Thirty-six-year-old Parwinder Singh ‘Jhota’, an anti-drug crusader in Punjab’s Mansa district, was on Monday evening released from the Muktsar Jail, after the Mansa Police, for the second time in the past six months, discharged him in one of the cases they had registered against him in the course of his “anti-drug campaign”. Mr. Singh came back to his home in Mansa district the same evening to a crowd of supporters.
The case that Mr. Singh was discharged in was related to an incident on April 22. He had got a minor boy to purchase an unauthorised dosage of pregabalin tablets from a pharmacy. When the boy brought the tablets back, Mr. Singh and his supporters went to the chemist and asked him to not sell such drugs. He then took back the ₹400 the child had given to purchase the drugs.
This had resulted in the Mansa Police booking him for extorting the chemist of ₹400.
