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Hamirpur Police Busted Chitta Racket Run From Salon
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News18•13-10-2026, 09:35
Hamirpur Police Busted Chitta Racket Run From Salon
- •Police recovered 30.43 grams of chitta worth lakhs from a rented room in Krishna Nagar, Hamirpur.
- •The accused, identified as Akash Deep Singh from Amritsar, was working at a local salon but operated a drug trade.
- •Authorities are interrogating the suspect to trace his associates and the intended recipients of the drugs.
- •In a separate incident, a woman was caught attempting to smuggle heroin to her husband inside the Hamirpur sub-jail.
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Acting on a tip-off, police raided a rented house in Krishna Nagar, Hamirpur, and seized 30.43 grams of chitta (heroin) from a salon worker named Akash Deep Singh.
The accused has been identified as Akash Deep Singh, a resident of Maqboolpura, Amritsar, Punjab, who had been working at a salon in Krishna Nagar for a long time.
A woman was caught attempting to deliver chitta to her husband, an undertrial prisoner named Sanjeev Kumar, by concealing the heroin inside a pair of pants during a clothing inspection.
