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Amritsar: Congress ex-dist chief booked in tramadol seizure case

The tramadol boxes seized in Paonta Sahib. file photo

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 25

Days after prominent Himachal Pradesh political leader Chetan Parmar was nominated to the FIR in connection with the recent seizure of tramadol capsules, the Amritsar rural police have booked yet another politician in the case.

Joined AAP recently

Rajiv Bhagat had switched over to AAP two months ago

He was looking to contest the Assembly elections in 2022 on the AAP ticket

Former district Congress committee president and lawyer Rajiv Bhagat has been booked under the NDPS Act. Bhagat had switched over to AAP two months ago.

SSP (Amritsar rural) Gulneet Singh Khurana said raids were on to arrest him. He has been absconding since the police asked him to join the investigation.

According to sources privy to the investigation, Bhagat was among the kingpin of the racket. He along with Amarpeet Singh, alias Sunny, and Manu Chohan used to supply tramadol, a banned drug, to other parts of the city.

Bhagat was looking to contest the upcoming Assembly polls on AAP ticket.

Sources said following Chohan’s arrest, Sunny was also brought on production warrant from jail. Their interrogation revealed they used to run the racket and supply ‘Schedule H’ drugs in different parts of the city after getting delivery from Delhi.

On May 18, the police had nabbed three persons with 45,000 tramadol capsules. This further led to the seizure of the drug worth Rs 15 crore from a factory in Paonta Sahib in Sirmaur district in HP on May 28.

The police had nabbed the alleged owner of factory ‘Unique Formulations’ Munish Mohan. During the probe, the police booked Parmar in the case.

The police have so far arrested 10 persons in the case. Besides Mohan, those arrested included Prem Kumar Jha, who runs a medical store in Delhi and his employee Bablu; Ranu Bhargav of Mohali; Rajesh Wadera; Parmod Bisht; Amarpreet Singh, alias Sunny, a chemist from the Katra Sher Singh area, and Manu Chohan.