The Sahnewal police have arrested two persons and seized 315-kg poppy husk from them. - File photo
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, July 31
The Sahnewal police have arrested two persons and seized 315-kg poppy husk from them.
The accused have been identified as Rajinder Singh, a resident of Kaneja village near Meherban, and Raju Sagar Natak of UP, presently residing at Hoshiarpur.
Additional DCP Jaskiranjit Singh Teja in a statement issued here said the police received information that smugglers were on the way to deliver huge quantity of poppy husk to clients in Ludhiana. Accordingly, the police stopped a truck at a nake and during search the it seized poppy husk from the vehicle. The accused had brought the consignment from Jharkhand. The police have launched further probe in the case to bust the entire supply line.
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