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Two weeks after the Bathinda court sentenced a Faridkot block-level Akali leader to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment for smuggling opium, police on Tuesday evening arrested his relative, who had come to meet him in central jail, for possessing 175 narcotic tablets.
According to police, Darshan Singh, who had come to visit Sadhu Singh in jail, was found carrying 175 sedative tablets used by drug-addicts. While Darshan was arrested in a criminal case, the FIR lodged in Civil Lines police station said the pills were “meant for jailed Akali leader Sadhu Singh”.
On February 13, Bathinda’s court of additional district and sessions judge also slapped a fine of Rs 1 lakh on Sadhu in the infamous opium smuggling case. In July 2007, police had arrested Sadhu — a close relative of senior SAD leader from Kotkapura — and three others for smuggling 4 kg opium.
According to police, Darshan Singh, who had come to visit Sadhu Singh in jail, was found carrying 175 sedative tablets used by drug-addicts. While Darshan was arrested in a criminal case, the FIR lodged in Civil Lines police station said the pills were “meant for jailed Akali leader Sadhu Singh”.
On February 13, Bathinda’s court of additional district and sessions judge also slapped a fine of Rs 1 lakh on Sadhu in the infamous opium smuggling case. In July 2007, police had arrested Sadhu — a close relative of senior SAD leader from Kotkapura — and three others for smuggling 4 kg opium.
