Man held for storing sanitisers, 2-ply masks in Jalandhar
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Man held for storing sanitisers, 2-ply masks in Jalandhar
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Jalandhar, April 20The police on Sunday arrested a person for allegedly storing 559 litres of sanitiser and 4,500 two-ply masks.Commissioner of Police (CP) Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said acting on a tip-off that a gang engaged in black marketing of sanitisers is active in the area, the police set up a naka in the Deol Nagar area.“During the checking, a police party led by ASI Rattan Singh found seven cases of 210 sanitisers of 500 ml packing, five cases of 20 bottles of five-litre sanitiser and one case of 4,500 two ply masks from a car. The police arrested driver of the vehicle, identified as Deepak Kumar, who resides in Defence Colony near Khalsa College,” said Bhullar.Thereafter, the police raided his house and seized three cases containing 480 hand sanitisers of 100 ml packing, 2,340 bottles of 100 ml sanitizers and three other cartons of 720 sanitisers of 100 ml from a Skoda car (CH 03 P 1946).A case under Section 188 of IPC, Section 3 of the Epidemic Disease Act 1897, Section 51 of the Disaster Management Act 2005 and relevant section of the Essential Commodities Act has been registered against the suspect.
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The Tribune
Date
2020-04-21