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Body stuffed in bag found in BMW; murder ‘by wife Tribune News Service Mohali, March 19 The body of a 40-year-old man was found stuffed in a suitcase kept in a BMW car near the house he and his wife had rented a fortnight back in Phase IIIB1 here today morning. The deceased was identified as Ekam Singh Dhillon.  In the evening, SP (City) Parminder Singh Bhandal said the deceased’s wife, Seerat, had been arrested and “she had admitted murdering him with the help of her brother and his friend”. (Follow  The Tribune on Facebook ; and  Twitter @thetribunechd ) Seerat is the niece of Congress leader Ajit Inder Singh Mofar, the two-time MLA from Sardulgarh who lost in last month’s election.  Seerat was missing from the house when the body was found while the couple’s children, an 11-year-old son and a five-year-old daughter, were present.  Besides Seerat, her mother Jaswinder Kaur, brother Vinay Partap Singh and two other relatives have been booked for murder, causing d

It’s a split verdict Aam Aadmi Party sets footprints on Kharar | Mohali, Dera Bassi retain Congress, SAD MLAs Nitin Jain Tribune News Service Chandigarh, March 11 Ref:  http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/mohali-resident-buys-ak-47-for-rs-7-38-lakh/411929.html The first-timer Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), reckoned by many as a rank outsider, has scripted history by winning the Kharar Assembly seat, which had been bagged either by the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) or the Congress for the past five decades, barring once when in 1972 CPI’s Shamsher Singh Josh made it to the state Assembly. However, the other two Vidhan Sabha segments in Mohali district – Mohali and Dera Bassi — opted for retaining their sitting legislators – Balbir Singh Sidhu of the Congress and NK Sharma of the SAD. Sidhu made a hat-trick of sorts, having won the seat in 2012 from Mohali and 2007 from Kharar. Earlier, in 2002 and 1997, Sidhu had finished third as the Congress and Independent candidate fr