Two drug peddlers brought on production warrant

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 27

Day after the seizure of 16.87 kg of heroin from a taxi driver Ranjit Singh alias Sonu, the police have brought his two accomplices – Ranjit Singh aka Rana and Malkeet Singh alias Laddu – from Faridkot and Sri Mukatsar Sahib jail respectively.

During preliminary probe, it was found that Sonu had brought the consignment after hiding in the specially created cavities in his Innova taxi, on the instructions of Rana and Malkeet Singh. According to police, a mobile was also confiscated from Rana from inside the jail following a tip provided by the Amritsar rural police.

On Thursday, Amritsar rural police following a tip off, had confiscated around 16.87 kg contraband smuggled from Jammu and Kashmir from Ranjit Singh alias Sonu. He was arrested from Madhopur in Pathankot district.

A senior police official privy to the investigations revealed that the mobile phone seized from Rana was taken into custody which was sent to forensic examination.

Sources added that the police had got several contacts reportedly of drug peddlers active in Jammu and Kashmir area and from Pakistan from the phone. The police was also looking into the links of the seized drugs with terrorist organisations.