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. “A scooter was stopped at a checkpoint in Rajiv Gandhi Colony, near Matro Road, in the morning. 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. “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. At the gym, he became friends with a client, who introduced him to drugs six months ago.”As he became an addict, Paramjeet found his salary insufficient to meet his drug needs. “The client asked him to peddle drugs to fund his addiction. His first deal was fixed in the gym. While introducing him to the trade, the client not only supplied heroin to Paramjeet in the gym, but also gave an address to deliver it,” the sub-inspector added.As he started raking in money from the drug trade, Paramjeet quit his gym job five months ago.On his modus operandi, the sub-inspector said, “Paramjeet never used his vehicle for peddling drugs. He told that he booked cabs to deliver the contraband to avoid getting traced. And every time, he booked these from a different location. 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.

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