Punjab cop caught taking chitta by mob, case filed after positive drug test

Visuals from Budhlada town in Mansa district show residents holding on to a visibly embarrassed ASI Sehijpreet and confronting him.Punjab: Police conducted a drug test after being informed of the incident. Chandigarh,Oct 30, 2026 19:57 ISTAn assistant sub-inspector was surrounded and heckled by residents after they caught him consuming heroin in Punjab’s Mansa district. Police registered a case against him after a drug test returned positive.Visuals from Budhlada town show residents holding on to ASI Sehijpreet, who appears visibly embarrassed, and confronting him. They later staged a sit-in demanding strict action against him.SP Narendra Singh said Sehijpreet was undergoing training at Jahan Khelan and had been assigned duty in Budhlada.Police conducted a drug test after being informed of the incident. Following the positive result, a case was registered at Budhlada police station. Further legal action is underway. The incident comes two weeks after a Punjab Police constable deployed on anti-drone duty along the India-Pakistan border was arrested with 15 kg of heroin in Punjab’s Khalra region.The constable, identified as Karamdeep Singh, was arrested in a joint operation by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and the Border Security Force (BSF). Tarn Taran SSP Surinder Lamba told India Today that Singh was off duty when the seizure was made and that further investigation was underway.- Ends(With inputs from Amarjit Singh)