In a major breakthrough in Punjab Police’s drive against drug trafficking, mastermind and Rajasthan-based Canadian national Devinder Singh alias Dev was arrested on Sunday by Patiala police.
Dev has been sent to police remand till January 14, after he was produced before Patiala Chief Judicial Magistrate on Monday. “Investigations in this massive international synthetic drug racket have revealed that precursor chemicals ketamine, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine were procured by the drug racketeers from Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, etc after diverting from medicinal sectors and smuggled into Canada,” said Patiala SSP HS Mann.
He said that the processing of the precursor chemicals to manufacture synthetic drugs was done mainly in Canada by Chinese and Vietnamese nationals. “It is expected that further investigations into would lead to more arrests and recoveries,” he added.