Amritsar:- Amritsar Rural Police have arrested four alleged drug smugglers in three separate operations carried out along the border belt over the past 24 hours. The police recovered 23.5 kg of heroin and a pistol from their possession.
Acting on specific intelligence inputs and in coordination with the BSF Intelligence Wing, the Lopoke police station team arrested Sukhmanpreet Singh, a resident of Lodhi Gujjar village. The police recovered 13 kg of heroin and a pistol along with a magazine from his possession. The contraband and pistol had been dropped from Pakistan using a drone. According to the police, the accused used to receive heroin and weapons from Pakistani smugglers and supply them to criminal elements. He was apprehended at a checkpoint set up jointly by the police and the BSF near Saidpur.
In the second operation, Gharinda police arrested two alleged drug smugglers, Gurcharan Singh alias Bakshish Singh and Bikramjit Singh, both residents of Panjwar village under Jhabal police station in Tarn Taran district, and seized 10 kg of heroin. The police team was present near the Government Horticulture Nursery when it received information that the accused were travelling on a motorcycle towards GT Road to deliver the consignment. The police then set up a checkpoint and apprehended both of them.
In another incident, Gharinda police arrested Rahul Singh alias Dhola, a resident of Valmiki Mohalla in Attari, and recovered 500 grams of heroin from him. The accused allegedly tried to flee after spotting a patrolling police team near the Attari bypass and attempted to throw away a packet from his jeans pocket, but the police caught him on the spot. Amritsar Police have registered three separate FIRs under relevant sections of the NDPS Act. Further investigation is underway to identify the associates of the arrested accused and establish their links with Pakistani smugglers.
