Chandigarh, March 22 -- Convicting a man who was caught with ganja and a pistol in 2023, a local court has sentenced him to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.

Arun Kumar (32) was on his scooter carrying the drug and the firearm when cops, owing to his suspicious behaviour, stopped him near the CTU workshop in Raipur Kalan on September 12 2023. A search resulted in the recovery of 20.3-kg ganja and a country-made pistol, following which an FIR was registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on the statement of an assistant sub-inspector at Mauli Jagran police station. The recovery of such quantity of drug falls under the commercial category, the court noted.

Arun claimed that he was innocent and falsely imp...