Drug network key player arrestedMohit Khanna/TNS
Wednesday, 30/10/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20131030/punjab.htm#17
Ludhiana : The Ludhiana Police has nabbed Pawan Goel, the kingpin of a habit-forming drug racket, from Moga. He was today produced in court and sent to four-day police remand.
Goel had been on the run for the last one month after the police raided his godowns at Transport Nagar, shops in Pindi Street, and a factory at Baddi in Himachal Pradesh.
The police have so far recovered habit-forming drugs worth Rs 10 crore during a search at Goel’s Baddi factory. The chemicals were enough to make 10 lakh doses of high performance drugs.
Police Commissioner Paramjit Singh Gill said Pawan Goel was the key player in the habit-forming drug network in the state. He said efforts were now on to arrest Goel’s son, Nitin.
Gill said the father-son duo had floated bogus companies, including Goel Sales Corporation, Shri Krishna Agency and Atlas Pharmaceutical, and were procuring habit-forming drugs from pharma companies in Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Himachal.
Nitin and Pawan Goel had fled Moga and allegedly started operating from Pindi Street near Chaura Bazar here after they were booked in a similar case in 2006.
