3 peddlers held with heroin

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 24

A team of the Special Task Force (STF), Ludhiana range, led by Inspector Harbans Singh, nabbed a man, Deepak Kumar (30), a resident of Mohalla Satguru Nagar, near Radha Swami Satsang Ghar, with 680 gm of heroin when he was going towards Pippal Chowk to deliver the contraband on a Honda Activa scooter on Sunday.

STF officials said on a tip-off, a surveillance team was deployed around the house of Deepak in Satguru Nagar and when he came on his scooter (bearing registration no. PB 10HL 0363), the team intercepted him. Search of the accused was carried out in the presence of the STF SP, Ludhiana range, Surinder Kumar, which led to the seizure of 680 gm of heroin, 100 polythene zip pouches and an electronic scale, from a compartment of his two-wheeler.

During the preliminary interrogation, Deepak told the police that he was employed in a nut-bolt factory and was himself a drug addict.

He said to earn money for drugs and other expenses, he had been peddling drugs for the past around three years.

A case under the NDPS Act was registered against Deepak at the STF police station in Mohali and the suspect was being produced in court for obtaining his police custody for further interrogation.

In another incident, the police have arrested two persons, Baljit Singh, a resident of Makkar Colony in Giaspura, and Sukhdev Singh of Baba Namdev Colony, when the duo were going on a Hero Splendor motorcycle from near the water tank in Amarjit Colony. A team of the anti-narcotic cell on suspicion signalled them to stop and during search 40 gm of heroin was seized from them. A case under Sections 21-B, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act has been registered against them.

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