Ambala DGP orders probe

The task has been handed over to the Ambala Inspector General of Police

AK Sandhu,after Vij submitted a memorandum to the DGP at police headquarters on May 20 for a free and fair investigation.

Claiming that there has been such a development,Vij said he was hopeful that the inquiry would help in bringing out the truth as the police had allegedly arrested innocent youths.

Heated arguments were witnessed at the Haryana Police headquarters on May 20 between the DGP and the MLA,who claimed that the police had wrongly arrested seven smugglers with cocaine which was later found to be sodium bicarbonate powder.

About 970 grams of ‘cocaine’,worth Rs 2.50 crore in the international market,was seized from seven people,including two students and an instructor of an engineering college on May 3 by the Ambala police. The police had also claimed that the seized “drug” had a market value of Rs 2.5 crore.

A case under the NDPS Act was also registered against the seven suspects,who were arrested and sent to judicial custody.

The seven suspects were identified as Rishi Chauhan,an engineering student at the Asian Institute of Management and Technology,Yamunanagar; Ajit Yadav,a resident of Jhajjar district and a student of engineering in Gurgaon; Praveen Kumar,an instructor at Global Engineering Institute,

Yamunanagar; Bal Kishan,an employee of the Asian Institute of Management and Technology; and Kushal Chauhan,Vikas Singh and Manoj Kumar,all from Gugalkota village in Alwar district.