After avoiding arrest for three years in Rajasthan, a drug supplier disguised as an ascetic was apprehended.

Purna After three years of eluding capture, Ram Sharma, a major player in the drug supply network in Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, was apprehended by the authorities. For three years, the police were looking for Sharma, who was dressed in black robes and pretended to be a “ascetic.” When a heroin racket was busted in March 2023 and three individuals—Navin, Tarachand, and Surendra—were found in possession of 115 grams of heroin valued at Rs 46 lakh, his name was brought up. Special teams were established to apprehend Sharma, but he eluded them for years. A tip-off brought the Hanumangarh police to Purna, who had a Rs 5,000 reward on his head, when he returned to Alinabad, Haryana.The arrest’s lead investigator, Inspector Subhash Kachchava of the Hanumangarh town police station, claimed that Sharma was a supply chain link and had probably bought drugs from nearby Punjab to resell in Hanumangarh. He resided in a number of temples, such as the occult-practicing Kaal Bhairav temple in Varanasi, the Tarapeeth temple in West Bengal, the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati, and the Ujjain temple in Madhya Pradesh.