Two bus passengers caught with 10.5kg of charas at Kala Amb
Police checking buses at the Kala Amb border post on 17 November 2011 found 10.5kg of charas in the luggage of two passengers, Mukesh Kumar and Lalita Devi. Both were arrested and booked under the NDPS Act; the pair said they were travelling from Katra to Haridwar.
🇮🇳 Kala Amb border post, Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh · India
Police stopped an interstate bus at the Kala Amb border post with Haryana on 17 November 2011 and found 10.5kg of charas in a bag carried by two of its passengers.[1][2]Security had been tightened in the area because senior BJP leader L. K. Advani’s Rath Yatra was passing through, and officers were routinely checking buses at the border post when they grew suspicious of the couple’s bag.[1][2]
Investigating officer Ranjit Singh named the pair as Mukesh Kumar, 51, and Lalita Devi, 35, and said both were arrested with the contraband the same day.[1][2]The bag held candles of charas wrapped in polythene sheets, covered with newspaper and sealed with cello tape.[1][2]
The two told police they were coming from Katra in Jammu and were headed to Haridwar.[1][2]Police booked the pair under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.[2]
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Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The two Hill Post accounts disagree on Mukesh Kumar's residence, given as Bhadaryan in Maharashtra in the first report and as Mumbai in the week roundup.
No court outcome was published in the opened sources.
Both opened accounts come from the same newspaper, so no fully independent second outlet confirms the details.
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