Categories: Ludhiana

Store owner held for drug peddling

Ludhiana: The Special Task Force (STF) arrested a seed store owner for drug peddling and recovered 150 gm heroin, drug money of Rs 2.10 lakh on Monday.
The recovered heroin costs Rs 70 Lakh in the international market.
The accused has been identified as Harminder Singh of Hoshiarpur.
The accused owned a seed store in Village Kot Fatuhi of Hoshiarpur.
The accused is already facing trial in four cases of drug peddling and was convicted in one case.
He came out on bail and again started drug peddling.
Inspector Harbans Singh incharge at STF Ludhiana said that the STF has arrested the accused from the house of his in-laws in Village Khadodi of Hoshiarpur on Monday.
The police had stopped him at a checkpost and recovered contraband from his Maruti Suzuki Brezza car.
Harminder Singh is an accomplice of two drug smugglers Daljeet Singh and Gurpeet Singh, who were arrested by STF on June 17.
The STF had recovered 1.98 KG heroin and Rs 7.50 Lakh drug money from them.
Inspector added, Harminder has confessed that he is into drug peddling for over a decade.
After the arrest of Daljeet and Gurpreet, he had taken shelter at his in-law’s house.
The STF has recovered 2.130 kg heroin and Rs 9.60 lakh drug money in the case so far with the arrest of three accused.

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