Summary:
When it stopped the three seated in the truck were examined and 3.5kg opium was seized from them. HISAR: Additional district and sessions judge D R Chalia has sentenced Balvinder, a resident of Sirsa district , and Saminder and Gurchand, both residents of Punjab, to 10-year imprisonment and fined them Rs 1 lakh for opium smuggling. Two-and-a-half years ago the accused were held with 3.5kg of opiumSadar police station had registered this case on the complaint of ASI Krishna Kumar on September 23, 2016. Following the recovery the three were arrested under the Narcotics Act. In the complaint given to the police, he had said that he was patrolling with his team on September 23, 2016, when he got a tip-off that a truck coming from Delhi was carrying some narcotics.On receiving the information, the team set up a naka near Maharana Pratap Chowk near here and after a while a truck was seen coming from Delhi side and the driver was signalled to stop the truck..