Punjab Police busts 6.65 kg of heroin on border, 2 arrested

Ferozpur (Punjab) [India] August 8 (ANI): Punjab police arrested two drug smugglers and recovered 6.65 Kg of heroin, amounting to Rs 6 Lakhs drug money, near the Indo-Pak border in Ferozepur district.

The DGP Punjab Police Gaurav Yadav on Thursday posted on X that after working on technical inputs, the Counter Intelligence Amritsar (CIA) team of District Ferozpur conducted the operation near the border and made the seizure.

The DGP Gaurav Yadav further informed that the FIR against the drug dealers was registered on Wednesday and police are investigating the case to establish the forward and backward linkage of trans-border narcotic smuggling networks.

“Punjab police is committed to dismantling the drug network and making our state drug-free as per the directions of the Hon’ble CM Bhagwant Mann” DGP Yadav posted on X.

On August 7, Punjab Police conducted a massive state-level Cordon and search operation under the name of ‘Operation Eagle V’ to target drug hotspots across Punjab Range ADGPs/IGPs/DIGs and CPs/SSPs personally supervised this operation in each police district.

Over 500 Police Teams with 4000 pls police personnel deployed. They inspected 512 identified drug hotspots in Punjab, apprehended 82 suspicious individuals and registered 61 FIRs. 270 grams of Heroin, Rs 15210 drug money, 1868 intoxicant tablets, 74 kg poppy husk, 2 kg ganja, a substantial quantity of lahan and licit liquor were also seized in the operation.

Last week, Punjab police also 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.

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.