Ex-trainer of gym arrested with heroin

Ludhiana | Wednesday | 22nd August, 2018

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Ludhiana: Ludhiana police Special Task Force (STF) arrested a former trainer of a gym with heroin worth Rs 50 lakh on Tuesday.Paramjeet Singh, 30, a resident of Gopal Nagar, Tibba Road, was nabbed on a tip-off. After 100gm heroin was found hidden in its seat, scooterist Paramjeet Singh was arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act,” said Ludhiana STF in-charge sub-inspector Harbans Singh.The sub-inspector said Paramjeet was a school dropout. But for procuring drugs, he used his scooter.”Police are on the look-out for the smuggler who supplied the contraband to Paramjeet.RECENT SEIZURESAugust 17: Three men, Ranjeet Singh, Amandeep Kaur and Harchand Lal, arrested with a kilogram of heroin worth Rs 5 crore.August 7: The former district vice-president of Yuva Anti-corruption Society, Fatehjit Singh, arrested with 500gm heroin worth Rs 2.5 crore.July 29: A Salem Tabri woman, Ruby Bajaj, nabbed with 90gm heroin worth Rs 45 lakh.July 12: Two men, Sukhpreet Singh of Chhawani Mohalla and Vinay Kalra of Bhagwan Das Colony, held with 600gm heroin worth Rs 3 crore. “He told during interrogation that he has studied till Class V and started working as a trainer at a gym near Kailash Chowk in 2011. “A scooter was stopped at a checkpoint in Rajiv Gandhi Colony, near Matro Road, in the morning..