Drug peddler, 2 bootleggers held

Abohar, October 19

The police arrested Sukhsagar Singh of Nanak Nagari near the new grain market and seized 5 gm heroin from him.

ASI Sahib Singh said the arrested peddler was booked under Sections 21,61 and 85 of the NDPS Act. Another team of the police seized 140 bottles of illicit liquor in a raid near a juice factory and arrested Ashok Kumar of Seed Farm Colony. However, his accomplice Paramjeet Singh managed to flee. ASI Bhagwan Singh said a case had been registered against the accused. In another incident, an excise team seized 13 litre lahan and 750 ml illicit liquor which was allegedly being prepared in a house in Indira Nagari. The accused, identified as Kashmir Singh, was arrested. — OC