Continuing drive against drug peddling, Dehradun police arrested two persons allegedly involved in supply of narcotics to the youth on Sunday.
Acting on a tip off, Sahaspur police have arrested a person named Dhyan Singh aged 26, resident of Mori, Uttarkashi from Selaqui and recovered three kilogrammes hashish from his possession. Sahaspur police station officer Pankaj Devrani said that accused has admitted his crime in course of interrogation and said that he used to bring hashish from Mori area and was supplying it among labourers of various companies and students of various colleges and universities.
In another case, acting on tip off, lakhibagh police team led by Anil Chauhan have arrested two persons named Vinay Thapa and Ramesh Thapa, residents of Race Course on the charge of carrying narcotics on Friday. Both were arrested from Chandernagar. Police recovered 160 grammes hashish from Vinay Thapa and 150 grammes hashish from Ramesh Thapa. A case under appropriate sections of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act against duo has been lodged in the police station, Kotwali.
In the third incident, Nehru Colony police arrested a person named Rohit Ravinath, a resident of Mothrowala Sapera Basti and recovered 120 gramme hashish his possession. The accused is learnt to have admitted his crime and said that he is unemployed person and used to supply narcotics among the students and youths of the city. He had reached Nehru Colony to supply it but he was arrested before he could supply the contraband.
In Raipur, police arrested a person named Mohammad Aarif, native of Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh) from ladpur, Ring Road and recovered 5.60 gramme smack from his possession on Sunday. Police have also seized his bike as he failed to show relevant documents. A case under section 8/21 NDPS Act has been registered against the accused in Raipur police station, said Raipur police station officer.
In another incident, the Kotwali police arrested a person from Kanwali Road bus stop and recovered 48 quarter bottles of illicit liquor from his possession. In yet another incident related to bootlegging, in Rishikesh, two persons were arrested on the charges of illicit liquor from two different places during vehicle checking drives. The accused have been identified as Shiv Kumar, resident of Nai Jatav Basti, Rishikesh and Satendra Kumar, resident of Mangalore, Haridwar. The police recovered 40 quarter bottles of illicit liquor each from them.