Eight arrested with heroin, intoxicants

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, March 1

The police have arrested eight persons in separate incidents and confiscated 477 gm of heroin from their possession on Sunday. Besides, the police also seized over 1,500 intoxicants from two of the accused.

Those arrested were identified as Didar Singh, alias Bunty, of Gumtala, Sumit Bhatia of New Shiv Nagar, Dalwinder Singh, alias Deepu, of Guru Nanakpura, Sanjit Singh, alias Prince of Mohkampura, Vishal of Pandora village in Sultanwind, Mahabir Singh of Sultanwind village, Gursahib Singh of Ladhu Vadda village in Tarn Taran and Rajiv Sharma of the Kot Khalsa area.

Separate cases under the NDPS Act has been registered against the arrested persons, while further investigations are under way to ascertain the source of the contraband and their forward and backward linkages, said the police.

The police confiscated 255 gm of heroin from Didar Singh, while Sumit and Dalwinder were held for possessing 20-gm and 60-gm heroin, respectively. Vickey Looks, an accomplice of Sumit, managed to escape from the spot. Similarly, Sanjit, Gursahib and Rajiv Sharma were nabbed with 40-gm, 60-gm and 42 gm of heroin, respectively. Vishal and Mahabir were arrested with 1,260 and 254 sedative pills, respectively.

Two mobile phones seized from jail inmates

Amritsar Central Jail authorities seized two mobile phones from as many prisoners here on Sunday.

Ajmer Singh, Assistant Superintendent, jail, said that during checking in room number 2 of barrack number 1, the jail staff confiscated a keypad mobile phone from Gurbhej Singh of Dhun Dhae village while another cell phone was seized from Baljinderpreet Singh of Jujhar Singh Avenue in room number 1 of barrack number 1.

A complaint was lodged with the Islamabad police following that a case was registered under Sections 42 and 52-A of the Prisons Act against them. Meanwhile, the police also booked three jail inmates—Amandeep Singh, Skhdev Singh and Baljint Singh— for allegedly quarrelling inside jail premises.