Man gets 10-year RI in NDPS case

Chandigarh, January 30

A local court has sentenced one Amarjit Singh to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment in a case registered under the NDPS Act three years ago. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the convict.

As per the prosecution, the police arrested the accused on July 13, 2021, from near Ramdarbar and seized 35 injections of buprenorphine (2 ml each) and 50 of pheniramine maleate (10 ml each). The accused could not produce any permit or licence for possessing the drugs. After investigation, the police filed a chargesheet against the accused under Section 22 of the NDPS Act.

The court framed charges against the accused to which he pleaded not guilty. The public prosecutor claimed the prosecution had proved the case and sought exemplary punishment due to the gravity of offence and for the fact the convict was a habitual offender.

The counsel for the accused said he was falsely implicated in the case. After hearing the arguments, the court sentenced the accused to undergo 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.

Woman, named in 50 drug cases, freed

• A 59-year-old woman, Bala, who was arrested in an NDPS case four years ago, was acquitted after the prosecution failed to prove charges
• Bala was held on November 25, 2020, with 60 injections of buprenorphine and 44 of pheniramine melate from Sector 39, Chandigarh
• An FIR under Section 22 of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act was registered against her
• Yadvinder Singh Sandhu, her counsel, argued she was falsely implicated. After the arguments, the court acquitted her
• Sources said Bala had been named in at least 50 cases, most under the NDPS Act, and has already been acquitted in many such matters