Kulwinder Sandhu
Tribune News Service
Moga, November 2
The Moga police on Tuesday recovered 90 bags (20Kg each) of poppy husk, weighing 1,800 kg, from a godown situated at Badduwal bye-pass in Dharamkot town of Moga district, SSP Surinderjit Singh Mand confirmed here, on Tuesday.
The police have also impounded a truck and a Mahindra Xylo car from the godown.
The SSP said that police teams seized some quantity of the poppy husk from these vehicles and booked 11 people, including Pippal Singh of Daulewala village, the kingpin of drug smugglers who has been operating from the jail. He was serving 30 years sentence in jail under NDPS Act, the SSP said.
The other 10 drug smugglers had been identified as Inderjit Singh alias Labha, Minna Singh, Rasaal Singh alias Nannu, Karamjit Singh alias Karma, Gurjinder Singh alias Motu, Jugraj Singh alias Joga, Lakhwinder Singh alias Kakku, Paramjit Singh alias Pamma, and Buta Singh, all residents of village Daulewala and Mangal Singh of Mandar village.
However, none of them had been arrested from the spot, the SSP said while adding that further investigations were on and all the identified drug smugglers would be arrested soon.
Meanwhile, an FIR under sections 15, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act has been registered against all of them at the Dharamkot police station.
It may be mentioned that Daulewala village is notoriously known for drugs.
Hundreds of cases under the NDPS Act had already been registered against villagers. At least, 400 residents of the village, including 50 women, had been booked in the past 10 years.
Police recover 18-quintals poppy husk from Moga, 11 booked
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