessions court here on Thursday deferred to May 25 verdict on plea for enhancing sentence of former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore in Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.

Beer for peanuts? Well not exactly but liquor contractors out to make a whole lot of cash while the sun scorches across Punjab insist on handing out a pack of roasted peanuts with every bottle of the super strong brew. It’s a marketing exercise that will have all the yuppie corporate whizkids chewing their nails.