NAKODAR// SHAHKOT
The Mehat Pur police have arrested a villager for violating an order duly promulgated by a public servant by burning paddy stubble fields.
Investigating Officer (IO) Davindar Singh said
the suspect had been identified as Jasveer Singh Darshan Singh a resident of Baaloki Khurd village.
IO said the police received a WhatsApp image of burning paddy stubble fields in Salema village and reached the spot and found paddy stubble filed on fire and inquired from the present prominent persons about the owner and cultivator of land who and identified and verified the suspect who was burring stubble fields violating an order by the Jalandhar deputy commissioner.
IO said a case under section 223 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the BNS has been registered against the suspect who was released on bail.
The Shahkot police booked Mohindar Singh son of Tara Singh a resident of Esse Wal village for burning paddy stubble fields in his village town on a report by circle revenue Patwari Gurdeep Singh, said IO Gurnam Singh