Fatehgarh Sahib (Punjab): Boxer Ram Singh, arrested in connection with the massive drug haul last month, was on Tuesday remanded in judicial custody till April 23 by a local court. Singh, sparring partner of Olympian Vijender Singh, was produced before the court after expiry of his two-day police remand.
He was the 16th accused who was arrested following recovery of 26 kgs of heroin worth over Rs 100 crore from the house of a Canada-based NRI Anoop Singh Kahlon at Zirakpur in Mohali.
Singh was arrested by Fatehgarh Sahib police for his close links to his brother-in-law Ravicharan alias Ravi Deo. Police had claimed to recover 5 kg methamphetamine from Ravi Deol's Sangrur house recently.
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08:09 PM, Apr 09, 2013
In a setback for the Punjab Police investigating the Mohali drug haul case, the district attorney of Fatehgarh Saheb on Monday advised its probe team against collecting blood and hair samples of boxer Vijender Singh. The police had earlier on Monday collected the blood and hair samples of boxer Ram Singh and had sought a legal opinion from the district attorney about taking samples from Vijender. ...
05:16 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Punjab Police claimed the value of drugs seized from alleged NRI narcotics dealer Anoop Singh Kahlon's house was to the tune of Rs 484 crore. Citing the figure given by Kahlon and Kulwant Singh, who were arrested by Fatehgarh Sahib police in the heroin seizure case, police said the wholesale price of the seized drug in the international market was Rs 121 crore and its retail price was approximately Rs...
10:07 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Six police personnel, including a woman, were on Monday killed and eleven others sustained injuries in a road accident near village Lohari, 10 km from Fatehgarh Sahib, police said. ...
01:44 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Vijender Singh, the first Indian boxer to win an Olympic medal, is in trouble along with another boxer Ram Singh after Punjab Police arrested drug peddler Anup Singh Kahlon, who in a shocking allegation claimed that the two sportsmen were his clients. ...
08:58 PM, Mar 08, 2013
A police official has now said that no link has been found so far between boxer Vijender Singh and the drug haul in Mohali. SSP, Fatehgarh Sahib, Hardayal Mann Singh said that the investigations "till now did not reveal Vijender's connection to the drug deal". He, however, added that whoever is involved will not be spared. "We will call Vijender for interrogation if needed," he said. ...
05:15 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Fatehgarh Sahib: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two youths on separate occasions, police said on Thursday. The victim, a Class X student in Bhaironpur village in Fatehgarh Sahib, was allegedly called by one Jagtar Singh at her school premises where he allegedly raped her. Promising marriage, Singh took the victim to Gurdwara Sri Fatehgarh Sahib but abandoned her there. She met one Romi, a resident of Ariya Majra...
04:15 AM, Oct 05, 2012
