Mohali Resident Arrested With Heroin

Panchkula Police arrested former state-level kabaddi player Rashpal Singh alias Lali after recovering 538 grams of heroin from his vehicle near Pyarewala village. (tribuneindia.com) The Crime Branch Sector-26 team stopped him at a checkpoint on the Raipur Rani-Naraingarh road and registered a case at Raipur Rani police station under Section 21C of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. (tribuneindia.com) Police said the seized heroin had an estimated market value of Rs 1.05 crore. They told the court they needed custody to identify the main supplier and map the rest of the network. (tribuneindia.com) Rashpal was produced in court on April 24, 2026, and first remanded to three days of police custody. Investigators later obtained another four-day remand after saying he had shared information about his supplier. (tribuneindia.com) Police described him as a former state-level kabaddi player with two criminal cases already registered in Punjab, including attempted murder and fraud. They said he had been bringing heroin from Punjab and supplying it in the Panchkula area. (tribuneindia.com) The arrest also connects to an earlier Punjab case. On January 15, 2025, Tarn Taran Police identified Rashpal Singh of Bhai Ladhu village in a separate heroin case involving a 5-kg seizure. (tarntaran.nic.in) In that case, Punjab Police said Rashpal was in contact with Pakistan-based smugglers and that drones were being used to push drug consignments across the border. A case was registered at Sadar Patti Police Station under FIR No. 06 dated January 15, 2025. (tarntaran.nic.in) Panchkula Police said they expect more arrests as raids continue at locations linked to the supplier chain. The case now sits at the intersection of a local street-level seizure and a wider cross-border trafficking investigation. (tribuneindia.com) (tarntaran.nic.in)