Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh/Amritsar, November 17-
In a major breakthrough, Amritsar Commissionerate Police has busted trans-border narco smuggling and arms cartel with the arrest of two persons and seized 3.5 Kg Heroin, 1.5 kg Methaqualone and two pistols including one sophisticated 9MM Glock from their possession, said DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav here on Sunday.
Those arrested have been identified as Vansh alias Billa (23), a resident of Billai Wala Chowk in Amritsar and Sonu Chaurasia (20), a resident of Dashmesh Nagar in Amritsar.The DGP said that further investigations are going on to establish backward and forward linkages in this case.
Sharing more details, CP Amritsar Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that following reliable inputs about the involvement of accused Vansh alias billa in smuggling of narcotis, Police teams from CIA Amritsar laid a trap and arrested him from Mohkampura area and recovered 3.5 Kg heroin, 1.5Kg Methaqualone powder and one Austria made 9MM Glock pistol from his possession.
He said that in another operation based on intel-inputs about the illegal weapon smuggling, Police teams nabbed accused Sonu Chaurasia from Suncity turn at Batala road in the area of Mohkampura and recovered .32 bore pistol from his possession.