In a major blow to trans-border smuggling amidst the ongoing ‘Yudh Nashian Virudh’ campaign launched on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, Amritsar Rural Police has recovered a 23-kg heroin consignment from the village Devi Daspura in Jandiala.
With the arrest of two narcotic dealers from Delhi and UP the Srinagar Police claimed to have dismantled a major inter-state drug trafficking module while investigating Case FIR No. 136/2024 under sections 8/22-29 NDPS Act.
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) New Delhi office has arrested six people as part of an ongoing money laundering probe linked to a cross-border drugs smuggling network that has unearthed smuggling of heroin from Afghanistan to India, the agency said.
Punjab Police on Sunday busted a cross-border drug smuggling racket being operated by USA-based smuggler Jasmit Singh alias Lucky with the arrest of two persons after recovering six kilogram (kg) heroin from their possession.
Afghanistan's acting Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi on Monday confirmed that the Taliban has freed an American engineer.
Yadav also ordered CPs and SSPs to prioritise the arrest of all the proclaimed offenders (POs), bail jumpers and absconders of NDPS cases.
Three peddlers belonging to Punjab have been arrested from the city's Narwal area in connection with possession of heroin worth about Rs.24 crore in the international market.
At the meeting intelligence, police, NCB and other state agencies were told to coordinate each other in monitoring the smuggling routes.
Intelligence agencies, police, NCB and other agencies were told to coordinate in plugging the smuggling routes.
Commissioner of Police (CP) Amritsar Vikram Jeet Duggal said that the police are carrying out further investigations to unravel the international drug supply network operating in the state.
