BAMS student among four held with heroin

Tribune News Service

Karnal, March 9

The police have arrested four persons, including a final-year student of BAMS, with 452 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.5 crore here.

Initial inquiry revealed that the drug was procured from Madhya Pradesh and it was to be supplied in Ambala and Kurukshetra and Patiala district of Punjab.

Talking to mediapersons today, SP Jashandeep Singh Randhawa said the accused, all residents of the district, had been identified as Kishor Kumar and Rajinder Pal of Kohand village, Kartar Singh of Munak village and Vijay of Alipur village and a final-year student of BAMS at the PGIMS in Rohtak.

The SP said that it was a big achievement for the police. The Ambala and the Karnal police had information that some persons were travelling in a Swift Dzire car with drugs and they were on the way towards Ambala from Delhi.

The police of both the districts increased surveillance on the national highway late last night. However, a team of the CIA-2 of the Karnal police comprising Inspector Jaspal Dhillon, SIs Dalbir Singh and Rakesh Kumar, ASIs Salinder Kumar and Singhraj, head constables Ravinder Singh, Gurmeet Singh and Bhinder Singh managed to apprehend the accused from the New Grain Market near the National Highway-44 in the wee hours today, he said.