In yet another major crackdown, the Amritsar Rural Policeon Thursday morning seized around 17 kg heroin being smuggled from Jammu andKashmir to Amritsar by a man, who was arrested from Madhopur in Pathankotdistrict, along with an Innova cab bearing registration number PB01A6708.
The development came few days after the Amritsar RuralPolice foiled a major drug smuggling bid by Pakistan-based smugglers byrecovering 39 packets of heroin, weighing around 41 kg, from the area ofPanjgraian Border Outpost (BOP) of Amritsar.
Since 1st January 2021 till now, Punjab Police haverecovered around 400 kg heroin, 4 kg smack, 6 kg cocaine, besides recoveringover 98000 injections and 1.44 crores intoxicant pills/capsules.
The accused person has been identified as Ranjit Singhalias Sonu, a resident of Shaheed Udham Singh Colony Amritsar, who was usingtwo specially designed & fabricated compartments fitted underneath thevehicle to smuggle the consignment, said Director General of Police (DGP)Punjab Dinkar Gupta.
The DGP said, following the input, that Sonu was on theway to Amritsar via Pathankot, SSP Amritsar (Rural) Gulneet Singh Khuranaimmediately constituted special teams under the supervision of ASP MajithaAbhimanyu Rana and DSP Detective Amritsar Rural Gurinder Pal Nagra to nab theaccused.
“The police teams have successfully intercepted theInnova car being driven by Sonu in Madhopur and recovered 16 packets of heroin,weighing 16.87Kg, concealed inside specially designed cavities beneath thevehicle,” said DGP Dinkar Gupta.
During his preliminary interrogation, Sonu revealed thathe picked this consignment from Naushera area of J&K on the instructions ofRanjit Singh alias Rana of Patti in Tarn Taran (currently lodged in FaridkotJail) and Malkeet Singh alias Laddu (lodged in Sri Muktsar Sahib Jail), saidthe DGP, while adding that Rana was the kingpin of this racket.
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FIR number 164 dated August 25, 2021 under sections 21,23/61/85 of the NDPS Act has been registered at Police Station KathunangalAmritsar Rural.
Pertinently, the Punjab Police on July 5, 2021, had alsobusted a major drug supply chain with the arrest of four Afghan nationals andheroin seizure of 17 kgs, worth Rs 90 crore in the international market, from aunit in South Delhi.