Chandigarh: Man sentenced to 5-yr jail for possessing intoxicated injections

Chandigarh | Thursday | 9th May, 2019

Summary:

The district court of Chandigarh on Tuesday sentenced five-year imprisonment to a 25-year-old Kharar resident for possessing 16 intoxicated injections without a permit. However, going by the arguments and facts of the case, the court held him guilty and sentenced him to 5-year imprisonment. Upon checking, 16 injections, including 8 injections of Buprenorphine (2 ml each) and 8 injections of Pheniramine Maleate (10 ml each) were recovered from his possession. AdvertisingAmanpreet Singh has been sentenced to imprisonment under Section 22 of Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act by the Court of ADJ Sanjiv Joshi. As per the prosecution, the case pertains to November 2, 2017, when the accused was held near Maloya bus stand by the patrolling police team..