Drug peddler's property worth Rs 83 lakh attached in Kaithal district

Kaithal, July 12

Tightening the noose around drug peddlers, the Kaithal police have attached the property, worth Rs 83,22,337, of a drug peddler in the district, following the permission from the executive authority of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS), Ministry of Finance, New Delhi.

It is the first case in which the Kaithal police have attached the property. The authorities say it will be a lesson for the drug peddlers.

“We have attached the property of Gurmej Singh of Dabankhera under the Ghula police station after getting the order from the competent authority. The only property which he had made from drug business has been attached,” said Maqsood Ahmed, Superintendent of Police (SP).

The SP said the anti-narcotics cell in charge inspector Shiv Kumar, led by DSP Ghula, Sunil Kumar, had initiated the step.

Now the accused and his family members could not sell or transfer the property to anyone. Several NDPS cases had been registered against the accused, the SP said.

He further said that two cases under the NDPS Act had been registered against Gurmej at the Ghula police station, one each in Tohana and Tosham police stations, with five cases registered in Punjab.

A court of Fatehabad had sentenced Gurmej to 10 years’ jail and imposed a penalty of Rs 1 lakh on him on August 29, 2002, in a case in which he had been arrested with 160 kg chura post.

The SP said in a case registered in 2020 at the Ghula police station, he was declared a proclaimed offender.