A team of Chandigarh Police late on Thursday recovered heroin worth Rs 20 lakh from Togan barrier of Chandigarh and arrested two people.
A check post near Togan barrier was laid down on a tip off where police arrested two drug peddlers and also recovered 52 gram heroin from their possession.Nitish Kochar and Yogesh Vadhva, were arrested while both were coming on a Bullet motorcycle and tried to escape from the check post. However, a police vehicle followed and nabbed them and recovered 27 gram heroin from Nitish and 52 gram from Yogesh.
During further investigation, both admitted that they got the consignment from a person and were going to deliver it to a client in Chandigarh. Nitish has been identified as a resident of Zirakpur and Yogesh is a resident of Sector-27.Sources said that Nitish was earlier also arrested by Chandigarh Police, few months back, for allegedly kidnapping and threatening a city resident and later bailed out.
“Cases against both the accused have been registered under Section 20 of NDPS Act and both the accused on Friday were produced in district court, where court sent them for one-day police remand,” said Investigating Officer Sukhjinder Singh, posted at PP Dhanas.