In a significant crackdown towards cross-border narco-smuggling, the Punjab Police mentioned on Saturday it busted “a well-organised heroin trafficking cartel with direct hyperlinks to Pakistan-based smugglers.”
Police mentioned they recovered 6.106 Kg heroin and two bikes throughout the operation.
They mentioned key accused Sarbjit alias Joban, who was working from a border-area village, “is in direct contact with infamous smuggler Rana throughout the border.”
Sarbjit was arrested together with a juvenile, with 1 Kg heroin recovered from them, they added.
“His interrogation results in the arrest of two extra smugglers — Dharam Singh and Kulbir Singh — from Ajnala, with over 5 Kg heroin seized,” police mentioned.
In addition they knowledgeable that FIRs have been registered at PS Airport and PS Chheharta underneath related sections of the NDPS Act.
Earlier on July 24, the Punjab Police performed raids at 400 places, resulting in the arrest of 85 drug smugglers after registration of 60 FIRs throughout the state, Info and Public Relations Division, Punjab mentioned in an official assertion.
With this, the variety of total drug smugglers arrested has reached 23,237 in 145 days, it said. The raids have resulted within the restoration of 1.6 kg of heroin, 1 kg of opium, 8353 intoxicant tablets, tablets and injections and ₹8.09 lakh in drug cash from the possession of arrested drug smugglers.
Notably, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann has requested the Commissioners of Police, Deputy Commissioners and Senior Superintendent of Police to make Punjab a drug-free state. The Punjab authorities has additionally constituted a 5-member Cupboard Sub-Committee, led by the state’s Finance Minister, Harpal Singh Cheema, to watch the struggle towards medication.
