A decoy middleman, a ‘buyer’ from Shimla with bumper apple sale: How Punjab Police laid trap for ex-MLA supplying heroin

Sources successful the constabulary section acquainted with the purported conversations betwixt Kaur and a decoy middleman setup by the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF), said that Kaur told him that she would procure the heroin from a supplier lone erstwhile the purchaser would beryllium acceptable to instrumentality the delivery.

In this speech that took spot up of the proviso day, sources said the “decoy” posed to enactment arsenic middleman betwixt the purchaser who helium told Kaur, was ‘from Shimla” and had wealth to bargain the cause aft the caller “apple harvest season”. Police arrested Satkar Kaur and her nephew Jaskeerat Singh connected October 23 successful the case, recovering 100 grams of heroin, erstwhile she was connected her mode to allegedly proviso the cause successful Kharar. Rs 2.5 lakh was recovered from Jaskeerat which helium allegedly received from decoy middleman.

Investigators said that it was “cut out” modus operandi, wherever 1 idiosyncratic collected the magnitude and different came with drugs to supply, successful 2 antithetic cars. An authoritative said that the cause supplier from whom Kaur “procured the heroin to merchantability it further” had been “identified”. The ANTF authoritative said that prima facie, to debar getting caught with immoderate commercialized quantity, Kaur was not keeping immoderate ample quantity of the cause and ‘procured lone astatine the clip of selling’.

Police said that Kaur was caught with the heroin which she had brought on to merchantability successful a BMW car she drove by herself. A tribunal successful Mohali extended her constabulary remand by 2 days, Friday. Kaur who was produced successful a tribunal and was subjected to a aesculapian introspection Thursday told media that she was “innocent” and had been “falsely implicated” successful the case.

The Anti-Narcotics Task Force, it was learnt, is analysing kaur’s slope transactions. A root said that a fig of “suspected drug” transactions wherever wealth got credited into her slope relationship linked with a unified outgo interface (UPI) were being looked into. The root said among specified transactions, galore were “not of ample sums of amounts”.

The ANTF, root said, was successful process to place and question the persons progressive successful specified ‘suspect transactions’. The ANTF decoy had provided 2 mobile numbers and ‘recordings’ arsenic helium tipped-off ANTF astir Kaur and “her nephew” indulging successful “heroin proviso astatine a monolithic scale”. The decoy told ANTF that helium himself was “a cause addict” and “purchased drugs from the duo for his addiction habit”. The decoy further claimed that the duo “forced him regular to onslaught large cause deals owed to wealth allurement.”

As per the FIR registered successful the lawsuit astatine STF Police Station, Mohali, and accessed by The Indian Express, Kaur was utilizing the mobile fig which was issued successful the sanction of a household subordinate and “which was linked a SBI relationship of Satkar Kaur”. Another telephone fig that was utilized successful cause deals, arsenic per the details successful the FIR, was “in the sanction of Barinder Singh”.

A nonmigratory of Lalle colony successful Ferozepur district, Barinder was besides named arsenic accused successful the FIR. An ANTF authoritative said Barinder was yet to beryllium arrested. The FIR, which was registered nether sections 21 (Punishment for contravention successful narration to manufactured drugs and preparations) and 29 (Punishment for abetment and transgression conspiracy) of NDPS Act successful Mohali connected October 23, work that astatine astir 3:13 p.m. connected October 22, a speech of Satkar Kaur with ‘decoy’ took spot successful which they discussed astir heroin/chitta proviso and its complaint connected phone. This speech took spot connected the fig registered successful Barinder Singh’s name.

It was learnt that the ANTF ‘source’ who acted arsenic ‘decoy’ managed to speech to Satkar Kaur connected a mean telephone telephone which was recorded, connected the pretext that determination was web contented and hence WhatsApp telephone was having distortions. Sources told that ANTF officials were successful full disbelief that ex-MLA herself came to present the heroin. The ANTF had approached Mohali territory magistrate to transportation on 2 autarkic witnesses, immoderate 2 authorities employees, arsenic the constabulary teams laid a trap. An authoritative said that the ex-MLA “made respective rounds successful the car successful the country earlier being nabbed with the heroin”.

After Kaur’s apprehension from Kharar, during hunt astatine her Sunny Enclave residence successful Kharar, constabulary Wednesday recovered different 28 grams of heroin isolated from Rs 1.56 lakh successful currency and immoderate golden ornaments. Police besides recovered 4 vehicles and respective registration plates of Delhi and Haryana and suspected that these were being utilized successful the cause proviso racket.

Kaur was the MLA from the Ferozepur Rural constituency from 2017 to 2022. She joined the BJP successful 2022 aft the Congress denied her a summons to contention the Assembly elections. A time aft his arrest, the Punjab BJP expelled her from the enactment connected Thursday for six years.

Arrest highlights Opp’s relation successful cause crisis: AAP

Reacting to the apprehension of erstwhile Congress MLA from Ferozepur Rural Satkar Kaur successful a drugs case, an AAP spokesperson said that it is different illustration of however profoundly these parties are progressive with the cause smugglers. Satkar Kaur is presently successful the BJP, truthful the AAP besides called retired the BJP to enactment connected this matter. In a connection released to the media, AAP elder spokesperson Neel Garg condemned the relation of absorption parties, Congress, BJP, and Akali Dal, successful perpetuating cause smuggling successful Punjab. He emphasized, “The roots of cause trafficking got heavy successful Punjab, and these parties person turned a unsighted oculus to the demolition caused by addiction.”

Garg highlighted the caller apprehension of erstwhile MLA Satkar Kaur, linking her to cause dealings. He asserted that these governmental figures person historically provided structure to cause traffickers, undermining efforts to combat addiction successful the state. “This is not conscionable a governmental issue; it’s astir the aboriginal of our youth,” helium stated.