PUNJAB POLICE BUST MAJOR CROSS-BORDER HEROIN SMUGGLING RACKET

 4 ARRESTED, BSF INFORMED FOR ACTION AGAINST CONSTABLE OVER COLLUSION

The Voice of Canada News | Photos By T S Bedi

In a major crackdown on smuggling of narcotics and weapons from across the border from Pakistan, the Intelligence Wing of the Punjab Police has busted a gang of heroin smugglers and arrested four persons, including an ex-Army man, in this connection.

Police have seized from the suspects 14.8 kgs of heroin, valuing approximately Rs. 74 crores in the international market, along with one .30 bore Pistol.

The suspects have named one BSF constable posted at the border and two other associates as being involved in the smuggling racket.

The BSF authorities have been informed about the constable’s active collusion & conspiracy in drug smuggling and they have advised to initiate necessary action against him, according to a police spokesperson.

A case (FIR no.17 dated 01.07.2018 u/s 21,25,29 NDPS Act, 25 Arms Act) has been registered at PS SSOC Amritsar.

The arrests followed information received by the State Special Operations Cell (SSOC), that some drug smugglers from Amritsar/Tarn Taran were in contact with Pak-based smugglers and were indulging in heroin smuggling through the Ramdas sector of the Indo-Pak border.

The suspects include Tarwinder Singh (ex-serviceman, who served in the Indian Army (13 Sikh) as a sepoy for 16 years before retiring on pension in 2016), and is the son of one Ajit Singh r/o village Nawan Jiwan, Lopoke, Amritsar.