हिंदी
Chandigarh, Feb 18 2022
The Haryana Police has succeeded in getting the orders to freeze properties worth over Rs 5.08 crore belonging to two drug peddlers and their family members claiming that they earned the property through the narcotics trade.
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Sharing the information here today, a Haryana Police spokesperson informed that the competent authority in New Delhi under the NDPS Act had ordered to freeze the movable and immovable property of accused Sahab Singh and Surinder, both residents of district Karnal.
Police have requested the competent authority to freeze the property of both peddlers worth Rs 7.72 crore. Orders have been confirmed by the Authority to freeze movable and immovable properties worth Rs 5,08,55,113 out of the total assets of both the accused. The order includes movable and immovable property worth Rs 2,12,24,113 of accused Surinder and property of Rs 2,96,31,000 of another accused Sahab Singh.
As per the orders, the alleged peddlers would not be able to sell their property to anyone and could not transfer or gift the same to anyone. Several cases under NDPS Act had been registered against both accused in other states also.
In the first case, Sahab Singh, a resident of Chogama village was earlier arrested in 2009 with 360 kg of chura post and was sentenced to 10 years and a penalty of Rs one lakh was imposed on him. He was later arrested in 2016 with 3.5kg of opium. In this case, he was sentenced to 15-years and a penalty of Rs 1.5 lakh was imposed. In the third case, his son Gurjant Singh was arrested in January 2022, with 3 kg of opium and a vehicle.
In another case, Surinder Singh, a resident of Dera Bhikiwala in Nissing, was frozen. He was arrested in 2006 with 4,051 kg of chura post. He was sentenced to 12 years of jail along with a penalty of Rs 1.5 lakh. Later, the police had arrested him in 2021 with 130 kg of chura post and a vehicle.
