A Tarn Taran-based drug peddler was caught with 150 gm heroin in the area under the Phase-1 police station on Monday.
The accused, Kuldeep Singh, alias Keepa Thekedar, was arrested through a joint operation of the Rupnagar anti-narcotics-cum-special operation cell and Mohali police.
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Police had received a tip-off that he was in Mohali to supply a drug contraband.
Following recovery of the heroin, he was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act at the Phase-1 police station.
He was previously also booked in an NDPS Act case by the Tarn Taran police.