8kg heroin seized from field near Pak border in Tarn Taran, 1 arrested
RACKET BUSTED Accused was in touch with smugglers from the neighbouring country; 30gm opium also recovered
TARN TARAN : The anti-narcotics cell of Punjab Police on Thursday busted a drug smuggling racket seizing 8kg of heroin from a wheat field in the border district of Tarn Taran and arrested a smuggler who had allegedly buried the contraband. The drug was buried by Gurlal Singh of Rattoke village in the field situated across the barbed fence and ahead of the zero line near in Bhikhiwind sub-division along the India-Pakistan border. The contraband was concealed in plastic bottles. Police suspect the drug was smuggled from across the border. According to police, Gurlal and his accomplices who are yet to be identified had been in contact with Pakistani smugglers. Tarn Taran SSP Dhruv Dahiya said besides heroin, they have also recovered 30gm of opium from the border. The SSP said preliminary investigation has revealed that Gural is a smuggler and had earlier been booked for attempted murder and also under the Arms Act in 2015 after he, along with his accomplices, allegedly attempted to cross the border and opened fire at the BSF to smuggle heroin from across the border. He was also booked in 2019 for allegedly attempting to break open an ATM machine with a gas cutter at Chabhal village. DSP Kawaljit Singh said Gurlal’s father Karnail Singh owns 10 acre agriculture land — four across the barbed will fence till the zero line.
SMUGGLER HELD WITH 5KG OF HEROIN IN LUDHIAN
The Punjab Police special task force (STF) arrested a drug peddler having links with Pakistanbased smugglers with 5.04kg of heroin in Ludhiana on Wednesday night. Partap Singh, 37, of Kotli Aulakh village in Amritsar district in was nabbed when he was carrying the contraband in a bag of ration kits distributed by the Punjab government among needy near Ayali village on the Ludhiana-Ferozepur road following a tip-off. A farmer by profession, Partap is into drug trade for the past 18 years, said officials.