Chandigarh: A court here yesterday sentenced a senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and his aide to 13 years in jail in a case of pilfering seized contraband.
The IPS officer, Saji Mohan, 44, who was arrested with 12kg heroin in January 2009 in Mumbai’s Oshiwara suburb, was also slapped a fine of `300,000 by the court.
A 1995 cadre IPS officer and a former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director in Chandigarh, Saji Mohan was accused of pilfering contraband, seized from various places in Punjab and Jammu, with the help of his subordinate Balwinder Singh during his tenure in the region.
Balwinder Kumar, a constable with the NCB here and in-charge of the store, was also sentenced to 13 years’ rigorous imprisonment and a fine of `300,000.
The duo were booked by Chandigarh police in March 2009, subsequent to Saji’s arrest by the Mumbai police January that year.
Two others were also sentenced by the court of additional district and sessions judge Shalini Nagapal. IANS
