Drug smuggler's pharmacist associate arrested
Chandigarh, March 11 : Police have arrested a pharmacist who used to conduct authenticity tests of drugs for international drug smugglers from Ludhiana in Punjab, police sources said.
Sunil Katyal, a resident of Naseeb Avenue, was an alleged associate of smuggler Anoop Singh Kahlon who was arrested with a huge quantity of heroin from Mohali near here March 7.
"Katyal, who works with a private pharmaceutical company, had taken drugs many times to his owner's laboratory to test their authenticity. He was getting a commission for his job," a police official said.