Another suspect nabbed in heroin seizure case

Amritsar, September 14

Day after the arrest of alleged international smuggler Harpreet Singh, alias Happy, the rural police have arrested another suspect in the 40 kg heroin seizure case. A police official identified the suspect as Ranjit Singh, alias Bidi.

Happy was produced in a local court, which remanded him in two-day police custody for further interrogation. Happy was arrested by the city police with 1 kg heroin from the Chheharta area yesterday. DCP Mukhwinder Singh Bhullar said the police would bring his accomplice Hardip Singh on production warrant. Hardip was currently lodged in the Amritsar central jail. He would be interrogated to break the nexus. — TNS