Ropar constabulary contiguous busted a cause smuggling racket wrong Ropar jail. SSP Ropar, Gulneet Singh Khurana, said that a pack progressive successful smuggling drugs and different prohibited items into Ropar District Jail has been busted.
The SSP said Head Constable Kuldeep Singh was arrested and 101 grams of charas, 154 intoxicating capsules, 80 tablets and six packets of baccy were recovered from him.
He added that connected June 2, the authorities astatine Ropar District Jail received accusation that Singh, nonmigratory of PAP Lines, Jalandhar, was recovered with prohibited items portion connected work wrong the jail. Immediate enactment was taken, and a lawsuit nether Sections 20, 22-61-85 of the NDPS Act, 223-B of the BNS, and Section 52-A of the Prisons Act was registered astatine City Police Station, Ropar.
During interrogation, the accused revealed the engagement of different accomplices, including inmates Asif, Kabir, Gurpreet Singh and ASI Sukhram Singh. They person been arrested connected antithetic dates. Another accused, Mumtaz Alam, is yet to beryllium arrested.
In a related case, Gurpreet Singh, nonmigratory of Dera Baba Nanak, Gurdaspur, was arrested, nether Sections 18, 61, and 85 of the NDPS Act and Section 52-A of the Prisons Act. One mobile telephone and opium were recovered from him.
The arrested accused are being interrogated, and further revelations are expected.
The SSP said that if immoderate jailhouse unit oregon different idiosyncratic is recovered to beryllium progressive successful cause trafficking wrong the jail, strict enactment volition beryllium taken against them.