6 use ambulance to smuggle Rs10L heroin, nabbed

Tribune News Service

Hisar, April 8

The district police arrested six persons who were trying to smuggle heroin worth Rs10 lakh in an ambulance near Agroha in the district on Wednesday.

The accused identified as Narender, Surender, Ravinder, Salim Khan, Ran Singh and Surender were booked under relevant sections of the IPC and the NDPS Act and started investigation.

A police spokesman said one of the accused was posing as a patient inside the ambulance and others as driver and attendees.

Sources said they had procured the banned substance from Gurugram and were on their way to supply it to their clients in the region.

In another case, the police seized 7.3-kg ganja from two motorcycles-borne youths in the area under the Uklanapolice station.

Besides, there has been a spurt in the incidents of liquor smuggling in the region. Policemen deployed at different points to ensure lockdown said people were defying the orders on petty pretexts and there could be unscrupulous elements smuggling liquor or narcotics by taking advantage of the situation.

“A man travelling in his car showed me two-year-old X-ray and said he was going to consult a doctor. Another man told me that he needed to see a veterinary doctor as his dog was not feeling well,” saida policeman.

After the seizure of narcotics and illegal liquor smuggling incidents, the police have intensified the checking in Hisar.

Senior police officers have directed their subordinates to check the drums of milkmen, goods carrier vehicles and those claiming to be on essential duty.

“Though this is causing inconvenience to those on duty for essential services, however, the smugglingincidents are a wake-up call for us,” a policeofficer said.