Charas inside onions!

Charas inside onions!
Novel way of smuggling drugs into Bathinda jail
Rajay Deep
Tribune News Service

Bathinda, January 10
An ingenious way to smuggle drugs into the jail was unearthed today when officials of the Bathinda Central Jail found four nuggets of charas hidden inside onions, which had been allegedly brought by a woman for two persons lodged there.

The drug had been so well packaged that it made its way across the first checkpoint and reached inside the jail. But at the second stage, jail staff opened the polybag containing onions and found the nuggets hidden in four of the onions. Following this, the jail authorities arrested the woman and recommended the Civil Lines police to book the trio under the NDPS Act.
Meanwhile, finding a serious lapse in security, the jail authorities has suspended security man Jagjit Singh posted at the first checkpoint.
Giving details, Jail Superintendent SS Saggu said Jasvir Kaur, along with her husband Sukhdev Singh and daughter, had come to the visitors’ room at the jail to meet Mann Singh and Jarnail Singh. Both were lodged in the jail since January 6 as they were facing trial in an assault case registered at Bareta on December 30 last year.
She handed over a bag full of vegetables and fruits to the jail staff to take it inside for the two. After this, she returned. “The bag crossed the first security checkpoint but at the second stage inside the jail’s gate, the staff smelt a rat. While checking the bag, security man Niranjan Singh found that charas was hidden in four onions,” said Saggu.
“Following this, we asked Mann Singh to call the woman and her husband over her cellphone to check their whereabouts. As she said she was near the railway station, our jail staff rushed there and arrested them before they could catch a train,’ he added.
He further said: “During interrogation, the woman confessed that she has illicit relations with Mann Singh and had brought the drug for him and his friend. Her husband, Jasvir Singh, also admitted that he knew about their relations. But he feigned ignorance about the presence of charas and claimed that he had come along with her just to take her back home.”
Finding his statement to be true, the jail authorities did not mention his name in a complaint to the Civil Lines police and released him.
SHO (Civil Lines police station) Jaspal Singh said, “We will send the drug for a laboratory test.”