A 31-year-old Chandigarh resident, who was caught with 22 vials of restricted injections in Maloya in 2019, has been sentenced to 10-year rigorous imprisonment by a Chandigarh court docket.

The court docket of further district and periods decide Rajeev Okay Beri additionally imposed a superb of 1 lakh on the convict, recognized as Atul, a resident of Dadumajra Colony, Chandigarh.

As per case recordsdata, a police group was patrolling in Maloya one afternoon in August 2019, after they noticed a person strolling alongside the sports activities stadium. On recognizing the cops, the person tried to flee, however a chase ensued and he was caught. On frisking him, police had recovered 11 vials of Avil injections, two of buprenorphine and 9 with none label from his possession.

The man was recognized as Atul, who revealed that these had been intoxicant injections that he used to promote to drug addicts for 400 per vial.

Subsequently, he was booked beneath Section 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act on the Maloya police station.

Before sentencing, Atul pleaded to the court docket that he had misplaced his dad and mom, and had a spouse and three minor youngsters to take care of. He stated he was the one incomes member of the household and had been in custody for lengthy, whereas interesting for leniency.

However, the court docket famous that the character of offense and restoration of economic amount (22.2 gm) of contraband containing buprenorphine from the aware possession of the convict didn’t go away any motive with the court docket to deal with him with leniency, and awarded Atul 10-year rigorous imprisonment.