3 roadways employees held with 55 gm heroin
In a crackdown on drug trafficking, the Jalandhar Commissionerate Police arrested three employees of the Punjab Roadways and seized a total of 55 gram of heroin from them. The operation was led by Commissioner of Police Swapan Sharma.
Acting on a tip-off, the police were conducting checks near a bus stand when they noticed a man approaching from the passport office side, holding a black polythene envelope. On spotting the police, the man panicked, discarded the packet on the roadside and attempted to flee.
Officers swiftly apprehended him and identified him as Ajit Singh, alias Raju, a resident of Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, Makhu Ferozepur, now residing at Amargarh Bashirpura, Jalandhar, working with the Punjab Roadways. A search of the discarded envelope revealed five gram of heroin.
Following the arrest, a case was registered at Police Station Division Number 6 under the Sections 21-61-85 and 29 of the NDPS Act.
During interrogation, Ajit Singh disclosed the involvement of two other individuals Deepak Sharma, a resident of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar Colony, Jalandhar, an employee with Punjab Roadways, and Keerat Singh, an inspector at the Punjab Roadways Depot, Jalandhar-2, originally from Amritsar.
Both accused were subsequently arrested and the police recovered an additional 50 gram of heroin, 20 small empty plastic packets and a digital weighing scale from them. Commissioner Swapan Sharma said further investigations were underway to uncover any larger network linked to the accused.
