India, Oct. 29 -- The Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) has taken a retired assistant inspector general of police (AIG) Rachhpal Singh into its custody for three days after he was arrested for framing a youth in a 2019 drug case.

This is the second such case in which accused Rachhpal Singh allegedly misused his rank and power as earlier, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had filed a chargesheet against him in a 2017 drug case for fraudulently arresting four people in Amritsar.

ANTF AIG Jalandhar range Jagjit Singh Saroya said it is a separate case in which the special task force (STF) had arrested Amarinderpal Singh of Marhi Tanda village in Gurdaspur district and claimed to have recovered 200g of heroin.

"The FIR related to it ...