Punjab Police arrests two individuals for smuggling illegal weapons

Amritsar (Punjab) [India], August 13 (ANI): In an intelligence-based operation, the Punjab Police’s State Special Operation Cell (SSOC) of Amritsar has busted a cross-border smuggling module by apprehending two suspects from Chabal, Tarn Taran, and recovering sophisticated illegal weapons from them.

During preliminary investigations, it has been found that both accused have been receiving consignments of illegal weapons sent through drones by their cross-border handlers.

The accused have been in contact with a Pakistan-based smuggler, who has been pushing huge consignments of weapons and drugs into Indian territory through drones and other means.

The State Special Operation Cell (SSOC), Amritsar, has also recovered 4 pistols along with 4 magazines from the apprehended accused.

An FIR has been registered at the Police Station of SSOC, Amritsar.

Further investigations are underway to determine the previous smuggling activities carried out by the accused.

Earlier on July 28, Counter Intelligence Amritsar seized over Rs 1.07 crore of drug money and apprehended two operatives of foreign-based top drug smugglers Gurjant Singh alias Bholu and Kinderbir Singh alias Sunny Dyal, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Sunday.

Those arrested have been identified as Dilbag Singh, a resident of village Lohka in Tarn Taran and Kamaldeep Singh, a resident of Patti in Tarn Taran. Apart from seizing drug money, Police teams have also recovered one money counting machine and two mobile phones from the possession, besides, impounding their Maruti Swift car.

DGP Gaurav Yadav said that the Counter Intelligence Amritsar has received intel-inputs that foreign-based drug smugglers Gurjant Bholu and Sunny Dyal are running an organised crime syndicate involved in drug trafficking and illegal weapons distribution across the state and have tasked their operatives to collect the drug money and send them using Hawala route.

He said that in an intelligence-based operation, Police teams from Counter Intelligence Amritsar have arrested two of their operatives identified as Dilbag Singh and Kamaldeep Singh from a rented accommodation at Fatehgarh Churian Road, Amritsar.

The DGP said preliminary investigations have revealed that both the arrested persons were in constant touch with both Gurjant Bholu and Sunny Dyal via encrypted social media platforms and were to send the recovered drug money worth over Rs 1 crore to them using Hawala route.

Both Gurjant Bholu and Sunny Dyal have been facing several criminal cases due to their involvement in criminal activities, he said, while adding that further investigations are on to establish backward and forward linkages in this case.