Chandigarh, September 19 (IANS) in a major success against the cross-border narco-terraler network, the Amritsar Commission Police has busted two and intoxicating cartel with the arrest of six drug traffickers and recovered 9.066 kg of heroin from their possession, the Police Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said on Thursday.
Those arrested have been identified as honey, 18, Paramdeep Singh, alias Paras, 18, Harvinder Singh, alias Hind, 19, Gurpreet Singh, alias Gopi, 25, Jasbir Kaur, 40 and Kulwinder Kaur, 54.
The Amritsar Commission police, a day after the Drug smuggling syndicate operated by Jagpreet Singh, aka Jagga at Moga, was identified as Yasin Mohammed, with the arrest of its prominent operative, and recovered 7.1 kg of heroin from his possession.
DGP Yadav said that preliminary investigation has revealed that the native of Jandiala Guru had direct connections with smugglers based in foreign gangsters, Harpreet, aka Happy Jat, Pakistan and running this network using social media platforms.
The DGP said two first information reports (FIRs) are registered at the police station in Chhaharta, Amritsar, and further investigation is on to identify the broad network and border linkage in both cases.
Sharing operation details, Police Commissioner, Amritsar, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that Honey was initially charged with 20 grams of heroin, and during investigation, his partner was identified as Paramdeep Singh, aka Paras and was later arrested with 5.032 kg heroin.
During the investigation, two more members of the module, Harvinder Hind and Gurpreet Gopi were identified and arrested, he said, police teams had recovered an additional part of 3.010 kg of heroin from Gurpreet Singh’s possession, recovering 8.062 kg from this module.
Bhullar said that the accused Gurpreet Singh and Paramdeep Singh had received a consignment of intoxicants, using drones from across the border, at the pre-deafening places, including garbage or poles with poles. He said that the accused were distributing heroin consignments on the instructions of Happy Jat.
In another operation, Bhullar said two women smugglers, Jasbir Kaur and Kulwinder Kaur were arrested with 1.004 kg of heroin. Jasbir Kaur was in direct contact with Pakistan smugglers, said that both modules are common in Pakistan-based smugglers.
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