Heroin coming from Punjab seized in Nurpur, 2 held

Our Correspondent

Nurpur, July 11

A team of the Damtal police station in Indora seized 36.62 grams of heroin (chitta) from a Scorpio car at the Bhadroya chowk late Friday night.

The team, led by SHO Harish Guleria, was on routine patrolling near Bhadroya when it spotted a car (with Punjab registration number) parked near the Bhadroya chowk and noticed suspicious movement of two persons near the vehicle. The police caught the duo identified as Lavpreet Singh of Abdhal (Majitha) village in Amritsar and Dimple Mahajan of Begoval (Taragarh) village in Pathankot district. In the meantime, two persons sitting inside the vehicle fled from the spot by driving away the jeep. The police have also registered case against them and they are yet to be arrested.

During the interrogation, the nabbed drug peddlers confessed that they were used to bringing narcotics from Amritsar for further supply to drug peddlers in different part of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab.

DSP, Nurpur, Sahil Arora said a case under the NDPS Act had been registered against the accused who were today produced in the court that sent him to five days’ police remand.