Ludhiana, May 6 -- The Ludhiana police on Monday demolished the illegally constructed house of a notorious drug trafficker and convict, who is lodged in a jail, in Transport Nagar. The properties of at least eight drug peddlers have been demolished so far in the city.

The police team along with Ludhiana municipal corporation (MC) reached the house of the convict Lakhan, son of Heera, a resident of Hari Krishna Colony, who is currently lodged in jail serving a 10-year sentence under the NDPS Act. According to police, Lakhan has five separate cases registered against him related to drug trafficking.

Assistant town planner Kuljit Singh Mangat and building inspector Harminder Singh Makkar from the MC, confirmed that the demolished house had...