28 January,2009 07:16 AM IST | | J Dey
The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) is closing in on the Narcotics Control Bureau's (NCB) Intelligence Officer (IO), who had arrested drug trafficker Baljinder Singh and his son Amrik, and reportedly seized about 75 kg of heroin or 'white' from them, in September 2007 in Chandigarh.
The 12 kg heroin that was recovered from disgraced IPS officer Saji Mohan on the day of his arrest is believed to have been stolen by the IO from the seized drug consignment. The IO was working at the behest of Saji Mohan.
Mohan was posted as the joint director of NCB at Chandigarh when Amrik and his son were arrested in October 2006.
The drugs recovered by Mohan should either have been sealed or kept in safe custody or destroyed with the permission of the NDPS trial court.
NCB officials in Chandigarh have been asked to interrogate the IO before Mumbai ATS officials arrest him, and all NCB officials involved in the Baljinder case are now under the police scanner.
AT S sources said it was while Saji was posted in Doda in 2006 that he contacted Singh, and continued to cultivate Singh even after he was posted as joint director NCB in Chandigarh. Saji, for reasons not yet clear, got Singh arrested in 2006. Saji's drug racket was exposed after two of his agents, Vicky Oberoi (57), and Rajesh Kumar (30), were arrested on January 17.
