Ferozepur, May 16 -- Ferozepur police have booked three inmates and a Punjab Ex-Servicemen Corporation (PESCO) employee for allegedly smuggling heroin and a mobile phone into the Ferozepur Central Jail.

The accused include inmates Sukhdeep Singh, Gagandeep Singh and Kuljit Singh, besides PESCO employee Gurmit Singh, who has been arrested.

According to officials, the incident came to light around midnight on May 14 when a life imprisonment convict Sukhdeep Singh, a resident of Faridkot, was entering the jail through the "deori" gate. During routine frisking, jail staff allegedly recovered 43 gm heroin from his underwear.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the contraband was allegedly arranged and facilitated by Gurmit Singh, a PESC...