Caught with banned vials, man awarded 10-year RI

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Updated At : 12:49 PM May 28, 2024 IST

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Chandigarh, May 27

A local court has sentenced a man to undergo 10 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) after convicting him in a six-year-old case registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the convict, Sukhwinder Singh.

As per the prosecution, the police arrested the accused on December 27, 2018, with 12 injections of pheniramine maleate and 12 of buprenorphine at a naka laid near Maloya.

The counsel for the accused argued that Sukhwinder was falsely implicated in the case, while Sunil Dutt, the public prosecutor, argued that the prosecution had proved the case beyond a shadow of doubt.

After hearing of the arguments, the court convicted the accused and pronounced the sentence.

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