Raghbir Singh Brar
Faridkot
The district police have claimed to have recovered a commercial contraband of heroin of about 2 kg from a resident of Preet Nagar of Amritsar, who has been identified as Akash alias Mann.
The accused has been arrested from near village Chand Baja of Faridkot district, said Jogeshwar Singh Goraya, SP investigation Faridkot in a press conference today.
The accused ,according to the police have already about 7 cases registered against him regarding the drug pedaling, arms act and other serious offences at various police stations of the state.
A case against the accused has been registered at police station Sadar Faridkot under the sections of NDPS and further investigation is on.
“The police are investigating his forwards and backwards links as the consignment was meant to hand over for further smuggling,’ said J S Goraya,SP(I) Faridkot.