Drug peddler arrested with 60-gm heroin

Tribune News Service
Mohali, December 11

Sleuths of the Special Task Force, Mohali, arrested a drug peddler with 60 gm of heroin here.

The suspect has been identified as Lakhvir Singh, alias Lucky, a resident of Zirakpur.

Rajinder Singh Sohal, Superintendent of Police (STF), said the suspect was nabbed at a naka near a gurdwara at Phase 3A here when he was going to supply drugs to his customers in the area.

During interrogation, Lucky said he worked as an electrician at Zirakpur, but after falling in bad company, he started taking drugs. He told the police that his friends had introduced him to a Nigerian, who was putting up in Delhi. “The suspect and his friends used to procure drugs from the Nigerian and sell these in Mohali and Zirakpur,” said Sohal. 

A case under Sections 21, 61 and 85 A of the NDPS Act has been registered against Lucky at the STF police station at Phase 4 here.