Two police security officers (PSOs) — Naveen Kumar and Devendra Pal — and superintendent Balwinder Kumar from the Chandigarh NCB were being questioned jointly by the ATS and senior officials of the NCB. While Kumar had been named by Saji Mohan, the role of the two PSOs emerged after the investigating agency found that the two had participated in many raids without informing the seniors.

According to Parambir Singh, Additional Commissioner of Police (ATS), the investigating agency will take a definite call on the scope of the investigation after taking legal opinion. “At this stage, it does not emerge if they (the three officials) were involved in pushing the drug. There is, however, reason to believe that they did participate in the diversion of drugs and mixing them at the behest of Mohan.”