Police organizes Cricket tourney

Cricket team posing along with senior police officers at Kathua on Tuesday.
Cricket team posing along with senior police officers at Kathua on Tuesday.

Excelsior Sports Correspondent

KATHUA, Mar 19: Range Police Headquarters Jammu organised a knock out cricket tournament at Kathua today.
The tournament was inaugurated by Chief Guest, Shivdeep Singh SSP Kathua, SO to DIG Jammu Rajinder Singh Katoch SSP, Additional SP Kathua Paramjeet Singh and DySP DAR Kathua Subash Chander were the Guests of Honour.
Inspector Joginder Chib RI DPL Kathua, Inspector Sunil Sharma SHO Lakhanpur, Inspector Ajay Chib SHO Kathua, SI Bhalwan Singh Lines Officer Kathua, other dignitaries and general public from surrounding area were also present to boost the morale of the players.
In the first match AJ Cricket Academy Kathua beat VCC Mahanpur by 10 runs. Arjun was declared as man of the match for scoring 46 runs. In the second match Basohli Cricket Club beat United XI Cricket Club Billawar by 12 runs. Nitin was declared as man of the match for scoring 13 runs and grabbing 3 wickets.
SO to DIG Jammu Rajinder Singh Katoch said that the main motive of J&K Police to organise such a tournament is to encourage youth to stay away from drugs, negative influence and bad company. He also said that total eight teams from different locations of district Kathua participated in this tournament
Committee members of CAP from Range Police Headquarters Jammu SI Suresh Kumar, ASI Jasbir Singh, SgCt Sudesh Sharma and Jit Kumar were also present for smooth functioning of the tournament.