Two women drug smugglers among six held with 9 kg heroin in Amritsar

In a major breakthrough against cross-border narco-terror networks, Amritsar Commissionerate Police has busted two more narcotic cartels with arrest of six drug traffickers and recovered a total of 9.066 Kg Heroin from their possession, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Thursday.

The operation was part of the ongoing drive to make Punjab a drug-free state as per directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann.

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Those arrested have been identified as Honey (18) of village Kale Ghanupur in Amritsar, Parmdeep Singh alias Paras (18) of Jandiala Guru in Amritsar, Harwinder Singh alias Hinda (19) of Jandiala Guru in Amritsar, Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi (25) of village Dande in Amritsar, Jasbir Kaur (40) of village Dhala in Tarn Taran and Kulwinder Kaur (54) of village Haveliyan in Tarn Taran.

The development came a day after Amritsar Commissionerate Police had busted a drug smuggling syndicate operated by Moga-based Jagpreet Singh alias Jagga with the arrest of its key operative identified as Yasin Mohammed and recovered 7.1 kg heroin from his possession.

DGP Gaurav Yadav said preliminary investigation has revealed that foreign-based notorious gangster identified as Harpreet alias Happy Jatt, a native of Jandiala Guru, had direct links with Pak-based smugglers and was running this network using social media platforms.

The DGP said that two separate FIRs have been registered at the Chheharta police station in Amritsar, and further investigation is ongoing to establish forward and backward linkages to identify wider networks and cross-border linkages in both cases.

Sharing operation details of first operation, Commissioner of Police (CP) Amritsar Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said initially, accused Honey was arrested with 20 gm of heroin and during further investigation his accomplice identified as Parmdeep Singh alias Paras was nominated and subsequently arrested with 5.032 kg of heroin.

In the course of the investigation, two more members of the module identified as Harwinder Hinda and Gurpreet Gopi were nominated and arrested, he said, adding that police teams had recovered additional chunk of 3.010 kg heroin from the possession of Gurpreet, taking total recovery to 8.062 kg from this module.

The CP said that the arrested accused, Gurpreet and Parmdeep, used to receive narcotics consignments — being dropped using drones from across the border — at pre-decided locations including garbage piles or poles with signs. The arrested persons were further distributing the heroin consignments on instructions of Happy Jatt, he added.

In another operation, CP Gurpreet Bhullar said, two women smugglers identified as Jasbir Kaur and Kulwinder Kaur were arrested with 1.004 kg heroin. Arrested accused Jasbir Kaur was in direct contact with Pak smugglers, he said, while adding that both the modules have common Pak-based smugglers.

In this regard, two separate cases — FIR No. 185 dated 15-09-2025 under Sections 21-B, 21-C and 29 of the NDPS Act and FIR No. 187 dated 17-09-2025 under Sections 21-C and 29 of the NDPS Act— have been registered at Police Station Chheharta in Amritsar.