Jalandhar, Oct. 29 -- A retired assistant inspector general of police (AIG), Rachhpal Singh, was on Tuesday arrested by the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) for allegedly framing a few persons in a drug case. Senior officials, wishing not to be named, confirmed that he had been arrested.

The case dates back to 2017 when the then AIG had claimed to have seized 1-kg heroin from four persons in Amritsar. Investigation officer Jagjit Singh said the matter had been under investigation since then as one of the villagers from Patti district had moved the Punjab and Haryana high court.

Notably, in 2022, the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) had filed a chargesheet against 10 cops, including Rachhpal Singh, while maintaining that the accuse...