Punjab woman ex-MLA held while selling drugs

Satkar was down the wheels of a luxury car and had travel to present the heroin aft Jaskeerat, arriving successful a abstracted vehicle, had archetypal collected the payment. The woody had been fixed for Rs 2.5 lakh.

A constabulary unit besides sustained wounded erstwhile his feet came nether car’s tyres arsenic Satkar allegedly tried to flee. She besides allegedly deed and damaged the car of a “witness”, portion trying to flee.

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.

At the clip of the filing of this report, constabulary were carrying retired searches astatine her Sunny Enclave residence successful Kharar from wherever they recovered different 28 grams of heroin isolated from Rs 1.56 lakh successful currency and immoderate golden ornaments. Jaskeerat, a nonmigratory of Ferozepur’s Behbal Khurd village, had been residing astatine the ex-MLA’s residence, Gill said.

Addressing a property conference, Gill said constabulary besides recovered 4 vehicles and respective registration plates of Delhi and Haryana, indicating that these were being utilized successful the cause proviso racket.

The ANTF assertion to person successful their possession telephone recordings wherever erstwhile MLA is allegedly caput discussing merchantability of drugs and the ‘purity’ of the contraband smuggled from crossed the border.

IG Gill told reporters that the anti-narcotics task unit received reliable inputs from a source, who claimed that helium had been purchasing drugs from Satkar and alleged that the erstwhile MLA was putting unit connected him to commencement selling drugs.

“The root besides gave telephone recordings to the ANTF, which intelligibly indicated that cause income were being discussed,” IG Gill said, added that helium besides gave 2 numbers, which were enactment nether surveillance. “During surveillance it emerged that Satkar and Jaskeerat were talking astir merchantability of drugs,” helium said.

Acting connected the information, an cognition was planned and the “source” was sent to a predetermined determination arsenic a decoy to bargain the drugs from the accused. As the erstwhile legislator arrived to present the drugs, constabulary teams moved successful and apprehended her.

During the operation, a policeman besides sustained injuries erstwhile Satkar tried to fly “and the tyre of the car ran implicit his foot”.

He said a lawsuit nether sections 21 (Punishment for contravention successful narration to manufactured drugs and preparations) and 29 (Punishment for abetment and transgression conspiracy) of NDPS Act has been registered successful Mohali and much sections would beryllium added successful transportation with the wounded sustained by the policeman, Gill said.

In 2012 Punjab elections, Congress had fielded Satkar from Ferozepur Rural spot and Rahul Gandhi had addressed a rally successful her favour. However, she had mislaid the predetermination by 160 votes to Joginder Singh Jindu of Shiromani Akali Dal whom she went connected to decision successful 2017 election. In 2022, aft Congress denied her ticket, she joined BJP.

Reacting to the development, AAP person Neel Garg slammed the Congress and the BJP, alleging that it was different illustration of “how profoundly these parties are progressive with the cause smugglers”.

Garg accused the Congress, BJP and Akali Dal of perpetuating cause smuggling successful Punjab.

“The roots of cause trafficking are heavy successful Punjab, and these parties person turned a unsighted oculus to the demolition caused by addiction,” helium claimed.

Satkar and her hubby Jasmail Singh alias Ladi Gehri were arrested by the Vigilance Bureau successful a disproportionate assets lawsuit successful September 2023. They remained successful judicial custody astatine Mansa cardinal situation for 114 days earlier the Punjab and Haryana High Court granted them bail successful January this year.

As per the Vigilance Bureau probe, Satkar allegedly spent 170% much than her known sources of income ever since she was elected an MLA successful 2017. As per the investigators, “When Satkar was elected arsenic a legislator, she and her hubby had assets worthy 27.05 lakh. After the allegations of corruption, the Vigilance Bureau checked the income and expenditure details of the ex-MLA and her hubby from April 1, 2017, erstwhile she was elected from Ferozepur Rural to adjacent 5 years till March 30, 2022.”

On June 7 this year, a Ferozepur territory tribunal framed charges against them.