COURT ACQUITS NRI RAJA KANDOLA IN DRUG CASE

JALANDHAR: A special court has acquitted the infamous kingpin of an international drug racket, NRI Ranjit Singh alias Raja Kandola, in a drug case here on Tuesday.

Kandola, Sukhwinder Singh, Amandeep Singh and 9 other persons were booked under Sections 21 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, in an FIR registered on June 2012 by Garhshankar police.

A synthetic drug was recovered from Sukhwinder’s house. The court sentenced him to five years imprisonment and Amandeep to three years and the remaining 9 were released.

Kandola was first arrested in June 2012 by Jalandhar rural police and is also facing a case of recovery of ‘Ice’ party drug worth more than ₹200 crore.

He has been facing a dozen cases under the NDPS Act, money laundering and other charges.

Kandola shifted to the United Kingdom in the late 1990s and became rich overnight after he fell into the drug trade there, said police.he was allegedly running a racket of manufacturing ‘Ice’ from methamphetamine and ephedrine in India and was getting heroin supplies from Pakistan for smuggling to Delhi and abroad.

He owns properties across Punjab, the UK and the USA, and many of his properties have already been attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in cases of money laundering.

KANDOLA IS ALSO FACING A CASE OF RECOVERY OF ‘ICE’— A PARTY DRUG — WORTH MORE THAN ₹200 CRORE AND A DOZEN CASES UNDER THE NDPS ACT