Punjab: Two drug smugglers have been jailed for 12 years and fined ₹1 lakh

Eight years after they were arrested in Amritsar, a special court in Tarn Taran on Friday sentenced two drug smugglers to 12 years in jail and imposed a fine. ₹1 lakh each for smuggling 1.98 kg of heroin. The verdict was pronounced on September 25.

The NDPS special court ruled in a case registered by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Amritsar in 2016 and sentenced the two criminals, Rasal Singh and Jodhbir Singh, to rigorous imprisonment.

On February 5, 2016, the 87th Battalion of the Border Security Force seized 1.98 kg of heroin from the two in Harike and handed it over to the Amritsar NCB for further action. Both suspects were arrested from Van village in Patti subdivision of Tarn Taran district.

“The Amritsar NCB has registered a case against four persons and subsequently filed a chargesheet against them. After the conclusion of the trial, the court found Rasal Singh and Jodhbir Singh guilty on September 25, 2024,” a senior NCB official said. NCB officials refused to identify the other two suspects who are absconding.