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| J&K cadre Ex IPS officer gets 15 years jail in 2009 Drug Case | | | Agencies
Mumbai, Aug 19: A special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances court in Mumbai on Monday convicted former Jammu and Kashmir cadre IPS officer Saji Mohan and his bodyguard in a 2009 drug peddling case. The court, meanwhile, acquitted one person who was accused in the same case.
The special NDPS court in Mumbai sentenced Saji Mohan to 15 years rigorous imprisonment while his bodyguard was sentenced to 10-year rigorous imprisonment.
Saji Mohan was arrested by the ATS in the year 2009 with 44 kilograms of drugs, including 12 kilograms of heroin. He was then posted with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as a deputy director in Kerala.
Before being posted in Kerala, Saji Mohan was the zonal director for Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Chandigarh where he was allegedly involved in pilferage of seized narcotics by the agency and also had links with several major drug kingpins.
The Maharashtra ATS recovered another 25 kilograms of high-end heroin from his residence.
During the investigation, it came to light that Saji Mohan had mixed some lime and other material to originally seized contraband stored in the Malkhana of Chandigarh NCB.
Mohan was also allegedly found involved in a pilferage case and a local court in Chandigarh sentenced him to 13 years in prison in the year 2013.
A veterinary doctor by education, Saji Mohan is the son of an Army officer who has been awarded President's Gallantry medal and had also served in the United Nations for a brief period with the peacekeeping forces. |
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