Dera Bassi, April 5
The police today claimed to have arrested a New Delhi resident and a mother of two near the Essar petrol pump on the national highway near Lalru and recovered 305gm of heroin from her possession.
The suspect has been identified as Poonam Gupta, wife of a Nigerian resident. She has been booked her under Sections 21-61-85 of the NDPS Act at the Lalru police station on April 1.
She was produced in a court on April 2 and remand in police custody.
During the interrogation, Poonam revealed that she had acquired the substance from a person in Delhi and was to deliver it to another person in Chandigarh, whose search is underway, the police said.
Earlier, a case under the NDPS Act was registered against her in Indore and she was sentenced to 5-years imprisonment.
The suspect is a frequent visitor to Kenya and the police is investigating the case through an international drug trafficking angle. — TNS
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