Jalandhar, March 2 -- The Jalandhar rural police have arrested a drug peddler on the run for the past 15 years during a state-wide cordon and search operations (CASO) on Saturday.

The accused identified as Ravinder Rana was arrested from Aadi village in the Nakodar sub-division. He had escaped from the Narcotics Crime Bureau (NCB) in 2010. Police also recovered 100gm from his possession.

Senior superintendent of police Harkamal Preet Singh Khakh said Rana has been evading arrest since 2010 after he escaped from the NCB custody while he was being brought to Amritsar from Karnal in Haryana for further investigation in the heroin recovery case.

"He was declared a proclaimed offender (PO) since then and the NCB had also announced a bounty ...