Saturday | May 31 2025 | 04:40:07 AM
New Delhi, September 21
The Punjab Police’s anti-drug Special Task Force (STF) busted a drug supply racket running inside Ludhiana Central Jail and booked four persons including a Punjab Police assistant sub-inspector (ASI).
The accused were identified as ASI Balvir Kumar of Jalandhar who was deputed at Ludhiana Police Lines, Mohammad Anwarul alias Raju of Sarpanch Colony, Ludhiana, who runs a tea stall in district court complex and two jail inmates — Bunty Kumar of Faridabad (Haryana) and Akash Kumar of Noorwala road, Ludhiana.
Those booked also include two inmates lodged in jail and a man who runs a tea-stall at Ludhiana court complex.
According to the police, the ASI and the tea-stall owner Anwarul, who runs a tea stall at Ludhiana court complex, used to supply drugs inside the jail when inmates would come for hearings at the court complex. They would sell drugs to other inmates inside jail and the two booked inmates would act as their couriers.
The racket was busted after 600 intoxicating pills were recovered from one of the booked inmates, officials said.
STF also claimed the recovery of 110 grams heroin from the house of Mohammad Anwarul.
The police said that 600 intoxicating pills were recovered from Bunty inside the jail on September 15.
During his interrogation he revealed, that ASI Balvir Kumar, who used to accompany inmates to the court complex for hearings, was in touch with many inmates.
Anwarul used to hand over the contraband to the ASI, who would further give them to inmates. The inmates used to hide the contraband in their body cavities and used to smuggle them in jail.
The STF is further investigating the case to identify more person suspected to be involved in the racket.
The accused have been booked under the section 22 of NDPS Act and 52 of Prisons Act.
