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Hindustan Times
3 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Punjab: Smuggling network busted in Ferozepur: Police apprehend 4; seize 10kg narcotics, drone
The Ferozepur Police have registered four separate cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, arresting four individuals and seizing nearly 10 kilograms of narcotics, a foreign-made drone, and other incriminating items. Ferozepur senior superintendent of police (SSP) Bhupinder Singh Sidhu during a press conference after the seizure on Thursday. (HT) Ferozepur senior superintendent of police (SSP) Bhupinder Singh Sidhu said the operations were carried out over the past few days in coordination with the Border Security Force (BSF), leading to significant recoveries and disrupting cross-border smuggling activity. The police recovered a total of 9.593 kg of heroin, 2 kg of opium, a foreign-made drone equipped with two remote controls, three mobile phones, a computerised weighing scale, a motorcycle and a Maruti Swift car. One of the major seizures occurred near border outpost Shamskee in the Hussainiwala sector, where BSF personnel and police recovered 7.67 kg of heroin. A case has been registered against unknown persons in connection with the recovery. In another joint operation with the BSF, police arrested Jaswinder Singh (21), a resident of Fateh Wala alias Jallo Ke, who was found in possession of 1.407 kg of heroin and a foreign-made drone fitted with dual remote controls — indicating its suspected use in cross-border smuggling operations. Further investigation based on Jaswinder's arrest led to the apprehension of Krishan Singh alias Lala and Varinder Singh, who were found with 509 grams of heroin, multiple mobile phones, a weighing scale, and a motorcycle. In a separate incident, Karandeep Singh alias Karan (24) was nabbed near the Zira-Talwandi t-point, carrying 2 kg of opium, an iPhone, and a Swift car. Juvenile detained with weapon In a parallel operation under the Arms Act, police arrested a 17-year-old boy named Harsh, a resident of Kothi Saiyaan Wala, recovering a country-made pistol along with a magazine from his possession. Preliminary investigation suggests he may have intended to use the firearm for criminal activity. Police further revealed that Krishan Singh alias Lala had previously been arrested in March 2025 in an NDPS case involving 51 grams of heroin, highlighting his continued involvement in the illicit drug trade.
Time of India
3 days ago
- Time of India
Armyman found dead in car, family claims drug overdose; 4 arrested
Patiala: A 28-year-old Army soldier back home on leave was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a car at a sports ground in Khokhran village of Punjab's Chamkaur Sahib in Ropar district on Wednesday. The family of Kuljit Singh of Fatehgarh Viran village in Chamkaur Sahib claimed that he died of a drug overdose, leading the police to arrest four people. A total of 126 grams of narcotic powder was seized from one of them, according to cops. Kuljit left home around 4 pm on Tuesday to buy clothes from Chamkaur Sahib and did not return, according to family members. His body was found the next morning in the driver's seat of a Maruti Swift. Family members claimed that the accused, whom he knew, gave him an overdose of drugs. "I have now come to know what 'chitta' (heroin) is after I lost my son. A woman recently released by the police is still selling heroin in our area. The smugglers openly told me they have no fear of the police," said Arjan Singh, the father of the soldier. Inspector Gurpreet Singh, SHO, Chamkaur Sahib, said initial findings of post-mortem suggested that he died of a poisonous substance, probably drugs. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like This Could Be the Best Time to Trade Gold in 5 Years IC Markets Learn More Undo Three of the arrested are Harpreet Singh of Tappriyan Amar Singh village, Harsimranpreet Singh of Khokhar village, and Harshdeep Singh of Behrampur Bet village. Later, Neeraj Kumar of Sherpur village in Ludhiana was apprehended with 126 grams of narcotic powder in his possession. Neeraj is already facing two cases under the NDPS Act, police said. Police claimed that the accused confessed to Kuljit taking drugs provided by them. A court sent Harpreet Singh and Neeraj Kumar to police custody for two days and the other two to judicial custody. Kuljit, who joined the Army in 2017, was posted as sepoy in Kota, Rajasthan. According to police, Kuljit's wife serves in the Punjab Police and is posted in Jalandhar. The couple has a nine-month-old son. On Wednesday, former Punjab CM and Chamkaur Sahib ex-MLA Charanjit Singh Channi visited the family of the deceased to offer condolences. He said that the govt had made significant claims about countering drugs but has failed to curb their use. Channi said the soldier died due to an alleged administering of drug overdose and accused the police of attempting to suppress the matter by attributing the death to another poisonous substance. MSID:: 122653797 413 |
Time of India
4 days ago
- Time of India
Hyderabad police name nine accused in CPI leader's murder; key suspects still at large
Hyderabad: Police have named nine individuals in connection with the murder of CPI leader K. Chandu Rathod. While a Maruti Swift car used by the suspects to track Chandu's movements was seized from a rental agency in Kothapet, the prime accused remain on the run, having switched off their phones after the killing to evade capture. On Wednesday, police seized the car from a rental agency in Kothapet after identifying its owner in Peerzadiguda through registration details. The owner said that she had leased her car to a rental agency in Kothapet. Police officials confiscated the vehicle from the agency. After committing the crime, the accused fled towards Dilsukhnagar. While three of them got off on the main road, one of the suspects identified as Yedu Kondalu returned the car to the rental agency in Kothapet before absconding. You Can Also Check: Hyderabad AQI | Weather in Hyderabad | Bank Holidays in Hyderabad | Public Holidays in Hyderabad The last known location of the accused was near Nagole metro station. 'They changed two more cars and fled the city. The firearm was supplied by Srinu, an associate of Rajesh. Our teams are trying to locate him. We suspect that Rajesh could be the shooter, but we can confirm only after arresting him. We have rounded up about half a dozen of Rajesh's associates to trace him,' said a south-east zone police official. Investigators also revealed that a week before Chandu's murder, a CPI worker had alerted the family of threats to his life. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giá vàng đang tăng mạnh trong năm 2025 — Các nhà giao dịch thông minh đã tham gia IC Markets Tìm hiểu thêm Undo The alert was reportedly communicated by a girlfriend of Kandula Sudhakar, an associate of Rajesh, to her friend Faimeeda Begum — a CPI worker from Kuntloor — who in turn passed on the information to Chandu and his wife Naribai. In her police complaint, Naribai said, 'One week ago, Sudhakar's lover informed Faimeeda that my husband was under threat from Rajesh alias Rajanna, Sudhakar, Rayudu, and Munna. Faimeeda alerted my husband, but he reassured the party members that nothing would happen to him.' Naribai further alleged that Chandu was falsely implicated in the 2022 murder of MRPS activist Bhanu Chander by Sudhakar, Rayudu, and Munna, all associates of Rajesh. 'In December 2022, Rajesh approached my husband with a proposal to mobilise a 1,000 people to build huts on 100 acres of land in Kuntloor. When my husband rejected the proposal, Rajesh, along with his associates Ravindra Chary and Yadireddy, colluded and began extorting money from the hut dwellers, promising them land registration documents,' Naribai said in her police statement. Based on her complaint, police registered a case under sections 103(1) (murder), 61(2) (criminal conspiracy), 115(1) (voluntarily causing hurt), read with 3(5) (common intention) of the BNS and the Arms Act against Rajesh, Prashanth, Yedu Kondalu, and an unknown person who directly participated in the murder, and Rajesh's associates Sudhakar, Rayudu, Munna, Ravindra Chary and Yadireddy. 'All of the accused are on the run. Our teams are looking for them,' Malakpet inspector P Naresh said.
Hindustan Times
5 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Masking the law: Gurugram cops use tapes and scratches to dodge e-challans
While Gurugram's traffic police cracks down on everyday commuters for missing or improper number plates, a disturbing trend is unfolding within the law enforcement ranks themselves. Several police officials have been spotted driving vehicles with partially covered number plates – often using tape, paper, or even scratches -- to avoid being caught by the city's network of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) and red-light violation detection (RLVD) cameras. Bikes with obscured plates at Traffic tower near Galleria Market in Gurugram. (Parveen Kumar/HT) From the Gurugram Police Commissioner's office to the Traffic Tower in Sushant Lok and the Anti-Corruption Bureau office in Sector 47, vehicles parked at these locations routinely display tampered number plates. Over the past several weeks, HT made repeated visits to these premises and consistently found cars and bikes with masked, folded, or scratched plates, rendering them unreadable to surveillance cameras. Even government vehicles, including police patrol two-wheelers, were seen sporting similar modifications. On Tuesday evening, HT spotted two Haryana Police personnel driving a white Maruti Swift with a Rajasthan registration on MG Road. One of the characters on the rear plate was obscured by masking tape and paper. Some number plates were folded at one end, while others had critical digits scratched out, all in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to avoid triggering e-challans. This comes at a time when the Gurugram traffic police is aggressively penalising ordinary citizens for the very same violations. In June alone, Gurugram police issued 22,215 challans for faulty or missing High-Security Registration Plates (HSRP), collecting ₹2.05 crore in fines, official data showed. Of these, 14,761 were penalised specifically for not upgrading to HSRPs—mandatory plates that make vehicles traceable in the cameras. Yet, there is little evidence that similar zeal is being applied within the police department itself. Many officials appear to be using their position to evade detection—ironically, by undermining the very surveillance systems they are tasked with enforcing. Action if caught: DCP Rajesh Kumar Mohan, DCP (Traffic), said the department has issued clear orders to penalise anyone caught engaging in such violations, even cops. 'I've held meetings with zonal traffic officers and instructed them to impose fines and seize vehicles of officials found using obscured registration plates. Such cases must also be reported to higher authorities for departmental proceedings,' he said. Mohan called the practice 'a blatant violation' of the rules. 'HSRPs help us track criminal elements and enforce traffic rules through automatic challans. If the enforcers themselves flout the law, the system breaks down,' he added. The effectiveness of electronic traffic enforcement relies on a network of over 1,200 surveillance cameras across Gurugram, including 300 ANPR and 115 RLVD units. These are installed at key intersections and roads, with 13 locations. Once an offence is captured, the image is processed by an intelligent traffic management system, which reads the number plate. There, the registered vehicle owner's details are pulled from a national database, and an SMS alert is sent with the challan. But the catch is that this system depends entirely on clear, unobstructed views of vehicle number plates. 'Even if a single digit or letter is obscured the system flags the image as a 'broken plate', and the challan process stops,' said a senior Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) official. Police personnel stationed at the ANPR control room manually screen such images. If a plate is unreadable, the vehicle is excluded from the challan queue. 'Those images are rejected during scrutiny and never make it to the NIC database. As a result, no fine is issued,' the official confirmed. A growing culture of impunity Motorcycles with taped and impartial number plates at Commissionerate building near Sohna Chowk in Gurugram. (Parveen Kumar/HT Photo) Experts working on the city's surveillance network say this method of tampering has grown significantly in the past year. 'Initially, it was limited. But now, we're seeing it almost daily. The troubling part is that police officers are among the worst offenders. They know the system and its loopholes,' said a GMDA contractor associated with the traffic software. He said that enforcement remains largely manual for these cases. 'Unless an officer is stopped on the road and physically checked, they'll get away. And often, being in uniform gives them an easy pass.' What makes this more egregious is that while citizens face steep fines for minor non-compliances – as high as ₹10,000 –those meant to uphold the law appear to be manipulating the very rules they enforce. The absence of disciplinary action or internal accountability mechanisms has emboldened this behaviour, say traffic experts. 'This isn't a loophole, it's a misuse of institutional knowledge,' said an expert on traffic governance.
Hindustan Times
6 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Ludhiana: Relative under scanner in SAD leader's murder: Cops
The Ludhiana police, in collaboration with Jammu police, arrested one of the accused involved in the brutal murder of 65-year-old Kuldeep Singh, a former personal assistant to senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former MP Jagdev Singh Talwandi. The police have revealed that the killing was allegedly orchestrated by a distant relative of the victim, who hired four men to execute the murder over a suspected property dispute. One of the four hired killers in police custody. (HT Photo) The victim, Kuldeep Singh, was murdered on the evening of June 27 near Missing Link-2, Dhandra Road, while returning home from his farmhouse near Gill Bypass. The attackers, travelling in a Maruti Swift, rammed into his vehicle, forcing him to step out. Seizing the moment, they overpowered and bludgeoned him to death using sharp-edged weapons. The shocking assault was partially recorded by a local resident, helping police piece together the sequence of events. During investigation, the police traced the Swift car used in the crime to a local taxi operator. The taxi owner revealed that the vehicle was requisitioned by Inderpal Singh, a resident of Doraha and a relative of the victim. Based on this, the police have named Inderpal in the FIR and suspect a longstanding property dispute as the motive for the murder. Additional deputy commissioner of police (ADCP-II) Karanveer Singh confirmed the arrest of Gurcharan Singh, who is one of the four hired assailants. 'Gurcharan Singh was arrested during a joint operation with Jammu police. He admitted to being involved in the attack but claimed he did not know the main conspirator directly. He said he was in touch with another accomplice who acted as an intermediary,' Singh stated. When questioned about Inderpal Singh's role in the conspiracy, the ADCP said, 'The main conspirator is believed to be a distant relative of the deceased. Whether that is Inderpal is still under investigation. We are actively working to trace and apprehend the remaining suspects involved in the plot.'
