Dehradun police has arrested a godman from Dalanwala area on charge of supplying narcotics to the school/college students in the State capital. Police seized cannabis, hashish and other narcotics amounting to around Rs5 lakh from his possession. The accused had confessed to his crime, said DIG/SSP Pushpak Jyoti. The accused was popularly known as Aachar (pikle) Baba among the residents of Dalanwala, Rajpur, Raipur and other areas in the city.
SSP Jyoti said that continuing with the crackdown on drug menace under its Nai Zindigi campaign, the Dalanwala police have arrested a person named Ram Dulare, native of Badaun (Uttar Pradesh) from Nalapani. The accused was living in a rented accommodation in Suman Nagar Rajpur. He was selling pickles, Mango, Gooseberry in various places in the Dehradun. However, under the garb of this, he was supplying narcotics to the school/college students. The police recovered four kg cannabis, 1.25 kg hashish and 97 kg cannabis from his possession when he was arrested by the police. In course of interrogation, the accused said that he was making pauses of cannabis in his rented home and was supplying them among the students in the State capital. The accused’s antecedents are being looked into, he added.