Two nabbed with 2-kg opium, 9.5-kg charas

Tribune News Service

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Lalru, January 9

The police have arrested two Nepalese nationals with two-kg opium, 9.5-kg charas and seized 6,000 tablets of lomotil, 900 tablets of nitrazinpaam and 75 bottles of biorep syrup.

The suspects – Pramod Jangshaw (38), and Kamaldev Ghatri (33) – were nabbed from the main highway near Shiv Mandir in Jharmadi village.

They have been booked under the NDPS Act. Lalru SHO Sukhvir Singh said the duo used to bring narcotics from Nepal and used to sell it in Shimla, Solan and the nearby areas. The suspects were today produced before a court, which sent them to three-day police remand.

* 2 held with 20-gm heroin

Mohali: The police have arrested two persons with 20 grams of heroin here on Saturday. The suspects have been identified as Harjeet Singh, alias Jeeta, a resident of Kurali, and Shekhar Kumar, resident of Hoshiarpur. TNS