Jail lab technician held with intoxicating tablets

TNN
Ludhiana: Police on Wednesday arrested an employee of the central jail after intoxicating tablets were recovered from his possession. The accused, identified as Ranjit Singh of Ayali Kalan, worked as a laboratory technician at the jail.
In his police complaint, Jagraj Singh, jail’s assistant superintendent, said when the accused reported on duty at 10.20am on Wednesday, a CRPF official searched him at the entry and recovered a mobile and a packet of 1,750 intoxicating tablets Alprax. The accused had hid the tablets in shoes and turban. The police were informed as the accused had violated the jail rules. Cops from Division seven reached the prison and booked him under the NDPS Act and the Prisons Act.
Investigating officer ASI Rajinder Singh, who is in charge of Tajpur police post of the division, said the accused was arrested and produced before a local court that sent him in one-day police remand. The accused was being questioned about the source of the tablets, he said, adding that it was also being ascertained how many times he took such a consignment inside. Cops said the accused had been working at the jail for the past four years.