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VOL 25 - ISSUE 22
SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2025
Zero-tolerance crackdown on illegal builds in Surrey The City of Surrey says it is making progress in cracking down on homeowners who build without permits. The city says it has already issued more than $50,000 in fines for illegal builds. The city has also been targeting illegal builds by using its authority to issue a “notice on title” to offending properties, which tells the public, would-be buyers, lenders and insurers about unauthorized structures or work on a home. In its most recent action, the city slapped a notice on title on a property in the Royal Heights area, where it says the owner built an unpermitted addition to the rear of the house with two new units — despite a stop-work order being in place.
No one answered the door at a recent council meeting the owner denied knowledge of the stop-work order. “This is really about the safety of those homes that people are living
in, sometimes children. And so we just want to make sure that our housing in our city is safe for everybody." Continued on Page 6...
ED raids Punjab and Haryana in crackdown on 'Dunki route' immigration racket
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted raids across Punjab and Haryana as part of an ongoing investigation into the high-profile ‘Dunki route’ case, which came under intense national spotlight following the mass deportation of Indian nationals from the United States earlier this year. According to official sources, the ED’s Jalandhar zonal office is currently carrying out search operations at 11 locations, including Amritsar, Sangrur, Patiala, Moga, Ambala, Kurukshetra, and Karnal. These raids are part of the agency’s probe into the illegal immigration racket that surfaced after hundreds of Indians were deported by US authorities in February 2024—many of whom arrived in India in handcuffs, sparking widespread public outrage. Continued on Page 15...
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Police investigating shots fired at Bollywood comedian Kapil Sharma Surrey café
Surrey Police are investigating an incident where shots were fired at a newly opened café in Surrey, owned by Bollywood comedian Kapil Sharma. The Surrey Police Service (SPS) said in a statement a number of shots were fired at Kap's Cafe, located in Surrey's Newton neighbourhood on 120th Street, early Thursday morning Continued on Page 10... while staff were inside.
Parents of BC boy, who died after five-hour hospital wait, speak out The parents of an 11-year-old Vancouver Island boy who died last November after waiting hours for treatment at North Island Hospital Comox Valley say they want to see changes to B.C.’s “broken” health-care system, including better resources for emergency departments in smaller cities and improved training in pediatric care. Nikki and Marty Robbins, of Comox,
say they know health-care workers don’t go to work to do harm, but health authorities have a responsibility to make some “concrete changes”. “I don’t want people to be passing the buck,” Nikki Robbins said. The couple say their son, Brayden, had a stroke in utero and was born with limited function on his right side. Continued on Page 6...
Tennis player Radhika Yadav shot dead by father in Haryana State-level tennis player Radhika Yadav was allegedly shot dead by her father at their doublestorey home in upscale Sushant Lok here on Thursday, the police said. Her father, 49-year-old Deepak Yadav, has been arrested and his .32 bore licensed pistol recovered from his possession, they said. Why he did so is still unclear. The father allegedly fired more than five bullets. Her mother was on the ground floor and Radhika, who played tennis for Haryana, was in
the kitchen on the first floor when the crime took place, officials said. A police team reached the house and took the body into custody. “We are questioning the family members. A probe is under way and the picture will be clear soon,” said Inspector Vinod Kumar, SHO, Sector 56 police station. The family lives in Sushant LokPhase 2, Sector 57. The father is a resident of Wazirabad village, the police said.
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