Shimla, Sept. 23 -- A Special Court in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district has convicted two men in a 2022 heroin trafficking case and sentenced them to one year of rigorous imprisonment each, police said.

The Special Judge-II, Kinnaur, sitting at Rampur Bushahr, convicted Ritij Sharma alias Ritik, 24, and Pranshul, 26, both residents of Nankhari in Shimla district, in a case involving the recovery of 7.19 grams of heroin.

According to police, the case was registered at Rampur Police Station on May 14, 2022, under Sections 21 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

The court, in its order dated September 22, sentenced both convicts to one year of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each. ...