Chandigarh, March 9 -- The Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) on Saturday booked suspended Hoshiarpur central jail superintendent Baljit Singh Ghumman, four other jail officials and two inmates for reportedly running a racket for sale of drugs inside the jail. At least three jail officials have been arrested, people familiar with the development said.

Ghuman and four jail officials were suspended on Friday following a probe into the allegations conducted by Roop Kumar Arora, inspector general of police (IGP), prisons. The IGP's report pointed to connivance of certain jail officers with inmates in facilitating a drug smuggler lodged in the Hoshiarpur jail for carrying out drug trafficking.

ANTF's additional director general of police (ADGP...