chandigarh the crime branch of ut police busted a drug racket with the arrest of three persons including the main drug supplier from himachal pradesh with 854g charas and one countrymade pistolpolice said the accused were identified as rakesh kumar alias rakku 30 a resident of nayagaon shanta kumar 35 a resident of mandi himachal pradesh and sham chand 25 a resident of kullu himachal pradesh rakesh was travelling in a car which was stopped at a crime branch naka near a chowk at sector 123 on may 30 during search police found 854g charas a countrymade pistol along with one live cartridge from the car police produced rakesh before the local court and obtained his 5day police remand during further interrogation the accused revealed that he previously worked as a bouncer and he came in contact with some drug addicts whom he started selling drugs he had been selling contrabands for the last 12 years rakesh claimed rakesh said he used to purchase charas from shanta to sell it among students and his permanent customersthereafter a police team conducted a raid in kulla in hp and arrested shanta kumar shanta later revealed that he had purchased drugs from sham chand in kullu police arrested sham who was the main supplier of charas