Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh/Amritsar, September 29
In a major breakthrough amidst the ongoing drive to eradicate drugs from the state, Punjab Police’s Counter Intelligence (CI) Amritsar has dealt major blow to the cross-border heroin smuggling after seizing 6kg heroin, 67 live cartridges of .30 bore and two magazines, despite the accused managed to flee, said DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Sunday.
Apart from recovering substantial quantity of heroin and ammunition, police teams have also recovered six mobile phones including Apple iPhone 11 Pro and one jio dongle from the bag thrown by the accused person.
DGP said that the CI Amritsar team has received a reliable input about the involvement of Gurdaspur’s Jaffarpur village-based person in smuggling of drugs/weapons and the latter has recently received a consignment of heroin and arms-ammunition with the help of drones from the area of Indo-Pak border in District Batala-Gurdaspur, and he is going to further deliver the same to some other party.
He said that acting swiftly upon this tip, police teams led by DSP CI Amritsar Balbir Singh conducted raid at village Jaffarpur in Gurdaspur, during which the accused managed to escape, after throwing away his bag.