{"id":89144,"date":"2022-11-30T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=89144"},"modified":"2022-11-30T10:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T05:00:49","slug":"in-patialas-ghanaur-a-congress-sarpanch-plotted-to-rob-a-bank-of-rs-17l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/in-patialas-ghanaur-a-congress-sarpanch-plotted-to-rob-a-bank-of-rs-17l\/","title":{"rendered":"In Patiala&#8217;s Ghanaur, a Congress sarpanch plotted to rob a bank of Rs 17L"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mastermind of Monday&#8217;s Rs 17 lakh Ghanaur bank robbery was a 35-year-old Congress sarpanch from Chamkaur Sahib. In hours after robbing a UCO Bank branch, Amandeep Singh, the sarpanch of Hafzahbad village, was arrested along with three accomplices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a criminal past to Amandeep, and he wanted to become a major politician. Chamkaur Sahib served on the Block Congress Committee and also headed a few cooperative societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, a team led by Patiala CIA in-charge Shaminder Singh arrested the four suspects near Chamkaur Sahib and recovered the robbed amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dilpreet Singh, Paramdyaal Singh, and Narinder Singh have also been identified as the other accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the accused held bank officials and customers hostage at gunpoint, they robbed UCO Bank&#8217;s Ghanaur branch of Rs 17 lakh. A customer&#8217;s bike was used to escape after they came on an autorickshaw. Following that, they boarded a car waiting for them some distance away. &#8220;We were able to trace the car and the accused using CCTV footage,&#8221; said the Senior Superintendent of Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An SBI branch at Sanghol was allegedly looted by Amandeep and one of his aides on November 10. During the case, he evaded arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mastermind of Monday&#8217;s Rs 17 lakh Ghanaur bank robbery was a 35-year-old Congress sarpanch from Chamkaur Sahib. In hours after robbing a UCO Bank branch, Amandeep Singh, the sarpanch of Hafzahbad village, was arrested along with three accomplices. There was a criminal past to Amandeep, and he wanted to become a major politician. Chamkaur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-punjab-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89146,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89144\/revisions\/89146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}