Opium, gold jewellery, cash seized from woman’s locker
116.17 gm of opium, 707.47 gm of gold jewellery worth Rs 21 lakh, Rs 1.91 lakh in cash and documents of 12 properties were seized from the locker of a by the Special Task Force (STF), Mohali. The properties were allegedly bought with drug money. The accused, Sweety was arrested along with her accomplices in December 2017 in a drug peddling case. The accused, her husband Baldev Singh along with aides Rakesh Kumar, Gurpreet Singh, Manoj Kumar, alias Mamu, and Simran Kaur, alias Indu, were arrested on December 6, 2017, in connection with supplying narcotics. They were booked under Sections 21, 29, 61 and 85 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. The police brought the accused on a production warrant from the Nabha jail and opened a locker, registered in her name at a State Bank of India (SBI) branch in Ambala after obtaining permission from the court. “During interrogation, it was found that the accused had hidden drugs and money in a bank locker. The locker was sealed and after obtaining legal permission, the locker was opened yesterday and the haul seized,” STF SHO RD Sharma said. The police said Sweety’s husband Baldev Singh used to peddle opium and was lodged in a Patiala jail. In prison, he came in contact with another notorious peddler, Manoj, alias Mamu, and together they were now running a network from the jail with the assistance of Sweety. The police said Sweety was arrested with 370 gm of heroin. The accused used the proceeds of drug sale to purchase gold and 12 properties, allegedly worth crores, in Ambala. -PTC News
