In Chandigarh, a smuggler who had escaped outsmarting the Punjab Police has been caught red-handed: he opened his handcuffs under the pretext of going to the bathroom and then threw red chili powder in the eyes of the police officers.

In the case of the recovery of nearly half a kilogram of heroin in Khanna, Punjab, Deepak Thapa, a resident of Sector-38, Chandigarh, outsmarted the police team from Khanna CIA and absconded. The Khanna CIA team had reached his house in Sector-38 on Friday evening with the accused. According to the police, before the search for recovering heroin began at the house, Deepak claimed that he needed to go to the bathroom. He asked the policemen to untie his handcuffs. As soon as...