A week before the first anniversary of the Congress government led by Captain Amarinder Singh in Punjab, its public relations (PR) department bombarded media with aerial photographs and press releases, admiring his prompt action against the mining mafia in the state.

Photographs taken from a helicopter he was riding showed trucks parked along a river bed. The release indicated that an enraged chief minister ordered an immediate raid and arrest of the alleged culprits. The state machinery swung into action, nabbed them and seized the trucks.