Female arrested on drug charges from Toronto based flight freed

Amritsar: In a significant development sleuths of (directorate of Revenue Intelligence) DRI Monday let off the female
Harinder Kaur (58) who was yesterday arrested along with her husband Raminder Singh (60) for carrying 3.73 kilograms heroin drugs worth Rs. 4 crore on board.
DRI official informed that Harinder Kaur during the investigation was found innocent as she was unaware that her husband was carrying drug in his possession and that is why she was let off from the drug charges and freed.
However, Raminder Singh was produced in Amritsar before the (chief judicial magistrate) CJM who sent him in judicial custody in the central jail Amritsar for October 20.
Yesterday, the pilot of Air India's Amritsar- Birmingham flight was asked to abort take off and an elderly NRI couple Harinder Kaur and her husband Raminder Singh off-loaded and later arrested for allegedly carrying narcotic drugs in their baggage worth nearly Rs. 4 crore.
06/10/08 Jagmohan Singh/PunjabNewsline.com

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