Paonta Sahib police arrest kingpin of drug supply

Tribune News Service

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Solan, September 29

The Paonta Sahib police arrested a youth, Atul, who was wanted in several cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act registered against him in the area, from Devinagar last evening. He was remanded in police custody by a local court today.

Deputy Superintendent of Police, Paonta Sahib, Bir Bahadur, said, “Atul is the kingpin of a narcotic drug supply racket in the region. He was wanted in several cases, in which his associates had been arrested. This included a case in which 7.35 gm of smack was seized at Kafota and another case in which 9.6 gm of the same drug was recovered during a raid at Devinagar in recently.”

He has been absconding since June and was arrested on Tuesday after months of sustained efforts. He was also arrested earlier in an NDPS case in 2018 and has remained under judicial custody for 2.5 years.

He had been securing contraband from various places in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi and was among the main suppliers in the Paonta Sahib region.

During an earlier raid at his house in Devinagar, the police had failed to arrest him. He had escaped to Uttarakhand. A six-member team had been constituted to nab him and the probe was being supervised by the DSP.