Over 2 kg opium seized,2 arrested

DCP Gurpreet Singh Toor said,“Subhash Kumar deals in property but has been running the business of narcotics for almost a decade. During checking,we found a small black pouch tucked in the waist band. The pouch contained a kilo and a half of opium which is priced at Rs 1.25 lakh.”

On questioning Subhash,the police came to know that he had been booked under the NDPS Act by the Malerkotla Police last year too and the case was pending in the court. Subhash uses the property as a front while he had been making money by selling opium bought at lower rates from Kishangarh in Rajasthan and sold in Ludhiana at much higher rates.

In another case,the Ludhiana rural police nabbed Balwinder Singh,a resident of Abohar,and recovered 950 gms of opium. Singh,as per the police,had come to sell the drug here in the city.