The children were between 12 and 15 years old. They were sent to a children’s home in Jamalpur after medical examination, they said.
The girls came by train and reached the central jail in Bathinda on Wednesday, a police official said.
The chief minister also said that a decision to regularise the services of 14,000 temporary employees in the education department and 14,000 in other departments has been taken.
The Police have also recovered Rs 10.36 crores of drug money from the possession of drug smugglers arrested in these eight months.
An advocate by profession, 32-year-old Bains hails from Gambhirpur village in Anandpur Sahib. In the 2017 elections, he contested unsuccessfully from the Sahnewal constituency.
Seven prison officials were suspended and five of them, including the jail superintendent, were arrested following the viral clip which also showed the gangsters pointing to the bodies lying on the floor with some on-duty police personnel nearby.
The video of the incident, which took place in Mohali, did rounds on social media.
Two men, Gurjeet Singh and Kishan Bhagwan Singh, were killed in Behbal Kalan in police firing during a protest that had sparked in the wake of the incidents. Several other people were injured in the police firing.
The development came a day after supporters of preacher and Khalistani sympathiser Amritpal Singh had stormed the Ajnala police station demanding the release of his aide.
According to railway officials, 10 trains, including the ones from Verka to Pathankot and Pathankot to Amritsar, were cancelled because of the stir.
The bribes were allegedly circulated to officers at every level reaching up to headquarters in a well defined percentage of cuts at each level, it alleged.
The police reached the spot and started investigating the matter. But, the accused who fired the shots was able to flee and the police are searching for him.
In a press note, the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) stated that the farmers are protesting against the construction of the Delhi-Katra expressway and the Batala highway.
They were among seven 1993-batch IPS officers who have been promoted to the rank of DGP in Punjab , according to an official order issued on Monday.
As per the official statement, 371 persons were also booked in 135 criminal cases in the same year.
The arrests were made by a Rupnagar police team. Arms and ammunition were also recovered from the arrested accused, the police officials said.
The year also witnessed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s convoy getting stuck for a few minutes on a flyover in Ferozepur due to a protest.
Earlier, Punjab Health Minister Chetan Singh Jouramajra said there are nine active cases of coronavirus in the state presently.
With over 2,800 kilometres under his belt, Gandhi has managed to catch the attention of his supporters as well as detractors through the yatra.
When the Aam Aadmi Party was in opposition, several party leaders including Bhagwant Mann demanded scrapping of power purchase agreements signed with independent power producers.
Talwandi Sabo MLA Baljinder Kaur is the chief whip of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The two-time legislator and senior party leader’s rank will now be equivalent to that of a Cabinet minister.
In the footage, the man is seen tied to the truck’s hood with a rope, with the driver’s assistant seated alongside him.
Rajwinder Singh from Patiala and Gurpreet Singh from Mohali gave a cheque of Rs 9.12 lakh to Shahid, a resident of Sopore in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, to compensate for the loss he suffered.
He also posted a video that purportedly showed visuals of inside the gurdwara where the incident took place.
Tarn Taran Police in a joint search operation with the Border Security Force (BSF) found the hexacopter drone.