HP man nabbed with 2 kg opium

The Crime Branch 2 team arrested Gaurav Kumar, a resident of Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, with 2.1 kg of opium. The police registered a case against the suspect under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and started further interrogation.

ADCP (Crime) Amandeep Singh Brar stated that a police team was present in Rakh Bagh to keep a tab over smugglers when they got a tip-off that the suspect was into opium smuggling. The police also came to know that the suspect was standing in an

empty plot near the Green Park Road petrol pump, waiting for his customers to sell opium.

Afterwards, the police nabbed him and seized the opium, Brar said, adding that many revelations could be made during his interrogation.