2 Jalandhar residents arrested with banned injections, bottles of syrup

Our Correspondent

Doraha, September 22

In a special campaign initiated by the Khanna police against drug trafficking, the police today arrested two persons with banned injections and bottles of syrup near Punsup godown at Doraha.

The two have been identified as Ram Chand of Badring and Matthew of Sansarpur, both places in Jalandhar. The two were travelling in their silver Innova car (bearing registration number PB 32 PO 942) when the police party led by Sub-Inspector Satpal Singh stopped them near Punsup godown at Doraha for checking.

During search of the car a plastic bag containing intoxicating injections and bottles of syrup was recovered under the seat of the co-driver Mathew. In all, 450 injections of rexogesic and 480 bottles of avil were recovered from the bag. The suspects were still being questioned till the filing of this report and there was a possibility of major disclosure.

When contacted the SSP, Khanna, Gursharandeep Singh, said as the festive days were approaching, the Khanna police had started laying nakas at different spots each day.

“In the past few days, the police has achieved major success in its campaign against drug trafficking and misdemeanors. Huge quantities of intoxicants, including heroin, ganja and other habit forming drugs, have been recovered from miscreants, who are caught unawares, as the police have been directed to lay nakas at different spots,” the SSP said.

Huge quantity of ganja was recovered from factory workers in and around Ludhiana, the SSP added.

In majority of the cases, it had been observed that the accused involved women for carrying drugs as that they were least to be suspected, the SSP said.