Ludhiana: The Ludhiana unit of Special Task Force (STF) arrested a quack and his accomplice for peddling drugs on Tuesday.
STF officials said besides smuggling heroin, the accused also prepared narcotics powder at the clinic. The cops have recovered 1.5kg heroin, 10kg chemical powder and eight bottles of a liquid chemical from their possession. The recovered heroin is worth Rs 7.50 crore in the international market.
The arrested have been identified as quack Ajay Kumar, 30, of Mahadev Nagar, and his aide Davinder Singh, 43, of Uttar Pradesh. His other accomplices who are on the run are his namesake Ajay Kumar and Malti Parsad Verma of Uttar Pradesh.