An inmate who was surrendering at Model Jail, Sector 51, on Saturday night after getting back from parole was caught smuggling 37.4 gm ganja and 6.1 gm heroin in his footwear.

According to police, Vikram, alias Dubai, was serving a 10-year sentence after being convicted in a Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act case. A resident of Maloya, he was granted parole on February 17.

After his return round 6 pm on Saturday, he was frisked by the warden and the medicine had been recovered from the soles of his footwear.

A case beneath Section 52-A of the Prisons Punjab Amendments Act and the NDPS Act was registered towards him on the Sector-49 police station.

Three held with 3.5 kg ganja in Dera Bassi

Mohali The Dera Bassi police additionally arrested three males after recovering 3.5 kg ganja and 4,000 drug cash from their automobile.

The accused had been recognized as Lakhan Kumar and Imran Khan of Lalru, and Sanju Kumar of Uttar Pradesh.

Police mentioned a patrolling social gathering of Lalru police noticed a Maruti Suzuki Swift parked on the roadside close to the Lalru vegetable market on Saturday. Following suspicion, cops searched the automobile that led to the restoration of the contraband and the drug cash, mentioned Ajitesh Kaushal, station home officer, Lalru police station. The accused had been booked beneath the NDPS Act.