Drugs case: Seven jailed for 15 years

Our Legal Correspondent

Ludhiana, March 29

The Court of Additional Sessions Judge Rajiv K Berry has convicted seven persons in a case of recovery of 1,43,28,400 intoxicant capsules, tablets and cough syrups without any permit or licence.

They were also facing accusations of indulging in drug smuggling activities worth crores of rupees in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Himachal. They have been given 15 years of rigorous imprisonment each. They were also ordered to pay a fine of Rs 1 lakh each. Those convicted are Pardeep Choudhary, and Prithi Choudhary of Karnal (Haryana); Sukhraj Singh, Pawan Kumar Goyal and Parveen Kumar of Moga; and Pawan Kumar Malhotra and Sadhu Singh of Ludhiana.

However, the court acquitted Puneet Kumar of Sangrur, Deepak Soni, Salem and Sukhdev Singh of Ludhiana finding no convincing evidence against them.

Initially, an FIR was registered against three persons on September 19, 2013. During investigation, the police booked other accused. The police claimed to have recovered Parvon Spas capsules (8,65,000), Rexcof cough syrup bottles (1,400), Phenotil tablets (83,50,000), Microtel tablets (9 lakh), Avil injections (12,000) etc.