10-year jail for woman held with banned vials

Tribune News Service

Updated At : 12:27 PM Feb 20, 2024 IST

Unlock Exclusive Insights with The Tribune Premium

Take your experience further with Premium access. Thought-provoking Opinions, Expert Analysis, In-depth Insights and other Member Only Benefits

Yearly Premium ₹999 ₹349/Year

Yearly Premium $49 $24.99/Year

Chandigarh, February 19

A local court has sentenced a 46-year-old woman to undergo 10 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) in a case registered under the NDPS Act five years ago .

The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the convict, Geeta Devi, resident of Burail village in Sector 45-B here.

As per the prosecution, the police had arrested the accused on September 14, 2018, with 12 injections of Buprenorphine Omgesic and 12 injections of Pheniramine Maleate besides 1.04 kg of ganja . The accused could not produce any permit or licence for keeping these.

After hearing the arguments of the counsel for the accused and the public prosecutor, the court held the accused guilty and pronounced the sentence.

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five eminent persons as trustees.

The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language and partisanship, are the hallmarks of the newspaper. It is an independent newspaper in the real sense of the term.

The Tribune has two sister publications, Punjabi Tribune (in Punjabi) and Dainik Tribune (in Hindi).

Remembering Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia

Designed and developed by : SORTD

Unlock Exclusive Insights with The Tribune Premium

Suggested Articles