24 bank accounts with amount reaching RS.7.09Cr, Two lockers belonging to accused already frozen
Police teams also seized Rs.1.49CR in cash, 260GM of gold & 515 Dirhams
Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, September 13-
Punjab Police’s Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) has arrested Drug Inspector Shishan Mittal for his involvement in facilitating drug smuggling operations connected to illegal pharmaceuticals, medical stores and laundering the drug money in the benami accounts in names of his relatives, said DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Friday.
The development came about a month after Punjab Police freezing 24 bank accounts— with total amount reaching to Rs 7.09CR— linked to the accused Drug Inspector, besides, seizing a huge cash and foreign currency during series of coordinated raids conducted at different locations in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. In addition to this, two bank lockers were also seized.
DGP said that following through a combination of advanced technical surveillance and human intelligence, police teams from ANTF, headed by Special DGP Kuldeep Singh, have apprehended Drug Inspector Shishan Mittal from Aerocity in SAS Nagar. He said that that preliminary investigation suggested that the accused drug inspector had been regularly in touch with drug smugglers lodged inside the jail and facilitated their drug network outside.