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Punjab Police Inspector Inderjit Singh Arrested In Drug Peddling Case; Drugs, Arms Recovered

Darpan News Desk IANS, 12 Jun, 2017 11:20 AM
    The Special Task Force of Punjab Police on Monday arrested CIA Inspector Inderjit Singh and recovered drugs and a huge cache of arms and ammunition from him.
     
     
    Raiding his government accommodations in Jalandhar and Phagwara, police found three kg smack, four kg heroin besides arms and ammunition.
     
     
    Police recovered three kg of smack and 4 kg of heroin from his Phagwara quarters. A 9 mm Italian-make pistol, a .38 bore revolver, an AK 47 and around 380 live cartridges of different arms, including 115 AK 47 cartridges, were found at his house at Jalandhar Police Lines. Rs 16.50 lakh cash, 3,550 British pounds and a car were also seized there.
     
     
     
     
    Mukhwinder Singh said that they further recovered huge quantities of smack and heroin from his government quarter at Phagwara.
    Inderjit Singh has been booked under Section 59 (2)(6), 218, 466, 471 and 120-B of the IPC, 25/54/59 of the Arms Act and 22/62/85 of the NDPS Act.
     
     
    He said that he would be produced in court and taken in remand to ascertain his modus operandi and smugglers in his contact for running the trade.
     
     
    The inspector has served in CIA Jalandhar. He has also has worked as inspector in Phagwara. He had been recently posted from Jalandhar to Ferozepur Range.
     
     
    He was known to have cracked various cases related to drugs and gang operations in the region.
     
     
    He was on the radar of slain gangster Sukha Kahlwan’s aides. Kahlwan was gunned down near Phagwara two years back.
     
     
     
     
    Gangster Prince arrested by the STF two months back is slated to have shared some information against the inspector, after which he was picked from his residence at Police Lines this morning, it is learnt.

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