Former Firozpur Dehat MLA Satkar Kaur and her nephew Jaskirat Singh, arrested in drug smuggling, were produced in Mohali district court on Thursday. Before the appearance, Anti Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) conducted dope test of both of them, in which Jaskirat’s dope test came positive and former MLA Satkar’s negative.
ANTF Inspector Ram Darshan Sharma, after getting the medical done, reached the court with both the accused. ANTF sought 7 days police remand of the accused from the court. After hearing the arguments, the court approved one-day police remand. Now the accused will be presented in the court again on Friday.
During the appearance, the court was told that no female policeman was present at the time of Satkar Kaur’s arrest. On this the court reprimanded ANTF. ANTF argued in the court that the links with drug smugglers of the accused former MLA have to be found out. Besides, five number plates with Haryana and Delhi numbers recovered from the MLA’s house also have to be ascertained to which vehicles they belong.
Inspector Ram Darshan told that the WhatsApp records of accused Satkar Kaur will be available in three days which he will verify. Said that the four luxury cars found from the house of the accused are registered in the names of BMW, Fortuner, Verna and Chevrolet, information about this has been sought from the AUTO. The mobile phone recovered from the former MLA’s house will also be sent to the forensic lab for investigation. On the other hand, Jaskirat told during interrogation that he was called to Kharar 20 days ago and was offered a salary of Rs 15,000 and a room to stay.
This is how the former MLA was caught
Anti Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) had arrested former Firozpur Dehat MLA Satkar Kaur while smuggling heroin near Boothwala Chowk in Kharar. Satkaur Kaur was Congress MLA from Firozpur Dehat from 2017 to 2022. 28 grams of chitta, cash and jewelery worth Rs 1.56 lakh were recovered from Satkar Kaur’s house. This action was taken on the complaint of a youth. The youth had reached Mohali’s STF police station a few days ago with a complaint.
He had alleged that a woman was forcing him to smuggle #. He himself also used to take drugs. The young man had also given some call recordings of the woman to the STF. After this the matter reached ANTF. ANTF made a call from the complainant and demanded drugs from the former MLA. As soon as the former MLA arrived with her nephew Jaskirat to supply drugs, ANTF arrested her. While trying to escape, Jaskirat ran the car over the feet of a policeman.
