28 February,2009 10:52 AM IST | | IANS
A man hs been arrested here for possessing 1.032 kg of heroin valued at Rs.10 million in the international market, police said Friday.
Deepak Pandey, a resident of Jalandhar in Punjab, was arrested from Haiderpur Bridge in Samaipur Badli, where he had come to deliver the consignment Thursday.
"During interrogation, Pandey said he is a bootleggar and had been arrested by the Punjab police in a number of cases. He was also involved in a murder case. He said in order to earn easy money he took to drug trafficking," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar said.