Sukhdev Singh was apprehended from Peeragarhi on April 27 on a tip off that he would go there to deliver the contraband to a contact, Ashok Chand, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime), said.
He was arrested for the first time at the age of 23 years in Punjab for allegedly possessing five kg of heroin, Chand said.
Singh was earlier involved in four cases under the Excise Act and three drug peddling cases in Haryana and Rajasthan, a case of causing hurt of Haryana and a case of murder of Punjab, he added. PTI SJY