Chandigarh, May 30 -- A local court sentenced a youth, who was arrested while carrying narcotic injections over two years ago, to 10 years of imprisonment on Thursday.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs.1 lakh on the convict, identified as Mani Khurana, a resident of Sector 23.

The case was registered under the NDPS Act at Sector 17 police station on December 9, 2022. According to the prosecution, a team of cops, patrolling near the Circus Ground in Sector 17, had seized 14 injections of pheniramine maleate and as many injections of buprenorphine from Mani.

When asked to produce a valid licence or permission letter for carrying these drugs, he could not show any.

Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Hindustan...