Special Task Force seizes huge quantity of tramadol, arrests Ajnala resident

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 17

Acting on a tip-off, a Special Task Force team arrested Suresh Kumar of Ajnala for allegedly possessing a huge quantity of banned tramadol tablets here this evening.

Confirming the development, Arun Sharma, DSP, STF, said an FIR was being filed in the case. The accused would be produced in a local court tomorrow.

According to information, the STF confiscated as many as 52,000 tablets of tramadol from Suresh’s possession. He was travelling in a car when the police raided and arrested him. The accused was earlier also booked by Amritsar rural police for the similar offence.

The STF said they were getting the details of the previous case and its current status from the Ajnala police station.

A fresh case under Section 22 of the NDPS Act was being registered at the same police station, Sharma told.

He said the STF got a specific input that after coming out of jail, he was again indulging in the peddling of drugs. Following this, a trap was laid and when he came out of his house in a car, he was arrested and during search, the police seized 52,000 tablets of tramadol.

As per a preliminary probe, he used to procure the same from Ludhiana and Jalandhar and sell the same in different parts here. However, investigation was on to ascertain the source of tramadol.

Meanwhile, CIA staff arrested two persons — Hardeep Singh of Sohal village in Tarn Taran and Sukhpal Singh of Chitti village in Gurdaspur — for allegedly possessing sedative pills and heroin.

Sukhwinder Singh Randhawa, in-charge, CIA staff, said Hardeep was held from near Teli Mohalla. The police recovered 2,400 intoxicating capsules and 2,520 intoxicating tablets from his possession. Similarly, Sukhpal Singh was arrested for possessing 10 gm of heroin. The police also impounded his car (PB-06-V-5258).

In another seizure, Sultanwind police arrested Sukhdev Singh of Patti Bhainiwal in Sultanwind village with 110 intoxicating tablets. Separate cases under the NDPS act were registered against them.

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