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32-year-old Mohali man arrested with habit-forming drugs

Mohali: The Mohali police Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) on Friday claimed to have arrested a 32-year-old man after habit-forming drugs were recovered from him near Kharar.

Police said on a tip-off, a checkpost was set up on Landran-Chunni road, near Kharar, on Thursday evening. “On seeing the cops, a grey Alto car (PB-11-AT-3220) tried to escape.

It was chased and intercepted. Its driver identified himself as Dalvinder Singh, a resident of Majat village, near Mohali. On checking, 24,000 tablets of Lomotil, a habit-forming drug, were found hidden beneath the car mat.”

After he failed to produce the relevant documents, he was arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.

Dalvinder was produced before a court that sent him to three-day police remand.

CIA staff in-charge inspector Satwant Singh Sidhu said, “He will be questioned to ascertain the drug source and clientele.”

On July 16, the STF had claimed to have busted a habit-forming drug racket with the arrest of its kingpin and his associate.

Kingpin Pardeep Goyal was nabbed from Ludhiana following the arrest of his associate Sunil Kumar. Over 10-lakh tablets of habit-forming drugs, including 9 lakh of Tramadol, were recovered from the two. Goyal, who ran a chemist racket in Ludhiana, had a godown in Zirakpur where he stored illegal medicines to be distributed across the state. After their arrests, chemists of Mullanpur, Nayagaon, Kharar and Zirakpur came under the Mohali police scanner.

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