A local court has sentenced two drug peddlers to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment after finding them guilty of conscious possession of 350 gm of heroin. The court has also imposed a fine of ₹1 lakh each on the convicts.

On December 11, 2019, the Ludhiana unit of the Special Task Force (STF) arrested two accused, Kapil Shelly of Bank Colony of Jamalpur and Raja of Amritsar, for drug peddling and recovered 350 gm of heroin from their possession. A case under Sections 22 and 29 of the NDPS Act was registered against the accused at police station Moti Nagar.

Sub-inspector Gurcharan Singh said that a case under section 21-61-85 of the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act has been registered against the accused at the Tibba police station. He said that the hunt is on to arrest his associates who were also involved in the crime.