Man held with 1.1 kg of heroin

A team of the local CIA staff led by Sub-Inspector Tarsem Singh while on patrol in Khemkaran town arrested a car-borne person with 1.104 kg of heroin on Tuesday.

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Tarsem Singh said the accused has been identified as Subaj Singh, a resident of Kalas, a village situated close to the Indo-Pak border. Tarsem Singh said the accused had arranged the consignment from his Pakistan-based co-smugglers associates. He was waiting for a customer in the grain market at Khemkaran.

Tarsem Singh has a close relationship with the Pakistan-based drug smugglers. The police took his car into their possession too. A case under Sections 21-C, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act has been registered against the accused who was produced in a court on Wednesday and the court remanded him in police custody for two days.